Posted on 01/07/2012 2:26:31 PM PST by Jim Robinson
No more Mr. Nice Newt?
Newt Gingrich, after being walloped by negative ads in Iowa and finishing fourth, is planning a far more aggressive strategy to "contrast" himself against Mitt Romney in the run-up to the South Carolina primary.
Voters will get a glimpse of Gingrich's post-Iowa tone during back-to-back debates in New Hampshire ahead of that state's primary on Tuesday. The former House speaker told Fox News on Saturday that he won't be "mean-spirited" but will talk about the differences between himself and the former Massachusetts governor.
While Gingrich is vowing to shun the kind of "negative" ads he claims were responsible for bringing him down in Iowa, his campaign and his campaign's supporters are certainly dialing up the heat on Romney. For starters, Gingrich has started to talk about Romney's record on abortion.
"I am genuinely right-to-life -- Romneycare includes tax-paid abortions," Gingrich said Saturday. His campaign is planning to air an ad "soon" on the abortion issue.
While Gingrich claims Romney's abortion record is sullied by his state's health care overhaul -- or "Romneycare" -- the candidate has said the state faced a court order to cover abortions, and it's misleading to suggest he ever pushed taxpayer funding for abortions. Romney's campaign also released a letter from several conservative leaders Saturday praising his record on abortion and marriage. But Gingrich has repeated the abortion charge on a new web site his campaign rolled out called NotRomney.org.
The site includes a flier that states "Mitt Romney has a record of supporting taxpayer funded abortions." It also accuses Romney of backing "higher taxes" and nominating "liberal, activist judges," while arguing that he "is not electable."
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Newt or someone needs to point out that whether or not Republicans agree with it or not, Romney has said many things that the Democrats will be able to wallop him with. Newt should ask him, how is Romney going to defend remarks like this about foreclosures when Obama brings them up...
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/18/mitt-romney-foreclosure-relief_n_1017751.html
“Don’t try to stop the foreclosure process. Let it run its course and hit the bottom,” Romney said when asked what he would do to jump-start the floundering housing market.
“Allow investors to buy homes, put renters in them, fix the homes up and let it turn around and come back up,” he continued. “The Obama administration has slow walked the foreclosure process ... that has long existed and as a result we still have a foreclosure overhang.”
Oh come on. I’m fine with reasonable debate—backing up allegations with substantive evidence, etc. But these childish smears need to stop.
Good for Newt. I like him to take out Romney and self immolate the way he has been doing for the past two plus weeks. It will then be between Perry and Santorum. Small government conservative vs. big government conservative. Executive leader vs. legislative leader. At least, it will be between two humble, grounded, grown poor, American success stories in Perry and Santorum.
Not an ego maniac like Newt and a twist in the wind stick figure Romney.
Newt happened to Newt. He could not cover up his personality flaws long enough. He is who he is.
He can’t. He gave his full support right after Romneycare passed. Both will go down and I will be too happy.
Newt better pump up the volume tonight and tomorrow morning or we are all going to be left with choosing between Mitt from Column A and Mitt from Column B.
“Newt needs to run a negative ad on Romney regarding jobs and the economy based upon his past record”
Nah—Newt’s PACs should run the ads and when mittens whines about it, Newt can simply shrug his shoulders and say he can’t contol what other people do. Nothing like striking back the same way or harder than when one is struck.
So then who? Perry? He can't debate his way out of a paper bag which won't gain any votes. I'd gladly vote for him but he's no where near prepared to play down and dirty in Chicago politics.
We don’t want Romneycare anymore than we wanted Obamacare.
Throw out the bum.
Amen.
And, I might add: Pro-God, pro-life, small government, big defense Ronald Reagan conservative Newt Gingrich is the only candidate I see openly willing to challenge and take on the liberal activist judiciary. The others, especially Mitt, will simply roll over for business as usual and acquiesce to our black robed rulers.
God has so richly blessed the United States of America with our divinely conceived Declaration of Independence, Constitution and Bill of Rights as the only nation on earth that recognizes our unalienable rights come directly from God, our creator, and all legal powers are enumerated, balanced and distributed among the three coequal branches, the states and we the people, especially we the people as the sovereigns, as government derives its just powers only at the consent of the governed.
May I get an Amen?
Amen!
GO NEWT!
Noot should bring this up.
You should be quite familiar by now with the fact that Mitt Romney gave $150.00 to Planned Parenthood in 1994 when claiming he had always been pro-abortion.
You should also know that in 2004, Mitt Romney says he personally converted to the pro-life position. In fact, according to ABC News on June 14, 2007, “Former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney has long cited a November 2004 meeting with a Harvard stem-cell researcher as the moment that changed his long-held stance of supporting abortion rights to his current ‘pro-life’ position opposing legal abortion. But several actions Romney took mere months after that meeting call into question how deep-seated his conversion truly was.”
What was one of those actions?
Two months after his pro-life conversion, Mitt Romney appointed Matthew Nestor to the bench in Massachusetts. Romney seeming bowed to political pressure making Nestor a judge even after Nestor, according to the Boston Globe as far back as 1994, had campaigned for political office championing his pro-abortion views....
Hear the prayer of you children, Lord
Amen
#20 - most inane post I have ever read on FR, and I’ve been here a long time.
#20 - most inane post I have ever read on FR, and I’ve been here a long time.
I can agree with that!
The Man Who Couldn’t Beat Obama Endorses the Man Who Couldn’t Beat McCain
Concur. I will take Santorum over Newt any day.
Newt has become a petulant, undisciplined, childish whiner who cannot play in the big leagues. He is demonstrating that he doesn’t have temperament to be President.
Imagine if the GOP were to nominate Gingrich. By Labor Day Obama will have the Rose Garden, serial adulterer Gingrich would have the tabloids.
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