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Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich speaks during a rally in Woodstock, Ga. on Thursday, March 1
WOODSTOCK, GA -- Newt Gingrich told Georgians Thursday just how vital a win here in his home state next Tuesday really is to his campaign.
“I have to win Georgia, I think, to be credible in the race,” Gingrich told a sold-out Cobb Country Chamber of Commerce breakfast in Atlanta this morning.
The former House Speaker is trying to mount a third comeback in the race for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination. Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum potentially stand in his way as they’ve already won 128 and 29 delegates respectively. Gingrich has also secured 29 delegates. Winning the state of Georgia with 50 percent of the vote would give a candidate 76 delegates, the most of any of the 10 states on Super Tuesday.
And even Gingrich acknowledges Romney or Santorum could become the nominee even though he finds them irrelevant.
“One of them may win because money matters but I don’t think they are relevant because they are just politics, they are just the same old bologna,” he said. “One is Massachusetts’s moderate bologna, the other is Pennsylvania big labor bologna but they are bologna.”
But, Gingrich says of Romney, who is seen in the eyes of many as the inevitable choice to compete against President Barack Obama this fall, is still beatable.
“You’ve now seen Governor Romney, who’s spent maybe 10 times as much money as the rest of us, can’t close the sale,” Gingrich said. “Well, if he can’t close the sale our job is to go out and keep making the sale until we finish closing it.”
The Romney campaign and the Restore Our Future super PAC have far outspent Gingrich as the Gingrich campaign and his Winning Our Future super PAC have not been able to raise as much money as the former Massachusetts Governor.
Just in Georgia alone, the pro-Romney SuperPAC has spent $1.5 million while Winning Our Future has spent $1.1 million; the Romney campaign itself spent $327,000 and Gingrich just $15,000.
Gingrich told the crowds today, he hopes his message will resonate with voters even without the big money his competitors can attract and he can win with “people power.”
In the end, the race comes down to which of the remaining candidates can beat Obama, Gingrich argues.
“We have two nice people running who are not visionaries,” the Speaker says about his two chief Republican opponents during a speech outside the Cherokee County Georgia Republican Headquarters here. “We have a president who has the wrong vision. So we need to match our positive vision of an American future with his negative vision of a socialist, bureaucratic, secular future.”
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Newt, you lost your credibility decades ago. Georgia can't help you.
Anyone know where I can get a good 'pious baloney' sandwich?
If he carries Georgia along with the rest of the South... now that would make for an interesting convention.
devie,
If that happens, any guess on how many Confederate flags we will see at the convention?
Way to many? Because one is to much if you ask me. I have spent a few years of my life in NC and AL. I sure did get tired of hearing "you ain't from here is ya?"
This may explain why Newt writes books about things that never happened like that one that has Lee winning at Gettysburg. Are Georgians crazy about a carpetbagging weasel like Newt? Seems hard to believe.
Oh, how I love the sound of good ole conservative desperation - or is that despair-ation.
Time to leave Newt, you are embarassing yourself.
...as compared to Newton who is "I'm Going To See If You People Are Stupid Enough To Believe I'm An Outsider" Bologna!
...although, to his credit, Newton has insulted our intelligence by claiming to reach out to the other side the way Willard has and the way Richard did this week with his Democrat robocall.
... and Newt's a special interest and southerner who likes to play with his bologna.
Why is it that the song "The Devil Went Down to Georgia" by Charlie Daniels is going through my mind while reading the above article?
I was thinking more of "The night that lights went out in georgia."
But each to their own I guess.
Oh! Forgot about that one! Good choice, too!
I was thinking, "Georgia, out of their mind".
Once he loses the nomination, will he do an about-face and endorse one of the guys he's calling bologna today? Scorched earth - that's Newt for you!
MMM...Massachusetts Moderate Bologna!!!
Fried Bologna?
This is a good "out" for Newt. He already knows he won't be the next POTUS but he has to find a way to bow out gracefully after all the previous boast and false bravado.
"Bow out gracefully" is not in this man's vocabulary! Anyone running for president has to have an incredible ego, but Newt's the most outwardly egotistical politician I can think of.
I have to win Georgia, I think, to be credible in the race,” Gingrich told a sold-out Cobb Country Chamber of Commerce breakfast in Atlanta this morning.
Newt... I hate to break it to you, but you are not credible. Never have and never will be. I know I am female and my opinions shouldn't count... but we females (especially liberal ones) really do know what we are talking about. I know you just have to buy wifey a trinket from Tiffanys to keep her quiet but for most women... we know what is going on the world and guess what newt? You are not happening.
Said like someone who has spent sometime down in the "Deep" South.
Is Newt calling himself a visionary? Wouldn't think the view would be too great with his head so far up there.
Newt has already proved that he is a liar & a cheat....ask his ex-wives....so why would anyone vote for him?
This Ga. gal will be voting for Dr. Ron Paul.
Oh, and BTW, in Ga. you can declare which party ballot you want when you enter the polling place...so democrats can come over to the repub side & vote if they want! ((tee hee))
Oh, and BTW, who would want "helmet hair" as a first lady (?)...not sure that term applies to her!
This guy has no clue! He has been out of this race for a long time, yet here he is talking to cobb country. That about says it all, dont it? Cobb country chamber of commerce? Thats a mouthfull for breakfast! Newtie, just go on and lie down by your bowl, ur done. Have been done! You were already a has been, now you are a have been! LMFAO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
I wonder if his home state will throw him out
At least Gingrich is now admitting that if he can't win in the banjo capital, it's time to find another gig as the cash flow to his jewler will soon be cut off.
When 90% of the voters want to get rid of all of the ego driven professional politicians, why would any one want to vote to put the most ego driven pol back in office. Even the other ego driven politicians forced him to resign from office for his egregious actions while in office before.
We can only hope that the folks down south have some strong coffee that they can wake up and smell before they cast a vote for the Grinch.
Same ole Newt pandering in Cobb county, the only place anyone in Georgia has any use for him . In every other part of the state he is considered a disgrace to GA. And that part about being credible, what a joke. Just go away newt, you are a loser.