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Mitt Romney struggles to find a strategy to combat Newt Gingrich’s surge
washingtonpost ^ | 11/30/2011 | Reinhold Matay

Posted on 11/30/2011 7:30:55 PM PST by TBBT

“Newt’s having his moment, but I think it’s nothing more than that,” said New York Jets owner Woody Johnson, Romney’s national finance co-chairman, who added that he knows and respects Gingrich.

Johnson said he is confident in Romney’s strategy and has been impressed by his performance. “Romney has been very restrained and focused really on Obama and the task at hand rather than the other candidates,” he said.

The second television ad of Mitt Romney's presidential campaign, released on Wednesday, is a stark departure from the first, which was an aggressive, high-octane assault on President Obama. Graphic

A interactive look at the schedule through Super Tuesday and an analysis of where candidates are focusing their efforts.

Florida state Sen. John Thrasher, a member of Romney’s advisory committee, said he also feels confident in the candidate’s structural advantages, but he thinks the campaign needs to respond to Gingrich’s rise with vigor.

“There’s going to be some need to explain his positions,” Thrasher said, noting that Gingrich’s past views on global warming “won’t sit well with the base.”

(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...


TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: gingrich; marriottdirtytricks; newt; romney; romneydirtytricks; rovedirtytricks
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Romney's strategy?

"I've got the money. I've got the organization. We'll just wait him out - outlast him."

or

"Attack now. Attack hard. Attack often."

1 posted on 11/30/2011 7:30:58 PM PST by TBBT
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2 posted on 11/30/2011 7:34:28 PM PST by biggredd1
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Romney's strategy?


3 posted on 11/30/2011 7:36:25 PM PST by dragonblustar (Attaaaaaaaaack Waaaaaatch! Vigilancia de Ataque!!!!!!!!!)
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Romney’s strategy is to wait it out and hope that he remains on top - the beltway GOP selection. The MSM can only protect him for so long. He is their hopeful that will cause most of the conservative voters to either stay home or vote for an obscure candidate (their definition).

This time it is NOT going to work because enough of Americans (Conservatives and others) have become a bit more aware of the situation - thanks to the internet and Obama.


4 posted on 11/30/2011 7:37:19 PM PST by Deagle
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“Romney has been very restrained and focused really on Obama and the task at hand rather than the other candidates”

Hahaha what a joke. That is actually what Newt has been doing with Newt even praising the other Republican candidates. Seems to me I remember Romney going after Rick Perry in particular and attacking other candidates. That statement is such a farce.


5 posted on 11/30/2011 7:37:35 PM PST by Parley Baer
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Woody Johnson

no really, what's your real name

6 posted on 11/30/2011 7:38:37 PM PST by HonkyTonkMan
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To: biggredd1

What was Cain thinking to befriend this woman?????? and to give her his cell phone number?


7 posted on 11/30/2011 7:38:41 PM PST by katiedidit1 ("This is one race of people for whom psychoanalysis is of no use whatsoever." the Irish)
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“Newt’s having his moment, but I think it’s nothing more than that,” said New York Jets owner Woody Johnson, Romney’s national finance co-chairman,

I'm sure even the Newter couldn't stand up against a prick named "Woody" "Johnson."

8 posted on 11/30/2011 7:39:27 PM PST by hinckley buzzard
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This time it is NOT going to work because enough of Americans...

For Romney, it didn't work last time around either. He's been running for President all these years since and hasn't gained any ground at all.

9 posted on 11/30/2011 7:42:43 PM PST by Longbow1969
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amnesty newt
10 posted on 11/30/2011 7:44:20 PM PST by org.whodat (Just another heartless American, hated by "AMNESTY" Newt, Willard, Perry and his fellow supporters.)
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Better than Amnesty Romney!


11 posted on 11/30/2011 7:47:18 PM PST by Deagle
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Mitt and Newt = Tweedledee and Tweedledum. They are both arrogant flip-floppers. Newt has a worse smirk.


12 posted on 11/30/2011 8:09:18 PM PST by Pining_4_TX ( The state is the great fiction by which everybody seeks to live at the expense of everybody else. ~)
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Yes, apt description. Now if those two come down to the nomination for the Republican party, who do you vote for?

Or do you stay home and let Obama win...


13 posted on 11/30/2011 8:15:59 PM PST by Deagle
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Apparently, the Willard’s current strategy of “I’ll be anything you want, as long as I can be President” isn’t working like he hoped...


14 posted on 11/30/2011 8:18:52 PM PST by aMorePerfectUnion (You know, 99.99999965% of the lawyers give all of them a bad name)
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Mitt Romney struggles to find a strategy to combat Newt Gingrich’s surge
Wait him out. The geezer will find a way to screw it up on his own .
The old Gasbag will say something stupid soon enough.


15 posted on 11/30/2011 8:19:59 PM PST by fantom (,)
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It doesn’t matter if I stay home or not. I live in Oklahoma.


16 posted on 11/30/2011 8:21:28 PM PST by Pining_4_TX ( The state is the great fiction by which everybody seeks to live at the expense of everybody else. ~)
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Poor old Mitt is probably lounging around in his NH vacation McMansion asking himself what the eff is happening? This was supposed to be his year and now Newt is just ruining everything. Its just not fair.


17 posted on 11/30/2011 8:26:45 PM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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You know Newt too well.


18 posted on 11/30/2011 8:29:12 PM PST by LiveFree99
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To: Pining_4_TX

Since when does a Presidential election depend upon which state you live in?


19 posted on 11/30/2011 8:29:32 PM PST by Deagle
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primary schedule ping to self


20 posted on 11/30/2011 8:31:31 PM PST by campaignPete R-CT (I will go back to New Hampshire to campaign.)
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