Romney supporters slam Gingrich’s leadership skills, vanity

[alp227]

Source: Wash. Post

Republican candidate Mitt Romney launched Thursday his first sharp attack on rival Newt Gingrich — choosing to focus on Gingrich’s leadership as House speaker and using old colleagues to paint him as vain, erratic and unreliable.

The effort began in earnest with a morning conference call with the news media, in which James M. Talent, a former congressmen and senator from Missouri, and John Sununu, who had been chief of staff to President George H.W. Bush, ripped into Gingrich.

“What we’re here to say — with reluctance, but clearly — is that he’s not a reliable and trusted conservative leader,” Talent said. “Because he’s not a reliable or trustworthy leader.”

Gingrich “is more concerned about Newt Gingrich than he is about conservative principle,” Sununu said.

Read more: http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/romney-supporters-ex-colleagues-attack-gingrichs-leadership-vanity/2011/12/08/gIQAfS4YgO_singlePage.html

[titaniumsalute]

1. Yummy...get the popcorn...

:popcorn:

[groundloop]

2. Extra butter and salt for mine please

[wordpix]

3. I still love it when the rats eat their own so pass the popcorn

:applause: Keep ripping him "reluctantly," Rich Mitt, I love it! :popcorn:

[Muskypundit]

4. Thats all he has?

Against Gingrich? How would he even BEGIN to attack Obama?

[dimbear]

5. Romney has problems. No use calling Newt a corrupt political hack that

constantly flipflops, despises the middle class and the working class, etc. because pot kettle.

Got to think of something that doesn't bounce back.