Who did Newt support last year in the Delaware Senate race?
I seem to remember him being a Castle supporter and Romney being a supporter of the Tea Party candidate Christine O’Donnell.
Now is seems that the tides have completely shifted the other direction.
O’Donnell endorsed Romzero this morning and hammered Newt.
(Per USA TODAY)
No, Romney is the same POS as he always has been - buying off conservatives for favors/support. EVIL knows no bounds and evil doesn't change. Evil is what it is. Surely, you know this n00b.
I seem to remember him being a Castle supporter and Romney being a supporter of the Tea Party candidate Christine O’Donnell.
Now is seems that the tides have completely shifted the other direction.
Yep. Newt predicted that Mike Castle would win the Republican nomination in Delaware. Christine McDonnell won and Gingrich then supported her.
Mitt Romney donated $5000.00 to Christine McDonnell's campaign in 2010. Here is a list of who else benefited from Romney's donations. (This information came from National Review Online from an article titled I Suppose All Tall Massachusetts Men Look Alike
In 2010, Romney’s Free and Strong America PAC donated $5,000 each to the campaigns of Christine O’Donnell, Sharron Angle, Pat Toomey, Rand Paul, Mike Lee, Ron Johnson, and Jim DeMint. The PAC donated $5,125 to Marco Rubio.On the House side, his PAC donated $5,000 to Sean Bielat in his bid to unseat Barney Frank in Massachusetts. Then $2,500 to Allen West of Florida, Sean Duffy of Wisconsin, Cory Gardner of Colorado, Tim Griffin of Arkansas, Doug Hoffman of New York, Daniel Webster’s bid to unseat Alan Grayson in Florida, Tim Scott in South Carolina, Bobby Schilling in Illinois, and dozens of other Tea Party favorites. The full list is here.
In the 2010 cycle, Romney’s PAC donated $639,304 to House Republican candidates and $159,995 to Senate Republican candidates. So far this cycle, it has donated $253,000 to House Republican candidates and $91,500 to Senate Republican candidates. In 2010, Romney’s PAC donated the maximum to 25 GOP candidates, and so far this cycle it donated the maximum to 120 candidates. The PAC donated the maximum to Michele Bachmann in the 2008 cycle and another $2,500 to her last cycle. He donated to Rick Perry’s reelection bid, too.
In governor’s races, Romney-affiliated PACs donated “$62,000 to then-gubernatorial candidate Nikki Haley in South Carolina and $30,000 to then-gubernatorial candidate Terry Branstad in Iowa.” Was that an obvious effort to build up goodwill in early primary states? Sure. But I’m sure Haley and Branstad appreciated the cash infusion in their competitive races all the same. So was the $6,800 to Chris Christie’s bid.