Gingrich Turns Fire on Santorum

thehill.com ^ | 01/06/12 | staff

[BarnacleCenturion]

Just days after praising his rival GOP presidential candidate, Newt Gingrich took aim at Rick Santorum’s congressional record and said he would be considered the “junior partner” in a match-up between the two Republican hopefuls.

“If you think of us as partners, he would clearly in historical experience have been the junior partner,” Gingrich said Thursday on the campaign trail. “He’s not a bad person, I want to be clear about this, but I don’t know that he has any track record of being able to organize a large-scale campaign.”

[tennmountainman]

3 Days ago, they were saying “wait till SC”.
They will soon get their wish.

[hoosierham]

I just wish all the GOP leaders put half the effort into attacking obama that they waster attacking each other;the Dhims must be LOL.

[Houghton M.]

Who’s paying you? Gingrich or Romney? Tell your handlers to get you better quality crap to throw next time.

[PA Engineer]

I know what the h*ll I'm talking about because I actually live in the area and are familiar with the case.

Agree. You forgot to mention the horrific hit job that KDKA did.

[VideoDoctor]

That depends on what you were expecting to hear.

I thought the video should that Gingrich was turning the heat up on BOTH Obama and his contenders for the Republican nomination.

Am I missing something?

[Interesting Times]

Santorum's last election, 2006. There were 4 MILLION votes case. That is 20 times as many people, 20 times the size of the electorate that Gingrich had to campaign for.

If we're going to discuss Santorum's last campaign, let's include the result.

From Wiki:

In the November 7, 2006 election, Santorum lost by over 700,000 votes, receiving 41.3 percent of the vote to Casey's 58.7 percent, the largest margin of defeat ever for an incumbent Republican Senator in Pennsylvania.[36] The 18-point defeat was the largest margin of defeat for any incumbent senator since 1980[37] and the largest margin of any incumbent Republican senator ever.

[tennmountainman]

It was an article about Gingrich attacking Santorum.

I thought u posted the video to show Santorum attacking Gingrich, not an info-commercial.

[VideoDoctor]

Unless you’re the moderator chastising me I would say “then don’t watch it”.

[CharlesWayneCT]

Which means Santorum has secured the votes of about 15 times as many people as Gingrich ever has.

Meanwhile, if we are looking at which candidate last won an election, that would be Santorum. Gingrich’s last election was in 1998, Santorum won in 2000.

Would Gingrich have won if he had run for that Senate seat in 2004 that Cain ran for? Do you think he wouldn’t have run if he thought he could win?

[Interesting Times]

I’m not arguing the electoral history of Gingrich versus Santorum - just pointing out that it’s one-sided to tout the number of people who voted for Santorum in 2006 without mentioning that he suffered an historic wipeout.

[American Constitutionalist]

Other than the Newt supporters, people will see Newt as a old angry whining back stabbing ungracious loser.