"Well, the Romney camp will want to have a “long week” of their own as things build up towards the Florida primary. They’ve already tossed $7 million in advertising at the state and are breaking out a new attack. Both Romney and his top surrogates like former New Hampshire governor John Sununu have played the Pelosi card: raising an issue from last month that Newt himself made hay over — the idea that House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi may have seen incriminating documents against him while she was serving on the House Ethics Committee, and that she could break these out as an “October Surprise” were he to become the actual nominee.
The problem with this argument is that those documents were synthesized into a publicly available report, and - as with the Marianne interview - Gingrich has had a long, long time to consider his response and treat it as old, irrelevant news. Nonetheless, even today the Romney camp pushed ahead on the issue, sending the Newt headquarters a birthday cake to mark the 15th anniversary of the date the House Ethics Committee fined him $300,000. The Romney camp has also began attacking him over another issue many thought had receded into the past: Newt’s time as a suspiciously highly paid “historian” for the mortgage giant Freddie Mac.
In the next few days, you can expect to see a duel between the two camps over these releases. Romney will likely double down on his demands that Newt release those private documents before Pelosi can revive their contents. But Romney may also need to pause for some serious self-reflection. Republicans I talked to this week said his continuing problem relating to conservatives may mean he needs a bit of a personality adjustment."
http://2012.talkingpointsmemo.com/2012/01/what-just-happened-and-what-happens-now.php?ref=fpa
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