Delightful news, in that Newt can torment Mitt for weeks longer:
Newt Gingrich has raised $9.2 million with three days to go before the end of the financial quarter ... allow[ing] him to stay in the race even if he doesn't have a strong finish in Iowa.
Lately I've watched political pros on various cable-news shows venture their studied opinion that Newt has run out of options in his anti-Mitt campaign; that about all he can do is fuss and fidget over Mitt's woefully unfair, anti-Newt attacks. The above cash helps to correct these pros, of course, but in terms of a short-term strategy I haven't yet figured out why Gingrich doesn't do to Romney what Romney is presently doing to President Obama: simply lie in the most outrageous manner about the former governor's record.
I don't mean merely distort, or twist, or exaggerate whatever Romney did as a chief executive. I mean, just entirely make stuff up -- which is, after all, about as characteristically GOP as it gets.
It is bound to become all the more nasty after Iowa...but that's ok with me. Perhaps some in the American public will tire of the relentless personal attacks and downright lies. one can only hope.
Posted by: SueMe | December 30, 2011 at 09:12 AM