Newt: I Would Never Vote For Ron Paul

TPM ^ | 12/27/2011 | BENJY SARLIN

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Newt Gingrich on Tuesday lit into Ron Paul over extremist newsletters he once published, saying that he would not vote for him if he were the Republican nominee.

Asked by CNN’s Wolf Blitzer about tough attack ads Paul has been running against him, Gingrich slammed his rival, who he said “disowns ten years of his own letter, says he doesn’t really realize what was in it, had no idea that he was making money on, that it was racist, anti-Semitic.”

“He’s attacking me for serial hypocrisy and he spent ten years out of earning money off a newsletter that had his name that he didn’t notice,” he said. “He’s got to come up with some very straight answers to get somebody to take him seriously. Would I be willing to listen to him? Sure. I think the choice of Ron Paul or Barack Obama would be a very bad choice for America.”

Gingrich flatly said “no” when asked if he would vote for Paul himself.

“There will come a morning people won’t take him as a serious person,” Gingrich said, saying he was a “reasonable candidate” as a protest vote.

“As a potential president, a person who thinks the United States was [responsible] for 9/11, a person who believes, who wrote in his newsletter, that the World Trade Center bombing in 1993 might have been a CIA plot, the person who says it doesn’t matter if the Iranians have a nuclear weapon — you look at Ron Paul’s record of systemic avoidance of reality, his ads are about as accurate as his newsletter.”

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I watched the whole interview. Newt was on fire and blasted Ron Paul. He also took the gloves off to some extent with Mitt Romney.

This was a strong and lengthy interview for Newt. This article doesn't do it justice.

Romney is up next tomorrow with Wolf Blitzed....

[CainConservative]

Give ‘em hell, Newt!!!

[WilliamHouston]

I admit that I feel the same way about Newt Gingrich.

I would never vote for him under any circumstances: someone who is now on his third wife, who wants to give amnesty to illegal aliens, a draft dodging warmongering globalist who supports affirmative action, a big government progressive, etc.

He is like John McCain ... minus the fidelity and defensible war record.

[WilliamHouston]

Is it “racist” to point out that blacks are in fact responsible for the vast majority of crime in our major cities?

[John D]

How is he draft dodging when the military would not take him? Are you saying that because he did not take the military to court and demand they take him he was dodging the draft?

[italianquaker]

newt is right about this but by saying it he might lose the occupy wall street vote

[mkjessup]

"As a potential president, a person [Ron Paul] who thinks the United States was [responsible] for 9/11"

Say there Sparky, just thought you might like to 'correct' Newt Gingrich, you being such a stickler for detail, lol

[John D]

Cut and Run has the OWS vote tied up. That is if he can afford to buy all the dope they are going to demand, and the surrender monkey feels they deserve.

[VinL]

Love him or hate him, give Newt his due- he’s the smartest guy in the room- and always fascinating to listen to.

[delapaz]

Uh. Correction.

McCain had the war record but did NOT have the fidelity. He left his wife after she stuck by him when he was a POW.

But your point is taken.

If you can’t handle Ron Paul, Santorum is your best bet. I would take either over Newt or Mitt.

[trisham]

Good for Newt. My current list:

1. Newt Gingrich

2. Rick Santorum & Michelle Bachmann

3. Rick Perry

[Old Sarge]

Newt: I Would Never Vote For Ron Paul

Sarge: neither will I.

[C. Edmund Wright]

WH will get back to you on that draft dodging thing - in between his bong hits. That is unless mommy calls him to dinner.

[EGPWS]

Give ‘em hell, Newt!!!

At least Newt can beat 0bama instead of just comparing like agenda's as Mittens would have to.

[PLD]

I would never vote for Paul either..Same with Romney..

[John D]

I had a hard time determining what WH meant, until I saw who I was originally posting to.

[Happy Valley Dude]

Then I guess that he will be voting for Romney is his state’s primary, as Paul and Romney were the only campaigns sufficiently organized enough to get on the ballot.

[Brilliant]

So I would like to know what Newt would do if the choice were Ron Paul and Obama. That’s the position I feel I am in.

[BCrago66]

You have hitched your wagon to a whackjob.

You man you admire so much wanted a Congressional investigation to see if the USA executed the 9/11 attacks on the World Trade Center:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d91a13Yr3oQ

The man you admire also thinks that Bradley Manning, the guy who leaked thousands of American military & diplomatic secrets, getting Americans and our allies killed, is a “true patriot”:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=8pbSCT2SE6U

The object of your puppy love also objects to a border fence, because he thinks the US government will, Soviet-style, use it to keep American citizens in:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=10YtwvCcG4g&feature=player_embedded

Ron Paul is deranged freak.

[littlesorrel]

Great! Keep it up Newt. Obama will win in a landslide. WTF