Wyvern media News - With Election Days Closing In, GOP Candidates Target Front-Runners
Newt Gingrich is the "king of K Street" and Mitt Romney is the "big-government candidate" in the Republican presidential primary race, says Michele Bachmann, whose pointed and laser-like attacks on the front-runners mark the latest effort by the primary candidates to take down their rivals.
With just over three weeks until the first nominating contest, Bachmann -- as well as other contenders, Ron Paul, Rick Perry, Rick Santorum and Jon Huntsman -- are vying to get a leg up over Gingrich, who has taken the recent lead in polling, and Romney, who has cast himself as the de facto nominee to challenge President Obama when all is said and done.
And with the clock ticking before the early voting begins, the candidates have sharpened their tongues and targeted the top-tier in a way that has largely been avoided until recently.
"We know that (Gingrich) has taken over $100 million. His offices are on the Rodeo Drive of Washington called K Street. He's the king of K Street," the Minnesota congresswoman said.
"And so for a person who has been influence peddling for over 30 years in Washington, D.C., to think that Newt Gingrich is somehow an outsider, when he's the consummate establishment insider, he's the big government candidate just like Mitt Romney is the big government candidate, that's not what we want in our nominee. It doesn't even survive the falling off the chair laughing test," Bachmann continued.
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