Come on. Gingrich has been attacking everything from Romney's treatment of the family pet to his being a businessman, so let's stop acting like attacks aren't part of every campaign.
Romney is the nastiest campaigner that I have ever seen in a Republican primary.
Your defense of the destructive jerk is undeserved.
What?
Gingrich ran a clean campaign, no attack ads until Romney & Paul bombarded him in Iowa!!
What?
Gingrich ran a clean campaign, no attack ads until Romney & Paul bombarded him in Iowa!!
You must be kidding. Romney undercut Fred Thompson in 2008 with false rumors of dropping out. His people are behind the knee capping of Palin in the closing weeks of the 2008 campaign to ‘clear the way’ for 2012.
They brutalized Newt in Iowa. Romney’s campaign against conservatives is like none we have ever seen in inter-party campaigning.
Newt ran a purely positive campaign until after Iowa where 80 percent of the ad spend in that race was negative towards him.
Are you a Romneybot?
It was Willard’s vile ad attacks in Iowa which started this mess. In fact, Newt’s numbers went down in part because he would not respond to the attacks initially.
Can you "defend" Romney's treatment of the family dog?
I would understand if the dog's transport cage had been put up there while unloading at a rest stop, and forgotten; but to choose to put the dog up there ab initio is *quite* different.
And his being a businessman? How about vulture capitalist? There were articles in the business press at the time about LBO firms borrowing money to buy a firm, completing a sale where the firm agreed to take on the debts of the purchasers as part of the 'deal,' and then selling off the few functioning divisions of the enterprise and pocketing the loot: leaving a debt-ridden, dysfunctional shell doomed to imminent bankruptcy.
Pure greed, equivalent to Shelob. Or analogous to clearcutting as opposed to the forest management practiced in the Upper Midwest by contemporary lumber companies.
Whereas the attacks on Palin and now Newt were vicious, personal, unwarranted, and without fingerprints.
Romney is scum.
Cheers!
That ignores the record, DW. Newt Gingrich actually was running a positive campaign up through New Hampshire. He was buried by Romney attack ads in Iowa that carried over to NH.
He then realized he had unilaterally disarmed against Al Qaeda who was going after him with malicious style, not just campaign opposition. This same man is probably the source of the Herman Cain attacks, the Rick Perry attacks, and there was a Rick Santorum attack this morning.
So, is Gingrich fighting back now? I would hope so.