Newt who? Dems, Romney keep clashing

By ALEXANDER BURNS | 11/29/11 4:28 AM



The Democratic National Committee and Mitt Romney’s presidential campaign sent a loud-and-clear message to the political world Monday: Pay no attention to Newt Gingrich.

Even as the former House speaker leaped to the center of the 2012 stage, rising in the polls and winning the endorsement of New Hampshire’s powerful Union Leader newspaper, national Democrats launched a messaging campaign aimed at tearing down Romney, the opponent Obama supporters take most seriously. And the Romney campaign was delighted to respond in kind, seizing the opportunity to remind GOP primary voters that it is Romney, not Gingrich, drawing fire from the president’s team.


In a flurry of television ads, press releases and conference calls, the DNC clashed harshly with Romney, calling him a flip-flopper with no political soul. The Obama campaign even sent out a message from the president’s personal Twitter account, mocking Romney for having “two sidesâ€