Newt Gingrich ” I will be the nominee” Watch him say uit and has face, his eyes, his attitude!
“I’m going to be the nominee,” the former Speaker told ABC News. “It’s very hard not to look at the recent polls and think that the odds are very high I’m going to be the nominee.”
TAPPER: “How do you respond to Republicans who say if you don’t draw distinctions with Mitt Romney and others who are attacking you, if you don’t point out their perceived vulnerabilities, Barack Obama and the Democrats sure aren’t going to share that same reluctance and you are doing Obama a favor by staying positive?”
GINGRICH: “They are not going to be the nominee. I don’t have to go around and point out the inconsistencies of people who are not going to be the nominee. They are not going to be the nominee.”
TAPPER: “You are going to be the nominee?”
GINGRICH: “I’m going to be the nominee. It’s very hard not to look at the recent polls and think that the odds are very high I’m going to be the nominee. And by the way I don’t object if people want to attack me, that’s their right. All I’m suggesting that it’s not going to be very effective and that people are going to get sick of it very fast. And the guys who attacked each other in the debates up to now, every single one of them have lost ground by attacking. So they should do what they and their consultants want to do. I will focus on being substantive and I will focus on Barack Obama.”
Wild Thing’s comment……
Newt’s as arrogant as ever. It does not matter how far ahead any candidate is in the polls, to say what Newt has said imo is way out of line. Besides it being arrogant he is saying our process does not matter. Hello Newt, we have not voted yet and the polls are no guarantee you are the most popular. Not everyone is taking a poll, not everyone even uses the internet, and not everyone gets political phone calls.
As they say buyer beware……this below is from The Natioinal Review it is well laid out with dates.
August 30, 2004: “Everywhere I’ve been, I’ve argued in favor of electing the moderates,” Gingrich said… He even chastised the fiscally conservative Club for Growth — a group that finances primary challengers to Republican incumbents they deem too liberal .
In June 2005:supporting the ill-conceived nomination of John Bolton as the United States ambassador to the United Nations
In April 2007, he raved about the leadership skills of New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg
In 2007, he accused the Bush administration of fighting a “phony war” on terrorism
In 2008, he hailed John McCain’s efforts in the crafting of the TARP legislation………..
Worth seven minutes of your time:
I found this commentary by Texas attorney, former three-term Houston City Councilman and now radio host Michael Berry quite look-in-the-mirror enlightening, particularly at the end:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?&v=nRMiDYH-q80
I detest narcissism. Gingrich and obama are extreme examples of that sin. If it came down to a presidential election between those two, I don’t know if I could even hold my nose and vote.
Carlos – I hope Michael Berry is right. It is a sickening thought to me that fellow Tea Partiers would rally to Gingrich over Perry, or Bachmann, or Santorum, or even loopy Ron Paul.
Thank you Carlos and Tom. Carlos thank you for the link and information.
The one overwhelming mountain is that Newt Gingrich has delivered the only Tea Party Government of the last forty eight yeas. He dilivered four years over the objections of the Democratic President of a balanced budget where the National debt went DOWN.
Newt may be the mad eye moody of the Reoublican field but unquestionably he is a Republican and has the time in the third highest office to prove it. Perry is a peach but he was not ready this year.
Now how do we keep the Rinos from picking up a seat while making sure that the Progressives lose them all!