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Posted on 01/06/2012 6:52:27 AM PST by sheikdetailfeather
Former speaker of the House Newt Gingrich drew a clear distinction between himself and his rivals, Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum, and insisted in an interview with me today that he’s the best conservative candidate to beat President Obama.
He also fought back against the idea that he’s dividing up the conservative vote.
“I think as people look at his record and then imagine him debating Obama, Obama is going to laugh at him,” Gingrich said on “GMA.” “We have to look at what kind of a choice do we want for the country.”
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And I’ll be crying
Wrong, Newt.
Any slick-talking used-car salesman, with some preparation, could out-debate Obama.
It isn’t the debate style that is important; it is what the person does after he is elected. That is Obama’s failure, if the GOP can only capitalize on it.
Obama is only an effective speaker when he is reading from a teleprompter.
The movie and book, “Carrie” comes to mind.
The next Republican debate is going to be a live one. Newt shedding his ‘positive campaign’ act (which didn’t work) and now going after Romney in the debates will be fun to watch. I found them boring up till now.
Newt will laugh at him
0bambi storms out in a rage.
Thanks, many times I find myself searching the channels for the debate channel at the time of the debate.
Watching Newt attack Romney will be a blast, New is definitely in a bad mood after Iowa.
Wow, predicting that Democrats will use mockery as an argument. In other predictions, the sun will rise tomorrow.
excellent post.
I am left with my short list...Santorum or Perry.
I have eliminated everyone else.
Newt needs to worry about Santorum, not Romney.
Long gone are the days of objective journalism.
Maybe but since I would much rather see Santorum (who is not perfect) get the nomination than Newt, it will work better for me if Newt spends his time tormenting Romney for his own flip-flops as payback for those PAC ads.
Gingrich might just end up running against Obama. In which case we'd better all be praying he wins.
An excellent post wouldn't feed into the media's inevitable Obama-supporting narrative.
Barry: “I’d like to thank Governor Romney for his tireless work on making my healthcare reform possible!”
Romney would be dead meat after that.
I’m sorry, but I’m not the media dupe you seem to think I am. In fact, the whole point is for Newt to stop feeding the media with his childish appearing vendetta against other Republicans and get back on message and on to the task of running for President against Obama. His current tirade is distracting from the core message of why it is imperative to defeat Obama.
My post hardly feeds the media’s Obama supporting narrative since I doubt it’ll be picked up by them. Newt’s doing a pretty good job of that all by himself right now. He’s doing a disservice to himself and the Republican field, and regardless of what you might think to many it looks like he’s throwing a tantrum.
Why wouldn’t he laugh? Obama debating Mitt would be like debating someone on his own, almost identical liberal record. It’ll be like watching a Democrat debate.
"Obama is only an effective speaker when he is reading from a teleprompter."
But we have seen Obama debate (sans teleprompter of course) and he has shown to be a fairly effective debater; generally having been given better grades than McCain. With today's tendency for style to trump substance, out-debating his opponent could give Obama a boost.
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