Newt Gingrich Wins Big in South Carolina | Eastern North Carolina Now

   Newt Gingrich, who has said many things that have inspired, and similarly, dismayed many prospective supporters in the last few weeks, found a way to win in South Carolina, and win big as well. Given a historic perspective on former Speaker of the House Gingrich's victory: No Republican has won the nomination without first winning South Carolina.

   Newt Gingrich, who is a historian by trade, well before he became a congressman from Georgia, will undoubtedly press this point as the primary season moves to Florida, where that election of delegates will be Tuesday, January 31, 2012.
Newt Gingrich on the Campaign Trail, 2012
   Former Speaker Gingrich began this primary campaign by bashing Mitt Romney's former job as an executive at Bain Capital, by making comments, which employed the distinctly similar semantics of the Socialists within the Occupy Wall Street movement. In day to day polls in South Carolina, this did not help the former Speaker of the House.

   And then the supposed knock-out blow, the infamous Marianne Gingrich (second wife) interview with ABC news, where she told all about her former husband, Newt, on the same day that second tier candidate Rick Perry withdrew from the nomination process, and throws his support behind the former speaker. What was one minor plus (the Perry endorsement) and one major negative (the ABC interview of Newt's 2nd wife), from that day, became two pluses, after the Thursday, January 19, 2012, debate that pushed Congressman Gingrich into a firm lead in South Carolina.

  When answering the loaded question from CNN correspondent John King, he turned adversity into a "winning hand" by "turning the tables" on Mr. King, a bonafide representative of the Elite Media. Obviously, the voters in the nonsecular South Carolina are more forgiving of Mr Gingrich than the Elite Media, who are historically acknowledged as forfeiting any semblance of impartiality, and working for the election of Candidate Barack Obama in 2008. To use a baseball metaphor: Mr. Gingrich was pitched a low, outside, fastball, took a full swing, and knocked it out of the park.

   Candidate Gingrich has won this game of South Carolina, and it bodes well for his immediate future in this race to challenge Barack Obama in the general election for president. Let's see how well he does in Florida, before we know whether the articulate "Speaker" can "ring-fence the South against Mitt Romney," as espoused by the victorious Candidate Gingrich. It will get real interesting from here.