Posted on 03/19/2012 4:26:17 PM PDT by VinL
The Newt Gingrich presidential campaign is taking on more of a marathoner’s pace to accompany its insistence that Gingrich plans to see the Republican nomination contest through to the August convention...
Monday...Gingrich convened about 15 top campaign advisers outside Washington, D.C., to examine the months ahead... before flying to Louisiana, where he plans to spend the week campaigning ahead of Saturday’s primary.
...Gingrich [has] endured a fresh round of calls for him to exit the race –
Gingrich has said that if he felt Santorum could defeat Romney – and President Barack Obama – one-on-one, he would gladly step aside, but he does not...
[Santorum]..has struggled with assembling an organization in key states, and his decision to campaign in Puerto Rico last week appeared to be a major blunder...
“I think Santorum should want us in,” Conway said. “I know he wants a clear shot at Romney, but does he really want Romney to have a clear shot at him?”
Gingrich ...is looking at his birthplace of Pennsylvania, ... Wisconsin, Maryland and DC, where Santorum did not make the ballot, as states where Gingrich can siphon a few delegates away from the front-runners in the next few weeks.
The under-the-radar strategy will likely be a tough sell to donors
“I’m sure those are some of the things that go through a candidate’s mind as they are wondering, waiting for my ship to come in,” Gingrey said.
Gingrich has given no public indication that such a time is approaching, and he hammered home the long-haul strategy at Monday's meeting, according to Gingrich spokesman R.C. Hammond.
As the meeting wound down, Hammond said Gingrich asked his campaign manager, Michael Krull, to remind Gingrich and the staff each day how many days remain until the convention.
As of Monday, it was 161.
(Excerpt) Read more at ajc.com ...
Keep going, Newt!
I’m a Newt guy but I don’t think he’s gonna end up with the nomination. But, if his staying in the race will keep Romney from getting the need 1144 Delegates and takes this thing to Tampa...... then stay in Newt.
To the convention!
Me too.
Me three!
I will hang in there for Newt till the bitter end and beyond. I absolutely love the guy.
Marathoner's pace??? Fast-slow-fast-slow.... is not a marathoner's pace! That is what newt has done so for and he is at 13.1 and THERE IS another 13.1 to go.
I hate it when morons compare thing to marathons when they are clueless to running a marathon.
I sent in another donation today. Keep on, Mr. Speaker.
all the way to convention..I sure wish it were you and Mitt one on one long ago...Prayers for Newt.
I’m in too! Romney and Santorum are identical in their love for big government and nanny-statism... the only difference from Obama is that Romney wants the system to favor his business choices, and that Santorum wants it to favor his moral positions. But neither one of them wants either economic or personal freedom.
The only one who wants that is Gingrich.
I find it telling that you prefer “Mitt” to be in instead of Santorum.
What happens if “Mitt” beats Newt?
I will vote for Newt in the general, even if it is a write-in.
So what does he do? Decides to make sure Rick Santorum won't beat Mitt Romney by not only taking and wasting conservative votes--but by spending his last millions in Romneylike smear ads against Santorum.
And this ridiculous “all the way to the convention” crap Newt is selling and a lot of idjits are buying really means, because of his diluting the conservative vote, that even if nobody has the 1144, Mitt Romney will still have the most delegates and just how do you think a GOP-e run convention is going to settle things?
The last time a big loser brought down an entire nation out of pure ego-maniacal vanity and sour grapes was in 1945.
You sound bitter.
Gingrich ...is looking at his birthplace of Pennsylvania, ... Wisconsin, Maryland and DC,
Well one of these states just has to be THE STATE that starts my campaign. There just has to be ONE....
Rick had Romney all to himself in Michigan, Ohio and Puerto Rico and got his butt handed to him. And, he wants Newt to drop out so he can defeat Romney???? What’s wrong with this picture?
Excuse me. Newt stole 7 percent from Santorum in Michigan, 15 percent from Santorum in Ohio and PR who cares. What is wrong with this picture is YOU. You need to know that Rick would have won Ohio and Michigan had Newt dropped out of the race. It is obvious but you are blinded by love.
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