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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.”

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TOPICS: News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: gingrich; marriottdirtytricks; newt; romney; romneydirtytricks; rovedirtytricks
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To: TBBT

The NY Jets owner says of Romney, “he has been restrained and focused, really, on Obama and the task at hand and not the other candidates.”

Well, Bully for Romney. What pray tell does the Jets owner think Newt has been doing, in debate after debate??????
Grant it Newt has the ability to hold back turning Bachman into a puff of smoke should she dare deliver one of her anti-candidate rants his direction, but she is smart enough to keep her acid tongue on freeze patrol when it comes to Romney and Newt. Newt would eviscerate her. Romney loves her for running his on stage interference for him.


21 posted on 11/30/2011 8:43:01 PM PST by RitaOK (Rasmussen- the polling standard for accuracy.)
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To: Deagle

Because Obama doesn’t have a snowball’s chance in hell of winning in this, the reddest of the red states. Half the state’s Republicans could stay home, and he would still lose.


22 posted on 11/30/2011 9:04:14 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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To: Pining_4_TX

Of course Obama loses here... The problem is the other 49 states.


23 posted on 11/30/2011 9:10:53 PM PST by Deagle
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To: aMorePerfectUnion
“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...”

This has been his lifelong strategy and works like a charm until examined on the national stage. I don't hate the guy personally but never want such a progressive to be the opposition to other progressive. Just makes no sense for conservatives to chose a smarter economic progressive over the current one who's an idiot. We won't. Same destination, different trail.

24 posted on 11/30/2011 9:37:06 PM PST by liberty or death
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To: TBBT
“Newt’s having his moment, but I think it’s nothing more than that,”

And don't you wish someday that YOU would have YOUR moment, Mitt?

25 posted on 12/01/2011 2:57:10 AM PST by Right Wing Assault (Dick Obama is more inexperienced now than he was before he was elected.)
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To: biggredd1

That Ginger White link is dead.


26 posted on 12/01/2011 3:00:09 AM PST by Right Wing Assault (Dick Obama is more inexperienced now than he was before he was elected.)
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To: TBBT

Here comes the MSM to save Romney’s campaign!


27 posted on 12/01/2011 3:46:07 AM PST by Erik Latranyi
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To: Deagle

Since I am not a Democrat, I can only get away with voting in one place. ;-)


28 posted on 12/01/2011 7:33:36 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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To: Pining_4_TX

Well, you have to worry about 57 states! Good luck!


29 posted on 12/06/2011 7:04:17 PM PST by Deagle
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