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Newt Gingrich Drops Out of the Race: Upsetting or Anticlimactic?

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Realistically, Newt Gingrich hasn't really been "in the running" for president for the last few months, but the presidential hopeful held on to the GOP candidacy longer than Mitt Romney's primary contender, Rick Santorum. Maybe he was holding out for a freak accident, or maybe there were some behind-the-scenes reasons for prolonging his candidacy. Whatever the case, it's over now. Gingrich officially put an end to his 2012 presidential run.

He made the announcement in a hotel ballroom near Washington, D.C., but didn't sound too enthusiastic about Romney. He said, "Today, I am suspending the campaign, but suspending the campaign does not mean suspending citizenship ... I'm asked sometimes, 'Is Mitt Romney conservative enough?' And my answer's simple: 'Compared to Barack Obama?' You know, this is not a choice between Mitt Romney and Ronald Reagan, this is a choice between Mitt Romney and the most radical, leftist president in American history." Is the end of his "wild ride" of a campaign upsetting or anticlimatic?

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  • The Truth 2012/05/02 23:57:39
    Anticlimactic
    The Truth
    +15
    Anticipated, unsurprising, inevitable, about time, how did he ever become a serious consideration for nomination in the first place?!

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  • Tank 2012/05/03 13:17:53
    Anticlimactic
    Tank
    +2
    Meh, almost all of us saw this coming. He even lasted a bit longer than I expected, to be honest.
  • Lisa 2012/05/03 13:07:17
    Anticlimactic
    Lisa
    +1
    I think Newt is very intelligent , however, I also see him as pompous and arrogant, I think we already have that for a prez. Glad to see him go, I hope he can be a big. Man and throw his support behind Romney.
  • Sissy Lisa 2012/05/05 10:38:12
    Sissy
    Errrr you don't think that the inevitable republican nominee isn't "pompous and arrogant"? lol
  • Lisa Sissy 2012/05/06 04:59:15
    Lisa
    Nope
  • gr8American 2012/05/03 12:50:54
    Anticlimactic
    gr8American
    +1
    Those that did not know why his own party said no to his policies in the 90s and gave him the option to quit or be impeached found out this time around and they again said no to his narcissist crooked @ss.
    I was really hoping that the President would debate him so he could kick his egotistical @ss all over the place.
  • MR. 2012/05/03 12:29:57
    Anticlimactic
    MR.
    +1
    GOD BLESS YOU AND YOUR FAMILY, AMERICA'S PROUD OF YOU AND ALL THE OTHER GOP CONTENDERS. THIS PROCESS MAKES OUR NATION STRONG!
  • gr8Amer... MR. 2012/05/03 12:53:55
    gr8American
    +5
    I would finish your comment like this:
    "Oh and btw it will help our President get reelected, thank you for all your help you old fat narcissist piece of cr@p."
  • MR. gr8Amer... 2012/05/03 13:11:41
    MR.
    COMMUNIST NEED NOT COMMENT!
  • gr8Amer... MR. 2012/05/03 13:59:20
    gr8American
    Agree!!!
  • Couri gr8Amer... 2012/05/03 18:11:29
    Couri
    +1
    I seriously almost fell over laughing. That was too funny.
  • Sissy gr8Amer... 2012/05/05 10:38:52
    Sissy
    lol
  • bbz103099 2012/05/03 12:12:00
    Upsetting
    bbz103099
    +8
    I hate sayin good bye to PUMPKIN HEAD, it was entertaining watching Newts' jealousy and delusions take over his mind. Now he can do what he does best. newt1
  • Sissy bbz103099 2012/05/05 10:40:03
    Sissy
    +1
    Yep, go on Sunday morning news shows and tell the world how stupid everyone is but him.
  • Cinnamon 2012/05/03 11:26:31
    Anticlimactic
    Cinnamon
    +2
    He's another potential train wreck like John Edwards--too many skeletons in his shady closet!
  • Q 2012/05/03 11:08:36
    Anticlimactic
    Q
  • whiteco... Q 2012/05/04 21:28:48
    whitecollar
    +2
    Too.. funny!
  • Vinny 2012/05/03 09:51:57
    Anticlimactic
    Vinny
    What can't keep up aye!!
  • The Judge 2012/05/03 08:58:51
    Anticlimactic
    The Judge
    +5
    The Buffoon was done before he started.
  • george 2012/05/03 08:42:47
    Anticlimactic
    george
    +5
    It's not like we didn't see this coming.
  • jackie 2012/05/03 08:42:07
    Anticlimactic
    jackie
    +2
    I thought he been dropped out.
  • HillaryLover 2012/05/03 07:41:04
    Anticlimactic
    HillaryLover
  • gregaj7 2012/05/03 07:17:10
    Anticlimactic
    gregaj7
    +1
    Considering he announced this last week.
  • TheR 2012/05/03 06:53:02
    Upsetting
    TheR
    +4
    Upsetting that Newt is responsible for his own non-actions. Newts problem is he fails to scold his own party. He says nothing about holding Bank CEO's responsible for crashing the Banks. Says nothing about the Congress and Senate upholding the Law, and pursing the fact that with the Judiciary on his side, he would have been the one. The One to charge Bush and Cheney for War Crimes, supporting the fact they should be in Jail, and making sure the people who caused the Financial Crisis also serve time. No one follows the path of Law, and by not following the Law, you simply piss away all the dream and hope. Well Thanks Newt for not being honest with yourself.
  • gr8Amer... TheR 2012/05/03 12:58:10
    gr8American
    +3
    Spending on earmarks doubled during Gingrich’s reign as Speaker, rising from $7.8 billion in 1994 to $14.5 billion in 1997. “Speaker Gingrich set in motion the largest explosion of earmarks in the history of Congress,” said Tom Schatz of the conservative group Citizens Against Government Waste. The pork binge was part of a Machiavellian plot to use taxpayer dollars to help Republicans get reelected, as Gingrich himself laid out in a 1996 policy memo titled, “Proposed Principles for Analyzing Each Appropriations Bill.” The memo instructed the chairmen of House Appropriation subcommittees to ask themselves if there are “any Republican members” who “need a specific district item in the bill.” This apparently included Gingrich himself, as Cobb County, Georgia, which the Speaker represented, received more federal dollars per resident than any other suburban county in the country in 1995, except for Arlington, Virginia, home of the Pentagon and other federal agencies, and Brevard County, Florida, home to Cape Canaveral and the Kennedy Space Center.
  • TheR gr8Amer... 2012/05/03 13:35:59
    TheR
    +2
    Exactly..And Upsetting that Newt is responsible for his own non-actions. Newts problem is he fails to scold his own party. And Newt for not being honest with himself.
  • gr8Amer... TheR 2012/05/03 14:00:59
    gr8American
    +3
    Newt "Honest?" I can tell you that he is as honest as fox saying they are "fair and balanced."
  • TheR gr8Amer... 2012/05/03 14:49:03
    TheR
    +1
    Why is he like that? Why the entire Politic is like that?
  • gr8Amer... TheR 2012/05/03 16:53:50 (edited)
    gr8American
    +1
    What really gets me is his ability to flat out lie and act as if he is telling the truth. It would be one thing if the Nation was made up of conservative controlled media gullible imbeciles, but most of the American People can tell fact from fiction and would never fall for his cr@p.
    I really wanted his so call wish to debate Obama to come true, he would have received the @ss kicking of a lifetime.
  • TheR gr8Amer... 2012/05/04 03:20:32 (edited)
    TheR
    greight: I hear you.

    But are we Americans so dumb to really think we get anything by listening to 2 liars debate each other? Honesty is Honesty. I wish people would grab hold of truth, and common sense, and just forget about Democraps and Republicons. I think we are mature and growing beyond the idea we should be supporting old slogans that we once thought meant something, but really is nothing but a pile of trash.

    People say terrorists attack us because of our freedoms, and wonderful lifestyle? I say bologna. In all respects our own people have become the terrorists, protecting their pile of garbage, and calling it a Patriotic Duty.

    How totally insane.

    We like to protest we need Jobs and not needing to support the Elite who control our lives from their lies, and pompous derelict sense of Patriotism. Their Media Brainwashing Propaganda on a daily basis tries to influence our critical thinking and personal attitudes, in enticing us to be their servants, and slaves.

    They say they ended slavery during the Civil War, but in fact that War only promoted the idea for more slavery. Not so much Slavery of Black Americans, but Slavery to each other. White slaves to White Masters, Black Slaves to Black Masters. It is the power of Organized Criminal Governmental Syndicates.

    Make your Ga...





























    greight: I hear you.

    But are we Americans so dumb to really think we get anything by listening to 2 liars debate each other? Honesty is Honesty. I wish people would grab hold of truth, and common sense, and just forget about Democraps and Republicons. I think we are mature and growing beyond the idea we should be supporting old slogans that we once thought meant something, but really is nothing but a pile of trash.

    People say terrorists attack us because of our freedoms, and wonderful lifestyle? I say bologna. In all respects our own people have become the terrorists, protecting their pile of garbage, and calling it a Patriotic Duty.

    How totally insane.

    We like to protest we need Jobs and not needing to support the Elite who control our lives from their lies, and pompous derelict sense of Patriotism. Their Media Brainwashing Propaganda on a daily basis tries to influence our critical thinking and personal attitudes, in enticing us to be their servants, and slaves.

    They say they ended slavery during the Civil War, but in fact that War only promoted the idea for more slavery. Not so much Slavery of Black Americans, but Slavery to each other. White slaves to White Masters, Black Slaves to Black Masters. It is the power of Organized Criminal Governmental Syndicates.

    Make your Gang or Mob a legitimate Gang or Mob, by making it a Governmental Institute, a Governmental Security Agency, a Governmental Congress and Senate, a Governmental Court, and even a Governmental Military, and CIA Organ.

    People want things, but the Governmental Gangs stand in the way, dictating what we have to do for them, dictating what we have to pay, and dictating who and why we should support their Government Mobocracy/ Gangocracy.

    They want to control the Economic Welfare of every individual on the Planet, and they sing chorus lines of Freedom from Sea to Shining Sea. How utterly insane and hypocritical can you get?

    It is all about Energy. Without energy security in controlling your own energy resources on the planet you are a have not. That is a plain fact.

    But if you have your own energy resource, you have a life that is not controlled by the Elite. You work for your own welfare, and not theirs.

    This is why it is so critical for the people to reach for real freedom. That means freedom from the Elite, and it means freedom from Occupy. Occupy only exists because of the numbers of people who come together to help each other stand against the Elite.

    In fact the United States is really about Slavery. Even though they say you have the right to vote for a President. You still are a slave to that process.

    In fact if we were really free, the people would not need to vote for a President. The President represents the Governmental Gangocracy. They use it's Gang Leader Mentality of Control to assure their upper Echelon of Control. It's like a Slave Boss over lording other weaker slaves.

    If we had control of our own Energy Security not only in the USA, but around the world, people would actually be free from Governmental Gangocracy.

    People could know assuredly they have a means of supporting their own lives, without the dependence of an Elite Slave Master, dictating how you should live.

    Yes real Freedom. And so how do we get our own Energy Security? Well I do have an answer for that, because I have achieved it.

    And if you really wanted a real Party it would be call the Electricity Party of the People. Not controlled by the Elite and it's Military Establishment, but controlled by the idea, that we have our own Energy, own Economy, and therefore free from the bondage of living as Slaves to the Elite.

    Why am I suppose to pay off a National Debt of some 16 trillion dollars, that I did not create or support? And that is the National Debt. It has nothing to do with my daily debt in securing my means to pay off the debt on my mortgage, pay for my food, and the energy I need to be cool in the hot and warm in the cold.

    If I live in the US and my Religion is against War, and Violence. Why am I FORCED to pay their Debt? I should not be forced. In fact in America there are no Individual Human Rights. The only Rights are for the Elite, who only want us to be their Slaves, and chase their tails like mad circling dogs.

    So those who condemn me, for moving from the USA, because of my seeking my Religion, and not being a slave, you should be aware that I am more free than you. And even though I am in China, at least I know with the Billion people here, I am not a slave to their Elite Communist Party, and I am not forced to pay them taxes for their Military Establishment.

    At least, I know the differences and hope things change so all people find the real freedom, that America, and China have never really known.
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  • Sissy gr8Amer... 2012/05/05 10:48:18
    Sissy
    +1
    WOW! I had forgotten that gr8...(that earmarks exploded whilst the Fig reigned supreme). You can't forget his partner, the bug-killer DeLay either. What a pair! They laid the groundwork for carpet bombing anyone from the opposition who dared to disagree with them and surprise, surprise, Newtie became a "victim" of his own nefarious schemes.
  • t.eliot... TheR 2012/05/03 15:14:12
    t.eliot, topbard
    +1
    Great post!
  • TheR t.eliot... 2012/05/04 02:36:59
    TheR
    Thanks T.
  • Stan Weinstein 2012/05/03 06:49:46
    Anticlimactic
    Stan Weinstein
    +6
    Don't let the door hit your big fat ass on the way out. Bye bye..
  • mae 2012/05/03 06:29:47
    Anticlimactic
    mae
    +1
    Sorry Newt, but you did the best you could, and gave it your best shot.
  • jaybay3 2012/05/03 06:15:00
    Anticlimactic
    jaybay3
    +3
    http://youtu.be/mfrNz_2hvvM <- Ron Paul WINNING Delegates/Massive Rallies (Feb-Apr 2012)
    Really wish I could have voted for
    " Satisfied he dropped out to make it easier to see Ron Paul is the only Real Candidate for the people and Republic for which we stand, not for the illuminate establishment and Military Industrial Complex "

    RON PAUL 2012 & Vote for Delegates for him, We Will Restore this Republic and WE WILL WIN, THE PEOPLE WILL WIN, NOT BLIND VOTING ZOMBIES LIKE THE B. HUSSEIN O. aka Berry Santos SUPPORTERS !
    http://youtu.be/9ncsMke8PU4 <- PROOF OBAMA'S BIRTH CERTIFICATE IS A FRAUD 4/27/2011
    http://www.disclose.tv/forum/...

    http://RonPaul2012.com <- Last chance we got

    http://youtu.be/8h0EdpvZ23s <- Facts - Court Orders Obama To Resign In 90 Days
  • Q jaybay3 2012/05/03 11:10:40
  • Tank Q 2012/05/03 13:22:01
    Tank
    +3
    My thoughts about that comment exactly.
  • HAlex1972 2012/05/03 06:01:58
    Anticlimactic
    HAlex1972
    +2
    *Yawn*
  • Tennessee3501 2012/05/03 05:57:35
    Upsetting
    Tennessee3501
    +1
    I am shocked. This is terrible! I never saw it coming. The next thing you know Michele Bachmann will be suspending her campaign.
  • alex 2012/05/03 05:51:04
    Anticlimactic
    alex
    +3
    RON PAUL 2012

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