Romney camp shifts into attack mode as Gingrich threatens (Video)
A new Romney ad released Friday lambasts Newt Gingrich for his criticism last spring of a fellow Republican. The gloves are off, but the Romney campaign is so far using surrogates for the fight.
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Mitt Romney is getting tough – Romney-style.
The former governor of Massachusetts is taking on Newt Gingrich – finally, say supporters – after being eclipsed by the former House speaker in polls for the Republican presidential nomination. But Mr. Romney is largely delegating the attacks to others.
In an ad released Friday morning, the Romney campaign went after Mr. Gingrich for attacking fellow Republican Paul Ryan, a rising star in the party, over his plan last spring to reform Medicare. He had called the plan “right-wing social engineering.” Romney himself doesn’t appear in the ad. Instead, his campaign relies on clips of other Republicans and conservative commentators to make his case.
“He doesn’t have the discipline that you want in a president,” columnist Charles Krauthammer says of Gingrich.
“He called [the Ryan plan] radical … basically he is out on the left wing of the Republican Party,” says commentator Pat Buchanan.
In the finale, the ad has a clip of Represenative Ryan himself speaking of Gingrich’s criticism at the time: “With allies like that, who needs the left?”
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