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Romney blasts Gingrich over attacks on debate moderators, news media
The Hill ^ | 1/25/2012 | Jonathan Easley

Posted on 01/25/2012 8:58:10 AM PST by Thane_Banquo

Mitt Romney attacked his GOP presidential rival Newt Gingrich over what has to date been one of Gingrich’s most effective debate methods — going after the moderators and the media for questions he deems inappropriate.

“It’s very easy to talk down a moderator,” Romney said Wednesday on Fox News. “The moderator asks a question and then has to sit by and take whatever you send to them. And Speaker Gingrich has been wonderful at attacking the moderators and attacking the media.”

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To: Thane_Banquo
Well, this will set Romney back another 5% in the national polls.

Just who in the he!! is advising this guy? Are they retarded?

101 posted on 01/25/2012 11:41:54 AM PST by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: Thane_Banquo

The ineligible, metamorphosing, carpetbagging vulture-fascist:
"I bet you $10,000 that you rot in jail for this
while I will be lauded for imposing
this RomneyCARE/ObamaCARE, its costly boondoggle,
its death panels, and
its insidious destruction of health care, here, today."

102 posted on 01/25/2012 11:48:57 AM PST by Diogenesis ("Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. " Pres. Ronald Reagan)
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To: Vigilanteman

“narcissism is actually grounded in reality ...”

Narcissism is grounded in the person about the person as in Obama.

Newt Gingrich has proven his love for this country over and over again.

As in this article already posted on FR.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2837275/posts?page=1

This man was there and fully supports Newt Gingrich.

Very much worth the time to read, it is full of history and facts.


103 posted on 01/25/2012 11:52:07 AM PST by ConfidentConservative (If my people shall humble themselves and pray,I will hear from Heaven and heal their land.)
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To: Diogenesis

The joke is clearly on the poor saps who had to pay increased taxes and premiums to finance the social engineering of the Massachusetts mafia.


104 posted on 01/25/2012 11:54:55 AM PST by littleharbour
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To: ConfidentConservative

As they said in the old west “It ain’t bragging if it’s fact.”


105 posted on 01/25/2012 12:05:09 PM PST by Vigilanteman (Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
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To: ArrogantBustard; onyx
Your right again...

I think people are recognizing this is a battle for this country on many fronts...though slow in them coming around. I think Palin made us all see there needed to be a fighter out in front....she rose the Banner and like her or not she called this fight for what is.

Palin struck the fight in all of us where we had been formerly knocked down and almost out. I will always admire her for that....and most should.

I also think Newt knew she had done that but I doubt he thought it would be a woman who would turn the tide. He has always supported her efforts as well.

BTW I'm not a Palin-ite but I sure can recognize credit where it is due. ...and no surprise to me Todd got on board with Newt.

"Alpha men rub shoulders with like minds".

106 posted on 01/25/2012 12:20:12 PM PST by caww
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To: ConfidentConservative
Very much worth the time to read, it is full of history and facts.

You're right about the linked article....more than worth the read on Newt being 'Reagans Lieutenant'....it was a great read! All should do so.... including those who question Newt's candidacy.

107 posted on 01/25/2012 12:25:14 PM PST by caww
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To: C. Edmund Wright; xzins; Thane_Banquo
I am telling you, the consultants for both candidates do not believe it is profitable to run against the media. They don’t get it.

There is the old political adage that you never go to war against people who buy ink by the barrel.

That adage does not apply anymore because every citizen in the United States now has the same access to the internet that the NYT and all the print media have. And the NYT no longer buys ink by the barrel. They buy it by the pint.

The news and opinions of this country are no longer the sole exclusive property of the MSM. Thanks to Al Gore's invention, that property belongs to all of us now.

I say that when the MSM is attacking you and coming to the defense of your enemies, that it is a good strategy to fire back. They have no real power anymore. It is all an illusion, a shadow of the power they once held.

Go Newt Go.

108 posted on 01/25/2012 12:26:38 PM PST by P-Marlowe (NEWT!!! Because everyone else is just average.)
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To: RoosterRedux

Willard is just sorry he didn’t think of it first so he could have gotten that standing ovation.


109 posted on 01/25/2012 12:29:25 PM PST by Georgia Girl 2 (The only purpose of a pistol is to fight your way back to the rifle you should never have dropped.)
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To: Thane_Banquo

Romney just figured out what happened to him about ten days ago.


110 posted on 01/25/2012 12:30:53 PM PST by ez (When you're a hammer, everything looks like a nail.)
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To: C. Edmund Wright
I am telling you, the consultants for both candidates do not believe it is profitable to run against the media. They don’t get it. Newt ignores his consultants but I know for a fact some of his consultants this this is true. Apparently Mitt believes his idiot consultants.

That's because everything they believe and witness takes place INSIDE THE MEDIA. They are terrified that someone like Reagan will go straight to the people and bypass their little media world, rendering them powerless like they were in 1984.

111 posted on 01/25/2012 12:34:12 PM PST by ez (When you're a hammer, everything looks like a nail.)
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To: Thane_Banquo
Speaker Gingrich has been wonderful at attacking the moderators and attacking the media.

PRECISELY! They deserve it, after decades of manipulating the American people.

We have a champion, and it ain't you, Willard!

112 posted on 01/25/2012 12:35:34 PM PST by Old Sarge (RIP FReeper Skyraider (1930-2011) - You Are Missed)
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To: Vigilanteman

[ Correct. Newt has the MSM against the ropes now. If he were to stop punching, it would be the equivalent of having his own bimbo eruption back in 1998 when he had Clinton on the ropes and folded like a cheap lawn chair.

The enemedia needs to be permanently discredited even if they succeed in forcing this country to endure another four years of ObaMao as their last hurrah. ]

The media can do far more damage in the long term than obama can in four years in it’s current state.


113 posted on 01/25/2012 12:38:48 PM PST by GraceG
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To: Thane_Banquo

Neither Romney nor Obama are as stupid as they appear.

Someone after all is writing the words on Barry’s teleprompter.

In Romney’s case he is being programmed with the latest techniques used by religious cults. Mitt is so programmed that could put his hand over a flame and never feel a thing unlike G. Gordon who charbroiled his hand to prove how much pain he could endure.


114 posted on 01/25/2012 12:46:32 PM PST by Biblebelter
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To: P-Marlowe; ez

Yes, I agree with both you on the what’s and the why’s - I was just putting it out there that those folks are also inside Newt’s camp - I’ve dealt with some of them - and to some degree they have his ear. And of course, they dominate the Mitt staff and Mitt is more or less a totally handled creature of the BS they feed him - which is why of course he “cannot connect” with the voter - and of course they have “no idea” why this is the case.

Newt does better when he ignores these folks.


115 posted on 01/25/2012 12:49:50 PM PST by C. Edmund Wright
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To: Thane_Banquo

Romney now backing NBC and CNN?
What a Rino he has proved to be.
What with Charlie the traitor Crist
running his campaign, and his defense
of Romney Care, he has established his
liberal agenda.


116 posted on 01/25/2012 12:50:03 PM PST by OPS4 (Ops4 God Bless America!Jesus is Lord)
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To: Thane_Banquo

Romney is stroking the media because they cover his liberal ***. Who knows, they made have told him to ‘chastise’ Newt! And the stupid clown ‘tries’ it. When did we see on national TV, someone scold the media? LOL! The probably are still reeling from it. Actually, I forgot about it but good to know the thorn is still in their side.

Newt, the gift that keeps on giving!


117 posted on 01/25/2012 12:59:36 PM PST by presently no screen name
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To: OPS4
What with Charlie the traitor Crist running his campaign?

Don't you think a millstone is a good swimming companion?

118 posted on 01/25/2012 1:02:19 PM PST by Vigilanteman (Obama: Fake black man. Fake Messiah. Fake American. How many fakes can you fit in one Zer0?)
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To: dirtboy
Because he really IS that stupid.

He's a mixture of Barry and Biden.

119 posted on 01/25/2012 1:03:06 PM PST by presently no screen name
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To: Thane_Banquo

It doesn’t get any better than Mittens siding with Nancy Polosi and now defending the Media! .....Heaven...I’m in heaven...


120 posted on 01/25/2012 1:43:14 PM PST by topfile
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