Video #1, Newt and Nancy sitting on a couch.
Gingrich has since said that that ad, done four years ago, was “stupid” and a “mistake.” Romney is hardly in a position of strength from which to slam Gingrich on global warming, given the fact that he hired many of the same green operatives now staffing and growing President Obama’s regulatory state.
Romney’s second clip is a bit more effective.
GINGRICH: Everybody who was profiting from them [Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac] should pay the cost of having failed.
Including “historians” who made $1.6 million from them?
Team Romney is also sending around this exchange from his appearance on Fox earlier today, in which Romney addressed Gingrich’s hit-back that Romney should give back the money he made “bankrupting companies” at Bain Capital.
MARTHA MACCALLUM: “[Will you] give back all the money that you took in the bankruptcies, and the lost jobs and all of that. What is your reaction?”
MITT ROMNEY: “Well, unfortunately the Speaker is way off on that. In my enterprise, we had the occasion to help build tens of thousands of jobs. And he doesn’t understand the economy, if he doesn’t understand that sometimes businesses succeed and sometimes fail. The four enterprises I’ve led have all succeeded. We invested in hundreds of different entities — over a hundred different entities — not all of them succeeded. But to suggest that there is something un-American or something wrong about investing in enterprise that ultimately doesn’t succeed, bespeaks an extraordinary lack of understanding of how the economy works. And by the way, should he return the money that he got from Freddie Mac? That follows his own comment. He said anyone who profited from Freddie Mac should give the money back. Well, he profited $1.6 million from an agency that helped bring down the entire economy; he ought to give it back.”
Gingrich’s hit-back was a flop. Brit Hume led the way in describing it as the kind of thing we tend to hear from the left.
Because I wasn’t watching the Republican nomination process in 2008, it never really penetrated that Romney has been responsible for an awful lot of the negative campaigning in the primaries. I just knew that I found him repellant. Now I know why. This man has done, and is doing, serious damage to his party. If Republicans want to know why they have what is perceived as a weak field, this is it.
The ad is not negative, if it’s true. The target of the ad is negative. As long as the ad is not misleading, I think it should be run. Candidates need to be vetted.
If you were too young to watch in 2008 that would be an excuse. In that case you might benefit from tips from the old folks. Obama is going full negative and it is only just beggining. Swiftboating is a word now just like borking is a word now. Negative works well if it’s true and works fairly well even when it’s false.
Let’s not forget that Romney, when it comes to appeasing islam, has already declared that he’ll be no different from Buraq Hussein Osama:
Romney said radical, violent Islamists (sic) pose a threat to Americans and others around the world. However, he said, “they take a very different view of Islam than the Muslims I know.” He noted that he was raised in the Detroit area, which has a large Muslim population. “They are peace-loving and America-loving individuals. I believe that very sincerely. I believe people of the Islamic faith do not have to subscribe to the idea of radical, violent jihadism.”
So, in Romney’s head, even “jihad” has already turned into “radical, violent jihadism.” Just more proof that, as far as islam is concerned, not that much would change if he got Buraq Hussein’s current job. And that’s why the US needs Gingrich, and not 4 more years of the same nonsense it has got for the past 11 years.
After watching the debate/discussion between Gingrich and Huntsman the other day I must say my support for Gingrich weakened quite a bit. I still like him but I thought Huntsman shone, I don’t think this is over yet by a long shot.
what your seeing here is progressive madness..A vote for Romney or Gingrich is a vote for Obama Marxism. “Know your enemy.”