Well why didn’t Gingrich tell us this about Romney in Iowa and it would all be over. The man speaks French! The same language John Kerry can speak. Unlike some other charges Newt has made against Romney, this one is true.
Here’s the latest Gingrich web ad ending with the shocking revelation.
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It’s kind of funny that when Romney and his surrogates were smearing Newt, there wasn’t this uproar – but when Newt fires back, Newt is the bad guy. Strange, that.
Ditto JSHII-been thinking the same thing. As Tammy said, Newt came out of Iowa “wearing the kitchen sink.” Now he fights back and up pops this rightous indignation about it from everyone on FOX, etc. It just makes me support Newt more. Mittenz is still trying to hide his way to the nomination. His record is lousy and very liberal; it should be shouted from the mountain tops. Newt may not be as slick, or have the look, and he may rub people the wrong way personally, but he has much greater potential as a change agent. As for the ad above, I don’t see anything wrong with it. It’s all part of the package that is Mittenz le Manager de la Decline.
Romney’s attack ads were sniper attacks targeting Newt’s personal, well documented ‘baggage’. Gingrich’s ads are nukes blowing up the basic tenets of the right—private enterprise and the capitalist system—because Romney happens to be standing there. Newt so badly wants to take down Romney he doesn’t care about collateral damage. Romney is politics as usual. Gingrich is a vindictive man so out for blood he can’t see straight.
I hope you are wrong Pat_S, about Newt being vindictive. Maybe he is just coming off that way?
Pat, you pretty much make my point here.
If we go by what you said, Newt should just have shut up and let Mitt drive him right out of the race. Instead, Newt fires back – look at your reaction: “Gingrich is a vindictive man so out for blood he can’t see straight.”.
I sure didn’t see that reaction when Mitt was attacking Newt, did I????
I want a candidate who fights back and fights back hard. No more Juam McRinos!!
My point is that Gingrich went too far.
He always does. He doesn’t have a bungee cord to hold him back. Never has had one.
Anyone recall Pearl Harbor Remembrance Day, 2010 when Newt took the opportunity to pitch his books on Twitter? He just doesn’t know when to stop. He lost his staff last summer when he opted to take a cruise rather than work on his campaign organization. Oh, could he maybe have gotten the petition signatures to get on the VA ballot if he’d been paying attention and campaigning instead of cruising? But that’s not Newt. And he obviously doesn’t have any current aides around him to tell him to use some prudence.
When Newt started to get interesting, I was concerned that he might win the Republican contest and then go off the rails before November, as he’s done before. That would have been a tragedy. So in a way I’m grateful that he’s gone loopy before he had a chance to make more progress.
This bit of nonsense pretty much ends Newt’s campaign, because the anti-capitalistic theme underlying his attack will blow off the people that would have been his enthusiastic base. That’s my reaction, anyway. Newt is a dead man walking.
At this point, it seems to me that Romney is the only candidate standing between us and another four catastrophic years of Obama. That makes Romney my friend.
Collateral damage? Are you really concerned that capitalism will not survive the necessary Mitt vetting? What corporate raiders do is to generate windfall profits for themselves; whether a business succeeds or not is a minor consideration. When Bain took over a manufacturing company, took out loans against the value of the equipment to pay themselves HUGE dividends, futher weakening a troubled company and then the company failed — that was NOT problem solving; it was predatory. You clearly have an anti-Newt bias. Not certain you can see straight. I’ll take Newt anyday over the fraudulent Mitt who will do and say anything to become President for his own self-aggrandizement and to spend 8 years repaying favors to his Bain buddies and the bottom feeders of the GOP establishement. If he wants to merit the presidency based upon his work at Bain, it demands scrutiny. And, while we’re at it – let’s get a look at those tax returns.
Pardon, mais je ne peux pas voir pourquoi y a-t-il des problèmes parce qu’on parle français…LOL! 😛
Parce que le francais est pour les “wimps” 🙂 Pat I like your sarcasm but where was it when Romney was running ads against Newt? If Romney is going to run on his record @ Bain then we should be able to look into it. Didn’t Meg Whitman also come from Bain? We saw how her campaign turned out.
Newt had to come out and stipulate he wasn’t tearing down private enterprise because that’s the way it sounded to a lot of people. Many of the sad outcomes he lamented happened when Romney was no longer involved with Bain. Gingrich was damning Romney personally for what goes on all the time in the harsh world of capitalist economics. Recognizing that harsh world is the signature difference between Republicans and Democrats. The Democrats absolutely will come after Romney as a blood sucking one-percenter. Newt isn’t helping Romney rehearse for Democrat attack ads, he is writing them.
Romney’s attack ads can in no way be equated to what Newt has done. As Charles Krauthammer pointed out, Republicans had the national conversation focused on the debt and government spending and now, thanks to Newt, we are talking about the brutality of capitalism. That is precisely the theme the Democrats are running on.
Pat, thanks for your comments but I didn’t see what Newt was saying about Romney as tearing down private enterprise, that’s what the Romney protectors want to make it look like. Corruption happens…
I hope Romney doesn’t think he can hide under the capitalist economics umbrella when President Obama & team come after him. But I’m hoping Newt will be the nominee and we don’t get a Juan McCain redo.
BTW do you know if Romney habla espanol?
Romney was still involved with Bain even when we went to the Olympics and he still receives huge Bain dividends to this day.
If, heaven forbid, Romney gets the nomination, the Dems will come after him regardless of what Newt does now. Kind of naive to believe otherwise. And, by the way, the King of Bain film was made by a former Romney advisor. It was for sale and every campaign tried to purchase it. The Newt SuperPac managed to secure the deal. The Obama thugs lie; if they can’t find something, they will make it up. And, believe me, there is plenty on Romney that they already have — his tax returns, his phony tax shelters in the Cayman Islands, not to mention that he has been around the block on every issue at least 10 times.
And, don’t overlook that the Dems will play serious hardball with Romney’s Mormonism.
To blame Newt for a hypothetical Dem attack on Romney is really straining to fuel your anti-Newt bias.
I find the add very effective. It really paints him as the liberal democrat that he is.
Nothing wrong with learning French. But it is telling that a man destined to govern would choose French instead of German, or Spanish. France has been poking us in the eye for generations. Yah, lets all learn some French and one day run for President of the USA!
It’s not simply that he speaks French, It’s that he speaks French, just like John Kerry:) Zing!
I find the ending quite hilarious and it shows that the Ging had a sense of humor;)
I find the ad very funny also.
Indeed it is:) I think a Ging presidency would be as much fun as a Palin Presidency. –listening to him zing the left/media, zing the GOP, zing our faux allies. It would be one zinger after another;)
Oui, et moi aussi. Mais peut-être il serait un meilleur Secrétaire de Presse de Maison Blanche.
azo! It would be great, but I cant see the Ging shilling for Mittens any time soon.
For the record, Mitt Romney knows French because he was a Mormon missionary in France when he was younger. LDS missionaries don’t choose where they go or what language they’ll be speaking when they get there — it’s a calling they receive.
Believe me, if my husband had had a choice in the matter, he would not have gone to Bolivia. 🙂
that makes sense. it was just a cheep shot more at liberals and the French;)
I agree, Prince. The French thing added a humorous twist about how Romney will say anything to get elected, even if it’s in French. I think Newt would greatly prefer to have positive discussions about ideas, and he’s not good at doing the negative campaigning without coming across as grumpy, nor does he have a Bachmann to help with that as Romney did. Among my family and friends who are supporting Newt, we are mainly doing so because of the great things he accomplished in the 80s and 90s. None of the other candidates come close to his record of conservative leadership. As a teacher, I like his creative ideas about education reform, which none of the other candidates have presented either. For the record I’ll always be a Palinista, but I think at this point Newt is the (very distant) next best thing.
I couldn’t agree more. He is the only candidate with experience in reforming government on a national level. Mitt will just be a timid stooge for the oligarchs.
Speaking of food(and non-sequiturs)…Why would anyone learn to speak French in the first place? To order dinner in a French resturant? In my opinion, the French cuisine is the second worst in the world; ever see the ingredients? Got snails? Ugh.
Now if Romney knew Italian he’d, at the very least, get the Staten Island/Mob Wife vote. And we’d get a great meal, too.
Capisce?
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Agree on the French cuisine, but this doesn’t include our French friends from Quebec, who could resist their meat pies!
Like I said, it’s all fine and ok for Romney and his people to attack and smear Newt any way possible – but Newt isn’t allowed to respond or Newt is the bad guy.
If this is the way it’s going to be in the Republican Party now, I will be proud to say I’m not a Republican – because they just handed the next election over to Obama.
That might have been an ok ad if the last part was not thrown in.
I put it that way because Romney is Juan McLame all over again.
I might also note that Romney is the establishment candidate – and God forbid that anyone should cross the establishment!!
Lieutenant Commander Data has more charisma than Romney does. Better hair, too.
LOL!
What’s up with this so-called anti-Newt “bias”? As opposed to anti-Mitt bias? What happened to “opinions”? For a minute I thought maybe someone flipped the station to MSNBC…
Mitt Romney served as a Mormon missionary in France for 30 months beginning in 1966. He probably picked up a bit of the language there.
Ah yes, France:) Were liberal Mormons choose to go mission;) he he ok just kidding. -a good point you make there. Of course the issue is nothing to try to tear Romney down on, but it sure is funny to see him compared to Kerry.
So pleased that the TAMS can think for themselves and reject the machine tyranny that an examination of Mitt Bain is an unspeakable affront to capitalism. Go TAMS!! And, bravo to all who found the French reference funny. TAMS are so cool! Yes, Romney did spent 2 1/2 years as a missionary in France something he recently tried to spin as an experience of extreme hardship with poor, underprivileged third world people. That was until it was revealed that he stayed at a mansion in Paris. Romney is so full of it. He is such a fraud protected because he has the BIG BAIN BUCK$$$$$$$ and is willing to play ball with the machine. Kudos to the TAMS who can see right through the Mitt Bain Moneybag$$$$$$$$ BS!!!!
I’m with Pat on this one — the ad would have been effective except for the ridiculous end. Really Newt, you’re going to make fun of him for speaking French? When you know perfectly well that he learned it as a matter of service and not of snobbery?
For those of you who are poo-pooing Pat’s assertion that Newt has been coming across as anti-capitalist in his anti-Romney screeds, feel free to remember that Newt himself has backpedaled his attacks on those very grounds, saying that he went too far and went against his own principles.
It hasn’t been that long since, to my own shock and chagrin, I found myself rooting for Newt. Romney is by no means my guy. But, again, Pat is right — Newt has gone nuclear, and ridiculous attacks like “ZOMG he speaks the French!!!!1!!1one!!” are actually making Romney look *better* to me, at least in comparison. (The attacks on Bain Capital seem just as silly to me — weren’t they buying companies that were failing to begin with? So even the ones that still went under — they were headed there anyway, right?)
This isn’t simply Newt hitting back — this is Newt getting hit with a series of attacks, decrying them as underhanded and dishonest, and then turning around and using the exact same tactics to a greater degree, and in such a way that helps the Left’s anti-capitalism narrative. This is Newt showing us that he has no principle that he holds higher than the demands of his own passions, and damn the consequences.
I have suspected for awhile that Newt Gingrich has been saying all the right things to us Tea Party peeps not out of any deep-held belief, but out of a shrewd and somewhat cynical calculation. His actions since Iowa have done nothing to assauge my suspicions.
Good thing for Huntsman he’s not leading in the polls. He speaks CHINESE!
There is merit in critiquing Newt’s way of attacking Mitt But there is no comparison to who would be the better president. Seems like people who talk up Mitt now, do it only out of a sense of who is “seemingly” more electable rather then who would be the best one for the job.
as far as the Bain issue… I doubt anyone of us knows all the ins and outs of that company. But to say that the companies Bain looted, where going to fail anyway, is just an easy way to justify what Bain/Mitt did. I for one will try to get to the bottom of it just for a matter of record. If Bain did take out massive unsustainable loans in the name of companies they had no intention of growing, then that is just plain corrupt and evil.
All of those creditors were left with nothing but a bankruptcy. Many livelihoods were lost. To say that Bain created more jobs then it lost also does not justify any action they may have taken. The ends justify the means argument should remain in the domain of the left. When I hear this talking point, I am thinking, OK, so in toto, they made the bulk of their money by building strong companies, but they also made a sizable amount of money by letting other companies wither on the vine while milking them for as much as they could. -not to mention manipulating stock prices with their buddies at Lehman Brothers.
I just bet that laundry machine company was just bought for the name and it was sold as soon as they could sell the name, technology and company know how to the Chinese.