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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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Santorum is pandering to the religious fundamentalists, the right-wing core of the Republican party. I'll quote a paragraph from Canadian psychologist Robert Altemeyer's book, "The Authoritarians" which has a wonderful description of the kind people Santorum wants to reach:
"They are highly submissive to established authority, aggressive in the
name of that authority and conventional to the point of insisting
everyone should behave as their authorities decide. They are fearful and
self-righteous and have a lot of hostility in them that they readily
direct toward various out-groups. They are easily incited, easily led,
rather un-inclined to think for themselves, largely impervious to facts
and reason and rely instead on social support to maintain their beliefs.
They bring strong loyalty to their in-groups, have thick-walled, highly
compartmentalized minds, use a lot of double standards in their
judgments, are surprisingly unprincipled at times and are often
hypocrites."
Altemeyer also makes this observation:
Probably about 20 to 25 percent of the adult American population is so right-wing authoritarian, so scared, so self-righteous, so ill-informed and so dogmatic that nothing you can say or do will change their minds. They would march America into a dictatorship and probably feel that things had improved as a result.... And they are so submissive to their leaders that they will believe and do virtually anything they are told. They are not going to let up and they are not going away.
Mark,
I believe you are describing the left wing nuts to a tee. It is the liberals that think the government should do everything and the people should follow blindly. It's the left that would make Obama into a dictator if they could. I further believe you are describing the left to the letter with the quote "they are so submissive to their leaders that they will believe and do virtually anything they are told," just read some of the post from the left wing nuts defending Obama.
BTW, Anyone quoting a psychologist needs to see one themselves.
I find it halarious that these republicants candidates have yet to figure it out that having CAIN & PALIN back them is a CURSE. Each time them or TRUMP have backed a candidate, that candidate has seen their popularity drop drastically. I guess they really don't want to be the next president, they just want to spend money, try to bring down our president and our country... Nice try, but it won't work, we see thru your stupidity....
Gingrich is busily pulling his support together, likely promising positions and simply planning to be the nominee on the second or third round at the convention. Gingrich, Palin, Cain and Perry so far; literally a group of failed, pathetic desperates hoping to be the next “puppets” to serve and benefit from “the money”.
I guess I will still start writing my book about politicians tonight, but my my husband who is a blockhead doesn't think it is possible that I will be able to sell anything. Hum hum men. I think I should title the book...Men who doubt their wives and the wive who loves them anyway.
this pair is appearing under a modified Republican party moniker -- The G O.P.P. (yeah you know me)