Posted on 01/08/2012 10:14:44 AM PST by Kaslin
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich asked former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney to drop the “pious baloney” during Sunday’s “Meet the Press” GOP presidential primary debate from New Hampshire.
Romney explained to the New Hampshire audience why he was running for president and how he is business experience made him different from his fellow competitors.
“For me, my career was being in business and starting a business and making it successful. My life’s passion is my family, faith and my country,” Romney said.
“I believe in the experiences by virtue, I have had I am in a good position to make a contribution to Washington. I long for a day instead of people go to Washington for 20 and 30 years, who get elected and then when they lose office, they stay there and make money as lobbyist, or connecting to businesses — I think it stinks. I think people should go to work in Washington and serve Washington and serve as the people of their nation and go home. I would like to see term limits in Washington. As the president of the United States, if I am elected, of course I will fight for a second term. There is a lot of work to be done.”
But that drew an aggressive reaction from Gingrich, who said Romney’s suggestion that he hasn’t repeatedly sought elective office was “pious baloney.”
“I realize the red light doesn’t mean anything to you because you are the front-runner — but could we drop a little bit of the pious baloney?” Gingrich said.
“The fact is you ran in ’94 and lost, and that’s why you were not serving with Rick Santorum. The fact is you had a bad re-election rating. You dropped office. You had been out of state for something like 200 days and preparing to run for president. You didn’t have this interlude of citizenship while you thought about what to do. You were running for president while you were governor. You were going all over the country, and you were out of state consistently. You then promptly re-entered politics and you happened to lose to [John] McCain as you lost to [Ted] Kennedy. Now, you’re back running. You have been running consistently for years and years and years, and the idea that then suddenly citizenship showed up in your mind, and just level with the American people. You have been running since the 1990s.”
LOL. Not very politic, but funny.
What did mitt say?
B-e-a-utiful!!! Wish he had done a little bit more of this last night.
I'd have phrased it a little differently, something like
Haven't we had enough of people who think the rules don't apply to them because "I won."?
Sad to say but I agree with Newt.
Romney is just like Clinton was when he was elected governor or Arkansas. The second Clinton won he was looking ahead to Pennsylvania Avenue, Arkansas governor was merely a step along the way. He was able to position himself as a new Democrat who could get elected in the increasingly red state south.
Likewise Romney has never had any credentials or pull other than saying he was a Republican able to hold the state house in the bluest of blue states. We all know what kind of Republican it takes to pull that off, anything but a conservative.
The funny thing is Santorum has better credentials at getting elected in blue districts and then in a blue state. He has also done so without being anything but a conservative.
GO NEWT!!! So glad to see him taking Romney to task for this BS!
So, Newt, what do you really think?!?
Eugene Robinson actually had a good line. He said somewhere in NH, a deli is racing to formulate their new “Pious Baloney Sandwich.”
That's what Newt just did to Romney.
ROTFLMAO!
Let’s hope it leaves a mark with those thinking of voting for this phony Romney!
I didn’t watch it
Newt to Mitt: Drop the pious baloney (video)
http://www.therightscoop.com/newt-to-mitt-drop-the-pious-baloney/
Love it! It just Rolls out of Newt’s mouth and he delivers it So Well!
"Mr. Speaker, citizenship has always been in my mind," Romney responded, as calm as Gingrich had been angry. As he has often done, Romney repeated a story of advice his father gave him not to run for office until he was financially secure and his children were grown.
This all I could find as his response.
Somehow, Santorum, Perry, and Newt have to boil down to a single candidate so the split of the conservative vote stops.
“Somehow, Santorum, Perry, and Newt have to boil down to a single candidate so the split of the conservative vote stops.”
The quicker ... the better.
Amen to that.
My hunch is that this will happen after South Carolina; however, I think it's actually between Gingrich and Santorum, I don't see Perry actually being in the mix.
Painting an HONEST picture is an accurate starting point toward bringing about TRUE change.
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