New Hampshire Primary Brings Out Verbal Lashing from GOP Candidates (ContributorNetwork)

With less than 24 hours before the New Hampshire begins voting in the first primary of the election season, GOP candidates are targeting frontrunner Mitt Romney with television ads and stinging allegations.

Here is a breakdown of some of the comments made by Republican candidates:

* Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich told Associated Press he will step up his criticism of the former Massachusetts governor who he believes is not a true conservative candidate. The Saturday debate in New Hampshire was only the beginning of his attacks on Romney, Gingrich said. "I don't believe in unilateral disarmament. ... Mitt Romney cannot campaign with a straight face as a conservative."

* Texas Gov. Rick Perry has been campaigning in South Carolina, which will hold its primary on Jan. 21. Associated Press reported Perry chose to attack Romney's record as CEO of Bain Capital, including alleged layoffs that affected South Carolina workers. "I have no doubt that Mitt Romney was worried about pink slips -- whether he'd have enough of them to hand out."

* Former Utah governor Jon Huntsman has been campaigning throughout New Hampshire for months. A Suffolk University poll released Sunday placed Huntsman solidly in third place, according to US News and World Report. He received the endorsement of the Boston Globe last week. Huntsman largely focuses his campaigning on issues and positioning himself as the only electable Republican. In a rare comment about Romney, the San Francisco Chronicle reported that Huntsman told a town hall meeting that Romney's successes so far won't work in New Hampshire. "In New Hampshire, you can't Twitter your way to success. You can't Facebook your way to success. Politics is still done the old-fashioned way in this state. You have to be seen. You have to be heard. You have to be felt."

* Texas Rep. Ron Paul has conceded Romney's huge lead in New Hampshire and, instead, told Time magazine he would focus on winning other voters, mainly from former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum. Campaign manager Jesse Benton has been leading the verbal attacks on behalf of the candidate. He mainly has been targeting Santorum's allegations that Paul would be ineffective as president. "Rick Santorum's fooling lot of people into thinking he's some sort of limited government conservative, [but] he's a big-government Republican who voted for a lot of debt and a lot of spending," Benton said.

Source: http://us.rd.yahoo.com/dailynews/rss/gop/*http%3A//news.yahoo.com/s/ac/20120109/pl_ac/10811757_new_hampshire_primary_brings_out_verbal_lashing_from_gop_candidates

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