Call Gingrich a Waah-mbulance

January 27, 2012 | Filed under 2012 Presidential Race,Newt Gingrich | Posted by

Is Newt Gingrich using Barack Obama’s playbook? That seems to be the case, because Gingrich is blaming someone else for his failure to win the GOP debate of 26 January 2012.

NationalJournal.com is running a story titled Gingrich Campaign: Debate Audience Stacked For Romney .

Here is the story’s beginning:

Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich rode a strong performance and crowd enthusiasm at a debate in South Carolina to victory in that state’s primary, but the crowds at two debates in Florida this week haven’t been as wild for Gingrich. Now his campaign is claiming that rival Mitt Romney’s campaign stacked the audience at Thursday’s debate with its supporters to shift the energy toward Romney, the Huffington Post reported. *

So, Gingrich’s ability to win a debate depends on who is in the debate audience? How lame is that?

[* Try to set aside any bias against The Huffington Post when reading the story. Even a broken clock is correct at least once a day.]

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  • Pretzel__Logic

    I get Newt’s stance. The truth is there arent many platforms for the countries collective outrage to go on display. Most of the people that are enraged by BHO, his buddies and the media are working or looking for work. We dont have time to sit in a park all day and chant sh*t. I like the cheering. Newt may have played that card once too often but we need some of this on our side.

  • http://otisthehand.blogspot.com/ OTIS the hand

    Nice rhetorical sleight-of-hand you’ve got there. Complaints that the audience was stacked have nothing to do with whether Gingrich won or lost. If the audience was stacked (and I have no idea) then that is a valid complaint regardless of who won. Yet you take the complaint and expand it to whining because Gingrich did not win. I see nothing in the quote to suggest that. The anti-Gingrich venom seems to have removed all pretense of intellectual honesty in his detractors.

    • http://www.pohdiaries.com/ TWB

      But Otis, why would he complain about the crowd being stacked if he in fact didn’t think that it contributed to him not winning the debate? Isn’t the fact that his campaign complained about the crowd in effect, whining?

      • http://otisthehand.blogspot.com/ OTIS the hand

        “Isn’t the fact that his campaign complained about the crowd in effect, whining”

        Maybe. I guess it depends on the facts of the matter. What if it is true? There is no way to complain without looking like a whiner. The way Gingrich is so obviously being set up lately, I would not doubt it could be true, in view of the fact that the crowd in the previous debate was commanded to remain silent. But, the fact is, neither Gingrich or his campaign asserted that the crowd makeup cost him the win (as far as I know.)

        Personally, I thought Gingrich’s debate performance was poor, and said so. With all the substance on which to attack Gingrich, I do not understand the need to stretch the truth to pile on.

        Just to be clear, the accusation of “whining” is not my beef. My complaint is with these lines:

        “Gingrich is blaming someone else for his failure to win…”

        “So, Gingrich’s ability to win a debate depends on who is in the debate audience? How lame is that?”

        That’s pure embellishment.

        • http://www.wizbangblog.com David Robertson

          The Gingrich campaign made no complaint about the audience when Gingrich won the debates in South Carolina. It is only when Gingrich loses a debate that his campaign complains about the audience.

        • http://www.wizbangblog.com David Robertson

          The Gingrich campaign made no complaint about the audience when Gingrich won the debates in South Carolina. It is only when Gingrich loses a debate that his campaign complains about the audience.

  • ackwired

    It shouldn’t be a surprise that the crowd was different in South Carolina than it was in Florida.  That being said I sure enjoyed his reply to Juan Williams!

  • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/EU5DQWQTTHTPO4A4ZYSL3AAV2U Adjoran

    If you discount Newt’s take-down of Juan Williams on Martin Luther King’s Birthday and his popular rebuke of John King (although his campaign now admits he did NOT offer any “witnesses” to refute his ex’s statement and in fact none even exist), his debate performances have not been so remarkable.  He was better before he was a contender.

    Certainly the last couple of debates disprove any assertion that he would “mop the floor with Obama” – and in the Big Dance, it would be Barry getting the softball set-up questions and Newt’s feet held to the fire.

    Emmett Tyrrell – American Spectator publisher and no one’s idea of the “Republican establishment” – who has not endorsed a candidate, says he personally knows of more Gingrich scandals which have not made the news yet, and supposes the Democrats have even more than he knows about.  It’s not about “if” Newt melts down, it’s a question of “when” he does.

    Which explains why Obama’s DNC, the AFSCME and SEIU unions, and another Democratic PAC have been running ads in Florida against Romney.  They know they can take Newt down, hard.

  • Commander_Chico

    I feel sorry for Newt. Not much, because he’s a shifty a-hole and a chickenhawk, but a little.

    The full plutocratic establishment is out for him, especially after his foray into economic populism by attacking Romney’s predatory activities at Bain.

    When this is all over, he’ll be lucky to escape a trumped-up indictment

  • iwogisdead

    Just wait until you how stacked the audiences are gonna be for Obumble in the regular election. I think Newt would be a great president. But it’s not going to happen this year. He needs to sit down and shut up.

  • Par4Course

    If the audience was “stacked,” as Newt claimed (but has produced no evidence of), isn’t that just another sign that the Romney camp is more organized and prepared for this election than the Newtster and his folks?  

  • http://otisthehand.blogspot.com/ OTIS the hand

    Let’s just pretend that this whole Sarah Palin thing didn’t happen and isn’t news.while wizbang huddles in the elite Republican graveyard, shall we? Nothing to see here, move along.

    • http://profiles.yahoo.com/u/EU5DQWQTTHTPO4A4ZYSL3AAV2U Adjoran

      Oh, yeah, forgot – now Newt is Jesus. 

      The truth is he is a lot closer to Judas Iscariot with his history of betrayal.

      • http://otisthehand.blogspot.com/ OTIS the hand

        You have him confused with yourself. Newt has more conservative accomplishments in his little finger than Romney has had, or ever will have, in his career. If Romney becomes the nominee, you people will rue the day. ObamneyCare will never be repealed. Romney’s campaign has already made many overtures to that effect. I will say that Romney hasn’t betrayed us. He has no conservative credentials to betray. But he will.

        Just as Obama’s sycophants projected all their hopes onto the empty suit, Republicans somehow project conservatism onto Romney.

  • Brian_R_Allen

    …. 
    Try to set aside any bias against The Puffington Host when reading the story. Even a broken clock is correct at least once a day …. 

    You shouldda run out a variation of that line at one of Hitler’s Nuremberg Rallies.

    Which, while we’re on the subject of  Waah-icked stackings, reminds me of a Waah of my own.

    How come – as they brought about the 1930s’ total collapse and final falling of the Euro-peons’ civilization, the Austro-Krauts had all the breaks? 

    For the Krauts’ charismatic pathological narcissist had at least made Corporal on his own merits and could hang paper. And nor did he need Goldjuden Soros’s assistance. Although he later availed himself of it on Herr Soros’s insistance.

  • Zelsdorf

    I guess none of the people who post at wizbang have ever looked into what facts are.  Gingrich may or may not be the right candidate, but Romney has consistently lied about what Gingrich’s record is and what he has accomplished.  Romney seems to have the money to buy support.  Pam Bondi lost any chance of a national position because of her support for the progressive like Mitt.  I will not hold my nose this time and vote for whoever the GOP establishment thinks should represent us.  I am a conservative.  Romney is not.