DECORAH, Iowa ? Newt Gingrich arrived in Iowa with just a week to go and a lot of ground to make up before the Iowa caucuses.
After kicking off a 22-stop bus tour ? cut from an originally-planned 44 stops ? at a country club in Dubuque, Gingrich pivoted from trying to stay above-the-fray to blasting Mitt Romney for governing Massachusetts as a moderate, raising taxes and costs on business and growing the size of his state?s government.
Continue ReadingAnd he cut deeper speaking to an overflow crowd who came to his last stop of the day in the basement of a popular local pizza restaurant in this college town.
?The Heritage Foundation was positive about Romneycare also in 2006. First of all, neither Heritage nor I realized that Romneycare uses taxpayer money to pay for abortions. And neither of us realized that they had accepted Planned Parenthood by law to run [elements of] their health care or I think we would have both said you ought to veto the whole bill if that?s what?s going to happen. So there are some details there that are different.?
Gingrich had his eyes on his other Iowa competition too, knocking Ron Paul as dangerous, not serious and a hypocrite for disowning the incendiary statements published in his newsletters decades ago.
After surging and now plummeting in the polls, Gingrich is trying to recapture his lost momentum. He?s doing it under the shadow of questions about his organizational ability raised by his failure to qualify for the Virginia ballot that grow increasingly acute as the organization-heavy caucuses loom.
And following a six-day gap at the end of a campaign that only occasionally stopped in Iowa during the summer and fall, Gingrich isn?t just rushing to make the argument against Romney ? he?s rushing to make it to enough Iowans to put himself over the top next week.
Gingrich faces a tricky balancing act. By temperament, he clearly wants to attack relentlessly and fight fire with fire. But the dynamics of the race ? including the amount of money he?s being outspent by ? have him grasping for the moral high ground.
One thing remains a constant: Gingrich wants a 90-minute one-on-one debate with Romney. So far, the former Massachusetts governor has ruled that out, quashing Gingrich?s attempts to turn the Republican nomination fight into a two-man race where he plays the conservative and paints Romney as the establishment standard-bearer.
That?s the essence of the ?contrast? with Romney that Gingrich rolled out here Tuesday.
?He is a good manager. He is a competent person. He did very, very well with the Winter Olympics, but there is a huge difference between the philosophy of a supply-side conservative in the [Jack] Kemp-[Ronald] Reagan tradition and the philosophy of a Massachusetts moderate,? Gingrich told about 200 people at an event sponsored by the local Rotary Club earlier in the day.
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