Ron Paul Dismisses Newt Gingrich As ‘Flavor Of The Week’

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by James Crugnale | 4:27 pm, December 7th, 2011

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Congressman Ron Paul appeared on CNN Newroom Wednesday and was questioned by anchor Brooke Baldwin about whether Newt Gingrich was the new frontrunner for the Republican presidential nomination. “He’s the flavor of the week, so we don’t know what it will be next week,” Paul countered.

“Not the front runner then you say?” Baldwin asked.

“He has to be there for more than a week,” argued Paul. “The only thing that really counts is a month from now and if you look at our growth in the polls, I mean, ours is steady. One thing that nobody takes away from me is that it’s not solid. People don’t come and go once they support our campaign. We were in high single digits six months ago, we’re in high double digits now, in second and third place solidly. I say we just keep doing what we are doing now and we will have a very good showing come January.”

“Is it at all frustrating to you Congressman — you’ve been out there, built the solid organization in Iowa, the nuts and bolts, and then you have this man, Newt Gingrich, really no organization to speak of, have him sort of swoop in, charming the pants off these Iowans?” Baldwin questioned. “Does that bug you?”

“I wouldn’t use that,” Paul replied. “But just remember, easy come, easy go. We’ll worry about that later on. I don’t think it’s all that solid. He’s the fourth person to have done this. So why should you assume that the nomination is locked in?”

Watch Paul dispute Gingrich’s frontrunner status below via CNN:

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Anonymous

‘He’s the flavor of the week, so we don’t know what it will be next week.’ Ron Paul

Paul telling it, like it is…

I can barely remember, who was last week’s Walnut Nut Ice Cream flavor?
Anonymous

When will Paul get his chance to be “Flavor of the Month”

Perry, Bachmann, Cain, Gingrich, Romney all had their chance … why not Paul?
Anonymous

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WiddleBabyDanielson

If cain was black walnut…
What flavor is newt?
http://www.facebook.com/RonPaulDisciple Robert Timsah

What a stupid interview. Ron did the best he could at the end though.

I hate when they have Ron on to pontificate about OTHER PEOPLE.

He’s not good at that anyway.

Instead they should piss him off about our foreign policy and watch him go.
Hout Bosques

Old Uncle Ron is a PLAYER in this thing. He could even be the Decider in August.
Centrist79

Chubby Hubby
Anonymous

So he is fat grifter walnut?
LJB57

Way to go Ron with Guy’s like you we don’t need democruds, now do we.
Ron Paul is as Half-baked as they come.
He has no chance so he’s going into a Ralph Nader routine.
Anonymous

”Ron Paul didn’t have a chance…” You know LJB57, in June, hearing that was frustrating, because it was tough not to be realistic no matter how much hope we had, by September/October, wert knew it was a scare tactic and thought ”soon…soon we will be at the caucuses, keep pressing on”.

But now…that shibboleth/worn out phrase makes you the one who sounds like they are scared.
I would even say that anyone who says ” Ron Paul had no chance” is…to use am old expression, ”whistling in the graveyard”, which, if you are not familiar, describes someone who is in a state of peril or fear and is desperately trying to convince themselves they are actually are not. That contrary to what is obvious, they are so shook, they aren’t to fool themselves into believing everything is just fine.

Hey LBJ57, everything is just fine. Just go home and crawl under the bed and we will get you when its all over.
http://www.facebook.com/people/Ray-Kirkus/100002630855564 Ray Kirkus

He doesn’t need to be that. He just needs to win!
LJB57

See a psychiatrist Paul, you are in need of medication.
And for your information it’s “Whistling past the Graveyard”, as in walking past one.
http://www.facebook.com/jacksonbaer Jackson Baer

Even though I have problems with his foreign policy, I think I’m gonna vote for Ron Paul. He’s the most consistent and fiscally responsible candidate by far. To all Republican voters: Please don’t elect Newt… Please.

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http://pulse.yahoo.com/_TW7RDF2EW3MIQZZTPR7O6ORXIQ robert

Frothy White Santorum.
http://pulse.yahoo.com/_JUT2TATEV3OHGQ7HZRYN472XVM Felix

Ever wonder why Ron Paul never gets the Romney, Gingrich, Perry, Bachmann, Cain treatment from Libs, in and out of the media? just askin’… maybe Morning Joke doesn’t know Paul is running for prez? … just sayin’…
Anonymous

Sourdough
Charles Ulysses Feney

Chickenhawk Newt With The Cowardly Soul

A draft-dodging chickenhawk named Newt
Went to great lengths not to be a recruit
When his last deferment was filed
With his teacher, he sired a child
And gave the military a middle-fingered salute.

As soon as the VietNam war was done
Newt’s political career had begun
The way he carried on
You’d think he was Gengis Khan
‘Cause he voted for any war they could fund.

That’s how it is with these political trolls
In a fight, you find ‘em hiding in holes
Newt, Cheney, and Limbaugh
Can’t get enough shock n awe
But they $h!+ themselves with cowardly souls!
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Anonymous

The media is just fattening Newt up so that they can rip him apart like hyenas ready to feed on a carcass. He is just way too linked to the funneling of tax payer dollars to fund his riches. $1.6 Million for some consulting to Fannie Mae that we the tax payers bailed out? He gets 1.6 Million from these guys! They ended up costing Joe and Jane Tax Payer 317 Billion dollars…our nation’s treasure. How does this type of behavior exhibit Presidential worthiness?
Lavard 14

LJB57 Likes perpetual war and big government. He’s just a rino.
Anonymous

If Newt is the flavor of the week, Ron Paul is Rum Raisin; a flavor that’s been around forever and nobody actually really likes, but for some reason keeps getting put on the menu.
LJB57

Lavard I’m getting sick of you weirdos on this site clear out before, I throw you out.