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Posted on 01/04/2012 1:31:34 PM PST by Jim Robinson
Mitt Romney eked out the narrowest of victories in Iowa over Rick Santorum and now may have to ward off a combined onslaught from his rivals in the Republican presidential primary race, despite holding a sizable lead in the next voting grounds of New Hampshire.
The former Massachusetts governor has been accused of going negative on Newt Gingrich, and while Gingrich ranked a distant fourth in Tuesday's Iowa caucuses, he is firing up to return the attack, while still maintaining the claim he is engaging in a positive campaign.
Gingrich told radio host Laura Ingraham on Wednesday that he could see himself and Santorum try to double-team the former Massachusetts governor, who with an expected endorsement on Wednesday from Sen. John McCain, effectively becomes the "establishment" candidate.
"Rick and I have a 20-year friendship, we are both rebels, we both came into this business as reformers, we both dislike deeply the degree to which the establishment sells out the American people," he told Ingraham.
"We both think Washington has to be changed in very fundamental ways, and we have lots of things that fit together. And the thing that's interesting is if you take the votes, you add to that (Rick) Perry and (Michele) Bachmann, you begin to see the size of the conservative vote compared to Romney ... if you take, you know, Santorum and Perry and Bachmann and Gingrich you get some sense of what a small minority Romney really represents," Gingrich said.
(Excerpt) Read more at foxnews.com ...
Gingrich needs to go back to teaching. He’d be great!
If I was a betting person..I’d put my money on the conservatives in the race. I know the media has them dead and buried..but I think Romney is toast and nobody knows it yet.
I’m surprised Faux News-Romney carried this interview. I’m hoping a Newt/Santorum alliance brings Willard down quickly.
I find heavy Goldman Sack support of Willard troubling.
Amazing how if Newt puts out “facts” he is said to be going negative. Facts and going Negative are not the same thing but then Faux News and all the media has it in for Newt.
So since they are against him I am 100% behind him. GO NEWT!
The media continues to present Mitt as the “front
runner” when he finished ahead by only seven votes.
The real story is Santorum, Romney was at the same
level he has had throughout, no gains there and he
wasted a lot of effort and money on dissing Newt that
could have bought him votes, that’s just stupid.
If Santorum can make an equal showing in NH he will
have a real chance to flesh out his organization.
Newt just finished giving an excellent interview on Hannity radio. Did you hear it?
Newt didn’t mention anything about “double-teaming” in this interview. He gave a laundry list of Romney’s liberal positions and actions and said that if conservatives knew Romney’s true liberal record, Romney would not be electable.
He said, as it is, Romney gained nothing in Iowa and hasn’t been able to advance.
There are two debates before NH-—the first is Saturday. Sounds like Newt is going to take every chance in the debate to talk about Romney’s liberal record.
Also, Hannity is going to interview Santorum on his radio program today.
Tonight on his TV program he will interview Romney/McCain (barf alert) AND Herman Cain and Sarah Palin.
How has Sanatorum been supporting his family after leaving DC?
Win or lose, Newt going after Romney is good news.
Listening to Dick Morris talk on Hannity right now. He is saying Gingrich should go after Santorum rather than Romney because Santorum is his real competition for the conservative vote. Morris and other pundits making the same argument couldn’t be more wrong. Conservatives are looking for a candidate who will go after Obama. Right now Romney is the closest surrogate to Obama in the Republican primary. The same attacks that will work against Obama will work against Romney. If a Republican candidate wants to demonstrate his viability in the race against Obama, he first needs to demonstrate he can effectively make the anti-statist arguments against Romney. I don’t really care at this point if Santorum or Gingrich wins. I can live with either one as the Republican nominee. What I want to see now is how effectively they go against the statist-wing of the Republican party that Romney represents.
There are 2 debates scheduled before each of the next 3 states, and less than a week before each one. I wouldn’t be surprised if Mittney Mouse pulls out of some due to “scheduling conflicts.” If you saw Mittney’s concession speech last night, you know he did NOT look happy. He’s crunching the numbers and he knows this was not the result he needed to prove to himself or anyone else that he is the “inevitable” nominee. Conservatives still have the chance to shoot themselves in the feet (thank you for that, Perry) but it’s hard to believe smarter heads won’t prevail and put together a united front by FL.
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No, didn’t hear it, but hope he continues in this vein. Romney’s own words should knock him out of the race. Rove, et al, should be ashamed for supporting this liberal progressive creep.
There's Mitt, There he is!
Get him Boy, GO GET HIM!!
Goooood Boy, gooooood Boy Newt!
I agree with you totally. Morris is way off here. If they don’t hurt Romney, then whatever votes they get in NH will be negligible anyway. It’s high time Romney get taken down. Romney winning both IA and NH makes him an incredibly powerful frontrunner. No candidate has ever won both and not won the nomination. He needs to be attacked now. We can’t afford to wait. Delegates are proportional so making him win NH with a lower amount of votes can have concrete electoral benefits.
I don’t see Santorum and Gingrich killing one or the other off whether they fight each other or not, just splitting the vote and weakening each other. Attacking Romney will raise vote totals on both of them. Splitting the vote is not fatal with proportional delegates in NH and SC but FL is winner-take-all, so it will do damage there. I doubt either will drop out before FL, but if they both lose it to Mitt, then one of them probably should go. If Santorum beats Newt in all 4 of the first states then Newt ought to back out in exchange for the V.P. slot.
I think they would make a really good Pres./V.P. ticket and they will probably figure that out. Santorum/Newt would be really close to Bush/Cheney. Newt/Santorum would be a Reagan/Bush-style ticket. Both were extremely winning combinations in the past. BOTH of them are from Pennsylvania (Newt for his first 10 years) so they could make an incredible play together for this supposedly swing state that the Repubs keep losing.
Sean says that interview is up next!
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