Gingrich to Romney: Drop the "pious baloney"

By: Lucy Madison
Sunday Morning
January 8, 2012 9:46 AM

Sunday morning a Republican debate was held and right off the bat Gingrich came swinging at Romney. The reason Gingrich says for attacking Romney is "pious baloney" regarding his motives for running for office and his political history. Gingrich attacked Romney the whole debate from his previous running of senator and his dropping out. Also, going as far to say that Romney should not win GOP because he and Obama have too many similar views. Gingrich believes that if someone is to win against Obama they need to be completely different. In his exact words "The fact is, President Obama is going to have a very hard re-election effort. But I do think the bigger the contrast, the bolder ideas, the clearer the choice, the harder it is for that billion-dollar campaign to smear his way back into office," Gingrich said. "I think he will have a very hard time getting re- elected -- getting elected."
romney:"citizenship has always been on my mind" and that he's not running for president to "pay a mortgage" but out of civic duty. Gingrich also says that Romney is only running not because he cares about the people of America but because he is looking to further is career nd looking for a way to pay his mortgage. In response to Gingrich, Romney states  "I happened to see my dad run for governor when he was 54-years-old. He had good advice to me. He said, Mitt, never get involved in politics if you have to win an election to pay a mortgage. If you find yourself in a position where you can serve, well you ought to have a responsibility to do so, if you think you can make a difference." During the debate when Gingrich was not going off, Santorum was trying to put his two cents in. Santorum believes that Romney is not a good front runner for the GOP because he never finishes anything he starts. Santorum says that he is the best candidate to run for "the conservative principles". Santorum says the only thing Romney is good at , is to "bail out" and "run to the left of Ted Kennedy". Lets see how Romney can spin all the negative press he is getting before the New Hampshire caucus.

Santorum, Romney challenged on gay rights in debate

Face the NationBy:Stephanie Condon
MANCHESTER, N.H.

January 8, 2012 12:06 PM

 

The two front runners of the Iowa Caucus were questioned on their views of Gay rights. Romney says "I think the gay community needs more support from the Republican party,"and "But if people are looking for someone who will discriminate against gays... or say they don't have full rights in this country, they won't find that from me," he said. . Romeny goes further to state that he has also hired people of various sexual orientation because what they do in thier spare time does not matter as long as it does not interfer with his work. Only thing Romeny does not think is okay is that same-sex marriage is not okay ever. Santorum was asked if he supported gay rights he said "All Americans should he treated equally and have equal opportunity. Romney and Santorum both are bascially supporting gay rights in one way or another. In my opinion I would have thought that neither of the republican front runners would have supported gay rights. One side of me believes that they are only being "okay" with gay people because they want all the votes they can get. But on the other hand they might lose some of the republican conservatives who got them to the place they are now. So at the New Hampshire caucus we will see if them saying this will hurt or help them.

 

Gingrich Steps Up Attacks in N.H.

The Wall Street JournalThe Washington Wire
By Douglas Belkin
January 5, 2012 2:55 pm

Newt Gingrich thought he should add a twist to his campaign speech this morning by attacking President Obama! Gingrich throws a jab at the president because he said Obama is not abiding by the constitution. Gingrich says that Obama is making decisions and not even consulting the senators. Obama met with National Labor Relations Board and the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau which was wrong in Gingrich's eyes without consulting another party. Gingrich even went further to say that “If the president can walk across the U.S. Constitution and ignore the Senate, you have an imperial presidency,” and that He is paying off his union allies. This has nothing to do with good government and everything to do with re-election.” I believe Gingrich no he has no chance of winning this election so he is trying to throw dirt on everyone else's campaign since he is unhappy. This also does not make him look like a good candidate because a week or so earlier in the race when his name was being thrown in the dirty that was something that he said he was above. Also, during this speech Gingrich said he needs to be the Republican candidate to go against Obama because he is the only one who can beat the president in a debate. Gingrich also is taking his turn to throw dirt on Romney's name. Gingrich is not in the position to come at Romney when he did not even place before third place. Gingrich says romney is a " Massachusetts moderate who regularly caved in to liberal interests". Also, you can tell Gingrich is a flip flopper. When Santorum came in second Gingrich gave him praise, but Thursday he said Santorum is beneath him as far as experience. Gingrich went from the front runner to being desperate.

Romney, Santorum on top as GOP race shifts to New Hampshire

By the CNN Wire Staff (John King)

updated 7:50 PM EST

Wed January 4, 2012

 

This article talked about the overall results in the Iowa caucus last night. Romney took the win last night with 8 votes over Santorum. Ron Paul ended up coming in thrid place while Gingrich trailed behind at fourth place. Then last but not least Bachmann snails behind in fifth place. As a result of this caucus, a great deal has changed for the GOP. Bachmann announced that she will not venture on to New Hampshire because she was counting on the votes from Iowa. she believes that her hometown has spoken and she will listen and not continue on and embarrass herself any further. Also, Romney gained the support of his old rival McCain. McCain believes that Romney is the right leader America need to but us back in history a noble force. Perry also announced via twitter that he would stay in the race and continue to New Hampshire and South Carolina. Santorum also shares with CNN that be is a little behind the ball compared to Romney. He believes this because Romney has spent a great deal of money and time in New Hampshire, but he is reaady for the challenge. Last but not least Gingrich is on a rampage for Romney, saying that he spent a great deal of money for negative ads against him, so from now on Gingrich is on a war path. But until next time for our New Hampshire caucus.

 

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How Rick Santorum’s Old-School Politicking Is Paying Off in Iowa

By: Alex Altman
Time Magazine
December 30, 2011
Des Moines, Iowa

Rick Santorum may have been quiet and not heard from in a lot in these debates, but that is because he has been doing what will get him atleast second place. Rick may not have the highest paid people backing his campaign but sometimes money is everything. Rick has been putting in a great deal of time in Iowa. Rick went down there when no other candidate was present and he just talked to the people of Iowa. Guess what? Rick has went up 11% since he has been spending a little extra time there. They say he is right on the tails of Ron Paul and Mitt Romney. Some even say that he took Ron Paul's number two spot and that his percentage will slowly but surely increase. People are comparing Rick's increase in supporters similar to Huckabee's. Only difference is, is that most Iowa does not believe that Rick has teh power and support yet to win in the caucus overall but he most likely will come in second place. What has also helped Rick is the supporters he has recieved lately, they have helped him run more ads being as though it is closer to caucus time. They say he got these supporters recently because of his faith and commitment to the caucus. But as of today this is what people have to say

“If I had to predict today, I’d say Romney’s probably going to win, and there’s a race between Santorum and Paul for second,” Vander Plaats says. “But who knows. He could even pull this thing out.”

Read more: http://swampland.time.com/2011/12/30/how-rick-santorums-old-school-politicking-is-paying-off-in-iowa/#ixzz1i5kow5jI

Gingrich, Perry, Bachmann and Santorum Go Extreme on Abortion

Gingrich, Perry, Bachmann and Santorum Go Extreme on Abortion
Dec 28, 2011 4:45 AM
Daily Beast
Michelle Goldberg
Personhood USA, held a "tele-town hall" hosted by a Iowa radio program and the big topic they talked about was ABORTION. This past November the Personhood USA tried to pass a ballot to define a human fertile egg as a person. This event supported the banning of abortion everywhere even during crazy circumstances. These crazy circumstances being rape, incest and detrimental to the mothers health. Rick Perry on this program stated that he agreed with their being no exceptions to abortions but earlier in other programs he said that he did agree with some exceptions. He obviously had a change of heart. This is why he says he changed  “And over the course of the last few weeks, the Christmas holidays and reflecting on that…all I can say is that God was working on my heart.” Bachmann also proved that she is very dishonest. She went on record to say that Obama is putting birth control and contraception on the market for girls as young as 8. This is conpletely false, Obama just denied the FDA to sell emergency contraception over the counter. They obviously have strong opinions on abortion , I wonder how our lives will change if one of these candidates become president.

Gingrich assails Romney for 'smear campaign'

Associated PressBy Shannon McCaffrey
Dec 20, 6:42 PM

Newt Gingrich is no longer so peaceful and calm. He is coming for Mitt Romney saying he is running a smeared campaign. Gingrich comes at Romney saying that he is contradicting himself claiming to be above this smear. But all the while Gingrich says "Understand, these are his people running his ads, doing his dirty work while he pretends to be above it,". At a machinery plant in Ottumwa, Iowa Gingrich said "I don't object to being outspent. I object to lies. I object to negative smear campaigns.". Although Gingrich is very upset but he said he will not break his promise to run a campaign that the people can be proud of.
 He says he will remain relentlessly positive and remain his composure. He might say he is going to be the more mature candidate and take the higher road but that has not stopped him from talking. "I think these guys hire consultants who get drunk, sit around and write stupid ads," Gingrich replied. "Every one of these candidates should take responsibility for the lies they are putting up". .Romney has no plan to halt the attacks and slaundering of Gingrichs name, he said he has every right to run his campaign just like he is now.







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