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PANAMA CITY, Fla. -- In the final days of campaigning before Tuesday's pivotal Florida primary, former Mass. Gov. Mitt Romney's campaign is leaving no weapon unused against his chief rival Newt Gingrich.
At his afternoon rally Saturday, and on television, Romney's attack centered on Newt's history within the Republican party.
"He's an historian. But that doesn't give him the right to rewrite history," Romney said of Gingrich. "The Contract with America, that was a good thing. We took over the House, that was great news. What happened four years later? Well he was fined for ethics violations. He ultimately had to resign in disgrace. He can't rewrite history. We have to go back and look at history and say he may be a great guy with a lot of great ideas, but he is not the leader we need at a critical time."
Meanwhile, on television screens across Florida, the Romney campaign was up with a new ad titled "History Lesson," which excerpts an NBC Nightly News broadcast from 1997, in which anchor Tom Brokaw is seen reporting the news of Gingrich's ethics violation.
NBC News on Saturday wrote a letter requesting the Romney campaign remove all network material from the ad.
Romney campaign adviser Eric Fehrnstom said after the event that the campaign had received the letter and was reviewing it, but believed it fell under legal "fair use" guidelines. In the meantime, the ad will continue to air across Florida.
On a third front, Romney surrogates Saturday continued to appear at Gingrich campaign stops, chatting with reporters and jousting with Gingrich campaign spokesman R.C. Hammond.
Fehrnstrom described the surrogates -- Reps. Charlie Bass (R-NH), Connie Mack (R-FL) and Jason Chaffetz (R-UT) -- as a "truth squad," and said the Romney campaign got the idea from Gingrich, who has promised to trail President Obama around the country to seek out opportunities to debate the president, should Gingrich become the Republican nominee.
The Romney campaign would not say if the "truth squads" would continue after the Florida primary.
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Robme and Newtogetrich are New World Order members!!! If Either of them become President ,you all need to drive your cars to the nearest FEMA Camp, and turn yourselves in,and save the government the expense of rounding up !!! Dr.Ron Paul 2012 !!!
Didn't Michele Bachmann call them Newt Romney?
Gingrich did not resign in disgrace. The 85 counts of ethics violations were brought against him by Democrats. He resigned because the GOP as a whole had a bad reputation so Gingrich resigned to help the GOP have a good chance at winning the White House in 2000. Looks like Gingrich did all the right things.
When I saw the ad, I questioned whether Romney had permission to use the 'sound bite' because as I know protocol there is copyright and permission must be had from NBC for it to be used in an ad. I cannot understand that the Romney crew including his legal advisors didn't know this. Imagine they are still airing the ad and talking about they are taking note and 'looking' at the letter, they must know they can be sued by NBC for this. Is this the person who wants to lead America??? What Romney team is doing is very serious.
If AIG, GMAC, GM, Chrysler, BOA and all of the other banks had been allowed to go out of business under someone else's idea of pure capitalism, you would not be able to afford electric or the internet right now to even argue the point. I know I woluld have lost my automotive job, pension, investments and home and would not be able to post these comments. You and I might be standing together in the same bread line somewhere. Bin Laden, Hussein and Ghadafi are all dead along with dozens of other BinLaden &Taliban terrorists. Mubarak is out. Troops are out of George Bush's quick war in Iraq, (11 years later); troops are coming home from Afghanistan & Germany, yes Germany, we've been there for 68 years........
I guess that counts as defending Obama.
Hope the Newt is enjoying the mugging.
Obama out in 2012.
Why does Willard bother you guys so much?????? Could it be the association with a certain movie and a bunch of rats????????? Speaking of rats.........if the whisker fits........
If that's all you have to worry about, life is good.....I assume the next time some right winger is rude to the President, you'll be posting with indignation about how rude they were to the President......I won't be holding my breath for that one.....
If the remaining candidates are all the GOP has to offer, it's a sad day for the GOP, and the country.
While we're talking about Gov Romney(polite enough for you), I have a very important question.
If the Governor is so great at creating jobs, and so eager to do so, why isn't he working for the current administration? Did he ever offer? If he loves his country so much, his party and personal ambition should not have stood in the way of working for the current administration, or going back into private business to work on the jobs issue.
I will credit Huntsman for this, as well as a few others. They set an example others should be ashamed of rejecting.
When the country is in trouble, everyone should be pitching in.
Instead, we got the GOP rhetoric and obstruction machine.
The Senate has been at a dead halt as the number of filibusters has about doubled. That's not the Dems. The main fault of the Dems is that they don't strong arm members the way the GOP does, and there is a greater range of philosophy within the party, because, contrary to GOP lies, the left wing of the Democratic party doesn't run it. The Dems also NEVER had 60 seats. For the Dems to run the Senate, they'd need 65-70 in order to allow for dissent.
Look at the House. Boehner can't strongarm the TP'ers, and the mess is far worse than the Senate, agan becaise rather than work with the Dems to put the TP'ers in their place, Boehner is pandering to the TP. Vainly.
All the GOP has done since 2010 is try to pass its radical social engineering agenda(thanks for that one, Newt), and gum up the works. We're in January, and there's no budget for 2013. We were in the same place last year. They couldn't even get the debt ceiling raised to pay for the expenditures they authorized without a huge dog and pony show that hurt our credit rating. Filibusters continue at an all time record.
You guys should be afraid. The voters are going to nail you in November. The President is having no trouble raising money from small donors. That means people are not buying your garbage.
Willard Mitt is going down big time.
4 years and not a peep who wrote the Ron Paul racist news letters till now
Real journalism at last.
see link for journalism
Of course NBC won't let Romney use the clip. NBC blatantly supports Obama. NBC is not even a real news network. Only an idiot would believe the lies put out by NBC or MSNBC.
You may return to FOX at your leisure.
Businessmen make poor Presidents. Consider the track record.
Herbert Hoover ushered in the Great Depression. George Bush I initiated Gulf War I. George Bush II produced the Great Recession and initiated two trillion-dollar, no-win wars.
In the context of national economics, businessmen are small thinkers, micro-economists, focused on the bottom line of a single business for a term as short as the next quarter.
The President must optimize the macro-economic environment in which business and other economic entities operate.
The President must be highly intelligent, unfettered by simplistic ideology, open-minded, well advised and well informed of the country's economic status to make judgments that yield the greatest long-term macro-economic gain or yield the least long-term macro-economic loss.
The President must fashion policies that maintain and develop the nations entire stock of human, physical and financial capital for years to come. The executive skills for making money at the micro-economic level are not the same skills for making progress at the macro-economic level.
you kindof sound socialist
America is "kind of socialist" Ram.
Hate to break this to you Hag, but the "leftist, liberal, socialist, marxist, [not "communist" too Hag?] democrat party" hold two of three branches of government right now and look very much like they will retain them and possibly gain the third branch as well.
What about Romney's past service on the board of Damon Corp., a Massachusetts medical testing company that pleaded guilty in 1996 to billing Medicare fraudulently and paid a $119 million fine?
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Wake up sheeple. No candidate is going to make the difference here. The world has watched the bipartisan politics of the USA get worse and worse to the detriment of its citizens year after pathetic year. A new man in the big chair ain't going to fix that problem. The fat cats are spewing anything they can on the spin doctor's advice in order to get elected.
The real irony is that Mitt Romney has hired truth squads. Wow!! Mitt has even lied about his first name. My name is Mitt and yes Wolf that is my real first name. He struggles lamely with the spanish at the end of the ad being played in Florida and said he does not know what is in the ad. In another Ad he said he did not know what was in the Ad but could repeat it word for word in the very next few sentences. And to think he is sending out truth squads.
republicans will still vote for Willard. Name one good republican that didn't change parties. Other than Nixon of course. He was a shining example of a great American.
thoughts?
GO NEWT GO WHAT A BUNCH OF FRIGGING MORONS.
I Love it stay until the general election for all I care. The longer Newt and Paul stays in and losers like McCain and Cain back him the more Kochs brothers have to spend, to get a republican in the losing race against Obama . SPENT THAT MONEY INFIGHTING. How about bring back Bachmann, and Perry. How about Palin announcing her run?????? Where is Huckabee?????
Just think the Koch brothers will have to lay off 15,000 more employees to pay for this.
I want to laugh, Herman Cain 999 loser, backing another loser.
NORTHSTARDFL could'nt have said it better.Elected officials following around a wannabe candidate is a little much.It's one thing to support but don't they have more important thing to do for the people that elected them?.Now if they want to try to convince their constituents to vote a paticular way that's one thing but to 'follow" around those guys in another area trying to sway the people is grandstanding.Maybe some of them want to be on the ballot as V.P.Haha.
This coming from the ex:
1) Pro-choice
2) Pro-healthcare
3) Pro-gay rights
4) Pro-gun control
Governor of Massachusetts.
i might not be able to get the democrats to see everything the way i do ; but i trust them to help the poor and down trodden more then the republican conservative tea partiers. abraham lincoln is the prime rebuke for the repukelican party. today , his examples have led the democrats to change course, and fight for fellow americans, no matter the race or financial standings. THE GAZILLIONAIRES CONTROL ROMNEY AND NEWT
It must be extremely frustrating for republican voters having to choose between to a liar and a currupt politician but hey , there both politicians right ? lol Good luck picking your champion for the American people GOP lol
Every four years we go through this process. As silly as it seems sometimes, this convoluted and seemingly twisted process is the process and it's a good one. Whether you're a republican or democrat this is how you find out things worth researching and decide which direction it's being spun and how much truth is involved. This is how we pick them. The democrats did it in 2008 and it was much the same, we "the republicans" were laughing and the dems were deciding. To bad so many were hoodwinked with the "hope and change" b.s. I personally have little hope and don't see any change.......maybe it's time for someone else to try?
What did Newt expect!? really? Did he think he would get through the primary AND the Presidential election without having ot face and come to terms with his past? He was tried and found guilty of ethics violations by his peers in congress. He left his wife for a senate aide, these are fact and they tell PART of a story on his ethics and morals that are absolutely relevant to the man who want to represent the United States as President.
Yes, people overcome thier pasts, and I am all about someone redeeming themselves but to just refuse ot answer questions and pretend it never happened, that is a sure fire way he will lose.
So because NEWT wanted to have an open marriage as aledged by his EX makes him a person that caant fix the problems this administration has created ...hmmm lets see. So because he has a different lifestyle of preference he should only believe in what the major majority of society believes in? So if he was gay and said that marriage is between a man and a woman because the major part of society believes and has been brainwashed top do so would the gay community not believe in him?
IS preference of lifestyle a prerequisite to run this country? What a candidate believes in his private life an issue?
Lets look at Bill and Hillary....totally open marriage took luwensky to the white house got her dress with his semen on it and still governed. was it ethical ? no but people still voted for him.
SO when you go vote dont believe all the media hype and all the ignorant comments made in these blogs
do you homework and vote what you believe in.
Hey Gino
Imagine a world where Obama had been driven from the speakership in disgrace for ethic violations or uberlobbied for fannie mae for millions or had an affair for 6 years while trying to impeach Clinton. Or imagine Michelle Obama had an affair with a married man for 6 years. What do you think the right would be saying? can you image?
Obama has had his shot at the big kahuna and he's blown it big time. Few will vote for Gingrich or Romney or whoever; most will vote against Obama. It is time he started lining up a publisher, and I hope the advance he gets is not too disappointing. Why don't the GOP run McCrystal?
That's right! If you believe this man runs on family values to attract the Christian Rights vote has changed, you're not true to what you believe in.
gino, the man brought the entire government to a standstill in his hypocritical pursuit of Clinton.
If private lives are out or in I don't care, but you can't have it one way for the democrats and another for the republicans.
Fred Thompson (on MTP yesterday) said they wanted to extend the gov't shutdown in an attempt to make Clinton give in...NOTE: not because it was good policy. But to make Clinton give in and then blame him for the shutdown.
They aren't afraid to say they care more about party than country.
I think the point to all of the cheating comments about Newt is not what he did, because I am a proponent of the repentance process. For me, it is the judgements he made in that situation. Character is not defined by hind sight, it is defined by the choice when it occurs, So, I guess I look at not whether Newt cheated, it is that he should have resisted his inappropriate urges.
There are plenty that don't think religion should be involved in this race but many insert that this is somehow apart of potential judgements made as a president. So, if the candidates are true conservatives, whether you think they are or not, then perhaps looking at Romney, Santorum, or Paul as individuals who have had one wife (or potential candidates with alternative lifestyles), should be the better options based on good or better judgements their relationships. Just a thought....
Mitt shouldn't worry so much about someone elses history as his own: Poligamy(unlawful) + Mexico(to avoid US laws) + Questionable Investments (avoid US taxation) = NO VOTE from this voter!
Oh. You think this country can take four more years of Obama?
Mitt does not believe in Polygamy. It was at least his grandfather who fled the US for the freedom to practice his religious beliefs. Humm.....sounds very close to what the founding fathers went through and made apart of the constitution. People don't realize that in many countries today still allow polygamy and are not persecuted for it.
As far as his taxes....it has been proven that he has paid the required US taxes on what he should have paid....Do you really think its a new idea to keep money in other countries? All the candidates, even Newt makes A LOT OF MONEY, more than most of us....I don't fault any one of them for it...they are smart guys.....Get your facts straight before popping off Suzq-1497446....