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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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I was talking about the guy with the cheezy grin - Saintorum!
jim and david left; maybe they both went to the same turkish bath house
well i think my work here is done for now.......................
Maybe go out and get a job, and you won't have so much free time to correct the rest of the world.
I think everyone understands your opinions by now, Mr. Fail.
that's bho failed to you genius; figure it out
Why would anyone vote for a doofus like Newt.....his wife has to wear a helmet.
THIRD WIVES AREN'T FIRST LADY MATERIAL.
obama isnt presidential material
bhofailed,
You are correct. He looks presidential, sounds presidential, makes a great speech only with a teleprompter, but when it comes down to it he has proven over and over again that he doesn't know what the hell he is doing.
When he campaigned for President he said he would cut our budget deficit 50%, from $10 trillion to $5 trillion. Its now 50% higher at $15 trillion.
I heard recently that when Bush left office the budget deficit amounted to around $30,000 per person. Now, under Obama its $50,000 per person, and under his ten year budget proposal, it will go up to 80,000 per person.
Is that change you can believe in? That's change I can live without.
Santorum is going to ruin it for the Republicans. He is desperate to be the Republican candidate, and is hurting the Republican drive to beat Obama. He doesn't have a snowball's chance in hell of beating Obama if he is the Republican candidate and should just drop out. Gingrich could possibly beat Obama, but he doesn't have a chance to be the candidate anymore. Who knows why the hell Ron Paul is in the race. Paul's efforts have to be the biggest act of futility in political history.
Mitt Romney is the best bet we have going in beating Obama and ousting a communist administration that is bad for America and freedom.
Newt's goal is to defeat Obama.
...not to make America better, just to defeat Obama.
Defeating Obama would be a great start.
obama's goal is to be re-elected. for his own gain. that's why even his most progressive supproters are disappointed. it's so easy to point out basic facts to leftnuts; but it's harder to get them to stop pointing fingers at others long enough to admit them
Do we understand the law of the harvest? Reaping the fruits of our labors?
the goal SHOULD BE to find the best man for the job. Partisan politics is ruining our country. Gingo is an idiot.
With endorsements from Donald Trump and Jeb Bush combined with Gingrich saying that any republican would be better than Obama, what more could Romney ask for? Oh wait, Sarah Palin hasn't endorsed him yet.
"BOTH POLITICIANS AND DIAPERS NEED TO BE CHANGED OFTEN AND FOR THE SAME REASON!"
Get Obama and his crew of communists out of there! He is stinking up the place.
Yes, everything was rosy and sunny on January 20, 2009. Look what he did to us!
Open your eyes.
gas was $1.84 and unemployment was lower; we were also about $5 trillion dollars less in the red genius. open YOUR EYES.
Quote from Thomas Sowell:
"The question becomes whether the candidate is someone who is likely to defeat Barack Obama.
If not, then the fate of America -- and of Western nations, including Israel -- will be left in the hands of a man with a lifelong hostility to Western values and Western interests.
President Obama is such a genial man that many people, across the ideological space, cannot see him as a danger.
For every hundred people who can see his geniality, probably only a handful see the grave danger his warped policies and ruthless tactics pose to a whole way of life that has given generation after generation of Americans unprecedented freedom and prosperity.
The election next November will not be just another election, and the stakes add up to far more than the sum of the individual issues. Moreover, if reelected and facing no future election, whatever political constraints may have limited how far Obama would push his radical agenda will be gone.
He would have the closest thing to a blank check. Nothing could stop him but impeachment or a military coup, and both are very unlikely. A genial corrupter is all the more dangerous for being genial."
Rick, you're losing it buddy. Ya gotta go now. You're through!
gingrich worked with clinton and got Bill C to sign over 70% of newt's Contract with America into law. working with Newt clinton passes welfare reform and lowered the capital gains tax. Clinton cant be president again but newt is running. newt, not obama; is the one with the record of working with the other side. you leftnuts can try to run away from historical facts but it wont work; they have a way of creeping back up.
newt balanced Clinton's budgets. obama has EXPANDED welfare and dems want to raise the capital gains tax. and as for budgets Dems in charge of the House under Pelosi DIDNT EVEN BOTHER TO WRITE BUDGETS for two years.
letardz; you can have your own opinion but not your own facts
The best thing that delusional fathead could do for his party is to drop out. He won't, because he thinks that he's the right wing Messiah.
yes leftard; everybody knows there can be only one Messiah; there is no God but Allah; and Obama is his messenger right?
sorry leftnut but it was left-wing obama-bots who actually took the name Jesus out of a children's religious song and replaced it with Obama; "MMMM MMMM MMMM!!"
If this is your main goal, you are doing a disservice to this country. Personally, I have no problem voting a the "right" president regardless of his party affiliation as long as he/she is doing a good job. Can Romney, Santorum or even Mr. Gingrich do a better job than Obama? So far they have not shown me anything that would lead me to believe any of them can do a better job than Obama.
newsflash; replacing the other party's guy with your own guy is the goal of BOTH parties. it's a shame you have to point out common sense and basic realities to left-wing HYPOCRITES trying to place themselves on a high horse
He was already a caricature of himself. Now he is just coming off as a clueless nutjob.
Yes, Obama is a very dangerous man. Stop him before he continues helping this country out of the mess created by Washington insiders like Newty Fruity.
obama is a failure; and he's failed all on his own. honestly are you guys on the left capable of making a rational argument regarding obama?
Santorum is desperate.
I don't vote for ANYONE automatically, just because my Party says I should. I'll vote for Obama this time probably, but only because they alternatives are so much worse. Mitt? Rick? Ron? Newt? You've GOT to be kidding me!!!
if obama was able to run for a hundred years you would always find a way to come to the conclusion he is the best alternative. who are you trying to fool besides yourself?
bhofailed, so which of the four Republican candidates/alternatives will you be voting for? Just curious.
the one that wins the nomination genius
it wasnt meant to be taken literally; hence the "IF he was able to run" thingy. is that all you have?
so you are saying one can win the nomination and still not be qualified? and you wouldnt have voted for hillary if she was the nominee? you're a joke; i cant take you seriously. if one can win the nomination and still not be qualified then surely a first-term Senator whose only prior experience was basically voting present as a state senator and being ACORNS community activist must meet that unqualified criteria
Bhofailed, obviously you have lost this argument.
You can't call Obama unqualified and then argue that anyone that wins the nomination to be president is inherently qualified.
You are simply contradicting yourself.
Newt is completely irrelevant at this point. He just needs to go away. He had his chance and he blew it.
Newt and Republicans worked with Clinton and balanced his budgets and passed welfare reform. none of this happened in Clinton's first 2 years when he had a Dem-majority Congress.
newt; not obama, is the one with the record of working with the other side for the betterment of America. NEWT EVEN TRIED TO GIVE CLINTON THE LINE-ITEM VETO but that was opposed by YOUR OWN DEMS.
obama and dems on the other hand have CONTINUED BUSH'S POLICIES; but all you hear from liberal losers is how they were "held hostage" and somehow forced to do it. So basically you wanted to "OBSTRUCT" every bit as much as you accuse Repubs of doing, but couldnt even get that right? OR you willingly continued Republican policies; which is it?
honestly the way leftnuts run en masse away from HISTORY; THEIR OWN HISTORY no less; and reality is just pathetic.
Yeah, Newt was so great, that the republicans leaders ran him out of DC. Now that's history you should read.
President Obama 2012
that is selective history on your part. he still accomplished more than ACORNS EMPTY SUIT
Gingrich shut the govnemnt down twice just because he had to leave Air Force One by the rear door. He opposed the Clinton tax hike and budget cuts and had his GOP robots vote against both. The Dems won despite Newt and the country had a surplass which Bush then wasted on his pesonal war on Saddam. Bush had the wealthy pay less in taxes while he borrowed from the Chinese to pay for his war. Now we are owned by the Chinese who hold the treasury notes sold by Bush and the GOP.
You can't tell bhofailed anything because his flag is blocking his view while he's reading his Bible.
Somehow, these conservatives forget that Gingrich was THROWN OUT of the party.
Now look at them all warm and fuzzy over him.
"Thank you sir! May I have another?"
The only disaster since the 1990's has been Gingrich and total division of this nation. He developed the language of hate and distrust and has taught his foul mouthed concepts very well to his kin in the Republican Party. His fake piety is an affront to Catholics and his Christianity to any who believe. Three wives and several political scandals later this is one bird who falls flat on his beak.
the Left's idiotic "hate" charge is as lame and irrelevant as their worn out race card. first of all it isnt true and the losers on the left cant say how newt or any repub is promoting "hate". Second the left is full of hate-filled hypocrites who spew hate at people like Palin on a regular basis. basically you have a bunch of hypocritical morons on the left spewing talking points they cant back up with anything resembling a fact or evidence.
if only he was more like barney frank; running a gay escort service from his DC house; or anthony weiner; Tweeting his package to people he met online.
yes loon; my bad for not knowing calling her the "c"-word that rhymes with hunt is just an amusing term of endearment.
so left-wingers amuse themselves by spewing hatred? bowl me over with a feather. and tell me something i didnt know
When I see someone supporting Newt. Which very few republican voters does. I realize I'm blogging someone that no one can educate that person. Even his/her's reoublican friends can't talk sense into them.
deb; please consider furthering your own education before trying to make fun of others ok?
And I thought the goal was to improve the country. Beyond Newt's reach.
i guess it's too much to ask for the left to consider that some of us think getting rid of obama IS to improve the country. but what else do you expect from left-wing hypocrites whose charge of "hate" and accusations of racism is just a campaign tactic and a bunch of idiotic talking points? it's way easier than having to actually look at what obama has or hasnt accomplished.
examples? are you serious? what did obama say the trillion or so spent on stimulus would avoid? what actually happened? is gitmo closed? i have backed up virtually everything i have posted with facts. it's not my fault you cant handle them. you say some of you thought the same about Bush; that removing him would improve the country? then why did you continue his policies despite controlling all 3 parts of the legislative process? am i not relating facts here? or is it you just cant handle them/
" who dont care a whit about the nation.............." honestly why do you want to waste your time with long but stupid posts filled with hyperbole then think you are being anything close to rational? is it because you are blissfully ignorant of your own bias?
santorum needs to disappear. my god could the man whine and complain anymore. we already got a whiner in the white house we don't need a another. romney is gonna be the gop candidate and all these other idiots need to ditch the ego and back him.
Newt,...that has been the GOP's goal since day one of the Obama administration,...
.....but it is not the goal for the rest of the nation, because we are not all 1%ers and in the pocket of big business.
TO THE 99% :
We must unite and fight the domination of our national interests by big money and big business.
To all minorities and non-minorities with a conscience and morals not driven purely by dollar signs:
It is one of the GOP's main goals to make a failure of the FIRST BLACK PRESIDENT and underline the unworthiness of anything other than the firmly entrenched wealthy white power structure that has existed since our country began.
IF WE DON'T MAKE SURE THAT BARACK OBAMA, OUR FIRST BLACK PRESIDENT GETS A SECOND TERM,....WE ARE SAYING TO FUTURE GENERATIONS
"BLACK PRESIDENT = FAILURE"
HOW WILL WE DEFINE THE LEGACY OF OUR FIRST MINORITY PRESIDENT ?
HOW WILL WE DEFINE THE LEGACY OF OUR FIRST MINORITY PRESIDENT ?
THE GOP HAS FOUGHT EVERY MOVE HE HAS MADE ON OUR BEHALF TO PROTECT THEIR OWN BOTTOM LINE EXCLUSIVELY. (GUESS WHAT : If you take the middle and lower class out of the equation and gouge them at every turn,...you "save money",..."we can't have this democrat keep us from undermining them")
STAND TOGETHER FOR THE INTERESTS OF THE PEOPLE.
UNITE AGAINST CORPORATE DOMINANCE AND SHOW SUPPORT FOR U.S. PRESIDENT BARACK OBAMA THIS NOVEMBER.
BARACK OBAMA 2012
more asinine race cars stupidity from the loser left; and a repeat of the same stupidity posted earlier. do you get these things spoon-fed to you/ or is it you took so long making this one up you actually think it's worth something?
obama calls HIMSELF black. he's fully half-White. if he called himself White Dems wouldnt even have nominated him; being he only had one lousy year of experience in the Senate. the "one drop" race rule is DEMOCRAT'S RULE and a leftover from the DEMOCRATIC JIM CROW SOUTH. but the loser left doesnt mind stereotyping itself to try to make a broader point, no matter how dishonest. you guys are crybabies and hypocrites.
by the way who are those people ponying up $40,000 PER PLATE to have dinner with obama? are they the 99% genius? did they save up the money collecting bottles and stuff?
repubs got 54% from corporations; dems got the rest. you lemmings on the left and your idiotic talking points. on the other hand the same Supreme Court ruling that made corporations 'people" also made unions people; and dems got 92% of the union vote
Gingrich - A stupid mans' idea of a smart man.
No morals, no character, no integrity.
End of story.
gingrich is much smarter than obama and has a record of success. end of story
I do think it is the 1%ers that went to the White House and demanded they raise their taxes. It's sad when even the rich know they're screwing the American people too much.
But, we got the common man, bhofailed, supporting the rich as he gets poorer. He even believes:
How sad is that?? The poor guy is blinded by his politics. FOX must be using subliminal messages in the news.
you're a genius; so you DO THINK it's not rich people able to pay $40,000 per plate for dinner with obama? or are you too stupid to comprehend the fact that the people closest to the ones making the rules will know how to shield their money from the new rules? want an example? how about charlie rangel or tim geithner?
gingrich does have a record of success; it you werent a foxophobe mindlessly spouting the same stupid rants against Fox news you would be able to admit this simple fact
do i need fox news to tell me obama is a failure? or is it yo uneed the rest of the media to tell yo what you want to hear? you're a joke
genius; if i'm getting poorer it's happening on obama's watch. oh wait; still too early? lmao
Look bhofailed, you don't need me or anyone else to tell you Gingrich's shortcomings.
You already know his morals are flawed. You know he was kicked out of the republican party. You know he is staying in the race to make sure Santorum isn't nominated.
If, at the end of the polling booth line, you feel Gingrich will best suit our country, go ahead and pull the lever for him.
I have serious issues myself with him. Tiffany's will want their money for one, a lobbyist as president is another.
Obviously, you aren't going to change your mind about it so have at it.
May the best man win, eh?