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MOUNT DORA, FL -- An admittedly "infuriated" Newt Gingrich launched a full-on attack against former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney, whom the former speaker blamed for negative attacks in the primary campaign.
“I am angry. But I think I'm angry and every American should be angry,” Gingrich told reporters following a speech during which he hit Romney harder than he ever has in the past. “How can somebody run a campaign this dishonest and think he's going to have any credibility running for president?”
The Republican presidential race in Florida is shaping up as a showdown between Romney and Gingrich -- both candidates need a win -- with many polls showing the two neck-and-neck right now. Gingrich is trying to paint Romney as the “establishment” candidate while Romney tries to cast Gingrich as a lobbyist.
“This is the desperate last stand of the old order throwing the kitchen sink,” Gingrich told the roughly 1,500 people in attendance at a Tea Party rally Thursday morning acknowledging that he is taking a more “blunt” approach towards Romney. “I’m here as a citizen and I frankly don’t care what the Washington establishment thinks of me because I intend to change them.”
The former House speaker said that, ultimately, the people will decide who they wish to nominate and acknowledged he would live with their decisions as long as they had all the information on both he and Romney.
Both the Romney campaign and the pro-Romney Super PAC are running negative ads about Gingrich that the Speaker says are false.
“Let's be really clear, your’re watching ads paid for with the money taken from the people of Florida by companies like Goldman Sachs, recycled back into ads to try to stop you from having a choice in this election,” he said.
One message should be given to Romney from Floridians, Gingrich told the massive crowd with Lake Dora to his back: “we aren't that stupid and you aren't that clever.”
How important is Florida? The Romney campaign even has surrogates available for comment at Gingrich’s events in the Sunshine State.
With just a few hours until tonight's debate, the final one before the primary on Jan. 31, Gingrich seems to be unleashing a new side of himself, a side that is fed up with his chief GOP rival.
“I can promise you I am going to fight every day from here until we win the nomination because I am not going to allow the moneyed interests that are buying those ads to come in here and to come into other states to misinform people and then to think we are too dumb to fight back,” Gingrich vowed to the crowd.
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Hee Hee Hee, I'm loving it!
It's like the scene in the movie where the monster everyone feared turns on its maker! Go Newt!
“I am angry. But I think I'm angry and every American should be angry,” Gingrich told reporters following a speech during which he hit Romney harder than he ever has in the past. “How can somebody run a campaign this dishonest and think he's going to have any credibility running for president?”
So, wait, is he angry or envious? Coming from Newt, this, "How can somebody run a campaign this dishonest," is a bit of a compliment, isn't it?
Let's not overthink this. Let's just say, HE'S MAD! HE'S MAD! HE'S MAD!
CNN's Wolf Blitzer will be Powerless to stop the Newtron Bomb tonight as "The Crowd Goes WILD", sitting on the edge of thier seats waiting for the Next Bomb to be thrown at Anyone that Newt wants to heave towards.
Gonna be a Fun, Fun, Fun night watching as Newt swats away all of Malibu Mitts "Amber Waves of Grain " comments.
Occupy SoggyBottom!
Fun night watching as Newt swats away all of Malibu Mitts "Amber Waves of Grain " comments.
Oh Really? Tell me, how will Newt swat away lines like this, "I believe in an America where millions of Americans believe in an America that’s the America millions of Americans believe in. That’s the America I love."
That there is some verbal badassery!
If Romney does get to be the candidate we have Newt to thank for writing the ads against Romney.
If Newt gets to be the candidate people will find out that Newt can spew hate and is ethically challenged and is also part of the 1%. God may have forgiven him for his overlapping marriages, but his church is condemning him for hate speech towards the poor.
It really seems only fitting that a proven liar who was kicked out for lying and unethical behavior would be the figurehead for the republican party. Not only did Newt lie then, he continues to lie as to the reasons he was fined $300,000 by his own party and then demanded by his own party to leave. Don't forget it was the only time in the history of our country that a speaker was thrown out of congress. Republicans must be proud.
With all Newt's dog whistle code words for racism, you could start a new wing of the party. Republicans for racism and then claim blacks and people of color don't vote republican because they are brain-washed. If I was a republican, I would be trying to suppress the vote too.
How come no stories on the " VEGAS MOB " buying the presidency for Newt ? And did Newt's advise to FANNY cause the "HOUSING CRISIS"?
Great comedy tonight on CNN Live. Get your popcorn for Newt vs Mitt.
Don't make Newt mad...he gets even uglier and scarier when he's mad.
Best to ignore him and hope he goes away (before Nancy Pelosi rats him out).
I find that former SPEAKER OF THE HOUSE, Newt Gingrich, the lobbyists, lobbyist is claiming he is not a Washington Establishment insider is absolutely hillarious.
I mean, HTF does he think he's making the millions he's earned ? His books aren't that good. Does he really think that most people are that stupid ?
I hope that Mitt Romney really pushes this issue. You could just see that Newt's head was ready to explode at the last debate.
I really hope Newt starts getting into an argument over whether or not the sanction was a fine.... this clown just keeps telling joke after joke.
Gingrich said:
“I am angry. But I think I'm angry and every American should be angry,” Gingrich told reporters following a speech during which he hit Romney harder than he ever has in the past. “How can somebody run a campaign this dishonest and think he's going to have any credibility running for president?”
Gingrich isn't this exactly what you are doing too? You are unethical, have NO Family values, are on the payroll of more lobbyists and PACs thatn I can count? You are not even qualified to run a potato gun. What a tool.
Newt is so dirty he needs more than a Bath, Getrich is a fat couch potato filling his pockets with the 1% Wealthy money. Newt is a lowlife that would sell out this Country for 1.6 Mill.
It is despicable that Newt is still running with all his family values in the septic tank, this guy is a total Waste.
You go Newt!
Rile up those low information voters - if it wasn't for ANGER you would have nothing to run a campaign on!
By the end of the week Newt, will be passing out torches & pitchforks to the unwashed masses...
Unfortunately, it isn't a winning strategy!
Newt questioning someones credibility is..is, well, not credible!
Newt will play to the mob crowd in the audience tonight. He will look to them for support, if the moderator allows 'mob' participation!
Go Newt, Go!
Newton is channeling his populist voice for tonight's debate.
10 Millon from a gambler in Vegas is more main street Super PAC than Romney's super PAC.
Feisty,
I have three flavors of popcorn for tonight's show.
As long as it's butter - cheddar & caramel, I'm good to go! ☺
By now, I'm surprised the
mobaudience haven't started throwing cabbage & tomato's... ☺“How can somebody run a campaign this dishonest and think he's going to have any credibility running for president?”
The same way Newt does; surprise.
@NorthstarDFL
Newton is channeling his populist voice for tonight's debate.
10 Millon from a gambler in Vegas is more main street Super PAC than Romney's super PAC.
Feisty,
I have three flavors of popcorn for toni
Does that 10 mil include the gambler's wife?
I need 3 stiff drinks in order to watch these fools get more ridiculously hateful and lie.
well, if it walks like an angry lobbyist/adulterer, talks like an angry lobbyist/adulterer, it must waddle like an angry newt!
Seriousely folks, I'm sure he is angry, that old "Your siins will find you out" thing is probably more than he can take at this stage in his life. I'm thnking the gop is not going to be able to fool anybody with their candidates this year, on any level - they are all angry, greedy, and pretty stupid. they absolutely can't believe we are on to them and their constant plans to make the rich richer - but we are, we know full and well that trickle down never worked for anyone but those at the very top and the working middle class is not going to buy that one again, that is one dog that just won't hunt anymore. Neither will their self proclaimed self righteousness, and I alone can be forgiven for my adultry.
Please, Newt, please! Don't tell us--yet again-- how you've "had to go to God for forgiveness and reconciliation."
I don't think I can stand to listen to that b#llsh!t phrase again.
. “I’m here as a citizen and I frankly don’t care what the Washington establishment thinks of me because I intend to change them.”
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In a battle between the ESTABLISHMENT and the INSURGENTS, which would YOU rather be this time around?
Guy knows how to frame an argument. Look for that theme tonight...Just Like RR in 1976-80 etc...He's giving the "finger" to the Republican establishment, which is currently polling at about 25% BTW...
dangerfield,
The GOP voters in NE Florida will lick up Newt's comments like a cat with a bowl of cream (what is it with the cat analogies today). Northern Florida is old, deep south. Especially here, some people consider this area southern Georgia.
I think you are correct in your assessment Phine, and despite his actually being from Pennsylvania, Newton is seen as a son of the South...
dangerfield,
Better than any poll will be the reaction of those who work with Mr. phinephancy in the morning. They are my personal polling system here, and they have been on the money for me.
And I would wager that they are leaning Newt-ward at present?
You would, indeed, win that wager. Romney is too, um, country club? No. Too northeast for them. That's better. (It is still the yankee thing) The "rich boy" thing is another way they refer to him. They would rather have hushpuppies to white toast. Aha! Knew I could find the right analogy!
I am sure there are many "euphemisms" in play right now...I am reminded of the catch phrase of "Florence" from the old sitcom "Alice". I think it is a metaphor for the message that Florida voters will be sending to Gov. Romney and the Republican Establishment....
Well, "Eat my (Spanky) Grits!"...;-)
(Credit to ISTV)
Game, set, match to you (and Ideology)!!!! LOL
Newt, the zero credibility candidate, questions another candidates credibility? He is shooting for the moon, and failing I might add, if he thinks he has the upper hand when it comes to credibility.
Uhhh.... hasn't everyone read or heard the "campaign" Mitch Daniels started and the tea/RNC has augmented and supplemented regarding the SOTU address and President Obama? How 'bout the RNC/TEA tv ads for Keystone with all the lies, misinformation and spin?
REPUBLICAN-TEA PARTY DOUBLE STANDARDS AGAIN!!
Do these RWNJ's truly believe voters are too dense or too sheeplike to see through the ads and spin, that we don't know what they are doing? Believing THAT is being too dense IMO.
Hypocirts!
Isn't Newt railing against the Washington establishment a form of self-flagellation?
chuck white,
Love the visuals of newt's self-flagellation.
Perfect!
Newt doesn't perform self-flagellation - when he gets full love for his country and starts to turn blue, he runs out to a parked car for some quick relief.
Red,
OMG! That is TOO freakin funny!
Feisty, I aim to please. Now, back to Newt, he is one angry Son of a Grintch...
Yikes! That's one visual I do not want in my head! Just thinking about Newt, that way...(gag) might make me go blind.
kaybeetoys,
Me either - had to go rinse my eyes with bleach!
Newt and Walsh have a comprehension issue. They believe zero capital gains taxes and zero credibility are one in the same, and are worthy of a campaign platform issue. Sadly, there are a few poor folk and a lot of rich folk who agree they should be able to lie and pay no taxes. On the bright side, most Americans won't fall for it.
"Angry" Newt? Is there another kind? Well, besides "Philandering" Newt, "Pompous" Newt, "Thinly-veiled racist" Newt, and "Grossly inappropriate" Newt...
How about "Third Time's a Charm" Newt?
I wonder if thats what Calista thinks? Or does she at all?
mark my words after this election NEWT will be on his fourth (wife drink or both)
Hypocrite Newt is self destructing. Prize for the first one to Mars. Colony on the moon. He throws more mud the everyone else combined and he calls it comparative advertising. Someone throws mud at him the cries they are being mean to me. His double standards are jokes.
So, 1,500 people is now considered to be a "massive crowd"??????? My daughter's soccer team was in a tournament last weekend that drew over 2,000 spectators. Heck, we're recalling our Republican governor with over a million signatures from people that actually had to make an effort to get someplace and sign the petitions. Newt and Mitt better start looking at their numbers........
Newtie is so full of it. The Godfather of Food Stamps. According to the Center on Budget and Policy Priorities, Gingrich and the Republicans' were responsible for increased Americans' reliance on food stamps. By restricting the cash assistance available to families, TANF indirectly pushed more working families to rely on Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Programs (food stamps). So Newt quit calling President Obama the Food Stamp President when it is your policies that created this. Newtie You are not going to beat President Obama with all your Political Garbage. Neither you or Mitt have what it takes. You don't think Obama knows about your weakeness and won't address them in a debate or on the campaign trail? Oh yeah, I forgot according to You; You're the psychodrama living out a fantasy.
Gingrich knew going into this campaign that his past is full of issues and should have known that Mitt Romney is the biggest liar to announce his candidacy since Richard Nixon. Gingrich also knows that his greatest talents are hypocrisy and acting. Is there any surprise that the party of smear, fear, distortions, deception, and lies would produce and pay for morally bankrupt candidates?
Gingrich is angling for a job over at Fox. He knows he can't win, now he's just trying to build numbers for the pitch that will go on in a few months. Mark my words, unless he drops dead he will be on Fox in less than a year.
Detroit Storm,
Can't we have both?
"Nutty Newt" is off his very powerful medications. Again! He has many temper tantrums, and in his many group therapy sessions he likes to pump up his EGO. Again! His many doctors are looking for "Nutty Newt" in Florida, and they need to adjust his medications. Again! "Nutty Newt" has been wearing his "Crazy Conservative Clown Outfit" during day. Again! At night he loves to put on Confederate Army Uniform, and recite speeches from his hero Jefferson Davis the President of the Confederate States Of America. Before "Nutty Newt" is given his night meds. He likes to drink a lot of rotten tea to help wash down his many medications. The nurses at the mental hospital have heard "Nutty Newt" yelling. "The Romulian's are here to take me way!!!" Yes America! When "Nutty Newt" gets 'angry' the "Super Spewing" he does continues on into his "Lost In Space" emotional state.
Impossible to have worst than we have now. They are the worse of the worse , all want to claim they are right in what ever and nothing gets done.I think they do this on purpose so they don't have to take responsibility for voting. Easy to say well we had a proposal on the table but they would not work with us. They meaning both sides. You know what scares me is the fact everyone might say oh its not my rep that is the problem when in reality they all are the problem because they vote party lines. They don't cross over so how can anything ever get done?? They all should go and please don't say" Oh but we don't know what we will get" they can not be worse than what we have and if you interview them and find out their views and are they man or woman enough to vote for what is good for the people we might just get a better group. Just think if we get a new President and congress stays the same then nothing gets done for another term. They have to go people, none should stay. They might just understand that the country is tired of all their bull.
Newt's a hoot. He has the nerve to claim someone else is being "this dishonest"??? I think he's pissed because someone has the unmitigated gall to be more dishonest than him - in his estimation. I can say one thing, Newt, Romney and Santorum are sure giving me loads to laugh at.