Who worries the Democratic National Committee after Saturday night’s Republican debate?
For months, the committee has been training all of its rhetorical fire on Mitt Romney, sending out hundreds of e-mails and producing dozens of anti-Romney videos.
But at 1:41 a.m on Sunday, the Democrats sent out a quickly produced Web video accusing Newt Gingrich of being the “original Tea Partier.”
The ad quotes Mr. Gingrich saying of Medicare that “we don’t get rid of it in round one, because we don’t think that that’s politically smart, we don’t think that’s the right way to go through a transition. But we believe it’s going to whither on the vine.”
It then shows him saying: “I want to invite you to a party — a Tea Party.”
The video is fresh evidence that the Democrats are preparing to shift their focus to Mr. Gingrich as he becomes a more serious contender for the nomination — and for the right to challenge President Obama next year.
The video uses snippets of Saturday night’s debate to show Mr. Gingrich advocating for large cuts in corporate taxes and for zero capital gains taxes for people making above $200,000 a year.
“Newt Gingrich,” the ad says at the end. “Three decades of Tea Party politics.”
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