Sunday, January 22, 2012
Photo of the Day Photo of the day: Newt Gingrich Wins SC Primary
Posted by Joeff Davis @joeffly on Sun, Jan 22, 2012 at 11:47 AM
- Joeff Davis
- Newt Gingrich on stage Saturday night during his victory speech at the Columbia, South Carolina Hilton
Former Speaker of the House and Georgia congressman Newt Gingrich won a huge victory last night in the South Carolina primary. Gingrich finished first in the third race of this presidential election season with 40% of the vote, Mitt Romney finished second with 28%. Rick Santorum finished with 17% and Ron Paul got 13%. Roughly 442,000 votes were cast.
Gingrich celebrated with his supporters in the packed Palmetto State Ballroom at the Columbia, South Carolina Hilton. "He is going to save America," said 78-year-old Barbara Marks while waiting for Gingrich to take the stage in a scorching hot ballroom, Marks drove to South Carolina from Nevada to support Gingrich. Songs like "Celebration" by Kool and the Gang and "Glory Days" by Bruce Springsteen cranked over the loud speakers, before Gingrich emerged for his triumphant speech. While waiting spporters loudly recited the Pledge of Allegiance and then loud chants of "Hey, Hey Goodbye" as Mitt Romney's concession speech appeared on the televisions in the ballroom.
Gingrich entered the packed ballroom to the song "American Ride" and delivered a roughly 20-minute speech with his wife, Callista, by his side. Throughout the speech, Gingrich gestured with both of his arms revealing his left hand to be covered in ink.
"I articulate the deepest felt values of the American people," Gingrich said at the beginning of his speech while screams of "Newt!" interrupted him several times. He said, "The genius of America is that you can come from any background," when running for the presidency before complimenting the other men who are left in the race. "If Barack Obama can get reelected," he said while boos echoed in the ballroom "just think how radical he will be in a second term." Gingrich said if nominated he plans to challenge Obama to "seven three-hour debates" adding that Obama can use a teleprompter if he wants to.
Gingrich said that the "Centerpiece of this campaign is American exceptionalism versus the radicalism of Saul Alinsky." He called Chief U.S. District Judge Fred Biery a "dictatorial religious bigot" for issuing a ruling that students could not pray at their graduation. "President Obama has been the most effective food stamp president in American history" he said echoing a phrase he had used in a debate last week which seemed to begin to give him momentum in this state that still flies the Confederate flag in front of the state capitol. Gingrich called for an American energy policy that would bring about energy independence so that "no American president ever again bows to a Saudi King." He attacked Obama's "decision to veto" the Keystone pipeline saying he did it to please his "extremist leftwing friends in San Francisco" adding that Obama "is truly a danger to this country". Gingrich added America must decide if it wants to remain the historic America or whether America will become "a brand new secular European-style bureaucratic socialist system". In comparing his campaign to Mitt Romney's Gingrich said, "we proved in South Carolina," that "people power with the right ideas beats big money."
Next up is the Florida primary January 31. The Georgia Republican primary is March 6.
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heck ya!! GO NEWT!!! ....i just realized how big of a BOSS Newt is.... and i quote:
"Andrew Jackson had a pretty clear cut idea about America's enemies...KILL THEM"
LOL...come on, he sounds like the ex--cali governator/terminator .. I LOVE IT!
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http://www.peeje.com/newt-gingrich-america…
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They actually did it? wow didn't think it was possible. The republicans put Newt in first place! Wow. He sure has those Fox propaganda catch phrases down. Gotta watch out for those secular euro socialists man!
I hope he sent John King some flowers and bought him a steak dinner.
Newt is a slug...a bad apple...a pile of baggage. He will not be the nominee. What happened to The Herminator is just a taste of what's coming for that rotund toady.
Southern conservatives out themselves as bellicose xenophobic class warriors— Santorum is the clear choice for evangelicals and Domionists. But SC voters don't need somebody who *actually* practices what they preach, just somebody who believes in American supremacy, constant war against the Reds at home, and the towelheads abroad, and ultimately the Chinese.
A vote for newt is a vote for more Defense department buildup, war-time tax cuts, deregulation, corporatism, and federal-level smokestack chasing as our economic strategy.
haha this is awesome. billionaires gonna have to dig deep to fund enough commercials to halt the newtmentum
"A vote for newt is a vote for more Defense department buildup, war-time tax cuts, deregulation, corporatism, and federal-level smokestack chasing as our economic strategy."
don't forget it's also a big middle finger towards minorities
but really the defining feature of neoconservativism is that big government is ok as long as you're killing, maiming, or generally making life miserable for brown people domestic and abroad
That picture kind of reminds me of this http://www.myfconline.com/character_avatars/16291_71000.jpg but really just makes me think that this http://www.asitecalledfred.com/toybox/images/2004/jul20/review_staypuft_1.jpg is probably next.
Really makes me laugh, all this foaming at the mouth over evil Republicans.
If Lizard Gingrich is the nominee, I'm writing in Bob Dobbs in the general. Mr. Burns, the Burgerbilders and the rest of the GOP brain trust will never let this happen, though. Most women will never vote for the Lizard and they know that.
It will be Romney.
Why so often when a Georgian is in the news, it becomes more embarrassing to be one?
Z: Did you say that because Newt is a yankee?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newt_Gingrich
Thanks Question Man. Newt's a jerk, but he was born North of the Mason-Dixon line, as if that matters.
yes but newt is a product of the south. if not for GA there would be no Newt on the National scene.
Embarrassed to be Georgian?
Never! Forget Newt, Herman Talmadge, etc. We have Little Richard, James Brown, Otis Redding, The Allman Brothers, Otis Redding, Ray Charles, REM, The B-52s, Pylon, OutKast, Chet Atkins, alla that Crunk, Reid and Dupri, Gram Parsons, Mastodon, Drivin n Cryin, Steve Marriott, Nashville Pussy and a host of other transplanted artists who gravitate to what they KNOW is a happenin' place.
Any one of those people outweigh every snake-in-the-grass politician who ever lived.
Sweet, merciful, bountiful, beautiful Georgia. Love it or...well...moan and groan and bitch and generally behave like a yankee.
Also, swine like Newt serve a valuable service. Keeping the riff-raff from WANTING to move here. It's better they all think we're just a bunch of cousin fuckin' retards. Traffic's bad enough.
I don't know how Otis Redding got in there twice. Must be that Stax Records doc I watched.
"Really makes me laugh, all this foaming at the mouth over evil Republicans."
it's true, man. hard to take tearful pleas for smaller government seriously, or to accept the idea that government doesn't create jobs, when the military budget keeps expanding like the blob
It's going to be a brokered convention:
Newt carries the South, and a couple random states
Romney (who's been the choice of big money Republicans for some time now) takes Northeast, CA/Coast and rust belt.
Santorum likely casts his delegates to Newt OR whomever promises him a Veep or other plumb appointment
Paul casts his lot with whomever agrees to strict oversight of the Fed., Repeal of NDAA Section 1021 and part of the Patriot Act (I'm guessing Romney)
Religious right goes with Newt since I guess an adulterer is worse than a Mormon, and the mainstream goes with Romney.
Obama (for better or worse) readily defeats either in the general by portraying himself as the middle of the road populist.
A wildcard is Paul deciding to run independent.
Oy, true good things come from Georgia, guess just not politicians. Well except for President Carter one of the best Ex-Presidents ever. To bad he took the GA Mobsters to DC, though he right to tell us lazy or selfish Americans to basically put a fking sweater on and get on with it.
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