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Gingrich:
President Obama must tell lies to get re-elected
By Audrey
Hudson
7/9/2012
The keys to
victory for Mitt Romney this fall against President Barack Obama are
amassing a
formidable campaign war chest, projecting an unshakable confidence in
the
country’s future and marshalling conservative fear and anger.
That’s
according to former Republican presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich, who
told
editors and reporters at Human Events Monday that voters are fearful of
economic uncertainty and are looking for a leader to put the country on
solid
footing.
“He has to
find a confidence about the future so that when you hear him in his
convention
speech, it should be more about the world after Obama — not about Obama
— but
about why this is going to be better, why this is going to work,”
Gingrich
said.
“He needs
to find a way of focusing the fear and the anger of the conservative
movement
back on Obama and on the Democratic Senate,” the former House Speaker
from
Georgia said.
Obama is
already spending a lot of money and using up his ammunition against
Romney
early in the contest, putting the president in a vulnerable position,
Gingrich
said.
“Obama is
pounding on Romney right now with desperation, and he’s not breaking
through.
He ain’t above 50,” Gingrich said, in reference to recent polls.
Rasmussen’s
daily presidential tracking poll showed Mitt Romney at 46 percent and
President
Obama at 45 percent.
In 2008,
Obama beat former Republican presidential nominee John McCain in
Indiana
because he outspent him 10-1, and used the same successful strategy of
massive
spending to win in Montana and North Carolina. And, Gingrich pointed
out that
Romney raised $4.3 million in the 24-hour period following the Supreme
Court
decision in favor of ObamaCare.
“All of a
sudden you are going to have a campaign around Labor Day in which the
president
and his allies I think are going to be outspent three-to-one. Money
does matter
— Romney is going to come into the general election with massive more
resources,”
Gingrich said.
Romney
needs to consistently remind voters, that no matter what they think of
the
former Massachusetts governor, he has not caused them the pain Obama
has,
Gingrich said.
“You have a
lot of people out there who are both angry with Obama and frightened of
him,”
Gingrich said.
“The fact
is, Barack Obama cannot tell the truth and get elected. Our goal should
be to
get to the point in early September where the average person goes, ‘oh
that’s
just another Obama lie.’”
“The only
way he has a prayer of getting reelected … is to tell grotesque lies,”
Gingrich
said.
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