"As people look at his record and they imagine him debating Obama, Obama's going to laugh at him."

[babylonsister]

newt might be right for once!

http://politicalwire.com/archives/2012/01/06/quote_of_the_day.html

Quote of the Day

"As people look at his record and they imagine him debating Obama, Obama's going to laugh at him."

-- Newt Gingrich, in an interview with ABC News, on if Mitt Romney were the Republican presidential nominee.

[FarLeftFist]

1. WE already are!

[Renew Deal]

2. That's brutal

I think that Obama will handle any of them with ease. Some are just nastier than others.

[Kalidurga]

3. Um not so fast...

Romney has the most experience debating the liberal side of an issue than any of the other candidates.

[gratuitous]

5. As well as debating the conservative side of those same issues

He isn't known as "Multiple Choice Mitt" for nothing.

[woodsprite]

11. Isn't that because he used to have some of those opinions until he changed his mind.

He sounds like my philosophy professor who would debate himself in class.

[Angry Dragon]

4. I have never seen the republicans attack

each other with so much hate

I am loving it

[orpupilofnature57]

6. Whats your answer when he ask's you.

Where were you, the 8yrs that guy you never mention was in charge?

[hifiguy]

7. Wouldn't Mittens have to debate himself

before debating Obama? Then the winner would have the pleasure of being torn to pieces, like a cheap suit in a barroom brawl, by Obama.

[yellowcanine]

8. Newt is on this vendetta against Mitt like a dog with a bone. It is as if he has completely lost

perspective. Most curious. I cannot for the life of me understand why he is completely trashing Mitt like this.

[barbtries]

10. assuming you're serious,

i believe it is because romney's campaign ran a bunch of nasty ads about gingrich leading up to the caucus in iowa. then, gingrich lost the caucus. so he's pissed. from what i understand, gingrich has poor self control coupled with delusions of grandeur and the firm belief that he is the smartest one in the room.
he's unhinged.

[yellowcanine]

12. I understand why Newt is pissed at Mitt - I just don't understand why he is burning all his bridges

with the mainstream Republican Party. Assuming Mitt gets the nomination, Newt's attacks will have greatly weakened Mitt and if Mitt goes on to lose in a big way to Obama and drags down a bunch of Senate and House candidates with him, there will be serious bloodletting in the Republican Party and Newt will be one of the villains. Not only will he be shut out as a future candidate, he will be a pariah and will be shut out of any significant influence within the Republican Party. No way would have John McCain have secured the Republican nomination in 2008 if he had gone after Bush like this for what Karl Rove did to him in the 2000 SC primary - far worse than anything which Mitt's surrogates did to Newt.

[barbtries]

16. he's not mentally sound.

and he cares much, much, MUCH more about himself than he does the republican party let alone the country.

[wandy]

15. You've got to love watching a man do what he does best.

And watching him love every minute of it. Like watching a dog chewing up a new pair of Mittens.
GO Newt!

[barbtries]

9. no harder than i laugh

at the thought of Obama debating YOU, asshat.

[stevenleser]

13. Video link below. We should have a GOP Prez Primary every year if they are going to be like this

http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/01/gingrich-on-romney-debating-the-president-obama-is-going-to-laugh-at-him/

[greenman3610]

14. of course, Gore beat the crap out of Bush, who lied openly in debate

and the media still gave Bush the win.

[Kalidurga]

17. Bush got the win cause he managed not to drool all over himself.

It is the lowered expectations phenomena at work.