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Subscribe to RSSHIAWATHA, Iowa - Newt Gingrich was very critical of his GOP rivals Monday as he is continuing to get hounded with negative ads in the Hawkeye State and is asking Iowans to help put a stop to it.
“If they run into one of these candidates, tell them they ought to be ashamed of themselves,” Gingrich said before roughly 150 people just outside of Cedar Rapids. “They ought to take this junk off the air.”
And it is these negative attacks that are perhaps causing the recent drop in polls.
“Watch TV here for 2 days. You had all sorts of people, all sorts of these Super PACs who have been consistently running negative ads,” Gingrich admitted to a couple hundred people early Tuesday at an event in Davenport.
The former House Speaker has vowed to run a positive campaign and not attack his rivals even when they hit him… most of the time.
"Every once in a while I slip when they get my goat and I can't quite help myself,” he admitted inside Level 10, an apparel manufacturer. “But I think I’ve done a pretty good job at staying focused on issues.”
Mitt Romney, Ron Paul, and Rick Perry all have TV ads and campaign mailers attacking Speaker Gingrich on a variety of issues, such as being a “flip-flopper” and not being a “consistent conservative.”
“I am not going to comment on the people who are suggesting I am not a consistent conservative although one wonders how they would know one if they saw it,” Gingrich said.
But the campaign, as the Speaker pointed out himself, is still organizing itself and having to play catch up with just 15 days until the first-in-the-nation caucuses.
“We are still putting our campaign together. It is wild. It is amazing,” he said.
Gingrich, who is scrambling to get his name on the ballot in Virginia for the primary, told reporters in Davenport, “Some candidates have been running for five or six years and raised millions and millions of dollars. They're better organized than I am.”
But in the end, Gingrich said, it’s up to Iowans first and foremost to decide which type of campaign strategy should be rewarded.
“When you get ready to vote in 2 weeks ask yourself, do you really want to reward politics as usual, negativity as usual, attack as usual, consultants as usual, fundraising from Wall Street fundraising as usual,” Gingrich asked. “Or do you want to vote for the only person who has consistently, steadily been positive for the entire campaign.”
The Speaker continues with four campaign stops in Eastern Iowa Tuesday.
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This is hilarious coming from Newt. It called Carma, Newt. YOu dished it out for years now you cannot take it...lol
The biggest GOp Turd of the bunch is whinning about being $hit on....Dont worry I am sure you wil float back to the top..sooner or later
Off with his head..
When the Republican spin doctors started calling liberals bad names and associating progressive thought with evil, little did they know that the knife cuts both ways. Now, every time an American hears the word retarded, they think of Republicans. LOL Kinda like the old saying, "Live by the gun, die by the gun!"
The Repubnuts running for office of the President are all numnuts, morons, selfish, hateful, bigoted, egotistical, and just plain DUHHHHH. This bunch of clowns could care less about the American citizens... whoever votes for this a$$e$ deserves that they get! They have no compassion for anyone but themselves.
Wait until bambam and his henchmen get started...there will be a dozen money whores connected to every Republican in Washington...:p
He should fight back. it would be fun. Ron Paul is a racist terrorist supporter, who dresses poorly, Mitt Romney is a closet socialist with fake hair, Rick Perry is just a borderline mute idiot who looks and sounds like W in a back brace, Michele Bachmann is a homophobe married to a closeted gay guy, Barak Obama is , the second coming of Pol Pot. It would be a nice ad.
gglenn ... you had it right for the first4 in your statement, but Obama has kept this country from going wayyyy under. I don't expect you crazy Repubnuts/Teaheads to admit that he has helped this country. What the hell have they done to help? NOT A DAMNED THING!... oh, excuse me... they did help in having our country's credit rating drop AND.... help in getting Obama re-elected! LOL.. Thanks a bunch you loonies! LOL
Seriously, I dont believe I indicated who I supported. But I am called a loony? I just suggested his ad for him. But you go ahead and call names and use foul language. Its very effective when communicating.
fight back with what...hes got nothing....skated serving the country, ripped off taxpayer dollars,lied to congress, and puts down gays when he is known to have "experimented" for 20 years...he is an ugly man with an even uglier wife.. and with his background...we all know why he has to be "pro- choice"(which is the only thing hes got going for him)...so this is your guy...really
gglenn - wasn't calling you a loony. That was for the Repubnuts. All I have to say is... it's a poor pool to pick a nomination from. Sad to think that these IDIOTS are the best that the Repubnuts have to offer.
Lets look on the bright side...if Newty wins the GOP nomination and elected President, Saturday Night Live and the Comedy Channel will get the highest ratings in the history of television
Nope. A Federal Injunction will be issued. Just the type of man--er--whatever he is.
Who should be ashamed? Your "I hate gays" campaign isn't exactly creating any positive ads in that department... your "holier than thou" attitude doesn't really create a positive environment, either... You should revisit your core values to see just why you are so reviled by the majority of the U.S.
Speaking of being ashamed of negative comments, the pudgy bastard provided the world with the following...
What if [Obama] is so outside our comprehension, that only if you understand Kenyan, anti-colonial behavior, can you begin to piece together [his actions]?" Gingrich asked. "That is the most accurate, predictive model for his behavior."
"This is a person who is fundamentally out of touch with how the world works, who happened to have played a wonderful con, as a result of which he is now president," Gingrich added.
"I think he worked very hard at being a person who is normal, reasonable, moderate, bipartisan, transparent, accommodating -- none of which was true," Gingrich continues. "In the Alinksy tradition, he was being the person he needed to be in order to achieve the position he needed to achieve. ... He was authentically dishonest."
Now I ask you, who should be ashamed?
"Kettle! Kettle!"
Remember he (Newt) is from Georgia. Need I say more about a State that has already passed a Secession Law. It is on the books as a just in case Law.
This is coming from a man who has no shame at all. Lovely.
Poor Newt, Poor Repubs, PAC Money used Against them now. There is a price to pay, for Buying the Supreme Court. It's kind of amusing to watch tho.
Speaking about the Supreme Court. A certain billionaire from Texas, who loves past tyrants and has about 20 huge statures of them at his mansion, has one in his pocket. Need help with his name? HC... (Caw Caw). Enough. You have two hints.
aww...I told you no Republican in their right mind would stand behind newt....an idiot bagger maybe...but not a true Republican....and really...who can look at his old lady without busting up laughing...I mean how desperate do you have to be to s@#k newt the toads john....her parents must be so proud!!!
Newt is still the creep. Not saying that in a negative way though - just a fact.
Wow..newt complaining about "negativity" in campaigning ...I swear you couldn't even make this stuff up.......hello GOP parallel universe
Newt is worried about Wall Street money in the campaign?! What a hypocrite.
Ha Ha Ha, I mean,like, come on, how disingenuous can you get. Newt is in a bad position, ripe for negative ads because of his track record and his only defense is hey, can't we all just get along and shun anyone who breaks the no new taxes - er I mean no new negative ads pledge! Someone with such a lame defense deserves to be ripped apart! Once a political whore, always a political whore
That last part covers almost the entire Congress and Presidential Office for decades. All of them owe their very soul to the Country Store--er--Corporations. Even the ones hiding in the closet and are mute.
Of course Newt wants everyone to run a positive campaign. That way, none of his immense baggage gets brought out into the open. Does Gingrich really think people are that stupid?
In a word, yes. He DOES think people are that stupid.
YES. He thinks YES. In fact, he is just another Politician that thinks his Voters are just as stupid as he is. I must admit that so far he has been right else he would not have been voted into Office repetitively. Now he is in front of the 49 other States. The question is, are those voters as Stupid as Georgia voters are?
Let me cry a river for you newt. He doesn't see the hypocrisy of himself or his party. That's the trouble with these guys. Never will change though.
There is trash and garbage and hidden secrets everywhere, in closets, swept under the rug, etc. It is just a manner of time when they are uncovered. And be uncovered is the essence of Politics as they should be. Voters need to know ALL OF THE FACTS about who they are voting for or against. That is LOGICAL else they are buying or rejecting a "pig-in-the-poke" sight unseen and that is highly dangerous and costly.
Buck up and admit who you are, who you are for, and what you are for and what you are against and all of your sordid past. Atonement may await you with open arms or a closed fist.
Hey MSNBC, Keep being bias and ignore Ron Paul when hes in 2nd, 3rd, oh and now flame him big time when hes in 1st!!! Really, a 20 year old letter published by some unknown even when he wasnt running after 1988? Cmon really? Thats the best you got? You know he got some of the biggest support in 2008 by black voters. How about you look at his character and principles of the past 30 years and RESEARCH what issues he voted on in congress.
Anyone who still support Obama like I did in 2008 supports a liar/socialist and is probably receiving their welfare check tomorrow.
Ron Paul 2012!
Newt ought to be ashamed of himself for being an adulterer!!!
Newt should be ashamed for being Newt.
Talk about the pot calling the kettle black, Newt. When he was Speaker of the House he smeared everyone that disagreed with him. Looks like Karma to me.
Looks like Karma just bit Newt wit in his big fat butt!
"Gingrich: Rivals 'ought to be ashamed of themselves' for running negative ads"
I have to agree; How dare they say those things about that Lying Lobbyist!