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SAVANNAH, GA -- Presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich today said that neither the Washington establishment nor any of his GOP rivals can push him around.
"The reason so much of the Washington establishment is opposed to me, and you can tell who the inside candidate is by where the money comes from,” Gingrich told the roughly 100 people gathered outside the Chatham County GOP headquarters. “Mitt Romney is clearly the inside, establishment candidate. And the fact is they can't push me around and it drives them crazy. What they want is somebody who's malleable and who's going to go along to get along."
The former House speaker is on his fourth and final day of his Georgia bus tour before the all-important elections in 11 states on Super Tuesday.
At this event, he did not shy away from hitting Romney or Rick Santorum -- calling Romney “manager in the business world,” and Santorum “a big government, big labor conservative.”
“I’m not a team player. I am a change agent,” Gingrich declared, drawing cheers from the crowd. “Unlike Gov. Romney, I'm not going to Washington to manage the decay. And unlike Sen. Santorum, I'm not going to Washington to join the team.”
Gingrich, who labeled himself Friday “just a middle-class guy” despite his very successful business ventures, still lags behind Romney in fundraising –- an essential key to building a national campaign and competing against President Obama.
But for Gingrich, he believes people -- not money -- will win out in the end.
“You’re not going to be able to buy an election. Obama is not going to be able to buy re-election. And candidly, I don’t think Romney is going to be able to buy the nomination,” he said. “This, in the end, is a country where the people matter.”
And the former speaker even showed a little personal side of himself during the rally. He told the crowd about the embarrassing pictures his mother, a Girl Scout executive director, would show people from Gingrich's days as a toddler.
“You bring a girlfriend and they go ‘oh here, look at Newtie when he was 4,’” he said. “You just want to melt and go through the couch, right?”
Gingrich wraps up his swing through the Peach State Friday evening before heading off to Ohio and Tennessee before returning to Georgia for Super Tuesday.
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Translation: "I'm a divider, not a uniter."
Newt; "It's not about money, its about people, so people, will you give me some money?"
Newt Gingrich spent three decades in Washington and is the biggest establishment candidate who has run for President ever!
In the House Banking scandal, where so many congressmen wrote rubber checks on government money, Newt bounced 22 himself.
Newt in his poltical career was the king of using tax-payer subsidized donations for his personal and political purposes. He used two charities for poor inner city kids for his personal goals.
Of course, using tax-exempt donations for partisan purposes is illegal, and several ethics complaints were filed against Gingrich. He agreed to pay a $300,000 fine for misleading the committee during the investigation, and in the process dodged conviction on the actual charges through a combination of finessing some legal definitions, and political power
Newt stopped paying alimony and child support. Jackie had to take Newt to court to get money out of him, and her Baptist church needed to take up a collection to get his kids food and prevent the utilities from being cut off. But he has a $500,000 at Tiffany's. Slimebag!
This is what the Republicans came up with for President????????
Yes, Newt is a change agent in the same way that an atomic bomb is a change agent.
He is a change agent unlike none of the other candidates . Unfortunately, most of the world wants limited change and business as usual.
Well if Obama wins a second term it won't be
because I didn't do everything that I could to prevent that from happening.
Obama and this administration lie to us the American public every day. It has
become almost impossible to know what is true and what is not true. Spread the
truth. Obama and this administration prey on the uneducated and the uninformed.
Obama has become an artist at saying one thing and doing another. Obama has
been the worst most destructive president to Americans and what we believe in.
LETS LIGHT THE FIRE TO IGNITE A FREE AMERICA THAT
OUR FORFATHERS WOULD BE PROUD OF.
A FIRE THAT WOULD ENSURE THAT THE REPUBLIC STARTED
BY THE FOUNDERS OF THIS COUNTRY WILL LAST FOREVER.
A FIRE THAT WOULD LET OBAMA AND THOSE LIKE HIM
KNOW THAT WE DO NOT WANT TO LIVE IN A SOCIALIST COUNTRY.
ANYBODY BUT OBAMA 2012!!!
AMERICA IS DEPENDING ON US!!!
Would those be the undercover, back door lobbying contracts or the direct mail fundraising scams?
Really?
How many "middle-class guys" do you know who pull in $60K a pop to give a speech?
How many "middle-class guys" do you know who get $1.65M from Fannie and Freddie to be a
lobbyisthistorian?How many "middle-class guys" do you know who have a $500K line of credit from Tiffany's?
Please, Newton, don't insult us with the "I'm One Of You" act. Nobody's buying it.
Please, Newton, don't insult us with the "I'm One Of You" act. Nobody's buying it
It's called "imoneovuitis" It's an illness brought on by an intense desire to win the Tpublican Party nomination (or at least get more speaking engagements)
How can Newt be a "change agent" when he promotes the same, tired, old Reagan policies; when the idea of anything but oil is an alien concept, when his ideas and that of the GOP is to return us to the 19th century if not the 18th other than, of course, colonizing the moon? Maybe he was referring to the number of wives he has had!
Now, to be fair, Newton is an agent of change.
He makes me change the channel every time I see him come on my TV to speak.
Gingrich is an agent for change......wives that is. He is a master at changing wives.
Nah! You're a shape shifter.
With the kind of "change" Newt would bring I'll take the status quo, thank you very much!
Moot Gingrich is a self-centered, out of step lying demagogue. The only thing he changes is the lies he tells, depending on what he thinks will be to his advantage at the moment. Fill his tank full of his 2.00 gas and send him to his moon colony.
Not long ago, he said he was the only true conservative. Now hes the man from LaMancha! Reality is much better than fiction.
Bella, That's Newt in a nutshell, taking another swing at the windmills.
But the windmills might be giants. Nobody's ever going to have that confusion with the field of Republican candidates.
Sorry Newt your run is over. CAN WE SAY ETHICS VIOLATION LIAR?????
In "Nutty Newt's" group sessions he constantly yells that he is not a team player. He does not like to share, and is constantly talking about himself in the third person. Now "Nutty Newt" during his dinner times calls himself a "Moon" Agent. When allowed in the yard he calls himself the "Space" Agent. When watching his Star Wars Movies he is an agent of the "Republic," and he believes the "Force/Farce" is with him. "Nutty Newt" has had to have a lot of medication changes, and he has no other changes concerning the economy/jobs.
newt nitwitrich is change? hahahaha please newty you might have a few idiots who beLIEve that.but you're just as much if not fully the same as the current treasonist comander in thief.
You get my stupidish most baseless lie I have seen today award.
Newt was brought up on charges of lying and fraud by his own republican party and voted out of the house by his own party. He was fined $300,000 and for the first time in our history a speaker of the house was thrown out of congress.
So tell me, just what has President Obama personally done that puts him in the same catagory as the slime Newt?
newt is not in the same category as obama. obama is much worse!!!
Newt quoted: "I am a change agent" - Doesn't the word 'change' and the word 'conservative' somewhat contradict each other? I think Newt is more like a Bullsh!t agent.
Well said!
spare change maybe?
Newt....Gingrich, was it?
Who's that?
Kind of reminds me of W.C. Field who said he would never join a club that would accept him as as member.
No wonder he is not a team player, who would want him on his team.
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Well Newt, we know you're an agent. I guess the only question is, which country are you an agent for. I can't be America. Back this guy at your own peril. There is a very good reason just about everybody who served with him aren't backing him today.
Short man syndrome
No Newt, your not a team player but Team USA wants a President who plays with them, not against them. One thing for sure that you definitely are is an ass hole.
When did change agent become synonymous with blow hard ass hole ?
Newt has planty of embarrassing pictures of himself as an adult.
Why Why would anyone vote for this three time cheater and family wrecker?? He also lies ,
He is for open marriage and i assume that his tramp is also for it.. He is endorsed by other cheater Herman Cain, what a lovely fivesome these people would make for the best brothel in Georgia and Teax and Nevada... NWET/CALLISTA/HERMAN/GLORIA/SARAH/MAYBE RICK PERRY TOO
you might want to check out these things on snopes before you make yourself look like a fool.
Newts a change alright-Without a doubt one of the most corrupted political hacks the D.C. cesspool has ever produced.
America’s Most Corrupt Politicians
http://godfatherpolitics.com/2887/americas-most-corrupt-politicians/
In the list of the top ten most admired men, was none other than President
Barack Obama.
Now Judicial Watch has released the Ten Most Wanted Corrupt Politicians list.
To no surprise of my own, President Barack Obama made Judicial Watch’s list
along with the nation’s top cop, Attorney General Eric Holder.
Judicial Watch’s Ten Most Wanted Corrupt Politicians for 2011 are listed in
alphabetical order:
Rep. Spencer Bachus (R-AL)
Former Senator John Ensign (R-NV)
Rep. Alcee Hastings (D-FL)
Attorney General Eric Holder (D)
Rep. Jesse Jackson, Jr. (D-IL)
President Barack Obama (D)
Rep. Laura Richardson (D-CA)
Rep. David Rivera (R-FL)
Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA)
Rep. Don Young (R-AK)
Dishonorable Mentions for 2011 include:
Former Senator John Edwards (D-NC)
Rep. Barney Frank (D-MA)
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-GA)
Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano (D)
Rep. Nancy Pelosi (D-CA)
Rep. Charles Rangel (D-NY)
Rep. Hal Rogers (R-KY)
Secretary of Health and Human Services Kathleen Sebelius (D)
Note that six of the ten list are Democrats
and six of the eight listed on the dishonorable mention are Democrats. That’s
75% of those on both lists are Democrats. That has to say something for the
overall mentality of the attitude of being above the law that permeates the
Democratic Party.
As for President Obama making this list and being listed as the most admired
man in the country speaks volumes as to just how far American society has
declined. Why would a nation of people admire one of the most corrupt
politicians of the day and probably in the history of the American presidency?
Obama has repeatedly defied the US Constitution and federal laws. He ignores
the mandates of Congress and the general opinion of the American people and yet
they turn around and admire him for it?
And then there has to be a lot said when the US Attorney General makes it to
the Ten Most Wanted Corrupt Politicians list. The man who is supposed to uphold
the law turns out to be one of the biggest violators of the law. Every day,
more Congressmen and women are calling for his immediate resignation and even
more are signing on to a vote of no confidence and yet he sees himself as doing
no wrong. Leaving Eric Holder in his role as US Attorney General is like
placing a career pedophile in charge of a day care.
I wish we could post Judicial Watch’s lists of the Ten Most and the
Dishonorable Mention outside every polling booth in the nation so that it’s the
last thing voters see before placing their votes. Just maybe, it would be
enough to change a few votes this next year.
HAHA, look at Newt the skunk trying to steal from President Obama lol: "Gingrich: 'I'm not a team player; I am a change agent". This is what they HATE President Obama for, because he goes AGAINST the grain, and doesn't follow lock stock and barrel with the traditional GOP poli-tRicks of old lol. Stop copying GOPers, it makes you look so bad, and so DESPERATE lol !
President Obama also calls Israel out onto the carpet, and the Republicans really hate him for that! He's not in a fight with Israel as the GOPers claim that he is, but he will not pamper and coddle Israel either (as it should be) like the GOPers want him to do, and he will call a bad move a bad move no matter if it's Israel or anyone else committing the bad move. Israel deserves NO special treatment ! The USA should be first and foremost concerned with the well being of the USA over any OTHER country! This is where we LIVE! That's common sense, which I guess these gripping Republicans just don't get!
this coddling that you speak of is America trying to protect the Arab world from the wrath of Israel.
not protecting Israel from others.
Israel can not be defeated.
the US gets more government intelligence from Israel than we can provide for ourselves.