Romney will lead the GOP Establishments last gasp effort tonight to try to derail Gingrich. Today’s hit piece by Peggy Noonan has set the stage. I expect Romney to be a lot more aggressive than he was with establishment McCain 4 years ago.
At the same time, you will see those who are about to drop out make their own last stand to try to gain some traction. Tonight’s debate should be interesting. I hope that they do not lose focus of the big picture and give the Dems the bloodbath that they crave.
The Libs are scared to death of Gingrich and for good reason.
And as to attacks from others...who are the others that will be there. Huntsman said no, Perry and Bachmann said no. I can't remember is Santorum will be there or not.
And Paul is just plain nuts...but I do plan a drinking game based on whether or not his eyebrows fall off or just go astray.
I think Ryan Mauro has nailed it. This will be an attempt to bring down Gingrich - and the only one who can possibly benefit is Romney. None of the others have enough support to come anywhere close, and if they take Gingrich out of the race, they're not going to get his supporters, or certainly not enough of them individually to make a big difference for their campaigns.
This piece by Noonan was published twice this week by the WSJ, IIRC. I know I read it earlier in the week and I believe it was in the print edition of Weds. or Thurs, as well as today's print edition. So this means the WSJ is also trying to take down Gingrich, and the approach they are going to use is "brilliant but unstable." "Too many ideas." "Too confrontational."
I see nothing unstable about him; he does have a lot of ideas, but since when is this a bad thing? Noonan seems to have forgotten that Reagan had a lot of ideas. Some of them were good, some of them were not. I say this as someone who lived in California during his governorship.
But he was good at getting the better ones out there and getting support for them and making them reality. And Gingrich would probably be the same, and because these are new ideas, the old guard is quaking in their boots. Noonan thinks she's truly with it, but her glory days were nearly 30 years ago now. That's ancient history in these times, which need new solutions, especially after the attempted Marxist take-over we are witnessing now.