Gingrich On Obama: "I Don't Want To Bloody His Nose, I Want To Knock Him Out"

Real Clear Politics ^ | January 17, 2012 | rocky88

[rocky88]

Question at town hall: "What I've been looking for in my candidate is fire in the belly. We’ve got to bloody Obama’s nose. You've mentioned challenging him to seven, three-hour debates. He has this armor of media surrounding him. If he doesn’t agree to that, how do you plan to aggressively take the gloves off and go after him?" Newt Gingrich: "Let me say first of all, I don’t want to argue with you about the analogy. I don't want to bloody his nose, I want to knock him out."

[rocky88]

I try to look at the glass half-full, as in, who is the most conservative. My answer would be Newt.

[cripplecreek]

Did you know he voted for a pro abortion judge who is now on the Supreme Court?

Yeah I know he voted to approve her for the appeals court but then again I'm not voting for hope and change like the slack jawed morons supporting Gingrich are.

The tea party hating racist Somos Republicans endorse Gingrich and his supporters just choose to look the other way. How incredibly brave of them.

Mr Small government Gingrich proposes a whole new federal environmental agency and the brave followers simply swoon over the "smartest man in the room even as he promises subsidies to green energy through the new agency.

Like it or not, the GOP isn't going to take the white house because they don't intend to.

[Mouton]

I think the point here is if Newt has baggage, so does Romney and more important, Ozero has a ton of baggage if we have a candidate who wishes to take him on regarding his baggage, not some milktoast like McCain. Fighting the twerp with one hand tied behind him like McCain did was the equal of an old Abbott and Costello skit wherein Abbott bet on the other boxer and was the ref.

[Crucial]

I do support Gingrich over Romney for sure. Romney may even be able to beat Obama but Romney is just like him, just a little less so. He believes in making money for himself but not so concerned about anyone else being able to make it, sort of like Warren Buffet. He’ll help kill the system that gave him so much. I’ll take a Washington insider over that.

[adc]

Newt says things we all say and want to say. . . but we’re not running for president. This stuff works in private, and on online forums but will not play well with most Americans who don’t know anything about politics or issues.

Sounds angry (he is), sounds desperate (he is), and sounds arrogant (whch we know he is). Not a good face to present to the uninformed who will only pick up the soundbytes. And not a smart way to try to get the nomination.