Newt Gingrich: Mitt Romney The Weakest Republican Frontrunner In 90 Years

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich wrote off suggestions that it was time for his campaign to end this week. Gingrich is predicting victory in this week’s Alabama and Mississippi primaries. Gingrich also made the suggestion that Mitt Romney is the worst Republican frontrunner in nearly a century.

Gingrich made reference to an Army general who lost to Warren G. Harding when he told host Chris Wallace on Fox News Sunday,

“The Romney camp has been trying to say since last June that I should get out of race. The fact is, Romney is probably the weakest Republican frontrunner since Leonard Wood in 1920. Yes, he’s the frontrunner, but he’s not a very strong frontrunner, nearly all conservatives are opposed to him. In places where no one else can compete … he does fine.”

Every tie there is a primary election it is looking more and more like Newt Gingrich will not be the nominee. Gingrich would currently have to win 70% of the contest remaining to lock up the nomination before the convention. Regardless, Gingrich predicted victory in Alabama and Mississippi who vote on Tuesday. Since winning Georgia on Super Tuesday Gingrich has relied heavily on a southern strategy.

He said,

“I think we’ll win both. I think we’re probably pulling ahead in both states.”

Gingrich was asked if he would consider stepping aside so that only one candidate, Rick Santorum, could take on Mitt Romney from the right. Gingrich laughed at the idea and the idea that Santorum was truly a conservative.

He said of Santorum,

“This is someone who had Washington change him. To just put a label ‘conservative’ on it and assume that covers everything … It’s a principled difference, not just a label.”

Do you think Newt Gingrich still has a shot at the nomination?