Posted on 01/30/2012 5:56:20 PM PST by delacoert
(Reuters) - A confident Mitt Romney solidified his lead in Florida polls and ridiculed Republican rival Newt Gingrich on Monday, calling his opponent's attacks "sad" and "painfully revealing" the day before the state's crucial presidential primary.
Romney's self-assuredness was on full display during a campaign tour that felt at times like a victory lap, with the front-runner telling a crowd of 2,000 in Dunedin, Florida: "With a turnout like this I got a feeling we might win tomorrow."
"There's no question that politics ain't bean bags, and we have made sure that our message is out loud and clear," Romney said on NBC's "Today" show.
Gingrich, hit hard last week by a more aggressive Romney strategy, branded his rival as a party insider and elite friend of Wall Street while pledging to stay in the presidential race for the long haul no matter what the outcome in Florida.
"On big philosophical issues, he is for all practical purposes a liberal and I am a conservative and that's what this fight is going to be about all the way to the convention," he said of Romney on "CBS This Morning."
Romney shrugged off the continued Gingrich attacks, drawing cheers from the crowd when he said Gingrich was not doing too well and had been "flailing about."
"I know, it's sad isn't it?" Romney said, calling it "painfully revealing" and adding: "You've just gotta shake your head."
The bitter back-and-forth in Florida was hardly surprising after two turbulent weeks in what is widely considered the most volatile Republican race for the White House in recent memory.
Just 10 days ago, Romney was limping out of South Carolina, where he came in second. Now Florida is his for the taking after prominent conservatives and party ...
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The more he talks, the more he repulses me.
I will never vote for him. Third party or write in for President and then vote a straight R ticket and hope for gridlock to be the least of our worries.
God have mercy on us.
The two of us should sitting together in the ER right now.
Our collective goal is to shove each and every one of those words down the throat of Mitt Romney. Down the throat of the media, and down the throat of the GOP-e.
I detest elitist snobs and A** Clowns - so I guess that means I loathe Mitt Romney... I couldn’t even hold my nose to vote for this classless man.
LOL
Perfectly said, to remind us of self-deported
THAT's the word!! "Gloating." Thank you! I've been reading through these posts and thinking about the audio I've heard on hourly news reports featuring Romney talking about the voting tomorrow. In 2007-08, Romney supporters here on Free Republic, UNLIKE the supporters of any of the other candidates, whether it was Giulianni, Thompson, Huckabee, or McCain, the Romney supporters consistently exhibited all the traits of the kind of bad sports we knew in school -- you remember, the ones who blamed everyone but themselves when they lost, complained, whined, lashed out, and were -- bad sports.
And when Romney lost, I thanked God often that he lost because bad sports are as disgusting in victory as they are in defeat. When bad sports win -- and I think probably all of us can think back on school sports with bad sports -- when they win, they're cocky, they GLOAT -- the lord it over the losing players, they chortle and gloat. They're sh*theels top to bottumus.
Romney's supporters on FR were PILLS. They were pills when their guy lost, and they'd have been pills if he'd won.
No matter what the vote count is, the truth is that Mitt Romney will ALWAYS be a loser.
There are so many uninformed talk show hosts and now we can add Mark Davis to the list.
They just don’t get it.
They have no basis for making the comment that Newt is unelectable.
Only a true jerk goes up and gloats before the votes have been cast ....
Seriously. What a low class act.
And thinking about what Rush said today ...that it’s just POLITICS that we have all this nastiness - and that sometimes it IS who has the most money ....
Well, how much of the money Romney has spent in florida really from donations and/or everyday voters?? It’s HIS money. HE is buying this election!!
Big difference between that and what Newt and others raise through MOSTLY individual smaller donations.
I’m so dismayed by all of this pay to play ...
We have the best Government money can buy!
You aren’t missing much at all. As with most of us around here, up until The Willard’s cowardly sliming of Newt in Iowa and SC, we all knew The Willard was a compulsive liar and at least as big an idiot as his line bred daddy, Jorge W. Romney. But, except for the more serious observers with more detailed data sets on The Willard, most of us, even after Iowa and SC, didn’t realize that The Willard is a truly evil piece of fascist scum with no compunction whatsoever about using the Big Lie tactic when he is in trouble, a la Goebbels, Alinsky, Marx, Walter Duranty, etc., etc. How stupid is he? For openers, he’s sufficiently stupid, apparently, to think that after all of his Goebbelian petit mal seizures, foaming at the mouth with his eyes as crazy as any meth freak, he has a chance of keeping enough of the independent vote to beat the chimp. Not going to happen. Add to that the fact that he hasn’t produced all of his tax returns, or the exact sources of any capital contributions he paid into Bain however slight. Nor has he explained how many other draft age Mormons were designated as ‘ministers of religion’, thereby ending up with 2 1/2 years of draft deferrals during the height of the VietNam war. In short, The Willard’s VietNam record of draft avoidance makes John Kerry look like a patriot. While the precise facts surrounding Willard’s curious immunity fron the draft appear to have been pulled from the web, they will be brought to light in the sad event that he becomes the nominee. He’s damaged goods, and a snake, bigtime.
What a nasty way to treat a fellow republican. Let me write the speech he should have given: Newt has been a formidable opponent, and I hope that when this primary season ends, that we will be as great friends as we have been great opponents. I hope that all of us together, whether you supported me or one of my wonderful fellow republicans in the primary will work defeat the real enemy, Barak Obama. People, I think we have the Florida election in the bag thanks to the support of all of you here, and throughout the great state of Florida, and I thank you. And to Newt, this was a fight well fought, my friend. Now let us take this fight to Obama where it belongs! But he say any such thing, and I hope somehow that nasty man loses. And I will note vote for him, EVER
That’s just it, Davis said that but the. Didn’t back it up with any information to substantiate it. I’m surprised be didn’t just say “because I said so!”
I have to say the one thing I miss about Perry being in the race was he made Robomney lose his cool! Hannity mentioned tha Perry is out campaigning for Newt, thought that was good to hear.
Recently when mark davis was substituting for Rush I heard him go through the usual list of Gingrich baggage, ie the wife, fannie mae, freddie mac, the reprimand, fine, etc. If he had done any due diligence at all he would have known that most of what he was spouting was BS.
Upshot: mark davis is a complete imbecile whose claim to fame consists of being able to talk without a stutter.
Yes, I would like to know, for example where the “capital” in Bain Capital came from? Was that capital his family inheritance or did he build that capital up first, to have the means to invest in all these firms he “rescued” or whatever he did with them?
Somehow I think it was inherited money but no one ever told us that I know of.
And what that distills down to is, Romney is just an incompetent politician. He is awful at politicking. He just doesn’t get it.
The democrats are going to roll him.
To be honest, he would NEED to be rolled if, God forbid, he won the GOP nom. People who tell themselves that Romney would be a lesser evil than Obama are kidding themselves. He is fully as depraved and destructive as Obama.
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