Not bad advice Newt, but first and foremost there is NOTHING "elite" about the media. They are the enemy within; first class traitors, and they will do everything in their power to trip up Governor Romney, and if they do, they'll try and kick him to death. Anyone who thinks otherwise isn't thinking at all.

BS! The so-called "debates" are just the media advertising itself to keep readers/viewers focused on the news and pump up advertising revenue.

The first debate will be deemed "won" by one of the candidates based on focus group polls or reading fish entrails or something. It doesn't matter.

In the second debate the losing candidate makes a come-back, like in sports!

Finally after a third meeting to contest is always "too close to call". Just stay tuned.

And the ad dollars keep rolling in!

Told my son I didn't want to watch this debate due to the slant; it is going to be an attempted execution of Mitt and another deification of B. Hussein Obama-Mao.

Guess you know how I am going to vote...

Gingrich is a historian, and his grasp of the key factors in presidential debates is spot on. It's not the facts and figures that win these things, it's the persona projected.

Romney by nature is a numbers guy. So his tendency is to over-analyze and rattle off a cascade of facts and figures. He needs to guard against that because it makes him come across as mechanical and impersonal. But his handlers better not try to make him superficially clever and witty. It may be in Gingrich to be that way, but it will come across as forced and phony in Romney.

No, all they have to shoot for is quiet competence. This country needs that, wants it, and Romney's got it. So just deliver that and he wins.

This is just more Newt narcissism. Yawn. He is desperate for attention. The essay is nonsense. The LSM is going to scream Romney got crushed by "The One" in the debates no matter what the reality. The same will hold true for Ryan, even though Biden is a national embarrassment. The script has already been written. If Newt were half as smart and authoritative as he thinks he'd be Einstein. Or maybe Nero.

Regardless of your opinion of Newt as a candidate, he turned in the best debate performances during the primaries simply by not allowing himself to be cowed by the media and their manipulative snarky questions.

Thanks Newt. You display a quality that is envied by your denigrating detractors.

Debate him as though the very existence of someone you dearly love, is in grave danger. Because this country is in grave danger.

Romney needs to shove Zero's obysmal record in his face at every opportunity, and have a command of facts to refute the whoppers Zero will be telling. That should get under Gaffemaster O's thin skin in no time. Let's face it, the only three things in Zero's head are drugs, beer, and Rush Limbaugh. We already know that Zero will avoid every question while lying in every response, as it's all he's got. Pound away for an hour and a half, throw his self-contradictory words right back at him, and don't mention Joe the plumber 20 times. Keep the script simple - I'm a success, you're a failure.

It's too late to turn Mitt into Denis Miller.

But....he could:

1- Speak more slowly as though he were in charge.

2- Learn to listen to the 'Pitch' and intonation of his delivery.

Public speakers are 'singing a song' whether they know it or not. It's better to have an appropriate and powerful 'melody' woven through your presentation than to be unaware of this important detail.

The left is taking a big chance by rigging these 'debates'. The right person would be able to make the 'fix' obvious to the audience and then mock and shame the producers and the leftist media in general. They couldn't hate him any more than they do already so there is no price to pay.

Polite and timid will lose.

They are fixed. But if the Republicans don't care I don't care.

This is one I desperately wish the Romney campaign would read. Better yet, I wish we could put Newt in that debate chair and Romney in the White House.

Since when did Da Won have a spontaneous witty remark? Romney is by far the more experienced, seasoned and intelligent presidential candidate. Romney has one advantage, a brutal primary season. Obambi has been prepping on the View. Now that isn't really a bad strategy as the View will probably ask tougher questions than the debate sycophants. Still, Romney has seen some pretty good comebacks and held his own against sharp debaters (like Newt). Romney can lay waste to this administration if he choices. The problem for us is Romney may channel his inter McLame and reach across the aisle and end up looking like an Obambi groupie.

I'm with #11, and for sure obama will have the questions in advance, and his answers memorized. Best strategy for Mitt is reject the so many "basic assumptions" that the MSM will throw at him. Answer only for the truthful assumptions. Make obama scramble for facts that he doesn't have.

There is lot of hand wringing in Conservative circles about the 'fix' on debates and the Republicans acquiescing meekly to four left wing moderators. But this could be a hidden winner.
As public figures all these four would be on eggshells as the public expects them to be biased, snarky and unprofessional. Secondly, they are vulnerable to the Newt sleeve-across-the-windpipe hit that could reshape and reform any question they ask. Let us hope Mitt is up to it. Ryan certainly seems more able.

I like Newt but taking advice from those who lose isn't always wise.

My advice to Romney is to be prepared to openly tell Obama that his premises are false (there will be many), that his "facts" are manufactured and that his statistics have already been researched and found, er, faulty.

We know Obama is going to play offense. He cannot be permitted to do this. Despite Newt's too-detailed advice, the best thing Romney can do is to go on offense right out of the box, stay on offense with real-life economic figures and national security information and to attack, attack, attack.

Romney should continue to return to conservative ideology and the difference between that and Obama's socialist freedom-killing ideology. For example, "Do we want a country where people can (in Obama's own words) "rise to the middle class"? Or do we want a country where people are free to rise above the middle class if they want to.

And PS: Kill Obamacare dead and replace it piece by piece with single changes that will truly improve health care in America. It's in a horrible state right now. We do not want one 2000-page bureaucratic, expensive nightmare that no one read and that no one can explain.

If Romney is seen as "winning" the first debate, don't plan on seeing another. Obama will want to avoid another and will devise some crisis. This isn't likely to happen as I'm sure the MSM has already written the critique well before the actual debate with Obama winning in a runaway. Luckily most americans who care about such things will be able to see the debate live, on tv, or over the Internet. It's getting harder to obfuscate when the folks can see and hear what the candidates said.

"There you go again."

Maybe we should use winning plays from the Republican playbook.

Please, please, please stop using the term "elite news media!" They are NOT elite. They are traitorous scum. They want to be elite... don't give them what they want. If you have no clever term for them, just say "news media." We'll all know you mean Democrat propagandists.

The media always say the Democrat won the debate. You can bank on it. But the viewers don't always believe them, as when Gore came out with rouge and when Kerry brought up Cheney's "lezzzzzbian" daugher or when Sarah out-debated Biden.

What Romney really needs to be prepared for is the constant interruptions by the biased debate moderators every time he starts to score points. Obama will be allowed to answer questions ad nauseam while if interrupted, Romney must scold the moderator forcefully.