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Gingrich takes aim at Santorum, betting candidacy on must-win Southern primaries on March 13
WaPo ^ | Wednesday, March 7, 2:13 PM

Posted on 03/07/2012 1:38:57 PM PST by Red Steel

PELL CITY, Ala. — Newt Gingrich says he isn’t dropping out of the Republican presidential race.

Gingrich said during an Alabama campaign swing Wednesday that he’s staying in because it’s impossible for a moderate Republican to be elected president in November. He was referring to front-runner Mitt Romney.

Gingrich also said rival Rick Santorum, whom Gingrich is battling to be the preferred conservative, is a creature of the establishment.

Top allies of Santorum have said Gingrich should drop out.

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...


TOPICS: Extended News; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: getoutnewt; gingrich; kenyanbornmuzzie; losernewt; mittromney; newt; newt2012; newt4romney; newtgingrich; newtistoast; ricksantorum; santorum
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To: Houghton M.
You don’t get it. Newties not a joiner.

It's you who don't get it. So what is Santorum jackasses? Newt has answers which you seem unable to understand. So be it.

41 posted on 03/07/2012 3:17:49 PM PST by Logical me
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To: tennmountainman
Tennessee is not the Deep South. It often votes for moderate go-along-get-along Republican types. See Alexander and Corker the current senators. See Frist the mushy former Majority Leader (after Trent Lott was booted). Sundquist is a former governor who tried to pass a state income tax. A Democrat was voted in next. I watch all of this with distaste as I am a native Tennessean.
42 posted on 03/07/2012 3:34:34 PM PST by 22cal (Forgiven, not perfected)
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To: duffee; Ingtar; billys kid; RitaOK; All

Thanks ...


43 posted on 03/07/2012 3:39:42 PM PST by j.argese (FR is a Newt-ist Colony, not a Romney Room, Paul Pavillion or Santorum Sanctum)
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To: Steelfish

The mystery is how Santorum has been fighting for pro-abortion candidates all his life and gets left alone by the media and the GOP-e.

Heck, in 1996 Santorum was supporting the Presidential candidate that was running on kicking out the pro-life movement and getting pro-life out of the GOP platform entirely, even last election he was trying to get in a pro-abortion President.


44 posted on 03/07/2012 3:48:20 PM PST by ansel12 (Santorum-Catholic and "I was basically pro-choice all my life, until I ran for Congress" he said))
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To: j.argese

Because most Catholics are not practicing Catholics, they are for abortion and far more liberal. So the fact they aren’t voting for him ain’t nothing to be proud of.

Rick’s practicing Catholic views are more acceptable to evangelicals.


45 posted on 03/07/2012 3:49:14 PM PST by dforest
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To: duffee

The problem is this, just because you got absolution from the church does not mean you get absolution from the voters.

I myself think he and Calista are solid, but with Newt, history makes people worry about some bimbo dragged out by Allred and pimped by the media. It killed Cain and nobody knows yet if this could happen with Newt. What did Hillary have in those FBI files?

That is a reaction caused by Newt himself. People don’t know, but actions in the past can hurt a person.


46 posted on 03/07/2012 3:56:15 PM PST by dforest
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To: j.argese

It was the same when he was a Senator, Protestants and especially Evangelicals supported him, in 2006, but Catholics would not.


47 posted on 03/07/2012 3:59:58 PM PST by ansel12 (Santorum-Catholic and "I was basically pro-choice all my life, until I ran for Congress" he said))
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To: duffee

Thanks, duffee. I see a good Newt who is in love for the first time in his life. Yes, he can be arrogant and who isn’t, among those who think they can be president and dare to run?


48 posted on 03/07/2012 4:39:20 PM PST by RitaOK (LET 'ER RIP, NEWT. Newt knows where all the bodies are buried, because he buried them.)
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To: 22cal

You mean the same moderate state that rejected it’s favorite son, Al Gore for president?


49 posted on 03/07/2012 4:39:25 PM PST by tennmountainman
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To: RitaOK

What is bloody Thursday. I have seen it mentioned here from time to time and always wondered what it was, but this is the first time I am asking. Thanks Rita.


50 posted on 03/07/2012 6:18:20 PM PST by napscoordinator (A moral principled Christian with character is the frontrunner! Congrats Santorum!)
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To: tennmountainman

Tennessee is a southern state. Newt didn’t even come in second, much less win.

Newt supporters this morning said that Tennessee has gotten too many Northern Yankees to be considered part of the South anymore.....And Oklahoma was never part of the South. lol. The way this primary is going, there won’t be a South. lol.


51 posted on 03/07/2012 6:31:26 PM PST by napscoordinator (A moral principled Christian with character is the frontrunner! Congrats Santorum!)
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To: Cindy of Nashville

It could work either way. There would be advantages to having Santorum getting some experience as VP.


52 posted on 03/07/2012 6:55:46 PM PST by freedomfiter2 (Brutal acts of commission and yawning acts of omission both strengthen the hand of the devil.)
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To: napscoordinator

Media labled it as Bloody Thursday, on Drudge; the 48 hours of nuclear war using Romney’s $20 million smear launch against Newt, timed to coincide with the endless media coverage on the bipolar exwife story televised, at the same time RINOS went on the record that Newt was “unstable”. It all cascaded on Newt after he blew out South Carolina and was going into FLORIDA, where he was slammed, never to quite recover. Newt was shrafed, is that the word, like Omaha Beach.

Yet he leads. What a man.


53 posted on 03/07/2012 7:06:01 PM PST by RitaOK (LET 'ER RIP, NEWT. Newt knows where all the bodies are buried, because he buried them.)
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To: napscoordinator

Let me give those who don’t remember a little Tennessee history. It wasn’t that long ago, Tn had two RAT Senators...
Jim Sasser and Al Gore.

Al Gore left the senate only to lose his home state when he ran for the Presidency.

Jim Sasser got his ass voted out of the senate.

OK, so we have had moderate GOP senators. Still better than
Liberal senators or RINO senators like Snowe, Collins or Brown.


54 posted on 03/07/2012 7:18:57 PM PST by tennmountainman
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To: RitaOK

Thank you for that explanation. I remember all those situations but didn’t know the name was Bloody Thursday. Thank you!!!!


55 posted on 03/07/2012 7:24:13 PM PST by napscoordinator (A moral principled Christian with character is the frontrunner! Congrats Santorum!)
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To: tennmountainman

Old Al was not a Tennessean. He was raised in DC, only visited Carthage, and everyone knew it. :)


56 posted on 03/07/2012 7:38:29 PM PST by 22cal (Forgiven, not perfected)
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To: A. Morgan
Thanks for the detail on Gingrich's status regarding Kansas. He's doing his Deep Southern strategy now. I hope that works to get him out of the doldrums.

I voted for him in Ohio Valley Appalachia...he did miserably. My county (Guernsey) all the other immediately-surrounding counties went for Rick.

57 posted on 03/07/2012 8:02:07 PM PST by Rudder
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To: Rudder

Monday at 5:30PM CDT Alabama GOP Forum, perhaps, this will be a break out for NEWT.


58 posted on 03/07/2012 8:14:04 PM PST by A. Morgan (Ayn Rand: "You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality.")
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To: Rudder

http://newmediajournal.us/indx.php/item/4740


59 posted on 03/07/2012 9:13:29 PM PST by A. Morgan (Ayn Rand: "You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality.")
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To: A. Morgan
Monday GOP forum from Alabama. Newt in the starting blocks, ready to go...

Again.

Go Newt!

60 posted on 03/07/2012 9:20:47 PM PST by Rudder
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