WASHINGTON – The pitch from the Republican presidential contenders to voters sounds a lot like the children’s game of follow the leader.
When Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich aren’t puffing up their own leadership credentials, they’re running down the leadership skills of one another and of President Barack Obama.
If anyone missed Monday’s conference call from the Romney campaign about Gingrich’s record as a “failed leader,” not to worry. They could have tuned in to Tuesday’s conference call. Or Wednesday’s. Or Thursday’s. Or checked out the “unreliable leader” banner splashed across a Romney news release that labeled Gingrich “unhinged.”
Romney’s political biography, meanwhile, is all about his leadership as a businessman, Massachusetts governor and savior of the 2002 Olympic Games in Salt Lake City.
It’s hard to miss Gingrich’s frequent broadsides at Romney for failing to provide consistent, visionary leadership. Or the former House speaker’s pronouncements that he, by contrast, offers “exactly the kind of bold, tough leader the American people want.” Or Gingrich’s descriptions of all that was accomplished in his four years as speaker in the 1990s.
Former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum, trailing in the polls, keeps trying to muscle his way into the conversation by offering himself as the steady bet who
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