Elections are not just about who wins
Feb 1, 2012, 8:32 AM
Listen to Dave Ross Commentary: Elections are not just about who wins
No, elections are also about who decides to pack it up and go away. Which is what the Republican establishment wishes Newt Gingrich would do.
But they don’t get it. In fact, as Romney himself pointed out this morning, Gingrich has never conceded to him:
“Frankly, I called the speaker after the race in South Carolina, congratulated him, but he hasn’t chosen to call me in any of the three prior contests.”
And Last night, Gingrich wasn’t exactly slinking away:
he was quoting the Declaration of Independence:
“My life, my fortune, and my sacred honor.”
He was quoting Lincoln:
“Who said we have government of the people, by the people, for the people.”
The Gettysburg address!
And as for Obama bashing, Romney had a pretty clever new line:
“We will build an America where hope is a new job with a paycheck, not a faded word on an old bumper sticker.”
… a line he read perfectly off the teleprompter. But Gingrich’s riff on Obama didn’t come from a teleprompter.
“I’m not going to compete with Obama in singing because I’m not running for entertainer in chief, and I would say to him now, Mr. President, you cannot sing your way past the disaster of your presidency,” said Gingrich. “I forgot my teleprompter. I’m having to wing this.”
“You don’t need it,” a woman shouted from the crowd.
You don’t need it, she said — as the duel moves on to America’s Wild West. I can’t wait!
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