From what you heard?
I hope you can back that up with a link. I can’t find anything anywhere that says Mitt called Newt after the SC primary to congratulate him.
In fact, I remember watching Mitt’s speech, and was not impressed with it at all. He sounded bitter, and angry to me.
“...it’s good manners to congratulate your opponent, not after each individual battle.”
Not true.
I heard it on talk radio when folks were trying to ding Newt for not reciprocating - never said I saw it where it could be linked. My point was that the MSM thought they could make it an issue about Newt's "lack of manners" because they're so in the bag for Romney. You cherry-picked my other comment about congratulating your opponent and I'm still not sure what the issue was. As long as the battle is being waged, it's nuts too reach out a friendly hand. Once the war has been won/lost, it's petty to hide and sulk. My original in ful:From what I heard, Mitt did call Newt when Newt won SC. Suposedly that set the “standard” which makes no sense to me. Once the overall contest is over, it’s good manners to congratulate your opponent, not after each individual battle.
I've enjoyed your astute posts for some time and usually whole-heartedly agree - having trouble digesting why you even bothered to retort to mine; it's not your usual M.O.
Let's get back to the real task - replacing Obama with a conservative. At this stage, Santorum seems to be catching fire and I hope either he or Newt (or combo) keep bleeding Romney's support from him.