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Subscribe to RSSGOP presidential candidate Newt Gingrich speaks to supporters in Concord, N.C. saying he will evaluate his position in the race over the next few days.
CONCORD, NC -- Newt Gingrich alluded that he may exit the presidential race in the coming days after a disappointing finish in the Delaware primary Tuesday night.
“I want you to know over the next few days, we’re going to look realistically at where we are at” in the campaign, Gingrich told a crowd of just one hundred people at his election night rally, calling himself a “citizen” rather than a candidate.
“We want you to know that as citizens, we are going to be right there standing shoulder by shoulder with you and that as we think through about how we can best be effective citizens over the next week or two – we are going to rely on you for help and you for advice,” he said, speaking at his first election night event in nearly two months.
The former House speaker finished nearly 30 percentage points behind Mitt Romney in Delaware’s primary -- a state Gingrich spent the majority of his time over the past month campaigning in. That was the state Gingrich said he hoped would bring him back into contention in the GOP race.
Though never referencing his poor finish in the election while speaking Tuesday night inside the Vintage Motor Club, Gingrich said he knew it would be a good night for his competitor.
“I want you all to understand that Gov. Romney is going to have a very good night and it is a night that he has worked hard for, for six years,” Gingrich said. “And that if he does end up as the nominee, I think every conservative in the country has to be committed to defeating Barack Obama and let’s be very clear about this.”
Gingrich, standing with his wife, Callista, by his side but no Newt 2012 signage in sight, assured his supporters in North Carolina, who do not take to the polls here until May 8, that he would remain in the state this week and attend all his scheduled events.
While dodging most questions from reporters after the speech on the ropeline, Gingrich finally acknowledged “the results were clear enough” in Delaware tonight. He also signaled that he would not make his final decision about exiting the race before Sunday.
No matter when Gingrich exits the race, he promised to carry the conservative platform to the convention in Tampa, Fla., in the summer.
“We are committed to doing everything we can to make sure conservatism is in fact fully represented in Tampa, fully represented in the campaign, and fully represented in the next administration,” he said.
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I love how, after being consistently destroyed in the primaries, having no money and no GOP support, Newt is JUST NOW considering leaving the race.
What an ego on this asshat.
Not ego, doll. No different than The Chicago Tribune making a Public Request for Obama to STEP ASIDE and "rescind" his presidential bid for re-election - to allow Hillary Clinton to take over for the Democratic Party.
Even Obama's hometown is tired of his ineptitude.
Well how soon can she take his place???
I am so glad Newt is out. He's the ideal poster child for the GOP. A true FAT CAT who has gotten rich and chubby off the public dole. Good riddance Newt, have a nice trip and take Romney the multi millionaire with you please.
Im not. Even with his ridiculous insistence in staying in, the longer he does, the more light gets shined on the GOP. The more light that shines on the GOP, the more people realize how completely @!$%#ed up their positions are.
yep, we hear things like $1 BILLION of our US taxpayer money being given to The Muslim Brotherhood......
The democrat party of 64 years ago is the republican party today. There is barely any difference except for the BS from both sides. Republicans were in charge we still have Social security, Medicare PLUS a drug benenfit for seniors,Women were able to still get contraception.LOL!!!!!
We got a big ass debt out of both sides a little more the last 4 years. A vote for obama or romney will get very little done any differently than in the last 25 years.
That may be true on a national level, but the republicans at the state level are doing everything they can to deny women their right to make choices about their own bodies.
Oklahoma - There was a bill up for vote (dont know if it passed) that would give a fetus ALL rights of a person. This includes a provision that makes birth control ILLEGAL, since aparantly a non-existent person has more of a right to be than a woman has to not have the child in the first place.
Virginia had a similar bill, as did Mississippi.
And lets get this straight, AGAIN: What was added to the debt in Obama's first year (and some of his second year) should be laid on Bush, as most of it came from unfunded wars and a collapsing economy, not to mention Bush's insistence on cutting taxes during wartime (a first in HUMAN HISTORY).
Obama's administration has some blame in the debt, but when you are trying to fix a severely broken economy, injecting money helps, which is ABSOLUTELY did. Unemployment has stabilized (if a little high), our economy isnt sliding anymore (if a little stagnant), and people are starting to find work again. Its not peachy, but it would have been FAR worse had Bush's policies still been in effect.
Depends on the state here in NC the last democratic governor is on the way to jail and the current one Bev Purdue isn't far behind his sorry ass!!
"Pissed and Vocal":
you do know your Narrative against Republicans falls apart when you make stuff up that does not make sense?
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Democrats lost the discussion on Abortion, so they try and bring it back around through US taxpayer-funded contraception tools.
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Besides the pregant woman, there is a male involved - who might want to have his child.
The unborn should have rights - since it is the laziness or sheer negligence - of the couple to not communicate about preventative contraception tools. Why should the unborn pay the price - by being subjected to a partial-birth abortion - or thrown in the garbage can in the early stages of "life"?
Aw man, the clown road show is over for Newt. I'll say one thing for him, he did give us some laughs, and now we get to laugh over Mitt the flip flopper, etch a sketch man. Maybe now etch a sketch will lay out his recovery plan in full detail.
How big a tax cut for the uber rich, which govt depts are/will be cut to the bone or did away with? How are you going to get people back to work? Bain Capital won't be helping create jobs here, maybe overseas, but not here.
Come on Mitt, lets hear your great ideas that won't work, and please forget that trickle down BS, WE know that has never worked.
No one was laughing when we became aware of the $1 BILLION "gift" to The Muslim Brotherhood - that is Not a country - but an organization - that had been previously banned from Egypt because of their vicious Acts of Terrorism.
Obama subverted our US Congress - by providing this substanial amount of US taxpayer money - to a Terrorist organization whose mission is "death to America" -
and while The Muslim Brotherhood is burning down Christian Churches in Egypt - and is very vocally about their Hatred for Israel.
this is great, now its just romney and paul, how is the lamestream media gonna report anything and still keep the blackout of ron paul
Ron paul may think of himself as a serious candidate, and his small cadre of supporters may see him that way, but the man has no chance.
He was BOOED for supporting life in the debates. In a party that is supposedly pro life.
Not only that, but he isnt even a republican. He may share SOME of their values, but he is a hardcore Libertarian. The GOP doesnt go in for unrequited freedom, regardless of their claims on the issue.
really missed the question didnt you
Not in the least. The supposed "media blackout" is because of the following: while he considers himself a serious candidate, and his supporters might as well, he is not a serious contender. He isnt even a republican. It would almost be like a communist running for the Democratic ticket. While the candidate and the democrats might share some values, they dont align enough for the communist to be a serious candidate. (and before any of you start, no, the democrats are not a bunch of communists, just like the republicans arent a bunch of fascists. Just because they happen to share some ideas doesnt make them the same)
Why would the media waste airtime covering someone who has no chance?
Also, its customary for one to actually use a question mark when asking a question. (like I did above)
ahhh so not only are you off your meds im guessing when you are on your meds your 1 of the quotation/spelling nazi's
Newt's loss is Tampa's gain.
Although the florida jewelry stores might have missed a few bounced checks!!
The Republican voters of this country have made a terrible mistake. They are handing Obama and his liberal hordes another four years at the end of which there won't be anything left of America. While I don't dislike Romney, he can't beat Obama in the general election. Obama is the biggest snake oil salesman the world has ever seen and a disgrace as President (just look at his appearance on Jimmy Fallon last night pandering to a bunch of mixed up students with no life experience to know who they should vote for). Obama will lie to America's face in a debate and eat Romney alive. Only Newt has the skills, intelligence and experience to fry that snake Obama up and eat it for dinner. With the world about to go into a much wider war thanks to Iran we need a Teddy Roosevelt in the White House, not a coward who bows to muslim kings. That my friends is Newt Gingrich, not Romney. To all Republicans out there I say it is time for you to think about what it means to be a patriot and stand by your country. If you do you will realize it is time to get behind Newt before it is too late. As for you Liberals out there (especially those who want free stuff from the government, in other words sucking the life out of the rest of us), you are misguided to say the least and traitors to your country to say the most.
There is no one like Teddy around today. Newt is done and a joke. Your choices are Romney, Obama, or you can write in your candidate. Maybe you will be happier in 2016, with the selection.
scorn, you are a sad, mistaken, angry man. Newt was done before he started. Get over it.
Considering conservatives like your ilk have driven this country into the ground economically and tried like hell to reverse the work of the founding fathers by trying to inject your backwards-ass religion into damn near everything to do with this country, destroying our constitutional rights via the Patriot act, and more than doubling the national debt (TWICE, once under reagan and once under bush), its @!$%#ING HILARIOUS that you say liberals are traitors to this country.
Please, continue to show how far your head is up your ass. You are truly hilarious. Most people dont get to meet an idiot of your epic proportions even once in their lives.
I agree with you, scorn!
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"History will look upon this president's leadership with the Scorn and Disdain it deserves."
US Senator John McCain, December 2011
Newt was on an ego trip thinking he could get elected president. Newt go back home to K street in Washington DC and do your lobbying and please just stay there. Newt actually got a hoot out of this stuff Newt speaks and people listened that is rare for Newt.
The mistake Newt Gingrich made - was to step down as Speaker of the House and to pay the $300,000 for the costs of the investigation into EIGHTY-FIVE Ethics complaints filed against him by DEMOCRATS that were ALL discovered to be FALSE.
Only one ethics complaint was investigated - and the IRS determined it was False.
Even the MINORITY Leader - at that time - entered into the Congressional record - that the $300,000 payment was NOT a fine.
But Nancy Pelosi told an entirely different story - when Newt Gngrich announced his candidacy - in 2011 -
in spite of the fact that she was the Minority Leader of the Democratic Party who was behind the EIGHTY-FIVE BOGUS ethics complaints filed against Newt Gingrich years earlier.
While Nancy Pelosi devised anothe
We really have turned into a society of functional illiterates and worst of all, THEY DON'T CARE! If you correct them, they ridicule you, cursing you with MORE misspelled words! Laugh or cry, I can't decide.
I always try to laugh, maybe you'll get a chuckle out of this:
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All that we have to do to counter the Gingrich "spin" on President Obama's record and his policies is go to factcheck.org. C'mon Mister Speaker, if you can't present your "big ideas" campaign without distorting the opposition's achievements get off of the national stage. Your hyperbole isn't contributing to the national dialogue. Come to think of it, you never have made a genuine contribution to the national dialogue and the fact you keep losing primaries should tell you that the public doesn't place much stock in what you say.
factcheck,org - the company owned by the Annenberg Foundation - with close ties to Obama?
Isn't that the company that "authenticated" Obama's birth certificate -
that is now known as a forged and fraudulent document?
Can someone just get Romney to pay down Newts $4 million dollar debt so this turd sack will move on?
Oops, here's the complete link...
Sorry, coffee hasn't kicked in yet...
Hey Thomas, What do you call The Contract With America. Newt stopped Bill Clinton cold and forced him back into being a moderate instead of a lunatic screeching Liberal. It was only thanks to Dick Morris that Clinton got a second term after that. Thanks to Obama we have no national dialogue and if he is reelected nothing will get done for another four years unless Congress lets him spend what little he hasn't stolen from us already.
What exactly has he stolen from us?
Certainly not money, as taxes have DROPPED under obama.
Certainly not firearms, as firearm ownership has skyrocketed and carry laws have relaxed under him.
Certainly not economic growth, as the economy has gone from a freefall to somewhat stable due to his and the democratic congress's actions.
Obama has been a FAR better president than any of the republicans in the last 30 years.
Obama has been a FAR better president.....?
If he were in the USSR - instead of the USA.
Oh! Newt!!!!!
Newt...you have always been irrelevant...are irrelevant now...and always will be irrelevant. Your ego is your albatross.
obama's ego is his albatross. He also abuses our US taxpayer money - traveling around campaigning for re-election - on his False Narratives.
He is a DISGRACE to the presidency.
Unfortunately, Newts campaign never had the organization it needed to be effective. Spend all the time you want in whatever State you wish but, if your campaign is not very well put together and you fail to organize grass roots support and mobilize volunteers, your not going to get a good result at the polls. While Newt certainly is more than capable of debating Mr Obama, that alone is not enough to sustain a campaign. Fortunately. Romney is much more organized and will also do a great job of debating Obama.
Newt and the rest of the former candidates need to put everything they can behind lending support to Romney. Including getting their supporters to get behind Romney and providing whatever resources they have and their media contacts to actively campaign for Romney. We simply can not afford four more years of Obama.
KingK: Brilliant insight!
Newt, take those ugly daughters of yours and get out of 2012 election run.
trial!
"“I want you to know over the next few days, we’re going to look realistically at where we are at” in the campaign, Gingrich told a crowd of just one hundred people at his election night rally, calling himself a “citizen” rather than a candidate."
Realistically, you're in dead last place. Even Ron Paul has more support than you ever will, and this WAS Your Year... this was your only chance, and now it's gone. Disappear into obscurity, and never again taint our airwaves with your bids for a job more 1000 times higher than your qualifications.
"Disappear into obscurity, and never againtaint our airwaves with your bids for a job more 1000 times higher than your qualifications."
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You have to be kidding. That is Obama - all the way = totally inept -
and corrupt.
Hope the door hits you in the azz on the way out. Stay gone!
Aww.... Newt, don't go. You are the face of extreme conservativism that has enraptured so many Republicans and Tea Party "Patriots". We need to have folks twist the record of non accomplishment by the GOP in Congress.
We need someone who can show that the voice of "NO" was actually constructive and created tons of jobs, got Osama bin Laden, stabilized the economy after the worst free-fall in history, helped liberate Lybia, got us out of Iraq and is now easing us out of Afghanistan... in short ending a decade of war that drained more from our treasure than any job and sector saving stimulus package. Keep in mind how many reservists lost their jobs to go to war only to find no jobs when they came back.
We need someone who can makes up forget that a GOP governor selectively targeted ONE labour union and others are using similar anti-democratic attacks on American workers while paying homage to the job creating and job saving mantra.
We need someone to makes us forget that gas prices also rose to today's levels when we had 2 oilmen in the WH and Enron was robbing us blind speculating with our power supplies. But also someone who reminds us that Sylindra is no Enron because Enron was good. How many people got hurt on that one?
We need someone to remind us that corporations are people too and though they may not vote for a candidate they can pay candidates even though they don't have to pay taxes.
We need someone to remind us that America does not want a black president and must therefore restrict him to only one term, even if opposing him in every way hurts our country in the long term and the short run. But lets pile on the lies and accuse others of our own sins 'coz after all in politics anything goes and the truth only gets in the way of winning.
that definitely is obama's mantra - since he has a hard time with the truth.
Why is it that it takes politicians months to find out about something the public has known for a long time? Gingrich was already thrown out of politics on ethics issues. He was caught taking money from an organization as a "historian", but never documented one word of their history. He already left the presidential campaign trail once, and is now doing it AGAIN. He just does not understand reality.
The only person on the planet who felt that Gingrich was presidential timber was New himself. Delusional all the way. At least he sold some books so he can reduce his balance at Tiffany's.
he did not have a balance at Tiffany's. He had a line of credit.
big difference - but I see how the twist fits into yr rhetoric.
@ phantombeast:
Now read the Communist Manifesto - and see what it says.
No matter when Gingrich exits the race, he promised to carry the conservative platform to the convention in Tampa, Fla., in the summer.
“We are committed to doing everything we can to make sure conservatism is in fact fully represented in Tampa, fully represented in the campaign, and fully represented in the next administration,” he said.
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This is the part that scares the daylights out of The Left.
It is also the reason that the MSM has been reporting for awhile that Newt Gingrich is leaving the race - when he has stated he would bring it all the way to Tampa.