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Newt Gingrich: Nominating Mitt Romney would be picking ‘Obama-lite’

By Glen Johnson

 |  Globe Staff  

  February 03, 2012

With polls showing him trailing badly in Nevada, Newt Gingrich vowed today to contest the Republican presidential nomination all he way to the party’s national convention this summer because frontrunner Mitt Romney is no different policywise than President Obama. “It isn’t good enough for the Republican Party to nominate Obama-lite,” Gingrich told a cheering crowd at a country music club just south of the Las Vegas Strip. The former House speaker challenged Romney to a Lincoln-Douglas style debate.

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