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Title: Gingrich coup: Endorsement from NH's largest paper
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Yahoo News via AP
URL Source: http://old.news.yahoo.com/s/ap/2011 ... go_ot/us_union_leader_gingrich
Published: Nov 27, 2011
Author: Phillip Elliott
Post Date: 2011-11-27 13:21:44 by Phant2000
Keywords: None
Views: 230
Comments: 18
WASHINGTON – New Hampshire's largest newspaper on Sunday endorsed former House Speaker Newt Gingrich in the 2012 GOP presidential race, signaling that rival Mitt Romney isn't the universal favorite and potentially resetting the contest before the state's lead-off primary Jan. 10. "We are in critical need of the innovative, forward-looking strategy and positive leadership that Gingrich has shown he is capable of providing," The New Hampshire Union Leader said in its front-page editorial, which was as much a promotion of Gingrich as a discreet rebuke of Romney. "We don't back candidates based on popularity polls or big-shot backers. We look for conservatives of courage and conviction who are independent-minded, grounded in their core beliefs about this nation and its people, and best equipped for the job," the editorial said. Romney enjoys solid leads in New Hampshire polls and remains at the front of the pack nationally. A poll released last week showed him with 42 percent support among likely Republican primary voters in New Hampshire. Gingrich followed with 15 percent in the WMUR-University of New Hampshire Granite State poll. Rep. Ron Paul of Texas posted 12 percent support and former Utah Gov. John Huntsman found 8 percent support in that survey. Those numbers could shift based on the backing of The Union Leader, a newspaper with a conservative editorial stance that proudly works to influence elections, from school boards to the White House, in the politically savvy state. The endorsement, signed by publisher Joseph W. McQuaid, suggested that the only state-wide newspaper in New Hampshire was ready to again assert itself as a player in the GOP primary. "We don't have to agree with them on every issue," the newspaper wrote in an editorial that ran across the width of the front page. "We would rather back someone with whom we may sometimes disagree than one who tells us what he thinks we want to hear." While Romney enjoys solid support in national polls, the large pack of Republicans has shifted all year from candidate to candidate in search of an alternative to the former Massachusetts governor. That led to the rise, and fall, of potential challengers such as Huntsman, Rep. Michele Bachmann of Minnesota and Texas Gov. Rick Perry. Yet with six weeks until the primary, The Union Leader's move could shuffle the race and further boost Gingrich. In recent weeks, he has seen a surge in some polls as Republicans focus more closely on deciding which candidate they consider best positioned to take on President Barack Obama. But a Gingrich rival, former Utah Gov. Jon Huntsman, said the endorsement points to how changeable the New Hampshire contest is. "A month ago for Newt Gingrich to have been in the running to capture the Manchester Union Leader endorsement would have been unthinkable," Huntsman told Chris Wallace on "Fox News Sunday." "I think it reflects, more than anything else, the fluidity, the unpredictability of the race right now." As voters started focusing more on the race, Gingrich has turned in solid debate performances and found his stride on a national stage. He has rebuilt his campaign after a disastrous summer that saw many of his top aides resign en masse and fundraising summaries report million in debt. In New Hampshire, he brought on respected tea party leader Andrew Hemingway to lead his efforts and his team has been contacting almost 1,000 voters each day. Hemingway's team of eight paid staffers in New Hampshire has been adding more than 100 volunteers each day, campaign officials said. Gingrich's team has lined up leaders in the major cities and has started identifying representatives in each ward in the state. Gingrich has opened offices in Manchester, New Hampshire's biggest city, along with Dover in the eastern part of the state and in the North Country's Littleton. He plans two more. Gingrich hasn't begun television advertising and has refused to go negative on his opponents. Yet The Union Leader's backing could give him a nudge in New Hampshire and provide a steady stream of criticism. Four years earlier, the newspaper threw its support to Arizona Sen. John McCain's bid and used front page opinion columns and editorials to boost him and criticize chief rival Romney. In the time since, Romney has worked to court Union Leader publisher Joe McQuaid, who often runs columns on the newspaper's front page under his signature. "The Union Leader's style is we don't just endorse once," McQuaid told The Washington Post in 1999. "We endorse every damn day. We started endorsing Reagan in 1975 and never stopped." Romney and his wife, Ann, had dinner with the McQuaids at the Bedford Village Inn near Manchester, hoping to reset the relationship earlier this year. Yet it didn't prove enough and McQuaid's newspaper seemed not to appreciate the outreach. "Newt Gingrich is by no means the perfect candidate," McQuaid wrote. "But Republican primary voters too often make the mistake of preferring an unattainable ideal to the best candidate who is actually running."
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#1. To: Phant2000 (#0)
Looks like they misspelled Ron Paul... SolvoSermo.Com Free speech Video Hosting
Why did I read that bull-crap article?
Break the Conventions - Keep the Commandments - G.K.Chesterson And they chose Gingrich over Ron Paul? LOL What is a calorie? Calories are the little bastards that get into your wardrobe at night and sew your clothes tighter... MY CLOSET IS INFESTED WITH THE LITTLE SHITS.
Is this sent from Cyni?
Newt Gingrich is a "Stupid Man's Idea of What a Smart Man Sounds Like"
Well, Newt did get the coveted Jack Ambamoff endorsement......"Newt is corrupt." Nobody knows corrupt better than Abramoff. lol " If you cannot govern yourself, you will be governed by assholes. " Randge, Poet de Forum, 1/11/11 "Life's tough, and even tougher if you're stupid." --John Wayne
Pantload alert. ain't that the truth! newt is a globalist by his own admission. What is a calorie? Calories are the little bastards that get into your wardrobe at night and sew your clothes tighter... MY CLOSET IS INFESTED WITH THE LITTLE SHITS.
and one can not fix stupid Hey you! How's the Honda running? " If you cannot govern yourself, you will be governed by assholes. " Randge, Poet de Forum, 1/11/11 "Life's tough, and even tougher if you're stupid." --John Wayne
starter works great. course some idiot left the lights on last night. at least I was home and could just take the truck. LOL
What is a calorie? Calories are the little bastards that get into your wardrobe at night and sew your clothes tighter... MY CLOSET IS INFESTED WITH THE LITTLE SHITS.
Did you know a car is not likely to start if the battery is dead from leaving the lights on? ; P
" If you cannot govern yourself, you will be governed by assholes. " Randge, Poet de Forum, 1/11/11 "Life's tough, and even tougher if you're stupid." --John Wayne
I've heard that. LOL What is a calorie? Calories are the little bastards that get into your wardrobe at night and sew your clothes tighter... MY CLOSET IS INFESTED WITH THE LITTLE SHITS.
Newt Gingrich Support For Dream Act Amnesty... for illegal aliens Newt Gingrich Thinks School Children Should Work as Janitors 27 Reasons Why Newt Gingrich Would Be A Really, Really Bad President: Gingrich is a big time Washington insider who believes in individual health care mandates, who supported the bailouts, who was instrumental in cramming NAFTA down the throats of the American people and who is either soft or wrong on just about every single issue that conservatives care about. ------- "They're on our left, they're on our right, they're in front of us, they're behind us...they can't get away this time." -- Col. Puller, USMC
For 100 different reasons I wouldn't vote for Gingrich if he was the only one running. Seems like the Union Leader may be beyond help.
Seems like a Globalist rag for sure. ------- "They're on our left, they're on our right, they're in front of us, they're behind us...they can't get away this time." -- Col. Puller, USMC
Newt is a corporate whore like all politicians and if he is elected nothing will change.
Pagan worship primarily concerns propitiation. In other words, they are religions based on pure fear rather than repentance, contract, or submission -- Vox Day
You are absolutely right, Turtle ... and he is bought and paid for by the joos.
"We would rather back someone with whom we may sometimes disagree than one who tells us what he thinks we want to hear."
We are not allowed to make a decision as mundane as what kind of lightbulb we're going to use anymore, but we're allowed to choose who runs the city, state, and fedgoob? Give me a break. - Esso
#2. To: Phant2000 (#0)
#3. To: Phant2000, critter, Lod (#0)
"We don't back candidates based on popularity polls or big-shot backers. We look for conservatives of courage and conviction who are independent-minded, grounded in their core beliefs about this nation and its people, and best equipped for the job," the editorial said.
#4. To: Phant2000 (#0)
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#5. To: Phant2000 (#0)
#6. To: Phant2000 (#0)
"Newt Gingrich is by no means the perfect candidate,"
#7. To: Phant2000 (#0)
"We are in critical need of the innovative, forward-looking strategy and positive leadership that Gingrich has shown he is capable of providing," The New Hampshire Union Leader said
"Satan / Cheney in "08" 
#8. To: abraxas (#6)
Nobody knows corrupt better than Abramoff. lol
#9. To: robnoel (#5)
Newt Gingrich is a "Stupid Man's Idea of What a Smart Man Sounds Like"
the most factual thing ever posted by buckeroo
I have no freaking' clue. buckeroo posted on 2010-07-24 21:33:00 ET
#10. To: farmfriend (#8)
#11. To: abraxas (#10)
#12. To: farmfriend (#11)
#13. To: abraxas (#12)
Did you know a car is not likely to start if the battery is dead from leaving the lights on? ; P
#14. To: Phant2000 (#0)
"We are in critical need of the innovative, forward-looking strategy and positive leadership that Gingrich has shown he is capable of providing," The New Hampshire Union Leader said in its front-page editorial,
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#16. To: Phant2000 (#15)
Seems like the Union Leader may be beyond help.
#17. To: Phant2000 (#0)
#18. To: Turtle (#17)
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