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Mitt Romney: Newt Gingrich is a ‘failed leader,’ ‘disgrace’
politico.com ^ | 1/22/2012 | REID J. EPSTEIN

Posted on 01/22/2012 9:28:44 PM PST by vbmoneyspender

Mitt Romney landed here Sunday with a simple message: Newt Gingrich is a failure and a fraud. And a disgrace. And a hapless showman.

Standing under a brilliant orange Florida sunset, Romney delivered his longest sustained critique of the South Carolina primary winner to date – ticking through a list as if he were reading off Gingrich’s Wikipedia page, and undercutting each item as he got to it.

“Speaker Gingrich has also been a leader,” the former Massachusetts governor said. “He was a leader for four years as speaker of the House. And at the end of four years, it was proven that he was a failed leader and he had to resign in disgrace. I don’t know whether you knew that, he actually resigned after four years, in disgrace.

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Hell hath no fury like a scorned Republican liberal.
1 posted on 01/22/2012 9:28:49 PM PST by vbmoneyspender
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To: vbmoneyspender

Hopefully Mitt the Shi** will chew his own face off now.


2 posted on 01/22/2012 9:31:30 PM PST by RingerSIX (My wife and I took an AIDS vaccine that they offer down at our Church.)
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To: vbmoneyspender

His magic underwear sure seems to be in a twist.


3 posted on 01/22/2012 9:33:34 PM PST by mylife (The Roar Of The Masses Could Be Farts)
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To: vbmoneyspender

Wow, Mitt is really into the personal attacks. I hope this backfires bigtime.


4 posted on 01/22/2012 9:33:51 PM PST by Parley Baer
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To: vbmoneyspender

Romney is an idiot. Epic fail as a leader.


5 posted on 01/22/2012 9:35:28 PM PST by Jim Robinson (Rebellion is not just brewing, rebellion is here!!)
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To: RingerSIX

To paraphrase another freeper’s post (NKP_Vet), here is a line Newt should use in the next debate.

With his liberal record, Mitt is a man who should have switched to the democratic party years ago, he has no business running for the nomination of the Republican Party.


6 posted on 01/22/2012 9:35:35 PM PST by Bobalu (It is not obama we are fighting, it is the media.)
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To: Parley Baer

“Wow, Mitt is really into the personal attacks. I hope this backfires bigtime.”

This thin skinned egotist really is the functional equivalent of Obama.


7 posted on 01/22/2012 9:38:22 PM PST by Psalm 144 (Preparation ZOT, for prompt relief from annoying romnoids.)
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To: vbmoneyspender

Willard go back to working for the private sector....!!


8 posted on 01/22/2012 9:38:38 PM PST by angelcindy ("Those who follow the crowd,gets no further than the crowd")
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To: vbmoneyspender

Popcorn time


9 posted on 01/22/2012 9:38:47 PM PST by jpsb
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To: vbmoneyspender

Speaker Gingrich made history and helped create a conservative movement, Romney has a single failed term in office as a liberal.


10 posted on 01/22/2012 9:39:36 PM PST by ansel12 (Romney is unquestionably the weakest party front-runner in contemporary political history.)
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To: vbmoneyspender

Mitt needs to strap that dog onto the top of his station wagon and take a vacation. Geez!


11 posted on 01/22/2012 9:40:09 PM PST by microgood
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To: Bobalu

I think he should take the high road. Say something like “Well, clearly SC had a different view than Gov Romney. I’m happy to let the voters here in FL decide. Let them decide what failed leadership is. Is it the 1st conservative majority in 40 years? Is it 11 million new jobs? Is it cutting spending to historic lows? Is it not only reducing the deficit but eliminating it entirely? Is it 4 straight balanced budgets? Is it major entitlement reform? If they think that’s failed leadership I’ll accept their verdict. I think they’ll agree with their friends in SC”


12 posted on 01/22/2012 9:40:09 PM PST by jeltz25
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To: vbmoneyspender
Hard to believe FReepers supported this jackass.

Not a conservative bone in his body.

Now he reveals his true self

13 posted on 01/22/2012 9:40:31 PM PST by Manic_Episode (Politics is fake. I think it's owned by Vince Mcmahon)
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To: vbmoneyspender

I know this is petty, but would someone get mitt a tailor? Every oxford he wears looks at least a size and a half too big. And could he roll up his sleeves once in a while? He looks like such a dweeb. Hey mitt, two words-european cut!!


14 posted on 01/22/2012 9:41:19 PM PST by steel_resolve (Ships With Holes Will Sink And I Will Swim)
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To: vbmoneyspender

Every time Romney opens his liberal mouth I want to smack him. The man is becoming more vile by the hour.
I do not see how anyone can support him and call themselves conservative or even Republican.


15 posted on 01/22/2012 9:41:19 PM PST by svcw (For the new year: you better toughen up, if you are going to continue to be stupid.)
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To: RingerSIX
Myth, Is really feasting on some (very) bitter whine & cheese...
GIVE IT UP MYTH.
just go home, cry in your prayers to daddy..spare us.

16 posted on 01/22/2012 9:42:00 PM PST by skinkinthegrass (I can take tomorrow, $pend it all today. Who can take your income, tax it all away. Obama Man can. :)
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To: jeltz25

I do not think he can. Romney actually beleives this election is owed to him and he is pissed that voters do not see that.


17 posted on 01/22/2012 9:43:20 PM PST by svcw (For the new year: you better toughen up, if you are going to continue to be stupid.)
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To: vbmoneyspender

Romney is becoming unstable.


18 posted on 01/22/2012 9:46:03 PM PST by Logical me
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To: vbmoneyspender

Well, Mitt, even given your putrid premise, he is still better than you. Even on those terms, he’s at least been a leader, not an unpricipaled poll following flim-flam used car salesman like you.


19 posted on 01/22/2012 9:47:02 PM PST by piytar (Rebellion is here! Free Republic is on the front line! NEVER SURRENDER!)
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To: vbmoneyspender

Keep up the attacks Poindexter, you’re showing your true colors.


20 posted on 01/22/2012 9:49:24 PM PST by mardi59 (Newt brings hope, and change is coming. 2012!!)
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To: Bobalu

How about this one, I just made it up...” There are 50 Governors who can claim they balanced their budgets but only one Speaker of the House, and he did it for four years in a row!” Feel free to paraphrase and submit it to Newt.


21 posted on 01/22/2012 9:50:15 PM PST by ynotjjr (Gingrich/Rubio 2012 It's called the Constitution. Learn it, live it, love it!)
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To: Logical me
Romney is becoming unstable.

Mitt just can't believe he is not going to be able to buy it..... again.

22 posted on 01/22/2012 9:51:40 PM PST by The Cajun (Palin, Free Republic, Mark Levin, Rush, Hannity......Nuff said.)
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To: vbmoneyspender

Mitt, you’ll never be president ... take it to the bank.


23 posted on 01/22/2012 9:52:38 PM PST by Belteshazzar (We are not justified by our works but by faith - De Jacob et vita beata 2 +Ambrose of Milan)
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The Romster is imploding! His phoniness cannot connect to Conservatives, and even fence-sitting RINOs are now balking at Mittens. It's a beautiful anti-Romney symphony building to a crescendo.......APPLAUSE!!!!

BU-Bye Mittens!! (EPIC FAIL COMING AGAIN SOOOOON)

24 posted on 01/22/2012 9:55:44 PM PST by NoRedTape
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To: vbmoneyspender

And in spite of all that voters are still flocking to Gingrich... Romney should consider what that says about himself...


25 posted on 01/22/2012 9:57:12 PM PST by DB
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To: Parley Baer; vbmoneyspender; Jim Robinson

Whoa!

Is this a reaction to the Harvard businessman realizing that money invested in his own sorry self might be a job acreation lost?

Money down the drain?

ROTFLMYRomneyOFF


26 posted on 01/22/2012 9:58:29 PM PST by onyx (PLEASE SUPPORT FREE REPUBLIC - DONATE MONTHLY! If you want on Sarah Palin's Ping List, let me know!)
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To: svcw

meant Newt should take the high road in his reply


27 posted on 01/22/2012 9:58:56 PM PST by jeltz25
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To: vbmoneyspender

After this tirade, it isn’t like Newt has any reason not to eviscerate Romney in the debates. Santorum too.

The only gentlemen left might be Newt and Ron Paul.


28 posted on 01/22/2012 10:10:46 PM PST by DaxtonBrown (http://www.futurnamics.com/reid.php)
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To: vbmoneyspender

Look at who is losing the facade of coolness.


29 posted on 01/22/2012 10:12:21 PM PST by DNA.2012
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To: onyx

This kind of personal attack smacks of desperation,
something voters don’t care for in a candidate

Bye-bye Mytht.


30 posted on 01/22/2012 10:16:16 PM PST by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: svcw

[I do not think he can. Romney actually beleives this election is owed to him and he is pissed that voters do not see that.]

I kept warning people. This all ties into the Mormon god-planet perfection thing I’ve seen over and over here in Las Vegas. They are brittle when they figure out their planet might not drop into their laps after being so good. The repressed feelings break into the open. It will get even nastier, downright vindictive.

Everyone called me a bigot, but this is what I’ve seen many times over. Welcome to bizarro world.


31 posted on 01/22/2012 10:17:26 PM PST by DaxtonBrown (http://www.futurnamics.com/reid.php)
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To: vbmoneyspender

Romney is NUTS, if he thinks he can win this way!


32 posted on 01/22/2012 10:21:17 PM PST by A. Morgan (Ayn Rand: "You can avoid reality, but you cannot avoid the consequences of avoiding reality.")
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To: tet68

Right, and Romney will deliver the attacks stammering. Romney is a wimp. He much prefers to have others do his dirty work.

Santorum is also going after Newt Gingrich. He’s pathetic and has quickly lost all his good will.


33 posted on 01/22/2012 10:22:08 PM PST by onyx (PLEASE SUPPORT FREE REPUBLIC - DONATE MONTHLY! If you want on Sarah Palin's Ping List, let me know!)
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To: vbmoneyspender

So, how is this guy going to unify the GOP if he’s the nominee to go up against Mr. Obama? He seems very desperate, maybe towards being a snob. Personally, I think he’s almost done.


34 posted on 01/22/2012 10:23:05 PM PST by Christie at the beach
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To: A. Morgan

Romney won’t know how to handle the first round of boo’s.


35 posted on 01/22/2012 10:23:35 PM PST by onyx (PLEASE SUPPORT FREE REPUBLIC - DONATE MONTHLY! If you want on Sarah Palin's Ping List, let me know!)
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To: DaxtonBrown

We all warned them, they call us bigots and crazy. Hopefully now they are seeing we were right.


36 posted on 01/22/2012 10:24:11 PM PST by reaganaut (Ex-Mormon, Now Christian - "I wasn't brainwashed, just brain pre-soaked.")
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To: A. Morgan

Rush brags about living rent-free inside liberal heads - well its looking like Newt is putting the finishing touches on a Cayman Island sized estate inside Mitt’s head.


37 posted on 01/22/2012 10:26:09 PM PST by vbmoneyspender
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To: vbmoneyspender

Don’t you have that backward, Willard?


38 posted on 01/22/2012 10:26:12 PM PST by Salvation ("With God all things are possible." Matthew 19:26)
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To: onyx

ticking through a list as if he were reading off Gingrich’s Wikipedia page, and undercutting each item as he got to it.

Interesting transposition here on the part of the author,
I’m sure he meant underlining but he used undercutting
which means to cut the base out from under something,
so here’s Mitt undercutting his own argument by how
he’s attacking and it’s apparent to the subconscious
of the author.

Bad move Mytht.


39 posted on 01/22/2012 10:27:42 PM PST by tet68 ( " We would not die in that man's company, that fears his fellowship to die with us...." Henry V.)
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To: DaxtonBrown

Speaking truth is not bigotry, it is simply truth.


40 posted on 01/22/2012 10:29:02 PM PST by svcw (For the new year: you better toughen up, if you are going to continue to be stupid.)
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To: vbmoneyspender

Mitt, the enemy is Obama.

You know that, right?


41 posted on 01/22/2012 10:34:19 PM PST by chris37 (Heartless.)
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To: vbmoneyspender

He can’t attack a fellow Repub in those terms and hope to then win the support of Gingrich’s supporters when the dust settles.

Romney is a disaster.


42 posted on 01/22/2012 10:34:47 PM PST by marron
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To: vbmoneyspender

This tack will not help you Mitt

and I’m not sure FOX can pull it out for ya


43 posted on 01/22/2012 10:37:46 PM PST by wardaddy (I am a social conservative. My political party left me(again). They can go to hell in a bucket.)
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To: vbmoneyspender

This tack will not help you Mitt

and I’m not sure FOX can pull it out for ya

Newt looks much more like a leader now than does a man with a near unlimited warchest and the biggest news network in the world in his pocket who seems to always be running for president and losing


44 posted on 01/22/2012 10:39:14 PM PST by wardaddy (I am a social conservative. My political party left me(again). They can go to hell in a bucket.)
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To: wardaddy

45 posted on 01/22/2012 10:42:48 PM PST by vbmoneyspender
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To: wardaddy
and I’m not sure FOX can pull it out for ya

Not only can't FOX pull it out for Mitt, they're dragging themselves down with him.

46 posted on 01/22/2012 10:42:52 PM PST by The Cajun (Palin, Free Republic, Mark Levin, Rush, Hannity......Nuff said.)
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To: The Cajun

The ultimate insult would be if when Palin’s deal with them ends soon, she leaves and goes to CNN for their election coverage and CNN ends up beating FOX in the ratings.

Watching Palin and Carville chat it up for a couplehours on election night would be gold.


47 posted on 01/22/2012 10:48:16 PM PST by jeltz25
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To: vbmoneyspender

“Talk show host???” REALLY???? FUMR!!!!


48 posted on 01/22/2012 10:53:35 PM PST by sissyjane (I'm For NEWT!)
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To: RingerSIX

My God. Have we really sunk so low that our choices are Romney or Gingrich? This is just insane.


49 posted on 01/22/2012 11:01:52 PM PST by RIghtwardHo
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To: jeltz25

Newt should gently scold him in the debate and tell him his attacks make him look unpresidential.


50 posted on 01/22/2012 11:04:36 PM PST by JediJones (Newt-er Romney in 2012!)
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