Posted on 03/03/2012 3:36:45 PM PST by VU4G10
Newt Gingrich has turned his sights on Rick Santorum in a new robocall going out to Oklahoma and Tennessee voters, bashing the former Pennsylvania senator as having “cozied up to the labor union bosses.”
The ad will reach 150,000 voters in each of the states, according to ABC News.
“On the campaign trail, Rick Santorum talks a good game about his blue-collar roots, and about being for the average family,” a female narrator says. “But here’s the record Rick Santorum doesn’t want you to know about: As a senator from Pennsylvania, Santorum cozied up to the labor union bosses, and voted for the AFL-CIO, and against a national right-to-work bill that would have let workers opt out of paying union dues — union dues that hurt families and small businesses.”
(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...
These robo-calls ain’t going to do it. Gingrich’s top aides in GA are switching over to Santorum.
Some of us stood up and cheered when Gingrich won S. Carolina. That was then, this is now. Gallup shows Santorum trailing Obama by two points and Gingrich has fallen out of view in the rear-view mirror. Had Gingrich done what Pawlenty, Bachman, Cain, and Perry, did after Santorum won the Trifecta, Romney would have gone down in flames in MI and Le Resistance would have won.
Gingrich has an unbridgeable gap with women and Evangelicals. He draws lop-sided percentages of the male vote and had he withdrawn, this vote would almost inevitably go to Santorum. And now his senior campaign operatives are quitting and his campaign is collapsing around him.
Whatever may be said for Gingrich’s big ideas (and we share a lot of this) yet his un-saleable political proposals for permanent lunar-based colonies within eight years and $2.50/gas/gallon regardless of supply and demand, world energy markets and geopolitical conditions in the Middle-East, makes it clear that at this point in the race, Gingrich does not have the math working in his favor and all polls point to his un-electability. At some point reality needs to take control of our senses.
This is now a 2-man race. Gingrich is splitting the conservative vote and Romney is shooting right through the breach.
Every where I go, I see people making excuses for Rick’s record in the Senate. “Well, he was in leadership”, “it’s part of being a team member” or something else that admits it was wrong but says why he had to do it anyway.
Like the man who says to the judge “don’t you see? I HAD to do it!”...
oy vey.
Newt is my choice.
I wonder if Rick would support tying the minimum wage to inflation like Romney? Then he wouldn’t have to keep voting for it.
Huh?
Well he is!
He ran around last week telling Michigan libs that he was for bailing out the auto industry
Is this the same Newt Gingrich who teamed up with the New York State United Teachers (as well as Markos Moulitsas to endorse Dede Scozzafava?
Why can’t he just bash Romney and Obama?
>> Gingrich’s top aides in GA are switching over to Santorum.
I’m aware of 1 defection in Tennessee. Are there others?
>> Gingrich is splitting the conservative vote and Romney is shooting right through the breach.
Nonsense. Rick’s impressionable supporters initiated the split.
I don’t know. Is there another Newt? LOL
I have heard ad nauseum from Mitt that he will issue an executive order on 1st day in office giving all 50 states right to opt OUT of Obamacare. Some states like CA & NY may not opt out. But that is OK...I can always move to another state.
It’ll a lot of robocalls to make up percentage points in the double didgets but it may can be done. It’s never over until the last vote is counted.
Elememtary Dr Watson, Newt is competing for same votes as Rick in the primaries.
Actually, Santorum is starting to make Newt look good to women. Yeah, Newt may be a cad, but he doesn’t want to use the presidency as a bully pulpit to speak out on the evil of birth control.
Cause he’s under the mistaken notion that he can win with just the hardcore conservative voters that aren’t subject to ABO syndrome. So he’s trying to peel off Santorum votes, but it will never be enough. Santorum attracted others including the ABO crowd. That’s what made him a contender with Romney. Even if Newt could put Santorum in 3rd again, he’ll never beat Romney.
Why can’t he just bash Romney and Obama?
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The same question I asked, Naps, when Rick ran negative ads against Newt in the mid-west after Florida. Seems counter-productive, does it not? But, factually, Rick started first—.
Newt has been consist at on staying on point.
unlike Santorum
Hit him with the truth, Newt.
The Hill always stirring up for Santos and a Mitt race.
(people can be very clueless)
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