By John Tabin
ORLANDO, Florida -- "We are going to win a decisive victory tomorrow with your help," Newt Gingrich declared at a rally here on Monday night, after repeating the populist stump speech that Stacy McCain observed a few hours earlier in Fort Myers.
That didn't happen, of course. Yesterday Mitt Romney was declared the winner in Florida as soon as all of the polls had closed. Newt's "decisive victory" was a decisive loss, as everyone knew that it would be. (Surely, even Newt himself wasn't delusional enough to think he'd win, merely disingenuous enough to say so.) But when he took the stage before a relatively small crowd at his election night party, Gingrich was defiant: "We are going to contest everyplace and we are going to win and we will be in Tampa as the nominee."
Read more: http://spectator.org/archives/2012/02/01/doesnt-look-good-for-newt
ORLANDO, Florida -- "We are going to win a decisive victory tomorrow with your help," Newt Gingrich declared at a rally here on Monday night, after repeating the populist stump speech that Stacy McCain observed a few hours earlier in Fort Myers.
That didn't happen, of course. Yesterday Mitt Romney was declared the winner in Florida as soon as all of the polls had closed. Newt's "decisive victory" was a decisive loss, as everyone knew that it would be. (Surely, even Newt himself wasn't delusional enough to think he'd win, merely disingenuous enough to say so.) But when he took the stage before a relatively small crowd at his election night party, Gingrich was defiant: "We are going to contest everyplace and we are going to win and we will be in Tampa as the nominee."
Read more: http://spectator.org/archives/2012/02/01/doesnt-look-good-for-newt
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