Posted on 09/09/2012 6:43:23 PM PDT by presidio9
Onetime Republican presidential primary contender Newt Gingrich said that former President Bill Clinton’s rousing defense of President Obama last week was an implicit indictment of Obama’s record, a new attack Republicans are making to blunt any momentum that Clinton’s backing might give Obama.
The Clinton speech at the Democratic National Convention was “eerily anti-Obama, if you just listen to the subtext,” the former House speaker said on CNN’s “State of the Union” Sunday morning.
He added: “Here's Clinton saying, ‘I reformed welfare because I worked with Republicans; you didn't, Mr. Obama.' He didn't say it that way, but think about it: 'I had the longest period of economic growth in history; you didn't, Mr. Obama. I got to four balanced budgets by working with Republicans; you didn't, Mr. Obama.’”
The comments follow recent efforts by GOP candidate Mitt Romney to use the economic success of the Clinton years as a counterpoint to the lackluster job growth during Obama’s tenure. On NBC’s “Meet the Press,” Romney said Clinton “really did elevate the Democrat convention in a lot of ways and, frankly, the contrast may not have been as attractive as Barack Obama might have preferred.”
The Romney campaign has also launched ads that say Clinton is backing Obama because the former president is “a good soldier.”
The ad then scrolls back to Clinton’s comments during the 2008 Democratic primary, when Obama ran against the president’s wife, Hillary Clinton. Said Clinton then of Obama, “Give me a break. This whole thing is the biggest fairy tale I've ever seen."
Though Gingrich was a bitter political opponent of Clinton’s when he served as speaker,
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Your assessment on why moderates broke right in 2010 is faulty. For them it was never about attractive candidates. It was about anger over the stimulus and Obamacare.
“Your assessment on why moderates broke right in 2010 is faulty. For them it was never about attractive candidates. It was about anger over the stimulus and Obamacare.”
We are in violent agreement. 2010 was never about candidate but about the spontaneous energy of the Tea party rising up to challenge both parties.
if independents voted against the stimulus and obamacare in 2010, then the 2012 campaign should reprise those themes.
... hmmm, so why didnt the RNC focus more on laying out the list of horrible decisions and policies under Obama? Obamacare, stimulus, debunking the auto bailout, solyndra, fast and furious, attack on the the catholic church, taxpayer funding for abortions, ending mexico city policy, social experiments in military, undermining the constitution with pseudo-amnesty. etc.
Other than Ryan’s excellent speech, the content was a bit thin. “yes I built it” was a great line, but is not a great campaign strategy.
Romney and Ryan are correct to focus on economy. they are not doing enough to nail Obama’s specific policies to that bad economy. JMHO.
Newton Gingrich said years ago that B. Clinton makes him wobbly or something to that effect. Even if Newton is right on his analysis of Clinton, the American people still believe in Clinton though 50 percent of voters never voted for him. It must be that the other 50 percent minus a few would like to atone for their “sin” of not being for their bill.
That “unlikeable old woman” you mention may not be running against Romney, but against Jebbie in 2016. Never overestimate the power of Republican primary voters to pick a good nominee.
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