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Sarah Palin on Tuesday urged South Carolina voters to support Newt Gingrich in their GOP presidential primary, offering the closest thing to an endorsement the former Alaska governor may come before this weekend's contest.
“If I had to vote in South Carolina, in order to keep this thing going, I’d vote for Newt and I would want this to continue,” Palin said during a FOX News interview Tuesday night.
Her support for the former House speaker, however, was somewhat qualified. Palin said she believed it would be best for the primary campaign to continue, so as to continue to add scrutiny to candidates and forge their strength as an eventual nominee against President Obama.
“More debates, more vetting of candidates because we know the mistake made in our country four years ago was having a candidate that was not vetted, to the degree that he should have been,” Palin explained. “I want to see that taking place this time because America is on this precipice — it’s that important. We need this process to continue."
“We think its a pretty darn clear call to arms,” Gingrich campaign spokesman R.C. Hammond told NBC News shortly after Palin made these comments this evening.
The conservative vote in South Carolina remains split between Gingrich, former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum and Texas Gov. Rick Perry going into the closing days before the Jan. 21 primary in the state.
Each has been rallying voters behind their candidacy as the conservative alternative to Mitt Romney, the former Massachusetts governor who would see as the heavy favorite to win the nomination if he were to score a victory in South Carolina.
“If you consolidate the three conservative candidates, we clearly would have a huge margin over Romney, and the challenge for me is to convince conservatives to come home and have a single candidate on Saturday,” Gingrich told a crowd in Florence, S.C. today.
Palin offered words of flattery for Gingrich beyond her support this weekend, crowning him the winner of a Monday night debate. Her husband, Todd Palin, has formally endorsed Gingrich for president.
"Newt Gingrich is a true leader, which he has proven not only since the beginning of his campaign, but throughout his career,” Todd Palin said in a written statement sent out by the Gingrich campaign on Jan. 9.
It is still unknown if either Palin will actually campaign for Speaker Gingrich on the trail.
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I love how lisa lampinelli talks about palin......and maher? so funny........
the un vetted queen of comedy speaks again......must b out of money.......
This is one time that I do not agree with Sara. I would glady vote for Rick S. I do not like Gingrich at all, but if I had no choice because Rick did not win - than I would vote for him.
and Americans say to SC........throw the clown car out of your beautiful state. Please.
You Democrats, not all but most, are some nasty little people. Talk about being hypocrits and bigots! Your guy can doink teenage interns or hang out with racist Chicago pastors and thats "cool" but God forbid anyone disagree with you and its character assassination time. You people dont even argue the issues, you just call people names. Newts the guy, you had better get used to it because hes the next President of the United States. Calling him names is not going to change that. He is an articulate man with a firm grasp on the issues. Your guy is an articulate man with no idea what hes doing, nothing more than a con man. Keep preaching your "this is all Bush's fault crap and telling yourself thats why Obama is a failure." Us unenlightened Christains call that "passing the buck." Reagan inheireted Carters fiasco of a Presidency and turned it around and it didnt take him 4 years. Newt is a Reaganite and our best hope for the future.
And talking about Palin the way you do disgusts me. You call Newt a racist with no backing but make fun of Palin with your pathetic boob comments and such and think thats proper? The King is dead, long live the King you bunch of losers. Your policies have LOSER written all over them, your President who was supposed to be the next coming is a dismal failure and your support of the left and its minions brands you as a loser by association. Theres a reason the vast maority of our military are Republicans-because they are WINNERS. So why dont you go have another one of your little secret meetings and decide how the people with no jobs are going to spend the money of people WHO HAVE JOBS!
Save the babys, then the whales. Get your prioroties straight. Hmmmm...anything else I can say to offend the left? Oh yah-IN GOD WE TRUST, ONE NATION UNDER GOD, INALIENABLE RIGHTS FROM OUR CREATOR. It is the left that goes against what America is supposed to be, not the right. Why dont you all just go back to Europe where they have the system you want already in place if its so awesome?
Voice of Reason: More like Voice of Treason IMO.
You said "Your guy is an articulate man with no idea what hes doing, nothing more than a con man."
Well let me see. He saved the country from a Republican led depression. He got us out of a lied into Republican War in IraQ. He killed the Republican Bogeyman Osama Bin Laden and pretty much snuffed out Al Qaeda. He led American jobs decline out of a Republican engineered chasm. Under GOP rule America was losing over 700,000 jobs a month at the end of Bush/Cheney/Hasterd/Frist rule. He converted that to over 150,000 jobs per month gain. He re-established strong secure ties with our European allies that had eroded under GOP rule. He tossed out the tyrant Kaddafi in libya and Mubarak in Egypt. He blew up Somalia pirate kidnappers. And oh yeah, he passed a national health care bill that every GOP and Democratic President in the past had failed to do. Even though all of them had tried except for your goon, Reagan. Sounds like a pretty good record for someone who doesn't know what he is doing! You freaking idiot!
Gingrich and Palin is just your Repugnacan's type. Two hypocritical, immoral and corrupt whores, and racist pimps. Preaching to everyone else about morality along with their perverted family & social values! Your Fuhrer, Newt will be President of the USA the day the Mayan Calendar Prophesy proves to be true. You are not the Voice of Reason. You are the Voice of Pain and Hate. And here is the kicker for you conservative religious hypocrites like VOR here. Your God is the devil dude. Your message has nothing in common with the Jewish Messiah who died 2000 years ago. He was a uniter of men. Not a divider. He was a champion of the meek, weak and needy. Not the rich gluttionous elites like you Republican slobs. ANd were he alive today, he most assuredly wouldn't be a conservative Republican! You misguided GOP minnions have subordinated GOd to a political party and ideology in your quest for all things dictatorial. So don't preach to me about a GOP with goodness and answers, while condemning President Obama and those who really are trying to help the needy in all walks of American life.
Johnny B 2016. I guess you told him! Way to be.
“'More debates, more vetting of candidates because we know the mistake made in our country four years ago was having a candidate that was not vetted, to the degree that he should have been,' Palin explained." Is she talking about herself or is this a case of the pot calling the kettle black?
vote Ron Paul and at least send a message to D.C. that they better shape up !
You are really getting to be a self-centered woman with a grandeur feeling of power. Why don't you go back to where you came from and throw snowballs at the Russians.
I understand Newton likes women a lot. Perhaps you could be personal friends. Watch the interview with his X.
Palin is a loser.
That's why the GOP power brokers forced McCain to have her on the ticket...
They did not want to win the race in 2008, and be held accountable for the severe recession/depression that was in the making.
They were totally content to let Obama and the Democratic Congress take the fall for the previous 8 years of policy blunders commited under W and the Republicans who controlled the Congress for 6 of his 8 years.
All you good GOP dupes go now, and figure out which of the current crop of losers you will offer as a sacrifice in Nov. 2012.
I'm going to take immense pleasure in hearing you all bi*ch and whine for the next 4 years.
Maybe you'll become so distraught that you'll consider leaving America, or do us a real favor and commit suicide.
Either way, as far as I'm concerned, you won't be missed.
Who gives a crap what this skank says?
Most of you posting on here look to be limp-wristed liberals which have suceeded in destroying this country. Its absolute lunacy to think for one second that Obama has any idea what his job required or how to perform it. You can blame congress all you like, the fact is Obama is and was a failure from the start for the US. This is not europe, or a south american socialist country in which he would do well. The problem is that REAL patriots as in the people here that want whats best for the country, not what the government can sht you in some form of an entitlement, have awaken and will be voting this election. Prepare your send offs and goodbyes Odumassama is getting evicted back to were his worthless self belongs. Great speaker, HORRIBLE president. Please remove your heads from your lower thorasic region and rub those 2 remaining brain cells that remain intact together and just dont bother voting. It will do us all a great justice,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,,and BTW its not a race thing, you can paint a pig any color you like its still a stinking azz pig
@ Scott:
Read 782.1 above. It refers to your stupid azz too. It's treasonous, treacherous fools like you who have detroyed this country. You hate President Obama because of his color and nothing else. If he was a white Republican and fixed the horrendous hellhole your GOP idiot boys left us in, you'd be mounting a stature of him on Mt Rsuhmore. To put idiots like you in context, I have to constantly remind myself that it was conservative Tories like you, who actually opposed the Progressive and rebellious Rebels who created America. Your ilk was on the wrong side then. They are on the wrong side of history now. What a DOPE!
If I had any doubts... I don't any more.
Crazy knows crazy.
(Did one of those other guys put her up to this, ya think?)
Wonder if the Palin's are aware of Newt's "family values"? And the mistakes of 4 years ago by not vetting the candidate? I certainly hope that she is not referring to John McCAin, but to herself.
This is expected from this sociopath, opportunist looking for her meal ticket. Who cares what this unethical, moraly corrupt hooter says? Do america a favor and keep your blah blah @#$%^&**( to yourself.
Open marriage, palin endorsement, Maybe Newt sired Bristol Palins baby's! It's beginning to make sense now!