May 12th, 2011 | 
Author: Steven M. Gillon: President Gingrich? Not as Scary as It Sounds
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What would a Gingrich presidency look like? I would suggest that it would not be as radical as liberals fear or as revolutionary as conservatives hope. He would govern as a centrist conservative who would likely propose bold …
Newt Gingrich: "I Do Study History, Unlike the President, I Study …
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Newt Gingrich: "I Do Study History, Unlike the President, I Study American History" (Video). At a town hall in Naples, Florida, Newt Gingrich tells a large crowd why he wants to debate Barack Obama in a number of …
This is Part 12 of a look at possible GOP candidates that might run well against Obama in 2012.
Part 1 looked at Mitch Daniels Part 2 looked at Tim Pawlenty
Part 3 looked at Chris Christie Part 4 looked at Mitt Ronney
Part 5 looked at Sarah Palin Part 6 looked at Mike Huckabee
Part 7 looked at Rudy Giuliani Part 8 looked at Michele Bachman
Part 9 looked at Donald Trump Part 10 looked at Paul Ryan
Part 11 looked at Ron Paul Part 12 looked at Newt Gingrich
Part 13 looked at Herman Cain Part 14 looked at Rick Santorum
Part 15 looked at Rick Perry Part 16 looked at Jon Huntsman
Bill Clinton Praises Newt: "He’s Articulate And Attracts Independents".
“He’s articulate and he tries to think of a conservative version of an idea that will solve a legitimate problem", Clinton said, by way of explaining the Gingrich resurgence.
"For example, I watched the national security debate last night. And Newt said two things that would make an independent voter say, ‘Well, I gotta consider that’".
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich announced his candidacy for President yesterday (May 12 2011) and used Twitter and Facebook along with high profile interviews to spread the word.
Newt Gingrich came out swinging at President Obama in his first TV interview after announcing his candidacy for president, telling Fox News’ Sean Hannity that,
“This is not about one person in the Oval Office. This is about millions of Americans deciding that together we can win the future with the right policies leading to the right outcomes”, Gingrich said. “And then we have to win the argument that President Obama has the wrong policies, and they lead to the wrong outcomes”.
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Gingrich had fueled months of speculation about his intentions by holding off on an official announcement, but earlier Wednesday he spread the word by that he was in the race for the Republican nomination.
He said his first executive order would be to eliminate Obama’s so-called policy “czars”, but clarified that his greater goal would be to balance the budget over several years by growing the economy.
A new Gallup poll suggests that although many Americans know who Gingrich is, he will have a lot of work to do if he’s going to get their vote.
Among Republicans 84% recognize his name, but his Positive Intensity Score is only 11%, which is below this week’s average of 13% for all Republican contenders.
Mike Huckabee received the highest Positive Intensity Score at 24%.
Donald Trump, with 98% name recognition, had the lowest Positive Intensity Score of any of the 13 candidates polled by Gallup this week and it was zero.
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Newt rocks. Not a coward like Osama..oh…oh..I ment to say Obama.
Newt rocks unless you were his wife that had cancer.
Then Newt would divorce you for a younger woman.
So who’s the coward???
You have the brain matter of a used Q tip, a*rs* wipe that you are.
I don’t see Newt as a leader, I see him working behind the scenes. I like Herman Cain
Newt can effectively communicate the conservative approach to all of today’s major issues. Thus, I believe he can win the GOP nomination.
Unfortunately, I don’t think he can defeat President Obama because he is too vulnerable from past weaknesses in his character.
The general public votes on emotional feelings emanating from 30 second commercials.
Newt would be riddled by these attacks and subsequently lose.
Struggling to rescue his week-old presidential campaign, Gingrich has taken to Twitter, YouTube and blogs to try and backtrack not only on his assault on Ryan, but also his tacit endorsement of a “variation” of a mandate for health insurance that is an anathema to the conservative primary voters he needs to win.
In fact not much has changed in eight years, on Planet Gingrich!
His aides, and he himself still believe he can repair the damage and go on to lead the free world after what they claim was the result of the “gotcha press” that conservatives inevitably attract.
But it’s notable that the party did not rise up to defend Gingrich this week, but expressed their outrage instead, and are seemingly working to hasten his demise.
Less than 24 hours after top aides for Newt Gingrich’s presidential campaign jumped ship en masse, the former Speaker of the House told reporters he’s still in the race.
“Let me say, first of all, that I am a candidate for the United States because I think that we are in the early stages of the Obama depression. Fourteen million Americans out of work”, he told reporters gathered outside his home in McLean, Virginia.
“I am committed to running the substantive, solutions-oriented campaign I set out to run earlier this spring. The campaign begins anew Sunday in Los Angeles”, Gingrich said in a Facebook posting Thursday.
According to interviews and email exchanges with former campaign staffers, it appears that Gingrich’s distressed aides, still clinging to hopes that they could turn their candidate around, devised a last-minute plan to bring in heavy hitters to do the job:, including operatives from key early states like New Hampshire and South Carolina.
They, along with the senior DC staff, would present Gingrich with a list of demands and if he acceded to them, they would stay on, and if not, they would bolt, thereby raising the prospect they might bring their talents and connections to rival candidates.
Among the demands:
Firstly, they insisted Gingrich relinquish control of the campaign schedule; no longer would the candidate dictate the pace of the campaign, or have the option to beg off on crucial commitments whenever he pleased.
Secondly, they wanted Gingrich to “back off” from continued screenings of “Nine Days That Changed The World”, the documentary the candidate and his wife co-produced about Pope John Paul II and which originally debuted in 2010.
“It is a great movie but these screenings have nothing to do with running for president”, said one former campaign insider. “You cannot have the campaign team distracted by arranging movie screenings”.
Well there’s a new surge, and we’re not talking about the one that Ombama failed to take advantage of.
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich just discussed his presidential campaign, and Mitt Romney on "The Laura Ingraham Show".
"If you want a manager, I think Mitt’s a very competent manager. I think that he tends to manage within whatever he thinks the realities are so when he was governor of Massachusetts he recognized that 85 % of the legislature was Democrat, and he recognized that the state was pretty liberal, and he managed accordingly. If you want somebody who is a change agent, who has worked with Ronald Reagan for change, who as speaker brought about change, who helped balance the budget for four consecutive years: the only time in your lifetime, who passed the only major entitlement reform, welfare, with two out of three people going back to work or going to school, and who has substantial foreign policy and national security experience. I’m the only candidate in the race like that".
"It’s always amazed me, and we’re having this national security debate tomorrow night, and we’re not running for governor. We’re running for president, and president involves life and death of a country in ways that are very, very different than being governor of a state. So, I think the choice is going to be really, really wide between managing the current mess and changing Washington decisively".
When asked if Romney is a conservative, he says he’ll "let the voters decide that".
"Remember, Mitt Romney right now in the CBS poll is at 15% and I’m at 15%".
"The 85% who have not chosen Mitt Romney, who’ve known him now for five years".
"The challenge will be when does Mitt start to attack me? I don’t have any reason to attack Mitt because my interest is the 85%".
"I’ll let him keep his 15% because I don’t have any great need to win primaries by more than 85-15".
As former House Speaker Newt Gingrich’s poll numbers rise, so are his fundraising numbers. His campaign reports they will raise more than $3 million in the fourth quarter.
If that money pans out, it would be well ahead of the $800,000 the campaign raised in the third quarter.
But, the debt is still there.
The campaign reported about 1.2 million dollars in debt last quarter, and Gingrich spokesman R.C. Hammond says that number will be about the same this quarter.
“We’ve had a consistent increase in new and Newt donors since the Ames debate,” say Hammond, who adds “about one out of every two donors is someone who hasn’t given to the campaign before.”
Several recent polls show Gingrich near the top, including one Public Policy Poll out Monday that puts him ahead of the GOP pack with 28%. That poll credits the fading of Atlanta businessman Herman Cain, who still came in second with 25%.
Hammond claims people want the substance and big ideas Newt is credited for bringing to the GOP presidential debates.
“More people are seeing him in person, as opposed to how he is depicted in the media, and they are changing their minds”, Hammond said.
Newt Gingrich cited fraud Wednesday, Dec 28, 2011 as the reason he didn’t get on the Virginia primary ballot.
Last week his campaign acknowledged they used paid volunteers to scramble to get the required 10,000 signatures but fell short after the former House speaker and Virginia resident boasted his campaign was submitting as many as 12,000-14,000 signatures.
On a campaign stop at an Algona chocolate store, the former House speaker said the “mistake” occurred because one of their workers committed fraud.
“We hired somebody who turned in false signatures. We turned in 11,100 – we needed 10,000 – 1,500 of them were by one guy who frankly committed fraud.”
Newt Gingrich plans to formally drop out of the Republican presidential race on Wednesday, May 2nd.
“This is the end my friend”, – The Doors
Newt Gingrich quit his Republican presidential run today, but not without leaving behind a multi-million dollar debt to consultants and other companies across the country.
And while huge amounts of money are still owed to a variety of vendors — some of whom might wonder when and if they’ll see their money — the campaign seems to have paid off all its bills to businesses run by Gingrich family members, as well as “reimbursed” the candidate himself with nearly half a million dollars.
And before going this deep into debt, the campaign spent liberally on Gingrich family businesses. Gingrich Productions, the multimedia company run by Gingrich’s wife Callista, was paid a total of $67,000 in late 2011. Gingrich also reportedly disclosed in early 2012 that he had made $291,250 off that same company, though it’s unclear when exactly that money came in.
The campaign also paid more than $100,000 to Cushman Enterprises, run by his daughter Jackie, mostly for travel and consulting expenses.
Doesn’t sound right, but Romney has apparently said that he will get the debts paid off.