Showing posts with label Newt Gingrich. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Newt Gingrich. Show all posts
Wednesday, February 29, 2012
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The Middle Eastern country has slipped into violent turmoil after it was learned last week that copies of the Koran were burned in a trash pit at a NATO military base.
Last week, two U.S. troops were shot dead by an Afghan soldier in the midst of the unrest.
Mr Gingrich, who's now flailing in the polls after leading the Republican pack months ago, said in Tennessee yesterday that Afghanistan is beyond saving.
He said: 'We're not going to fix Afghanistan. It's not possible. These are people who have spent several thousand years hating foreigners.'
Mr Gingrich added: 'There’s some problems where what you have to do is say "You know, you’re going to have to figure out how to live your own miserable life because I'm not here - you clearly don’t want to hear from me how to be unmiserable,"'. [sic] » | Daily Mail Reporter | Tuesday, February 28, 2012
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Outgunned financially and facing the pro-Romney states of Nevada and Michigan, Gingrich campaign strategists were setting their sights on March and more friendly contests in the south where the former House Speaker can expect to benefit from bigger numbers of Tea Party and conservative Republicans.
They drew comfort, too, from future contests in which delegates would be apportioned according to how many votes candidates won, unlike in Florida where the winner collects all 50.
''Regardless of the message the Romney campaign wants to push and the media wants to deliver, this race is just getting started,'' wrote Mr Gingrich's national political director in a memo to staff and donors. » | Simon Mann | Wednesday, February 01, 2012
Monday, January 30, 2012
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THE GUARDIAN: Republican hopeful's support for Middle Eastern state is an attempt to court the evangelical Christian audience
The Republican Jewish audience lapped it up. But Gingrich, as grateful as he is for all the support he can get in Tuesday's primary election in Florida, was also courting a very different audience - one that is not Jewish and which worries many who are.
Florida has a relatively large Jewish population, accounting for more than 6% of the state's electorate given that nine out of ten are registered to vote. A few hundred turned out to see Gingrich address the Republican Jewish Coalition in Boca Raton on Friday afternoon.
Many were enthusiasts, including Rick Roth, a farmer.
"He actually has a well thought out policy on the economy. He's not talking in sound bites," he said. "I vote for who is the best candidate, not the one who can win. This electability issue is hogwash."
Roth also liked what he heard from Gingrich about Israel. The Republican candidate said the Palestinians are entitled to self-government - making no mention of a state or independence - only when they recognise Israel's right to exist, abandon a right of return to what is now Israel for Palestinian refugees and abandon hate speech against Jews.
Gingrich warned that if Iran gets a nuclear weapon it could lead to a second Holocaust, and he chided Obama for not confronting Tehran sufficiently strongly. He also said that the Arab spring is turning into an "Arab nightmare" which is only strengthening the threat from "radical Islam".
The Jewish voters in the room seemed happy enough to hear it but Roth said Gingrich's Israel policy made little difference to his decision to support him. Others agreed. They can hear much the same thing from any of the candidates with the exception of Ron Paul, who would cut off all foreign aid - including to the Jewish state. » | Chris McGreal in Boca Raton, Florida | Saturday, January 28, 2012
Saturday, January 28, 2012
THE DAILY TELEGRAPH: If Newt Gingrich were to win the Republican nomination he would owe around ten million favours to Sheldon Adelson – one for each of the dollars the flamboyant billionaire has pumped into his presidential bid.
Mr Adelson, America's eighth-richest man, is responsible for almost single-handedly keeping the Gingrich campaign alive with what is thought to be the biggest donation in US political history.
The $10 million he has given so far to Winning Our Future – a pro-Gingrich Super-Pac – propelled the former Speaker to victory in South Carolina. » | Raf Sanchez, Washington | Friday, January 27, 2012
THE GUARDIAN: Secrets of the billionaire bankrolling Gingrich's shot at the White House: Sheldon Adelson is not running for office – but his cash could swing Tuesday's Florida primary ¶ Abraham Foxman, the amiably chatty director of the Jewish civil rights group, the Anti-Defamation League, has a story to tell about his friend, the 78-year-old multi-billionaire casino mogul Sheldon Adelson. ¶ Adelson, who is America's eighth richest man and has given millions of dollars in support of Newt Gingrich's presidential bid, was having dinner with Foxman in Las Vegas several years ago. Foxman let slip that he was having to miss an invitation to the White House from the then president, George W. Bush. Foxman explained it was impossible to get a commercial flight. Adelson replied: "If the president of the United Statesasks you to go, you go." Then he gave Foxman the use of his private plane. ¶ Foxman asked Adelson if any condition was attached to the spontaneous act of generosity. "The condition is that you tell President Bush that is how you got there," said Adelson. Foxman made it in time to meet the president. ¶ It is a classic vignette to describe the power and style of Adelson, a man who has given scores of millions of dollars to Republican and Jewish causes over the years but who only now – by backing Gingrich – is becoming known to the wider public. It shows the reach of great wealth and how it mixes with the most powerful people on earth. It also shows Adelson's willingness to use that wealth for causes and people he believes in. » | Paul Harris | Saturday, January 28, 2012
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Friday, January 27, 2012
REUTERS: (Reuters) - Republican presidential hopeful Mitt Romney took the fight to chief rival Newt Gingrich on Thursday in his most aggressive debate performance yet, five days ahead of Florida's primary vote.
A neck-and-neck race for Florida and its importance for the Republican presidential nomination made for a combustible atmosphere at the University of North Florida in Jacksonville as the candidates sparred repeatedly.
Gingrich, who has displayed a mastery of debating skills during previous debates, was frequently caught flat-footed under attack from Romney who went after his chief rival in an attempt to put his campaign back on track after losing South Carolina last Saturday.
Gingrich and Romney are running close in polls before next Tuesday's primary vote in Florida, the biggest state so far in the early voting for the Republican nomination to face President Barack Obama in November. The most recent polls put Romney ahead.
Romney, a former Massachusetts governor, took umbrage at Gingrich's description of him as "anti-immigrant."
"That's inexcusable," Romney said, turning to his rival. "I'm not anti-immigrant. My father was born in Mexico. ... The idea that I'm anti-immigrant is repulsive. Don't use a term like that." » | Steve Holland and Ros Krasny | JACKSONVILLE, Florida | Friday, January 27, 2012
BBC: Mitt Romney Pulls Away from Newt Gingrich in Florida » | Friday, January 27, 2012
THE SYDNEY MORNING HERALD: In the high-octane election-year atmosphere of US politics, and an acrid Republican Party nomination race, Tuesday's Florida primary is being hyped as make-or-break for the party's presidential aspirants.
The relative civility of campaigning in Iowa and New Hampshire has long evaporated. And, while the heat rose in South Carolina, the intensity of an advertising war and rhetorical crossfire between the chief contenders, Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich, has become searing.
Getting a grip on such a big and diverse state is chief among the candidates' many challenges. Florida is not the Tea Party stronghold of South Carolina, and a standard joke is that the further south you travel the more north you get - a reference to number of sun-loving and wealthy retirees from north-eastern states who have moved there.
Still, some things reign universal in America right now - economic torpor, for one. Florida has been hit hard by the financial meltdown, the property crash in particular. Home foreclosure rates continue to exceed the national average, at 12 per cent of sales statewide versus 3.5 per cent. Of the 25 metropolitan areas with the highest foreclosure rates, 17 are in Florida, headed by Miami. Unemployment, at 9.9 per cent, is above the national average.
Mostly, the caustic exchanges between Romney and Gingrich - as well as their TV ads - have centred not on their prescriptions for economic revival but on the men's claims to authenticity.
Romney is the richest man ever to seek the presidency. His business record and private tax affairs are under fierce scrutiny. Gingrich's controversial term as Speaker of the House of Representatives and subsequent years as a Washington consultant, during which he advised the failed government-owned mortgage provider Freddie Mac, has been targeted by opponents. » | Simon Mann | Saturday, January 28, 2012
THE DAILY TELEGRAPH: Mitt Romney asserted his authority over Newt Gingrich in a Republican presidential debate on Thursday night, aggressively turning the former House Speaker's own attacks against him in advance of the crucial primary election in Florida.
The former Massachusetts governor, who over the past 48 hours has pushed back a surge in support for Mr Gingrich across the state, slapped down his rival during bitter disputes over immigration policy, personal finances and the former Speaker's proposal to build a colony on the moon.
After losing the South Carolina primary last weekend, Mr Romney is seeking to stabilise his campaign to be the Republican candidate to face President Barack Obama in November. Florida is by far the biggest state to vote in the party contest so far and is expected to be crucial in the general election.
He hit out at Mr Gingrich in the debate's opening minutes for describing him “anti-immigrant”, calling the attack “simply inexcusable”. He pointed out that Marco Rubio, the popular Florida senator, had backed him and called the criticism “inexcusable and inflammatory”.
Mr Romney has proposed that America's 11 million illegal immigrants should “self-deport”. “Mr Speaker, I'm not anti-immigrant,” he said during the debate. “My father was born in Mexico, my wife's father was born in Wales. They came into this country. The idea that I’m anti-immigrant is repulsive.”
An animated Mr Romney drove the point home by saying that Mr Gingrich's remarks were “the kind of over-the-top rhetoric that has characterised American politics for too long”. » | Jon Swaine, and Peter Foster in Jacksonville | Friday, January 27, 2012
THE GUARDIAN: President says that whichever candidate the GOP chooses, they represent a 'fundamentally different vision of America'
Obama was speaking on the Univision Spanish-language television network, broadcast only hours before the Republican candidates were scheduled to meet in Jacksonville, Florida.
It is no coincidence that he chose to speak to Univision as the Latino vote in Florida is crucial not only to the outcome of next Tuesday's Republican primary but for Obama's re-election chances in November.
Obama, only two days after effectively launching his re-election campaign with a highly partisan state of the union address, was in Nevada and Colorado, following visits on Wednesday to three other swing states.
In Florida, Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich battled it out over who should be the Republican challenger to Obama and the debate Thursday is one of the most important yet, with the two in a dead-heat in the polls. Rick Santorum, struggling to make an impact in Florida, may leave early to concentrate on other upcoming contests, as Ron Paul is doing.
Obama, asked whether Romney or Gingrich would be the tougher challenger, declined to answer directly. Instead, he said: "What I can say is this: that whoever their nominee is, they represent ideas that I think are wrong for America."
He added: "On a whole range of issues I think that whether it's Mr Romney or Mr Gingrich or Mr Santorum or whoever else they might decide to select, they represent a fundamentally different vision of America. And it's not the bold, generous, forward-looking, optimistic America that I think built this country." » | Ewen McAskill in Jacksonville, Florida | Thursday, January 26, 2012
Thursday, January 26, 2012
TAGES ANZEIGER: Es hört sich an wie im Kalten Krieg: Der mögliche nächste US-Präsident Newt Gingrich schliesst einen Militäreinsatz in Kuba nicht aus. Er wirbt mit dieser Aussage um die Stimmen der Exilkubaner in Florida.
Der republikanische US-Präsidentschaftsbewerber Newt Gingrich hat für den Fall seiner Wahl eine harte Haltung gegenüber Kuba angekündigt. In einem Interview mit dem spanischsprachigen Sender Univision im US-Bundesstaat Florida schloss er einen Militäreinsatz gegen die kommunistische Regierung grundsätzlich nicht aus. «Wenn es einen echten legitimen Aufstand gebe, würden wir natürlich auf der Seite des Volkes stehen», sagte Gingrich auf die Frage, ob die USA nach Libyens Machthaber Muammar al-Ghadhafi auch Fidel und Raúl Castro angreifen sollten. » | bru/AFP | Donnerstag 26. Januar 2012
TAGES ANZEIGER: Gingrich verspricht dem Volk eine Mond-Kolonie – Der Republikaner packt die grossen Versprechen aus: Im Fall einer Wahl zum US-Präsidenten will Newt Gingrich bis 2020 eine dauerhafte Mondstation einrichten. » | kpn/dapd | Donnerstag 26. Januar 2012
Under siege from Mitt Romney and conservative elites who seem to be conspiring against his candidacy, Gingrich abandoned his stump speech on Thursday in favor of an angry tirade against his most daunting Republican rival and the Washington establishment. He isn’t the candidate who vowed to stay positive in Iowa, or the nose-to-the-grindstone guy he was in South Carolina.
As he took the stage before a tea-party crowd here, Gingrich seethed at Romney for the avalanche of negative ads blanketing the Florida airwaves and bashed the Beltway denizens for coalescing to obstruct his rise.
“There’s the Washington establishment sitting around in a frenzy, having coffee, lunch and cocktail hour talking about, ‘How do we stop Gingrich?’ ” he said, referring to a spate of prominent Republicans who painted him Thursday in as a philandering egomaniac comparable to Bill Clinton and not as close to Ronald Reagan as he would like to think.
The former House speaker told the tea-party crowd that they shouldn’t be confused by the attacks coming from the right as it’s still part of the scared establishment.
“Remember the Republican establishment is just as much as an establishment as the Democratic establishment, and they are just as determined to stop us,” he said. » | Ginger Gibson | Thursday, January 26, 2012
THE HILL: CAMBRIDGE, MD.— House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi on Thursday dismissed the idea that she has dirt on GOP presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich.
The California Democrat said speculation that she's withholding scandalous information on the former House Speaker in hopes of derailing his candidacy is false. Her recent comments on the topic, she said, have been misinterpreted.
"I have said over and over again, as far as Speaker Gingrich is concerned, I refer you to the public record," Pelosi said at a press conference amid the Democrats' annual issues conference near the Chesapeake Bay. "It's a matter of public record."
Pelosi—who served on the Ethics Committee that investigated, and ultimately sanctioned, Gingrich for violating tax law and lying to investigators in the 1990s — raised eyebrows last month when she seemed to suggest she had damning information on Gingrich she was willing to spill. » | Mike Lillis | Thursday, January 26, 2012
THE HILL: Mystery: What Nancy Pelosi has on Newt » | Alicia M. Cohn | Wednesday, January 25, 2012
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