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Gingrich Is Getting Out of the Way

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Posted on Apr 25, 2012
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“A Republican turnout, especially among conservatives, is key to stopping an Obama second term,” a Gingrich campaign spokesman said.

Newt Gingrich said Wednesday that he would retire his run for the White House and that he had told Mitt Romney he would give him his full endorsement. —ARK

The New York Times:

At an appearance in North Carolina, Mr. Gingrich conceded that Mitt Romney would be the party’s nominee and suggested that he would leave the race in the next several days.

“I think you have to at some point be honest with what’s happening in the real world, as opposed to what you’d like to have happened,” Mr. Gingrich said, according to a brief report in The National Journal.

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By podunksteve, April 26, 2012 at 4:31 pm Link to this comment
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I think the most damning aspect of Gringrich’s campaign
is that many thousands of people voted for him. That
anyone beyond his delusional self and immediate family
could want this fat verminous crook as president is
astonishing.

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By it's only Scott, April 26, 2012 at 9:13 am Link to this comment

He was a pathetic joke playing out an enormous ego boost with stupid people’s money.

I guess it’s back to Fox News and writing bad books.

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By OzarkMichael, April 26, 2012 at 5:07 am Link to this comment

There were a few things he said that were potent zingers, but that isnt enough to win the nomination.

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By mrfreeze, April 25, 2012 at 4:36 pm Link to this comment

Have any of you ever tried to imagine what it’s like to live in the head of Newt Gingrich?

A pathetic, slimy, narcissistic, scum-sucking load of pseudo-intellectual feces in a putrid suspension of lies, deceits, betrayals, hatred and uber-misanthropy…...He’s the Republican version of Nitezsche’s ubermensch.

“Behold, I must become a god in my own image….so I serveth thee divorce papers oh cancerous wife.”

“Thus Spake Zaranewthra”

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By PatrickHenry, April 25, 2012 at 4:13 pm Link to this comment

He was never in it.

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