Romney gives Gingrich a ‘shellacking’ in Florida
Jonathan Jones 8:02am
‘A double-digit shellacking’. That’s how Gingrich endorser Herman Cain described Mitt Romney’s 14-point win over Newt Gingrich in last night’s Florida primary. It has certainly helped Romney get over the drubbing Gingrich gave him in South Carolina ten days ago, and recertifies him as the presumptive nominee. A big Gingrich win would’ve blown the race wide open. Instead, Romney comes away with a commanding lead in both votes cast and delegates pledged.
Romney’s victory speech (above) was almost a rerun of the one he gave in New Hampshire three weeks ago. Then, he tried to cast himself as the inevitable Republican nominee, aiming his attacks at Barack Obama and calling for the party to unite behind him. But it turned out to be a bit premature: he lost to Gingrich by 13-points in South Carolina. So last night he tried again: once again calling for ‘a united party’ and once again training his fire on Obama. And this time, Romney may be right: it’s hard to see Gingrich overcoming Romney’s financial and organisational advantages now.
But, of course, Newt Gingrich doesn’t see it that way. He didn’t call his rival to concede, as Romney did after South Carolina. And in his speech last night – surrounded by a crowd waving ’46 states to go’ placards – he didn’t congratulate Romney on his victory but instead attacked him, again, as a ‘Massachusetts moderate’. It’s clear that Gingrich has no intention of dropping out yet, despite his big loss in Florida.
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Frank P
February 1st, 2012 2:47pm Report this commentThis post has been up all day and not a single comment; a fair measure of the interest shown by the UK commentariat on the Republican primaries; the following link summarises the mess:
http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/02/mitts_scorched_earth_win_comments.html#disqus_thread
It means, I'm afraid, that we have nearly 5 years more of the Obama scam to suffer. We should care. We should be afraid. We should be very afraid. But continue examining the mucous membrane of your own colons at very close quarters folks. Continue to rage about the Banker Wankers of the RBS.Continue to shower money on the antics of athletes from around the globe who want to commandeer Central London for a big chunk of the summer for their wank fest. I'll keep an eye on the enemy until you feel like getting your heads out - and I'll report periodically on the fearful prospects of continued stupidity of West politics and its likely outcome.
Frank P
February 1st, 2012 2:48pm Report this commentBtw the Speccie stoopidware seems to be behaving itself pretty well today, has somebody tweaked it at long last, Pete?
Patricia Shaw
February 1st, 2012 3:22pm Report this commentIt appears that unlike the Palestinians, Florida's Gingrich supporters were an 'invented people'.
What a stain on America and the GOP that such a vile little racist should stand at all.
Patricia Shaw
February 1st, 2012 3:28pm Report this commentFrank P - American Thinker?
You mean that far right pamphleteer supporting far right Israel?
We're indebted to people like you, who get their news from propagandists, for reminding us that Fox News is 'fair and balanced'.
Thank you, FranklyStoopid.
Augustus
February 1st, 2012 4:01pm Report this comment"It appears that unlike the Palestinians, Florida's Gingrich supporters were an 'invented people'."
PS is obviously no historian, because everyone who lived in Mandate Palestine before 1948 was called Palestinian. Only after the Six-Day War in 1967 did the Arabs
'invent' a new population. One of the thousands of lies against Israel.
As for the most negative primary campaign in history, it must be coming close to the time for someone to say what Reagan said about the Democrat Party: 'I did not leave the party, the party left me'.
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