Waiting in New Hampshire
I’m sitting in Mitt Romney’s press area waiting for the final numbers in New Hampshire. The former governor is predicted to win but now after a GOP dogfight with Romney torn apart. And Conservatives are worried. Rush Limbaugh says fellow Republicans are using the language of the liberal left to hurt one of their own. And this sentiment is widely echoed in electronic and print talk. But Ron Paul says he will not join in what he figures are cheap shots at Romney. Paul figures Romney’s only guilty of committing capitalism and that is no sin in Paul’s eyes. Rick Santorum also said he won’t go along with the attacks either – because he (Santorum) believes in free market policy. The guys throwing dirt are Newt Gingrich and Rick Perry. Perry compared Romney to a vulture because a firm he founded bought up struggling businesses, closed some and laid off workers. And Gingrich is demanding to know how many jobs were lost. So it’s looking like Gingrich and Perry are not backing off. In fact, Gingrich has a new TV ad coming out designed to take on Romney as a pro-abortion candidate, which could really damage Romney in the South Carolina primary. But some predictors say it may not matter much because the big bucks people in the GOP don’t want to help with a media buy that could wound the candidate that most people say is going to be the GOP nominee for sure. And it’s looking like it could be Mitt Romney.
