Speaker Gingrich is about as experienced with political nastiness as one could be. Trust me... I was on Capital Hill when he was Speaker.
You can respond and still keep the focus on Obama. I want him to win and from talking with others - he scores the most points when he focuses on Obama. He is brilliant when he is focused on Obama.
Unfortunately, many folks I have talked with think he appears petty and hateful because the media (and I agree - they are overwhelmingly trying to make him look bad) just pick soundbites of his attacks on Romney. They twist these to look bad.
I usually think you respond (Lord knows I wished Bush had) to this kind of crap but when they twist your responses and that is the only soundbite they show it is a losing strategy.
We want the same thing FRiend. I think Romney is the snake but after the media finishes reporting every evening they make someone else look bad. He can’t win with the media and he should have learned this lesson because he has been around long enough.
The problem with Republicans is that too many of them actually believe they are “friends and colleagues” with the MSM. The MSM are diehard leftists and that always trumps the fake handshakes on the talking head circuit.
He is playing their game. They set the rules and he won’t win in the gutter.
This press conference showed the press at their worst.
Essentially, what you are saying us that Newt is surrounded by political murderers so he should just roll over and play dead so they stop shooting at him.
Well, that isn’t going to happen either. This looks to me like kill or be killed. The press is NEVER going to cut him a break so he has to go out and over them one way or another.
I say Lock and Load. And we should do the same. If they DO kill him, let him go down fighting. At this point we have everything to win and not a whole heck of a lot left to lose. That makes us dangerous.