Newt Gingrich to endorse Mitt Romney face-to-face – in ‘a few weeks’
Some interesting lines from USA Today:
Former House speaker Newt Gingrich, on the eve of suspending his roller coaster presidential bid, said in an interview with USA TODAY that he will embrace Mitt Romney’s candidacy Wednesday and is ready to campaign for his former rival’s election — and that Romney in turn will help him retire his campaign debt.
The two men will make a joint appearance in a few weeks, when Gingrich will make an official endorsement.
In a phone interview Tuesday, Gingrich said he had no regrets about his decision to run for president, though he added, “I have regrets about not being smarter about how to run.”
There have been rumors – and right now they are only rumors – that a state GOP convention in Columbus on May 19 could serve as a setting for a staged meeting of the two men. Chris Kelleher, a spokesman for state Republican party, said the convention agenda currently makes no allowance for such an event.
However, Gingrich is already a twice-featured speaker that weekend. (On the other hand, Romney has a fund-raiser scheduled in Atlanta on June 11.)
- By Jim Galloway, Political Insider
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honested
May 1st, 2012
3:58 pm
ro(money) does seem to have a tiny little bit of class, if so one would hope he would tell nut getrich
“Thanks, but No Thanks”.
Bill Orvis White
May 1st, 2012
4:28 pm
I’ll always write this: Speaker Gingrich made Governor Romney a better candidate. Governor Romney has impeccable credentials from saving a lost girl to saving the Olympics. He is a man with a hard work ethic, integrity and a solid business acumen. Governor Romney believes in the free markets, loves his family and has a strong belief in the Lord Almighty in his own special way. The fact is that WE THE PEOPLE have suffered enough under a Euro-socialistic-Godless-centered government. It’s time to correct all of these errors and the man who WILL accomplish this important task WILL be the honorable Governor Willard “Mitt” Romney. I pray that both Speaker Gingrich and Herman Cain will get on the Romney bus and help Him become our next president.
Amen,
Bill
Bernie
May 1st, 2012
4:31 pm
Bill, has obviously been drinking the Kool Aid…….2 Losers plus one = 3. And Romny is the christian to save us from the PROBERS? LOL! ROFL!
Doug
May 1st, 2012
4:32 pm
What a cliff hanger! The suspense! The drama! I will not sleep until I see Speaker Gingrich utter the words, “We endorse thee, Williard Romney.” This is such exciting news. How will our nation bear to wait a few weeks? Oh, the pain. Or the agony. Oh the anxiety. What a joke.
DannyX
May 1st, 2012
4:55 pm
“…and has a strong belief in the Lord Almighty in his own special way.”
LOL! You’re a gem Bill.
Speaking of gems I hear Romney will be paying off Newt’s campaign debt and his Tiffany’s debt which is now up into the millions.
Just saying..
May 1st, 2012
5:03 pm
Bill-
Get a hold of yourself, man. These Anybody But Romney candidates are killing GOP chances for Nov.
Honestly, I think Newt’s gonna leave fingernail scratches on the floor when he gets pulled off his last stage.
Ol' Timer
May 1st, 2012
5:49 pm
Regardless of what ol’ Newt says in his endorsement of Mitt, his ill-spoken critical remarks of Mitt will resonate over and again in the general election. Ol’ Newt would endorse Ron Paul if he’d pay off his $4 mil debt.
So, the Greyhoud bus campaign ends fforoand Newt tries to show he’s the man for the VP.
Moon Mullins
May 1st, 2012
5:51 pm
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Moon Mullins
May 1st, 2012
5:51 pm
I knew it wouldn’t take long for Newt and Callista to get tired of riding the Greyhound from city to city and eating Whoppers and fries.
honested
May 1st, 2012
6:03 pm
Moon,
Think of the unrest in the Secret Service detail.
eatapeach
May 1st, 2012
7:15 pm
This speculation is obviously not newsworthy, but a journalist has to write something – that’s their job. The criteria is to say something that will drive AJC’s web traffic, and that doesn’t require a lot of effort. What will most likely decide this year’s election is the Supreme Court’s decision to allow anonymous billionaires to buy it. The republican candidate could just as well be Donald Duck – it’s really irrelevant.
Big Hat
May 1st, 2012
7:35 pm
Which one of his wives will Romney bring to Atlanta on June 11?
Centrist
May 1st, 2012
8:06 pm
3 Political Insider blogs today, but I had nothing I care to comment about. Yesterday’s two blogs’ comments got ugly quickly, so I abandoned them. Looks like the summer doldrums came early.
td
May 1st, 2012
8:47 pm
Centrist
May 1st, 2012
8:06 pm
If you think it was ugly yesterday just give it a couple months if Obama falls behind in the polls. These libs will go crazy with their vitriol.
Kris T. My 1.5cents
May 1st, 2012
8:54 pm
The planet has 6 billion people. The vast majority of them are ignorant beyond belief,(GOP) and
All thay have to offer is A Mit with a newt endorsing him.
One last time (second verse same as the first).
“Newt is failing, Newt will fail and Newt will continue to FAIL!
“A Mit , A Newt and a man named Ron . A-tisket a-tasket A green-and-yellow basket”. They should be in a Santorum . Just sayin.
The goobernator
May 1st, 2012
8:54 pm
Newt is waiting for the wire transfer from Romney to post in his swiss bank account. LOL
Centrist
May 1st, 2012
8:58 pm
td posted “Centrist – If you think it was ugly yesterday just give it a couple months if Obama falls behind in the polls. These libs will go crazy with their vitriol.”
Old Goober
May 1st, 2012
9:00 pm
Speaking of gems I hear Romney will be paying off Newt’s campaign debt and his Tiffany’s debt which is now up into the millions.
You’d be in debt too if you had to lay out $350 for hair spray every day.
Centrist
May 1st, 2012
9:05 pm
(Somehow hit the submit button before I was finished) td posted “Centrist – If you think it was ugly yesterday just give it a couple months if Obama falls behind in the polls. These libs will go crazy with their vitriol.”
While a natural majority here on the AJC are liberals who are not representative of the Georgia electorate, there were conservatives sniping back yesterday. It was like a 1st grade recess with Billy and Bobby shouting back and forth “is not”, “is too” (except much longer, painful diatribes). It wasn’t just the usual suspects who I always skip, so I skipped PAGES of comments.
joni
May 1st, 2012
9:13 pm
If Newt makes Romney his mistress, he’s got my vote.
td
May 1st, 2012
9:21 pm
Centrist
May 1st, 2012
9:05 pm
The political machines will crank up soon. I have seen ads run by Dems looking for people to hire to go on blogs like this one and either advocate for Obama or cause havoc. I am sure the Republicans are doing something similar so it will get worse on these blogs before the election.
TruthBe
May 1st, 2012
9:25 pm
Obama’s New Campaign Slogan “Forward!” Is a Hitler Youth Marching Tune (Video)
Nope. But I’ll say it anyway, or rather Hitler and Goebbels will.
‘Only the means are different for the various socialist branches, but the principle is the same for all: the end justifies the means. Joseph Goebbels, propaganda minister of Hitler, is quoted in Germany with the statement “… it is not for nothing that we have chosen the name National Socialist German Workers Party (NSDAP), because at heart we are Communists.” Briefing his generals before the invasion of the Soviet Union in June of 1941, Hitler told them that he wanted to bring them “real socialism.” His declared intention was to destroy the Christian churches after victory.’
The real threat to America: Godlessness
‘”We are socialists, we are enemies of today’s capitalistic economic system for the exploitation of the economically weak, with its unfair salaries, with its unseemly evaluation of a human being according to wealth and property instead of responsibility and performance, and we are all determined to destroy this system under all conditions.” –Adolf Hitler
(Speech of May 1, 1927. Quoted by Toland, 1976, p. 306)’
http://www.thegatewaypundit.com/2012/04/obamas-new-campaign-slogan-forward-is-a-nazi-marching-tune-video/
TruthBe
May 1st, 2012
9:28 pm
New Obama slogan has long ties to Marxism, socialism.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/blog/inside-politics/2012/apr/30/new-obama-slogan-has-long-ties-marxism-socialism/
Attack Dog
May 1st, 2012
9:30 pm
Forget President Obama Dixiecrats. Please tell us what Herman’s and Newt’s endorsement means? Does it mean that Mitt is going to support 999 and a trip to Mars? How about supporting H&N’s stands on family values or going back into Iraq, or putting boots on the ground in Iran, Lybia, North Korea, and even re-invading Iraq? Dixiecrats chasing their tails.
td
May 1st, 2012
9:38 pm
Since we are giving Obama credit for killing Osama because he was the commander and chief should we not also place blame on him for the GSA and the secret service since he is the CEO over the government?
eatapeach
May 1st, 2012
9:44 pm
Centrist
May 1st, 2012
9:05 pm
“While a natural majority here on the AJC are liberals who are not representative of the Georgia electorate…”
There is a reason for that – most of the electorate aren’t smart enough to use a computer. If they were, they would have been informed enough to not elect our current governor…
td
May 1st, 2012
9:49 pm
eatapeach
May 1st, 2012
9:44 pm
And by what standards are you basing your assessment? Would you care to look at SAT scores in majority GOP house districts vs. Democratic house districts? Come back to us when you have completed the research and let us know which party has the dumber voters.
joni
May 1st, 2012
9:53 pm
td,
I concur. The President is responsible for what happens when they occupy the office. Hence, Bush owns 911.
Centrist
May 1st, 2012
10:00 pm
eatapeach posted “most of the electorate aren’t smart enough to use a computer. If they were, they would have been informed enough to not elect our current governor…”
Yea, that must be it – that doughnut ring of white collar workers around Atlanta who rejected Roy Barnes are much dumber than those welfare folks in subsidized housing ITP.
yuzeyurbrane
May 1st, 2012
10:02 pm
td, what a snob!! SAT scores. We see where your world is centered. I’m not going to waste my time on such a stupid challenge but if I were to do so on a national basis for all adult Americans, I think you would lose big time. At any rate, our Constitution does not have an SAT requirement and, by case law, even literacy tests are unconstitutional. This challenge just reveals your own narcissism. You think that just because you are a pretty smart fellow, everyone who disagrees with you is stupid. At any rate, there is such a thing as common sense, as in “don’t p*** on my boot and tell me it’s raining.” Overall, I trust the American people to know when this is happening…no matter how much money you righties have.
td
May 1st, 2012
10:03 pm
joni
May 1st, 2012
9:53 pm
There is little difference between taking action on things within your control (government workers) and being responsible for foreign attacks on the country.
Ol' Timer
May 1st, 2012
10:04 pm
The GOTP in congress are going to have to get on the ball. Quick! It looks like the economy is gaining a little traction, the stock market is up. Heck. They’ve got to slow things down if they want to win in November.
They need to get a few more millions from the Plutocrats and Oligarchs to feed Karl Rove and Dick Armey;s propaganda machine so they can get the Tea Party all in a twit.
Just saying..
May 1st, 2012
10:06 pm
td
May 1st, 2012
9:38 pm: Since we are giving Obama credit for killing Osama because he was the commander and chief should we not also place blame on him for the GSA and the secret service since he is the CEO over the government?
Absolutely.
Step 2: Rate each of the 3 in order of their importance to you.
td
May 1st, 2012
10:09 pm
yuzeyurbrane
May 1st, 2012
10:02 pm
Then what standards do you want to use? It was a lib poster that called conservatives “not smart”. SAT score is an indicator of intelligence level and is the one that I chose to use to show the fallacy in his argument. Do you have a different indicator you would like to use? Please share and have an intellectual debate and stop going around with your disdain for people.
td
May 1st, 2012
10:14 pm
Just saying..
May 1st, 2012
10:06 pm
Here are a few things to add to the ledger of importance:
National debt has risen by $5 trillion dollars over the past three years
The USA has lost its AAA credit rating
Gas was $1.87 the day Obama took office and now it is $3.69 per gallon
Food prices up 40% since Obama took office
Insurance is up 40%
Should I go on now?
td
May 1st, 2012
10:16 pm
Just saying..
May 1st, 2012
10:06 pm
Almost forgot this one:
1 million less jobs today then when Obama was elected.
eatapeach
May 1st, 2012
10:36 pm
td, If you are an intellect, I’m a Japanese typewriter. SAT scores are an indicator of intelligence? What was your SAT score? Did you break 500? Apparently, it wasn’t high enough to get into UGA.
Real Athens
May 1st, 2012
10:40 pm
“I have seen ads run by Dems looking for people to hire to go on blogs like this one and either advocate for Obama or cause havoc.”
Show us one.
td
May 1st, 2012
10:43 pm
Real Athens
May 1st, 2012
10:40 pm
Go look at Craigs list.
Real Athens
May 1st, 2012
10:44 pm
Highest U.S. gas prices ever – July 2008
Real Athens
May 1st, 2012
10:45 pm
Show me one. Put up or shut up.
td
May 1st, 2012
10:47 pm
eatapeach
May 1st, 2012
10:36 pm
Where did I ever say I was an intellect? Took the SAT 4 years out of HS and it was higher then the average Democratic score say in the 5th Congressional district last year. Could not afford UGA because unlike our spoiled youth of today I actually paid for my college education and earned my degree debt free by working and going to school.
Real Athens
May 1st, 2012
10:48 pm
You writing an ad now, td?
You know you would have posted that link here if you’d seen one. I’m calling BS on you, again.
Real Athens
May 1st, 2012
10:50 pm
Which category is the job listing under?
Real Athens
May 1st, 2012
10:51 pm
Pitiful.
eatapeach
May 1st, 2012
10:59 pm
@ Real Athens
The repugnants aren’t soliciting bloggers – they are soliciting hundreds of millions of dollars from anonymous billionaires to buy the election. Of course, thanks to fake news and radio comedians, td and centerist are under the illusion that their interest parallel those of the Koch Bros. and Sheldon Adelson, et al. They represent the low hanging fruit.
td
May 1st, 2012
11:02 pm
eatapeach
May 1st, 2012
10:59 pm
Still waiting on that proof you have about the intelligence levels of the average Republican voter vs the average Democratic voter?
td
May 1st, 2012
11:04 pm
Real Athens
May 1st, 2012
10:48 pm
Saw it a few months ago and Hannity ran a story on the ad also.
Real Athens
May 1st, 2012
11:05 pm
Allman Brother:
I like the idea of td trolling craigslist looking at the “help wanted” ads – looking for a wide stance.
Real Athens
May 1st, 2012
11:06 pm
Oh, Sean told me. Now that’s rich. He’s such a bastion of honesty.