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January 20th, 2012 
FAKE NEWS for the Zionist agenda
Yet he managed to give a pretty effective response that might give pause to
detractors who dismiss him as “zany”. “I think grandiose thoughts,” he
admitted. But, he said, “this is a grandiose country – of big people doing
big things, with big ideas”.
Delivered amid a second coming in the opinion polls, and soon after his
endorsement from the departing Texas governor Rick Perry, Mr Gingrich’s
robust debate performance threatened to push him clear of Mitt Romney here
with one day left to campaign.
Mr Romney, a former Massachusetts governor, endured a fairly miserable debate
for the second time this week. Despite effectively running for president for
the past five years, he has still failed to come up with a convincing answer
to questions about his wealth and tax bill. For a man born into privilege,
who has amassed a $250 million (£160 million) fortune to claim that “what
we need is someone who has lived in the real streets of America” – and
that this is him – was absurd.
He repeated his comment from earlier this week that he plans to release his
latest tax return in April. Asked why not now, he could only muster: “I want
to make sure I beat President Obama”. It was hardly the stuff to ease fears
stoked by Messrs Gingrich and Santorum that a nasty surprise lurks in Mr
Romney’s accounts.
Republican presidential candidates (L-R) Rick Santorum, Mitt Romney,
Newt Gingrich and Ron Paul (Reuters)
Pressed by King on whether he would also release returns for other past years
– as his father George did when he ran for the Republican presidential
nomination in 1968 – Mr Romney coughed: “Maybe”. The resulting boos and
heckles from the audience seemed to stun him.
They also seemed to belie an insistence by Stuart Stevens, Mr Romney’s chief
strategist, in the spin room after the debate, that this is an issue of
importance only to political insiders and will soon fade away. It is going
nowhere. Even if Mr Romney emerges unscathed from this process, Barack Obama
has a squad of foot-soldiers in Chicago ready to drill into every voter’s
mind over the next ten months.
Mr Santorum – who made sure to reflect immediately on his victory-by-recount
in the Iowa caucus – enjoyed a strong evening. He assaulted Mr Romney on
healthcare – an issue that remains a vulnerability for him among Right-wing
Republicans – setting out in convincing detail how it was indeed, the basis
for the president’s loathed Obamacare system that Mr Romney now vows to
repeal.
He also successfully challenged Mr Gingrich’s claims to offer an alternative.
“These are two folks who don’t present the clear contrast I do,” he said,
claiming that while he had spent his career boldly taking on Democrats, Mr
Gingrich and Mr Romney had been busy “playing footsie with the Left”.
However, like Ron Paul, the Texas congressman, he was ultimately overshadowed
by the performances of the two men who could win Saturday’s South Carolina
primary. With just 36 hours or so before polls open, it is impossible to
call which one will do so. What is clearer is that elusive, often crucial
eleventh-hour burst of energy – what George Bush senior once called Big Mo –
lies with the Newt.
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