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Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich speaks to supporters on Friday in Columbia, South Carolina.
DES MOINES, Iowa – It appears Newt Gingrich isn’t playing nice anymore.
The Gingrich campaign is out with its first opposition email directly hitting none other than GOP rival Mitt Romney -- a move that signals a departure from the positive-only campaign Gingrich himself promised to run.
“Can we trust a Massachusetts Moderate to enact a conservative agenda?," Gingrich Communications Director Joe DeSantis writes in the email sent out Monday evening. "Our campaign might have plenty of things to say about that, but the best response certainly comes from Mitt Romney himself: 'I think people recognize that I am not a partisan Republican. That I'm someone who is moderate, and that my views are progressive.'"
The email, labeled “FACT SHEET: MITT THE MASSACHUSETTS MODERATE,” makes fun of Romney’s new television ad running in Iowa during which the former Massachusetts Governor portrays himself as a "conservative businessman.” It quotes what people have said about Romney and a few things Romney has said in the past.
Ironically, the former House Speaker is currently running a TV ad in Iowa himself, during which he says: “Others seem to be more focused on attacks, rather than moving the country forward. That's up to them.”
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Duh...we are going to:
"Create jobs by deregulatin and cuttin taxes for the 1%".
All except for Ron Paul, who will do the same thing.... And legalize Pot.
This is so unfair! Mitt cannot say anything derogatory about Newt, because anything Mitt says that is unfavorable about the fumb ducker is almost certainly true. Since Newt has brought himself into disrepute with theft, adultery, and fornication, nothing can (by definition) be derogatory.
Say what you want but we've spent billions on the "war on drugs" and the cartels, which couldn't exist without prohibition, are only growing ever-more violent and powerful. Success? I think not.
If you are in a position to see that poor business practice doesn't merit a $700 billion dollar bailout then regulation needy CEOs and boards might not flagrantly run themselves into the ground. Committing fraud and fearing just prosection for it would help a little bit too.
Really, have you heard about any success the SEC has had in the last twenty years? The Wall St. Washington revolving door is going to stop any meaningful regulation; just more money spent on lobbyists and high-end lawyers to get around whatever weak legislation gets passed.
It's funny how Newt who can't even follow simple rules and get 10k votes is pointing fingers at another Republicancandidate. It's like the frying pan calling the kettle black. Why would anyone vote for Newt when he can't even do simple things he needs to do for his own Candidacy. If he can't do that, what will he not do for the United States if he becomes President?
Flip Romney is as conservative as Obama. Newt couldn't even get on the ballot in every state. I can't wait to see what the Republican establishment tries to do after Ron Paul wins Iowa and New Hampshire.
Remember WAY back when ... when Newt was seen for what he is ... and at the first debate he said ... "whatever we do, we need to band together to defeat Obama" WELL ... now that they have forgotten who Newt is ... even his $500,000 Tiffany bill for the lizard ... and Newt has a melting lead ... it's high time to attack Romney along with Obama ... it's call a "Sucker Punch"! AND ... after TWO Bush terms ... we know there's no shortage of suckers amongst our brethren!
Gingrich and Romney quarrels remind me of Laurel and Hardy re-runs.........
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WDoeOuxiReQ
Promises to run a clean campaign...gets dirty when the times get rough. Who's the flip-flopper?
If the guy can't even get on the ballet in a state because he missed some paperwork, I don't think I want him running our country.
As for his past indiscretions, the last thing we need is another Bill Clinton getting BJs under the podium....
~~~~~~~~~~~~~"Newt is the GATE to HELL"~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
~~~~~~~~~~~"Bed bugs are flocking to Newt"~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~"Bath" ?
~~~~~~~~~~~~"Newt Shopping at Tiffany's is for hogs"~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
No More Mr. Nice Guy, huh? Gingrich will bowl him over with his moral superiority.
I am surprised that Newt kept up his Mr. Nice Guy act this long. Not that his come-back about Mitt not being a career politician because he couldn't get elected was nice. But at least it was funny and true.
And Newt IS a career politician, got censured and then lost his position and seat. Now THAT's a winner!
Honestly, Is this crowd the best the Republican Party can come up with as their pick to run the Executive Branch of the U.S.A.???
Tim - they are not aiming for the presidency are they? I thought it was a new version of 'X Factor' running a competition for circus clowns. On the evidence, I must be right.
How is it so many Americans in Iowa and nationally are so enamored with the most amoral political figure in my lifetime? Research Gingrich and you will see he is an unprincipled opportunist who would do or say just about anything to get money and power for himself.
I love all you newt haters. Considering you have a president who is very close to jimmy carters twin ideologically when it comes to Jobs, the economy and class warfare, your gonna have to spew a lot more hate. What all you folks go to wallmart last week or watching lebron james --- you enablers and allowing the wealthy 1 % to get richer...shame on you! What next buying cars and going to a big bank to allow executives to get richer! You progressive really love the rich - don't you!
Jolly: you can drop that Rush Limbaugh Jimmy Carter joke...no one is buying it...Not everyone had amnesia in the 8 years before Obama. WalMart ? Lebron James? Look who is laughingly lecturing anyone else about hate...you regressives are hilarious.
Stereotype much Jolly?
Nice to see you deflect to Obama too. When you can't defend someone, go to the old deflection playbook, correct? This is an article about Newt and his direct attacks on Romney. Not bash Obama and Bring up Jimmy Carter.
I do not shop Walmart ( one L by the way) or even watch the NBA. Not that I see why you brought an NBA player into your deflection. I also bank at a local credit union and I still think Newt is one of the biggest hypocrites I have ever seen.
Blames America for not being able to keep his dick in his pants, while going after someone for the same thing. Not to mention claiming the moral high ground like we should all forget his ousting from his political position for poor ethics.
Defend a dishonest person all you want. It still wont change the fact that Newt is, and always will be a manipulative liar.
Well said, NY Mike.
Obama successfully kept us out of depression after 8 years of "starve the beast" republican policies that nearly bankrupted the nation.
Americans haven't forgotten the party that brought all that to us, the party that wants to end medicare and privatize social security.
Hey Eric, you conveniently forget that it was CLINTON'S deregulation that brought this mess about. His deregulations allowed for the mortgage crisis, the huge Wall Street mess, and the ensuing chaos. Yes, Bush is partly to blame for getting so caught up in the War on Terror that he didn't see the disaster unfolding in the economy. But let's make sure we keep the blame spread evenly. Keeps everyone happy that way.
Bush is partly to blame, partly to blame?
3.7 Trillion off budget for the Iraq war, $900 billion for Medicare Drug benefit off budget, $900 billion in taxcuts in war time? We could have survived the housing bubble if we didn't have Cheney and his puppet W chanting "DEFICITS DON"'T MATTER, DEFICITS DON"'T MATTER..." and purposely spending the country into the oblivion!
Nice Try Iray801, you forgot that Bush deregulated Wall Street and that led to derivatives trading.
Bush cut taxes and went to war to expedite deficit spending. This was inline with the Republican plan to "starve the beast" and get us into a financial crisis so that they had an excuse to cut entitlements.
The amazing story of the debt - http://zfacts.com/p/318.html
Well said Eric. But it is a fact that Bill Clinton did make it easier for Americans to own a home. But then Bush opened the flood gates and allowed the banks to pray upon people, setting them up for failure and then causing AIG to go under leaving the tax payers holding the bag. Same with car loans. They are set up to fail, then they make you pay for Insurance on the loan, so when you fail, they get there money anyway, then they steel your car and sell it, and bubble dip you and make you pay the difference, or the so called lose, after they got all there money back from the insurance Company, that insured the loan in the first place. And the Courts set back and allow it to happen, until just lately. Finally the Courts have seen the fraud and is doing something about it.
Americans First-3238795, your moniker would leave me to believe you're a Ron Paul supporter, but after reading a few of your posts, its obvious you're Socialist.
Not one of them, including Obama, gives a damn about anything other than lining their own pockets. We're screwed. Neither side has even 1 "candidate" worth mentioning. Obama is just as big of a scumbag as all the rest and a FAR worse president than Bush. Cut the crap and read a little. Bush sucked and this bum continued the trend, times 10.
Romney's response. Cut Taxes, Eliminate Regulation, Encourage Job Builders! That's the message Americans
want to hear.
But if that doesn't work, go ahead and kick the s**t out of Newter.
Yep that's Mittney, all points stolen from Dr Paul...
His modus operandi, find out what is popular and driving the voters then usurp it and try to call it your own.
Loyal Texan...your man has no clue whatsoever about creating jobs. He does know about creating personal wealth off the backs of others. No, that's not the message Americans want to hear.
Dr. Paul...?? the man who has managed to pass ONE bill in all of his years in Congress? (a resolution to pat NASA astronauts on the back) The ineffective bafoon masquerading as a "leader"...the loon who would like to make it legal for everyone to print their own money??? Yeah...that message will take off any day now.
Yep, those tax cuts created jobs didn't they. So naturally deregulating clean air and water sill surely create them......(rolls eyes).
AP
My apology if I confused you with my attempt at sardonic wit. Not sure which man of mine you reference. Do you mean Mitts or Newter? I didn't mention Dr. Paul so I don't know why he would be "my man" Which one of these candidates do you consider the ineffective bafoon masquerading as a leader?
AP is another Socialist that wants everything handed out via a central Government without consideration as to WHO WILL PAY FOR IT.
Wasn't it just a few weeks ago when Newt said that he instructed his campaign was not to malign any Republican candidates. Like Newt's marriage vows - didn't last long.
Yeah it was Joyce, but he has to go on the attack, he has nothing left...
This is perfectly in character with the Newton we knew and loved.
Witness his history with regard to religion: (has had 3) , marital status: (3 + numerous affairs and quickies) and political convictions: (depends on who is paying him).
To quote a line from one of my favorite movies:
He couldn't even make it on the ticket in his own home state and still thinks he has creditability!
What an arrogant ass! But go ahead Newt, take out Mittney for us!
Good for you, Newt, stick a fork in him.
Why the media waste our time with theses unfit candidates is a testament to the the dumbing down of USA.
If the payroll tax fight didnt make up the minds of at least 160 million Americans , there is nothing left but death. OBAMA 2012
You'd vote for Obama on that one thing? Perhaps your first line applies to you more so than the rest of the country....
Google "douchebag" and GingricK's face pops up. Google "clown" and all of the right wing candidates' faces pop up. Google "one percent" and Romney's face pops up.
Romney's biggest donors are the same as Obama's; just sayin'.
I am surprised that it lasted this long. Newtron's strategy was a failure from the very start - invoking Ronald Reagan's so-called "11th Republican Campaign Commandment" was never going to make the others refrain from tearing into him and since he lacks the temperament, he certainly cannot appear to be a statesman and above the fray.
Romney has been getting a free ride and only the credulous and gullible would buy the "..I am a businessman..." mantra already rightly dismissed by Newtron as so much inane drivel intended for low-information voters.
Newtron's job now is make sure GOPTP primary/caucus voters know that Romney is even more of a flip-flopper, liar, and fraud than he is.
Ah, the smell of desperation pours out of the Newtster's fat body, Calista will be mad, and Romney laughs. This near the top of the most hiarious primary runs in history, or the saddest.
Laurel and Hardy on the republican campaign trail, funny stuff. Ron Paul says "I knew Oliver Hardy and your no Oliver Hardy Newt and I knew Stan Laurel Mitt and you are a Stan Laurel". As little as a month ago I would not have believed it possible but I think Ron Paul just might win the Iowa Caucus, and if he does things will really get interesting.
Great Analogy Forrest!
But I'm still trying to figure out which one is Laurel and which is Hardy, is this because they keep flipping and flopping the roles back and forth?
Hope you had a good Christmas Bud...
It was bittersweet this year, but it is always good to be with family and friends. I Hope yours was merry and bright. Newt did the near impossible for a politician he broke a campaign promise without even being elected. Newt and Mitt are doing so poorly they are giving Santorum false hope.
Newt is the epitome of hypocrisy. Ain’t karma Grand!!! Newt lead the investigation of Clinton’s infidelity with Monica while he was indulging in the same betrayal and continues to lie stating his first wife wanted the divorce, when it was he who filed. Sometimes those who “fear” other’s adultery results from their projections because they are more likely to commit the betrayal.
Nothing more pitiful than a buncha lib's stroking each other and taking shots at republicans. I guess it takes the attention off of what an utter disaster Obama has proven to be.
@Jeff
I am an Independent and I see nothing wrong with Newtron pointing out that Romney is a lying, flip-flopping, RINO fraud!
This has nothing whatever to do with Obama at all and you know it. America is a democracy and candidates have the absolute right to differentiate themselves from one another . Even RINO Romney has said this...
right now romeny is smiling. yet another fake tea party candidate trying to paint him as a moderate. Its sure going to help him in the general election when he gets to highlight to the nation how everyone has been calling him right of center for the past year. Romney is the only gop candidate that obama and the democrats fear.
slight right,
No he's not, I judge that by the way they are really going hands off Mittney, They would love the grinch be the candidate he would be just too easy, mittney is not far behind.
The one candidate the Democrats fear the most is the good Dr.
Ron Paul will force the campaign onto record, even the liberal media don't want to attempt to run on the presidents record, it is not his strong suit.
I know that last statement is going to upset a lot of the posters on the vine, but it is the truth.
Egilman: the good dr is a joke....He doesn't have the leadership to force anything anywhere...what record does Paul have? Incompetence and irrelevancy. No wonder you think the media is "liberal" or that you have any clue whatsoever what the truth is.
AP,
Why don't you "School" me on what the truth really is?
These far right-wingers are destroying themselves and they don't even know it. This country does not want some Nazi regime that dismantles every public protection so that the wing-nuts can keep funding their 1+ trillion a year Military Industrial Compllex cash-cow, which wasn't even costing us 300 billion a year in 2001. Maybe if those Tea-Brains actually looked at the numbers for Paul Ryan's budget, they'd see that the GOP aren't cutting spending, they're just shifting money that serves the people to what serves their interest now that we're broke. It's called robbing Peter to pay Paul. I'm sure you've all heard of this.
sure have, hemi. Peter is the married guy with a morgage looking to save to send his kids to the best school they can get into while worrying if social security will be around for him even though he has paid into it for thirty years. Paul is the guy chillin in the park that peter and his neighbors pay for through property taxes.
BTW by hemi do you mean the engine? because if money is tight perhaps you shouldn't by the most expensive engine that gets horrible mpg. I bet Peter wouldn't make that mistake.
I'm still trying to figure out what happened to Newturd's "Contract With America"? I thought that was supposed to fix everything? (copyright 1994 by The Republican Party)
Newts " Contract On America" you mean correct ? Don't worry if Newton gets a chance ,you will see version 2.0 .
The contract was executed.....witness the corpse of American prosperity...
Their memory sure is short. Remember Ronny Raygun's 11th commandant, Thou shall not attack fellow repukes?
Pass the popcorn.
LOL just a heads up The ron Paul Libertarians will be in shortly . Foaming at the mouth about a yahoo story about some of ron's better conspiracy stuff . LOL
Carpenter7
nah we won't be foamin at the mouth, we've had our shots, we leave that for the ultra left and right wingers. (good comedy)
Nah, The Ron Paulians live for,,,,,,,More Federal Aid and of course legalized drugs
More federal aid? Back that up with something factual, you're lying.
A candy bar made of crap dipped in chocolate is still crap in the middle, Romney could & would be every bit as bad & mean to the middle class & poor people in America as Gingrich, I sure hope that President Obama wins re-election & retains at least one or wins both of the chambers.
Seems like Newt/Callista's holiday-video call for goodwill had a half-life less than paper cards, most of which stay on display until Epiphany. But NLG must have had an epiphany of his own come earlier than the one on the calendar, one that came too late to do him much good, however.
Ladies and Gentlemen, behold for your amazement the antics of the Noncollegial Clown College!
I think it is funny that no one has even mentioned Ron Paul's record of everything from tax evasion to his district in Texas basically living on welfare (Federal Aid),,,,,,,,,But then these are the Republican "norm"
As Ron Paul increases in popularity the more he is becoming exposed and all that financial gain from racist propaganda newsletters looks really bad. If you listen to him, he supports Iran, he is against Israel, and Bin Laden was justified in his attacks because of our foreign policy.
Ron Paul is simply not practical.
Ron Paul is the man. You can dig and make up bad stuff about any politician, but Ron is the only candidate anywhere I could feel good about voting for. Who on the left or right will make this country a better place for our kids? Wars leave kids with no parents, debt leaves them with a large burden, and government control is not what this country was built on! As far as his district and welfare, Look around your neighborhood, Did your senator give all the recipients their checks? Ron Paul 2012!
Funny, all that attack is saying is Romney as a moderate is more electable in the general election than himself. Newts dumbing down for the tea party can only take him so far.
Yep it's a bit like accusing Romney of being reasonable.......(an exaggeration I think, but hardly a slam...)
Did anyone seriously think he wasn't going to wallow in the mud with his GOP brethren??
And your buddy obama doesnt! Ha hah your funny.. What was it last week a 20k per plate fundraiser? Hes going to use the money to talk about the whether? Also, thats really upstanding for the working class and middle america! What you didn't get to join that 1% club? Whats wrong with you! couldn't quite get there on time!
Jolly: that's all you've got? Obama is fundraising?? Good grief, what a joke.
Stay focused Jolly. This is an article about Newt not keeping his word yet again.
See if you can drop your agenda long enough to actually talk about this article. You know, the one about Newt and not Obama.
Are you going to even mention Newt in a discussion about him? Or can we just ignore you, knowing that you are only going to deflect to Obama?
This is all a dog and pony show. Leaders are not elected, they are appointed. Even if they were, do you really think your check mark in a ballot box gives you any kind of power? Of course it doesn't. Only a three year old would be foolish enough to think that they have a say in anything, simply because they checked a box next to someone's name. Capitol hill is a family affair, and they're all related to the bankers, the media, etc. Want to see what common bond they all have, and exactly how they're screwing you? See SubvertedNation/net
Sounds like you have thrown the towel in. Fastest way to ensure nothing changes ever.
WRONG. I'm just not stupid enough to think that working within THEIR system will change anything for the better.
But you must agree; in part at least, it was public outcry and outrage that helped make Boehner and his RePups cave in to the will of the people regarding the payroll tax cuts. We not only have a vote but we also have a voice! It was a unified front among the voters that would not accept McCain and Palin and it was the voters who put Pres Obama in office and I for one, think he is doing a great job all things considered. Voting is an option available to all Americans; if YOU chose to do nothing, you have no right to complain about the conditions in your own country! Too many died and suffered for my right to vote and I'll be damned if I am the one who spits on their graves!