Gingrich, Romney Tied; Former Speaker Cites Tea-Party Appeal
Activism Monday, November 21st, 2011
By FRANK JAMES, NPR
Newt Gingrich’s moment in the sun in the 2012 race for the Republican presidential nomination stretched into the Thanksgiving holiday week with a new USA Today-Gallup poll placing him and Mitt Romney in a statistical tie at 22 percent and 21 percent of support, respectively.
The poll of GOP and Republican-leaning registered voters was the latest of several national and state polls showing an unmistakable Gingrich surge.
Given the rise and fall of support for Rep. Michele Bachmann, Texas Gov. Rick Perry and Herman Cain as a large number of Republicans continue to show their unhappiness with their choices, particularly the man thought to be the likeliest nominee, Romney, it would be an understatement to say that significant skepticism exists about Gingrich actually becoming the nominee.
Those doubts have only been enlarged by recent reports that the former House speaker’s companies have made millions of dollars through Gingrich’s “strategic advice” to a number of companies, including Freddie Mac, the mortgage giant.
Freddie Mac, like Fannie Mae, is despised by many conservatives who blame the government-sponsored entities for causing the housing meltdown. So Gingrich’s association with one of the GSEs isn’t helpful in his bid for the nomination, to say the least.
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He might be selling himself as to the TEa party but, we aint buying !!!
RON PAUL 2012
RON PAUL 2012 Keep it GOING!!!!!
Are you kidding? Gingrich recieved 1.6 million from the F&F Mac bailout.
This must be the segment of the TEA Party too young to remember the 1994 Contract With America. That era’s version of the TEA Party was fed up with the Democrats taxing and spending and selling out to their corporate lobbyist buddies. The voters swept out the Democrats that year and they got their Contract With America… only they went back on their word and almost none of the contract was fulfilled. By 2000, the combined budgets of the 95 major programs that the Contract with America promised to eliminate had increased by 13%. It was just a publicity stunt to get elected. These neocon Republicans, led by Newt Gingrich, developed the K Street Project (google it!) and that’s when the lobbyists REALLY took over Washington DC. Gingrich & Co. peddled our government and pimped it out to the highest bidder. That wasn’t a very TEA thing to do, and some of us remember.
I wouldn’t vote for Newt the Angry Telletubby, even if he was running against The Obama!
RON PAUL 2012!
Ron Paul or None At all!
AGREED, RON PAUL OR NONE AT ALL. COME ON REPUBLICANS, LETS NOT VOTE FOR THE SAME AGAIN, LETS VOTE FOR RON WHO YOU CAN COUNT ON TO MAKE THE NECESSARY CHANGES FOR OUR COUNTRY. JUST GIVE HIM 4 YEARS, WE PROMISE YOU WILL NOT REGRET IT!!
There is no way I would vote for Newt. I was around during his reign, there is a reason he left DC for a time…probably to let the dust settle and hope we all had short memories. Ron Paul 2012.