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Slumping Gingrich promises sharper counter-punch
Reuters ^ | Tue Dec 20, 2011 | Mark Felsenthal

Posted on 12/20/2011 4:13:51 PM PST by presidio9

Slipping in polls under an onslaught of attacks, Republican presidential contender Newt Gingrich promises to wage a sharper and more aggressive campaign in the final two weeks before Iowa kicks off the party's nominating race.

Gingrich says he will be quicker to respond to attacks and more agile in getting his message across to voters who may have lost faith in him after rivals launched a withering barrage of criticism of his past as a Washington insider.

A 44-stop bus tour in the run-up to the January 3 Iowa caucus, daily calls with supporters to respond to new criticisms and another round of television ads will be cornerstones of the response by Gingrich, who will focus most of his efforts in Iowa for the next two weeks.

"I think a certain amount of drop in polls was to be expected given the amount of negative campaigning that has been going on," said Linda Upmeyer, the Iowa House Republican leader and the state chairwoman of Gingrich's campaign.

"But there are a lot of people out there who have not made up their minds yet," she said. "The challenge is to make sure that people have accurate information, and to get them the facts as quickly as we can."

The question for Gingrich will be whether he has enough time to rebound in the two weeks left to campaign in Iowa or if he has begun a political free-fall that will be hard to stop.

"The problem is he has probably waited too long," said Craig Robinson, former political director for the Iowa Republican Party. "This is the frantic finish. The clock might run out on him."

Gingrich, the former

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To: blake6900

No two ways about it: At this point in the election cycle, running around threads attacking one candidate, without presenting an alternative, is textbook spamming.


61 posted on 12/20/2011 6:42:18 PM PST by presidio9 (Islam is as Islam does.)
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To: Proudcongal
Good. Newt needs to start fighting back hard. Just because he promised a clean campaign doesn’t mean he shouldn’t defend himself against attacks. All he has to do is speak and voters respond positively. He’s been too silent the past week. The polls that are based on LV tend to favor Newt and he can move up in the polls again if he keeps challenging Romney.

I think you're ignoring what is going on in Iowa. It's all well and good for Newt to go on O'Reilly and defend himself, but he's up against several Ron Paul commericials an hour, all day long.

62 posted on 12/20/2011 6:44:23 PM PST by presidio9 (Islam is as Islam does.)
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To: blake6900
I like the discussion and disagreements when they are kept on point. That's when everybody's aiming at a target and some hit closer than others. I don't have a problem with that. But I have a problem with, as in this picture, the guns being turned on each other in useless, mean, relentless personal attacks.

You can learn from others here when the focus remains on the subject. Nobody learns from ad hominem arguments except that those using them are mean-spirited and lessen the stature of themselves and the cause for which they supposedly stand.

63 posted on 12/20/2011 7:01:06 PM PST by PapaNew
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To: presidio9; cripplecreek

People who hate Newt and want to see Myth nominated are imune to facts. No sentient being could watch this and think Newt is a Global Warming Nut. He schools Newt and Pigman Waxman.

Some folks are immune to facts that contradict their narratives.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TEOXI88lSw8

And save your objections that you don’t want to see Romney get the nod. Myth and Newt, that’s your choice. Trash Newt, you get Myth.

Hank


64 posted on 12/20/2011 7:06:19 PM PST by County Agent Hank Kimball (Screw it. Newt's the smartest candidate and the guy I want to see debating Obummer. Flame away. Num)
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To: presidio9
I think you're ignoring what is going on in Iowa. It's all well and good for Newt to go on O'Reilly and defend himself, but he's up against several Ron Paul commericials an hour, all day long.

That's why I said Newt needs to start fighting back hard. Romney has outspent Newt 35 to 1 and can't even pull ahead in Iowa. If Newt launches an offensive campaign (such as he has begun to do), it's only a matter of time, imo, that he begins to rebound. As a matter of fact, he seems to already be doing so.

65 posted on 12/20/2011 7:09:00 PM PST by Proudcongal
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To: County Agent Hank Kimball
People who hate Newt and want to see Myth nominated are imune to facts.

And people who assume disliking Newt is the same as supporting Romney are pathetic cowards.
66 posted on 12/20/2011 7:10:13 PM PST by cripplecreek (Stand with courage or shut up and do as you're told.)
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To: PapaNew
You can learn from others here when the focus remains on the subject. Nobody learns from ad hominem arguments except that those using them are mean-spirited and lessen the stature of themselves and the cause for which they supposedly stand.

That being said, this is a CONSERVATIVE web forum. You can be a libertarian Republican. You can be a conservative republican. You can't pick your friend's nose, and you can't be a "libertarian conservative." Ron Paul and his supporters are fair game, if the insist on hanging out here.

67 posted on 12/20/2011 7:11:08 PM PST by presidio9 (Islam is as Islam does.)
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To: Proudcongal

Now that Ron Paul’s little newsletter problem is starting to see the light of day, his mini-surge will be short- lived. That puts us back at Romney Vs. “not Romeny.”

I would be thrilled to see Santorum make a run, but I can’t see how this would be possible. That leaves Gingrich and possibly Perry, as far as I can tell. I choose Gingrich.

It would be nice for him to win Iowa, and he still might, but he never really cared about it.


68 posted on 12/20/2011 7:14:10 PM PST by presidio9 (Islam is as Islam does.)
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To: PapaNew

More like axelfraud smiling at the success of his stealth henchghouls destroying the conservative mnomentum and dividing his bassturd boy’s opposition. With conservatives, especially ultra-conservatives, perfect is enemy of the good.


69 posted on 12/20/2011 7:18:47 PM PST by MHGinTN (Some, believing they cannot be deceived, it's impossible to convince them when they're deceived.)
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To: presidio9

If not Newt, who?
There are three types of people attacking Gingrich right now:

Liberals.

Romney Supporters.

People too stupid to understand that the only person they are helping is Romney.


yep, I agree.


70 posted on 12/20/2011 7:38:18 PM PST by Rick_Michael ( 'REAL' Conservatives who witch hunt their own, are no better than Obama.)
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To: Lexinom
The problem is simple: If not Newt, who? The bench is empty

Any of the others (...except Ron Paul)

71 posted on 12/20/2011 7:41:30 PM PST by Nonstatist
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To: Nonstatist

Yikes! Not Romney either.


72 posted on 12/20/2011 7:42:48 PM PST by Nonstatist
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To: presidio9
I voting for Romney just to stop Gingrich.

(It makes as much sense as voting for Gingrich just to stop Romney)

73 posted on 12/20/2011 7:59:31 PM PST by Hoodat (Because they do not change, Therefore they do not fear God. -Psalm 55:19-)
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To: cripplecreek
No fair, no fair! You are using Newt's own words against him. Did Mitt Romney put you up to this?

/sarc

74 posted on 12/20/2011 8:02:59 PM PST by Hoodat (Because they do not change, Therefore they do not fear God. -Psalm 55:19-)
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To: presidio9
Do you have a problem with free market solutions then?

Free market solutions don't involve government. And while the new book has yet to be published, this one is available in paperback:


75 posted on 12/20/2011 8:08:01 PM PST by Hoodat (Because they do not change, Therefore they do not fear God. -Psalm 55:19-)
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To: Hoodat
Free market solutions don't involve government

Hmmm: "Ten Committments You Can Make To Protect The Enviornment Now"

Nope. I have no idea what you are talking about.

I don't think you do either.

76 posted on 12/20/2011 8:16:23 PM PST by presidio9 (Islam is as Islam does.)
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To: presidio9

What “really” happened there was a continuation of Newtonian “environmentalist” behavior since about the late 1990s. He even came out against oil/gas in his book ‘Contract with the Earth’, one of those bestselling achievements he always pumps when he has an interview. Just because you’ve fallen for the Newt election propaganda doesn’t mean everyone else has to.
It’s people like you who are forcing us to choose between two different RINOs, when we have candidates with better principles to choose from. Even Perry with his immigration problem has a better character than Newt.


77 posted on 12/21/2011 12:22:58 AM PST by Apollo5600
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To: presidio9

You apologist, in that book Newt does the same thing he always does. He tackles fake BS liberal problems with alleged “conservative” solutions. You even wrote that he wrote that book “two years” before the scandal, yet Newt won’t even condemn the global warming crud when pressed on it. You’ve been brainwashed, and like most people who have been abused, you want to become an abuser yourself and force all of us to become just like you. It’s a vicious cycle.


78 posted on 12/21/2011 12:25:49 AM PST by Apollo5600
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To: NFHale

That’s it!

LLS


79 posted on 12/21/2011 4:13:57 AM PST by LibLieSlayer ("Americans are hungry to feel once again a sense of mission and greatness." Ronaldo Magnus)
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To: Lazlo in PA

Good. Let them vote for Paul, and then you’ll see total panic among the elites including that skinny dumb @ss Ann Coulter. Newt is in for the long haul. He places in Iowa and NH then he hits them hard in SC and FL. I’m not in panic mode like everyone else is here.


80 posted on 12/21/2011 4:15:54 AM PST by nikos1121
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