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United States News Title: Romney: Gingrich Like 'Lucille Ball at Chocolate Factory' As he sought to consolidate his strong support in New Hampshire before heading to Iowa, Mitt Romney opted on Tuesday for mockery over menace in criticizing Newt Gingrich, even as his GOP presidential rival denounced Romney's attack ads and record as Massachusetts' governor. Appearing in Portsmouth, Romney noted a statement that Gingrich’s campaign director compared the former House speaker’s recent inability to qualify for the Virginia ballot as a setback comparable to Pearl Harbor from which the campaign would recover. (CAMPAIGN 2012: Gingrich, Perry Fail to Qualify for Virginia Primary) “I think he compared that to Pearl Harbor? I think it’s more like Lucille Ball at the chocolate factory,” Romney said in reference to the famous I Love Lucy skit in which the comedienne was overwhelmed by a rapid assembly line of candies. “You’ve got to get it organized." In another appearance in Londonderry, Romney also took a subtle swipe at Gingrich for a 2008 speech in which he praised Romney’s health care plan and the individual health insurance mandate at its heart. “I'm familiar with the fact that he supported individual mandates in the past and was supportive generally of the plan in Massachusetts, and he's changed his view in the election year," Romney said. Asked to respond to Romney’s comments, Gingrich accused Romney of ducking a one-on-one debate, even though the two men have appeared together at all of the GOP debates. (CAMPAIGN 2012: Top 20 Senate Seats Likely to Flip) “He's buying millions of dollars in attack ads … paid for by his millionaire friends,” Gingrich said on CNN. “Now, I'd like to have him have the courage to be on the same stage and defend his ads and explain his record of raising taxes … and, frankly, explain why he wasn't a job-creating governor.” Romney was more circumspect in criticizing Rep. Ron Paul, who has found himself immersed in considerable controversy over a series of racist newsletter writings. “I haven't seen the Ron Paul newsletters. From what I understand, he repudiated them and, from what I understand, that was the right course for him to take." In Londonderry, Romney also sought to project an aura of bipartisanship by seeking to appeal to independent-minded New Hampshire voters who want to see an end to Washington gridlock. (CAMPAIGN 2012: Whatever Happened to Sarah Palin?) “I think there are Republicans and Democrats who will sit down, work together, and say we are going to put America on a sound financial footing.... I can tell you, I'm not going to spend my time bashing Democrats and attacking them day in and day out, because that makes it impossible to sit down and work together," he said. Romney picked up the endorsement of the conservative-leaning Boston Herald tabloid, which called him the “one candidate in the Republican field with the integrity, the experience, the organizational strength, and the intelligence to beat Barack Obama.”
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