On Jan 31, 9:54 am, Keith In Tampa <keithinta...@gmail.com> wrote:
> *"From morning until the last of five events at the end of the day,
> Gingrich branded Romney a liar and cheat, accusing him of suppressing
> religious liberty and trying to "buy the election."*
>
> ========
>
> Romney is a liar, and no question, the Romney campaign has tried to buy
> Florida as well as every other primary. As I wrote earlier, it is going
> to be hard for the Republicans to "Forgive And Forget" at the end of this
> cycle......
>
> http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a9IJUkYUbvI&feature=youtu.be
>
>
>
> On Tue, Jan 31, 2012 at 9:45 AM, Tommy News <tommysn...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > Newt Gingrich, On Eve Of Likely Florida Loss, Unleashes Wild Attacks
> > On Mitt Romney
>
> > TAMPA, Fla. -- Meet Newt Gingrich, the human Roman Candle.
>
> > Gingrich and Mitt Romney on Monday staggered to the end of a brutal
> > week of campaigning in Florida, one in which they took increasingly
> > nasty and personal shots at one another. But the day marked a new
> > level of angry and relentless attacks on Romney by Gingrich, the
> > former House speaker from Georgia.
>
> > From morning until the last of five events at the end of the day,
> > Gingrich branded Romney a liar and cheat, accusing him of suppressing
> > religious liberty and trying to "buy the election."
>
> > The strain of the nastiness showed on both men. Romney's voice was
> > hoarse as he spoke at his last of three events, in front of a few
> > thousand people at The Villages, a massive retirement community 90
> > minutes northeast of Tampa. But in a sign of growing confidence and
> > looseness as a candidate, Romney led the crowd in singing "America the
> > Beautiful," a tune he has mentioned on the campaign trail all month
> > without breaking into song.
>
> > Romney didn't mention Gingrich by name at his last event, after
> > mocking and dismissing him earlier in the day.
>
> > Gingrich, on the other hand, launched himself into the Romney
> > juggernaut with a level of fury and desperation certain to produce
> > uneasiness in the GOP for its poisonous tone. Gingrich has vowed to
> > carry his candidacy all the way to the GOP convention, but his actions
> > Monday bore a wildness that could call his campaign's longevity into
> > doubt.
>
> > Gingrich continued to harp on a charge that Romney, during his time as
> > Massachusetts governor, vetoed funds to expand the provision of kosher
> > food for Bay State retirees. Gingrich said Romney has a "lack of
> > concern for religious liberty."
>
> > "Romney cut off kosher food to elderly Jews on Medicare," Gingrich
> > said, stretching the truth. And Gingrich also hit Romney for a 2005
> > decision as governor to require Roman Catholic hospitals to provide
> > emergency contraception, which many Catholics believe is a form of
> > abortion, to rape victims.
>
> > "You want a war on the Catholic church by Obama? Guess what: Romney
> > refused to allow Catholic hospitals to have conscience in their
> > dealing with certain circumstances," Gingrich said.
>
> > Having called Romney "pro-abortion, pro-gun control, pro-tax increase"
> > on Sunday, Gingrich added the title "pro-gay rights" on Monday, in an
> > acidic interview with Fox News. He rewound his last few days of
> > attacks, combining all of his insults and all his vitriol into a
> > string of remarkable assaults on Romney.
>
> > "The conservative movement is not going to sit back and say, 'Oh yes,
> > let's let Wall Street and Mitt Romney buy the election,'" Gingrich
> > said. "So you're going to see a real grassroots fight. It will be
> > people power vs. Goldman Sachs and Mitt Romney."
>
> > Gingrich's campaign began the day by sending out a press release
> > noting that Romney has received $367,000 in campaign contributions
> > from Goldman Sachs, the New York investment bank.
>
> > "Goldman Sachs received $10 billion in emergency loans and bailouts
> > from the Federal Reserve during the Wall Street bailout," wrote
> > Gingrich's communications director Joe DeSantis. "This raises the
> > question: Are Mitt Romney's dishonest attack ads against Speaker
> > Gingrich being indirectly funded by the US taxpayer while Governor
> > Romney uses shady accounting gimmicks to avoid paying his fair share
> > of taxes?"
>
> > Gingrich went after discrepancies on Romney's tax returns as well.
>
> > "How can a guy who's a great manager not file 23 foreign holdings last
> > year when he filed?" Gingrich asked reporters in an unannounced press
> > scrum. "There are a lot of pieces of Mitt Romney that don't hold up
> > once you start looking at them honestly."
>
> > From a stage a few minutes later, Gingrich raged against the Romney
> > campaign's systematic dismantling of his momentum in the week since
> > his win in South Carolina 10 days ago.
>
> > "The New York Times has now reported that the Sunday after South
> > Carolina, the Romney team got together and said, 'Look, we need to
> > destroy Gingrich or we can't win.' So they've now spent $17.5 million
> > on falsehoods," Gingrich said, overstating by $2 million the amount
> > that Romney's campaign and a super PAC supporting him have spent.
> > Nonetheless, Gingrich and his allies have been outspent 4 to 1.
>
> > A spokesman for a super PAC supporting Gingrich, Winning Our Future,
> > amplified Gingrich's attacks with vicious jabs at Romney.
>
> > "Romney has proved to be a disgraceful and despicable candidate. He
> > has no character," Rick Tyler, a former Gingrich aide, said of Romney.
>
> > Romney, who has criticized Gingrich this week directly, did not engage
> > him head-on, dismissing Gingrich as desperate.
>
> > "I know the speaker's not real happy, Speaker Gingrich," Romney told a
> > crowd of hundreds at a park in Dunedin. "He's not feeling very excited
> > these days. I know, it's sad, right? He's flailing around trying to go
> > after me for one thing or the other and you just watch it and you
> > shake your head."
>
> > Gingrich tried to fight off the impression he was headed for a drubbing
> > Tuesday.
>
> > "The polls are all over the place. We just got word of a brand new
> > poll that came out about an hour ago that says we're now tied 35-35,"
> > Gingrich told a crowd of about 200 in a Tampa air hangar.
>
> > The crowd went nuts. The problem was, the poll was nearly a week old,
> > not an hour. It was conducted last Monday to Wednesday, and released
> > on Friday. Every other poll during the last week has shown Romney far
> > ahead of Gingrich, many by double-digits.
>
> > Gingrich has vowed to stay in the race all the way to August, and to
> > take his fight against Romney to the Republican convention, in Tampa
> > from Aug. 27 to Aug. 30.
>
> > More:
>
> >http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/31/newt-gingrich-mitt-romney-fl...
>
> > --
> > Together, we can change the world, one mind at a time.
> > Have a great day,
> > Tommy
>
> > --
> > Together, we can change the world, one mind at a time.
> > Have a great day,
> > Tommy
>
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