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April 25, 2012

Sources: Gingrich To Suspend Campaign Next Tuesday
— Ace

Sources suggested Gingrich might drop out if he failed to win or come in a close second in Delaware. He didn't (56% Romney, 27% Gingrich), so now sources say he's going to exit.

The former House speaker will "more than likely" endorse Mitt Romney when he makes his announcement to either suspend or end the campaign, a source said.

This seems gratuitous:

Gingrich's exit is a stark turnaround from his public posture just a few months back, when in December he confidently declared following his rise in national polls that he's "going to be the nominee."

That's like saying Tom Brady lied when he said he'd win the Super Bowl. "This score represents a stark flip-flop from Tom Brady's previous 'I intend to win the game' position."

Tom Brady

He lies like The Devil.

Joke h/t Misfit Politics' Attack Watch ad. I just can't think of anything right now.

Posted by: Ace at 08:18 AM | Comments (86)
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1 huge.

Posted by: willow at April 25, 2012 08:20 AM (TomZ9)

2 Barack Obama is a stuttering clusterf*ck of a miserable tyrant.

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) SMOD 2012 at April 25, 2012 08:20 AM (8y9MW)

3 red and huge, really is bad for my ego .

Posted by: willow at April 25, 2012 08:20 AM (TomZ9)

4 better.

Posted by: willow at April 25, 2012 08:21 AM (TomZ9)

5 So I guess it's down to Perry versus Romney.

Posted by: Dr Spank at April 25, 2012 08:21 AM (Sh42X)

6 BIG comments!

Posted by: phoenixgirl at April 25, 2012 08:21 AM (Ho2rs)

7 I'm back to feeling pity for Gingrich. He has torched himself to the ground by continuing in a futile campaign. Now he's broke, with millions in debt and none of his old gigs (consulting, Fox) to fall back on.

Then I remember the Bain Capital attacks from South Carolina and Florida, and I think "fuck him."

But eh, time to let bygones be bygones.

Posted by: Jeff B. at April 25, 2012 08:22 AM (irCrF)

8 That's like saying Tom Brady lied when he said he'd win the Super Bowl.

It is a little different, in that Gingrich was asked specifically about staying in even if he wasn't gaining traction and he'd said yes. Now he's saying, "well... no." So it is a reversal.

It's a completely rational and expected reversal- but still a reversal.

I do agree it's gratuitous, though: I'm trying to figure out what the point of that statement is, other than just another dig at Gingrich.

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) SMOD 2012 at April 25, 2012 08:22 AM (8y9MW)

9 So, how many delegates does Willard have now?

Posted by: Jimbo at April 25, 2012 08:23 AM (O3R/2)

10 >>>O/T Drudge has jumped the shark! He is running "If I wanted America to Fail" video has the lede.

This term "jumped the shark"...I do not think it means what you think it means.

Posted by: Jeff B. at April 25, 2012 08:23 AM (irCrF)

11 >>Looks like Matt is ALL in! He's been in the tank for months.

Posted by: Y-not at April 25, 2012 08:23 AM (5H6zj)

12 I've always liked Newt, especially as a speaker, but come on. The idea that large numbers of people were every going to vote for an old, fat guy named Newt for President, regardless of policy, is pretty unrealistic.

Posted by: Rocks at April 25, 2012 08:23 AM (Q1lie)

You know who this helps, right?

Posted by: Hew Hughit at April 25, 2012 08:24 AM (A6JXc)

14 Eh...why wait til tuesday? To say that he lasted til May?

Posted by: dananjcon at April 25, 2012 08:25 AM (eavT+)

15 Posted by: Jeff B. at April 25, 2012 12:22 PM (irCrF)

Newt will be back on Fox and giving speeches for 5 figures a pop by the end of next month. Plus now he has materiel for another book.

Posted by: Rocks at April 25, 2012 08:25 AM (Q1lie)

See, we could have had Perry as the nominee, but you purists had to insist on someone who could speak English.

Posted by: jwest at April 25, 2012 08:26 AM (ZDsRL)

17 I thought Newt had a really good shot right after the Thanksgiving debate. When he started talking about Moon bases, really, Moon Bases, he lost me and a lot of others.

Posted by: Jimbo at April 25, 2012 08:27 AM (O3R/2)

18 I hope Romney channels Newt during the debates and utterly humiliates Barack Obama who is a stuttering clusterfu*k of a miserable failure - and a cocksucker, to boot.

Posted by: kathysaysso at April 25, 2012 08:28 AM (ZtwUX)

19 I'll gladly bow out Tuesday, for a hamburger donation today

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at April 25, 2012 08:28 AM (CvvhS)

20 I'll never figure out the strikethrough.

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at April 25, 2012 08:28 AM (CvvhS)

21 Newt=Tom Brady?

Posted by: tasker at April 25, 2012 08:28 AM (r2PLg)

22 I would love a moment in the debate (I'm not betting on more than one) where Obama makes reference to Mitt being weird and Mitt responding (preferably after chuckling affably), "That does seem weird, doesn't it? But, then, so does eating dog."

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) SMOD 2012 at April 25, 2012 08:29 AM (8y9MW)

23 Vashta Nerada Here it's simply an "s" not "strike".

Posted by: tasker at April 25, 2012 08:29 AM (r2PLg)

24 Well. Thank you Newt for some awesome fireworks in the endless debates. Telling John King off was classic.

Posted by: Jumbo Jogging Shrimp at April 25, 2012 08:29 AM (DGIjM)

25 So its the magic underwear vs the magic negro (can i say that?) The loser is the US

Posted by: navycopjoe waiting for da cubs to win a f**king game at April 25, 2012 08:29 AM (iBaHp)

26 >>>Newt will be back on Fox and giving speeches for 5 figures a pop by the end of next month. Plus now he has materiel for another book.

Um...no he won't. Have you been keeping up at the mini-war Newt has waged against Fox during the waning stages of his campaign? Roger Ailes literally said in public that Newt wasn't going to be getting his old gig back.

And seriously, who is going to give a crap about Newt's book now? He has done massive damage to his public standing with the GOP folks who used to think of him as an interesting public intellectual.

Newt's not stupid, so I wouldn't be at all surprised to find that, three years from now, he's managed to climb his way back up above ground. But he's starting from behind after this campaign.

Posted by: Jeff B. at April 25, 2012 08:30 AM (irCrF)

27 strikethrough ?

~~to start~~ to end. remove the space before the closing bracket.

Posted by: Jimbo at April 25, 2012 08:30 AM (O3R/2)

So Newt has 4.5 million in campaign debt.

How does he retire it?

Posted by: Ben at April 25, 2012 08:30 AM (wuv1c)

29 at least tom bardy did won some super bowls and doesnt not look

like the total retard ely manig so what if he had alot of confidense about

win a big game becuase thats is what you do if youre are a winner

you see it in youre mind than you tell sports center guys what you saw

plus also tom barady has a super hot wife ely manig probally dating

his fat cousen take her to church than apple bees to for twenty deal lol

#JusticeForSpelford

Posted by: Jose Canseco's Gristle Encased Head at April 25, 2012 08:31 AM (+lsX1)

30 31
So Newt has 4.5 million in campaign debt.

How does he retire it?

By endorsing Romney, I suspect.

Posted by: jwb7605 who ignores oZfics at April 25, 2012 08:31 AM (Qxe/p)

31 Well, at least this will stop all of the people at hotair from trying to convince me that Gingrich still has a chance at the nomination. But now, they'll move on to making the claim about Ron Paul.

Posted by: slug at April 25, 2012 08:31 AM (k4L1l)

32 @31... didnt Obama's campaign pay off Hilliary's.

Posted by: Jumbo Jogging Shrimp at April 25, 2012 08:32 AM (DGIjM)

33 I prefer @douchytombrady to the repeated Super Bowl loser.

Posted by: JWF at April 25, 2012 08:32 AM (1l37M)

34 I'll gladly drop out Tuesday, for a ~~hamburger~~ donation today.

Posted by: Vashta Nerada at April 25, 2012 08:33 AM (CvvhS)

35 32. Actually manning married his college sweetheart And she pretty Damn hot too

Posted by: navycopjoe waiting for da cubs to win a f**king game at April 25, 2012 08:34 AM (iBaHp)

36 Tony Romo lied when he said he'd be On His Game when the Cowboys lost that playoff game to the Giants a few long years ago.

Posted by: SantaRosaStan, on a darkling plain at April 25, 2012 08:34 AM (Dll6b)

37 Romney just tweeted this: Would you let your family budget look like this? http://tinyurl.com/7brsvty

Posted by: Jumbo Jogging Shrimp at April 25, 2012 08:36 AM (DGIjM)

38 Tony Romo lied when he said he'd be On His Game

Yeah, but that's just Tony Romo. If there's ever a game where he has to be "on his game" we're probably going to lose.

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) SMOD 2012 at April 25, 2012 08:36 AM (8y9MW)

39 Didn't Tom Brady dump his pregnant girlfriend/wife in order to set up housekeeping with that teutonic twit he's with now? The one who hates america and americans? When I see her frowny face fronting some product I cross that product off my list pronto.

Posted by: Boots at April 25, 2012 08:36 AM (neKzn)

40 Inevitability has finally won. Let's start asking the really important question. Is Rick or Newt next in line in 2016 if Mitt loses?

Posted by: SH at April 25, 2012 08:37 AM (gmeXX)

41 So now we have a two man race between Romney and Doctor! Ron Paul!

Posted by: Empire of Jeff at April 25, 2012 08:37 AM (mJMH5)

42 Gingrich didn't quit the campaign. The campaign quit Gingrich.

OT: If you're a military models nerd, you could waste a lot of time here:

http://preview.tinyurl.com/6r8pbh8

It is absolutely amazing.

Posted by: WalrusRex at April 25, 2012 08:37 AM (Hx5uv)

43 39. Ha, tony romo is the Chicago cubs of football

Posted by: navycopjoe waiting for da cubs to win a f**king game at April 25, 2012 08:38 AM (iBaHp)

44 Romo needs to pack his underperforming ass off to the Canadian leagues.

Posted by: maddogg at April 25, 2012 08:38 AM (OlN4e)

Posted by: Jumbo Jogging Shrimp at April 25, 2012 12:36 PM (DGIjM)

Nice.

Posted by: Grey Fox at April 25, 2012 08:38 AM (cmYEw)

46 Rubio is getting extra security - where is Ace?

Posted by: SH at April 25, 2012 08:38 AM (gmeXX)

47 Didn't Gingrich suspend his campaign after Iowa??

Posted by: Tsar Nicholas II at April 25, 2012 08:38 AM (f8XyF)

48 Fuck Romo. I can't believe the Redskins get RG3. Thanks a lot Jerry. The last 15 years have been great. I hope you've liked them. I hope you've liked them very much.

Posted by: X at April 25, 2012 08:39 AM (KHo8t)

49 Romo needs to pack his underperforming ass off to the Canadian leagues.

Posted by: maddogg at April 25, 2012 12:38 PM (OlN4e)

to be replaced by whom?

Posted by: SantaRosaStan, on a darkling plain at April 25, 2012 08:39 AM (Dll6b)

50 So now we have a two man race between Romney and Doctor! Ron Paul!

Isn't that something like a 50 yard dash between Hussein Bolt and Stephen Hawking?

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) SMOD 2012 at April 25, 2012 08:39 AM (8y9MW)

51 Speaking of quarterbacks.. They are taking down teh massive picture of Peyton that was hanging on Lucas Oil Stadium. : ( http://tinyurl.com/82pgtly

Posted by: Jumbo Jogging Shrimp at April 25, 2012 08:39 AM (DGIjM)

52 Suspend it from what?

It can't be all that heavy.

Posted by: AmishDude at April 25, 2012 08:39 AM (T0NGe)

53 47 Romo needs to pack his underperforming ass off to the Canadian leagues.

Maybe Denver will pick him up. We need a QB controversy now.

Posted by: jwb7605 who ignores oZfics at April 25, 2012 08:40 AM (Qxe/p)

54 who's worse, Romo or Obama?

Posted by: X at April 25, 2012 08:41 AM (KHo8t)

55 They still ought to have Newt at the Romney/Obama debates. His rebuttals were like candy.

Posted by: newtprompter at April 25, 2012 08:42 AM (HOOye)

56 I thought Newt had a really good shot right after the Thanksgiving debate. When he started talking about Moon bases, really, Moon Bases, he lost me and a lot of others.

Wait....Moon bases?!

Posted by: eleven - all in for Newt!! at April 25, 2012 08:43 AM (KXm42)

57 Suspend it from what?

It can't be all that heavy.

****

I don't know. If his campaign includes his ego, it could weigh a ton.

Posted by: WalrusRex at April 25, 2012 08:43 AM (Hx5uv)

58 I liked Newt, a lot of good ideas, a lot of 'interestingly strange ' ideas, Perhaps not Presidential material, but an interesting man, i wouldn't mind seeing speak. Newt, your aim needed a little work, otherwise Have a great time with being free from campaigning! said in sincerity.
still fond of him .

Posted by: willow at April 25, 2012 08:43 AM (TomZ9)

59 Romo's not Obama; there's 'under-performing' and there's.........Obama

Romo broke my damaged heart; Obama is trying to destroy my country

Posted by: SantaRosaStan, on a darkling plain at April 25, 2012 08:44 AM (Dll6b)

60 oh and rp, blah.

Posted by: willow at April 25, 2012 08:45 AM (TomZ9)

61 Romo = loser

Obama = stuttering clusterfuck of a miserable dog-eating failure.

No contest...

Posted by: Tex Lovera at April 25, 2012 08:48 AM (wtvvX)

62 I like Newt's handling of the press but he screwed the pooch when he hopped on the 99% bandwagon about Romney's wealth.

Posted by: Tami at April 25, 2012 08:50 AM (X6akg)

63 O/T: OBAMA'S LAWYER CHOKES AGAIN (Drudge Headline)

"Supreme Court justices took a dim view of the Obama administrationÂ’s claim that it can stop Arizona from enforcing immigration laws, telling government lawyers during oral argument Wednesday that the state appears to want to push federal officials, not conflict with them."

This is big. Article is worth reading, and has immediate implications on the election: http://tinyurl.com/72upu9v

Posted by: jwb7605 who ignores oZfics at April 25, 2012 08:51 AM (Qxe/p)

64 So how does Mittens make Luap Nor go away? Give a speech attacking the Fed would seem to be the safest.

Posted by: Jean at April 25, 2012 08:51 AM (WkuV6)

65 So that just leaves Thad McCotter, right?

Posted by: nickless at April 25, 2012 08:54 AM (MMC8r)

66 So how does Mittens make Luap Nor go away?

Why bother? Luap Nor is a non-entity in this race.

That said: he should make a speech criticizing the Fed- not because it has any bearing on Luap Nor, but because the Fed needs to be criticized.

Posted by: AllenG (Dedicated Tenther) SMOD 2012 at April 25, 2012 08:54 AM (8y9MW)

So someone better versed in party politics explain this to me. If Newt endorses Romney, do his 150 or so delegates get transferred accordingly?

Secondly, if we can get Santorium to endorse would that push enough delegates to Romney to force Ron Paul out of his "delegate hunting" craziness?

Posted by: tsrblke at April 25, 2012 08:58 AM (22rSN)

Frankly, I think it might be fun to support Ron Paul, at least here on the ol' AoSHQ. Why?

To see if we can't make Jeff B's head explode, of course.

Posted by: BurtTC at April 25, 2012 08:59 AM (TOk1P)

70 -

I'm going to guess (and it's only a guess) there are enough delegates that haven't yet been allocated that if it's essentially Mitt running unopposed (my time on the RP bandwagon, so short) he'll gather enough between now and convention time that he won't need anybody else's.

I think that's what they meant when they suggested it was darned near impossible to have a brokered convention.

Posted by: BurtTC at April 25, 2012 09:02 AM (TOk1P)

70 @70 Normallly the delegates are permanently fixed to the candidates even if they dropped out. At the convention, the delegates are not obligated anymore to stick with their candidate so thus they are released to choose who they want. That's the way I heard it.

Posted by: Kaitian at April 25, 2012 09:04 AM (et2m1)

Posted by: BurtTC at April 25, 2012 01:02 PM (TOk1P)

I supsect as much too, I'd just like to change "air of inevitablity" to "Over" at this point (officially). Then I don't have to listen to Ron Paul anymore. (I'm fine with much of his domestic stuff, but his foreign policy is wack, and he doesn't actually have any plans to accomplish most of it. "End the Fed" sounds awesome, but I want to see a freaken plan for it.)

Posted by: tsrblke at April 25, 2012 09:05 AM (22rSN)

Ron Paul appeals to the college age demo that Barky O'DogEater is going after with his free college loans BS. Get behind some of Paul's good ideas, such as bashing the fed, and give that demo a reason to pay attention to Mitt.

Posted by: Boots at April 25, 2012 09:06 AM (neKzn)

@Kaitian

My understanding (and I may be wrong) is that the canidates themselves can unbind delegates and/or bind them to someone else pre-convention. Also various states/localities differ on the binding (and how many rounds of voting such binding holds.)

Posted by: tsrblke at April 25, 2012 09:06 AM (22rSN)

Posted by: Boots at April 25, 2012 01:06 PM (neKzn)

I don't think the college demographic likes "End the fed" as much as they like "legalize drugs" and "End the wars" (which Obama ran on, won and then abandoned, which is why they're flocking to the only canidate embracing the end the war position.)

Posted by: tsrblke at April 25, 2012 09:07 AM (22rSN)

75 Tom Brady is Eli Manning's bitch.

Posted by: Adjoran at April 25, 2012 09:09 AM (VfmLu)

76 So that just leaves Thad McCotter, right?

****

No.

http://preview.tinyurl.com/7lfdf9m

Posted by: WalrusRex at April 25, 2012 09:13 AM (Hx5uv)

77 Romney will end up having a ballpark range of +/- 1500 delegates by the time the primary concludes.

Posted by: Kaitian at April 25, 2012 09:16 AM (et2m1)

Posted by: Kaitian at April 25, 2012 01:16 PM (et2m1)

I don't disagree, but Ron Paul is running on a campaign of technicalities and pipe dreams. I'd rather just crush that now personally.

Posted by: tsrblke at April 25, 2012 09:28 AM (22rSN)

79 Obama is a stuttering clusterf*ck of a miserable failure.

Posted by: steevy at April 25, 2012 10:33 AM (7W3wI)

80 Does this mean Gingrich can't steal Christmas now?

Posted by: Adjoran at April 25, 2012 10:47 AM (VfmLu)

81 See you next Tuesday......

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84 [Tom Brady] is dreamy!

Posted by: NBC at April 26, 2012 09:47 AM (Sh42X)

85 [Brady] is dreamy

Posted by: George Zimmerman at April 26, 2012 09:48 AM (Sh42X)

86 Gingrich has nothing to be ashamed of. He did far better than was expected. He had to go up against a gargantuan smear campaign funded by supporters of the eventual nominee, who in one breath said that he had not seen the commercials, while assuring us (falsely) that they were completely accurate.

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