This is positive campaigning? Did we not go to war about this time? Quite disingenuous and unworthy of Newt. I expect better.
Santorum (as well as Romney) “lifts” all the conservative policy talking points Newt gets good buzz on. He also likes, so has adopted, Newt’s term for Mitt — “Massachusetts Moderate.”
Why vote for an imitation?
Newt spells it out in his OpEd; they’re both moderates masquerading as conservatives.
Pointing out the data of a politician's time in office -- not criticizing him for his marital life or questioning his morality, but reciting measurable data, goes against "postive campaigning"? While Rick Santorum exhorts me to "vote my values" when about the only thing he COULD mean is "don't vote for the guy with two failed marriages"? Because by all appearances, Gingrich is every bit as worthy a conservative Christian as Santorum, but with a resume ten times stronger in reforming government.
Santorum strikes me as thinking he's morally superior to me, a lot of my fellow Americans, and to Gingrich, and that Americans who center their lives around children and grandchildren are of greater value than Americans who, for whatever reason, don't. Santorum assumes the moral arrogance of every "compassionate conservative," while the understanding of limited government conservatism flies miles over his head -- in a world where it has become clear that government, from welfare to anti-discrimination laws to education, creates the infrastructure for multiple classes of immoral living, and indeed punishes attempts to right them.
Santorum fails to understand that excess government enforced by activist judges is the primary culprit for our moral malaise; he would have more government to "correct" errors of morality. He thinks I should vote for him because he's more moral, you understand. He and the likes of James Dobson certainly do.
Campaigning doesn't get much more negative than that.
Godspeed Newt Gingrich.