{"id":12681,"date":"2012-03-24T04:03:44","date_gmt":"2012-03-24T04:03:44","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2012-03-24T04:03:45","modified_gmt":"2012-03-24T04:03:45","slug":"Newt-Gingrich-focuses-on-a-November-strategy-for-Republicans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/?p=12681","title":{"rendered":"Newt Gingrich focuses on a November strategy for Republicans"},"content":{"rendered":"

Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich was subdued in his speech to conservatives at the PA Leadership Conference Saturday afternoon. Runners at the back of a race with no hope of winning have a perspective that fosters the contemplative. GOP presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich pauses during his sppech at the Pennsylvania Leadership Conference at the Radisson Hotel Harrisburg in East Pennsboro Twp. JOE HERMITT, The Patriot-News Results of a straw poll at the right-wing confab had been released before Gingrich took the stage. Rick Santorum was the clear favorite with 147 votes, with Mitt Romney placing a strong second with 91. Gingrich, experienced politician that he is, shifted to a soft-shoe, stand-up, give-the-crowd-a-groan routine. President Barack Obama, he said, can\u2019t recognize the new technology that allows drillers to extract oil from shale because it\u2019s against the liberal rules.<\/strong> <\/p>\n

\u201cIf you can afford gasoline, you don\u2019t have to buy a Volt,\u201d said Gingrich.<\/strong> He told the audience he had predicted Chevy\u2019s electric car would be difficult to sell \u201cfor sociological reasons.\u201d “You can\u2019t put a gun rack in a Volt,\u201d he said to laughter.<\/strong> But, he added, it turns out a man in Georgia who owns a Volt put a gun rack in the trunk. \u201cOkay, but where does the deer go?\u201d asked Gingrich. It was not the stuff that wins elections \u2014 at least not one\u2019s own. <\/p>\n

Gingrich was sparing in his criticism of Santorum and Romney, sticking for the most part to a few polite and well-worn one-liners at the beginning and the end. Gingrich focused instead on Obama and the decision to be made in November. \u201cA re-elected Barack Obama will be a nightmare,\u201d he said, who would \u201cimpose a Chicago-style machine\u201d on the country. Gingrich spoke leisurely and at length about energy policy, saying \u201cI\u2019d like to run a major part of the campaign this fall on energy.\u201d He didn\u2019t specifically say it would be his own campaign in November, but he offered his strategy for attacking the president where he currently may be weakest: gas prices and energy policy. <\/p>\n

Gingrich said, the key to a successful conservative campaign is to \u201cpick fights that are the right principle but also the right solution.\u201d <\/strong> For Gingrich in the election this November, that\u2019s energy. \u201cYou find a truth so obvious the (opposition) ads don\u2019t work,\u201d he said. \u201cYou can\u2019t run enough ads to convince people gas is cheaper\u201d than when Obama took office.<\/strong> Cheap gas, he said, is good in every way \u201cunless you\u2019re a Sierra Club fanatic.\u201d <\/strong><\/p>\n

SOURCE<\/a>
\n<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich was subdued in his speech to conservatives at the PA Leadership Conference Saturday afternoon. Runners<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1213,"featured_media":70655,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"colormag_page_container_layout":"default_layout","colormag_page_sidebar_layout":"default_layout","footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12681","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry"],"magazineBlocksPostFeaturedMedia":{"thumbnail":false,"medium":false,"medium_large":false,"large":false,"1536x1536":false,"2048x2048":false,"colormag-highlighted-post":false,"colormag-featured-post-medium":false,"colormag-featured-post-small":false,"colormag-featured-image":false,"colormag-default-news":false,"colormag-featured-image-large":false,"colormag-elementor-block-extra-large-thumbnail":false,"colormag-elementor-grid-large-thumbnail":false,"colormag-elementor-grid-small-thumbnail":false,"colormag-elementor-grid-medium-large-thumbnail":false},"magazineBlocksPostAuthor":{"name":"Joshua","avatar":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/62ee23f8f40307578d1f284ecd823d77f32da8ea35541e7dbdafeb5da1a4e877?s=96&d=mm&r=g"},"magazineBlocksPostCommentsNumber":"0","magazineBlocksPostExcerpt":"Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich was subdued in his speech to conservatives at the PA Leadership Conference Saturday afternoon. Runners","magazineBlocksPostCategories":[],"magazineBlocksPostViewCount":122,"magazineBlocksPostReadTime":3,"magazine_blocks_featured_image_url":{"full":false,"medium":false,"thumbnail":false},"magazine_blocks_author":{"display_name":"Joshua","author_link":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/?author=1213"},"magazine_blocks_comment":0,"magazine_blocks_author_image":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/62ee23f8f40307578d1f284ecd823d77f32da8ea35541e7dbdafeb5da1a4e877?s=96&d=mm&r=g","magazine_blocks_category":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12681","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1213"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12681"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12681\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/70655"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12681"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12681"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/asiancemagazine.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12681"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}