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Subscribe to RSSGINGRICH: Calling it a day? “Republican presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich yesterday signaled that he is almost ready to raise the white flag,” the New York Post writes. “The former House speaker admitted in the most striking terms yet that rival Mitt Romney is ‘far and away the most likely Republican nominee,’ and he pledged to back Romney to defeat President Obama in November. A downcast and emotional Gingrich admitted on ‘Fox News Sunday’ that his campaign was buried in debt and that running for president ‘turned out to be much harder than I thought it would be.’” And this: “I hit him as hard as I could; he hit me as hard as he could,” he said. “Turns out he had more things to hit with than I did. That’s part of the business.”
He also said, per Roll Call: “[He’s] conservative enough [and] I suspect he will accept a solid, conservative platform, but he does have consultants who are of the Etch a Sketch tradition.”
He told the Washington Post: "It never occurred to me -- and this is one of the lessons I'm contemplating for some future memoir -- it never occurred to me the scale of the Romney fundraising capability. I was fully prepared to be outspent 2-to-1, even 3-to-1. But when you're up to 5- or 6-to-1, you're being drowned. You're not going to be able to match it."
And he says he’s staying in for the donors: GOP 12: “Gingrich said his donors, including those he met Wednesday in Wilmington, “asked me to stay in the race..... They very much do not want me to drop out,” Gingrich told the Raleigh News & Observer. “They think if Romney wins it, that is one thing. But there is no reason to concede to him.”
ROMNEY: The AP’s Beaumont: “Mitt Romney faces a daunting to-do list as he transitions into the role of likely Republican presidential nominee. Among the tasks: Raise as much money as possible for the general election campaign against President Barack Obama. Hire more people and send them to the most critical states in the fall race. Hone his message to appeal to voters across the political spectrum. And do it all quickly while fending off challenges from GOP rivals who refuse to quit the primary race.”
Republican activists “expect Romney, as well as his popular wife, Ann, to make an explicit pitch to female voters on the economy and jobs, their top issues,” the AP writes. And: “[T]he Republican's challenge is stark. Romney must overcome history, political math and the missteps of a party that picked a fight over one provision of Obama's health care law and ended up on the defensive over access to birth control. Romney also has work to do with female voters after inconsistencies or misstatements on issues such as abortion and the future of Planned Parenthood.”
Speaking of that, Ann Romney is featured prominently in a new web video released Friday focusing on family, her five children, and her husband.
“It's over, and Mitt Romney is going to be the GOP nominee for president,” AP writes. “That's the growing consensus among Republican National Committee members who will automatically attend the party's national convention this summer and can support any candidate they choose. Even some members who support other candidates begrudgingly say the math doesn't add up for anyone but the former Massachusetts governor.”
But first, Romney is still trying to put the race away by playing big in Pennsylvania. GOP 12: “Salena Zito reports that Mitt Romney is up in Pennsylvania today with a $2.9 million buy that will run through the April 24 primary.”
On Meet the Press Rep. Raul Labrador said the media will make Romney’s Mormonism an issue.
The New York Daily News also notes Romney revived his Harvard attack on Obama Thursday, saying, “We have a president who I think is a nice guy, but he spent too much time at Harvard, perhaps.”
Yet, the Daily News points out: “Romney has actually spent more time at Harvard than Obama. In 1975, the White House hopeful earned a joint JD/MBA degree at the prestigious school over the course of four years-one year longer than the three years Obama spent there getting his law degree. In addition, three of Romney's sons have post-graduate degrees from Harvard, and he gave $50,000 to the business school in 2003.”
On Sunday, the New York Times looked at Romney’s friendship with Israeli PM Netanyahu.
SANTORUM: “Former Pennsylvania Senator Rick Santorum will resume his campaign Tuesday with a slate of events in his home state, according to a schedule released by his campaign Saturday morning,” the Boston Globe says. “Pennsylvania holds its primary on April 24, and there have been intensifying speculation that Santorum, hoping to avoid the embarrassment of losing in his own home state, would bow out of the race.”
“Former Sen. Rick Santorum’s (Pa.) support for a troubled Clinton administration judicial nominee is drawing fresh scrutiny from conservatives as the GOP presidential candidate struggles to regain his footing against presumptive nominee Mitt Romney,” Roll Call writes. “Some Republicans see Santorum’s 1998 backing of Frederica Massiah-Jackson to be a district court judge in Philadelphia as conflicting with the staunch conservative persona he has put forward.”
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Oh No! Now how will we colonize the moon?
Newt the self proclaimed "anti-establishment candidate" sounds ready to roll over and back the Establishments Candidate... go figure.
I wish we could send Obama's record high , unstoppable , rocketing upward , credit downgrading , almost $16 trillion debt to the moon ....
go away troll.
Ask yourself, who understands working woman today?
Ann Romney...
Someone who stayed at home because her husband was a multi-millionaire. Someone so wealthy that her husband used tax loopholes to set up trusts worth $100 million for their children.
Michelle Obama...
Someone who raised a family and WORKED at the same time.
The whole woman's rights debate is a distraction to take your eye off the fact that regardless of weather you are a man or a woman your rights are being taken from you at an alarming pace. Patriot act, NDAA, HR347, are turning the USA into a communist country while we are debating if women should be allowed to have an abortion and if the taxpayers should foot the bill or not. If things keep going at this pace by the time the woman's rights debate is over a dictator will make the decision for you anyhow. Where is your outrage at all the other rights you have lost?
Stop it. My sides hurt.
What did you do rukidding, smart off to the wrong person.
96ws6,
We are not endanger of becoming a communist nation. I do not know where you got that from. Women feel attacked but the GOP. Woman's rights should remain the same and not be taken away or restricted. If Romney wants to win the election in 2012 he has to distance himself from the tea party and get back to the moderate everyone knows he is.
96ws6 - Think of women and minorities as the canaries of individual and collective freedoms - when a country starts taking away their rights,then we are indeed on a path to dictatorship.
When a country protects the rights of the least powerful, you can rest assured that everyone's rights and freedoms will be protected.
I agree it is important to fight for the rights of minorities but I don't understand why people are OK with giving up the right to privacy, the right to due process and the right to protest. Don't these laws affect minorities? Our founding fathers would be ashamed of us. Every one of these laws is written in a way that eventual abuse is practically a given. In the NDAA the president knew it will eventually be abused and even put in verbiage that "this administration" will not use the power given in the law.
Ann was a disaster for Mitzi ..with her" UN ZIP MITT" I could never respect her as a first lady EVER !
oh I agree with you 96ws6 - it's funny how once they get into power, both parties become agreeable to any action that takes away the rights of the those who elected them. Have you noticed how bipartisan they are in those cases?
and the rights you mention are the very ones they are using against women -the right to privacy, the right to due process and the right to protest.
But I say again - women's rights are not a distraction - that is the line the Republicans and Mitt Romney uses - the very notion that women's rights are a mere distraction from the "real" problems devalues women.
Don't kid yourself, anyone who signs a pledge to overturn Roe v Wade like Romney did is not a moderate.
When was the last time you saw a republican go against one of their signed pledges?
A vote for any republican is a vote to make women into second class citizens without any rights to decide about her own body.
A vote for any republican is a vote for voter suppression.
A vote for any republican is a vote for starving the poor to pay for more tax cuts for Romney and his rich friends.
A vote for any republican is a vote for endless war.
A vote for any republican is a vote to end medicare as we know it.
A vote for any republican is a vote to end social security as we know it.
A vote for any republican is a vote to end pell grants and an opportunity for the poor to get an education.
A vote for any republican is a vote to end the world with global warming.
A vote for any republican is a vote to destroy our clean water and air so their rich friends can get richer.
A vote for any republican is a vote saying that women aren't any smarter than a caterpillar.
VOTE FOR WOMEN'S FREEDOM.....VOTE OBAMA/BIDEN 2012
Katheryn,
A lot of the discussion around Women is birth control and abortions paid with taxpayer money. If women want the right to choose to abort their own child then fine but Taxpayers should not be expected to pay for it. Especially because it is in contrast with many peoples religious beliefs. Once you expect someone Else's taxes to be used to finance your choice you are infringing on others freedom and choices.
Americans First,
The only one serious about stopping the wars is Ron Paul and he is running as a Republican.
Katheryn,
I do agree about your statement on how bipartisan the government is when it comes to taking our rights away. It is important we pay attention to the ones voting no on these bills and make the rest pay for their treason come election time. (Yes I know how few voted no on ALL these bills. Just goes to show how much house cleaning we need to do)
And yet I don't have a say when my taxes are spent on killing people in a war of choice.
And also I don't have a say when republicans pass gun laws so they can kill anyone and claim self defense. Or like the guy who murdered two guys robbing a place next door. When did robbery become a death sentence? Why couldn't he held them at gun point until the police got there? Nope he shot both to death and claimed self defense.
Why do republicans only care for human eggs and not for human life? I think it is because after 9 months they no longer need to care what happens after the egg is born. Kill the child with lack of medical care or lack of food is quite okay because it is no longer an egg.
VOTE FOR WOMEN'S FREEDOM.....VOTE OBAMA/BIDEN 2012
Obama's record high , unstoppable , rocketing upward , credit downgrading , almost $16 trillion , Greece like debt ....
Is the biggest war on women , children and families ....
Since cave men ....
Hey troll, do you have anything of intelligent value to add to this? Probably not! Go away.
Nope, you're wrong. The official Conservative stand has always been to make abortion illegal. Even in cases of rape and incest.
96ws6 - the real bottom line is not about women trying to get you to pay for their birth control or abortion - the real bottom line is that a woman has the very real potential to die as a result of pregnancy or child birth and to force a woman to endure that risk against her will is reducing her to an incubator that is valued more for the potential child she may bear than for her life.
But how about anti-women actions that are for other issues:
Republicans vote for the first time since it was enacted -voted down party lines -against reauthorization of the Violence Against Women Act
2010 - Senate Republicans voted unanimously against the Paycheck Fairness Act.
Jan.2011- Proposed by Rep.Chris Smith -legislation that would redefine rape to "forcible rape" -women would have to prove they fought back
Maryland schoolboard - proposed to cut funding to HeadStart because as two of the Republican Commissioners said,women should be married and home with their kids so the program would be unnecessary.
Rep.Bobby Franklin proposed a GA House bill to redefine victims of rape,stalking and domestic violence as "accusers" instead of victims of abuse,until the defendent is charged. Now burglary,assault and fraud are all still considered victims,it is only crimes against women that are affected.
March '12 - WI -Sen.Glenn Grothman sponsored legislation to label single motherhood as child abuse - he said that fathers are the only ones who provide structure and discipline.
WI -Rep. Don Pridemore suggests rather than divorce an abusive spouse, you should try to remember the things you love about the guy.
In Indiana, prosecutors charged a woman who unsuccessfully attempted suicide while pregnant with murder and attempted feticide using their "personhood" measures.
Mississippi - 2004 - broadened their state's homicide laws to include an unborn fetus - Lowndes Co. -prosecutor used this law to charge a teenager who suffered a stillbirth for murder because she used drugs.
WI -Gov. Scott Walker repealed his state's equal pay law - April 2012.
WI state Sen. Glenn Grothman led the effort because of his belief that pay discrimination is a myth driven by liberal women's groups. He says money is more important for men.
If you are selective in whose rights you want to fight for - then you really aren't for Protecting Freedom and Choice.
Americans First,
A human "egg" is not life? When does life begin? At birth? I think our creator would disagree with you on that.
Katheryn,
I am not selective about rights. That does not mean I an stupid enough to believe that a particular party is for destroying them. Remember how bipartisan our government is when stripping rights is concerned as you have said yourself? Look at what has happened with Dems in control: Patriot act signed twice more after our president promised to get rid of it, NDAA, HR347, HR658. Yes there was strong bipartisan support for these treasonous bills but the president did not HAVE to sign them he CHOSE to sign them. We need to look at the individual and not the party.
96ws6 - I have already agreed with you about the eroding of our rights in general.
But you chose to not address any of the issues I have mentioned about women's rights being eroded. You are again being selective in whose rights you chose to defend and it is not women.
Instead you have focused on the abortion issue(which I did not focus on) You are being selective in what issue defines a woman's value for you.
Newt is a good man and would have shaken things up had he became President. Our Country needed a man like him to get us out of the Grand Canyon hole Obama is putting us in. I wish him well in his endeavors from here on.
This statement shows just how out of touch with reality you are rukidding.
rukidding47-
You must know a different Newt than most Americans. America doesn't need shaking up, it needs leadership, of which Newt offers little. Just a reminder, Newt was the politician pushing to allow state bankruptcy which would have been a windfall for the rich to take even more from the working class and the poor. The one good thing to say for the republicans in 2012 is that they had enough sense to send Newt packing.
At least Newt was not an Obama twin
Newt is a perennial failure and he never stood a chance of being elected president. Now that the uninspiring Etch-A-Sketch appears to be the GOP's #1 loser in the election race, we might as well call the Republican's chances in the presidential election as good as dead.
President Obama in November! He is our only rational choice!
Truly it is a sad day in partisan politics when matriculation from one of the most prestigious educational institutions in the US is subject to political criticism.
The GOP disdain for education is displayed in so many ways (dismissal of climate change research, promotion of teaching intelligent design, cutting education budgets as the first resort, prohibiting fertility research).
The US could not hope to compete in a global knowledge economy if the GOP achieves significant political power.
Newt was ordered out of the race by Norquist !
You win elected office by being the same person today as you were last year. There has to be a certain amount of compromise, not of your core beliefs and philosphy but in areas of taxation, regulation and authority to be accepted by the majority of voters.
IMHO, Romney will not be elected as things stand today.
If he does win, he will have spent sums of money unheard of before and will sustain a vicious personal attack on the President. The first two weeks of his campaign, if he is the nominee, will tell the direction he will be going.
Carl Rove is in charge of spending the big bucks so you should expect him to stick with his slash and burn brand of politics.
Expect the dog whistles to be tuned to Obama's middle name. Carl will attempt to crucify him for his Muslim connections.
As stated in the New York Times.
What is Romney's position on sending our soldiers to die on the ground in the Middle East conflicts?
Our policy in the Middle East may align with Israel - but if we are not seen as a soverign nation with our own concerns as our priority - no one will deal with us. And confrontational policies will only get us involved in more middle eastern conflicts.
It's time that Newt receives the Extensive Mental Health Evaluation that, he needs. This is a very ill man. I'm encouraged that, he realizes he is in no condition to persue the Presidency.. Perhaps, a year or two of being wrapped in cold wet sheets will bring him a degree of sanity... It might even help the rest of the Nazi ('er Republican Party)....
Gingrich - I didn't realize how hard it would be to run for president. How stupid is he?
Sounds too much like what Obama said when he got in after spending more money than anyone ever to get the office....really makes you wonder where these clowns come from doesn't it. Ha Ha
Newton Leroy Gingrich throwing in the towel? How can that be? This pillar of Republican party politics said he would be in it all the way to the convention and now he may not do that. Is this just another lie? Did Newt have no intentions of going to the convention anyway but just was in it for the money? Will Newt get a prime time speech at the convention, a deal made with party leaders as a bribe to make him quit so focus could be on the anointed Mitt? Inquing minds want to know.
Poor Newtie! HaHaHaHa! He has gone broke, cant pay to tell his lies any more! And Sanitarium is losing in his home state, yet he wont bow out gracefully! Talk about out of touch! Then there;s this Rummey charactor. He has all the money to buy this election! And buy it he must, just like Bush i suppose? I'm keeping my eye's on another Florida type election fiasco!
Rummey has again stepped on his d--k! He says that Obama has spent too much time in Harvard, really, Obama spent three years to Rummey's four. There he goes again, bashing higher learning! Rummey is deffinately NOT presidential material!!!
Ann has a new ad out talking about home and family. Thats a laugh! She didn't stay home with the kids, the nanny's did! Michelle O spent her time raising the kids, and working at the same time! Who would you trust more? I think Michelle!
And another thing, Rummey's boys have Harvard degrees also! And, Rummey gave $50.000 to the school. Wow, and he likes education, NOT! He and his stupid party want to do away with the pell grant. How dare them take away the chance for higher learning from the poor!
NO, Rummey is deffinately NOT Presidential material! He will never make a pimple on a Presidents arse! Rummey is so far out there, i almost fear for his safe return to earth. America cannot afford a return of the Redumbs to power! Vote them all out!
Vote for a better America! Vote for Women! Vote for President Obama, and his right hand man, Biden! Vote OBAMA/BIDEN 2012
4 more years??? You can not be serious. What will be left at the rate he's destroying our country?
A vote for Obama/Biden is a vote for loss of your freedom and a depent state. What to do what to do? No thanks puttie cat.
Save what's left of America ....
Obama out in 2012 ....
TROLL ALERT!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Really? Please elaborate on how much freedom you've lost in the last 3 years and be specific. And what in hell is a depent state?
DfromSpencer:
Obummer.....
tonybeerm
Even if you have your mind made up, it never hurts to listen :-)
Please take 2 minutes to watch this. It just might be the most important message of all time.
It's called "The Nail"
youtu.be/Ee6pEGch1QU
(please copy/paste, clickable link doesn't work)
tonybeeerm
If you don't understand the rights we have all lost in the past 3 years you need to study. Patriot act (yes I know Bush started it but Obama signed it twice more after Promising to to get rid of it), NDAA, HR347, HR658. Haven't you been paying attention to any of this?
In the NDAA the president even added verbiage saying he would not use these powers because he know how wrong and damaging these provisions were but he signed it anyhow.
Any American who believes in Gingrich must know a different Newt than the majority of Americans barely squeaking by today. America doesn't need shaking up, it needs leadership, of which Newt offers little. Just a reminder, Newt was the politician pushing to allow state bankruptcy which would have been a windfall for the rich to take even more from the working class and the poor. The one good thing to say for the republicans in 2012 is that they had enough sense to send Newt packing.
Hello - EARTH to Newt - you should have tossed in the flag months ago. Same with Ron Paul. Hey, personally I like what Ron Paul has to say, but, you gotta use some brain tissues between the ears.
Disappointing though that the loser of a candidate Newt turns out and endorses Romney, the poster boy candidate. Hate to say it folks, I am an independent BTW, if Romney gets the GOP endorsement you may as well just accept four more years of Obama. Just saying.
Too many in numbers to withstand the "Obama must go" movement. Don't believe the polls. The undercurrent is strong and rippling.
It's big, like a sunami coming, and will sweep the nation. But..... expect a lot of Obama lies and trickery as usual to try and save himself. lol
"Don't buy the lies" is the theme for those suckered in 08. Just sayin'
I'm a little disappointed that Newt is waving the white flag, but spending money that you don't have is foolish! However, I'm still not comfortable voting for Candidate Romney. Are Obama and Romney HONESTLY the best candidates America has?
Think it was pretty clear this was going to happen. In the end, the effort to get all American voters to the polls in November to make Mr. Obama a one-term president is crucial. He has done more harm and damage to the country than any previous.
We need a true, real leader in the White House who will not stand at the rear and say, tell what to do and tell me what happens. He meant well I'm sure, or at least hope, but anytime you have a president preside over this kind of corruption and lack of ability, it's time to say good-bye, thanks but no thanks.
Just as George Bush faded into the sunset, the American people who value FREEDOM, must rise to vote Mr. Obama and Mr. Biden out.
Eliminate the mistake of 08!
BO and Joe, sorry but you must go. It was real and it was fun but definitely not Real Fun. Vote Freedom in 2012 America! Not DNC slavery! And with that, I'm out.
Obama will go down as the worst president in the history of history ....
Maybe even longer than that ....
Cut and pasted from other stories. This rwnj troll can't even come up with fresh ideas.
Newton was the only one who thought he could win.
Newt is to the Republicans what James Carvel is to the Dems. They are attack dogs who can raise money and say things that are politically incorrect.
At least Newt is an American citizen.
He had fun ....
Good for him ....
Are you Denis ?
Yes ....
He's Denis ....
Just love the way Newt refers to being a politican as "part of the business". It's just a business to them, it's our lives that are in their hands and they think of it as business.
Time for the right to ban together and get that moron out of office.....NOW!
Obummer is so damn slick. He has wasted almost 4 years in office and has done nothing for this country except try his best to divide it. He creates havoc to take the focus off of the issues. Women's rights have not been threaten by either side, but Obummer would like you to think so (he needs the woman vote). The birth control bull sh!t, give me a break, birth control has been around forever and easy to access.
NO OBAMA IN 2012!!!
That is not fair. You have the advantage of ignorance.
Newt was spotted walking into a Las Vegas pawn shop with a sack full of Tiffany jewelry. The money in Vegas now stays in Vegas. Newt's final act will be to blame Obama for the high price of campaigning.
Romney money turned Newt into a toad.
Even if you have your mind made up, it never hurts to listen :-)
Please take 2 minutes to watch this. It just might be the most important message of all time.
It's called "The Nail"
youtu.be/Ee6pEGch1QU
(please copy/paste, clickable link doesn't work)
Republicans at state level are waging a Get the Vote Out against constituencies that tend to vote Democrat. The fraud will not be at the polls, but before the election. Voter ID laws and attacks on labor unions are a new form of Jim Crow voter suppression.
The second front will produce the most vicious personal attack campaign in a presidential election in American history. PACs, such as Carl Rove's have many millions of dollars, anonymously given, to launch a destruction campaign with a magnitude never before seen in a world democracy. Foreign observers will see a spectacle of abuse that will tear down America's reputation for years to come.
The right wing in America is emerging into a hate machine not seen since Germany in the 1930's or the Russian Revolution, except it will be a uniquely American grass roots lynch mob and propaganda television and internet blitzkrieg. That my spare us from physical violence at least. The right has replaced Uncle Sam with Auntie American and Auntie Obama.
Newt is a terrific example... but we don't know of what ...yet.
His past (seedy) his political view (questionable) his morals (decidedly non acceptable). His reason to 'run' (EGO).
Not enough 'good stuff' to overcome the negatives. But then the eyes of Calista are so troubling ! The eyes on her are like the ass on Moochelle... troubling and significant.
Just saying... an opinion.