Gingrich on Plan B: 'I'm quite happy with Plan A, frankly'

LANCASTER, Penn. – Campaigning in Pennsylvania with one-week left before the state’s primary, Newt Gingrich acknowledged he has no “Plan B” and downplayed one of his top surrogate’s call for him to exit the presidential race.

Asked if he is thinking about what he will do if he does not get the nomination – what his “Plan B” would be – Gingrich brushed it off.

"I don't worry about that right now. I'm focused on the nomination,” Gingrich said following remarks at the Lancaster County GOP Dinner here. “I'm quite happy with Plan A, frankly."


Gingrich, who has been focusing much of the last month campaigning in Delaware (the primary is on Tuesday) and North Carolina (the primary on May 8), has spent little time in Pennsylvania. Gingrich would not say Delaware was a must win on April 24.

“It would be good to win there. I am for it. But I am also cheerful about continuing onward,” he said, noting he hoped to pick up delegates that day.

Gingrich plans to move ahead with his campaign despite increasing calls for him to drop out of the race – including from onetime supporter, Herman Cain.

Cain, the onetime presidential candidate who endorsed Gingrich in late January, took to the airwaves Monday morning on a radio show and referenced Romney as the presumptive GOP nominee.

"To Newt Gingrich I would say, 'Speaker Gingrich, with all due respect, let's get on with this, OK?'" Cain said in an interview on WMAL's Mornings “On The Mall.” "I even endorsed Newt Gingrich at one point because I thought he had a shot.  Well, not now.  He doesn't have a shot."

This switch by Cain does not phase Gingrich.

“That is Herman’s prerogative,” Gingrich said at The Dauphin County GOP Reception in Harrisburg, PA Tuesday afternoon. “I think anybody who pays attention to the national news media is going to repeat what the national news media is saying.”

Gingrich will hold two public events in Pennsylvanian Wednesday – including teaching a global politics class at Millersville University – before heading back to Delaware, where he will have two additional events.

 

 

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Gingrich needs to use Plan G.

Plan G is "Go Away".

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Reply#28 - Wed Apr 18, 2012 11:23 AM EDT

Ah come on, Gink, do something for the 99% American People, come join us and our illustrious president!

YOU COULD MAKE A DIFFERENCE FOR US! Your so much more than ETCH-A-SKETCH! We know money talks and the corrupt corporates are spending valuable money that could be used to take the 99% American People out of CORRUPT CORPORATE SLAVERY!!

Vote STRAIGHT DEMOCRATIC, the life you save may be your OWN!!!

This message is brought to you by a LIFELONG DEVOUT REPUBLICAN disgusted with the ways the corrupt corporates are making SLAVES out of the 99% American People! They can't even afford to take care of their families because of the corrupt OIL CORPORATES that our Supreme Court refuses to do anything about! The OIL CORPORATES are a MONOPOLY! Nothing less, nothing more!

    Reply#29 - Wed Apr 18, 2012 12:31 PM EDT

    Hey Romney is pretty much a democrat. Obama is a Marxist who hijacked the democratic party. Obama is a Dog Eater ... no real encoded American connection there.

      #29.1 - Wed Apr 18, 2012 1:06 PM EDT

      Obama a dog eater, wow, amazing what you guys come up with. Not going to win you the election I am afraid.

        #29.2 - Fri Apr 20, 2012 7:56 AM EDT
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        Hillary hung on and Obama had to appoint her to a cabinet position to quell the ranks. That was more fun because Obama used racism against the Clinton's. Remember how mad Bill was after being anointed the "First Black President"? Newt just wants a say in the platform and will be able to get in a few barbs against Obama.

          Reply#30 - Wed Apr 18, 2012 1:03 PM EDT

          "This switch by Cain does not phase Gingrich."

          Good grief, FR, where have your journalistic standards gone? It's been a long time since I've read one of your articles and not found at least one easily corrected error, usually several. Don't you ever re-read or edit what you write? Honestly, it only takes a few minutes.

          The word is "faze", not "phase".

            Reply#31 - Wed Apr 18, 2012 1:30 PM EDT

            If Newt's mom had a Plan-B, we wouldn't have Newt.

            See, Plan-B's are GOOD THINGS.

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            Reply#32 - Wed Apr 18, 2012 1:45 PM EDT

            Surprising Gingrich doesn't have a "plan B"...

            Seems like he always had one when he was married in the past!

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            Reply#33 - Wed Apr 18, 2012 2:57 PM EDT

            I want to know what his position is on criminal conspiracy and conspiracy...

            ...in fact, ask yourself what the word "conspiracy" means with and without the world "criminal" in front of it and all that is being done, by destroying the fabric of this nation, so this quite real activity "between two people" does not get that classification..

            The FBI director stated that threat neutralization is a mandate which implies criminal conspiracy but that level avoids conclusive proof of it by having a no reality investigative standard under the entire environment concealing a deeper intent where more than two individuals do in fact conspire to control a negative outcome to dismiss the crime -legitimized by concealed interpretations of the Constitution that are lawfully not known using this foundation...

            Playing scrabble with little words, to avoid conclusive proof, they simply have two levels of power, one revolving around what the target can not conclusively disprove laying a no cause foundation and the other wiring this foundation into controlled outcome -without regard to guilt or innocence- where the target acts like a recirculating funnel automatically making everyone in front of him a suspect, at the no cause level the FBI roams on, but making them a potential threat -using a military grade satellite- under pretext of exploring their innocence using our global pile of @!$%# so they can be forced to suppress or contribute to the destruction of the target with the accumulated consequence of our global pile of @!$%# serving as self created war time predicate to destroy any one the Commander and Chief pleases..

            Using this no investigative reality standard to conceal claims of war time power is a conspiracy that is not criminal only if a court agrees with the interpretations (which it never would) or if the FBI is used as a political weapon to keep the activity out of a court of law (which is does)...

            ...using this two layered investigative platform (one based on the full force of no reality law and the other using collective environments for a deeper intent) the state uses perfectly synchronized investigative pretexts to derail people from jobs, relationships while the same program, that makes this orchestration possible, also keeps US citizens in the most sickening artificial states known to man...

            ...the best way to prove a war crime never occurred becomes to spread this no cause investigative foundation as far ahead of the continuing war crime as possible..

            Because you live under the perceived protection of rule of law, the FBI can not directly end your life in one act so they get around this protection with a no reality investigative standard that conceals a deeper intent where the accumulated consequence of our global pile of @!$%# makes people ahead of the targets (being baked from the inside out) potential threats for life so they can be forced to suppress or contribute to the targets destruction who is already suspended in the most sickening states imaginable..

            Basically to get around a direct hit, a slow moving daisy chain of perfectly synchronized tactics under false investigative pretext while the target is being baked from the inside out so there is no lawful proof of a direct criminal act between two people -within the narrow scope this legislation is written- occurred with no one ever expecting the power and control of our global pile of @!$%# to be a legitimized weapon of war for investigations to conceal...

            Basically now an entire nation wide extrajudicial infrastructure to suppress the most shameful activity that is in fact a conspiracy (between two people) to suppress the destruction of innocent people using two levels of power (one based on no reality and the other based on concealed war time intent to control outcome where anyone touched by the accumulated and premeditated consequence of our global pile of @!$%# -to ensure the very smallest level of security- gives the commander and chief instant powers to destroy them without reference to guilt or innocence because of the threat he made them) because once this massive extrajudicial environment designed to keep this conspiracy (because more than two people are involved) our of a court is ruled a criminal matter by said court the entire environment -that exploded to keep the activity out of a court- would be ruled not just a conspiracy but a criminal one at that...

            It is strange that the larger this activity gets the less likely it will see a court but with more certainty then ever that is would be called criminal if it did...

            But for it not to be called criminal in a court of law, look at how large this potentially criminal environment has got even writing scripts to make Obama's real life POW whores giggle away at what they are part of...

            ....because when Hollywood is enlisted to put a fantasy cusp at the end of a horrific reality -so specific extrajudicial activity is better absorbed -all to keep activity out of the public domain and a court-that would say it is criminal -by making what is not just potentially criminal -but certainly criminal- as large as possible-than you just have one meaningless sorry ass joke of a society...

            Cause Obama's little gerbils, not knowing how to deal with their cowardly shame, giggle away at extraterrestrial life and real life horrific conspiracies that destroy innocent citizens in the most shameful ways as they comfortably get nestled in as more right than wrong over the simplest issues and within the ignorance they are causing to explode, but not giving these core topics the attention-and respect- they deserve is what makes manipulation along the surface so easy and why this mushrooming ignorance -that no talent creeps nestle into-move us away from the truth and solutions even faster along every level...

            So give these stories the respect they deserve and don't giggle than way like Obama's cowardly little gerbils do to find the shallowest measure of security because this nation already paid a high price and it can only get worse...

            So until a court hears this potentially criminal matter you have no choice but to at least call it a conspiracy so don't be a little scared bitch and giggle the word away because it has a simple meaning you no talent @!$%#s and the way you life your entire lives will revolve around a few words and how you cover them...

              Reply#34 - Wed Apr 18, 2012 3:07 PM EDT

              OK !! Get back on your Meds!

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              #34.1 - Wed Apr 18, 2012 6:46 PM EDT
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              This shows what an egotistical nut job Gringrich is. He knows the only way he'd ever get the nomination is if all the other candidates dropped dead. Yet he drags his drag queen wife around the country acting like he really has a chance. Hey Newtie, your "I found god nonsense, didn't work"...haha...haha.hahaha! Go back home and get your wife an appointment with a REAL hairdresser, not the one from your local morgue.

                Reply#35 - Wed Apr 18, 2012 3:26 PM EDT

                He had a plan A? I guess plan A was licking Trumps boots clean until the Don kicked him to the curb.

                A fool and his self-respect are soon parted.

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                Reply#36 - Wed Apr 18, 2012 3:40 PM EDT

                If it is Obama vs Romney, then this election is going to be like the movie "Alien vs Pedator" (you can pick candidate is which is which ;) ). No matter who wins, we the people will lose.

                I'll be voting GOP downticket in November, but 3rd party for president if that is the case.

                  Reply#37 - Wed Apr 18, 2012 3:48 PM EDT

                  Then he should go with plan "C" for Callista. This involves being tied up in the basement of his own home with Callista repeatedly saying "It rubs the lotion on it's skin, or else I get Rick Perry, and he will rub it in"

                    Reply#38 - Wed Apr 18, 2012 3:49 PM EDT

                    Plan A = Adelson

                    Plan B = Bankruptcy

                    any questions?

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                    Reply#39 - Wed Apr 18, 2012 4:29 PM EDT

                    Newt should not feel bad for Romney has no plan A, he will just go along with the Tea Party Republicans and take a hatchet to everything while he enjoys his millions in the Camen Islands.

                      Reply#40 - Wed Apr 18, 2012 4:47 PM EDT

                      It has always been about money for Newt! Why is this so surprising ? Newt, Rush, Hanity - its all about money they don't give a darn about conservatives or their social agenda?

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                      Reply#41 - Wed Apr 18, 2012 6:42 PM EDT

                      There isn't much evidence Newt had changed from his 1990's Plan A - become the most corrupt right-wing buffoon in government in US history.

                      Mission accomplished - a wonderful ludicrous right-wing rallying cry.

                        Reply#42 - Wed Apr 18, 2012 7:02 PM EDT

                        Dear Newt Gingrich,

                        Please don't drop out. Please run to the bitter end. Every day you run, it costs Mitt Romney a lot of money (and the greenbacks are the only thing he cares about.) Once Romney gets the nomination, I beg of you to run as a third-party independent. That way you can split the GOP vote between soulless plutocrats and bigoted Christofascists (and you know which votes you'll get!) Keep running on hate and racism. That way, between the Tea Party bigotry and the RomneyCorp greed, all the moderates will vote for Obama.

                        With thanks,

                        An Actual American Citizen.

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                        Reply#43 - Wed Apr 18, 2012 7:33 PM EDT

                        Some people consider Newt to be a very bright individual, this makes it a little hard to explain why he continues to make a fool of himself. It appears that intelligence would dictate to the contrary.

                          Reply#44 - Wed Apr 18, 2012 7:46 PM EDT

                          Hey Newt haven't you noticed you are out in the pasture alone; all the rest have have headed to the united corral to get this obama out of white house. How about getting off your high horse and joining them. Unity is what we need.

                            Reply#45 - Wed Apr 18, 2012 10:37 PM EDT

                            God, I love this preening, strutting, self-important little sillyman. Keep going, Newt. You can do it, Newt. Go ahead and be President. Sure, we'll all vote for you. HAHAHAHAHAH!!!

                              Reply#46 - Thu Apr 19, 2012 12:54 AM EDT

                              I always disliked Newt, now i just feel sad for the little smurf wandering in his fantasy land. He has become such a small, lost little man.

                                Reply#47 - Thu Apr 19, 2012 1:37 AM EDT

                                Gingrich will ditch a dying wife, but he won't ditch a dead campaign?

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                                Reply#48 - Thu Apr 19, 2012 4:01 AM EDT

                                That was funny!!

                                  #48.1 - Thu Apr 19, 2012 9:18 AM EDT
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                                  Why should he get out of the race it's not like he has anything to lose because there is no way Romney would select him for a position in his cabinet or an ambassador position. Newt's mouth would cause big problems.

                                    Reply#49 - Thu Apr 19, 2012 6:57 AM EDT

                                    Cain, the onetime presidential candidate who endorsed Gingrich in late January, took to the airwaves Monday morning on a radio show and referenced Romney as the presumptive GOP nominee.

                                    The can go wife-swapping or whatever if Newt drops out.

                                    My only question is whether it will take place on the moon or in Ubeki-beki-beki-stan-stan.

                                      Reply#50 - Thu Apr 19, 2012 9:17 AM EDT

                                      Some people just do not know "when to fold them".....Newt you are being a divider just like O bl mm r.....Use common sense instead of debating sense and withdraw officially from the GOP primary.

                                        Reply#51 - Thu Apr 19, 2012 9:49 AM EDT

                                        Plan A seldom works for Newt. Newt would be best served selling used cars with no titles. This guy has never done anything but fill his pockets at taxpayer expense. That is his gift to America !

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                                        Reply#52 - Thu Apr 19, 2012 10:50 AM EDT
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