Newt Gingrich will address Georgia GOP as a presidential candidate
Just got off the phone with Rick Tyler, spokesman for Newt Gingrich.
I’d called to see why the former U.S. House speaker was passing on the first GOP debate of presidential candidates on Thursday – in Greenville, S.C., and broadcast on Fox News.
Entry requirements required a declaration of candidacy that Gingrich was not prepared to make, Tyler said. “We decided to stick to our time line.”
And what is that time line? Tyler wouldn’t say much, but Gingrich is scheduled to speak to Georgia Republicans at their state meeting on Friday, May 13. “By the time Newt speaks to the Georgia convention, he’ll be a candidate,” Tyler said.
- By Jim Galloway, Political Insider
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Last Man Standing
May 4th, 2011
1:06 pm
Do you wacky libs truly think Hussein’s run for re-election will be a stroll in the park? Are you really that brain dead? He has to own the substantial increase in the national debt, the $1.4 trillion dollar deficit, the high rate unemployment and under-employment, the tremendous inflation created by (1) the cost of fuel and (2) massive introduction of currency into the economy. Hussein also owns the highly unpopular ObamaCare. He has an awful lot of explaining to do, and I frankly think his fancily framed lies aren’t going to work.
Hussein goes home (wherever that is) after the 2012 election. It’s OK with me if he takes you libs with him.
blackbird13
May 4th, 2011
1:07 pm
@WOW
Well what the hell difference does that make? That’s my whole point: he can’t win the nomination and he can’t win as an independent; therefore he is not a legitimate candidate. Getting back to my original contention that there only 2 or 3 legit GOP candidates with less than 18 months till the election, who is out there other than Romney, Pawlenty and maybe Huckabee? Mitch Daniels is a possibility, but he is keeping an awfully low profile and I don’t believe he is going to run.
WOW
May 4th, 2011
1:10 pm
“I simply don’t believe Obama was lying – he merely reversed himself when he became educated that his Gitmo, tax, and Iraq withdrawal policy stances were wrong.
Guess you’re in the same camp as Bill Clinton.
WOW
May 4th, 2011
1:10 pm
“hat’s my whole point: he can’t win the nomination”
Sure he can if he sticks to the issues, debates well and goes after Obama on his failed policies.
WOW
May 4th, 2011
1:12 pm
“On the Job Training (OJT) is a good thing.”
Yeah, if you work at McDonalds.
“he has never apologized to Bush”
Of course not. Especially when Obama has carried on 5 of Bush’s policies.
“calling me a left winger and lumping me in with the likes of Aquagirl riles me ”
I call em like I see em. You no more of a centrist than I am a Muslim.
newt who and for what?
May 4th, 2011
1:14 pm
blackbird 13– i agree.
WOW
May 4th, 2011
1:17 pm
“who is out there other than Romney, Pawlenty and maybe Huckabee?”
Jeb Bush, Rick Perry, Mitch Daniels, Bobby Jindal, John Hoeven…..
Just a few.
Centrist
May 4th, 2011
1:18 pm
@ WOW said “Guess you’re in the same camp as Bill Clinton.”
Clinton DID/does have character flaws. He often lied and pretended. His POLICIES were more mainstream than Obama’s, but his political instincts were more like McCain’s – say and do anything to be elected. Obama is still too leftist for me, and McCain was a geriatric political animal – I threw my vote away on Bob Barr only because I knew he wouldn’t be elected.
wow for President
May 4th, 2011
1:19 pm
wow, honey– i would vote for you as prez before i’d vote for jeb bushy
WOW
May 4th, 2011
1:23 pm
“I threw my vote away on Bob Barr only because I knew he wouldn’t be elected.”
Not sure why you’re telling me this.
WOW
May 4th, 2011
1:24 pm
“wow, honey– i would vote for you as prez before i’d vote for jeb bushy”
Sure you would, getalife.
wow for President
May 4th, 2011
1:28 pm
what i really like is that people who have always shouted wolf about running for President are still shouting wolf. whereas Prez Obama said he was running once, campaigned and won. hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm keep shouting wolfers!
wow for President
May 4th, 2011
1:29 pm
centrist- bob barr is in the same boat as gingrich actually. and what gives with his hair?
WOW
May 4th, 2011
1:40 pm
Obama is playing games.
Obama: I won’t release bin Laden death photos
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20059739-503544.html?tag=breakingnews
WOW
May 4th, 2011
1:42 pm
Waterboarding worked.
BRIAN WILLIAMS: I’d like to ask you about the sourcing on the intel that ultimately led to this successful attack. Can you confirm that it was as a result of waterboarding that we learned what we needed to learn to go after bin Laden?
LEON PANETTA: You know Brian, in the intelligence business you work from a lot of sources of information, and that was true here. We had a multiple source — a multiple series of sources — that provided information with regards to this situation. Clearly, some of it came from detainees and the interrogation of detainees. But we also had information from other sources as well. So, it’s a little difficult to say it was due just to one source of information that we got.
WILLIAMS: Turned around the other way, are you denying that waterboarding was in part among the tactics used to extract the intelligence that led to this successful mission?
PANETTA: No, I think some of the detainees clearly were, you know, they used these enhanced interrogation techniques against some of these detainees. But I’m also saying that, you know, the debate about whether we would have gotten the same information through other approaches I think is always going to be an open question.
WILLIAMS: So, finer point, one final time, enhanced interrogation techniques — which has always been kind of a handy euphemism in these post-9/11 years — that includes waterboarding?
PANETTA: That’s correct.
blackbird13
May 4th, 2011
1:43 pm
@WOW
Jeb Bush, Rick Perry, Mitch Daniels, Bobby Jindal, John Hoeven…..
None of those are in the race. Only Daniels is a possible in 2012. There are only a few candidates that have the name recognition to wait this late in the game to get started. Huckabee and Jeb Bush (highly unlikely he runs) and Palin (no chance of winning) could wait, but not the others.
blackbird13
May 4th, 2011
1:51 pm
WOW
May 4th, 2011
1:40 pm
“Obama is playing games”
How is that? I think it’s the right decision. No reason to prove anything to a bunch of terrorists and other nutjobs if it increases the threat to troops. Besides, they know it’s true, and they can’t very well claim him as a martyr and claim he isn’t dead. As for other conspiracy types, frankly, who cares what they think? It is exactly the right decision.
WOW
May 4th, 2011
1:52 pm
“None of those are in the race. ”
No $hit, Sherlock. Do you ever think before you type? It’s what, a year and a half before the 2012 election?
“Huckabee and Jeb Bush (highly unlikely he runs) and Palin (no chance of winning) could wait, but not the others.”
I’m gonna go out on a limb here and say you have ZERO political sense.
WOW
May 4th, 2011
1:54 pm
“No reason to prove anything to a bunch of terrorists and other nutjobs if it increases the threat to troops. ”
LOLOL!!!!! Your party didn’t have a problem with releasing photos from Gitmo. Do you ever think?
“How is that?’
Uh, you can figure that one out, Gump.
blackbird13
May 4th, 2011
2:02 pm
@WOW
You are obviously the one with zero political sense. You just throw names out there, without any sense of political reality. Some of those people have no intention of running. And you have no idea what party I am, or even if I belong to one. You, moron, are obviously a slave to anyone with an R beside their name. So enjoy your simple-minded worldview and reflexive reactions to issues that are far beyond your understanding.
WOW
May 4th, 2011
2:11 pm
“You, moron, are obviously a slave to anyone with an R beside their name.”
You must be under the false impression that I care what you think…..moron.
blackbird13
May 4th, 2011
2:16 pm
@wowYou must be under the false impression that I care what you think…..moron.”
It is so obvious you do.
blackbird13
May 4th, 2011
2:19 pm
@WOW
Oh, btw moron, the top Rs are saying the risks outweigh the benefits of releasing the photos. Better get in line..
double
May 4th, 2011
2:28 pm
If you ain’t the lead dog in pack.View all ways same.
Ga Values
May 4th, 2011
2:46 pm
I will be voting for Ron Paul, a real man. There are so many things wrong with Newt about the only thing he can run for is a new mistress/intern.
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Jack Davis
May 4th, 2011
5:21 pm
Would LOVE to see a debate between Newt and Barack. That would be G R E A T theater!
WOW
May 4th, 2011
5:52 pm
“the top Rs are saying the risks outweigh the benefits of releasing the photos.”
The photos are out, butt pirate.
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May 5th, 2011
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Is it just me or is the GOP options pathetic?
Someone please find a donor heart for Dick Cheney.
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KinneyShelia
May 5th, 2011
5:16 pm
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$94.83 being delivered to our house tomorrow by FedEX. I will never again
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D Right One
May 8th, 2011
7:47 pm
Newt and the GOP are jokes. Newt is in it for the money. He’s not the only one though. This guy isn’t a serious candidate for mowing the grass on the side of the road. All he wants to do is go through the motion of a Presidential run while raking in the campaign money, write a book afterwards and retire to his mansion. You guys can donate money to this scam artist if you want to but ask his former wife how trustworthy he is.
J.M.
May 8th, 2011
8:32 pm
Someone earlier said “Clinton cheated on his wife multiple times,disrespected the Oval office and office of President–but treated like a god (small G).” Funny, that is just why I detest Gingrich.
While parading as a social conservative and what that is supposed to espouse, Gingrich has repeatedly been unfathful, ditching wives when they become inconvenient or unattractive or too sick, while pretending to ‘talk the talk’ about solid Christian values. He led the charge to publicly destroy another man for the same sins he was actively engaged in and concealing from everyone.
This man has been a liar & an adulterer MANY TIMES, yet NOW wants to be given another chance because THIS TIME he really, REALLY means it. Given his age, I am sure some his sexual escapades have slowed down. But how could you really ever trust what he says? Gingrich serves Gingrich and that’s always been his bottom line. God may forgive him his sins, but does that mean we have to trust him when he has shwon to lie repeatedly when given these opportunities?
Charles B Reynolds
May 9th, 2011
4:32 pm
Gingrich is certain to lose the nomination now, since snubbing SC GOP. http://exm.nr/ik8Iyj