Rattled by Newt Gingrich’s ascent in the polls, Mitt Romney abandoned his above-the-fray strategy at a primetime Republican debate in Iowa Saturday evening, grabbing every chance he could to assail Gingrich. Asked to name their differences, he said first of all he wasn’t a career politician, and then he ticked off the former speaker’s support for ideas that seem outlandish, like a lunar colony and eliminating child labor laws.
Smiling through Romney’s bill of particulars, Gingrich noted that Romney would have been a 17-year career politician if he’d won his race against Ted Kennedy for a Senate seat in Massachusetts. Then he defended the idea of America being in space along with giving poor kids the same opportunities for work that middle-class kids have. He showed his ability to deflect attacks, foreshadowing a primary contest that could come down to Romney with his carefully controlled responses against the freewheeling killer intellect that is Gingrich.
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