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Gingrich Downplays Romney’s Nevada Win, Vows to March On

Newt Slams Romney and Dropping Out Rumors Following Nevada GOP Caucuses

(The Blaze/AP) — Defeated in the Nevada caucuses, Newt Gingrich brushed aside all talk of quitting the Republican presidential race and said he hopes a series of victories will enable him to catch up with front-runner Mitt Romney by the Texas primary in early April.

At a news conference in Las Vegas after results showed him and Ron Paul jockeying for second place, the former House speaker attacked Romney and President Barack Obama by turns. He said he and aides have spent much of the past four days retooling a campaign that twice has made him a leader in the polls, yet left him with only one victory in five states.

He described Romney as a Massachusetts moderate, and cast himself as a conservative, and said the differences between the two will become “wider and wider and clearer and clearer” over the next few weeks.

He needs to forge a breakthrough as the race turns to a string of states friendly to Romney, including Colorado and Minnesota on Tuesday and Michigan, where Romney grew up, on Feb. 28.

Nevada was the second straight loss for Gingrich after his triumphant South Carolina upset.

And it was beset by glitches. Gingrich bungled a meeting with Nevada’s governor then suffered through the indignity of having advisers tell reporters that the former House speaker would score the endorsement of Donald Trump, only to watch the unpredictable real estate tycoon back Mitt Romney.

Gingrich’s campaign has always been a bit of a freewheeling affair, especially lined up against the regimented Romney effort. Gingrich is perpetually late, he frequently strays off message and his schedule sometimes seems improvised. His public appearances in Nevada have been surprisingly few, and he didn’t even venture out to caucus sites on Saturday as voters cast ballots.

But in Nevada, organizational problems were laid bare in a fashion that raises questions about whether he’s can compete in upcoming contests.

Gingrich aides say they have been using Nevada – where Romney was heavily favored and Ron Paul has sizable support – to reset the campaign after being clobbered in Florida.

One reason Gingrich held just five public events since arriving in Nevada is that he’s been at closed-door fundraisers and meeting with donors at the Venetian Hotel, lining up the cash he’ll need.

The Gingrich strategy hinges on Super Tuesday on March 6, when the campaign will sweep South again through states that look good for him. Gingrich – who is own chief strategist – and aides have been hunkered down mapping out strategy. Ohio will figure prominently in the mix. He’ll head to the Super Tuesday state on Tuesday, bypassing other states that have contests sooner.

Nevada provides a pretty good example of what not to do.

“We’re a bunch of volunteers that are drinking water through a fire hose,” said George Harris, a national co-chairman of Gingrich’s finance team who hosted a fundraiser for him at his Las Vegas restaurant, Mundo.

“And yeah, sometimes the left hand doesn’t know what the right is doing. But that’s how it goes sometimes,” Harris said.

In fairness, just three days separated the Florida primary and the Nevada caucuses. Romney carried 51 percent of the vote in the state when he first sought the Republican nomination in 2008, and his Nevada operation remains strong.

But Gingrich fumbled some key opportunities.

A meeting in Carson City Wednesday with Gov. Brian Sandoval was scrapped following scheduling confusion between Gingrich’s national and state staff. Sandoval had backed Texas Gov. Rick Perry, who endorsed Gingrich after exiting the race last month. Gingrich backers in the state had been hoping that even if Sandoval failed to offer up an endorsement, that a photo of the two men together would hold sway among conservative caucusgoers.

Gingrich’s Nevada director Dan Burdish said he was disappointed by the mix up.

The state team had also pushed for more campaign time, including a swing through rural parts of the state. They were rejected.

Without a debate to key in on, Gingrich – who is usually seen as the wonkiest candidate in the room – sometimes seemed downright out of the loop as he met voters.

News on Friday was dominated by new jobless numbers that suggested an economic rebound.

But Gingrich made no mention of them as he plowed through a speech at Stoney’s Rockin Country, a music club in Las Vegas. Asked about them afterward by reporters he said he hadn’t seen them yet.

Gingrich’s news conference remarks late Saturday night:

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  • RedDawn2012
    Posted on February 5, 2012 at 5:25am

    “Gingrich is perpetually late, he frequently strays off message and his schedule sometimes seems improvised. His public appearances in Nevada have been surprisingly few…” Sounds to me like Leroy might have a drinking problem.

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    • Detroit paperboy
      Posted on February 5, 2012 at 6:12am

      Santorum will be gone in a week or two… Newt will be gone in a month…. And Ron Paul aint goin anywhere……

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    • GulfPeg
      Posted on February 5, 2012 at 6:21am

      I have never in my life seen such a spoiled brat like Gingrich! I am debating on who is the worst narcissist: Obama or Gingrich. Both of them just love to “w a g t h e i r w e i n e r s”.

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    • rukdnme13
      Posted on February 5, 2012 at 7:26am

      Newt looks more like ‘old’ Kennedy every day!

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    • Stuck_in_CA
      Posted on February 5, 2012 at 7:36am

      Count on the guys at the Blaze to use one of the most unappealing photo they could find of Newt. You’re about as “fair & balanced” as FoxNews.

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    • MONICNE
      Posted on February 5, 2012 at 8:13am

      If he does have an abuse problem, he might stay in till the end, especially if we let him ride the wings of the Taxed Enough Already to the Convention.

      Every dollar we give Newt’s campaign is a dollar George Soros can invest elsewhere.

      TEA

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    • TRUTHandFREEDOM
      Posted on February 5, 2012 at 8:14am

      To all of you who are verbally attacking the Blaze and Glenn and supporting Gingrich I can only ask why YOU are overlooking that line of video where Gingrich praises The Democrat Party, Woodrow Wilson and FDR? How big do you need the caution sign to be? We’ve got an unfortunate basket of imperfect apples to choose from, but I’ve heard better explanations and intent from Romney and Santorum than Newt or Paul. I‘ve heard no explanation from Newt on his proud fan club membership of the Whitehouse’s strongest oppressors of the last century! He needs a big and believable explanation of THAT if he wants support from the people who are paying attention. Who ever wins the nomination needs to get out and explain how our freedom was established, protected by law and ignored by too many in the 20th century and how strongly Obama policy works to ignore what Obama called the charter of negative liberties. Job ONE. Get Obamacare repealed. Job TWO; dismantle the progressive monster and restore our rights and freedom!

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    • Vechorik
      Posted on February 5, 2012 at 8:47am

      This was a CNN exit poll of voters’ thoughts on who is the most conservative candidate
      Ron Paul, most conservative 45%
      Crooked Gingrich 31%
      Santorum 19%
      Mitt Romney LEAST conservative at 5%

      http://i387.photobucket.com/albums/oo311/vechorik/Image2.png

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    • disenlightened
      Posted on February 5, 2012 at 9:03am

      Newt’s so-called press conference was as ugly as it gets. I was hoping he’d drop out before he wasted all the goodwill out there for him, and work something out for a position in a Romney administration. But, he proved too immature to do it. All that goodwill is gone now. He spent 95% of his lecture to the press trashing Romney and whining. Note to Newt: there‘s a reason you can’t raise money, and it’s not a conspiracy. He’s got nothing to look forward to now except debt, damaging the Republican Party and a lot of enemies.

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    • Jabboe9
      Posted on February 5, 2012 at 9:15am

      I have been a rabid GB Fan for years, but I’ve decided to cancel my subscription to GBTV today, and I also will not be tuning in to his show until Newt buries Obama and moves into the White House in Jan. Then, maybey Mr. “Riddled with ADD” will get back to doing what he should be doing now, and that’s focusing on the advancement of the Socialist movement that is the Obama Administration and the Democratic party.

      I just can‘t figure out what’s up with ole Flap Jackson these days, but to actively sway the opinion of his listeners to favor a TRUE establishment poster boy and progressive elitest like Mitt makes absolutely no sense. (Must be a Mormon thing.)

      Keep up the fight, Newt!!! The TRUE Conservatives and the most informed Americans are with YOU!!!

      Jabboe9  
    • TRUTHandFREEDOM
      Posted on February 5, 2012 at 9:16am

      I think that it comes down to

      Who has the best explanation of their skeletons

      Who has the strongest conservative promises

      Who has the best explanation of

      government’s actual purpose and job
      the constitution’s purpose

      the American, freedom establishing and still essential principles of liberty written into the Declaration of Independence

      The damage that has been and is being done to our rights

      Patriots and freedom defenders vs power grabbers, racial, cultural; income level separatists/activists and government dependency builders through policy and expansion

      Self responsibility, self achievers and the truly needy vs those who ride the system, covet neighbor’s goods, steal and some of whom who advance this as a way to replace our constitutional republic with a socialist state

      Why the Judeo – Christian matter and have been a crucial element of liberty and why socialism minded people work to have the individual (not collective) salvation and individual responsibility and not covet thy neighbor’s goods stand intact in a public way, whether all citizens are faithful or not. The PRINCIPLES maintain liberty. If to whom more is given, more is expected, it’s a personal, individual lesson, not one of turning money, power and responsibility to government.

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    • disenlightened
      Posted on February 5, 2012 at 9:17am

      @VECHORIK
      That may be so, but who did the “conservative” voters chose? Romney, overwhelmingly. Romney took 49% of the most conservative (Paul – 14%) and 61% of the “somewhat conservative” (Paul – 17%). Mitt even took the Tea Party with 50% (Paul – 16%). It seems the only group Paul won big were the atheists (55%). Now there’s something to hang his hat on.

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    • TRUTHandFREEDOM
      Posted on February 5, 2012 at 9:28am

      I did not proof read my last paragraph, so here is the patch to fix it:
      We need to have a real conservative explain and teach our miseducated public as to

      Why the Judeo – Christian influence and principles matter and have been a crucial element of liberty and why socialism minded people work to remove the influence of individual (not collective) salvation PRINCIPLES of individual responsibility and to not covet thy neighbor’s goods and to have that influence stand intact in a public way, whether all citizens are faithful or not. The PRINCIPLES maintain liberty. If to whom more is given, more is expected, it’s a personal, individual lesson, not one of turning money, power and responsibility to government.

      A real leader will redfine our original course and put us back on it.

      Thank you. Thank you very much.

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    • Patrick Henry II
      Posted on February 5, 2012 at 9:40am

      I liked how Gingrich reminded all of us that Romney is the Soros endorsed Republican in the race. I just wonder how it is that Glenn can publically favor Romney over Gingrich and Ron Paul?
      Glenn you are either against Soros’ agenda or you are not.

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    • Apple Bite
      Posted on February 5, 2012 at 9:42am

      Stuck_in_CA
      Posted on February 5, 2012 at 7:36am

      Count on the guys at the Blaze to use one of the most unappealing photo they could find of Newt. You’re about as “fair & balanced” as FoxNews.

      You mean Gingrich has “appealing photos”? Would that include the beaming smile he had, as he sat beside Pelosi on the couch?

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    • Hobbs57
      Posted on February 5, 2012 at 10:43am

      Are you that retarded PatricHenrey ? Soros has BILLIONS of dollars invested in the Democratic party. You really think he isn’t trying to get people ……. oh wait, never mind. It apparently worked, since you believe him. Only Newt would repeatedly say something so stupid. Besides, Soros was talking about certain investment areas, he wasn’t referring to the presidency as a whole. Romney shut down certain loop holes in Mass. This is the kind of stuff that kills people like Soros. This is also the BS where Newt keeps spewing Romney raised taxes. I really can no longer bare Newt, he is a disgrace to himself. As a budding psychologist, I will say, he really has some serious Mommy issues.The level of his insecurity and inability to sustain confidence but instead thriving off of ego and pride. The man is socio-pathic, as somebody pointed out above, maybe he has a drinking problem, but I don’t think so. His depleted condition, irrational behaviors, and even depressed state reflects a person lost as to who he really is, instead, trying to be nothing but a projection of himself. Driven by fears, this is unsustainable and forces him to thrive for attention or anything to fill the continuing empty void. Cycle after cycle, he goes up, puffs out his chest, ego and pride, and the lord says humble yourself or I will pull the carpet out from under you and humiliate you. The glory is not his to be had, lessons he should have learned long ago if he was truly sorry for his actions.

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    • reform
      Posted on February 5, 2012 at 2:55pm

      Enlightened I give you 4 names Rooney holdings Robert Mercer Julian Robertson Paul Singer who are these people the people that are behind restore our future look him up no I’ll tell you hedge fund operatives one is worth 900 million, Gingrich stated he has 150,000 donors that have donated less than $250. and if you not aware of what private equity firms and hedge funds have done to this country the last 30 years pull your head out of the sand PAL! These firms have done the most destruction to this country with their hostile takeovers then I believe the feds have done with monetary easing. Oh wait let‘s see they get bailouts from the fed I’ll take that back. You go with your boy Romney for me I’ll take Newt warts and all. I want to see the cockroaches squirm if he becomes president but I also pray for his safety because these people will not be able to tolerate it.

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    • Arbroath7
      Posted on February 6, 2012 at 8:08am

      Newt is getting so desperate and looking to sling ANYTHING to try and make it stick that he even criticized Romney’s ability to speak French — something Romney picked up while serving a mission for his church in France as a 19-year-old. Wow, whole lot of substance there!! Newt Gingrich — Il est le grand chef des têtes grosses.

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  • peteto1
    Posted on February 5, 2012 at 4:42am

    What a CLASSLESS, sore loser!! Can Newt be so DELUSIONALLY self-important that he doesn‘t even know that he’s killing whatever tiny chance he had at the nomination with such boorish behavior?? I think it’s fairly obvious (now) why almost no one that worked with/for Gingrich will endorse him. He’s a petty, thin-skinned bureaucrat that believes he’s OWED the job of President for his good deeds some 20 YEARS ago………….

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    • bigdeg
      Posted on February 5, 2012 at 6:33am

      Please lie to someone else, I can read and know how to use google…

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    • Babeuf
      Posted on February 5, 2012 at 7:56am

      I trust a man who will fight for what he believes over a man who believes in nothing other than what he is told to believe in every day of the week. That is why Romney is worse then Obama even; at least Obama is led by his visions instead of his vanity.
      Newt has actually passed and implemented more Conservative Agenda then any man currently alive. Meanwhile, Romney has passed and implemented more Liberal Agenda then any man alive. That’s as clear of a choice as I have ever seen…I guess it’s just fine that Mitt had Kennedy working with him to get federal money so MA could implement a health care program they can’t afford.
      Seems to me that us pro-Newt folks share a desire for effective governance. Seems to me like welooked at the field and said “who was the last guy to be in charge of the GOP when we had a balanced budget, no deficit, historically low spending, entitlement reform, historically low unemployment, record economic growth, record job growth, etc…” and “who in the field governed a state that was 47 of 50 in job growth, 48 of 50 in GDP growth, set up the model for Obamacare(anyone not on Romney’s payroll or anyone who hasn’t endorsed him can tell you that), said he agreed with Roe v Wade and would preserve and protect the right to abortion, wasn’t even a Republican for a good period of his adult life, and has no contribution, history, or ties whatsoever to the conservative movement and conservative politics?” You guys stick with Mitt. I am vo

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    • disenlightened
      Posted on February 5, 2012 at 9:27am

      Classless, childish, immature, petty, jealous, spiteful, ego-maniacal, mean-spirited, ugly, vindictive, petulant, embarrassing, damaging, self-destructive – I could go on for paragraphs and never fully capture Newt’s press conference last night.

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    • Faith1029
      Posted on February 5, 2012 at 2:51pm

      DISENLIGHTENED: “Classless, childish, immature, petty, jealous, spiteful, ego-maniacal, mean-spirited, ugly, vindictive, petulant, embarrassing, damaging, self-destructive – I could go on for paragraphs and never fully capture Newt’s press conference last night.”

      …..says the Media……….

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    • disenlightened
      Posted on February 5, 2012 at 3:34pm

      @FAITH1029
      I watched it with my own eyes, with no media filter. It was like watching third-rate porn.

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  • TheObamanation
    Posted on February 5, 2012 at 3:48am

    I wish he would stop using Reagans good name for his campaign … Reagan was a great man … and … Newt … You are NO Ronald Reagan

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    • reform
      Posted on February 5, 2012 at 3:53am

      Are you afraid that if he wins and takes your goodies away from you and you might have to find a real job?

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    • Baddoggy
      Posted on February 5, 2012 at 5:17am

      @ Reform…Take goodies away? Are you kidding me? Newt will make big Government bigger. It will be different than Obama but BIGGER. He is NOT a Conservative. Neither is Romney or Santorum.

      You want to elect a man to stop the Welfare State and the Warfare State? Then you had better wake up and vote for Ron Paul.

      Wake up SHEEPLE.
      Return to the Constitution and LIBERTY!
      Ron Paul 2012

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    • RepubliCorp
      Posted on February 5, 2012 at 6:43am

      BADDOGGY

      Ron Paul Letter to the GOP
      “I want to totally disassociate myself from the policies that have given us unprecedented deficits, massive monetary inflation, indiscriminate military spending, an irrational and unconstitutional foreign policy, zooming foreign aid, the exaltation of international banking, and the attack on our personal liberties and privacy,” he wrote in a letter offering advice to the Republican party: not a letter about the Obama administration — a letter about the Reagan administration. So Paul would have kept the Soviet Union intact.
      Paul isn’t a conservative

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    • dissentnow
      Posted on February 5, 2012 at 7:06am

      @republicorp

      “unprecedented deficits, massive monetary inflation, indiscriminate military spending, an irrational and unconstitutional foreign policy, zooming foreign aid, the exaltation of international banking, and the attack on our personal liberties and privacy”

      Sounds pretty “conservative” to me. You, however, sound more republican than conservative, in which case unprecedented deficits, massive inflation, indiscriminate military spending, unconstitutional foreign policy, foreign aid, international banking, and attacking our personal liberties are all part of the republican party platform. Keep supporting big government, pal. The nanny state needs more useful idiots.

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    • Stuck_in_CA
      Posted on February 5, 2012 at 8:34am

      Baddoggy
      Posted on February 5, 2012 at 5:17 “Newt will make big Government bigger. It will be different than Obama but BIGGER. He is NOT a Conservative. Neither is Romney or Santorum.”

      If Newt is such a big government guy, how is it his record PROVES he cut spending and reduced the welfare state?
      Facts are stubborn things. Stop deluding yourself.

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    • Marine25
      Posted on February 5, 2012 at 9:12am

      Reagan wouldn’t stand a chance in the GOP primaries.
      According to today’s tea-party led, taliban-like takeover of the Conservatism, Reagan would be a liberal. He raised taxes 6 times. In 82 he raised taxes by almost 1 percent of GDP, making it the largest peacetime tax increase in American history. Reagan also backed a $3.3 billion gasoline tax and increased the Social Security tax rate. Reagan met and negotiated with Gorbachev – the head of the “evil empire”. A fiscal hawk? Sorry, Reagan began the steep slide into deficit spending. Remember, Reagan raised the debt ceiling 18 times. And for a party that has worked tirelessly to destroy the civil rights of homosexuals, Reagan was a maverick in his opposition to the Briggs Initiative in California, which would’ve banned gays and lesbians from teaching in the public schools, and his opposition helped defeat the measure. Lastly, let’s not forget that Reagan granted amnesty to millions of illegal aliens in 1986, a position antithetical to current American Taliban ideology. Any Republican today talking or governing like Ronald Reagan would earn a swift kick out of their party, labeled as a tax-raising, terrorist-negotiating, gay-loving, amnesty- granting, big spending RINO Yet that hasn’t stopped the American Taliban from elevating Reagan to sainthood. Republicans have been thrown to the curb for far less these days.

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    • reform
      Posted on February 5, 2012 at 3:00pm

      Yeah bad doggie I said goodies Newt Gingrich revamped welfare please and what’s so bad in a youth acquiring a job because the government says so, they are now trying to regulate farmers that have their children working their farms putting an age restriction on farm equipment in such. I got my first job delivering a community newspaper in Detroit at the age of 11 and was held accountable for delivering said paper, for me I would love to see all safety nets go away and make people accountable for their lives.

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    • marion
      Posted on February 6, 2012 at 12:31am

      Lest you forget, raising taxes was to be offset by a lie the Democrats said they would support cutting three dollars to one tax increase, and they renegged on the deal, Newt was the one that said not to go for it, do the cuts first, then the taxes.

      Newt being a big government is a Saul Alynski tactic, take the truth and reverse it, say it often enough and others will believe it. Seems to be working, along with cuts and snippets of lectures on tape to convince people he is a Progressive, and I am pretty sure he was a big part of the collapse of the Soviet Union, not part of letting it happen. Newt’s voting record proves without a doubt he is a Conservative, and he does have the plans necessary to bring the country back from the brink, Romney doesn’t.

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  • rdjones
    Posted on February 5, 2012 at 3:20am

    YOU dufuses do know Pelosi and the PROGS took out NEWT in the late 90s.

    He has been planning his comeback, but the should have raised some money before he took on MSM, Friends (Rick S), Paul-Bots, RE-pubes, Wall Street (all money now going to Mitt), FOX (even they turned on him),.and some “conservatives” on radio.

    I will cancel GBTV Monday morning and send NEWT the $120 for the year.

    If he can finish 2nd all month of February (not Mo), I will send him $120 from 2013 (no GBTV).

    If he starts winning in March, I will find some money from savings,

    I want to see him fight on for us.

    I just can’t stand to see the nomination bought by some rich guy who does not care about poor people.

    I just can’t stand to see the nomination STOLEN by the MSM, RE-pubes, and his former co-workers who trash him BECAUSE THEY FEAR HIM.

    IF NEWT comes back a 3rd time after record efforts to DESTROY HIM, WOW !

    I am actually surprised he has not gotten more angry.

    It could happen, he is over weight, and the fight he has taken on is bigger than anything I have ever seen a MAN take on.

    All you brave posters who trash him, GOD is watching, and you will feel his hand.

    Looks like the Beckster has felt his “HAND OF GOD” moment, and I expect many will feel it too.

    I mean, this is for the country folks, not tiddlewinks where you get to make a litte speech at the convention.

    Mitt will throw Paul away so fast it will make your flat screen blow in you MOM’s basement.

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    • reform
      Posted on February 5, 2012 at 3:52am

      Why do you think they passed the law no more insider-trading are they afraid if Newt Gingrich get the nomination and wins the election he will come after them for what they did to him? Food for thought?

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    • kessi7
      Posted on February 5, 2012 at 4:19am

      • Glen Beck interviews Mr Kibe, and for some reason it does not seem obvious to him that he is only tearing the Tea Party further apart. His hatred (justified as it may be) for all things progressive drives him to hurt the country and the cause for which he has given so much. I hope that Mr Beck has made twice the number of phone calls to Tea Partiers than he has talked about their ‘racism, hypocrisy and stupidity’ in voting and endorsing Newt. If all he does for this election is to sit at GBTV studios and talk (as important and vital as that may be to the direction this country takes in the future), then something is really wrong.
      • That should even further make him (Beck) realise that he is just one part of a game that must be won using all the other parts as well. It has to be a team effort. While he coaches the nation on the virtues he perceives are most vital for a restoration, he must stop insulting those who are on his side, but disagree with him. I would be a millionaire by now if I made a dime for each time he teased Weekly Standard’s Bill Kristol. What happened to the “With malice towards none” lesson? Smart guy, he keeps bullying Kristol, there were many others who chided you for your accurate statements, like Charles Krauthammer, wanna pick a fight with that one too?

      So at what cost will this election be won. at what cost will the GOP primaries be won. For the party that is worried about The U.S being broke, they sure have got on the wagon of spend

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    • AmeriCat
      Posted on February 5, 2012 at 7:09am

      Completely agree with you, RDJones…

      The WHOLE TRUTH has been sadly missing at GBTV/ Blaze
      when it comes to anything Romney.
      Never seen anything like it…except on mainstream media.

      1. Of significant note: We all know how much Beck despises Alinsky.
      Yet, he refuses to report the Alinsky – Romney Connection…
      even though multiple “tips” have been sent.

      Yes, THE Saul Alinsky was ADVISOR and MENTOR to George Romney,
      who openly admired and followed Alinsky’s ideologies over Conservatism.
      And young smitten Mitt admired and emulated his father AND Alinsky.
      Where is the GBTV/Blaze report on this shocker!

      Photographs and quotes are all there, folks.
      They were dug up by Dan Riehl, at Breitbart’s biggovernment.com.
      The info is public, but obviously, hidden away.

      Doesn’t this remind you of the 2008 election?
      In plain sight…yet ignored!

      2. Full Disclosure:
      Huntsman Sr. gave $ 1.9 MILLION to Romney’s SuperPac.
      The one that has been viciously attacking Newt, Alinsky-style.
      Thought you all would want to know…
      Wish Beck would have disclosed this huge conflict of interest…
      Beck would never go against his best friend, mentor Huntsman Sr.!

      “The truth has no agenda”….
      but we have not been given the “whole” truth!
      That’s all we want. We can think and make decisions for ourselves.
      Sick of the bias: Pro-Romney; Alinsky-style anti-Newt, silent Santorum.
      Sad. Looks like we are not alone, RDJones.

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    • reform
      Posted on February 5, 2012 at 3:09pm

      Yes just like he never said a bad thing about John Huntsman Junior why? The man work for Obama as ambassador to China how did that work out for us in his tenure? I truly understand a friendship bond between his father and Glenn but not one article on John Huntsman’s actions or involvement with China which gives one bias much. Same with writers here why are they afraid Newt Gingrich with all the negativity towards him. Huntsman Junior is not a progressive? Somebody stated that the Mormon church doesn’t get involved in politics or tell their members on which way the wind blows are you serious? 90+ percent of the Mormons voted for Mitt Romney, and yet you people claim the black race with their percentage towards Obama to be racial, yes I’ve known many a Jack Mormon in my days or do they still refer to as Jack Mormons struggling to break free of the bonds put upon them.

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    • MS-GlenNBC
      Posted on February 6, 2012 at 9:14am

      Can any of you remember a time where Glenn Beck really attacked Harry Reid?

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  • capnjack
    Posted on February 5, 2012 at 2:46am

    Newt, you really need to learn to keep your news conferences short and stop talking just before you put your foot in your mouth. I’m telling you this and I support you…please take it heart.

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    • PATTY HENRY
      Posted on February 5, 2012 at 3:16am

      Charles Krauthammer said it best: NEWT is brilliant when he‘s speaking about AMERICA and horrible when he’s speaking about himself.
      I’m cool on Newt now. I thought he could really hit the issues but I think what has kept him from total success all his life is at it again..PRIDE and EGO. HE didn’t need to knock Romney at his “PRESS CONFERENCE”…he only needed to address what HE could do for the USA. He will not make it past The big SUPER TUES. if he makes it that long. They all need to get behind MITT now who is not the lightweight I thought he was. More of the TOUGH MITT (the one I liked during the Olympics Save…is showing through. NEWT could out debate OBAMA, but OBAMA could get under his skin in about two seconds and he’d be ruined. YOU KNOW I’M saying it like it is! SANTORUM needs to go see if he can run for GOV. of PA. OR Senator again…preferably GOV. Then he’d be close to ready.

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    • Patrick Henry II
      Posted on February 5, 2012 at 9:42am

      Patty, Romney is the SOROS endorsed Rupublican. Sorry, no can do.

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    • ROMNEY2012
      Posted on February 5, 2012 at 12:59pm

      Pat Henry

      If you believe Romney is tied to Soros then I have a big Gold Bridge to sell you in the San Francisco Bay.

      You, like Newt, are unchained to facts and sanity.

      ROMNEY / RUBIO 2012

      ROMNEY / RICE 2012

      ROMNEY / BACHMAN 2012

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  • muherdnation
    Posted on February 5, 2012 at 2:46am

    Looks like most of the sheeple is getting in line supporting Willard. I’m assuming most of the posters on this site are GB fans, and if in fact that is true, please tell me WHY you would throw your support behind Willard’s campaign after everything that Glenn has taught us about George Soros? Have you not seen the video from Davos where GS does say that there is not much of a difference between Obama and Romney? Have you also turned a blind eye to the major contributors of the Romney campaign? How can anyone who believes what GB tells us support Romney? Are you blind to seeing a wolf in sheep’s clothing? Do you have ears that cannot hear and eyes that cannot see?

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    • joel228
      Posted on February 5, 2012 at 5:03am

      Romney is by no means perfect. But Newt is dangerous and divisive. Newt spends all his time accusing Mitt of being dishonest without any consideration of his own peccadilloes with his multiple long term deceitful affairs. He consistently invokes the name of Reagan as if he was Reagan’s right hand man. Fact is not long ago he said people should stop talking about Reagan because “the era of Reagan is over”. With the world rapidly uniting against the U.S.A. we need someone that can unite us as much as possible and that person is NOT NEWT. He can’t even control his own self.

      Newt Gingrich: A Crime Against Conservatism
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eyeB36ctO5I&feature=youtu.be
      http://www.newtexposed.com/

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    • Daddymac10
      Posted on February 5, 2012 at 6:05am

      Yea, Willard is another one of the typical establishment politicians, but do you not know who Newt is?? Both of these guys suck to the tenth power. This is why the GOP/Tea Party is inept. Every time the people complain about how much we need a real conservative in the White House, but every election cycle the conservative base always nominate a flawed moderate politician. Real conservative candidates always get thrown under the bus. People is voting on electability instead of conservatism now. OK, how did that work out for us in the 90′s or 2008?? Insanity is not learning from history, making the same mistake by doing the same thing over and over again. Everyone threw Michele Bachmann under the bus, now everyone is throwing Rick Santorum under the bus. This pattern tell me “you the people” is the problem, not the politicians. Wise up people before it’s too late…

      Romney / Bachmann 2012

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    • JJ Coolay
      Posted on February 5, 2012 at 6:17am

      Can it with the “Sheeple” crap.
      I voted for Mitt in the 2008 primaries and will be voting for him again this year.
      I like Glenn, but his word is not gospel.
      Mitt is a flawed human being like the rest of us, but on the whole, he is the best candidate to run the country and aid in the economic recovery. His background/record proves that.
      I don‘t care that he’s not “the most conservative”, I don‘t care that he’s a Mormon, I don’t care that he has the appearance of a flip flopper. He is the MOST qualified to fix the biggest issues facing 2012 America—-JOBS, the ECONOMY and ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION. Everything else takes a back seat in this election. THIS IS NOT a social-platform election. Where he stands on abortion is moot.

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    • Babeuf
      Posted on February 5, 2012 at 7:09am

      JJ Coolay
      Compare the records of Newt and Mitt and tell me how Mitt is REALLY the most qualified.
      http://www.politijim.com/2012/01/stats-on-what-newt-and-mitt-did-not.html

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    • reform
      Posted on February 5, 2012 at 3:17pm

      JJ have you seen the amount of political contributions per candidate? The old saying goes money talks “blank” walks still applies today. you back Mitt Romney and you talk about saving the Olympics do you have the spreadsheet how this was accomplished was it ever made public I can’t find it anywhere on the Internet. You have links provide some because I like to see this miraculous turnaround with them Olympics that were held in where what state was it?

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    • pamela kay
      Posted on February 6, 2012 at 6:45am

      MUHERDNATION, I agree, but will vote for anyone against Obama. What we have to realize is that all negative comments from the candidates and from this site as well as all conservative sites will be used against whoever wins the nomination. Are we cutting our own throats? Newt needs to back off his personal attacks until the people are reminded of the nastiness of the Obama Hillary campaign. Romney is not as upfront with his attacks as Newt. He plays it down more and lets the pac ads do it for him. Newt’s ego and desire to be in the history books might make him a conservative leader. He is more gutsy than Romney and has had more experience. Let’s face it the corruption in Washington has made most politicians give into temptations. None are saints, most are greedy. We can not stop it in a day or even in years. As a nation we as citizens had become to secure in our little comfort zones and had not paid close enough attention. I know that I didn’t until now. I thank Glenn Beck for helping me be aware as well as FOX and talk radio. So what do we do now? The old saying “You don‘t know what you’ve got till its gone” keeps ringing in my ears. 9/11 was a wake up call, but how soon people forget. Our freedoms are not yet all the way gone but we are headed that way. So many here are turning away from the people who opened our eyes to the truth. We can disagree but we have to work together and remember what separates us from the porgressives or else its over. America will no long

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  • KTsayz
    Posted on February 5, 2012 at 2:43am

    Excellent commentary from posters! Newk is just as bad as BO and his speech tonight showed a side that will turn a lot of people off. Betcha the So Carolinans are shaking their heads in disbelief at how stupid they were for voting him in the first place spot.

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  • Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
    Posted on February 5, 2012 at 2:34am

    In the words of officer Barbrady (South Park) “Nothing to see here, move along, move along”.

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  • DownWithDems
    Posted on February 5, 2012 at 2:05am

    Mr. Fannie Freddie Gingrich

    http://www.nytimes.com/2012/02/04/us/politics/gingrichs-deep-ties-to-fannie-mae-and-freddie-mac.html?_r=1

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  • PJL
    Posted on February 5, 2012 at 2:04am

    Angry, cry baby, hate to see him in the White House, can you imagine if some countries leader ticks him off, we’d have boots on the ground before you could say, Newt is a nasty jerk.

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    • capnjack
      Posted on February 5, 2012 at 2:53am

      I would rather that then a President who does a long sloooow bow in from of our advisories.

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    • reform
      Posted on February 5, 2012 at 3:58am

      Yes people like you that criticize the idea with the moon you realize that there is helium-3 on there you may want to look it up and the great importance of it to this nation and possibly the world. That’s why this statement about China and Russia further exploring the moon than the USA. go to ask.com Punch in what is helium-3 and enlighten yourselves.

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    • Chuck Stein
      Posted on February 5, 2012 at 11:13am

      @ Reform
      Helium-3 is thought to exist in Moon dust (as a deposit from Solar winds) and in theory it can be used to provide fusion power that also does not produce neutrons. Nice idea. Of course, nobody has actually been able to get more energy from that fusion reaction than they have put in to making it happen. Instead of putting out heads on the Moon, maybe we could cogitate a little about a PROVEN way to safely produce clean and cheap energy — the Liquid Flouride Thorium Reactor. Check out energyfromthorium.com and you will get a better picture.

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    • Chuck Stein
      Posted on February 5, 2012 at 12:21pm

      “putting OUR heads”, not “putting OUT heads”

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    • reform
      Posted on February 5, 2012 at 3:21pm

      Chuck Stein that’s why we have scientists and universities to develop this type of power, what happen with MIT they don’t have the ingenuity to develop such power from this product if available and recoverable? Seems to me there is an agenda not to develop cleaner coal better nuclear more efficient solar and wind Hydro power, for me sitting on the couch with Pelosi was what Newt was trying to convey that there is a conservative approach to a better quality of life.

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    • Chuck Stein
      Posted on February 5, 2012 at 4:57pm

      @ Reform
      You are a Newt supporter. I am not.
      But more significant than that issue is energy policy. You see that. Great.
      Did you look at energyfromthorium.com? The LFTR is really THE solution to the energy problem. As you are interested in these matters, I really urge you to look into it because the LFTR actually does prety much all that has been hoped for in fusion power (Safe, low waste, clean) plus, it is technology that was demonstrated in the 1960‘s AND you don’t need to go to the Moon for the fuel. In fact, Thorium can be had for FREE (as an unwanted byproduct of rare earth element mining).

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  • NILAP
    Posted on February 5, 2012 at 1:58am

    Well it looks like a liberal Republican will be running against a liberal Democrat in 2012. And in 2012 liberal is the new conservative. Romneycare versus Obamacare. The inner Meghan McCain will come out in Romney if elected.

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  • vet66
    Posted on February 5, 2012 at 1:55am

    Every time this jerk opens his mouth I hate him more and more. Go Newt your a big government *****.

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  • Bush Hating Conervatives make me sick
    Posted on February 5, 2012 at 1:53am

    Cut California guy some slack. After all he is is California!! Romney/Rubio.. Does Calestlie, know how to change diapers, cause Newt is nothing but a BIG BABY

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    • waspanglosaxon
      Posted on February 5, 2012 at 2:28am

      Romney …Rubio? Uh, no. The Republican sucking-up to the nonexistent hispanic vote has gone quite far enough. For every hispanic vote the GOP attracts by having Rubio on the ticket, they’ll lose at least two White voters – like myself.

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    • Darmok and Jalad at Tanagra
      Posted on February 5, 2012 at 3:18am

      Yo quiero Taco Bell

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    • JJ Coolay
      Posted on February 5, 2012 at 6:22am

      Agreed.. not Romney / Rubio.

      I am however intrigued by this possibility:

      Romney / Bush (Jeb)

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  • Grandmadar
    Posted on February 5, 2012 at 1:48am

    Reading the definition of a Narcisist, doesn’t obie fit in that camp also? maybe why so many gaps in

    sentences to slow him down so he doesn’t have the sharp intake of air Newt showed! Obie vacations,

    plays golf, travels and has fun. All the pressure is on his shadow gov. He is the front guy so he stays

    somewhat calmer than Newt. But it is obvious they both whine and stop their feet when they don’t get their way! Kinda like children.

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  • Californiasodbuster
    Posted on February 5, 2012 at 1:48am

    A full on Romney attack display, by none other than the Blaze, going to go to bed now.
    Hope you pick up your votes now, by the humanoids that don’t know any better.

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  • mikee99
    Posted on February 5, 2012 at 1:35am

    How can a man with a campaign this disorganized even think he is qualified to run this country? I mean running the United States of America will be infinitely more complicated. I would say ask Newt, but I doubt he would give a straight answer.

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    • JJ Coolay
      Posted on February 5, 2012 at 6:23am

      Right. He’s not even on the ballot in 2 or 3 states???

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  • MacPharlan
    Posted on February 5, 2012 at 1:25am

    Man, please just go away, all this talk about Romney being negative, I have not seen Newt say ONE single thin positive about Romney. It is full assault complain and wine.

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  • eschatologist
    Posted on February 5, 2012 at 1:24am

    listen to this speech very closely – what is up with Gingrich’s intake breaths between pauses???! I really don’t think this guy is getting enough air – this is serious, he may have a condition due to his being overweight. He needs to see a doctor I think.

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  • LTinUT
    Posted on February 5, 2012 at 1:21am

    Textbook narcissist. Do an Internet search on “narcissism” and prepare to be amazed how Newt exemplifies one that has a narcissistic personality disorder.

    Here is just one of many examples. It doesn’t take long to find the information with citations.
    http://www.addictions.net/id299.html

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  • NoTalkStink
    Posted on February 5, 2012 at 1:20am

    If you watched Newt’s speech tonight you saw the beginning meltdown of an unstable person. During the next debate the Secret Service may have to put more agents on Romney to protect him from Newt! Romney is in Newts head. Newt may stay in just to throw more insults at Romney. Newt is innocent of anything and everything. Just ask him! It is someone else’s fault! Im sure his former wives understand this behavior. These are symptoms.

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    • LTinUT
      Posted on February 5, 2012 at 1:30am

      The symptoms point directly to narcissism:

      Grandiose
      Pursues power at all costs, lacks normal inhibitions in its pursuit
      Lacks values, easily bored
      Reacts to negative feedback with more anger and aggression
      Narcissists prize intellectual performance above almost everything else so a better qualified work colleague would likely evoke a hostile affect

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    • reform
      Posted on February 5, 2012 at 3:43am

      Mr. Beck I use to respect you how much you pay people to post here on your blog? I mean really this is getting pathetic George Soros scare you that much you jumped on the Romney bus? He must have because since you left Fox your demeanor has changed quite a bit. Why have you not looked into Mitt Romney’s past say from 1984 to 1999? Or will the church not allow you to voice opposition to Mitt Romney and for that matter you didn’t do it against Jon Huntsman also what gives?

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    • ConservativeRep
      Posted on February 5, 2012 at 5:19am

      @Reform – The church does not tell its members what to do especially politially. Just look at Harry Reid and you will know that.

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    • Babeuf
      Posted on February 5, 2012 at 7:16am

      Glenn Beck said that Romney is a Socialist – HIS WORDS
      Glenn Beck: It’s not just Obama…Mitt Romney’s a socialist too!
      http://www.dailykos.com/tv/w/002651/
      and
      Beck: “It‘s Mitt Romney’s turn”
      http://gop12.thehill.com/2010/01/beck-its-mitt-romneys-turn.html

      Why hasn’t Glenn gone off the deep end regarding this? AT ALL?

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  • waspanglosaxon
    Posted on February 5, 2012 at 1:11am

    I’m so glad Nutty-Nert went down in flames to yet another well-deserved defeat. What I cannot understand is (1.) why anyone thinks this *******-loving, big government libertine is a ‘conservative’, and (2.) why anyone is for him for any reason. I’ve posed this question on this and other blogsites repeatedly but have never gotten a sensible or concrete answer.

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    • TheObamanation
      Posted on February 5, 2012 at 1:26am

      People want to see Newt and Obama debate each other … capping on each other … like some high school competition to see who can outdo the other verbally … like … you just got served … or something.

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    • NoTalkStink
      Posted on February 5, 2012 at 1:29am

      Sensible and concrete reasons for supporting Newt do not exist.

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    • reform
      Posted on February 5, 2012 at 4:06am

      A well-deserved defeat are you serious the state of Nevada has 467,000 registered Republicans and it looks like only 60,000 may vote. But like the Democratic Party the Republican Party are also shedding voters like myself who became independent. The question is here in Nevada they have been stating how important Nevada caucus will be for the Republican Party because we moved up how great (400,000) did not vote good showing.

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  • Californiasodbuster
    Posted on February 5, 2012 at 1:10am

    Yes, i wish Mitt would go away, would rather vote for one of the other three, before him.
    What a cluster f–k the republican party has put us in.

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    • Believer33
      Posted on February 5, 2012 at 1:18am

      I hope you don’t vote at all then. If you would be willing to vote for Newt, and Paul over Romney then you are messed up in the head.

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    • Californiasodbuster
      Posted on February 5, 2012 at 1:23am

      What a cluster f–ck the republican party put us in again.

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    • Californiasodbuster
      Posted on February 5, 2012 at 1:35am

      yes, i am messed up in the head, because of derelict a holes like you, who don’t have a clue, i thank God i am not colledge educated.

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  • TheObamanation
    Posted on February 5, 2012 at 1:09am

    Waaaaaaaaaaaaah … Romney spent money … waaaaaaaaaaaaah … his commercials didn’t portray me in a good light … waaaaaaaaaaaaaaah … what a cry baby.

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  • Chuck Stein
    Posted on February 5, 2012 at 12:56am

    I can’t wait for Santorum to win Missouri.
    Also, Newt said something that is contray to what I’ve heard from Blaze posters (esp. RP supporters): he said that he will be on the ballot for all of the states except Virginia. Folks posting on the Blaze have said that Newt (and Santorum) are out of it for 17 states. What’s the reality?

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    • american1st
      Posted on February 5, 2012 at 1:11am

      i have heard different counts but the following quote seems about right…

      “Gingrich and Santorum have different ballot access problems. Both are not on the ballot in Virginia and don’t have full slates of delegates in Tennessee, but in Missouri Gingrich is not on the ballot while Santorum has no issues and Santorum is not on the ballot in Washington DC and lacks full delegate slates in North Dakota, Ohio and Illinois. Whatever the true number of delegates each are ineligible for, the number is different for both of them.”

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    • Grandmadar
      Posted on February 5, 2012 at 1:41am

      Yes, I am in Indiana and many who are for Santorum will have to write him in since he didn’t get enough signatures. I didn’t even know that he was short. I would have tried to get some so he could be on the ballot.
      I think the issue here is that we are all so frustrated at what this election has to offer in terms of candidates!
      We need to be united somehow which is the only way I see obie being defeated. But if georgie says Rom is no different…HEY, do we listen to him? Why are we doing that? Do we really believe that? Or is that what he wants us to do. Remember…georgie is not on our side. That is something to think about.
      One thing for sure is that I am not excited about any candidate, just like last time. Sarah brought a breath of fresh air tothe McCan’t team. But when they saw how well received she was they had to stop her..because McCan‘t didn’t want to be President.
      There is no “breath of fresh air” in this campaign.

      Remember the bigger picture is to take this Nation down and there may be people in on this than we would like to believe.

      II Chronicles 7:14 : ” If my people, which are called by my name, shall humble themselves, and pray, and seek my face, and turn from their wicked ways; then I will hear from Heaven, and will forgive their sin, and will heal their land.”
      A promise..with conditions.

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    • Chuck Stein
      Posted on February 5, 2012 at 1:54am

      @ American1st
      Thanks, that makes more sense.

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    • Baddoggy
      Posted on February 5, 2012 at 5:22am

      You mean Santorum the Facist? Good luck with that…

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  • Got2bRoni
    Posted on February 5, 2012 at 12:54am

    Blah… Blah… Blah… Just go away!!

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