With friends like these who needs enemies? From Rick Santorum to Newt Gingrich, Republicans of all shape and size have shared their opinion of Mitt Romney. The video below features some of their earlier statements, but we have detailed some more recent remarks here and here.
Take a stroll with me, as we watch and listen to these Republicans talk about the man they will now vote for as the next president of the United States.
The Republican nominating process this election cycle has been a godsend for the Democratic Party and the Obama re-election campaign is taking full advantage of that process.
With the recent withdrawal of Newt Gingrich’s presidential aspirations, the President’s campaign has put together this nifty little ad, using some of Newt’s own words to describe Mitt Romney.
Let’s go to the video-tape.
Shepard Smith of the Fox News Network had the apparently unpleasant job of reading Mitt Romney’s statement on the withdrawal of Newt Gingrich’s presidential candidacy. After reading a brief portion of the statement, Mr. Smith shared his own feelings on politics in general, calling it weird and creepy!”
Weird and creepy indeed, as Mitt Romney and his Super Pac have spent tens of millions of dollars all across the nation to further downgrade Newt Gingrich’s humanity… as if that was even possible.
Oh yes, we all forgot that Newt Gingrich is still running for the Republican nomination. Things are apparently so bad for the Newtsta, that he is now stirring things up with his old boss, the Fox News Network. Anything to get some publicity I guess, and it seems to be working.
Real Clear Politics reports the Gingrich uproar occurred “during a meeting with 18 Delaware Tea Party leaders on Wednesday.”
Said Gingrich: “I think Fox has been for Romney all the way through. In our experience, Callista and I both believe CNN is less biased than Fox this year. We are more likely to get neutral coverage out of CNN than we are of Fox, and we’re more likely to get distortion out of Fox. That’s just a fact.”
Gignrich was an employee himself of the news channel as recently as last year but was suspended as he geared up for a presidential bid.
TV Newser has a response from Fox News: “This is nothing other than Newt auditioning for a windfall of a gig at CNN — that’s the kind of man he is.”
Five Republicans have filed the necessary papers and $500 fee to qualify for the June 26 Utah presidential primary election, but with Rick Santorum dropping out of the race Tuesday, only four will be on the ballot.
Or possibly three.
Utah Elections Director Mark Thomas said a designated agent for the Gingrich campaign brought the filing papers and a check for $500 in March, but the state was notified by the bank that the check had bounced. He said the office has tried to contact the Gingrich campaign through the telephone number and email provided on the application, but has not received a response.
Recently, the state sent a certified letter to the campaign, stating that if the fee isn’t paid by April 20, Gingrich will be disqualified and will not be on the ballot.
Source: The Salt Lake Tribune
It’s all about image.
Rick Santorum has decided that Mitt Romney shouldn’t be the only one walking around with Secret Service protection. He wants tax payers to pay for his protection too. Newt Gingrich asked as well, but we’re not sure if he’s that important yet.
Rick Santorum will be getting Secret Service protection beginning Tuesday, a campaign aide said on Monday.
Santorum, the former Republican senator from Pennsylvania, heads into Tuesday’s contests in Michigan and Arizona as one of the race’s top candidates after winning in Colorado, Minnesota, and Missouri earlier this month.
Santorum would be the second candidate still in the race to get protection. Mitt Romney already has it.
A Newt Gingrich campaign aide who asked not to be named confirmed that the Gingrich campaign requested Secret Service protection last week as well. The campaign was awaiting word on whether the request would be granted. The aide was unable to give more details.
What happened to “small government?” Is this not a waste of tax payer’s money to pay multiple Secret Service agents to protect three candidates when only one would be nominated to run for President?
How is this not a waste?
The latest polls in Nevada have Mitt Romney leading and expected to win tonight’s Republican primary election by some 20 points. That is not good news for his rivals and an email to reporters from Newt Gingrich is raising speculations about the future of his campaign.
According to the National Journal, Gingrich will deliver a news conference tonight after the election results. Is he ready to concede the race and throw his support behind Romney, or is he going to continue his defiance against his party’s elite and march on to the next state?
Gingrich’s press conference is scheduled for 11PM in Las Vegas.
Did you know that if you’re a Democrat and you just happen to be black, then you customarily abort your babies? What? You didn’t know this? Well have no fear, we have Newt Gingrich and his supporters to educate us on the things black people do.
This bit of ‘Knowledge’ comes from Rick Tyler, the black people expert who just happens to be in charge of a SuperPAC supporting Newt Gingrich.
TYLER: More people are on food stamps today because of Barack Obama, they fail in the schools, you can ask Al Sharpton, the Democrats have failed in the public schools with the African-Americans, they abort their babies, they’ve done nothing to lift them out of poverty.
98 percent of African-Americans vote Democrat, okay? What have they gotten for it? Poor schools, poor neighborhoods, crime-ridden neighborhoods, a destruction of the family, and the Democrats want to abort their babies. That’s their position. I’m not going to defend that.
Now I was about to tear into this imbecile, but then I found this tid-bit; Rick Tyler is a worm of a human being who will someday see his ugly heart strangle him in the mirror. But looking beyond his disgusting words, what really marks him as the liar he is are his ‘statistics’, which had the word “LIE!” stamped across everything spilling from his smarmy little mouth.
That Donald Trump is about to make an announcement is not news, we all expected the self indulging publicity hound to endorse at some point. What’s news, is that he will endorse someone other than himself. Now that, that is news!
An advisor to Donald Trump says he will make a major announcement in Las Vegas tomorrow. Sources tell the 8 News NOW I-Team Trump will endorse Newt Gingrich.
According to Trump advisor Michael Cohen, “Donald J. Trump will be making a major announcement tomorrow at 12:30 p.m. at Trump International Hotel & Tower, Las Vegas, Nevada… The announcement will pertain to the Presidential race.”
At least it was quick and fairly painless. Not for Newt, but for the rest of us who need to move on to something important like Friday’s jobs numbers or the Super Bowl.
How’d I do? Again, not bad. My prediction is first, then the actual.
Romney 43% 46%
Gingrich 31% 32%
Santorum 14% 13%
Paul 11% 7%
I thought Paul would do better, but at this point we’re beyond the possible phase of the race and have entered the Nomination Zone. Boutique candidates need not apply
The other issue is this continued talk of the motivated Republican voter. Florida GOP officials had said that they were looking for north of 2 million primary voters, and it looks as though they fell a bit short. So much for the enthusiasm gap. Democrats are becoming more energized and could match Republican participation in the fall.
Newt says he’s staying in the race. We’ll see.
Will conservatives flock to Santorum as the conservative du jour? I’m thinking not. Mitt is in a commanding position and will be the nominee. The rest of the campaign will measure how much he’s been damaged by the infighting and how much that will affect his chances against Obama.
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Todd Palin already came out in support of the Newtsta. Sarah Palin on the other hand, is doing what Sarah Palin does best – prolonging the inevitable and milking the spotlight.
After asking voters in South Carolina to vote for Newt to continue the vetting process, palin occupied the television tubes again over the weekend with a similar message, telling Floridians to “rage against the machine” and vote for Newt.
“When both party machines and many in the media are trying to crucify Newt Gingrich for bucking the tide and bucking the establishment that tells you something.”
But Palin’s bickerings may already be too late. Recent polls out today has Romney with a16 point lead over Gingrich, 44% to 28%, with Rick Santorum at 12% and Ron Paul at 10%. Voting in Florida is set for Tuesday.
Sunday on Fox News, Newt Gingrich became an honesty agent, criticizing flip-flopper Mitt Romney, calling him a liar and asking for honesty. Gingrich actually said this about Romney;
“You cannot be president of the United States if you cannot be honest and candid with the American people. That is a very serious problem.”
“He came into the debate prepared to say things that are false. I think someone who is running for the president has a unique requirement to be honest because the only way you lead the American people is by having them believe in you.”
But if honesty is a qualifier for being President of the United States, and it should, does this mean that by his own standards, Gingrich just disqualified himself?
I asked this question on Facebook, here are some of the replies:
