In an extraordinary attack on the government, the Speaker said: "I think I have given a fairly clear indication that this has been a sorry saga.
While Mr. Paul has little chance of winning the nomination, he'll cause problems for the front-runners, especially Mr. Gingrich; last week, the Paul campaign released one of the toughest and most polished commercials, and it was an attack on the former House speaker, portraying him as a serial hypocrite.
No matter the barbs, including Santorum's personal attack on the former House speaker, whom he previously said he might choose as a running mate, it seemed no one could draw blood from Newt.
The move to a contrast campaign has found Florida television viewers subjected to a variety of attacks on the former speaker.
The students responded with a direct attack on the barring of speakers such as Burg and from Jewish Voice for Peace.
Here is a man who is so resistant to the lures of tradition that he ignored the convention of backroom fixing to break cover and launch an attack on the unpopular former Commons Speaker Michael Martin, setting in train his downfall.
"'Give 'em hell, Chris!' New Jersey voters say about Governor Christopher Christie's attack on House Speaker John Boehner and House Republicans when they delayed the vote on superstorm Sandy relief," said Quinnipiac's Maurice Carroll.
And in a robust show of political muscle, a group of horse lovers is helping to back the first major advertising buy of the 2013 race: a $1 million attack on Christine C. Quinn, the City Council speaker, who, despite being a dog lover, has been a longtime target of animal rights advocates because of her support for horse-drawn carriages in Central Park.
But the animals never attack the speaker, says Peter Narins, a neuroethologist at the University of California, Los Angeles.
The meeting, organized by a former intelligence director, Amrullah Saleh, and attended as well by Abdullah Abdullah, a former presidential candidate, was a frontal attack on the current government's policies, and speakers denounced both Al Qaeda and the Taliban.
