The ineligible Mitt 'Hussein' Romney:
"I bet you $10,000 that George Will is in my 'bed'
and does not give a damn what I have done."
“Bain Capital, has cut checks totaling $90,000 to Romney’s operation. “
Posted on 12/14/2011 9:00:49 AM PST by Qbert
Newt Gingrich — the friend of his detractors, to whom he offers serial vindications — provided on Monday redundant evidence for the proposition that he is the least conservative candidate seeking the Republican presidential nomination: He faulted Mitt Romney for committing acts of capitalism.
Gingrich did so when goaded by Romney regarding his, Gingrich’s, self-described service as a “historian” for Freddie Mac, which paid him more handsomely than anyone paid Herodotus. Romney was asked by an interviewer about the $1.6 million Gingrich earned, or at any rate received, from Freddie Mac, the misbegotten government-backed mortgage giant. In the service of Washington’s bipartisan certitude that too few people owned houses, Freddie Mac helped produce the housing bubble and subsequent crash. It did so even though it paid Gingrich $30,000 an hour. That is about what he received if, as he says, he worked for Freddie Mac about an hour a month, telling it that what it was doing was “insane.”
Anyway, Romney’s interviewer mischievously asked him if he thought Gingrich should “give that money back” to Freddie Mac. Romney said, “I sure do.”
Soon thereafter, Gingrich, when asked about Romney’s cheeky judgment, replied: “I would just say that if Governor Romney would like to give back all the money he’s earned from bankrupting companies and laying off employees over his years at Bain Capital, that I would be glad to listen to him.”
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Gingrich is reusing the attack honed by Ted Kennedy in 1994, when Romney suffered a 17-point loss in attempting to take Kennedy’s Senate seat.
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Romney surely anticipated that such an attack would come — but from Democrats, in the general election, not from a volatile Republican. He now understands Rep. Paul Ryan’s response when Gingrich attacked his entitlement reform as “right-wing social engineering.”...
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It is believed among some that if Obama looses there is going to be a serious and crippling reaction.
It sounds like acts of someone who has FAILED at capitalism.
The more the establishment ilk like George Will hate on Newt, the more inclined I am to support him...
George Will shares the same definition of Capitalism as Obama and the Occupy crowd.
“Bain Capital, has cut checks totaling $90,000 to Romney’s operation. “
They are TRYING to avert 4 more yeas of OBAMA for pete’s sake.
What has changed since 2007?
54% of households with military connections would never vote for Gingrich, 50% for Clinton, or 46% for Gore
Gingrich is the least popular candidate with both sexes, with 53% of both men and women saying they’d never vote for him
Simple, they do not think he can win and they do not trust him, he does have a history. And a not very good one at that.
It wasn't an "anticapitalist" retort, it was a good old fashioned insult-with-a-smile. It was basically a well-crafted STFU, nothing less, nothing more.
There is no sound basis to trust Newt.
Don’t be so quick to hate on Will.
I watched some old vid of Newt talking about his love of FDR and that Presidents do have the right to ignore the Constitution in times of “war”. Wonder how far Newts definition of war goes?
My evolution in supporting Newt is exactly that.
An attack by George Will should be considered by conservatives as an endorsement of his conservative credentails.
And THAT is exactly how I take the braying from this political Hyaena.
It doesn’t ask the question as the 2007 poll did. Who would you never vote for?
I don’t get all the Cain supporters jumping in Bed with Newt.
There is NO doubt in my mind that Newt was behind the smears on Cain. I didn’t support him. But it was obvious this was a well planned destruction of the Cain Campaign.
Someone tell George that Romney can’t win without the other candidates getting tangled up in a tie. The systematic destruction of every candidate to take the lead has been so effective, the others can’t recover, and voters are burned out on the media driven sensationalism. The beltway elites can’t put Romney in the lead again. Watch how crazy they get.
Besides his solid support of the Reagan agenda in the 80s and taking over congress and successfully driving Bill Clinton to the center in the 90s?
“...if Obama looses there is going to be a serious and crippling reaction.”
That is a kind of political blackmail that is being perpetuated just to frighten everyone into voting for “O”.
But what could really be worse than another “O” Presidency? It’s a wash!
Stick around Washington long enough — as Newt has — and you’re gonna make enemies. Now they’re taking potshots, perhaps deserved, at him.
Just the natural order of events.
One of Obama’s advantages in 2008 was that nobody knew him — and we all know how that turned out.
Best to let it all out now, consider carefully, and decide how much baggage you’re willing to tolerate in a President.
It’s not 2007.
Newt won a lot of us over on FR, he can do the same nationally. Sure, he won’t get all independents, but he can get enough, IMHO.
It’s Attack Newt Day on the WP editorial page. Count the hit pieces here. They’re terrified.
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