Romney assails Gingrich as unworthy
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December 10, 2011, Saturday
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REPUBLICAN presidential candidate Mitt Romney opened a broad assault on surging rival Newt Gingrich, dispatching supporters and staff to cast the former House of Representatives leader as unworthy of the nomination and unfit to be US president.
Romney is aiming to undermine Gingrich on personal and professional fronts ahead of the 2012 campaign's opening contest on January 3 in Iowa - a reversal by the one-time front-runner who had previously all but ignored his Republican opponents. Gingrich has amassed a sizable lead in Iowa.
The criticism from Romney and his allies, after months of focusing solely on President Barack Obama, comes as the Republican race has developed into a two-person contest. Gingrich's quick rise in national and early-state polls threatens Romney's claim as the likeliest Republican to be chosen to challenge Obama next November.
Gingrich still trails Romney in New Hampshire, the second state to choose a candidate and one that borders the state Romney governed, Massachusetts. But Gingrich's rise reflects conservative Republicans' growing belief that his bare-knuckles political style has a better chance of defeating Obama.
Obama's approval rating has plummeted over his handling of the US economy.
Romney allies were giving him a boost with a US$3.1 million TV ad campaign in Iowa that is expected to include hard-hitting commercials against Gingrich. One ad boasts of Romney's "steadiness and constancy" while inviting comparisons with Gingrich's multiple marriages and late conversion to Catholicism.
Romney is aiming to undermine Gingrich on personal and professional fronts ahead of the 2012 campaign's opening contest on January 3 in Iowa - a reversal by the one-time front-runner who had previously all but ignored his Republican opponents. Gingrich has amassed a sizable lead in Iowa.
The criticism from Romney and his allies, after months of focusing solely on President Barack Obama, comes as the Republican race has developed into a two-person contest. Gingrich's quick rise in national and early-state polls threatens Romney's claim as the likeliest Republican to be chosen to challenge Obama next November.
Gingrich still trails Romney in New Hampshire, the second state to choose a candidate and one that borders the state Romney governed, Massachusetts. But Gingrich's rise reflects conservative Republicans' growing belief that his bare-knuckles political style has a better chance of defeating Obama.
Obama's approval rating has plummeted over his handling of the US economy.
Romney allies were giving him a boost with a US$3.1 million TV ad campaign in Iowa that is expected to include hard-hitting commercials against Gingrich. One ad boasts of Romney's "steadiness and constancy" while inviting comparisons with Gingrich's multiple marriages and late conversion to Catholicism.
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