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Posted on 01/23/2012 12:20:54 PM PST by tcrlaf
(CNN) - Mitt Romney's campaign released a blistering new Florida television ad against Newt Gingrich on Monday, eight days before the Sunshine State's presidential primary.
"If Newt wins, this guy would be very happy," the ad's narrator says, as a photo of a smiling President Barack Obama appears on screen.
The 30-second commercial, "Florida Families," is set to air statewide in Florida.
In a part of the country that saw large amounts of home foreclosures, the ad particularly strikes Gingrich over his time as a consultant at mortgage giant Freddie Mac.
"While Florida families lost everything in the housing crisis, Newt Gingrich cashed in," the narrator says.
(Excerpt) Read more at politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com ...
I have sent Newt money on 4 occasion, in addition to last night.
“I respect Romney”..... THERE IS NOTHING TO RESPECT ABOUT THAT POS.
Not on your life. But I might sent Santorum something.
Romney needs to set up his robo-calls with this message. 7 times per week, per voter. That should drive his votes down to <10%.
I am SO stealing that for my tagline!
I always get a chuckle when I see Romney wearing plaid shirts and Levis trying to dress down for the common folk.
This guy was born with a silver stick up his you-know-what and has no idea what it means to actually having to work for a living doing menial jobs to get started in life...and no amount of purchased negative ads, free old media support, campaign consultants or all the bought and paid for endorsements from the GOP establishment can overcome Romney’s transparent elitist and patronizing view of the Tea Party and GOP grassroots.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/10/18/mitt-romney-foreclosure-relief_n_1017751.html
In a filmed interview with the editorial board of the Las Vegas Review-Journal, a newspaper serving the hardest-hit foreclosure state in the union, Romney criticized President Barack Obama for not foreclosing on American families fast enough.
“Don’t try to stop the foreclosure process. Let it run its course and hit the bottom,” Romney said when asked what he would do to jump-start the floundering housing market.
“Allow investors to buy homes, put renters in them, fix the homes up and let it turn around and come back up,” he continued. “The Obama administration has slow walked the foreclosure process ... that has long existed and as a result we still have a foreclosure overhang.”
I hope Romney continues with this approach - because it won’t work any better than the Marianne threat did. Newt will be talking big ideas, prosperity, and economic freedom while Mitt will be acting like one of those annoying little yappy dogs.
Remember Iowa has <5% unemployment and the caucuses only represented 120,000 votes. That’s not indicative of America, and while his attack machine hurt Gingrich’s numbers there, look how soon the attacks run out of steam. Meanwhile Newt’s passion for American exceptionalim can go forever...
The ethics report on Newt Gingrich is publicly available, but has been construed as politically motivated. The alleged violations concerned a course that Gingrich taught at Kennesaw State College while serving in Congress. The course’s promoters received financial support from “individuals, corporations and foundations,” promising that the project qualified for tax-exempt status. The ethics committee ultimately concluded that the course was “actually a coordinated effort” to “help in achieving a partisan, political goal” — something that would run afoul of its tax-exempt status.
And yet, when the IRS looked into those accusations in a three-year investigation, it found that the donations to Gingrich’s charity were “consistent with its stated exempt purposes,” and Gingrich’s course and course book “were educational in content,” according to The Washington Post in 1999. By then, Gingrich had left office, preferring retirement to a fight over leadership.
Gingrich adamantly denied violating the law, but ultimately agreed to pay a $300,000 fine for making misleading statements to the ethics committee.
It appears that Gingrich was fined, mostly for political cover to the Republicans. The IRS declared that Gingrich’s course ”was educational and never favored or opposed a candidate for public office.”
You might want to do a check on that. Supposedly there is documentation that the $300,000 was specifically for reimbursement by Newt of the cost of the investigation and that it was not a fine.
I think so too.
That’s exactly the way that whole thing went down.
CedarDave’s correction is true.
Agree 100%! Go Newt!
BTW, I thibk you misread my post: I meant of course Willard (Romney) will attack Newt more than he’d attack obastard because Willard agrees more with obastard than with Newt.
To be clear: I hope we don’t see Willard v obastard on Nov. 7, because frankly we’re toast as a nation if either of them wins!
BTW, I thibk you misread my post: I meant of course Willard (Romney) will attack Newt more than he’d attack obastard because Willard agrees more with obastard than with Newt.
To be clear: I hope we don’t see Willard v obastard on Nov. 7, because frankly we’re toast as a nation if either of them wins!
“Not on your life. But I might sent Santorum something.”
Heck, just skip the middleman and send it directly to Romney. Why pay for Santorum’s ineffective anti Newt ads, when Romney has Establishment Pros to do a professional job...lol.
That was NPR's version. Here is the Washington Post's version:
Gingrich is paying $300,000 for the costs of an ethics committee investigation after admitting last year he made inaccurate statements during a lengthy probe into Democratic allegations that he misused tax-exempt donations. Gingrich denied the charges but submitted to a reprimand by the House
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/govt/leadership/stories/101198.htm.
LOL
Funny huh?
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