“You have a chance tonight to send a signal to America that the consultant driven viciously negative campaigns are totally wrong for this year when America is in these kinds of problems.” said Gingrich to a rally of supporters shortly before last night’s Iowa caucuses, “You can do that by refusing to vote for anyone who has run negative ads and you can insist to vote for someone who has been positive.”
Gingrich bragged that he had run a “relentlessly positive campaign,” in spite of the negative ads run against him by his opponents.
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After a poor showing in Iowa, however, Gingrich emerged in New Hampshire with a darker message, delivered in once sentence.
“Governor Romney was first an independent, then repudiated Reagan-Bush, then voted for Paul Tsongas, the most liberal candidate in the ’92 campaign, then ran to the left of Teddy Kennedy in 1994, then became a moderate to run for governor in 2002, and then with Romneycare, for example, that included state-funded abortions and specifically designating Planned Parenthood as a part of Romneycare, appointed liberal judges in order to placate Democrats and raised taxes on businesses, which I think is a job-killing approach.” Gingrich said, according to Chris Moody of Yahoo News.
So much for positive campaigns.
