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March 30, 2012 09:13 PM UTC

Newt Gingrich: The Man Who Gave You Mitt Romney

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  • by: Colorado Pols

Remember this headline in mid-November, as the Washington Post reports:

The former House speaker told Milwaukee radio station WTMJ Friday he thinks Romney “is clearly the front-runner.” Gingrich said Romney “will probably” get the 1,144 convention delegates he needs to win the nomination, but added that Romney still has to earn it…

In case you had any remaining doubt about Newt Gingrich’s purpose in staying in the GOP presidential primary, as we discussed earlier this week, ABC News reports:

Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney confirmed reports Thursday that he and Newt Gingrich met secretly in New Orleans the day before the Louisiana primary…

Romney is the clear front-runner in the Republican race and holds a commanding delegate lead. Gingrich has stayed in the race even though he could never maintain spurts of momentum heading into the Iowa Caucus and after a big win in South Carolina. Any sort of agreement between the men would be a turn of events.

Folks, we’re not saying that 100% of voters for Gingrich would have become supporters of Rick Santorum if he had pulled out, though we do think a solid majority would have broke for any other candidate than Mitt Romney. But the number of primaries won by Romney by totals well below the combined votes for Santorum and Gingrich made Gingrich’s role as Santorum’s spoiler undeniable–before you knew anything about secret meetings between Romney and Gingrich.

Once again: not illegal. It may infuriate the base, but it’s a game of snooker as old as dirt.

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5 thoughts on “Newt Gingrich: The Man Who Gave You Mitt Romney

  1. Isn’t this same ploy going to save Doug Lamborn’s ass for the third consecutive time or something this year?? Well known mainstay in their bag of cheap tricks.

  2. “…Secretary of Saber-rattling.  It was a simple matter of offering him up some of the largess of the public estate, ensconce him in a cabinet post, and paying off a revolving charge account or two and Newt came right along.  To suggest it was some sort of crazy Rovian conspiracy…have you seen me on the campaign trail? I tell jokes about closing factories and use 2nd homes to explain why my wife has two Cadillac Escalades.  My campaign strategist compared me to an etch-a-sketch, which I take it is a kind of toy that the servants children play with…or might have back when we actually provided living space for the help.”

    as channeled thru Willard Smitten, Prophet of Romney

  3. that the dynamics of this race have been all about the split of the majority conservative vote in the Republican caucus, with Gingrich’s failure to concede even after in non-viability was established proving critical to Romney’s delegate winning success, despite the fact that the media and pundits have almost ignored the issue.

    I’m glad that somebody finally noticed this, at least.

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