Newt Gingrich

The Herd: A Look at The Republican Vice Presidential Candidates. Newt Gingrich

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The Herd: A Look at The Republican Vice Presidential Candidates. Newt Gingrich

   The Herd is a special White House 2012 series covering the obvious and not so obvious potential choices to be selected as Mitt Romney’s vice presidential running mate on the Republican presidential ticket.  Each day, White House 2012 will introduce you to one the many Republicans which we believe will be at least considered for the vice presidency by the now inevitable presidential nominee, Mitt Romney. In addition to a biographical information and a brief assessment of each potential nominee and their chances of being selected by Mitt Romney, White…

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Today should be it

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Mitt Romney should easily sweep a handful of blue states today, including New York and Pennsylvania.  If he does, I think the staunchest of conservative holdouts are ready to call it for Romney.  The only thing that will change the trajectory of the primary at this point would be if Romney’s performance is weak in any of these states. Is that possible?  To a certain extent.  With Romney already the presumptive nominee, media coverage of the April 24th primaries has been minimal.  Additionally, any inhibition towards voting one’s conscience should…

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Bad News for Romney?

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Romney declared today to be a good day for his campaign.  The media easily agreed, following their template that Romney is already the nominee.  However, the good news may end up being all for Gingrich.  The long dead in the water conservative finally has what he has needed for a second resurgence: no competition for the social conservative vote. In fact, Newt made the point today that he would love to get Santorum’s delegates.  Newt is right, he is far closer to what Santorum’s delegates want than Romney.  While Romney is…

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Ohio Made Super Tuesday a Superficial Nail Biter

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Ohio Made Super Tuesday a Superficial Nail Biter

   While Rick Santorum’s Super Tuesday results were far better than predicted, they did little to make a difference other than in the headlines we will be reading and in the cable news teasers that we will be hearing. While it is true that the results from the ten state Super Tuesday contest can allow one t0 go so far as to say that Rick Santorum came out a winner,  his clear victories in Tennessee, Oklahoma, and North Dakota, and his second place finish in Ohio that was too close for comfort for  Mitt Romney, have undoubtedly established Rick Santorum as the other…

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Florida Chooses Safe and Electable

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In a repeat of 2008, Florida is betting on electability.  The only difference is that this time around Mitt Romney is the one who has been deemed “electable”.  After pouring millions of dollars into off the wall, and in some cases outright dishonest, advertising portraying Newt Gingrich as a disgraced philanderer, hated by anyone who worked with him, Mitt got one huge point across.  Newt can’t stand up to a multi-million dollar smear campaign. The argument for Mitt in Florida seems to be, “if Mitt Romney can do that to…

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Hard Landing

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Hard Landing

Newt Gingrich is limping out of Florida with no momentum, little money and not much to be happy about. After his substantial victory in South Carolina and visions of soaring to the moon, Newt has crashed back to earth. His supporters are pinning his loss on negative ads from the Romney side, but that argument is just sour grapes. The truth is that Newt hurt himself more than Romney did and very likely hurt the conservative cause in the process. First, let’s dismiss the argument that negative ads are what…

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Gingrich Campaign Makes Desperate Calls to Jewish Florida Senior Citizens

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Gingrich Campaign Makes Desperate Calls to Jewish Florida Senior Citizens

   In what has got to be one of the most desperate attempts to target a message to a critical voting bloc an election, Newt Gingrich’s campaign approved a robocall that went out to Florida’s large Jewish vote. The call went specifically to elderly Jewish senior citizens which is a smart move, Senior citizens are the most reliable voters in the nation and they show up to polls in percentages than larger all other demographics. However, the Gingrich call was an uttrerly shameful pitch to Jewish senior citizens that essentially chose to exploit the Holocaust and…

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Newt’s No Strategy Stragey Is Playing Right In To His Rivals Hands

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Newt’s No Strategy Stragey Is Playing Right In To His Rivals Hands

   As I have said over and over again, I am fully prepared to enthusiastically get behind Mitt Romney as our nominee, but when given the choice between Mitt’s meager tweaking of policies that steer things slightly more to the right of the liberal establishment, and Newt’s bold solutions that rewrite and reform policies, I am supporting Newt.  I believe that in this election, Republicans are at a crossroads.  We either commit ourselves to being like Democrats and affirm ourselves as being defenders of the status quo or we establish ourselves as the Party of reform.…

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