to alabama and mississippi? he would have loved to win one or both of the states. congratulations to rick. i think everybody understood sometime ago. these are going to be challenging for him. so we re going to have to move on. and again, if you look at this in terms of delegates it looks promising for mitt. he s the most knowledgeable and capable and selectable in the field. bret: do you think newt gingrich should get out of the race? it s not our place to tell other candidates when to get out of the race or under what circumstance. is it s up to the speaker. bret: you think after the straw poll you came to the conclusion money and the road ahead was not looking good for newt and the campaign. if you were newt gingrich what would you be looking at? with would you continue? it s not my place to give the speaker advice. i would echo what charles said
the reagan tradition of visionary conserveatism was based on proverb and it is very deep belief that without vision, the people perish. and i believe teawe need a visionary leader who is prepared to talk about a dramatically better future with dramatically more job, dramatically more energy and a much safer and stronger america. i think that s the key to winning this fall, want all this petty baloney, but the really big choices. as i went around both states talking about $2.50 gasoline, having the elite media saying, no, that s not possible. on saturday, the wall street journal, there is a piece, newt gingrich is right about gasoline. he walked through step by step why it was possible. and the fact is, it is very possible. [cheers and applause]
if newt gingrich were to get up and leave and none of us believe he will, that rick santorum could let him stop the nomination. i m not saying and romney has more than double delegates pile rick santorum has tonight. not saying rick santorum can get to 1144 but i m saying he s looking to stop romney. that no one will have the delegates and as lng as gingrich is in there, romney stay as live. 1144 magic number of delegates to get g.o.p. nomination? yes. the story of the night is that romney probably ends up, once adding in hawaii probably ends up winning the battle but this is not a good showing for him. newt gingrich and rick santorum will do better than he did there. it s what we ve seen a cross the board if you look at very conservative voters. romney is pulling about a third of those.
plurality but there is no way he can win a majority. he d gotten personal on a number of occasions nchl presidential campaigns candidates like to talk about policy differences and misrepresentations of the truth or inability to be accurate. they don t like to call each other liars but make reverences about integrity and personal character. it s very clear that a big part of why newt gingrich is going stay in this lace and continue to run is to block mitt romney from winning the nomination. there is a personal tone to this. gingrich is distrustful of his honesty and believes mitt romney lacks character to be commander in chief. so that motivation alone is clearly a big part of romney s determination to keep running. he recognizes there is pressure coming from the santorum campaign to not get out of the contest. mr. santorum has been saying this sometime. it s not a direct request for
didn t think he was going to do well. he was circumspect. then, he is going to get a lot of delegates out of this. so will newt gingrich. i managed to speak to him on his way to catching that plane to puerto rico. and i said to him, in you re speech tonight you said it s time now for conservatives to unite to get behind one conservative candidate, propel that person to nomination. i said is it time for newt gingrich to get out? he told me that he doesn t, he s not calling on newt gingrich to do anything but calling on voters and the rest of the primary states to get behind conservative candidate. his contention, bret if newt gingrich would not a factor woe get the majority of newt gingrich s supporters and be able to roll all over mitt romney. the problem is can he get to