Romney’s Super PAC prepares to launch an air-to-Gingrich missile in Iowa. Team Perry split on the “war on religion” ad. He doesn’t talk about the Texas Miracle anymore.
The 76-year-old Paul has always been dismissed as something of a curio within GOP establishment circles and among many voters, but in an unsettled year he has a legitimate chance to crash the party and capture the Iowa caucuses.
For a swaggering Texas cowboy, Rick Perry certainly does have a serious victim complex. In two different campaign ads released in Iowa this week, the Texas governor defends his faith from enemies named and unnamed. “I’m not ashamed to talk about my faith,” he says in the first spot. “Some liberals say that faith is [...]
Ah, class warfare! Here’s my favorite example, so far, of right-wing Soviet-style agitprop. It comes from the minimally talented, but maximally gaseous, Daniel Henninger of the Wall Street Journal. He writes that Obama’s was a speech that could have been delivered in Caracas, by Hugo Chavez presumably. He actually writes this, although I can’t imagine [...]
Rick Perry’s latest ad fires at multiple targets, including Mitt Romney and Barack Obama. But the first person it whacks is Newt Gingrich. And while most GOP primary voters will already know that Romney and Obama have both supported health care mandates in the past, the fact that Gingrich has also committed this most venal [...]
Back in early November, the Republican independent expenditure juggernaut Crossroads GPS wanted to take Democratic Senate candidate Elizabeth Warren down a peg, so they cut an ad insinuating that her attempts to rein in big banks had put spark to the dry tinder in Zuccotti Park. “Elizabeth Warren sides with extreme left protests,” a narrator [...]
–The number of “dislikes” Rick Perry’s new ad on “Obama’s war on religion” currently has on YouTube. It has 3,980 likes.
The 2012 Republican nomination will be decided largely by whether Newt Gingrich runs a disciplined and well-executed campaign over the next several weeks. This, of course, is somewhat like expecting Lindsay Lohan to be punctual and dignified, but stranger things have happened. Even assuming that Gingrich doesn’t implode (something he himself won’t rule out, by the [...]
–President Obama responding to a question about Republican charges that his administration engages in foreign policy appeasement.
Don’t call it an attack. It’s a “contrast” that was debuted Thursday morning, Mitt Romney’s attempt to set up a clear choice for Republicans as they enter the final weeks of a suddenly exciting campaign: Romney The Not-Entirely Likable vs. Newt Gingrich The Entirely Unreliable.
