A Feistier Newt Gingrich to Go Negative After Iowa
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ABC News’ Jonathan Karl and Elicia Dover report:
Mr. Positive is about to go negative in a big way. Look for Newt Gingrich to unload on Mitt Romney after the Iowa caucuses.
Gingrich won’t called it negative. He’ll call it telling the truth. But sources familiar with his plans say he plans to hammer Romney hard, especially in South Carolina.
He’s hinted at the change over the past day or so. He told ABC News Friday he plans to make “adjustments” to how responds to the negative he’s taken.
Today he told reporters Iowa is an “wonderful experiment” on what happens to a candidate who stays positive in the face of some attacks.
“The average Iowan is watching the tsunami of negative attack ads and they’ve watched one guy be consistently relentlessly positive. Whatever the outcome of Tuesday night, we’ll learn a lot.”
He sees he’s already learned something about his opponents.
“We’re learning a lot about what our opponents will do,” Gingrich said. “They are nastier and more dishonest than I expected. So we’ll have to make some adjustments.”
Look for one big adjustment: a feistier Newt Gingrich ready to tear into his opponents — especially a certain former governor of Massachusetts.
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I love seeing Newt call his Republican opponents ” nastier and more dishonest”.
Now if he’d only apply that to himself too he’d have my full respect.
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Posted by: Floretta | December 31, 2011, 8:15 pm 8:15 pm
Newt you hypocrite, you have been going negative when it comes to Obama all the time you idiot. What a moron.
Posted by: Jim Bob jr. | December 31, 2011, 8:23 pm 8:23 pm
Newt is the ultimate pot calling the kettle black…he is a maroon unfit to hold public office, prob more crooked than Nixon, total sleazeball, but HEY he’s not obama so let’s all vote for him pfffttt
Posted by: benjamin | December 31, 2011, 8:41 pm 8:41 pm
Refering to other Republicans, Newt says, “They are nastier and more dishonest than I expected.” Finally! Honesty from a conservative – about conservatives. Right on, Newt! GOP candidates ARE dishonest and nasty – voters may try to deny it but Newt’s told it like it is.
(Hope this comment finds its way into Democrats’ ads, ’cause it’s a GREAT soundbite!)
Posted by: Cassandra | December 31, 2011, 9:18 pm 9:18 pm
You mean democrats like those who signed the NDAA ?? IPolice state here it comes ?Yeah right that really encouraging. Please go look up Ron Paul and dont believe the media BS.
Posted by: ni | December 31, 2011, 10:28 pm 10:28 pm
OK,…….the party’s over,….time to get nasty, like the rest of them !
Posted by: malibujim | December 31, 2011, 11:22 pm 11:22 pm
Well it’s about time…
Newt didn’t rise in the polls because because he was kind and happy in those debates.
Why his campaign manager has him fawning in every television interview is beyond me.
He needs to get back to the old piss#d off fighter that he actually is.
Either way, it’s all actually hopeless…whoever we all support nobody is going to be a serious challenger to the Romney machine.
Posted by: Mike | January 1, 2012, 6:09 am 6:09 am
Newt is already out of steam and fading. His own campaign team left him early. He failed to make the ballot in his own state.
One writer put it succintly, those who knew him best liked him least.
Posted by: Newtus Brutus | January 1, 2012, 10:16 am 10:16 am