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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.”
It’s not like I keep it a secret. I support the guy people from all camps know is a consistent fighter (Newt), and isnt afraid to take on everyone from the establishment, Romney, Obama, and the press.
Goodness knows why this decision about the “not Romney” has become so hard. Either we go with the guy that will go to war, or we go with the guys that maybe might, but we aren’t 100% sure.
I sick of leaps of faith for presidential candidates.
All I gave earlier was my prediction based on how the momentum seemed to be going right now. However, this election cycle is the craziest I've ever seen and I'll be the first to acknowledge that things could shift overnight.
Well one thing I realize is that God isn’t a Democrat, because he doesn’t vote multiple times. So that will only get you so far on Earth.
Depending on where you lived, you might have gotten Dancing with the stars, like I did.
So who is the one you support? Or are you fearful of the Zot?
Uh, that would be Newt.
LOL, I hope I dint give you the impression I was for Romney or something.
Newt’s right on this one. That Romney is a lifetime businessman suddenly smitten with the call to public office is simply not true.
Another exaggerated myth that needs to be revisited is Ron Paul’s military service, which he loves to trumpet while disparaging others.
Ron Paul took a student deferment from the draft for his undergraduate studies and then a further deferment to continue in his studies. He was not drafted in wartime, he was drafted in peacetime in 1963 and served 2 years, leaving active duty service in 1965, just as the US began sending the first combat troops to Vietnam (Marines, August of 1965). Contrary to popular belief, he did not serve in Vietnam. Paul entered the National Guard in 1965
It should be noted that Paul took a student deferment, and later was drafted in 1963, two years before the US began a combat role in Vietnam. Paul then went into the National Guard, which, at the time, was widely regarded as a way to avoid deployment to Vietnam.*
Gingrich, 8 years Paul’s junior, took a student deferment in 1963. Upon graduation in 1968, he would have become eligible for the draft, except that the Selective Service had changed its policy in regard to married men with children, and he thus would not have received a draft notice.
Yes, Gingrich could have volunteered for active service in Vietnam, just as Ron Paul could have. Neither did.
*During Vietnam there were virtually no National Guard units that took part in combat in Vietnam. One exception was the 147th Fighter Interceptor Group of the Texas Air National Guard which had F-102 combat aircraft deployed to Vietnam in May of 1968. That was the month that George W Bush enlisted in the 147th to be trained as an F-102 pilot.
That’s why there needs to be a Ron Paul Truth File here on FreeRepublic.
But will it change votes>> ??? That is what is needed; another Newt revival in not only NH but SC and Fla.
pious baloney. now available where Kosher products are sold.
Pot calling the kettle black...
Mitt didn’t hang around to the end last time. I doubt that he will now, too.
** but could we drop a little bit of the pious baloney?” Gingrich said.**
Way to go, Newt!
It was like a Rick/Newt tag team wasn’t it.
**And then Santorum will crumble like a cheap cookie and will lose handily.**
I don’t think so.
Newt—still the only adult in the room.
I can’t believe that in one weekend, the GOP allowed TWO debates wth loons like Sawyers, Steffie and David Gregory asking gotcha questions.
The GOP is either going to undergo radical surgery after Nov. 6th or go extinct. Changes are long overdue.
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