Well, that didn’t last long.
Earlier Monday, TPM reported that some of Newt Gingrich’s supporters were lamenting the candidate’s recent turn-the-other-cheek approach to the barrage of negative ads that have battered him since he rocketed up the polls.
They didn’t have to wait too long for him to change his tune. Later Monday he promised a 44-stop bus tour to push his message, and also lash back at the criticisms.
“I’m candidly very disappointed that some of my friends who are running put out so much negative junk,” he told reporters in Davenport, Iowa, the New York Times reported.
Many have noted that Gingrich’s campaign schedule has often borne more similarity to an opportunistic book tour than a genuine push to win the presidency. However, at the same Iowa event he swore to return “again and again” to the state to rebut “the false and inaccurate advertising from some of my friends.”
