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Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 16, 2011 42 Comments

You know I have a big problem with Michele Bachmann making statements which are not supported by facts and then repeating them endlessly. Her campaign is up to much worse in South Carolina, where her local campaign manager has suggested that the Gingrich campaign has paid...

Posted by Bryan Jacoutot on December 15, 2011 13 Comments

Note:  This is the first Guest Post by Bryan Jacoutot, a law student at John Marshall Law School in Atlanta, GA.: Although the November 9th Republican Presidential Debate in Michigan is now over a month passed, one critical line said by Newt Gingrich is still at the...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 15, 2011 44 Comments

We should defer to the judgment of people who run a cover like this? National Review is off the rails and off its rocker.  And plenty of their writers are having a good laugh about it on Twitter today. Related:  The making of an anti-Romney...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 15, 2011 11 Comments

I don't think Newt really has any choice but to stay positive.  Deep down I think it's what people want, and in any event, he doesn't have the money to flood the airwaves in Iowa that way Paul and Romney's SuperPAC are doing. My worry? Positive may...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 15, 2011 5 Comments

For something that is pretty funny (h/t windbag in the Tip Line) "NEWT GINGRICH" — a Bad Lip Reading Soundbite - watch more funny videos ...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 14, 2011 13 Comments

The Romney campaign and its supporters have been pursuing a strategy of crazy ever since Newt surpassed Romney in the polls.  The strategy is to use words like reckless, unreliable, and so on as frequently as possible when it comes to Newt. It has been relentless, and...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 13, 2011 47 Comments

There has been plenty of griping and talk by Tea Partiers that if Romney is the nominee, they're staying home in November. I don't believe it for a second.  When push comes to shove, they will not choose four more years of Obama. But I do believe...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 13, 2011 11 Comments

As part of his campaign to paint Newt Gingrich as crazy, Mitt Romney has focused on Newt's statement that the Palestinians were an "invented" people.  Romney argued at the Drake University debate Saturday night that Newt had used "incendiary words" which would "create extraordinary tumult" and said "I'm not a...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 12, 2011 19 Comments

I have linked to posts by Caroline Glick since the early days of this blog.  Glick is one of the clearest voices on the dangers to Israel and the highly negative effects of Obama administration policy. Glick has weighed in on Newt's comments about the Palestinians...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 12, 2011 12 Comments

The debate is scheduled for 4 p.m. Eastern.  [Added, full debate video embedded at bottom of post, it's 1 hour and 20 minutes long] WMUR in New Hampshire, CNN, and Huntsman's website are supposed to have the livestream.  If I can get an embed code, I will.  There...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 12, 2011 35 Comments

Mitt Romney's campaign has been moving negative on Newt for well over a week with a strategy to portray Newt as crazy, but since Romney's debate debacle Saturday night and more polling showing Newt with a crushing lead almost everywhere, the Romney campaign now is...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 11, 2011 25 Comments

Hard to know if the Democratic National Committee thinks it's hurting Newt with this, or helping him (video h/t ElectAd). I do think they're trying to frame Gingrich's image now that he's the frontrunner, consistent with the DNC's reaction at the debate last night: ...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 10, 2011 21 Comments

Mitt Romney has to attack Newt tonight at the debate.  If he doesn't, and rests on television interviews and what his surrogates have done the past few days, Romney will be Tim Pawlenty, who was not willing to confront Romney on "Obamneycare" in person. If I were Newt,...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 10, 2011 44 Comments

Every now and then I stumble upon a column which says exactly what I had been thinking but had not yet written. Christian Whiton absolutely is on target as to the reasons behind the collective and almost uniform piling on of Newt by the Republican pundit and political class...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 09, 2011 25 Comments

Via The Fix, two prominent Iowa supporters of Newt Gingrich held a phone conference late this afternoon with the press in which they pushed back against the attacks on Newt: Iowa supporter of former House Speaker Newt Gingrich assailed Mitt Romney’s negative attacks, even as the...

Posted by William A. Jacobson on December 09, 2011 27 Comments

ABC is hosting a debate Saturday night.  I'll be live here. Should be fun.  Let's see if Romney has the guts to confront Newt face to face with all the "crazy" talk being spread about Newt by Romney's campaign, surrogates and supporters, and if he can...

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