(Romney: Phelan Ebenhack/Reuters, Gingrich: Chris Keane/Reuters)
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- Newt Gingrich has essentially reduced his campaign message in Florida down to "Mitt Romney is factually incorrect":
Speaking before a primarily Jewish audience in Delray Beach, Gingrich called Romney out for saying in Thursday night's CNN debate that he "never voted for a Democrat when there was a Republican on the ballot."
Gingrich called the statement the fourth version to be given by Romney. "In 1992, he gave money to three Democratic candidates for Congress and he voted in the Democratic primary for [Massachusetts'] Paul Tsongas, who was the most liberal person," Gingrich said.
Um, Newt has seemed to have forgotten that he is ... ummm ... Newt Gingrich! Hardly the first man one thinks of when one thinks of honesty and moral righteousness. He's making a weak process argument here.
- Nate notes that 1/3rd of Florida Republicans have already voted. This is why I noted last week that Newt's central challenge in Florida was not debates, but the organizational test. Romney is banking his votes, while Newt hopes for an election day surge. It aint happening.
- There seems to be a concerted effort in the media to talk about Romney's wealth. The fact that Mitt Romney is rich, however, is not the point. Almost all the people who run for president are either rich or very upper middle class. The point is Mitt Romney's business practices. HOW he got rich. You get the impression that if a collection agency magnate were running for president, the media would say "don't begrudge this man his wealth!"
- President Obama continues his quiet ramping up of force capability in the Persian Gulf.
- Wall Street is buzzing about an impending Facebook IPO.
- NPR notes the importance of American manufacturing:
Jennifer Granholm, the former governor of Michigan, tells Raz that if the nation decides that the logical choice is to stop making things in the U.S., there would be more consequences than just massive job losses.
"You'd have to deal with the consequence of a country that doesn't make anything," Granholm says. "If we rely on other countries to build the stuff that we use, then we are completely at the mercy of others. If you want to have a strong country, you have to make things."
Amen.
- Is Google starting to get too bloated by failing to focus on improving the basic core of its business, namely search?
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