Report: Romney Staffer says Florida No Longer Just about Winning; “It’s About Destroying Gingrich” – 1/29/12

BuzzFeed’s Zeke Miller reports from Florida that the Mitt Romney Campaign no longer views winning the Florida Primary as their goal. It’s now all about “destroying” Newt Gingrich:

BUZZFEED: Mitt Romney’s goal in Florida is no longer just winning.

After Gingrich Newt scored a surprise blow-out victory in South Carolina last week, the former Massachusetts governor not only unleashed a political broadside of epic proportions.

“It not about winning here anymore,” one Romney staffer told BuzzFeed. “It’s about destroying Gingrich — and it’s working.” . . . Read More

The onslaught of attacks on Newt Gingrich from all quarters within the Republican Establishment would confirm what this report indicates. The Romney Team sees an opportunity to not only defeat Newt Gingrich, but to so ruin him that he cannot recover elsewhere. My guess is that regardless what happens in Florida, Newt Gingrich will keep going and try to make a comeback in March in the Super Tuesday states. The question will be whether he can hang on until then.