◼ “He’s the most intelligent and interesting candidate on the stage,” said Gene Beach, Republican mayor of Marshalltown, who stood shoulder-to-shoulder with other Gingrich supporters in the Junction Sports Bar here. - Columbus Dispatch
In October, Gingrich was rising in the polls and appeared poised to be the un-Romney, but that was before a third-party political-action committee supporting Romney went on Iowa television and radio with an estimated $3.5 million in attack ads, “virtually all of them aimed at me,” Gingrich lamented in a TV interview yesterday.
“Iowa has an opportunity to really change American politics by proving that negative campaigning does not work,” Gingrich told the big crowd in Marshalltown.
...“I would love to see Newt go toe-to-toe with Obama in a debate,” Messerer said. “All this baggage they talk about, that’s water over the dam.”
