duo name hyphenating
During Saturday night’s ABCNews.com debate, on repeated occasions, Republican presidential hopeful Rep. Michele Bachmann referred the two GOP frontrunners — former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney and former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich — as one: “Newt Romney.â€
This is an old gimmick. I don’t know how far it goes back, and I would be interested in a research study. We know we have a whole bunch of “Obamneys” and such. A cousin to this may be the Joseph McCarthy / Richard Nixon trick that transposed Adlai and Alger — Stevenson and Hiss — with a cutsey “whoops”.
Like, can we get old Jefferson Republicans referring to Federalist rivals with as “Benedict Adams”?
Ah. Newt. Beware the EMP attacks. What an odd little race we have here for the moment. Maybe Bachmann will let you not vaccinate against that one.
Another Lincoln Douglas debate from Newt. And Huntsman. Because… ?
Another Lincoln Douglas debate from Newt. And Huntsman. Because… ?