Romney was on Fox&Friends yesterday, and I had to agree with his assessment of Gingrich’s recent complaints about negatives ads against him.
Romney basically said, if Gingrich couldn’t take the ads his GOP opponents are showing now, how will he, if he is the nominee, manage to withstand the certain barrage Team Obama, the Media and the Dems would unleash on him?
Gingrich was rather thin-skinned when he was in the House. Recall his seeming tantrum because Clinton made him sit at the back of the plane? If Team Obama play it right, they will use that weakness. Remember the Muskie Moment? The Deaniac Scream?
That’s why, like her or not (I actually don’t), Noonan’s description is right, “erratic and unreliable as a leader? Yes. Egomaniacal? True. Original and focused, harebrained and impulsive—all true.” He’s liable to have a screaming session like Howard Dean!
If Mitt was serious about taking the heat himself, he would have accepted at least one of Newt’s two challenges to debate him mana a mano. But predictably, Mitt chickened out both times.
He’s a hypocite and a liar.
Way to misunderstand the point.
Newt wasn’t whining over attack ads in and of themselves—his criticism is that it’s idiotic for Republicans to be savaging each other like this, weakening all of our candidates across the board, and giving ammo for the enemy to use in the general. The Democrats are laughing their asses off watching the Republican candidates rip each other limb from limb.