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BOWLING GREEN, OH -- Newt Gingrich admitted Saturday night in the Buckeye State both he and GOP rival Rick Santorum have made missteps in Super Tuesday contests.
Neither Gingrich nor Santorum’s names will appear on the ballot in Virginia, as they were not able to meet the threshold of required signatures. And in Ohio, Santorum failed to submit a full slate of delegates in nine of the state’s 16 congressional districts, making him ineligible to obtain all 63 delegates.
“To be fair, we had some problems in Virginia, Rick has had some problems here [Ohio]. We have more delegates in Pennsylvania than he does,” Gingrich told a handful of reporters following the Ohio 5th Congressional District Lincoln-Reagan Day Dinner. “It will be interesting to see how it evolves over the next couple of days.”
Both Gingrich and Santorum spoke at the dinner located at Bowling Green State University just three days before the contests in 11 states.
Despite his setback in the Virginia primary, the former House speaker is confident about a win in his home state of Georgia, the state that awards the most number of delegates on March 6th.
“You know obviously you want to get as many votes as you can, but I said all along that Georgia was the key because if we didn’t do well in Georgia I thought we could not go on,” he said, noting that he will do better than Mitt Romney did in his home state. “I think my margin in Georgia is much, much bigger than his margin was in Michigan. So I’m pretty encouraged.”
But Gingrich’s biggest rival in the Southern states is Santorum, not Romney necessarily. Santorum is competing very hard in both Tennessee and Oklahoma – two states Gingrich himself also has his eye on. The gap between the former Speaker and the former Pennsylvania senator, Gingrich says, is narrowing.
“I think the margin between Santorum and me has closed very dramatically in the last 10 days,” he said. “And that’s part of this competition is to get back to a position to be able to compete head-to-head with Romney.”
Gingrich says his campaign will go up with a 30-second TV ad in states by Monday, pushing his message of $2.50 gas prices.
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Oh for a GOP/Koch/Norquist-er to be "FAIR".
Honestly folks .!!...
Oh the days of the Kerry dancin', Oh the ring of the Piper's tune,
Oh the days that we went romancin' - Gone again,
Like the bird in June.
Newt Gingrich admitted Saturday night in the Buckeye State both he and GOP rival Rick Santorum have made missteps in Super Tuesday contests.
Well that is the truth! But not only in the Buckeye State...All over the place. You guys need to turn the switch ON that connects the brain to the mouth. It is obvious that in both of you is seriously MALFUNCTIONING
The difference is Gingrich just wanted to sell books. That insane Santorum actually fantasized about being President.
"Missteps," Newt?
More like you and your fellow vendor of pious baloney have fallen flat on your a$$es.
Why should voters expect a candidate to govern with more organization and deliberation than he/she has shown campaigning?
These clowns didn't have the snap to get their names on the ballot! Kind of hard to get elected that way...
It's all about the publicity for these two at this point anyway. Neither has a snowball's chance in hell.
Newt's life has been a long series of missteps. So, now he's finally forced to acknowlege what we already know: his campaign is dead. RIP Newt.
"Missteps" .... another piece of breaking news from the Department of Pointing Out the Obvious.
they are focusing on themselves; not on the real reason; THE AMERICAN PEOPLE, do not want a religious dogma in their politics, they do not want un-regulated capitalism in their country, and most of all , they do not want far right or far left agenda's coming out of Washington (that is why Obama will be a one term president) .
Beyond the obvious organizational mis-steps, the biggest mis-steps these two have made is making public their positions on just about everything. "It is better to keep ones mouth shut and let people assume you are a fool than to speak out and confirm the fact" more or less (said by a prominent somebody - credit for quote is in debate)!
Indiana ruled Santorum 14 signatures short after examining the validity of signatures - he is appealing this, especially when you are that close most states give you a weak or two to get enough. Indiana is not.
Romney was running for president for the past 5 years, he had organization in place. Santorum and Gingrich have been hampered by late entries and low funding initially, and have been forced to apply too close to many deadlines.
Virginia requires a minimum of 400 signatures from each congressional district, and to qualify for the state wide ballot. You fail in one district your out. BTW an out of state candidate cannot use out of state help to collect the signatures or even people outside the district cannot come in to collect signatures. Each candidate has to field volunteers from those districts. Must be a holdover from the "jim crow" days to keep African Americans off state wide races.
Oh, yeah and here is the kicker. There is no write-in permitted in the primary.
Virginia - change your laws - they are an embarrassment to the nation.
Newt Gingrich and GOP rival Rick Santorum should realize by now that the vast majority really
don't want them in the race.
Unfortunately the Republicans just aren't putting any candidates forward that are worth voting for. Gingrich was a joke, and Santorum is just plain crazy.
As President Obama said during the last campaign, "A president has to be able to multi-task." It appears that neither Gingrich or Santorum is able to do so. If you can't run a campaign, you can't run a country. Neither is ready for primetime.
On the upside, if you can't run a country, you can't run it into the ground--like Obama! :-) C'mon November!
Yeah, unemployment down, GDP up, stock market up, wars ended and/or shutting down, bin Laden dead, al-Qaeda on the run. That's what I call a country being run into the ground. LOL.
Old Vet
Unemployment down from what? Obama's 10%? Yep. That is a good thing down from 10% to 8.3%
GDP up? Up from what? Obama's 2.8 in 2010 to 1.7 GDP 2011. Now last time I looked 1.7 is lower than 2.8. So GDP has gone down NOT up.
Up from the recession Bush put us into.
Newt has admited he can't multi task. Remember when he said he couldn't stand by his wives because he loved his country so much. How is he going to handle being president of the U S A
Hey Slowdon,
Bush inherited a good economy with a projected surplus and the national debt would be paid off in 10 years which would have been 2010. Instead look at where bush and the republicans took our country in 8 short years and you want to blame President Obama as if he was the one that inherited the good economy instead of the economy in free-fall off the bush republican cliff.
You need to turn Limpy and faux off, it is apparently rotting your brain.
GDP = private consumption + gross investment + government spending + (exports − imports)
Can you guess which one of these Republicans cut in 2011 after they gained control of the House?
Government spending
Additionally, the states and local governments have also been cutting their spending and work forces as well.
When the federal, state and local governments lay people off and they no longer receive a pay check, can you guess which one would go down?
Private Consumption
Now can you put one and one together and figure out why the GDP would have gone down in 2011 compared to 2010?
FYI the 2008 Q4 GDP under Bush was -6.3% and the 2009 Q1 GDP under Obama was -5.5%, but are you really going to try to blame that on Obama? He had been in office less then 3 months and his administration was still getting up and running.
The GDP went up LESS you moron. It went up, just not as much. The would be a big minus sign in front of the number if it went down.
you'll be surprised - Sorry sport, but unlike your memory, mine extends back beyond January of 2009. There were two wars raging and the nation had been in the deepest recession in 30 years when Obama took to the oath of office in that month.
He did not create those problems. They were engineered under 8 years of Republican leadership, during most of which, they held both houses of congress and the White House.
Today everybody has their eye on the budget deficit, but back in 2009, other matters were more important. Bad as the deficit is, in 2009 this nation was tottering on the brink of a second Great Depression, and it could be that some of the government actions which followed, such as the bail-out of the auto industry, averted that calamity.
Both are higher than the previous Administrations minus 7% there last year in office. Even at the lower number that is an almost 9% turnaround!
YBS--
What is the difference between this administration and the last? Is that your point.? You're kidding right? Beyond an economy going in the right direction, we are starting to regain some of the goodwill we had earned around the world, instead of having some dangerous strutting peacock in office that couldn't put two words together.
Just the sense of security alone that comes from knowing that the person in the White house uses reason to guide him instead of fairy tales about talking snakes and sky virgins (for the last President at least, a vestige of being a former addict) makes me -- and people in other countries I would think, sleep better at night.
I remember people on these vines wondering why President Obama didn't have the mess that the Republicans had gotten us into fixed by January 21, 2009. Preposterous and unhelpful stupidity.
Newt's only mistake was thinking he ever had a snowball's chance in Hell.
Stan and Laurel made the mistake of thinking they could ever win in an general election. They are both beyond the pale politically.
From the article: "Neither Gingrich nor Santorum’s names will appear on the ballot in Virginia, as they were not able to meet the threshold of required signatures."
What imbeciles. The only purpose these two losers are serving is to siphon off huge amounts of cash from Romney's war chest. After the primaries, Romney will go into the presidential race underfunded, humiliated by the long string of stupid things that keep coming from his mouth, and backed by a desperate political party that is increasingly being viewed by Americans as collapsing in on itself.
President Obama will be reelected by yet another landslide. Read 'em and weep.
I'd say Mittwits money was well spent. President Obama in a landslide.
No no, no, not a political party being viewed by Americans as collapsing. Viewed that way only by those who depend solely on MSNBC, Rachel Maddow, The NY Times and the like for their news. You greatly underestimate the throngs appalled by the Obamanation in the White House and you may be in for a tremendous surprise come November!
You'll--Time for a reality check. See http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2012/president/president_obama_vs_republican_candidates.html. And that's before Obama's campaign starts reminding the American people what Romney is really like.
Well played, Old Vet!
There's plenty of time (8 months?) for a reality check, Old. I totally get what the polls say. Just thinkin' you may not want to take it to the bank quite yet (especially with gas prices increasing $0.20/day!).
You'll--The best guess is that gas prices will begin to fall toward the end of the summer, like they always do. But it's good to see at least one Republican with confidence. Keep giving to the candidate of your choice. Who knows, if you give enough, it will help the economy and, therefore, help Obama gain re-election.
You'll be surprised, I'll be surprised if you come on here and say anything but worn out talking points pushed by the right wing to create hate towards our president.
The republicans have blocked or filibustered any bill that would help Americans economy and have been harping for months how much better job they could have done. And now that the economy is getting better despite them, now you and the republicans want to jump on the increased gas prices as if that proved President Obama was a failure all along, just what you have been praying for.
I know unemployment is down, the stock market is up, even the saved car company is making record profits, it must irritate you to no end that President Obama is not the failure you wanted him to be.
The only smart choice for America, Obama/Biden 2012
The funniest aspect of both Gingrich & Santorum failing to appear on the ballot in Virginia is that it is the state where they both reside. One would think that such well educated professional politicians would at the very least have the rules of their own state down.
Old Vet-- I know this is will lead off subject but what are your thoughts on where our personal freedoms are headed (the trend), specifically in regards to their erosion under just the last two presidents?
I think if the repulicans church of the holier than thou doesn't get thrown out of our government we won't have a clue as to what personal freedom was.
The government does bad enough on its own with the patriot act without the church moving in and taking more rights from us.
Americans First-- Are you really worried about birth control when we have the patriot act , the new NDAA power, the current administration pushing for the domestic use of drones (armed or otherwise) ... and you are worried about the church taking over when you can't even pray in school if you want to ... we are moving more quickly into a potential police state than I have ever seen and people are worried about what amounts to social issues... those are what I am hearing about, the questions being asked by a mostly left leaning media...
I know you didn't say anything about birth control but that is one of the current hot topics. If I read the wrong thing into your statement I apologize. I am not saying Obama will be the one to use the tools he is putting into place (not saying he couldn't either) It just worries me he is signing off on some of this stuff. His flip flop on NDAA for instance. I was disappointed when he didn't hold good on his promise to veto NDAA. I thought for a moment he was going to make the right call.
I am not a big fan of the things the government has put in place. But I am not fooled by the religious issue label, it is a woman's rights issue and nothing else. If you can pass a law telling a woman what she can take or what she can or can't do with her own body, you are just making women into second class citizens. Virginia wanted to go so far as to pass a law for a state sanctioned rape procedure to push their religious agenda. Rush was just the first step to belittle and put women back into her place after having the nerve to speak up for herself.
For religion they want to pass the person-hood amendment which makes the egg more valuable than the mother because if it dies in her care (miscarriage) a very common occurance, it then becomes a murder trial. Do you have any ideal how large the government and the prisons are going to need to be to monitor and control every pregnancy?
While I may not agree with all that the government does, why would I want to add another layer of religious doctrine to take away what is left of my rights?
Is it just me or are we already told what we can and cannot put in our bodies? What we can and cannot do with our bodies?
Do you think Rush speaks for "them". Does Bill Maher speak for "you"? Both are entertainers. Personally if I do listen to them I take what they say with a grain of salt.
It is a sticky issue to be sure, it mostly seems to depend (to me) on when we consider that fertilized egg to be life (my own personal opinion on the subject isn't fully formed truly no pun intended). Sticky issue or not it is a detracting issue. There are larger issues and more at stake than just that. To hinge the leadership of a country on an issue such as this seems shortsighted.
I'm beginning to think that the Mayans had the GOP in mind - 2012 seems to be the year that the party self destructs. They have a doofus sheriff in Arizona trying to appeal to the birthers by trying to ressurect the Obama birth certificate issue, and there is Rush, alienating women and causing irreparable damage, and we have this collection of clowns running for office. And this is only March!
If you are calling "entering the race for President" a misstep than you are correct!!
Perhaps Gingrich and Santorum need Limbaugh to help them with the women's vote.
"Mittwits". I think Romney was just annointed with a new nickname.
My personal favorite is Ricochet Romney.......
Loser Loser, double losers.
They say that Limbaugh (this isn't a joke) is set to endorse Romney next week. That's gonna help. Of course, in the coalition of the feebleminded that Romney needs to get elected, many of the Southern Fundamentalists (deliberate capitals) will not get behind a Mormon. A clear path to the nomination, maybe. Election...well not unless a whole lot of people who are bigots can swallow their pride. Third party, here we come.
That endorsement would rank right up there with a Sandusky endorsement !!!
Now that there is funny...except that Sandusky really was active in the Republican party.
Next it will be a battle to win the coveted endorsement of Casey Anthony. (She didn't use birth control OR have an abortion....so her word is good.)
lol that would make me feel a little bit sorry for Romney
These two clowns have had more missteps than Otis the town drunk !!! If they could have shut up,Mitt would have dropped below them like a rock in this RACE TO THE BOTTOM !!! Their only hope is if Ronald Reagan is on ice....
I think that even "the sainted one" would not recognize the GOP if he were alive again & of sound(ish) mind.
Running for office was the first misstep.
Newt, a stupid man's idea of what a smart person sounds like, has once again proven just how delusonal he is.
If you think he is stupid I believe you to be foolish on the matter. If you believe him to be a snake I think you are right.
I didn't say exactly say he was stupid, only that he is not smart. He is clever, in an evil sort of way, and misuses big words in a way that fools truly stupid people. He only sounds smart to people who don't know the difference. If you have ever read much Gunter Grass, you will know the precedents for Newt Gingrich.
If these pretenders had taken "Community Organizing 101" from Barack, they wouldn't be crying in their beer(or Tea) on the eve of Super Tuesday!
When you get involved in the community you understand completely what real people do and need. However, this goes over so many snobs (I guess that would be the word for it) heads. They don't understand America is made up of different people and some need some encouragement and help to get off their rear ends and support themselves.. Some think it is just Daddy could you send me to college and look the other way while I insult and look down on everyone else and in the meantime I will do as little as possible to get by. The real snobs are those who have clue how some have to live in the country and they don't want to know and they sure don't want to help those people improve their lives and learn the rewards of living well and supporting themselves. Heck most of the snobs don't know that either as is obvious by their behaviors. If they had to really work a day in their life they couldn't handle it.
Newsflash: Newt doesn't want leadership. He wants power and access just like Ron Paul. He stays to buffer Romney from Santorum and Romney will reward his help should he get elected.
RUSH LIMBAUGH IS A RECOVERING DRUG ADDICT ; we call him the ox-cotin king. his radio show came on one day, and he was sooooooo doped up , until you literally could not make his words out. it sounded like slurring of a man who had been drinking all night. when approached with this episode the next following day , he blamed it on bad radio connection. months latter his maid exposed him , for the drug addict he really is. YOU CAN FIND THAT SLURRISH LIMBAUGH RADIO SHOW ON YOU TUBE. JUDGE THAT RADIO PROGRAM , AND GIVE RUSH THE BENEFIT OF THE DOUBT. THEN YOU WILL SEE WHY WE CALL HIM THE OXY-COTIN KING
Their bieggest missteps are deciding to run at all. The country didn't realize half the cad Gingrich is over a lengthy period of time and how much of an inconsiderate radical Santorum is. He could have runon values but instead he ran on insults and trying to cram his ideals down peoples throats. Can anyone imagine these two actually being president? No!! I can see why Santorum lost by 17 or 18 points. Maybe he should do something else??.
Yeah, they made mistakes, but failing to get into a couple of primaries are not the ones that come to mind.
Sanctimonious and the Grinch who flew to the Moon were both done long long ago. When they first started opening their mouths, that was it, game over. Hoisted on their own Petards..
Newt --- you've been making mistakes for most of your life. You and your bomb throwing type of politics is destroying this nation.
"Gingrich says both he and Santorum have made missteps"
Yes, and your first missteps were wasting everyone s time and running in the first place!
Although I must say it was entertaining.
Adios and don't let the door hit ya where the Good Lord split ya...
Republicans have so many scores to settle with Gingrich that if he doesn't become President, you can bet your bottom dollar, settle their scores they will...
same old blame game that everything is president obamas fault. their ignorance amazes me. another thing that amazes me is how the republicans claim that the president is not keeping us safe from our enemies...................um....the fact that we were attacked and lost over 3,000 people on 9-11, while george bush was president, is that president obama's fault too?
True.
The moment he became front runner - he went full-on wing nut.
the fact that we were attacked and lost over 3,000 people on 9-11,
^ I can tell you that, in the South, the partisanship is tribalistic.
ie - > better to be attacked under GOP, than to be protected by a democrat.
-> better to have economic meltdown under GOP, then economic growth via a democrat.
-> better to have no health care, than to have health care provided by a democrat.
Now, you make the democratic President and African American - and you've created in the southern mindset, their ultimate absolute nightmare. You can't reason with hate.
So Jim. is nothing Obama's fault ?
You are right your both arrogant big mouth Blowhards that think your entitled to everything instead of earning them with a certain amont of integrity dignity. Newt america knows you and your record and IT AINT PRETTY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!