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Romney sending John Sununu to attack Newt is a second unexpected Christmas present
Legal Insurrection ^ | December 7, 2011 | Professor William A. Jacobson

Posted on 12/07/2011 10:21:34 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

As I noted the other day, Mitt Romney’s new strategy is to send out surrogates to attack Newt.

Tomorrow it is former New Hampshire Governor John Sununu, a big name in New Hampshire politics but someone whose name is associated with two of the most major conservative failures in the post-Vietnam war history of the Republican Party.

As Matt Lewis points out, Sununu holds a grudge against Newt because Newt tried to stop George H.W. Bush from breaking his “no new taxes” pledge:

With former Speaker Newt Gingrich surging in the polls, Mitt Romney has finally decided it’s time to go on the offensive. One of the men Romney has lined up to attack Gingrich is former New Hampshire Gov. John H. Sununu. The feud is not new.

As a former chief of staff to President George H.W. Bush, Sununu has a grudge against Gingrich — who fought Bush’s budget deal that included raising taxes.

Here’s an excerpt from a 1990 Fred Barnes article that describes a meeting for Bush’s re-election efforts:

Sununu attacked congressional Republicans for abandoning the president. House Republican whip Newt Gingrich, who led the opposition to the budget deal, wasn’t invited to the meeting. But he was on Sununu’s and [former OMB director Richard] Darman’s mind. “You could see the Newt chip on their shoulders,” said one Bush adviser. “It was a strikingly bad discussion. The death embrace [of Sununu and Darman] grew tighter.”

There’s more. As Lewis points out, Sununu’s other claim to fame is that he convinced Bush to nominate to the Supreme Court a New Hamphire state court judge who Sununu assured Bush was a rock solid conservative notwithstanding indications otherwise. That person was David Souter.

Sununu serving as surrogate Romney attack dog is the second unexpected Christmas present for Newt after Nancy Pelosi’s failed blackmail attempt, because it shows that all the wrong people hate Newt for all the wrong reasons.


TOPICS: New Hampshire; Campaign News; Issues; Parties
KEYWORDS: backstabberromney; backstabberrove; bush; gingrich; newt; romney; romneydirtytricks; rove4romney; sununu
Is Karl Rove running Milt's campaign from behind the scenes?
1 posted on 12/07/2011 10:21:38 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
As a former chief of staff to President George H.W. Bush, Sununu has a grudge against Gingrich — who fought Bush’s budget deal that included raising taxes.

So, lemme get this straight. Newt Gingrich fought against Bush41's budget which included tax increases and the Romney camp sends out John Sununu to attack Mr. Newt because of that?

And this hurts Newt Gingrich how?! *smh* Someone isn't engaging their brain in the Romney camp, for real!

2 posted on 12/07/2011 10:32:24 PM PST by Sister_T (I am PROUD of Herman Cain and his accomplishments. And I still support him!)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Big ol’ face palm.


3 posted on 12/07/2011 10:35:21 PM PST by PieterCasparzen (We have to fix things ourselves.)
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To: Sister_T

Romney shouldn’t be attacking a fellow Republican. He should be attacking the Muslim in the White House.


4 posted on 12/07/2011 10:36:33 PM PST by SatinDoll (NO FOREIGN NATIONALS AS U.S.A. PRESIDENT)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Mitt Romney = Occam’s Razor.

Romney is the problem, it is starting to appear.

All of it. Palin. Cain. Karl Rove. All of it, Romney...

Romney is the problem.


5 posted on 12/07/2011 10:38:30 PM PST by Cringing Negativism Network ("FREE TRADERS": Self-loathing Americans)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I wonder if David Axelrod is quietly managing Romney’s campaign.


6 posted on 12/08/2011 2:47:26 AM PST by jonrick46 (2012 can't come soon enough.)
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To: Cringing Negativism Network

Romney is a symptom of the problem with the GOP.

The GOP leadership and the 20 some odd percent of GOP voters who support him are the CAUSE of the problem.


7 posted on 12/08/2011 3:10:23 AM PST by noprogs (Borders, Language, Culture....all should be preserved)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Quayle and Sununu???? LOL!!!! They are so 90’s!!


8 posted on 12/08/2011 3:42:31 AM PST by Ann Archy ( ABORTION...the HUMAN Sacrifice to the god of Convenience.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Sununu? That’ll hurt about as much as being flogged with a bag of marshmallows.


9 posted on 12/08/2011 3:55:50 AM PST by Puddleglum
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To: 2ndDivisionVet; Saundra Duffy
Saundra Duffy: "The most evil people are in it for the money."

"(The GroundZero Mosque) cleared its final hurdle ….
developers plan to build the $100 million center which will include a mosque.
Since its incipient stages in July 2009, when a Muslim-run real-estate development
company purchased the damaged, vacant building and land where the new center
will be built, the project has sparked controversy and debate.
.... the tattered building that was bought by the Muslim real estate company had
been owned by a subsidiary of Bain Capital, a company Romney founded in 1984.

So it’s OK if his company can profit off the sale of the land ."


“Bain Capital, has cut checks totaling $90,000 to Romney’s operation. “


10 posted on 12/08/2011 4:38:33 AM PST by Diogenesis ("Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. " Pres. Ronald Reagan)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Sununu is not loved by all in NH, that’s for sure. This could backfire against Pops Romney.


11 posted on 12/08/2011 4:41:14 AM PST by bvw
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Is Karl Rove running Milt's campaign from behind the scenes?

If he were, what would be different?

12 posted on 12/08/2011 4:43:11 AM PST by Jim Noble (To live peacefully with credit-based consumption and fiat money, men would have to be angels.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Romney is seriously incompetent if he thinks John Sununu is a good choice. Sununu is probably one of the most anti-Israel Republicans out there and also is very much associated with George H W Bush, who nobody likes. What an idiot.


13 posted on 12/08/2011 8:17:39 AM PST by libertarian neocon
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