Two days after suffering a damaging defeat to Newt Gingrich in the South Carolina primary, Mitt Romney took an assertive stance against the former House speaker on Monday night in the latest Republican debate. Romney wasted little time before laying into Gingrich on an array of potential vulnerabilities in advance of the Jan. 31 Florida primary, including a challenge to Gingrich’s conservative bona fides on the environment, his condemnation (for which he later apologized) of Paul Ryan’s entitlement reform plan as “right-wing social engineering,” and his consulting work on behalf of troubled mortgage giant Freddie Mac.
“The speaker was given the opportunity to be the leader of our party in 1994, and at the end of four years, he resigned in disgrace,” Romney said. Though Gingrich did not appear frazzled at any point during the debate, Romney’s transition to a more antagonistic mode against him marked a stark contrast from the past two weeks when the former speaker who appeared to have Romney on his heels time and again.
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