Posted on 01/15/2012 1:43:04 AM PST by Mozilla
CHARLESTON, S.C. — Presidential candidate Newt Gingrich said Saturday that Republicans will err if they don’t scrutinize Mitt Romney’s role in a private equity firm called Bain Capital.
Gingrich, the former House speaker, said President Barack Obama will hammer away at Bain if Romney is the nominee this fall.
“I don’t see how you can expect us to have a presidential campaign in which an entire sector is avoided,” Gingrich said on a Fox News program that included five of the six Republican candidates. Each fielded South Carolina voters’ questions for almost 20 minutes.
Many Republican and conservative leaders have rebuked Gingrich for criticizing Romney’s role at Bain.
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They could have just used footage of McCain and Huckabee in '08 pointing it out. Calling it an attack on capitalism is just the RINO establishment trying to stifle the debate. Just like saying any criticism of Obama is racism. It's the Romney elitists who are acting like the socialists here - they learned well from Obama.
In the words of Leroy Jethro Gibbs..."Ya think?"
Conservatives should not kid themselves. The conservative movement is filled with social conservative, some of whom are working class and not all that keen on the idea of creative destruction.
Romney might get all the college educated, invested rino vote, but he’s toast with many conservative, independent, and reagan democrat working folks. They would much rather support a Santorum or a Perry or a Gingrich who at least are calling for fairness.
Romney is going down. If the rinos continue to push him, then they’ll find him going down in the general.
Obama will eat his lunch.
Just ask yourself this one question:
If the two massachusetts candidates were running against each other — Kerry and Romney — which one would have the upper hand?
Mitt Kerry is who we are running. A rich flip-flopper from Massachusetts who couldn’t even hold on to his own gubernatorial office.
That was a test of character he created for himself, and then failed miserably.
People who live by their scruples don't say "I'll do this until someone attacks me, then I will do the thing I said I won't." You don't respond to others' attacks by altering your principles--that's the time to hold steady to what YOU believe in, and to hell with the other person's slimy attacks.
Newt didn't attack until he decided to attack. That's like being pro-life until you get someone pregnant and suddenly you want an abortion.
At least Kerry went to Vietnam and killed gooks. Romney went to France and killed a French girl. Kerry is the better man.
The question here is if one can make millions of dollars whether a company succeeds or fails then where is the risk-taking Romney speaks of so fondly? Look there isn't any evidence to suggest that Romney or Bain made their money illegally. Yet you don't have to support the Occupy movement to know that the playing field is pro-business, not pro-market. So it is disingenuous on Romney's part to decry welfare dependency as a poison to be fought when he has been more than happy to go before the government, role up his sleeve and have another form of poison injected into his arm and then come back for more. Romney is equally disingenuous to suggest that any criticism of his tenure at Bain Capital is an attack on free enterprise itself especially when he never practiced free enterprise in the first place. Mitt Romney is what I would call a corporate welfare bum.
Pro-Newt super PAC responds to Newt's call by challenging Romney
Newt is a smoldering IED in the middle of the entire Republican party—every time he vents his anger he destroys the chances of house and senate take over but that’s good according to him because he will have gotten his revenge. I was a huge fan but no more. Do you trust this angry man to have his finger on the red button?
“Mr. voter, was your vote today to support capitalism?
No, it was about jobs.
“Mr. voter, was your vote today to support capitalism?
No, it was about the economy.
“Mr. voter, was your vote today to support capitalism?
No, it was about beating Obama.
“Mr. voter, was your vote today to support capitalism?
No, It was to support our military
“Mr. voter, was your vote today to support capitalism?
No, it was about energy independence
“Mr. voter, was your vote today to support capitalism?
No, it was about gun rights and freedom
“Mr. voter, was your vote today to support capitalism?
No, it was about downsizing government.
“Mr. voter, was your vote today to support capitalism?
No, it was about our debt & deficit
“Mr. voter, was your vote today to support capitalism?
No, it was about religious freedom
Bingo. If this didn't happen now, and Romney is the nominee, this would have been the MSM 24/7 October surprise (or before).
Newt is overplaying this Bain business several times over.
Sometimes that sounded good in the early debates, and sometimes there was an air of phoniness about it. Looking back, I think Newt was just trying to lay out some great sounding ground rules that were really designed to shield him from criticism by.the other candidates.
As many have said, no Republican candidate has more baggage than Newt, and it was in his interest to create rules that protected him from criticism. But since everyone didn't follow his self-serving rules (what a shock!), Newt then became the most vicious attacker of all.
For many, this probably confirms what they've thought about Newt all along; lots of negatives come with his positives.
And it was a total joke to pretend that a group of ambitious politicians would go through a long campaign and never use negative ads.
Dems Prepare To Hammer Romney With The REAL Bain Onslaught (Newt's ad just the appetizer)
And I don't mean some passing reference to it where he has give any answer he wants that has Jesus in it and then they move on. I mean in depth questions about Mormonism with followups. I want gotcha type questions, because if this is not done now and Romney can prove that he can answer those type questions... then it sure as heck will happen during the general election when it's too late to change horses.
What I'm really saying is that Newt tried to establish all those early peace and harmony ground rules to protect himself, but when that didn't work, he became the most angry and vicious attacker of all. That was just a Gingrich campaign tactic that was unrealistic from the start, just as many Gingrich ideas are unrealistic or poorly thought out.
Are you saying that Newt should get a pass?
Believe in Newt and hope Repubs 'everywhere' appreciate as well. Certainly; the Independents - contrary to GOP 'wisdom'; can figure it out.
Newt has literally an American 'history' that fashions his vision; hope SC Conservatives can appreciate it - and not get hung up on failed marriage issues.
For our country's sake; No 'Kerry' redos; please South Carolina. . .
Romney gets a pass for starting the attacks in Iowa. And you never wonder why the press gave Romney a pass but not Gingrich. The press and the left can still play some people like fiddles.
You have a nice Sunday.
Obama is just waiting to tear Romney apart over this.
Newt and Perry are right. This needs to be outed now.
Lol, a classic surrender tactic disguised as a thoughtful response. It really does become beyond silly when some try to dismiss every statement they don't like as some surreptitious support of Romney.
I've been thinking for quite some time now that the GOP knows there's no saving our nation from economic disaster. They WANT a democrat in charge rather than a republican when it happens since the rats will just blame them instead.
Even worse, they want the collapse to happen, since they are basically in agreement with the rats on the way things work now, even if they have slightly different motives.
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