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Subscribe to RSSMOORESVILLE, NC -- Even though his presidential campaign "will go bye-bye," Newt Gingrich on Thursday said he and his wife plan to campaign through the fall to help presumptive nominee Mitt Romney.
"I'm going to look at how I can be helpful, because I suspect people will still show up to hear me," Gingrich told voters at luncheon here. "Callista and I are going to campaign through October."
Though today, just 25 people attended the midday event here, leaving a roomful of empty chairs. Some of those seats were taken by Secret Service, an area the campaign has taken heat for recently because of the thousands of dollars the protection was costing taxpayers, even Gingrich he had become more of a sideshow than serious contender for the GOP nomination.
After losing the Deleware primary on Tuesday, the latest in a long string of electoral defeats, the former Speaker of the House acknowledged he will end his campaign next week. He will continue with his packed schedule through North Carolina, saying he felt an obligation to fulfill previous commitments here.
"The campaign will go bye-bye, but I'll be a citizen," Gingrich told a supporter asking about the candidate's future. "I've been an active citizen since I was 15."
The once top-tier GOP candidate said he would welcome the opportunity to stump for former rival Romney. He has spoken to the former Massachusetts governor and Republican National Committee Chair Reince Priebus about playing a role in the party going forward. At a stop at a diner here this morning, Gingrich continued his pledge to forge ahead to the summer convention in Tampa -- only now, as a citizen and not a candidate.
"We're also going to go back to the private sector to earn some money," Gingrich said. "It's been a long, expensive 2 years."
Gingrich's now-bare-bones campaign faces deep debts; he had previously been a paid contributor to FOX News, but criticized his former employer, saying he could get a fairer shake from CNN; and his flagship company, The Gingrich Group, filed for Chapter 7 bankruptcy earlier this year.
"I ran for president and, candidly, wished I had done better," Gingrich said Thursday morning. "But I learned a lot."
And while the former frontrunner says he's eager to help, it likely will not be on the Romney ticket. "I think the vice president will be somebody much younger," Gingrich said. "That would be my advice to Romney."
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Romney won't ask for your help Newt. He is egotistical, self centered, materialistic, narcissistic, and a money grubbing greedy weasel, but he is not stupid. Not especially smart, but not stupid. Now run along Newt, and gaze at the moon and maybe howl a little bit.
Gingrich likes to come across like a goofy grandmother.
However, as we now know, he was at the meeting of Republican leaders on the DAY that President Obama was inaugurated, when Gingrich said "You will remember this day...as seeds of 2012".
At that meeting in the middle of a U.S. and global great recession:
Those G.O.P. traitors vowed to "Show united and unyielding oppostion to the President's policies."
Newt Gingrich is cut from the same cloth as Romney, GOP leaders and all those who consistently worked to block the economic recovery of our country.
Thank God for President Obama.
Obama/Biden 2012.
What is there to block Backhouse? The democrats couldn't come up with a feasible economic policy if their lives depended on it.
The Liar in Chief has been a dismal failure in everything he has tried except to show a degree of promise as an actor. In 2013 after he leaves the White House maybe Romney will rent him his CA house where Obama can be close enough to LaLa land to star in his own sitcom: "FloppyEars Moves the Family West".
Romney/Rubio 2012
Despite the GOP/Norquist pledge to BLOCK AND PREVENT the U.S. recovery; caused by 2 unpaid-for wars, two unpaid-for high-end tax cuts, and a sweet pharma deals done during the Bush Administration:
Republican Leaders set their agenda of blocking our economic recovery (and the global economy) on the day this President was inaugurated. Unforgivable.
Despite relentless oppositon from DAY ONE, this Administration created the conditions for 4 million jobs, even as Republican Governors fired over 600,000 public workers. Manufacturing is up. The Auto Industry, that Romney wanted to let die, is back. GM #1 in the world. Yesterday, great reportes from Chrysler.
The economy is recovering - despite the devastating effects of an irresponsible, self-centred, narrow-minded, zero-solutions, JUST-KILL JOBS, and filibuster-every-measure at 3 times the pace ever seen in American, Opposition "party",
That purposely put a spanner in the works, and relies on Big Lies and Big Money to forward its agenda of Super-Inequality.
Newt attended the meeting where it was decided that the GOP would accept their paychecks and perks, yet would do nothing to help Americans during this horrible recession.
Leadership in the GOP will never change. It's always about power and getting rich and nothing else.
A party about nothing, except crying socialism! commies! Idiots. Newt right at the front of the pack.
The GOP is a conservative party? We're wasting an awful lot of taxpayer money paying them.
They go after the poor and working class.
And their supporters are perfectly fine with this. What hypocrites.
And even worse,
what sell outs.
Newt has as high of an opinion of himself as Mitt has of himself. Egos clashing would be more like it.
So Backhouse, if everything Obama has done is so wonderful and he has created all of these jobs and economy is recovering, why has government welfare and assistance gone up 80% to $900 billion dollars under 70 government programs? Wouldnt you think Obama would be cutting those costs and reducing assistance as his wonderful economic recovery has been blooming? Is it possible that you could be stretching the truth and the wheels are falling off the economic wagon instead? Which is it that you want more government assistance because the economy is tanking or less because he is doing a wonderful job?
So True Backhouse, and those GOP clowns have the nerve to try to blame President Obama.
Wayne---I'm not sure I agree with you on this one. After all, Romney is willing to have Donald Trump campaign with him and for him---why not Newt, too? For all we know they agree on various positions, or they will as soon as Mitt changes his mind.
Hi Steeler Fan,
I think that if Newt were allowed to campaign for Romney, he would have to be kept on a very short leash and read from a teleprompter only. If I were Mitt, I wouldn't allow him to answer any questions either. Newt's problem is that he speaks off the cuff with little real thought for how his answers will be perceived. He is the ultimate "loose cannon." Of course, even if Mitt promised to stick to this, which he wouldn't, he wouldn't stick to these restrictions.
As for the Donald, he doesn't think either, but his money and money connections would come in handy for any 1% candidate.
EIGHT MILLION JOBS WERE LOST AT THE END of 2008 and BEGINNING of 2009.
Those jobs losses weren't caused by this Administration. No help was given by GOP/Koch/Norquist to recover.
The difference between the two parties:
- Is the Democrats and our President WANT our country to recover and thrive and be competitive in the 21st; and rebuild the American middle class that has been trounced for the last 30 years under a system that created an increase of 275% in income for the top 1%.
- The other party WANTS - by their own admission - to block that recovery. It is concerned with protecting the wealthy, promoting super-inequality and creating an even more unequal over-class. The unemployed are of no interest to them.
nb. When people are out of work they need unemployment benefits and help to pay for a roof over their head, so their children and spouses do not starve.
Yes, Gingrich would be an excellent Romney surrogate. He's proven he's willing to lie.
Romney will be glad to hand him,...oops freudian slip. glad to HAVE him.
That's it Back House, even though the gop was talking "jobs, jobs, jobs," what they really meant was that they would cut as many public service jobs as they possibly could.
Since republicans governors cut a million public service jobs and counting, this all goes toward the president's numbers look worse. Then they will go after public school teachers and ask why Johnny can't read, because his overcrowded classroom with no reading specialists available should have been enough to meet Johnny's needs.
Firefighters will save fewer lives and lose more of their own because of short handed crews, and cops will watch victims die and their partners lose their lives while waiting for back up. But in the mind of the gop, it's all good and it is all worth it if people fail to prosper and lives are lost in the name of defeating the president.
At the beginning of Bush's administration in 2001, there were 17.1 million manufacturing jobs in this country; by the end of Bush's two terms, there were only 12.5 million. No matter how the right wants to spin it, those losses occurred BEFORE President Obama took office and before he was even elected to the presidency.
Everytime republicans have cut income taxes over the past 30 years either at the state or federal level, we have seen our schools and education, roads, bridges decline; we have fewer police and fire fighters. Each tax cut for the wealthiest has had a greater impact on local, state and federal government's ability to meet our needs. Taxes can be too high, but they can also be too low.
Translation: I need a lot of money and Mitt can help.
Hey Newtie boy, now that your role in a GOP conspiracy has been confirmed -- yeah, that four-hour meeting you all had after the president's inauguration -- Romney better say good-bye to YOU on his tour...
He's going to be a great Romney surrogate. The Dems will just replay all of the 'compliments' Newt has paid to Romney and the rest of the GOP, and Newt will spend most of his time trying to re-write his own history. Maybe he'll fall back on his favorite line that he gave Greta Van Sunshine, "Anybody who quotes me is a liar!"
Jodi, good reminder about manufacturing.
We are going to have some fun watching the Gropers cannibalize each other. Blame the not-working, blame Obama, blame this, blame that: they just about ran out of blaming others and will soon be blaming each others. watch that debacle. it is going to be like it never was before.
As far as Newt and Romney's high egoes, it doesn't matter as they are both going down. Grinch is bursting in flames as we speak and Romney will follow just with bigger flames. Let's rejoice for the end of tyranny.
So everyone agrees that at the end of the Bush administration, we started a great recession. We can debate all day the various causes and who was at fault but I agree that Bush was not a great fiscal president. Not a big Bush fan. But Backhouse and Jody, you keep talking about the great things that Obama has done SINCE 2008 and and he has reduced the need for government assistance since 2008, no one is questioning the need for a safety net and neither is Romney. We just question, why the amount of need continues to grow at double digit requests instead of actually being cut as Obama's wonderful economic plan has been working? So which is it, is Obama's economic policies working? If so, shouldnt he be reducing his requests for government assistance? Stop blaming Bush, its 4 years later, Obama needs to take responsibility for his own job killing and his war on private enterprise.
Jody, education budgets and the number of teachers have grown at double digit rates since Clinton. Our state and local budgets are bloated from union contracts, its not surprising there are government layoffs. Lets stay within the bounds of reality
me personally, i am relieved Newt Gingrich is no longer a contender, having bankruptcy issues would compromise his electivity. i am putting my vote with Romney to beat obama in november. He's the MAN!
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So, first Newt calls Romney a liar. Now, he's willing to be Mitt's lackey? Pathetic...
Don't forget that Santorum said the country would be better off voting for Obama, but watch him pander to that empty suit, Romney!
What's truly Pathetic is Boehners innability to pass any meaningful legislation
The pathetic drunk was spending all his time trying to appease Teabaggers and trying to take away womens access to health care
Whatta drunken Wizard-Of-Oz cry baby Cowardly Lion!!!
And my first thought reading this headline was with friends like this(Newt), who needs enemies?
Must be what Obama was thinking after the primary with Hillary after she tried to claw his eyes out on the runway between campaign stops. She seems to have recovered and no worse for the wear dont you think? The word hypocrisy is an amazing word but seems to be missing from the vocabulary of all the progressives on this blog
I wish fewer people posted on this board, and more helped with local campaigns (congress/assembly), where they could learn how the game is played.
You'd understand why Newt said this.
You throw a fundraiser for someone?
You can usually grab between 10-30% of the 'rake'.
I.E.- You throw a fundraiser for Romney at $500/plate and get 1000 people...that's 500K. You get about 30%, or 150K. The other 350K goes to expenses. The remainder goes to Romney.
All Newt is saying is 'I'll take a job raising money for you, just tell me what to say and I'll deliver the message with chutzpah.'
Nothing to see here. Business as usual. Move along.
No Romney - don't look into Newt's eyes!
"We're also going to go back to the private sector to earn some money," Gingrich said. "It's been a long, expensive 2 years."
For who - Gingrich or his sugar daddy? Politico is saying that Sheldon Adelson was up to $20 million for this exercise in futility.
Does anyone know if he and Newt signed a pre-nup?
Maybe Newt is hoping Romney will pick him for VP if he talks real nice.
He is such a delusional egomaniac I wouldn't be surprised.
...and buy your book, right, Newton?
SOOOOOOOOOO, for those of you keeping score at home...
"We're not going to beat Barack Obama with some guy who has Swiss bank accounts, Cayman Island accounts, owns shares of Goldman Sachs while it forecloses on Florida and is himself a stockholder in Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac while he tries to think the rest of us are too stupid to put the dots together to understand what this is all about.... People matter more than Wall Street." - Newt Gingrich, 1/26/2012
...but...
"I'm going to look at how I can be helpful, because I suspect people will still show up to hear me." - Newt Gingrich, 4/26/2012
Gosh and golly-ookums, Newton, that's a flip-flop that would even make Willard blush!
C'mon, Newton! You and I both know that you can't stand seeing Mitt Romney as the nominee. At least Rick Santorum had the intellectual honesty to not give a full-throated endorsement.
Sorry for the duplication
ex animo
davidfarrar
Why would Newt do such a thing? Doesn't he know there are a lot of people willing to support him, but not on the "President" side of the ticket? If he could run now as the person who can, and will, deliver a brokered convention to the grassroot-fiscal conservatives, he could really, and I mean really, demonstrate his leadership.
And perhaps Ron Paul would like to consider the same proposal. I can support him as Fed Chairman -- but that's just me.
ex animo
davidfarrar
NO , Newt you cannot have anymore free money .
Why the concern that the department of education would cut $115 billion over the next 10 years under Ryan's plan? This department was formed in the 1970's. Every grant that it makes comes with strings attached. With our current $135 billion budget, the test scores and graduation rates are worse than they were in early 70's before the department existed.
We can let Sallie Mae (a quasi government agency) administer student loans and Pell grants. The other programs obviously do not work, we do not need them. Throwing money at education is not a solution. We should let the Department of Education go away. We do not get value for the money spent.
If this department is eliminated over a 10 year period, we will not have massive layoffs, we will lose 70% of these employees by attrition. We just don't replace them. The other 30% can transfer to jobs in other federal departments if they are qualified.
With more money in the private sector, the need for these government jobs to assure employment will no longer exist. We are better off with more jobs in the private sector.
Look at Obama's stimulus. If the White House figures of 2.1 million jobs are correct, we spent $400,000 per job created. That is outrageous! We could have created a lot more jobs for the $800 billion spent.
Bruce: the private sector has been steadily adding jobs in the last three years under Obama. We lost 5 million jobs under George W. Bush. The stimulus kept things from getting worse. Getting rid of all those govt. jobs is not going to reduce our debt and deficit. We've got two wars and two rounds of tax cuts and a Medicare prescription drug plan that have blown our debt out of the water. Those are the things that will really put a dent in our debt along with reducing military spending.
I'm so sad to see Newt go. With him in the race we got thousands of people to enjoy our video making fun of him.
If you still want a laugh at his expense watch:
Put "watch?v=AQSsMRe6BJE" in the youtube search bar.
It is about his three marriages. Hope you enjoy!
Fat boy is just looking for a soft job that pays handsomely and allows him time to write his meaningless books, and act like a star at the local book store while signing his brand of solecism. Pathetic and certainly not a man for any real work, or meaningful stewardship of the people's trust. Take another cruise with whats her name Newt