Posted on 01/26/2012 10:51:53 AM PST by kristinn
Speaking in friendly territory -- before a tea party crowd of about 500 in Central Florida's bucolic Mount Dora -- the former House Speaker savaged Mitt Romney, the campaign ads that have been pillorying Gingrich across the state -- and his own Republican party.
Gingrich wasted little time in criticizing Romney as he took to the stage with his wife, Calista, decrying the "attack ads and all sorts of junk" and charging that Romney is hypocritical for attacking him for Freddie Mac when he has stock in it.
"He thinks we're going to back down, I don't think so," he said.
"This is the desperate last stand of the old order, throwing the kitchen sink, hoping something sticks because if only they can drown us in enough mud -- raised with money from companies and people who foreclosed on Floridians," he said. He charged Romney and his super PAC ads were "paid for with the money taken from the people of Florida, by companies like Goldman Sachs."
The Romney campaign issued an all-caps email with the headline and subtitle that read: "UNHINGED: DR. NEWT AND MR. HYDE...GINGRICH LEADS “OCCUPY MOUNT DORA"
But Gingrich, who had been surging in the Florida polls, said the race is now "very close" and that he believes the "weight of the negative ads" and what he called Romney's "dishonesty," had "hurt us some."
He called on the tea partiers to start working harder. "This group alone is big enough to start to turn this around," he said, declaring he wouldn't allow the "monied interests" to defeat him.
Gingrich is clearly banking on support from Florida's tea party -- which helped elect Marco Rubio and Rick Scott in 2010 and he thanked the crowd, some of whom wore tea party t-shirts.
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Right on brother. NOW LET’S DECLARE WAR. Let everyone you know, your representative, your senator, your govenor or any contacts you have in the republican party. WE WILL NOT SUPPORT MITT ROMNEY IN THE GENERAL ELECTION. This can not be just a threat. It really would be better if we lose, than support Mr. Romney. He would set back our causes further than Obama could possilby with a second term. I am thinking the unthinkable, and that is voting for Obama as a protest of the establishment republican dwibs.
As for that Winter Olympics ‘miracle,’ Romney needed money from the federal government to make this very short lived event into a success.
In fact, this is one reason why McCain and Romney didn’t like each other very much.
“On Sept. 19, 2000, John McCain rose in the Senate to rail against what he called the “staggering” sums that the federal government planned to spend to help Salt Lake City stage the 2002 Winter Olympics.”
http://articles.latimes.com/2008/feb/03/nation/na-olympics3
- the ultimate Washington insider making $25,000 from Freddie and Fannie to do nothing.
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$25K a year- Romney makes $50K a day! How? He and Bain capital lobbied their bought politicians to tax management income as a capital gain (15%) instead of regular income (35).
Uber rich country club Republicans are not conservatives- they are conservative shepherds, herding in the sheep. Bush, McCain, Romney, Dole- ad infinitum. . Haven’t you been fleeced enough to see that yet?
That's it in a nutshell.
And astronaut, you're missing the point entirely.
Honestly, I'd rather have Santorum than Newt, but all this out and out hatred for Newt by the party elites makes me think supporting Newt is the right thing to do.
Go Newt!
Let me be among the first to bid you farewell.
Cleanup on aisle 14.
IBTZ
This is WAR!
Romeny makes 113 grand o just on the Marriot Hotel board! Well ‘LDS owns Marriot’ so not surprising...one hand filters for the other.
I do wish more people would print the companies LDS has and Romney’s positons and donations to them.
I just got back from the rally..... said, “Hi Byron, how are ya?”, to Byron York as he passed me on the steps going into the Lakeside Inn. He acknopwledged that he was doing great. :)
I took lots of pictures on my i-Phone, but don’t have time right now to post them. I hung around for about an hour after the rally in hopes of seeing other happenings unfold. That’s when I ran into Byron, and got pictures of Newt and his wife answering questions from media (that was also still hanging around), just as they were boarding their black _FORD_ SUV to head out to Jacksonville for another campaign stop and the debate tonight.
The media are saying there were 500 people there, but it seemed like a lot more than that to me. It was a beautiful location under the trees with the lake as a backdrop.
Within the next half hour, I heard Neal Boortz interviewing him on his radio show, so I figure Newt was probably talking to him from his SUV.
Picked up bumper stickers, campaign buttons, and a Newt 2012 T-Shirt. Tried to get some yard signs, but Newt’s campaign doesn’t have the money to provide any for free right now. You have to order them from his web site, I guess.
A good time was had by all! Whoo Hoo!
Me too, hope Newt gets some rest, he looked tired in the last one. This debate will be for all the marbles in Fla.
How long has it been in the blind trust? I don't believe Bain, under Mitt's direction, wasn't buying Fannie and Freddie. It was in every balanced portfolio in the 90's and 00's.
Why do you hate Free Republic and the Constitutional Conservatism that it fearlessly advocates?
Go Newt Go! FUMR! FURP! FUBO!
Willard the liberal supporters not allowed here. Moderators, please take corrective action.
Wow.
Absolutely, use anything you can to help Newt and hurt Romney.
Thanks!
In December of 1996, as the ethics investigation was nearing a conclusion, a married couple (who just coincidentally happened to be Democrat activists) were driving in their car, just coincidentally within a mile of John Boehner driving his car in Florida. The couple, the Martins, just happened coincidentally to have a police scanner in their car, attached to a recorder. They just coincidentally had their scanner turned on and tuned into the same frequency as John Boehner's car phone. John Boehner just coincidentally pulled off the road to be on a conference call with Newt Gingrich, Dick Armey, Tom Delay and Bill Paxon talking about Newt's coming response to the ethics charges which were to be disclosed later that day.
After the Martins recorded the phone call, they wasted no time getting the recording to Baghdad Jim McDermott, who got it almost immediately to the New York Times, who all hoped there might be something about the conversation that could lead to charges against Newt for discussing his strategy re: the ethics charges. http://www.pbs.org/newshour/bb/congress/january97/cellular_1-14.html
I heard that Tom DeLay came out today to pile on Gingrich, along with Bob Dole. Speaker Boehner hasn't said anything yet, but you can bet he wants to. When Newt busted him for his part in the GOP attempted coup of 1997, Boehner tried to convince Newt that he was only acting as a mole, a double agent if you will, to try to find out what nefarious plot the others were up to. You can bet Gingrich didn't buy it for a minute.
Surely Newt also put together the fact that Boehner's "intercepted" car phone call of a few months earlier was no accident, and wouldn't have been possible had Boehner not been an eager participants, perhaps even hatching the plan himself. Interestingly enough, Boehner was the only guy who didn't say anything during that conference call. Once again proving how weasely he was, just like when he tried to convince Gingrich that he was only spying during the attempted GOP coup.
There are very powerful forces allied against the possibility of Newt Gingrich becoming the nominee. These are people who haven't been sleeping well at night since the Gingrich surge. Newt knows where all the bodies are buried...and why. They are fighting for their very lives.
Oh, pleeeze ... Let's criticize Romney on the basis of our legitimate concerns with his past record as Governor on RomneyCare, gun control, abortion rights, etc. Almost every one of us with a 401k or shares in a diversified mutual fund is a stockholder in Fannie or Freddie. Romney has blind trusts which hold stock in them as well. There is not one difference in this regard between Romney and me (except, of course, the number of places to the left of the decimal point in the value of our holdings)!
Thanks-
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