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Subscribe to RSSGULFPORT, Miss. – Despite calls to withdraw from the presidential race, Newt Gingrich says no matter the outcome of the primaries next week, his campaign will go on.
"We'll clearly do well enough to move on, and I think there's a fair chance we'll win” in Mississippi and Alabama, Gingrich told The Associated Press in an interview Friday. “But I just want to set this to rest once and for all, we're going to Tampa."
The former House speaker appears to be lowering expectations in the two Southern states after his press secretary told reporters that the elections on Tuesday were crucial.
Campaign spokesman R.C. Hammond had told reporters on Wednesday that Gingrich needed to win both Mississippi and Alabama to remain a credible candidate. “From Spartanburg to Texas, those all need to go for Gingrich,” Hammond said.
Gingrich barely mentioned his two leading Republican competitors – Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum – at all on the stump Friday despite running neck-and-neck with them, according to new polls.
The Speaker is continuing to campaign like it’s business as usual, focusing his criticism on President Barack Obama’s energy policies.
Friday afternoon, the Gingrich campaign stopped at an oil drilling training facility in Laurel, Miss., to jab Obama’s recent speeches on energy, while touting his own $2.50 a gallon gas price plan.
“I just wanted to point out, Mr. President, that this is how they get natural gas. This is drilling. They don't get natural gas from algae,” Gingrich said as he stood in front of an oil rig.
Speaking at Gulfport High School – his last event in Mississippi Friday – Gingrich also called for Defense Secretary Leon Panetta to resign.
“I have been told that the secretary of defense has suggested that international agreements override the Congress,” Gingrich said, referring to comments that Panetta made Thursday about Syria as he testified before the Senate Armed Services Committee. “If he believes that, he should resign tonight … Leon Panetta needs to learn we do not have a United Nations secretary of defense, we have a United States secretary of defense.”
Gingrich campaigns in Alabama Saturday.
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Mr. Rocket Man & his plastic wife should have nothing to worry about down in the Redneck Riviera!
The evangelicals can not get enough of the healthy helping of BS!
Go Newtsie... take it all the way to Tampa! Make Willard sweat! lol
You want to know what kind of "guy" our esteemed President Barack Obama is?
Well allow me to tell you a true and revealing story about the gracious, kind, and complimentary man known as the leader of the free world.
Journey back to the 2008 democrat nomination when Barack and Hillary were going Mano a Mano. Hillary was traveling to a war ravaged middle east country. Sinbad (yes that Sinbad) was on the plane as well. Upon landing, the flight party was greeted by local dignitaries. The entire greeting was recorded. Weeks laterHillary over dramatized the landing by insinuating that the flight party deplaned under gunfire.
This event and Hillary's (mis)representation played prominently in the campaign. One could argue that it damaged Hillary more than a bit.
I'm confident many of you recall this event being such astute political observers and commentators.
So let's fast forward to a very gleaning and frankly sadly disappointing radio interview in Boston just today.
Sinbad was on the phone with the local host and told of his recent "running into"with our so classy, statesman like President Barack Obama.
As Sinbad put it....."he leaned into me, put his arm around and whispered in my ear...dodge any bullets lately".
As with most listeners, my immediate thought was DOUCHE BAG!
Can someone pass this TRUE story on to Hillary.
I'm sure she will agree with me and all the listeners in Beantown....
Obama is a DOUCHE BAG
Raab - comment spamming is the quickest way to get YOURSELF banned - you have been warned!
Take the advice for what it is... in the meantime, I see where you cannot backup YOUR bull@!$%#!
I just emailed my buddy Matt Drudge. He will help us with this! I'm sure of it.
See ya tomorrow and thanks for The censorship warning. I appreciate it and I expect no less from the loony left Obama websites.
Lots more people will be talking over the next few days about how proud we should be for having such an upstanding gentleman in the white house.
[I just emailed my buddy Matt Drudge.]
BAAAHWHWHWHWHWWHWHWHWWHWHHHHAAAAAA!
No, Raab....it is YOU that is the douche bag...live with it...
Newt really needs to shut up about algae.
Wikipedia - Fossil Fuels
Petroleum and natural gas are formed by the anaerobic decomposition of remains of organisms including phytoplankton and zooplankton that settled to the sea (or lake) bottom in large quantities under anoxic conditions, millions of years ago.
Algae would fall into the category of phytoplankton. Natural diamonds are created by geological processes within the earth just like fossil fuels. Synthetic diamonds are created by technological process by humans in a lab. If we can create synthetic diamonds then why is it so hard for Newt to believe that we can create synthetic fossil fuels? He talks about visions of a space colony on the moon, but cannot envision human made fossil fuels from algae.
Finally a voice of reason! Thanks, Greg!
Feisty - with your written vitriol and lack of respect against so many on the right you are threatening banishment? How quaint you little chi hua hua, trying to drag your azz across other posters.
Rob, what the hell does your Obama comment have to do with Gingrich? Do you have an attention disorder?
Gingrich needs to say he will go on, otherwise it could dampen his support in the present -- that makes sense. Just because Gingrich is, as Sendak called him "an idiot of great renown. There is something so hopelessly gross and vile about him, that it's hard to take him seriously" is not to say Gingrich did not learn a few things from his days as Speaker, such as Hate Speak propaganda, back-stabbing, and how elections work.
It would be great to see the GOP/TP vote split to the point no one has a clear majority by the time of the convention, but at least Gingrich helps to keep Sanctimonious Santorum from leading the way to a theocracy. We're practically a plutocracy already (Romney), but a friggin' Christian Taliban running our plutocracy? OMG!
"Rob in ma the Troll" suffers from much worse than mere attention disorder. Like most conservatives, he is unable to reason, connect the dots, and arrive at logical conclusions on his own. Take this example, in which he steals the term douche-bag from progressives in this forum, and thinking he is being so clever by stealing it. Try a little original thought Rob! I scroll past his drivel and try not to feed trolls like him.
Well allow me to call you a "DINGLEBERRY".
I hope that's not a term owned by the "progressives". If so my apologies in advance.
[As Southern primaries loom, Gingrich campaigns as if it's business as usual]
Business as usual, Newt?
You wouldn't know it if your hair was on fire...someone would have to tell you.
Maybe one of his NASCAR team owning buddies will clue him in.
"As Southern primaries loom" all I can think of is the bedtime story "Where the Wild Things Are".
Or maybe a gothic novel...Gingrich would fit in either one.
Am having a sleepover with my grandchildren... it is now story time...
Ah, Northstar... Stories with the grandbabies are the BEST things ever...
I'm thinking Gingrich would fit nicely in the movie Deliverance.
He does look like Ned Beatty from a distance albeit along one.
I wonder what Newt is holding out for? He must want something from someone to get out of the race. Newt, if nothing else, thinks of himself and what is in it for him, first.
I think your right. He is holding out for a cabinet position.
Former-Speaker Gingrich is taking over Governor Perry's campaign to succeed President Davis.
Gingrich is a yellow bellied good for nothing coward(chickenhawk syndrome) and not even worthy of being the commander-in-chief , period...as a veteran , I wouldn't want him to be giving me an order or the current troops the order to go to war , when he punked out numerous times when it was his turn(Bil Clinton was the same type of character , funny how these 2 scuffled at one time , yet they are made from the same cloth)
Gingrich thinks he is and tries to project that he is morally superior , but yet he has broken his vows to his previous wives , what do you think he would do to the American people ?..be just another Hypocrite- in -charge and go back on anything he promises in a speech to politically pander to what ever crowd he is spouting his lies in front of(B. Clinton again)
Gingrich is pure HUMAN POLITICAL GARBAGE...nothing more and nothing less , he doesn't have what's best for America in mind or in his intentions , he has what's best for Newts welfare in mind and how much power he can accumalate for his insatiable ego
Can anyone give me one good reason to even contemplate pulling the voting lever next to this turds name ? , for the life of me I sure can't
and don't say Obama , because I would rather not vote and be blind if it came down to it being those 2 comedians , that way I won't feel guilty or in any way responsible for the deepening chaos both these individuals are quite capable of furthering with there policies than it already is , it would be a interchangable choice between dumb & dumber yet.....America needs a new type of leadership , and I don't see it stepping up in any of these canidates at this time nor on the horizon , just more of the same again , one incompetent out of touch boob after another
I was in the military too, and here's the thing, during the 60's many choose not to go, so be it. As far as Newt he has spent 35 years of his life in politics, he is the only one who knows the process inside out. He has reached across party lines, helped with bring the deficit down when speaker of the house. He has done more for this country than Obama, Romney or Rick combined. When I look at Mitt, Rick they can't take Obama out, which needs to be done. You put Newt in a debate with Obama, Obama will be toast. Even tho I don't agree with divorce I won't hold it against him, Obama wants us to be a socialist country, Rick is too ultra conservative for the times. We need Newt at this time. As I said, if he takes this to Tampa, he'll knock Romney out there.
So far, Gingrich seems to be running for the presidency once occupied by Jefferson Davis. The Confederate moon of America has its first candidate.
Newt going to hang in there UNTIL Romney offers to pay off his Tiffanys credit card
Gingrich has been politically dead for many years. He did the teaching thing, the consulting thing, the book writing thing, and now he wants back in the game. He thinks his "in" is accumulating delegates and leveraging them at a contested convention for some personal gain.--almost certainly not as VP, but he has his eye on one prize or another. He won't be on the ticket, but enough delegates might get him back into the political game.
Brokered GOP/TP Presidential convention and the resulting damage it will have on the Conservative Brand...HERE WE GO!!!!!!