Newt Gingrich to Suspend Campaign; Endorse Romney

Posted by in Blog, News, Politics on April 25, 2012 10:20 am / 4 comments

OK folks, you can cross Newt Gingrich off the list. From FOX News:

Newt Gingrich plans to formally leave the Republican presidential race next Tuesday, senior campaign aides told Fox News.

The former House speaker will “more than likely” endorse Mitt Romney when he makes his announcement to either suspend or end the campaign, a source said.

The decision comes after Gingrich huddled with senior advisers following the five primaries Romney swept on Tuesday night. Romney’s victories made it virtually impossible for Gingrich to secure the 1,144 delegates needed for the Republican nomination.

This leaves Ron Paul as the only active challenger to Miit Romney. I know he and his supporters like to talk about a “delegate strategy” and other things, but that ain’t happening.

 

 
 

4 Comments

  1. LRK says:
    April 25, 2012 at 11:32 am

    Romney hasn’t gottenn 1144 delegates yet, and Ron Paul is on track to having the plurality of delegates in 5 states necessary to be nominated into contention at the RNC — a second choice that hasn’t been available at the RNC since Reagan did it in 1976. In 1976, the delegates at the RNC blew it and chose the party establishment choice, Ford, over Reagan. I hope they don’t blow it again this time.

    Interestingly, in that convention, the Texas delegation supporting Reagan was led by one of only four Congressmen to endorse Reagan, a freshman congressman named Ron Paul.

  2. Tommy says:
    April 25, 2012 at 11:48 am

    LRK, even if Ron Paul gets the plurality in 5 contest (Which I don’t see happening) Romney only needs to win 300 of the remaining 965 delegates to reach 1144. That’s only 31% of them remaining delegates. I don’t see any realistic scenario where that happens and Romney can’t win 300 out 965. Do you?

  3. LRK says:
    April 25, 2012 at 12:02 pm

    lol!

    It comes down to how you define realistic. I noticed that despite Ron Paul’s win of Minnesota and Iowa being clear last weekend, the media has waited to even mention it (and then only glancingly) until after Tuesday’s primaries.

    Suppose Ron Paul wins Maine and NV this weekend. Then, for the less likely part, suppose that gets reported. If conservatives decide it is worth fighting for an open convention, they will see it is possible to get it. If they are sick enough of having their larger-than-the-establishment share of vote splintered then have the establishment vote pick up all the control as people drop out, so there is no conservative nominee, time after time, maybe conservatives will fight. Even if they would prefer a different nominee, the only way to get a conservative discussion is to support Ron Paul as he collects delegates to block Romney. Blocking Romney opens up possibilities at RNC.

    And I do think the combination of momentum from Paul’s heretofore unreported delegate wins of states, conservatives deciding they either want Paul best of what is left and there’s a possibility, or that they want to block Romney, and progressives thinking ndaa and cispa suck so they will cross over in open primary states such as Texas is a practical possibility.

    Whether it is ‘realistic’ depends on if there IS reporting, if Paul IS seen as viable enough (circular), and if conservatives really are sick of being force fed the nominee.

    Most of that is out of my hands.

  4. Katie says:
    April 26, 2012 at 1:11 am

    Ron Paul has won Minnesota and Iowa and Washington. We are going to win Maine and Nevada this weekend. That will put him on the ballot. Then members of the GOP are going to have to make a decision. Are they going to continue to support a liberal to moderate flip flopping, pro abortion, mandate signing, NDAA supporting, pro climate change candidate or are they going to support a fiscally conservative candidate who in 12 terms of Congressional service never once voted to raise taxes or raise the debt ceiling. He can’t be bought or sold. He has never voted to raise congressional pay, has never taken a government paid junket and doesn’t participate in the lucrative congressional pension program. He has a plan to cut 1 trillion dollars of spending from the budget in the first year and balance the budget in three years. Is his plan drastic? Yes. Are we in drastic times? Yes. Our debt is over 15 trillion dollars and we keep printing money. We have a foreign policy that we simply can’t afford anymore. We have a domestic policy that we can’t afford anymore. We need to cut taxes, cut spending, cut foreign aide, curtail our foreign empire by ending the war in Afghanistan and Pakistan and Yemen and bring our troops home. There is broad support for ending the war in this country. Ron Paul talks about the concept of “blowback”. If you have not heard of this, Google it. We hurt ourselves by our presence over there. The CIA says this. The State Department says this. It’s not just Ron Paul talking out of the side of his mouth. We are less safe every day that we are on the Arabian Peninsula.

    People who call themselves conservatives and are voting for Romney are going to have to take a hard look at themselves. If you’re willing to sell your principles down the river just to avoid the appearance of supporting that “crazy Ron Paul” that the media has sold you on, then you better take a look at yourself. What power does the media have over you? Who decides your candidate for you? Why is he crazy? What is conservative? Why are you not supporting the conservative candidate? And if you think Ron Paul can’t win, he polls better than Romney up against Obama in the general election because he gets the independents. And you’re not going to win the election without the Ron Paul GOP base. We won’t vote for Romney. So you guys have a decision to make. Good luck.

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