Posted on 01/22/2012 9:28:44 PM PST by vbmoneyspender
Mitt Romney landed here Sunday with a simple message: Newt Gingrich is a failure and a fraud. And a disgrace. And a hapless showman.
Standing under a brilliant orange Florida sunset, Romney delivered his longest sustained critique of the South Carolina primary winner to date – ticking through a list as if he were reading off Gingrich’s Wikipedia page, and undercutting each item as he got to it.
“Speaker Gingrich has also been a leader,” the former Massachusetts governor said. “He was a leader for four years as speaker of the House. And at the end of four years, it was proven that he was a failed leader and he had to resign in disgrace. I don’t know whether you knew that, he actually resigned after four years, in disgrace.
(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...
They did not support him like the Dems supported an impeached Clinton with an Impeachment Pep Rally.
or.... Newt: "If I had Governor Romney's record to run on, I'd be running personal attacks against me as well."
And with his temple recommend he's approved for godhood. Obama a messiah? Ptooie!! Mitty is a certified pre-god, let's see if the other candidates can put "lord and creator of my own universe" on a resume.
If he gets NASA going again, he can send a mission to Planet Kolob, the planet where another God lives, our God. When astronauts get their pic taken hanging out with the Almighty in his man cave, that'll shut the atheists up, all right!
Go Mitt!
(Straight to hell.)
First out loud laugh of the morning.
BTW, the drawing of the Mormon beliefs reminds me of the Obamacare diagram.
The Dems and establishment Repubs wanted Newt out. They threw lots of mud and pretended one tax charge stuck, but the IRS found no fault. Newt should ask that the fine be returned.
The Attorney is now Deputy US Attorney General, appointed by Nobama!
From Wickedpedia:
Eighty-four ethics charges were filed against Gingrich during his term as speaker, all by Democrats.[65] Eighty-three of the charges were later dropped.[65] After extensive investigation and negotiation by the House Ethics Committee, Gingrich was reprimanded and penalized $300,000 by a 395–28 House vote. It was the first time in the history of the House that a speaker was disciplined for an ethics violation.[66]
In January 1997, Gingrich said “I did not manage the effort intensely enough to thoroughly direct or review information being submitted to the committee on my behalf. In my name and over my signature, inaccurate, incomplete and unreliable statements were given to the committee, but I did not intend to mislead the committee.”[67] All of the charges but one were dropped, in one case because there was no evidence that Gingrich was still violating, as of the time of the investigation, the rule that he was found to have violated in the past.[65] The one charge not dropped was a charge of claiming tax-exempt status for a college course run for political purposes. In addition, the House Ethics Committee concluded that inaccurate information supplied to investigators represented “intentional or ... reckless” disregard of House rules.[68]
The Ethics Committee’s Special Counsel, James M. Cole, concluded that Gingrich had violated federal tax law and had lied to the ethics panel in an effort to force the committee to dismiss the complaint against him. The full committee panel did not agree whether tax law had been violated and left that issue up to the IRS.[68] In 1999, the IRS cleared the organizations connected with the “Renewing American Civilization” courses under investigation for possible tax violations.[69]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Newt_gingrich#Ethics_charges.2C_reprimand_and_fine
James Michael Cole (born May 2, 1952)[1] is an American attorney who has served as United States Deputy Attorney General since December 29, 2010. He was first installed as Deputy Attorney General following a recess appointment by President Barack Obama on December 29, 2010.[2] He then was confirmed by the United States Senate in a 55–42 vote on June 28, 2011.[3]
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_M._Cole
In 2004, Cole and his law firm were hired as part of a 2004 agreement with the government to monitor AIG’s regulatory compliance, financial reporting, whistle-blower protection and employee retention policies, submitting confidential reports to the Justice Department and the Securities and Exchange Commission.[7]
Change the subject when it doesn’t suit. Romney’s charge wasn’t about the affair.
[“When get closer to the election, katy bar the door. I particulary like Ari.”
*blushes*
oh you mean Fleischer...]
LOL.
That is a GREAT graphic!
What I don’t get is how the Establishment can support him?
Except that just maybe the Establishment agrees with him?
I hate to think of the consequences.
Hopefully, we will be ironing all of that out during the primaries.
Rush has been saying the GOP Establishment doesn’t care about the White House. They only just want to increase their margin in the House and regain the Senate. Their primary objective is to regain control of the spending. And I’m beginning to think there is something to this.
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