Posted on 01/18/2012 9:15:51 PM PST by Red Steel
The Gingrich campaign launched a preemptive strike as news spread that ABC plans to broadcast a potentially damaging interview with Newt Gingrichs second ex-wife on Thursday just two days before Saturdays crucial South Carolina primary.
Gingrichs daughters (from his first marriage) Kathy Lubbers and Jackie Cushman came to their fathers defense in a letter released by his presidential campaign.
The failure of a marriage is a terrible and emotional experience for everyone involved. Anyone who has had that experience understands it is a personal tragedy filled with regrets, and sometimes differing memories of events, the daughters said in the letter addressed to ABC News Leadership.
We will not say anything negative about our fathers ex-wife. He has said before, privately and publicly, that he regrets any pain he may have caused in the past to people he loves, the letter said.
The daughters also said the former House Speaker intends to stay on message, suggesting one thing he will not be talking about in South Carolina is the ABC interview.
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Temper, temper. :~)
You watched the last debate.
Who can figure a fickle public?
Perry rocked. Newt has making hay on Perry dinging Mitt over the tax returns for days!
It’s what catapulted him to the top, but it was Perry who hit Mitt with it!
Nice try.
Newt clearly won the last debate. Period.
Not necessarily Romney or his close backers. Newt made a lot of enemies while he was speaker. They hate the thought of his having the power of the President.
That’s interesting. It might have ticked her off that Newt spent so much money on Callista at Tiffany’s and probably never gave her so much as a cubic zirconia from QVC.
Can Callista’s hair stay that way for 4 years? It’s weird looking.
:)Hang out with Cain and his girlfriends.
I’m not.
Here’s why. Mitt Romney just needs South Carolina, New Hampshire and Iowa.
The end game is the following.
1, get your two horses in the race, Mitt and Newt from the beginning - mission accomplished.
Then you destroy the conservative challengers as they come up. Cain - destroyed. Bachmann is out. Now you’ve got to get rid of Perry and Santorum.
When Gingrich started polling ahead of Mitt Romney, that wasn’t in the plan. So Romney came out full bore to knock him down. Newt, also blew a tire with the VA mess.
What Romney, and everyone didn’t count on was Santorum. Santorum came out of nowhere and took Iowa. Romney takes NH, without much fuss.
Now, here’s the game. Romney wants to KO all the conservatives at South Carolina. He’s got a knockout blow saved up.
That’s why they’ve waited until now. They haven’t had to play it. Now, with only 3 days left until the election, it’s going to be on the news as much as they can run it and push Romney into first in South Carolina.
Nomination over.
Stop posting to me. I can’t stand you. I wish you’d fall into a sinkhole. Go away.
” Newt Gingrich is the Winston Churchill of our time. “
Crack kills .
I said 3% is good for Perry. 15% would be good for Santorum.
Combine them and you might have 3rd place locked down.
I would respectfully point out that the grounds for impeachment didn't inclue "getting BJs from his mistress," but rather, suborning perjury and perjury.
I agree he dominated the debate.
I would argue that Perry was 2nd in response from the crowd, and I don’t understand how he is discounted out of hand.
Santorum was also awesome 50% of the time.
Perry was on ALL night as was Newt.
You STILL mad at Perry’s 3%?
Grow up, cowboy!
“Dont lash out at others because your boy is taking a big hit today.”
He is a CPB. Chronic Perry Basher. Never reasonable. Wears his tagline like a badge of honor. No one has told him Cain ain’t..
Yes, Rick Perry was good in the last debate. He’s make a great sec. of defense.
He could come over to Santorum.
Santorum flat out stinks as a candidate.
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