challenger to him. we know newt gingrich may not himself be a top tier contender for the nomination anymore, but newt gingrich has no intention of dropping out. he has a new singular purpose for remaining in the race. newt gingrich lives now to attack mitt romney. we got the tip off to the newly focused anti-romney strategy last night during gingrich s disgruntled iowa caucus speech. we ll have one other great debate, and that is whether this party wants a reagan conservative who helped change washington in the 1980s, or we want a massachusetts moderate who, in fact, will be pretty good at managing the decay, but has given no evidence in his years of massachusetts of any ability to change the culture or change the political structure or change the government. we are not going to go out and run nasty ads. we re not going to go out and run 30-second gotchas. we re not. but i do reserve the right to
attack mitt romney. we got the tip off to the newly focused anti-romney strategy last night during gingrich s disgruntled iowa caucus speech. we ll have one other great debate, and that is whether this party wants a reagan conservative who helped change washington in the 1980s, or we want a massachusetts moderate who, in fact, will be pretty good at managing the decay, but has given no evidence in his years of massachusetts of any ability to change the culture or change the political structure or change the government. we are not going to go out and run nasty ads. we re not going to go out and run 30-second gotchas. we re not. but i do reserve the right to tell the truth. and if the truth seems negative, that may be more a comment on his record than it is on politics.
newt gingrich has no intention of dropping out. he has a new singular purpose for remaining in the race. newt gingrich lives now to attack mitt romney. we got the tip off to the newly focused anti-romney strategy last night during gingrich s disgruntled iowa caucus speech. we ll have one other great debate, and that is whether this party wants a reagan conservative who helped change washington in the 1980s, or we want a massachusetts moderate who, in fact, will be pretty good at managing the decay, but has given no evidence in his years of massachusetts of any ability to change the culture or change the political structure or change the government. we are not going to go out and run nasty ads. we re not going to go out and run 30-second gotchas. we re not. but i do reserve the right to tell the truth. and if the truth seems negative,
process. nobody s had reason to. nobody s had much of a negative word to say about rick santorum this whole time. there s been no reason to bother. it is still not clear whether anybody will bother. whether anybody will find it useful to say a negative word about him. what is clear, interestingly, is after mr. santorum and mr. romney virtually tied in iowa, we know we re going to see new attacks against mitt romney. i mean, for a purported front-runner all this time, mitt romney has thus far really avoided the searing spotlight of front-runner status. everybody else who has challenged him one by one has drawn all the negative attention. it was assumed the bad things about mitt romney and his record was already known and focus on the other people and whether or not they d make a suitable challenger to him. we know newt gingrich may not himself be a top tier contender for the nomination anymore, but newt gingrich has no intention of dropping out. he has a new singular purpose for remaini