A very blunt Newt Gingrich attacks President Obama as being a socialist on the floor of the Republican Natonal Convention. He told CNN that he truly believed that the President wanted the government to run everything.
Gingrich also called himself a team player and said that Ron Paul is an idealogue who finds it hard to call it quits. His comments came prior to the prime time address of Ann Romney.
Gingrich's spin was not the view the Romney Camp wants to aticulate during the next two months. Romney's game plan calls for him not to engage in the Obama bashing that has characterized much of the conservatives rationale for replacing President Obama for the past four years.
But it is an inescapble fact of political life that much of the virtrol hurled at the Obama administration has been highlighted by personal attacks on the President.
Gingrich who stated he threw everything including the kitchen sink at Romney, but had Romney throw a even bigger sink back at him, was enjoying his brief moment back upon the stage. He quickly got off the Romney message and resorted to the emnity that has characterized the Republican assualt on President Obama.
So when the Republican rehtoric is stripped as naked as Prince Harry in a Las Vegas hotel suite it all comes back down to a total disdrain for President Barack ObamaBarack Obama.
Gingrich's message is not the message that independant voters want to hear. Independents wants to hear a case for changing managers in the middle of an economic crises. The fact that New Gingrich believes President Obama is out to place all mein of American life under control of the federal government does not give comfort to independant voters. Neither does it give them assurances that the Republicans have a better grasp of the economy.
Agurably the Obama economic policies have stablized the economy and has produced positive job growth for the past two years. Albeit, slower growth than anyone in the Obama Camp would like to see at this time.
One wonders if the million of unemployed Americans considered themselves Republican before the economy tanked under the Republican adminstriation of George Bush and Dick CheneyDick Cheney.
If they did consider themselves Republican, how then can they vote for the same set of policies which caused them to be out of work in the first place?
These questions places the Gingrich attack upon President Obama out of context with the Romney message because it is not the sort of things that puts Americans back to work again. As hate may give one a cause to revel in one's misery for a short moment in time, but it can not be eaten or given to the children at dinner time.
