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Republican presidential candidate and former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, left, and his wife, Callista, listen to former GOP candidate Herman Cain during a campaign rally Saturday in Atlanta, Ga.
ATLANTA, GA – Newt Gingrich, acknowledging his campaign “all hinges on Georgia,” campaigned Saturday with a very familiar face in the state, fellow Georgian Herman Cain.
“I think Georgia is a very, very important state,” Gingrich said. “We actually have a very good chance of doing well here and that gives us a springboard then to go across the whole country.”
But the former House speaker cautioned “there are no slam dunk states anywhere in America.”
Gingrich and Cain, a former presidential candidate himself, appeared at three separate events.
The two men, who say they have been friends for years, not only cracked jokes with one another as they passed each other on stage, but also were full of compliments for each other during their speeches.
“Newt is not afraid to engage in a little smackdown when necessary,” a smiling Cain told the crowd in Cumming, Ga. “That’s bold leadership.”
Asked by reporters in Suwanee, Ga., what cabinet position Cain would hold in a Gingrich administration, the former speaker shied away from naming a specific job.
Cain, however, took control of the answer himself.
“My ideal job with a Speaker Newt Gingrich as president of the United States is to be a senior adviser not in charge of anything,” Cain said. “That's what I would want to do in a Gingrich administration.”
Cain, who dropped out of the race back in November, was one of many presidential candidates who made their way to the top of the pack at some point during the primary season.
Rick Santorum is currently in that front-runner role now, Gingrich said, but told supporters in Atlanta that he "will survive Santorum.”
The speaker was quick to criticize the way former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney is running his campaign against the former Pennsylvania senator.
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Romney, Gingrich told a packed event in Cumming, is “now doing to Santorum in Michigan what he did to me in Florida and it is an unworthy way for someone to try and become president of the United States by shrinking their opponents.”
Gingrich assured all the crowds Saturday that despite all the ups and downs he has seen in this campaign, where he has been the frontrunner twice and dead twice, that he will continue on the path toward the nomination.
“The fact is I have never seen anything like this nominating process. It has been wild. It will remain wild for a while,” he said. “Some places we’ve won and some places we’ve lost, but we are in the hunt.”
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These two are meant for each other. They both love to cheat on their wives. They should hold seminars for swapping partners, wives and even gay sex. Both should come out of the closet if they are in it. They talk just so they can sell books, or other items. I would like to see a newt and herman sex toy.
They should be together and rejected together. Between the two of them there is no quality, a lot of BS and just a total commitment to be "puppets" for "the money". Disgusting at the best.
Two scum bag adulterers meet for a common purpose. I, frankly, don't care. Neither of them will ever be POTUS.
Americans will not elect some stubby little chub, no matter WHAT nut campaigns with him.
No baldies, no fatties, that's just the way it goes, mr. peanut.
I thought Herman Cain was supporting J Colbert. Which support is real and which is the metaphor?
Dumb and dumber because they both cheated on their spouses....N e w t needs to stop whinning....he has lost credibility....I cannot even stand to watch C a i n.....Sean Hannity is still crying because C ain was discredited.
Hannity is just Rupert Murdoch's sphincter.
Salt and pepper? More like ass and hole.
“My ideal job with a Speaker Newt Gingrich as president of the United States is to be a senior adviser not in charge of anything,” Cain said. So Cain is saying that in return for his endorsment he expects a "Ghost Payroll" type position. Isn't that "Pay to Play"?
They are brothers from another mother,they remind me of a cookie.Mr Cain can come to a Slave state and campaign for someone who wants our children to become janitors,man you really want a JOB BAD,I bet you would sell your soul to have your name in the history books Mr Cain.I hope you don't think you will get away with the way you used those women,we can see though your smoke screen.You aren't the only black leader to sell the black nation out.I am thankful to YHWH that he gave me a mind that comes from HIM and not this world.U will find in this election,we can get away from party and listen to the issues and vote!!!!!!!!
So apparently they will try to win on the adulterer vote in GA.
Finally! A Presidential candidate that "gets it". Newt's #1 concern for American's, "even above economics, is the assault on our religious liberty" It's time for Americans to stand up for what we believe in and stop letting the liberal media dictate our belief system. Our founding father's would cringe at what our govenment has become. Vote 2012 !
Before everybody jumps you dude I want all people not to listen to those who shout their ideology at you. But think of this for around 50 years you have had your BC/abortion rights and no one is proposing taking them away. The difference is that for all that time it has been like standing on the corner watching Nancy walk up and shoot John. I had nothing to do with it and was a passive bystander. Now you are demanding that I go to the gunshop, buy the gun and bullets, load the gun and hand it to Nancy so she can shoot John. That makes me an active participant in John's murder. I can't do that and all the shouting in the world won't make me. I have done the ENTIRE experiment and have the complete results man+woman=baby not fetus or zygote. So I can't kill baby.
Gingrich and Cain together? LOL -- comparing notes on how to cheat on spouses? Women of Georgia, you've been warned -- Gringrich and Cain are out to score.... ;)
What is so amazing is the shear delusional system of some of these candidates that the Republican Party has put forward this cycle. Romney the Morman, Santorum the religious freak, Newt the philanderer and Cain the same. That they actually think they could get elected to the position of National dog catcher is a stretch.
Obama/Biden another 4 years in a landslide!
Dollars to donuts Hermie's got a piece or two off Calista by now.
It's good to see HermanCain and "The Grinch" back as a tag team combo against Team Romney It's almost poverty row against the millionaire but not quite. From the filings both men have made we can at least be suret hey don't have swiss bank accounts or Cayman Island mail drop boxes that Mitt does. And both have paid more taxes than Mitt too.
We hope they don't say a word about contraceptives. Someone might ask them if they used them with their women. Or worse, if asprin isindeed effective as a contaceptive. Given their obvious expetise-one reallydoesn't want to go there.
What they should talkabout is :how are you going to keep the Bus htax cuts without increasing the deficit again.
We'd like to hear them talk about the $60 billion wasted in afganistan during the Bush yeas-that'stheequivent of Frace's whole defense budget for 1year. Considering the waste why do both men call for keeping trops there?
We'd like that answred.
We'd like ananswer to a query posed by sen Tom Coborn of Oklahoma thatpointout that 20 countries have over $20 billionin in US bonds, yet are stilldrawing US Foreignaid. If they have that much-why aren't they using it to tocare of their ow,nneedy so that US aidcouldbe targeted at the really truly needy countries.
The fact that this was asked by a consaervative Senator and has yet to be aswered by Presidetial wanna bes is telling It couldmove foward a proper debate on foriegn aid that has beenlacking.
Then thereis another Tom Coborrn a nalysis on taxes and tax subsidies released this year-detailng out windfallt ax breaks that mirror Citizen for Tax Justice's own reports So that both left and right now substially agree that there are many tax subsidies that could be cut. Why isn't there a debate about this,sinci comes from an immpecable Repulican source?
Thenthere is the WashingtonPost reorts on National Security whereanother Repilican-Bob Gates- the former Defesne Secretary whosaid "I can't get a hanle on how many people have national secuity cleances" and how wisely the $110 billioonor so is spent bythe defense Establishment. Here to is another thing that ought to talked about. Is there secuirity over each?
Yet wqe hear alomost nod ebate onthe republic n side.
Sl if there aren't up to difficult question now, are they up to governing later?
Try using the spell checker. It is really quite simply to operate.
Cain and Gingrich. Perfect. Two over sexed Republican cheats telling America how to act.
Cain and Gingrich. Two disgraced Republicans. Neither deserves attention.
Talk about a tired old vaudeville act!
Gingrich and Cain together, it's the wet dream of proctologists all over the US.
To be able to use more than 1 finger on a latex glove, just imagine.
Newt may say his campaign " 'all hinges on Georgia,' ” but this alliance sure seems like it's all unhinged in Georgia. The-Disgruntled-Husband-of-a-Certain-Age demographic just doesn't seem enough to work any restorative miracles. Maybe the pairing is merely one more cover of "The Boys Are Back in Town." If so, Thin Lizzy definitely deserves better.
I wonder if Gingrich and Cain share Callista on the long cold nights ?
Maby if some of you would read the constitution ,you would understand that it does not address this issue.
It only states that govt. cannot force you to one religion or another. Can neither support or oppose a certain religion. It gives us the freedom or choice of how or if we practice any religion. Please read before you speak. Read the whole constitution, not just a few lines to get the picture.
They fit together like hand and glove. They are both womanizing blow hard's.
Neither has any kind of real ideas on what the average American goes through each day to keep their head above water.
Between the two of them they have more money than all the rest of the candidates put together and that includes Romney.
Plus neither is any more qualified to run this country anymore than Obama was.
The air must have been hot and heavy after both of them left the stage.
Can't hit the singles bars without a wingman.
What can I say. Devoid of integrity, these 2 are the ultimate dream-team of self-inflicted failure. Ladies and gentlemen, I give you the King of Con and his Buffoonish Gester (oh, shucky ducky). Enjoy them if or while you can because their clown show will be a short one.