Posted on 01/26/2012 12:56:47 PM PST by kristinn
Forget the indirect attacks and distant exchanges between the Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich campaigns through the media. The Romney campaign pledged this week to run a “a full racketing operation,” right in Gingrich territory.
A source close to the campaign told ABC News there will be a Romney surrogate at every public Gingrich event in Florida standing by to rebut Gingrich’s speeches to the media.
“The campaign is entering a phase now where we are defining the terms of the Florida race,” a Romney staffer said.
The staffer said it wasn’t a sign of fear on the Romney campaign’s side.
However, the campaign didn’t feel the need to trail Gingrich when he was in 4th in Iowa.
The campaign decided Sunday night to send a staff member to Florida full time, specifically to handle the Romney surrogate group set to trail Gingrich.
Romney’s regional press secretary, Amanda Henneberg, was on hand at two Gingrich campaign stops Wednesday to offer Rep. Connie Mack, R-Fla., who spoke to several members of the press about what he thought were Gingrich’s inconsistencies in his speeches.
At the first event today, Rep. Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah, was on hand along with Romney staffer Dave Kochel. At the second event, Mack and his wife Mary Bono Back joined the group.
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I can think of many uses. One being to stuff RNC donation requests with 'em.
Going viral on Twitter. Mitt scamming Medicare.
HOLY TOLEDO!
THAT’S AWESOME!
GO NEWT!!!!!!!!!
Right now I blame santorum.
Santorum is an elitist player.
Santorum supported Arlen Specter for a reason. It was political payoff for a future run.
Santorum is to egotistical to realize he is being used.
“I’d like to see these photos...please post, if you can.
I can think of many uses. One being to stuff RNC donation requests with ‘em.”
Happy to help.
Here is the thread, a great catch my freeper BubbaJunebug:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2837345/posts
Note the servile posture of George Romney towards the puffed up Alinsky.
And here is another great catch I just noticed posted by the redoubtable 2ndDivisionVet:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-gop/2838046/posts
“I think you ought to listen to Alinsky,” [George] Romney told his white allies, according to T. George Harris’s 1968 book, “Romney’s Way.” “It seems to me that we are always talking to the same people. Maybe the time has come to hear new voices,” he said.
Spread it wide and say it loud. Like Soviet dissidents during the Cold War, we are limited to our own resources and samizdat. “There is no truth in Pravda (The Truth), and there is no news in Izvestia (The News).”
Hat tip to both BubbaJunebug and 2ndDivisionVet.
And this does stir me to contribute my mite to Free Republic.
Great catches. FReeper's strike, again! Woo hoo!
My God, scorched earth is the exactly perfect term. This effectively gags Newt and forces Romney. Pray it does not work. This is an effort to annihilate Newt’s ground game as well as execute his reputation. Shameful.
Florida Tea Party Alert, for sure.
—This is fascinating to watch for me, because it is as if we are getting a full view of the slimy, reptilian, underbelly of the republican machine...—
I like your version better. ;-)
If you mean campaigning hard, then I agree. Favorite candidate aside, this is just politics and campaigning.
Newt was neutering Romney in SC, ran some questionable ads, and had his own liberal moments. Post Cain I had been resigned to Romney but his responses were so limp I saw NO chance of him winning if he got the nomination. I’m at least glad to see Romney has a pair if he’s going to be the nominee (even if he borrowed them from Michelle Bachman via her debate coach).
KJO,
I’m pretty much for Romney because I don’t see a viable conservative. I’m a North Florida technologist and pretty far from the Washing DC party. Maybe it’s all very simple for you but Gingrich scares me and I’m not an insider. I think he’s a man of huge ego and ambition with a history of pushing big government ideas. I also think his personal life has been a wreck, will be fodder in the general campaign, will force conservatives to give up the character matters argument, and worst suggests a pretty obsessive personality. I do not trust him and think him capable of Nixon level damage to the party - I don’t see Reagan2.0 there.
With Mitt - sure the upside is largely limited. We deserved better but we have the candidates that we have. I also think the downside is largely limited and that the real focus is getting Mitt a strong Congressional majority. I do believe that if we had a conservative Sen/House, Romney could have one of the most conservative administrations we’ve seen. I don’t think this because I think he’s a closet Goldwater but because I think he’ll compromise from his slightly right center position to wherever the legislature bends.
I guess in short, I think a Romney administration is a 2-4 cycle commitment for conservatives to really wind out increasingly right of center congresses. That means consolidating on ELECTABLE Tea Party style candidates early and getting them funded.
You don’t want 0bamacare repealed?
Romney is now advised to not repeal it. This is what you want? Do you realize that people over 70 are going to be called units and chipping the population starts soon, with Union members by 2017? You WANT this?
http://www.redstate.com/erick/2012/01/25/romney-advisor-no-obamacare-repeal/
I didn't, so you probably don't.
Mr. niteowl77
However...
If the "surrogate" is there to disrupt, heckle, or otherwise incite Gingrich into a "macaca" moment, then I have a BIG problem with that.
Not only did Democrats take out George Allen with that tactic in 2006, but I now see how this was also done in 1996 to Bill Baker by the Ellen Tauscher campaign in the CA-10 district.
-PJ
I want it repealed. I believe Romney will repeal it IF (and only if) he has solid Republican majorities. I’d rather have a more conservative candidate but do not believe there’s one left in the field that’s remotely close to being a winner. So, in my thinking, the only scenario that produces a repeal of ObamaCare is with Romney.
Additionally, I think it will take 3 years and some serious misery to repeal. I don’t think we’ll take 2/3 in the Senate and we’ll likely need it to fully repeal. I think the case will need to be made for a 2/3 majority in the first off year election. My 2c.
Dream on. The last thing Romney wants to do is repeal his masterpiece.
Go third party and guarantee Obama’s re-election. Seems to be what a lot of FR want. You either vote for the eventual republican nominee or you help re=elect Obama. It’s that simple. Not third party is going to win this year. Period.
Any of the 4 republicans are better than Obama. And in the end, it will be one of those 5 in November who is our next president.
I understand voting on principal. But just understand what you may do to this country if you don’t support the republican nominee. The supreme court isnt getting any younger. I am afraid we may not make 4 more years of Obama.
All 4 are more conservative than Obama. I am voting for the most conservative republican in the primary. And the most conservative candidate in the general. Thats our only choice.
So you believe he’d veto a repeal? I don’t think he’s got the spine for it.
Problem with Romney is you don’t know who you’re getting. He ran against Kennedy from Teddy’s LEFT.
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