{"id":13062,"date":"2012-02-17T16:22:00","date_gmt":"2012-02-17T21:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=13062"},"modified":"2012-02-17T19:51:47","modified_gmt":"2012-02-18T00:51:47","slug":"gingrich-donor%e2%80%99s-10-million-dollar-gift-to-romney","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/13062\/gingrich-donor%e2%80%99s-10-million-dollar-gift-to-romney\/","title":{"rendered":"Gingrich Donor\u2019s 10 Million Dollar Gift to Romney?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Consider <a href=\"http:\/\/news.investors.com\/article\/601359\/201202160906\/sheldon-adelson-newt-gingrich-mitt-romney.htm \" target=\"_blank\">Andrew Malcolm<\/a>\u2019s take on what casino magnate and Gingrich Super PAC funder Sheldon Adelson is really up to with his new $10 million bet on Newt:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>&#8230;Gingrich and Santorum are splitting\u00a0the same crowd. And this benefits Romney, who has his own money and\u00a0national operation carefully-constructed over years.<\/p>\n<p>So, in this case, the adage about following the money would steer you in the wrong direction. The potential $21 million is really a bank shot for Adelson,\u00a0going to help Gingrich prevent Santorum from beating Romney.<\/p>\n<p>We&#8217;ll see if it works. But pretty clever.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Recall that Adelson was previously reported to have told Romney\u2019s camp that if Mitt won the GOP nomination, Adelson would be <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2012\/02\/05\/us\/politics\/gingrich-patron-adelson-said-to-be-open-to-aiding-romney.html?_r=2&amp;ref=politics\" target=\"_blank\">even more generous<\/a> than he was to Newt.\u00a0 Maybe the $10 million is a down payment on that promise.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Consider Andrew Malcolm\u2019s take on what casino magnate and Gingrich Super PAC funder Sheldon Adelson is really up to with his new $10 million bet on Newt: &#8230;Gingrich and Santorum are splitting\u00a0the same crowd. And this benefits Romney, who has his own money and\u00a0national operation carefully-constructed over years. So, in this case, the adage about [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[2033,1193,160,869,3363],"class_list":["post-13062","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-2033","tag-campaign","tag-mitt-romney","tag-newt-gingrich","tag-sheldon-adelson"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13062","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13062"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13062\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13068,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13062\/revisions\/13068"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}