Gingrich Sees Romney As A Weak Front-Runner [VIDEO]

Gingrich Sees Romney As A Weak Front-Runner [VIDEO]

Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich are competing for votes from conservatives dissatisfied with Mitt Romney in Tuesday’s primaries in Alabama and Mississippi.

Santorum suggested on NBC’s “Meet the Press” that it might help the conservative cause if Gingrich dropped out of the race. Gingrich has won just two states, South Carolina and Georgia, the state he represented in Congress for 20 years.

But Gingrich is predicting victories in primaries in Alabama and Mississippi on Tuesday. He’s also calling Mitt Romney the weakest GOP front-runner since 1920, telling “Fox News Sunday” that Romney’s money allows him to buy plenty of advertising time, which gives him an initial advantage over the other Republican candidates. But he says Romney’s rivals catch up “pretty rapidly” as they campaign.

The long, bruising fight to pick a Republican opponent to President Barack Obama this fall rumbles into the Deep South this week for a pair of now pivotal and tight races.


Gingrich: Afghanistan may be ‘undoable’ mission

WASHINGTON (AP) — Republican presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich says he thinks U.S. involvement in the region around Afghanistan may be risking the lives of young troops in a mission that “may not be doable.” 

Gingrich says the U.S. should reassess the region and ask whether there isn’t “a harder, deeper problem” that can’t be solved with military force on the scale the U.S. and its allies are willing to commit.

The former House speaker said he reached his conclusion after learning that Pakistan had harbored Osama bin Laden for seven years outside a military city, and that their investigation resulted in punishing the people who assisted American intelligence, rather than those who made it possible for bin Laden to live undetected for so long.

Gingrich made his comments on “Fox News Sunday.”

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