CNN reports Perry to drop out today, will endorse Gingrich

Hot Air  Quoting ABC News: “It’s over. It’s long over. Sometimes things are finished before they’re over. It’s embarrassing to come out of the gate and get shot down, but it happens,” said a Perry fundraiser who spoke on the condition of anonymity. “You’d think a guy who had 11 years in office … that he’d prepare, he’d read the paper and get prepared.”


Daily Caller: Exclusive: 100 tea party leaders to announce support for Newt  "The Daily Caller has learned that 100 tea party leaders from 25 states will announce Thursday that they are supporting Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich and will form a coalition called Tea Partiers With Newt.

"The news comes as signs appear that tea partiers here in South Carolina, which holds a primary Saturday, may be coalescing around Gingrich.

"“My sense is there is a growing coalition behind Newt Gingrich,” Joe Dugan, who leads the state’s chapter of Tea Party Patriots, told TheDC.

"A news release that will go out Thursday from the Gingrich campaign says the coalition will “help elect Newt and defeat Massachusetts Moderate Mitt Romney and then President Barack Obama.” "  Hat tip to  Legal Insurrection

One caller to Rush summed things up as I tend to see them: he wished that Newt could campaign and Mitt Romney could govern. It is time in this campaign for the American people to re-learn (or just learn) the strength and soundness of capitalism and the free markets because that is at the root of this next election. Someone must confront the socialism taught in the media and academia before the economic foundations are dissolved under the structure of this nation and I feel Gingrich is eminently more qualified to do that than Romney. 
Yet too many sources who should know indicate that Newt is a poor administrator, that Romney can run a government so much better. A.B.Stoddard quoted a source who said that Gingrich "couldn't govern himself across the room". 
A great combination might be Romney as president and Newt as Vice-President, who serves as attack dog, but who could see that as possible?  Batman and the Joker on the same ticket would be more do-able than this combination. TD


With Newt as the candidate, expect a lot of this in the media:. "Gingrich's Daughters Send Letter to ABC News Ahead of Network Airing Interview With Ex-Wife."


Newt's ex "reminded people that she could bring down any campaign Newt might pursue for the presidency if she chose to do so".  "You will have to make up your own mind as to the motivations of Newt’s ex.  The motivations of ABC might be a bit more clear. There are a few absolutes in this election.  Here’s a partial list:" ....
"That is why you see ABC allowing themselves to be the conduit through which Marianne Gingrich attempts to torpedo her ex-husbands run for the presidency.  If Newt doesn’t make it to the White House it will be the final gotcha from an ex-wife, and a victory for the folks at ABC". More at Nealz Nuze...

WSJ: Romney needs to rebut the Bain attacks, quickly and substantively.


Uh-oh; CAIR does not like Gingrich  "The largest Muslim civil liberties group in the United States on Wednesday condemned Newt Gingrich for saying he would only hire Muslims to his administration if they renounced the use of Islam's Shariah law as a tool for U.S. government."
Our multi-culties will not like this either.


Caricatures above from donkeyhotey