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BATON ROUGE, La. – Newt Gingrich spoke up in defense of Mitt Romney Thursday night, insisting any Republican presidential candidate would be a better president than Barack Obama.
"I want to start with something Rick said tonight that I frankly was very surprised that he said and that I hope he's taking back,” Gingrich told the Baton Rouge Tea Party event crowd referring to Rick Santorum’s comments earlier today.
Republican presidential hopeful Rick Santorum told a crowd of supporters in Texas Thursday that the GOP might be better off sticking with President Obama than "taking a risk" on Mitt Romney, who he referred to as the "Etch A Sketch candidate."
Santorum, addressing a crowd in San Antonio, Texas this afternoon took a swipe at Romney, saying, "If you’re going to be a little different, we might as well stay with what we have instead of taking a risk with what may be the Etch A Sketch candidate of the future.”
But Gingrich argued that re-electing Obama would be a “disaster” and Republicans have an obligation to do better.
Speaking on the campus of Louisiana State University, the former House Speaker told the few hundred person crowd they have no choice.
“I may have some very substantial disagreements with Gov. Romney. There is no doubt in my mind that if the choice was Gov. Romney or Barack Obama, we would have no choice,” Gingrich said. “The danger of Obama is so great that I would hope that every candidate running – Ron Paul, Gov. Romney and Sen. Santorum – that we would all agree that whoever becomes the Republican nominee, we have one common goal and that is to defeat Barack Obama."
While Gingrich finds faults with his GOP rivals, he has told crowds throughout his campaign that any of the other candidates are superior to the current president.
In closing his speech tonight, Gingrich laid out why he believes he is still the best candidate to take on Obama in the fall.
“Getting Washington to change in fundamental ways is going to be very, very hard. You had better have somebody who wakes up every single morning prepared to fight. Because if you don’t have somebody who knows what they’re doing and has the willpower and the energy and the focus to do it, they’re going to make nice speeches and fail,” Gingrich said, noting that winning the Louisiana primary on Saturday would help reset this race once again.
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Face it Republitards, you guys are screwed this election. :)
face it leftardz; your ACORN activist has failed
Yet our "ACORN activist" will be elected president for another 4 years. Go figure bhosucceeded.
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i love watching leftardz cry! wasn't the goal to get rid of Bush? isnt that why you had websiteslike impeachBush.org and stuff? you know selling t-shirts and hats and bumper stickers and stuff? coon admit you bought the whole set leftardz!!! lmao!
Uhhhhhh,,,,,,,,,Bush is not only gone, He is spending 99% of his time in hiding, Cheney is even afraid to leave to USA and go to Canada because of International pressure to prosecute him for the war crimes he and Bush supported, Phosporus bullets, waterboarding, and many other crimes which have been on the books for 50-75 years were advocated by these idiots and they wil be hiding for the rest of their natural lives hoping the USA will never let their trials begin.
he's not gone neither of them are; they are still in power if you listen to pathetic left-wing losers blaming their every failure on bush and cheney
still whining about war crimes? lol idiot; thats what the loony left and our enemies have in common; they both hate America
The loony left and the ENTIRE world are Republicans enemies, You said it yourself ;)
You couldn't drag Bush and Cheney out of their "holes in the ground" now with chains
um no i didnt; but do rant on.............
Re-Electing Obama would be a total disaster and the worst thing that could EVER happen,,,,,,,,,To the Republican party
If Obama's policies continue to gain strength and improve the job situation and economy as they have for the past 2 years continuously, No one in their right mind would even think about voting to put the people back in control who brought us the last 4 "Worst Recessions since the Great Depression"
In Republicans minds this economic improvement MUST be stopped by any means nessessary or their party is DEAD.
you are a joke; plain and simple. what obama policy has the economy better?
high energy prices will stop the economic improvement; but i can sense from your whining you already plan to blame repubs for that obama failure too
By basically ALL economist, The CBO, and every non-partisan source we have had 26 straight months of economic improvment and 24 months of steady job growth, Trying to lie and/ or change the facts seems to be the Republican mantra, But,,,,,,,,Sorry, Facts are Facts and BS is spilling out of your mouth at an ever increasing rate trying to convince the USA it isn't happenng.
the CBO? Is that the same CBO that now says says obamacare will not only not save money but cost triple what obama said it would? that CBO? LOL
IF WE'VE HAD 24 straight months of job growth and unemployment still isnt back to where it was when bush left office you need to admit obama lost millions of jobs that existed under bush. i mean since you like facts and all................... now why dont you go cry somewhere if you arent man enough to admit ALL the facts?
Good morning Bo,
Many of the low information Republican folks don't understand facts. They just hate our Great President Obama no matter what.
I get great pleasure in knowing that President Obama is going to stick it to these Republican by winning re-election, and helping to stop the dumb down of America crowd from advancing.
"ALL ECONOMISTS AND EVERY NON-PARTISAN SOURCE"? are you sure Tesla? i mean i thought lefties avoided making absolute statements?
good morning! starting off with the lame race card? wake me when you're done ok?
"Great President"? is that like Dear Leader? i hear North Korea is nice this time of year!
BOY left-wingnuts sure do have a love-hate relationship with the CBO!!
That quote is the problem with the Republican Party and has been since Pres. Obama took office. They just refused to work cooperatively. That is the reason we are in this position.
liberal lemmings are so easy to brainwash. it was the president, not repubs, who said "elections have consequences" and to "get to the back of the bus" . repubs didnt even try to filibuster the stimulus bill; and obama passed it in th middle of the night with no republican votes anyway. much of the opposition obama has received haas come from Blue Dog Dems who obama bribed using other people's money. left-wing losers; you are entitled to delude yourselves about basic, recent historical realities and facts; but dont to pawn that bs off on others, cuz it's laughable
Take you toys and go home please.
take you toys? weren't you talking about the "dumb down" of America a while ago? shouldn't you be able to construct a sentence before trying to insult others?
The fact that you post at all is an insult to America.
The ultimate nominee will have to overcome all of the "help" he will be getting from Republican governors and state legislatures. The all but universal actions being taken at that level speaks far louder of GOP values than any single candidate could ~ or can. Taking a position of silence on state-based GOP issues is tantamount to endorsing them and voters will take notice of that. Meanwhile, the four seeking the party's nomination are mere clones of Gingrich ~ selling fear instead of solutions. Voters will take note of that also and it will play to the detriment of the Republican Party in November.
Well, newtie, it's not likely going to happen because y'all are a bunch of unelectable clowns.
Do the Republican Candidates even listen to what the spew? Do they look at the approval rating for the U.S Congress? What part of we are not happy with the finger pointing obstructionism doesn the party not get??? They say Obama is dividing the country, but then turn around and say the number one goal is to defeat him. Not the number one goal is to govern, or to lead the country, or to employ new ideas provide new leadership, its just to defeat him. They have tied up Congress and held us, and important legislation hostage to this one end. When Obama wins again with 60-70% of the popular vote because the Republicans will not even come out and vote for any of these clowns, what are they going to do for the next four years. They have already wasted 4 just talking about defeating him, are they going to throw a party when his term limit is up and take credit for it? He is not the greatest president in history, in my opinion he has failed to lead at times when he should have stood his ground and let the chips fall where they may. His foreign policy has been right on. Although his intentions were good and a health care reform is badly needed, the timing and letting congress change so much of the original legislation was bad. With all that said, he is better than anything else that has come forward. Gingrich will have Israel bomb Iran, day one, because he runs his mouth and forgets that some people actually listen. Sanatorium will spend the entire time trying to force his "Christan values" down my throat, and Romney, where do I start. There is big difference between turning a profit by busting up companies and running a government. Again, I am voting for the lesser of two evils.
i dont see a divisive; race and class warfare pandering, illegal loving demagogue as the lesser of 2 evils; i see the failed progressive as the greater evil
One would hope that's sarcasm.
one would hope someone could see it isnt
there are over a dozen bills passed by the republican House sitting on Reid's desk. another left-wing article on MSNBC has all the left-wing hpocrites preaching to their own choir about who doesnt want to work with whom. comical
Gingrich: The goal is to defeat Obama
If Newt were willing to confide that in Romney, it might help Romney improve his campaign.
How about a goal of reducing unemployment? Reducing hunger? Reducing disease?
WTF? All you people talk about is "this person is the only one that can beat Obama", "I can beat Obama", no solutions, just gotta get that power.
nos; those were/are all liberal goals right? and poverty, hunger and maybe even disease have all risen on obamas' watch havent they?
Liberals are right; they DIDNT oppose bush's policies and in FACT VOTED FOR ALMOST ALL OF THEM WITH a majority of THEIR OWN PARTY'S VOTES. Dems even voted to to retain many bush policies long after Bush was gone; long after gaining a majority of BOTH CHAMBERS OF CONGRESS and the White House too!
what i dont get is weak-kneed lib liars and cowards going around saying they were "held hostage" and forced to do these things; buy the tiny Tea party no less? lol
SO you didnt want to work with Bush just as you are accusing Repubs of not wanting to work with obama right? yo were forced into it right/ so are you hypocrites now or were yo hypocrites then lefties? which is it?
This is exactly the problem with Gingrich all along. No solutions, no ideas for a better America, no family values or morals, just a power grab. He brings nothing to the table but bitter nonsense.
getting rid of the FAILED PROGRESSIVE in the White House IS A PLAN, IS a solution
Your bias mentality has clouded any rationality. You are the one that failed with illogical rants.
mcman01,you just deccribed the whole Republican party,not just Gingrich.
gingrich is a fat bag of plasma and snot, nothing more
it's good to see the loony left taking the high road and making rational arguments!!
Cracks me up, the goal for all the conservatives is BEAT OBAMA. Not a single one (Obama either) has mentioned improving the country and making it again THE best country on earth. Your fear is funny.
obama is running around having $40,000 PER PLATE fundraisers with CORPORATE FAT CATS and touting oil pipleines he opposes and the iditiotic left is trying to make the repubs look like they are 2-faced people who are more interested in getting elected? lmao
thank God hundreds of Dems in Congress cast thousands of votes to continue bush's policies and didnt "obstruct" Bush!! i mean otherwise what would Dems have to say their huge majority was "held hostage" on nowadays?
Is that what Newt's aim is, frankly I had no idea what his platform was and I think the majority of the U.S. didn't either.
Bhofailed is obviously a newly hired troll. Some of his comments suggest a new screen name for they are perilously close to the expressions of other rightwing fanatics who post their well stewed rhetoric on these boards. What is eyeopening about his posts is that they follow the true conservative tradition ~ berate Democrats but never unveil the plan of correcting the "disaster" brought on by the incumbent. Its a 'trust me' approach. I suppose we should admire consistency for what it is, not what it represents.
oh i get it Jim; you have nothing at all so it's time to insult me personally. i pity you. and i cant take you seriously either; sorry
um; i dont know how to break this to you but obama IS the incumbant genius. but how revealing in his 4th year you still act as though he isnt
But I'm not insulting you, bhofailed. An honest assessment is hardly insulting. It may be uncomfortable for the object person but insulting? No. Frankly, I don't care one way or the other how you take me, but thanks for the pity. One never gets enough of that and with your pitiful argument, you must have it in abundance. So, thank you.
Jim: I am putting bhofailed on ignore. He/she is just to far gone. I don't think meds can help!
Gingrich is the Boggart candidate, always reflecting his voters' worst fears, and he's an expert at it.
you are afraid of him; and you want others to be. hypocrite
Afraid? No; I'm a Georgia native, wise to his lies and frailties. He's already lost. There's nothing to be afraid of.
On another note, I don't think you understand the meaning of the word hypocrite, much less have a grasp of grammatical skills.
you're a joke; a fear-monger and a hypocrite. gingrich isnt playing to anybody's fears; that is just a talking point of the HATE-FILLED LEFT. IT'S SIMILAR TO YOUR tired race card charge. newt is only playing off obama's clear failures
oh a grammar cop? thanks genius, for letting me know you have nothing at all
As a matter of fact, I AM afraid of Gingrich, and Santorum. Either or both would orchestrate total disaster for this country. They are not statesman or true politicians. They are ideologues who serve the ideology they embrace before any other entity. I have no fear of Romney. None whatsoever. As plastic and malleable as he is, one only has to wait a few days for his stance to change ~ on any issue. Romney is the embodiment of the phrase ~ "Flexibility is my only firm policy!"
ok einstein; what fears is newt playing to and exactly how? no talking points; try to think for yourself ok?
Wow, bhofailed, Fox has really owned you.
Your tenuous grasp of reality seems to be fracturing a little more with every failure of Newt to win this election. I kind of feel a little sorry for you.
i could recite a laundry list of things obama went "flexible" on. so could any REAL PROGRESSIVE that isnt a rabidly partisan obama-bot. Fox news isnt needed; then again you made that point with what i presume is a straight face so you cant be taken seriously
and there it is.................... the Fox News rant. another Soros-tard makes his presence known
Oh, no. I'm definitely laughing right now. Thanks for that! I'll be laughing all the way to the Obama 2012 victory party.
you feel sorry for me? when do i get my free stuff then leftard??
keep laughing then leftard; who am i to disturb your mental illness?
with every newt failure? who said i support newt? there you go assuming again leftard. i'm here only to point out your own hate-filled left-wing nut rabid partisanship and hypocrisy
You're the little jester put here for my amusement! Dance, fool, dance! How your antics delight me!
laugh through your tears David; you have nothing
so you are a Georgia native? both Clinton and gore lost their home states both times i believe. what was your point again genius?
No surprise there. It's been the republican's agenda since Obama stepped into office. They only want him to fail, that's why they fight him on everything.
obama had a dem majority of BOTH chambers of congress for his first 2 years that was BIGGER than any repub majority bush had. if obama is failing he's doing it all on his own. do we even need to discuss all the bush policies obama n dems continued that left-wing losers whine they were "forced" into continuing by the tiny Tea Party? you libs are jokes; just jokes.
And here I'd been disillusioned all this time. I'd always thought the goal was nominate a candidate who represented the will of the people, upheld what was good for the nation, and served our national interests.
Thanks for clearing it all up for me, Newt - now I know exactly why I'll be voting against you and your kind. You represent everything that is wrong with this country. A win for you is a loss for all the rest of us.
In the words of Gandalf: "You. Shall NOT. PASS."
libs are laughable emotional losers and hypcrites. can yo say with a straight face dems wanted bush to be elected and re-elected and never opposed him on purely political grounds?
dems continued bush's policies; many are STILL IN EFFECT. but you cry and whine like babies how you were forced to; and so even though many of these policies like the bush tax cuts are STILL in efect now that things are ijmproving finally you want to give yourselves al the credit. it's a joke really
The nation would be better off to keep Obama than elect the cheesy grin robotic, broken record, hate espewing, Christian hypocite candidate,
who does gingrich hate?
Uh ~ ~ Obama? Maybe? Gingrich despises most people for he deems them inferior to his intellect, insight, logic, and persuasion. Gingrich can't run fast enough to escape his own record and commentary. Gingrich's ego is in shambles knowing that a half-black uppity nobody from southside Chicago is preferred more by the masses than he is. That stings. Perhaps it should.
you loony emotional leftnutsare so emotional. we dont hate obama; but being realistic and not self-deluding like you we recognize he's failed. now this is another area yo dont really want to go there with me on; the hate charge jim? should we start listing all the hatred spewed at women "in particular" as you mentioned by the left-wing talking heads/
obama never changed Chicago either; so much for your idiotic musings
Newt! yer an evil pig
yes take the high road leftard!!! lol
seriously Jim are you trying to make a point about romney and flexibility as you call it? do you really want to go there with me? did obama go "flexible" on anything? that is did he have one position at one time then do something different? does Gitmo, troop surges, tax cuts and oil drilling ring a bell with you? and thats' just for starters. like i said i should ake you seriously why?
Don't know how to break it to you Newt, but one should never run for any office with the sole goal of defeating the incumbant. That was Bush's & Nixon's way and you see where both got us. You're supposed to run because you have a clear vision for our nation and feel it's the best one for us. That's the strength on which to build. Winning isn't everything despite the 90's mantra. I'll give Santorum credit for that even though I think he'd make a lousy president. We need 4 more years of Obama to undo the harm Bush/Cheney did to us.
we need 4 more years of obama? dont know how to break it to you but even if you got it obama's unemployment average will never be as low as Bush's; neither would his average price of gas or the Poverty Rate, or any njmber of other things. just face it you could never admit obama is a failure no matter how much evidence is put in your face
HEY PAL BY THE WAY; what is obama's "clear vision for our nation"? he changes it so often i lost track of it.
What is hilarious about this thread ~ and other like it ~ is that both sides foam at the mouth about their political adversaries but not a single mind has been changed with all the poisonous rhetoric. Its an exercise in futility but I suppose hope springs eternal for many who participate in the debate(?). Life has more rewarding interests. I leave you to go pursue some of them. Besides, bhofailed has become repetitious and like all jokes, once you have heard them they loose their allure. Have a nice day, all.
you're here all the time; go in peace