Given that the SEC just filed a fraud suit against Freddie Mac's Richard F. Syron on Friday, you've got to know that the MSM is going to turn over every rock laboriously to find a way to connect to Newt Gingrich's very real payments from Freddie Mac to Syron's malfeasance. Newt was taking heat for those payments when Syron wasn't identified as a crook. Imagine what's going to happen IF they prove that Syron & Newt were longtime friends and associates -- which is how Newt got the job at Freddie Mac in the first place -- and then the messy details of how Syron screwed American taxpayers starts invading every headline.
I could be wrong but I don't see this ending well for Newt at all.
Anyone but Romney or Obama... or Paul. I’d be delighted to see Romney as a one percenter and the other more conservative candidates competing for the nomination. However, as of this moment, Newt appears to be the genuine Romney killer. And if it’s still a two way contest between Newt vs Romney after the early primaries, I’ll probably go all in with Newt. We must begin building our conservative coalition as soon as possible lest we end up with Mitt as the last man standing, ie, as in what happened last time with McCain.
The ironic thing is the liberal media would have a much stronger card to play against Newt if they had bothered to cover Freddie/Fannie’s culpability in the housing collapse from the beginning. But because it was Democrats who were so heavily tied in with Freddie/Fannie all along, the media buried the story. Even when Freddie/Fannie have continually asked for new billion-dollar bailouts, it seems to get no coverage at all.
If they had been like Enron from the start, something the media could make a Republican connection to, the coverage would have been wall-to-wall and everyone in the country would have known every intricacy of the scandal and would have believed Freddie/Fannie were the spawn of Satan by now. So in a way it’s the media’s liberal bias that has resulted in Newt having an easier time of it right now.
You bring up something I had thought of when I heard that news. I would be surprised if it didn’t go that way.