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Gingrich: I'm the tortoise, Romney's the hare

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"Gingrich, the former House Speaker, said there's a "big opportunity for an alternative candidate," given that Romney has not attracted more than 25% support in most national and statewide polls of current candidates.

"My job I think is to reach out to the 75 or 80% who aren't currently committed to Romney and to say here's a set of solutions that would actually get us back on the right track," Gingrich told ABC News.

While Romney's poll numbers have largely plateaued, Gingrich has seen his numbers rise after his campaign was dogged by controversy throughout the summer."

http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2011/11/08/gingrich-im-the-tortoise-romneys-the-hare/
 
Gingrich is just the latest flavor of "not Mitt Romney". The advantage that he has is if he really gets up a head of steam, his negatives are already well-known so he's unlikely to have any nasty surprises. The problem is that his negatives are pretty darn negative.
 
Newt? An "alternative" candidate?? As Brainster said, he is an alternative to Mitt. In that he is the most establishment, lifelong part of the Washington machine running in this race, there is no other way he would be described as alternative.

Also, outside of fables, hare kicks tortise butt in any race.
 
So Newt's a Slowski?


I thought a newt was an immature amphibian.
 
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So, Jude, now that the Cain Train is off the rails, are you rooting for the Big Giant Head?
 
So far Bachman, Perry and Cain are the hares. Romney's the tortoise. He's been going at this for four years. Newt is the vulture hoping they all die so he can scavenge their carcasses.
 
Spindrift said:
So far Bachman, Perry and Cain are the hares. Romney's the tortoise. He's been going at this for four years. Newt is the vulture hoping they all die so he can scavenge their carcasses.
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It's a strategy that worked well for McCain last time around. IIRC, Romney was the obvious choice last time, too, and McCain didn't pop up as a forerunner until the very end of the nomination process as all the others burned themselves out. McCain sort of swooped in at the end and got the nod.
 
I suspect that Newt Gingrich in reality has no real presidential aspirations. Rather, he wants to go into the convention with enough electoral votes to through behind one candidate or another in order to put that contender over the top. Of course, there would be a price for his support. That way, acting as kingmaker, he would consolidate his power behind the throne.
 
Upchurch said:
It's a strategy that worked well for McCain last time around. IIRC, Romney was the obvious choice last time, too, and McCain didn't pop up as a forerunner until the very end of the nomination process as all the others burned themselves out. McCain sort of swooped in at the end and got the nod.
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Your memory fails you. McCain needed one lucky break and he got it in Iowa with Huckabee winning, preventing Romney from building up a head of steam. McCain won New Hampshire and thus when Romney won Michigan (which was widely expected as it was his boyhood home state and where his father was governor), he got little to no bounce. McCain squeaked out a win in South Carolina, putting him in the driver's seat coming into Florida, which he won. His momentum carried him into the following week's Super Tuesday (Feb 5), where he won most of the big contests, essentially ending the race. Romney announced he was suspending his campaign two days later at CPAC, leaving only Huckabee and Ron Paul as challengers. Huckabee was competitive only in the South and Ron Paul only online.
 
Brainster said:
Gingrich is just the latest flavor of "not Mitt Romney". The advantage that he has is if he really gets up a head of steam, his negatives are already well-known so he's unlikely to have any nasty surprises. The problem is that his negatives are pretty darn negative.
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And the good news is his policies are are pretty darn positive. Gingrich-Obama debates would be 'informative'. :)
 
Alferd_Packer said:
So, Jude, now that the Cain Train is off the rails, are you rooting for the Big Giant Head?
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I wasn't rooting for Cain but wasn't against him either and was willing to give him serious consideration. He seems to be somewhat lacking substantively, as if he's already out of material, and he's finished if there's any truth to anything recently alleged, and he's probably on an irreversible polling decline already now anyway.

Without a Christie, or even better, a Rubio or Ryan to enthusiastically support,

after the brief Trump sideshow,

and not being any particular fan of or seeing any realistic prospect for Bachmann, Huntsman, or Santorum,

and never particularly enthusiastic for or against Romney,

and not liking Perry by first impressions, and then not liking him the more I saw of him lately, and then with him apparently appearing to be quite the bonehead tonight,

and while there's much about Ron Paul that I like, there are some hesitations, and also do not consider him likely to be able to win.

Of course, Newt is hardly a perfect candidate himself, but out of this group of candidates he was my first choice, but also considered him unlikely to win the nomination or the race, and thought that he may have gaffed himself out early anyway, but now it very easily could come down to Romney and Gingrich as the choice. He appears head and shoulders above all the others with a grasp, facility and ease with all the issues of the day and politics of Washington. I would prefer Gingrich, but would also support Romney.
 
Brainster said:
Your memory fails you. McCain needed one lucky break and he got it in Iowa with Huckabee winning, preventing Romney from building up a head of steam. McCain won New Hampshire and thus when Romney won Michigan (which was widely expected as it was his boyhood home state and where his father was governor), he got little to no bounce. McCain squeaked out a win in South Carolina, putting him in the driver's seat coming into Florida, which he won. His momentum carried him into the following week's Super Tuesday (Feb 5), where he won most of the big contests, essentially ending the race. Romney announced he was suspending his campaign two days later at CPAC, leaving only Huckabee and Ron Paul as challengers. Huckabee was competitive only in the South and Ron Paul only online.
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One thing I remember from Romney’s withdraw at the CPAC convention four years ago is how he withdrew: almost as if he was threatened by the Republican Establishment to let McCain win the nomination. There was a sense of panic in Romney’s speech.
 
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