Take a gander at this screen capture from a recent e-mail I received from the Newt Gingrich campaign:
Seems a lot of the former Speaker’s e-mails have been in this vein. Newt Gingrich, it seems, doesn’t much care for Rick Santorum. He has faulted the former Pennsylvania Senator on all matter of issues, including that latter’s advocacy of using “NASA as a massive and unending stimulus program”.
The Gingrich campaign released a video last Thursday “using Senator Santorum’s own words to highlight how his leadership in the Senate helped contribute to the abandonment by the Republican Party of core conservative principles“:
During the time Santorum was in the Senate leadership from 2001-2007, his big spending ways amounted to $1.6 trillion in budget deficits, added trillions more to an exploding federal debt, and produced zero balanced budgets.
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“Senator Santorum poses as fiscally responsible, but he’s the one who broke the bank while in Senate leadership,” said Joe DeSantis, Communications Director for Newt 2012. “During his six years in Senate leadership, Senator Santorum repeatedly comprised his principles and played the Washington game.
The former Speaker has not quite relented in his attacks on Mitt Romney; it’s just that he seems less focused on the current frontrunner than on his supposedly more conservative rival.
Could these attacks make the difference among wavering conservative voters tomorrow in Alabama and Mississippi?
Courtesy of Andrew Klavan: “Should they listen to the Businessman, who has the experience of leadership but is too slick to trust? Or should they follow the Preacher, who has some good ideas but is operating under the delusion that this is all some sort of Biblical judgement? Or what about the Professor, who seems smarter than any of them but is known to be an all-around son-of-a-bitch?”
One theory I’ve heard is that the goal of both Newt and Rick is to try to keep Mitt from getting an uncontestable majority and working towards a brokered convention. The theory states that if Mitt doesn’t get enough delegates to clinch the nomination in the first pass, subsequent voting would make ‘moderate Mitt’ weaker, while delegates would go to the more conservative candidate. In this context, Newt’s turning the guns on Rick makes sense, as he’s trying to stake out that ‘more conservative than thou’ position.
Newt is just so nasty. I think these two are going to push it until Romney is so damaged, he has no chance. They are the Republican nemesis
I wouldn’t necessarily call them attacks because Newt is using facts as opposed to just rhetoric. Now the Romney ads against Santorum, those are attacks. I’ve observed that, Newt originally started out after Obama and didn’t digress to name-calling. The other candidates have taken it that way, so he’s not going to back down. We need someone who will go after Obama, can weather the leftist media frenzy and be strong and relentless. Besides, if you go to Newt.org/solutions, his plan is laid out such that it would make any project manager salivate 😉
“There can be only one.” (one not-Romney)