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Pro-Newt Group Releases Trailer for Anti-Romney Movie: ‘When Mitt Romney Came to Town’

 

After a disappointing fourth-place finish in Iowa, many speculated Newt Gingrich would take off the gloves and strike back at campaign front-runner Mitt Romney for anti-Newt ads sponsored by those who support Romney. And while Gingrich did come out swinging, now those who support the former Speaker are taking the gloves off in an ad, and movie, of their own.

Supplied by a $5 million donation from Las Vegas casino magnate Sheldon Adelson, a super PAC supporting Gingrich has released a three minute trailer to its 27-minute movie depicting that “When Mitt Romney Came to Town,” as CEO of the venture capital firm Bain Capital, he “destroyed” the American dream for “thousands of Americans and their families.”

As described in the trailer, the movie will show four businesses that were just some “of Romney’s many targets.”

“Think you know Mitt? Think again,”  the trailer asks.

“Their greed was only matched by their willingness to make millions in profits. Nothing spared, nothing mattered but greed,” the trailer says. “Mitt Romney became CEO the day Bain Capital was formed. His mission? To reap massive rewards for himself and his investors.”

ABC News notes that Gingrich was critical of the super PAC supporting Romney that put out numerous negative ads about him in Iowa, and when asked about the film over the weekend the former speaker of the House said he has not seen it.

While the ad may be effective in tarring Romney, some have criticized Gingrich for shifting the conversation in a way that will ultimately do more good for the Obama campaign.

In a column titled “‘Cry Baby’ Gingrich might take GOP down with him,” Joe Battenfeld of The Boston Herald writes:

“Gingrich, despite sinking in the polls, is going nuclear on the former Massachusetts governor on the eve of the New Hampshire primary, and now it looks personal. Gingrich, dubbed ‘Crybaby’ by the media for his ego-driven antics as House speaker in 1995, is now performing in ‘Crybaby, the Sequel.’

It’s fitting that Gingrich yesterday continued to attack Romney in a Manchester restaurant next door to the Obama campaign headquarters, because right now he’s the president’s best friend. His strategy of taking down Romney is right out of the Ted Kennedy and DNC playbook — casting Romney as a corporate villain who ‘looted’ companies and laid off workers.”

With the Bain blood already in the water thanks to Gingrich, the DNC has moved in launching their first video attacking Romney’s alleged job creating past:

Sensing growing suspicions, Romney has tried to explain his venture capital past to New Hampshire voters. POLITICO reports that at a recent event in Rochester, Romney described his story of building businesses from the ground floor up:

“Taking a professorial tone, Romney told the crowd of his early days creating Staples, the big-box office-supply retailer.

‘We opened the very first store. I was there the night we opened the first store. We helped stock the shelves,’ he said. ‘Our office? We were in the back of an old empty shopping mall.’

‘And our chairs were naugahyde chairs with an old table that we used as the board table,’ he added. ‘People were, because it was the private sector we were pulling ourselves up, in some respect, by our bootstraps.’”

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“’I’ve learned what its like to sign the front of the paycheck, not just the back of the paycheck and to know how frightening it is to see whether you can make payroll at the end of the week,’ he said.

‘These are experiences that many of you, that many of you, know. I know what it’s like to worry whether you’re going to get fired. There were a couple of times I wondered whether I was going to get a pink slip.’”

POLITICO reports that Romney has also sought to deflect attention from his questionable CEO past by contrasting it with the administration’s failed investments in such things as the failed energy company Solyndra.

Only time will tell if the growing attacks on Romney’s Bain past, from both sides, will work in swaying independents or Republicans looking to unify in defeating President Obama away from the front runner. One the thing now though is clear, the “positive” campaign of Gingrich and the super PAC supporting him has ended.

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  • familyofsix
    Posted on January 9, 2012 at 3:17pm

    Newt, you angry old washed up Hobbit. Your goose is cooked, your arse is roasted. Time to get out of that hot kitchen before you get burned any further and let real leadership get to work. Romney will be a superb President.

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    • ElPzee
      Posted on January 9, 2012 at 3:31pm

      So you actually support Obama 2012. ROMNEY CAN’T WIN. I PROMISE YOU, ROMNEY WILL LOSE TO OBAMA IF HE WINS THIS PRIMARY. We moved to the middle for McCain in 2008, WE CAN’T MOVE TO THE MIDDLE AGAIN, if we wan’t to dethrone Obama

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    • slr4528
      Posted on January 9, 2012 at 4:40pm

      Elpzee

      ……..and you think the corrupt Gingrich PIG can beat Obama?????? You suffer from the same delusions of grandeur as Newt Gingrich.

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    • Hobbs57
      Posted on January 9, 2012 at 10:21pm

      ELPZZ – I been following Romney and vetting him since last election. He has never said this, where are you getting it, back up your claim.I have never once heard Romney say this or I wouldn’t be backing him. Appearantly is is you who needs to think for yoursself pal. I do all my own research and did quite deep, Mr and you just aren’t on the same page, This group that is backing Next is one of the most powerful groups who have been pushing policy for a very long time. These are the international folks, pushes their way around any way they can buy. You want to know about these guys, here is a link. Thanks for the info also RomneyRubio. I am in the same boat as you, I would love that connection, but I think it will be Christy, unless Rubio changes his mind. Either way, sure win. Here’s a link for you EZZZ or whatever the intiials are.. I know it comes from the eneemy, but you can verify the information from there. These people are the ones who make progressives progressives.
      http://thinkprogress.org/green/2008/07/29/174099/newt-aswf-billionaires/?mobile=nc

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    • familyofsix
      Posted on January 9, 2012 at 11:51pm

      This is an excellent 2 min summary of Mitt Romney by Jack Welsh, former CEO of GM. Speaks volumes about why America really needs Romney at the helm. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Du96lOkKblU&feature=player_embedded

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    • marion
      Posted on January 10, 2012 at 1:01am

      UMMMMM, think about it for a couple simple seconds.

      How many times has Romney run for an office? 4? 5? 6 times?

      Last time, wasn’t he beaten by the guy that lost to Obama?

      Didn’t the guy that came in second in the last presidential race just endorse the guy that he beat?

      Doesn’t that make Romney number 3?, not number 1?

      Sorry, Romney answers questions like he has to go to the bathroom realllllly bad.

      Newt has baggage, and we know all of it, full disclosure, and he can explain each and every decision that may be considered bad, but what was the compromise to get more than we knew about, each and every time, without fail. Newt knows what’s going on and has proven he can accopmlish what this country needs, not because he could buy up businesses and flip them, statistically with a 30 percent bankruptcy selling rate, but he never lost a penny.

      Newt isnt’ afraid to say it how it is, and can explain why it is bad, how to fix it, and how the end result will look like because he has already done it. Don’t fall into the Saul Alynski gimmicks, they want Mitt because they know he is so timid they can banter him to a win, walk all over him. Look, he is the same mold as McCain. Think about it.

      I want a Newt bulldog, not a Mitt poodle.

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    • jpndhouse
      Posted on January 10, 2012 at 2:34am

      @Elpzee:

      Most recent CBS poll shows that Romney is the only one who can be Obama…

      http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-57355518-503544/poll-among-gop-hopefuls-romney-fares-best-against-obama/

      I was going with Gingrich, now I am 100% with Romney. Gingrich is a loser tool hacking at the free market to take down Romney. How would he justify that if he was then going against Obama…what a hack. Later Newt!

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    • kifeb221993
      Posted on January 10, 2012 at 9:27am

      this video sounds like its from the left. using the dems view points!
      this guy no better then obama and the nasty left! hopefuly people see this as a reason not to vote newt. this realy show Romney as guy who will do the hard thing not just give out free money even if it means firing some people.
      GO ROMNEY 2012

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    • Romney-Rubio 2012
      Posted on January 10, 2012 at 3:58pm

      MARION

      For all those that attack Romney for losing in an election before finally winning, especially losing against those who have lost in the past, need to stop and take a second look. Reagan himself ran 3 times for the presidency, finally to win. He ran in a liberal state as a Republican, even passed a abortion bill. He wised up and made a change that made all of us love him. Romney has done this as well. Though Romney is no Reagan, he has a very similar path as Reagan did. Those that have written books on Reagan, such as the one that wrote ‘Reagan Diaries’ has said they are so much in common, especially their paths to the Presidency.

      Romney while in office ran his office as a conservative, from working with the NRA and GOAL on pro-gun laws to Citizens for Limited Taxation (they drafted him to the Presidency) to lower taxes 19 times, to working with evangelicals and catholic leaders on abortion and preserving traditional marriage. Grover Norquist gave him endorsements over his tax policy and gun rights policies. He was endorsed this run by the Vatican Envoy, though he is not a Catholic.

      ROMNEY IS A CONSERVATIVE AND IT SHOWS ( http://www.TeaPartyForRomney.com )

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  • ElPzee
    Posted on January 9, 2012 at 3:15pm

    Get em gingrich!!!!!!!!!!!!

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    • Romney-Rubio 2012
      Posted on January 9, 2012 at 3:43pm

      Gingrich is a Big Government Progressive, haven’t you been listening to Glenn Beck. he still supports Global Warming and had it taken out of his book due to pressure to his campaign ( http://url2it.com/leqp ), he changed his mind… flip flopped, on the individual mandate, admitted his support in May 2011 during the Meet the Press interview that originally sunk his campaign.

      Gingrich would hurt the party and America, not as much as Obama but more than any other candidate.

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    • Romney-Rubio 2012
      Posted on January 9, 2012 at 3:49pm

      Remember that Romney is the only one above Obama in the polls, Romney is tied with him right now and Gingrich is -10 behind Obama. How can he be the one to run against Obama.

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    • ElPzee
      Posted on January 9, 2012 at 3:52pm

      THINK FOR YOURSELF.

      Glenn has refused to talk about Bachman and Romney.

      WATCH THE DEBATES.

      ROMNEY:“THE STIMULUS WOULD HAVE WORKED IF DONE CORRECTLY” So republicans can pick winners and losers but Dems can’t.

      Romney is twice as progressive a newt and 10times more big government.

      AGAIN THINK FOR YOURSELF.

      The tendency for Americans to blindly receive political opinions from pundits is what has destroyed this country!!! How do you think Obama won??

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    • ElPzee
      Posted on January 9, 2012 at 3:53pm

      ROMNEY WON’T WIN. POLLS MEAN NOTHING. mark my words. OBAMA WOULD DESTROY OBAMA.

      Another example of blindly following Fox’s LIE “Romney is most electable”

      THINK FOR YOURSELF.

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    • Hobbs57
      Posted on January 9, 2012 at 4:24pm

      EPLEEZ, Get your facts straight before your biased blinds you so bad you step out in fron of a moving car or something. The only thing that the media and our own right wing hacks got wrong about Romeny being for was the Auto Bailout. I watched the news during the days of the bail out and heard Romneys intial statement on an interview with y own ears. He was against it. He said they should follow a path of bankruptcy so that they could reorganize the unions workers. Ultimately, Obama administration took somewhatof this path, I would say, thanks to Romney. They were planning on just plain giving the money to GM and bailing them out, no strings attatched.
      Regardless, any of you on here who on board with this Gingrich attach on the Free Market, should be ashamed to call yourselves conservative and might as well go join your buddies down at Occupy Wall Street. You appearantly believe in socialism where the government getsinvolved and tries to make it so nobody loses while everybody ultimately ends up losing. Of course, this is the kind of guy Gingrich is. He only didn’t want to have the personal attacks because heknows what a *****, creep, and crybaby he has always been. THe last thing the conservative need right now is aMovie playing the dramtization of wall street so evey bloody sissy in the states could dry me a river about the poor soul who ended up on unemployment for 20 weeks. Yes, bussiness is tough stuff, why do you think we are in the place we are right now?

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    • SpankDaMonkey
      Posted on January 9, 2012 at 5:01pm

      .
      ‘When Mitt Romney Came to Town’
      He was doing 60
      When the Chain on his motorcycle broke
      He landed in the grass
      With the muffler up his ***
      And his **** was playing Dixie on the spokes…….

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    • Hobbs57
      Posted on January 9, 2012 at 5:02pm

      Better yet, How about you people google SHeldon Anderson. You want to see a bussiness crook and political insider. I am telling you people, Romney isn’t a political insider, it is against his in bread nature. This is why he lost last election and can’t get above 25% this election. There is a ton of money out there influencing this oposition to ROmeny, it is those who Romney wouldn’t make no promisesto if he became President. Sheldon ANderson, the head of this Super Pach for Nest and producer of this movie was part of scandals with Tom Delay. He renigged on bussiness deals and was is known through out the world as a man who wishes to buy political favors throughthe raw power of money. So why would he be against Romeny if he is an establishment person as so many of you have bought into ? Why would this guy back Newt ? The UK daily mailwas sued for revealing who this character is, he is much more evil than he even painted Romney to be. JUst chech out his wikipedia to start with. There is much more if you want to look further. Newt is and always will be a man of power and greed. He has built nothing. Do you hear the occupiers now, Mitt killsjobs. Where did they get that from ? This Sheldon Anderson is notorious as influencing politics and buying political favors and the very reason we are labeled the way we areon the Right, like how the Koch borthers are labeled. This man is who got us the Chinese Olympics and recieved the Woodrow Wilson Award. Go figure.

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    • Romney-Rubio 2012
      Posted on January 9, 2012 at 5:23pm

      ELPZEE,

      You should think for yourself. Gingrich is the worst flip-flopper in the race. He was for the individual mandate before he was against it, but nothing is worse than when you change you thoughts in the middle of the Presidential run. There is no questions.

      Everything he says about Romney as a negative is put on him 2-3 times worse. How could you ever think Gingrich was a true conservative. You say mark your words, but you can’t even get Gingrich right. You are telling us not to look at the polls because your guy isn’t winning, when your guy was winning you were probably singing a different tune. The polls are the best indicators and Gingrich has way too much baggage.

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    • Romney-Rubio 2012
      Posted on January 9, 2012 at 5:25pm

      After hundreds of hours vetting all of our candidates, I am thinking for myself and with all the enthusiasm I can muster, I will vote Romney come super Tuesday. When will you vet your candidate?

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    • Romney-Rubio 2012
      Posted on January 9, 2012 at 5:47pm

      Hobbs57,

      I looked up the billionaire that is funding the film with his $5 million possibly $15 million. Did you go back far enough. He isn’t just some corrupt casino owner who is under federal investigation. He is also on a vendetta against Romney. If you go back to Dec 2002, he was found bribing officials in Massachusetts trying to build a $1.5 billion casino complex. He created his own economic forecast report saying that it would boost the economy. Romney had a state run check on that report and did their own report and found out that the numbers were fudged.

      If this is who Gingrich gets his money from, and if he knows about it, Gingrich should call for the PAC to give back all his $5 million and denounce him as a crony capitalist that Gingrich can’t accept.

      Until then, think for yourself and it will probably steer you away from Newt.

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    • ElPzee
      Posted on January 9, 2012 at 5:47pm

      @HOBBS Romney said in Saturday’s debate and in at least two others he said, “ the stimulus package would have worked if done correctly”. THAT’S A FACT, a reality, a truth. By the way your ramped up antics reek of a media dupe. THINK FOR YOURSELF. Watch all the debates(they are all online) and DRAW YOUR OWN CONCLUSIONS. Don’t blindly hop on the Romney bandwagon like fox news. Don’t believe the fox LIE that “Romney is the most electable”. THINK FOR YOURSELF.
      We need to be focused on Getting Obama out of the white house, and only Newt has a remote chance. \What would happen if Romney debated Obama? It would take one public debate for Obama to clinch re-election against Romney. And unfortunately speaking ability and the perception of intelligence are the most important qualities needed to win an election(proven by obama winning in 2008). With that said Gingrich is the only Candidate that would put Obama in his place in a debate.
      Romney is truly the BIG GOVERNMENT PROGRESSIVE REPUBLICAN. He believes in government stimulus(which is a fact), and ROMNEY CARE was the BASIS for OBAMA CARE!! Not to mention Romney has a history of losing. To Ted Kennedy and to john Mccain(2008′s Big government excuse for a republican).
      Romney has a history of losing, his record is horrible, and his LACK OF SPEAKING ABILITY ALONG WITH HIS PERCEPTION OF UNINTELLIGENCE has lead to a career of losing and makes him UNELECTABLE to the Presidency.
      If Romney wins primary, Ob

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    • ElPzee
      Posted on January 9, 2012 at 5:50pm

      If Romney wins this primary Obama wins re-election.

      He is an extremely weak candidate, his history of losing proves that, and he would be beaten by Obama by at least 15%.

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    • Romney-Rubio 2012
      Posted on January 9, 2012 at 6:00pm

      EZ, The only election he lost was against Ted Kennedy. You name a Republican, liberal or conservative that could beat him in Massachusetts. Though he came the closest anyone ever has.

      You know it was that election that the Boston Globe called Romney too conservative. His competitors called him a right winger.

      Also, the stimulus would have worked if done correctly. Don’t you remember what the Republicans, including Romney were working for in a stimulus. ALL TAX CUTS. You have a short memory. It would have worked if you got businesses to get excited to do business. All Republicans were talking about a stimulus of tax cuts, so was Romney. He never wanted the stimulus of “give aways’ of Christmas handouts” as he put it in his own words.

      Think for yourself.

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    • ElPzee
      Posted on January 9, 2012 at 6:02pm

      Romney believes in Government stimulus through subsidies, HE SAYS IT EVERY DEBATE, You cant claim otherwise.

      @ROMNEY-RUBIO

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    • ElPzee
      Posted on January 9, 2012 at 6:13pm

      ADVICE TO ALL: STOP WATCHING THE MSM(yes Fox included) WATCH EVERY DEBATE, THINK FOR YOURSELF, AND DRAW YOUR OWN CONCLUSIONS.

      signing off

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    • West Coast Patriot
      Posted on January 9, 2012 at 6:29pm

      Romney-Rubio 2012
      Posted on January 9, 2012 at 3:43pm
      Gingrich is a Big Government Progressive, haven’t you been listening to Glenn Beck.

      Haven’t you been listening to Glenn Beck?? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZcAYJqG0NEI
      The dates when he said these things are right after the clip.

      http://www.youtube.com/watch?NR=1&feature=endscreen&v=RNlNFtC0slQ Where have you been?

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    • Romney-Rubio 2012
      Posted on January 9, 2012 at 6:33pm

      Elpzee,

      He does not say that every debate. You show me one reference. Now when you say subsidies are you talking about tax-subsidies like the oil subsidies, also called tax-cuts. Because it isn’t bad giving out tax breaks to stimulate the economy. We learned that from Reagan.

      Clarify your statement with a source.

      Think for yourself. Where are you getting this tripe?
      Hey and don’t run away before you back up your false claim. Just like someone that doesn’t know what they are talking about.

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    • Romney-Rubio 2012
      Posted on January 9, 2012 at 6:43pm

      West Coast Patriot,

      Sorry, I am on break at work and can’t watch YouTubes (blocked).

      Is this the clip where he said he had Progressive views? No where did he say he was a modern day progressive. Remember until 2005 he fought to keep abortions ‘safe and legal’. That was considered a progressive stance. So yes he did have some. He was an independent for most of his life. So was Reagan. Reagan also voted for an abortion bill in California, then he realized the errors of his ways, same as Bush.

      Also depends your definition of progressive means. CS Lewis: “We all want progress, but if you’re on the wrong road, progress means doing an about-turn and walking back to the right road; in that case, the man who turns back soonest is the most progressive.” And as everyone knows, if you are progressing in Massachusetts, you are becoming conservative.

      I am glad you know what his heart is, I don’t, never claim to. What I do know is that his record was very conservative.

      If I wanted to claim I knew someones heart I would reference where Gingrich praised Roosevelt as the greatest president and that he, Newt was a Wilsonian Republican. ( http://www.theblaze.com/stories/gingrich-flashback-progressive-fdr-was-greatest-president-of-the-20th-century-plus-seius-andy-stern-is-visionary-union-leader/ )

      Where have you been? Again I don’t know someones heart, just their record and writings. Have you read Gingrich’s book on Global Warming?

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    • West Coast Patriot
      Posted on January 9, 2012 at 6:50pm

      Romney-Rubio, If he is not the establishment candidate, why does the establishment give him the most support in his campaign? 10 percent from small individual contributions and the rest from Goldman Sachs, Credit Suisse Group, Morgan Stanley, HIG Capital, Barclays, Kirkland & Ellis, Bank of America, PriceWaterhouseCoopers, EMC Corp, JPMorgan Chase? He is the apitomy of elite progressivism.

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    • ElPzee
      Posted on January 9, 2012 at 7:38pm

      @ROMNEY RUBIO He says it every debate last nights variant word for word.

      Mitt Romney, Presidential debate Saturday night new Hampshire. “The stimulus could have been better directed”.

      I watched the debate until It played. I wish I remember the debate where Romney said stimulus would have worked of done correctly, but I wouldn’t waste that much time anyway.

      PROOF. HE LITERALLY SAYS IT EVERY DEBATE. PROOF…

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    • ElPzee
      Posted on January 9, 2012 at 7:40pm

      http://my.firedoglake.com/scarecrow/2011/06/28/mitt-romney-says-obama-needed-a-larger-longer-burning-stimulus/

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    • ccr
      Posted on January 9, 2012 at 8:08pm

      GINGRICH is a man WITHOUT A CONSCIENCE.

      GINGRICH is a SHILL for Obama and the DNC putting the free enterprise system and capitalism on trial.

      Gingrich is an angry, angry, bitter man who’s made his MILLIONS with government influence peddling. (They whined about not having a second house……you DID HAVE a 1/2 Million $$$ debt at Tiffany’s while cruising in Greece. Puhllllleeeeeeaaaaaaase QUIT WHINING GINGRICHES!!)

      GINGRICH is a NARCISSIST that cares NOTHING about our changes to defeat Obama…..if HE can’t be the one. (He has run a terribly unorganized, unprepared, undisciplined campaign that he only took seriously when he became the FOTM!!)

      There ARE ALWAYS two sides to the story!!

      GEE………..with WHINERS like these………we could still be riding a horse and buggy…….because someone would lose their jobs!!

      WHERE’S the story of ALL OF THE JOBS MITT HELPED CREATE? THE COMPANIES THAT WERE SAVED or CREATED??

      Gingrich doesn’t have integrity to show that does he??

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    • West Coast Patriot
      Posted on January 10, 2012 at 4:58am

      CCR, I am sorry that you are so lost. You are not being truthful about Gingrich. He, like Romney are just PROGRESSIVES. They are both bad for the country. They are both Obama light, same road, just a slightly different speed. What does it take for some of you to wake up to what has been going on for decades? We are at the beginning of the endgame, and you are still falling for the good looking fast talking elitist progressive. Look at where his funding comes from: 10 percent from small individual contributions, the rest from Goldman Sachs, Credit Suisse Group, Morgan Stanley, HIG Capital, Barclays, Kirkland & Ellis, Bank of America, PriceWaterhouseCoopers, EMC Corp, JPMorgan Chase. Didn‘t these guy’s get bailout money? Like I said, bought and paid for.

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  • Dalton C
    Posted on January 9, 2012 at 3:14pm

    Everyone needs to wake up and understand what TRUE LIBERTY is.
    Please read, THE LAW, By Frederic Bastiat.

    It doesnt matter if you are Left wing or Right wing.
    Left wing wants government for economic issues and not personal issues.
    Right wing wants government for personal issues and not economic issues.
    Libertarians on the other hand, dont want government for personal or economic issues.

    When ever someone forces something on you, it diminishes Liberty.
    So even conservatives want government to say, ”no.drugs are bad, you cant do them.”
    This is called, Philanthropic Tyranny.

    And when liberals want government to say, ”take some money from the rich and give it to the poor.”
    This is Philanthropic Tyranny aswell.

    The end result is the same, YOU ARE TAKING FROM PEOPLES LIBERTY.
    People have no say so in your life, we can run our own lives the way we choose, just as long as we dont harm others and their liberties.

    We as Individuals have the right to our Life, Liberty, Property.
    Please watch this short video:http://www.thephilosophyofliberty.com/

    In other words:
    Any force(unless to stop others from harming others)Diminishes our Liberty.

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  • Romney-Rubio 2012
    Posted on January 9, 2012 at 3:12pm

    Interesting, the Reuter article that Gingrich keeps sourcing was written the day after MoveOn released the information in an attack ad. This has been done many times with Reuters, publishing things from Think Progess and MoveOn. Now the pro-Gingrich group is pushing their message. Here is the MoveOn ad: http://url2it.com/leqn

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    • ElPzee
      Posted on January 9, 2012 at 4:00pm

      THINK FOR YOURSELF, DON’T ALLOW YOURSELF TO BE used AS AN USEFUL IDIOT!!

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    • Romney-Rubio 2012
      Posted on January 9, 2012 at 5:48pm

      EZ,

      What do you think you are doing. Why don’t you vet your candidates? Do some research.

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    • ElPzee
      Posted on January 9, 2012 at 6:05pm

      I’ve vetted all of the candidates and came to the conclusion that Only gingrich can beat Obama.

      Romney’s Record, intelligence, and speaking ability are the reasons I don’t believe he can win.

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    • West Coast Patriot
      Posted on January 10, 2012 at 5:13am

      R&R, I agree that everyone needs to vet the candidates, have you with an open mind? Paul has 30 years of vetting where he has never waivered. Can you say that about any other candidate? No, because Paul is the only one that uses the Constitution to guide him.

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  • P8riot
    Posted on January 9, 2012 at 3:12pm

    Mitt will make the hard choices to make government more efficient just like he did with the companies Bain saved. Newt made his millions growing quasi-government agencies like freddie and fannie. Sorry Newt, Mitt wins.

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    • ElPzee
      Posted on January 9, 2012 at 3:25pm

      Romney will lose To Obama by at least 15%. After voting Big-Government progressive in 2008 I made a promise to myself I would never Sell out again.

      Romney beleives Tarp “WOULD HAVE WORKED IF DONE RIGHT”. OBOMNEY-CARE!!

      REPUBLICANS CAN’T PICK WINNERS OR LOSER EITHER. WHAT’S THE DIFFERENCE BETWEEN ROMNEY AND OBAMA???? NOTHING!!!

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  • Romney-Rubio 2012
    Posted on January 9, 2012 at 3:09pm

    I find it funny that Gingrich is attacking CAPITALISM like the Democrats do. Just like CATO said, ( http://www.americanparchment.com ) Capitalism isn’t always pretty but that is what drives our economy and Gingrich is attacking it. Under Gingrich, he would replace Venture Capitalism with Venture Socialism. That from a CATO fellow.

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    • ElPzee
      Posted on January 9, 2012 at 3:18pm

      Gingrich is the ONLY candidate who can stand up to Obama. BIG GOVERNMENT PROGRESSIVEISM failed in 2008 with john McCain. Who did John McCain endorse??? How convenient. ROMNEY HAS NO CHANCE. If you vote for Romney your actually voting for Obama!!

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    • Romney-Rubio 2012
      Posted on January 9, 2012 at 3:41pm

      Gingrich is a Big Government Progressive, haven’t you been listening to Glenn Beck. he still supports Global Warming and had to take it out of his book due to pressure to his campaign ( http://url2it.com/leqp ), he changed his mind… flip flopped on the individual mandate in May 2011 during the Meet the Press interview that originally sunk his campaign.

      Romney is not a big government progressive. His individual mandate was “Pay for insurance or pay your own bill” the legislature changed it. They also took out Romney’s opt-out. He added measures to deregulate the insurance industry and give vouchers to those who couldn’t afford it to buy private insurance. This was not government take over of health care like ObamaCare. This is all according to Heritage Foundation and old Boston Globe articles. Romney’s plan was not big government take over. Gingrich wanted federal take over of the health care system, that is until May 2011, when his campaign fell apart.

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    • ElPzee
      Posted on January 9, 2012 at 3:48pm

      It Would take Obama 1 Debate against Romney to Clinch Re-Election.

      And Romney is twice as progressive as Gingrich. I’m a GBTV subscriber and GLENN IS GIVING ROMNEY THE BACHMAN TREATMENT BECAUSE HE IS A MORMON!!! If Glenn GREW A PAIR and went after Romney the same way he goes after paul and newt he would destroy Romney.

      Honestly Glenn’s coverage of the candidates has been completely and utterly AMATEUR and BIAS. He softballed Bahcman in every interview, and completely ignores romney; While at the same time destroying santorum paul and gingrich.

      If your a GBTV subscriber you know my previous statement is one of fact.

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    • Romney-Rubio 2012
      Posted on January 9, 2012 at 5:53pm

      Actually I am not a subscriber, I don’t get my information from Glenn, though I back him on many things. I research old papers and economic numbers. Romney turned around Bain Capital, Olympics, and Massachusetts with conservative values. In the case of Massachusetts he used conservative values to turn around the economy with a 85% liberal congress. Newt Gingrich had a majority in Congress that was Republican. That says a lot. Glenn has railed on Romney on tons, the only reason he attacks Gingrich is what everyone is starting to see, he is a Big Govt Progressive.

      Here, how is Romney a progressive?

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    • ElPzee
      Posted on January 9, 2012 at 6:08pm

      Romney is a Progressive because he believes that Government should be involved in both private and business affairs.

      He supports government bailouts and says so every debate(business). He created Romney care(private). THAT’S THE PROOF.

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  • jrcess
    Posted on January 9, 2012 at 3:06pm

    Newt what a dick head!!!!!!!!!!Sheeeeeeeeeez!!!!

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  • wtrfdsf
    Posted on January 9, 2012 at 3:05pm

    I just find it hypocritical that Gingrich is calling Mitt and liar and getting so upset over ads his “Superpac” has released, when Gingrich is doing the same thing in a much larger scale.

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    • justangry
      Posted on January 9, 2012 at 3:11pm

      He’s an angry little facist.

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    • ElPzee
      Posted on January 9, 2012 at 3:20pm

      I hope this works in destroying Romney. Romney is the same a McCain, HE LOST TO McCAIN, who was the weakest candidate in republican history. If romney wins this primary Obama wins re-election, THATS A FACT.

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  • VRW Conspirator
    Posted on January 9, 2012 at 3:01pm

    THIS IS HORRIBLE!! Seriously!!
    This is playing right into Obama’s re-election and the backers of Newt are giving.. GIVING…Obama everything they need to paint Obama as the hero of the little guy…the middle class..and Romney as the “evil corporation” CEO…

    STUPID!! wasn’t Newt all about “we are all better than Obama” and “i am not going to badmouth my fellow Republicans” ….what a load of GARBAGE….
    if this film sees the light of day WITHOUT a Newt call to prevent it or Newt disowning these people… Obama wins re-election…

    this is Romney’s death warrant and it is signed by Newt…the “true Reagan conservative” that just broke Reagan’s 11th commandment…

    like Romney or not…if he is the GOP nominee…he can beat Obama…as can most of the GOP candidates..but not after blood like this is spilled..

    AND PLEASE spare me…”i will only vote for …” … or …” if he is the nominee, i will vote 3rd party” CRAP!!
    a TRUE Patriot knows that even when something is done that you don’t like or disagree with…the fate of the Nation comes before your personal ego and desires…

    i might not want Romney, Newt, Paul, or Santorum…but I believe they all can beat Obama if they focus on debating their differences on how to deal with the country..instead of cutting each others’ throats…

    this is IDIOTIC!! why not just hand the election to Obama and coronate him as KING for Life..

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    • code green
      Posted on January 9, 2012 at 3:12pm

      We need to get rid of a socialist president ……….no no no wait we don’t want a big capitalist like Mitt.
      Folks lets make up our minds.
      Jeeeeeeeez what a parade of clowns.Stupid is just exploding from this. Newt please just go away,and take your idiots with you.

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    • ElPzee
      Posted on January 9, 2012 at 3:22pm

      This is THE BEST THING ANY CANDIDATE COULD DO. If Romney wins this primary We are doomed to a 2nd term with Obama. WE MUST OUST ROMNEY, HE HAS NO CHANCE!!!!

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    • maryjsteng
      Posted on January 9, 2012 at 10:59pm

      You mean to say you think they don’t already have this? Why is it MSNBC and all the rest go so easy on Romney? Just like they did McCain before he cinched. Then Wham. Republicans need to wise up and quite running moderates.

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  • MAC12ME
    Posted on January 9, 2012 at 2:58pm

    Rubbish! Go Mitt!

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    • Vechorik
      Posted on January 9, 2012 at 3:10pm

      Romney is Obama with an R instead of a D

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    • West Coast Patriot
      Posted on January 9, 2012 at 3:17pm

      Mac, Go Mitt? What is it with you anti-constitution big government people? Mitt is the apitomy of a paid for big government progressive. His campaign is funded by only 10 percent from small individual contributions the rest from; Goldman Sachs, Credit Suisse Group, Morgan Stanley, HIG Capital, Barclays, Kirkland & Ellis, Bank of America, PriceWaterhouseCoopers, EMC Corp, JPMorgan Chase.
      Paul on the other hand gets his support as follows: 48 percent from small individual contributions, the rest from; Ron Paul for Congress Cmte, U.S. Army, U.S. Air Force, U.S. Navy, Mason Capital Management, Microsoft, Boeing, Google, Overland Sheep, IBM.

      I bet you think Paul is a nut. Do you think the men and women in the Military are nuts too?

      Isreal does not think Paul is nuts: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&NR=1&v=dqTLe66_hc4

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    • ElPzee
      Posted on January 9, 2012 at 3:33pm

      IF YOU SUPPORT MITT you actually SUPPORT OBAMA.

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  • THETAXMAN
    Posted on January 9, 2012 at 2:57pm

    Now i’m beginning to wonder if Mit understands capitalism and the free market. The purpose for business is not jobs, the purpose is to make money for the owners/investors/stockholders. Jobs are but a biproduct of the enterprise. A wonderful biproduct to be sure, but certainly not the reason the investors placed their bets.

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  • slr4528
    Posted on January 9, 2012 at 2:45pm

    So Newt is opposed to the free markets and private investment? Would newt prefer to slap a bunch of regulations on private sector investment? If I own a struggling company then I have no right to bring in private investors to help turn it around for a profit so I can exit the business?

    Newt’s business philosophy sounds like it would bring much big government intervention…just like Obama. Newt’s line of attack should speak volumes to people who love free markets and capitalism.

    Romney2012

    If Romney doesn’t get the nomination…I would prefer Paul. Paul’s foreign policy stinks but at least he would push hard to reduce the size of government,the deficit and spending. I would never vote for the Obama loving,capitalist hating Gingrich pig.

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    • Vechorik
      Posted on January 9, 2012 at 3:11pm

      Romney and Paul will thin out the pack — then we’ll have a choice!

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    • P8riot
      Posted on January 9, 2012 at 3:13pm

      Right on. Newt is attempting the same class warfare that Obama will try. Newts called Mitt everything except the 1% (so far).

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  • LittleBigMouth
    Posted on January 9, 2012 at 2:45pm

    Oh, how about we take a look at Little NEWT. Or should I say “The NAFTA Twins…
    http://ronpaul-2012.org/nocounterfeits.html?pid=0109va

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  • bullcrapbuster
    Posted on January 9, 2012 at 2:40pm

    The way I understand it Bain took failing companies and did what was necessary to make them profitable. Is that not what we want done to the failing US economy? So Newt thinks that this left wing type attack will help his chances. He is living up to his reputation as “crybaby” an angry, vindictive ,sore loser. The only person that in my opinion has what it takes to clean up the mess in washinhton is Sarah Palin. Even Newt tactics wouldn’t phase that wonderful woman. Anyhoo it appears that she is not going to jump into the fray. So we have what we have. This confusion is gradually setting Ron Paul or Huntsman up as the most stable of this wishy washy bunch. God help America.

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    • flipper1073
      Posted on January 9, 2012 at 3:00pm

      I Agree on Sarah She is just what we need right now.

      My question is why do’es the media keep calling Mitt the Frontrunner ?
      I remember Rick Perry being the Frontrunner
      I remember Herman Cain being the Frontrunner
      I even remember Newt Ginrich being the Frontrunner
      Last week Rick Santorum was the Frontrunner
      I Don’t remember Mitt Romney ever breaking 24%
      an you Can’t win the nomination without the BASE.
      (OK I take that back John McCain did it 4 yrs. ago)

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    • flipper1073
      Posted on January 9, 2012 at 3:18pm

      NOT going to watch the trailer
      NOT going to watch the movie
      Don’t like Negative Campaigns PERIOD
      I’d throw them all in a blender
      take the things I like about Ron,
      throw in the things I like about Rick S
      Newt,Rick P,Mitt even John if I find anything.
      Throw in a couple of heaping scoops of Pretty
      an mix well
      YOU HAVE SARAH PALIN

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  • L5605
    Posted on January 9, 2012 at 2:40pm

    Newt & Santorum are both just more of the same, both live on money that we taxpayers give to them., they both receive checks each month from the gov…. then there is the one million plus that Newt has taken from freddie mack,..why would you want to put more of the same back in office????????????????

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    • NHwinter
      Posted on January 9, 2012 at 2:54pm

      Newt got $35,000 a year, not a million. It was his company. There are a lot of lies and distortions out there about Newt. If you listen to him, he explains his positions, that has been lied about, very clearly. The negative ads against him have been very effective and that is sad, for he is a much more mature man now, very knowledgeable and experienced.

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  • PJL
    Posted on January 9, 2012 at 2:33pm

    OHH brother, it’s not hard to find people who have an ax to grind, how about the people who thought they we’re shafted by Newt with the welfare reform? That makes about as much sense, Mitt was not running these companies he was trying to straighten out the mess they were already in and when it was obvious that it wasn’t going to happen some companies closed, they would have any way but Mitt and Bain tried. This is an attempt by sour grapes Newt, to ruin Romney, he is a vicious little man.

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    • Anonymous T. Irrelevant
      Posted on January 9, 2012 at 2:59pm

      In case you missed it, this video was created by WinningOurFuture and is not affilitated nor endorsed by any candidiate. Newt didn’t have anything to do with this video.

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    • wtrfdsf
      Posted on January 9, 2012 at 3:07pm

      No, Anonymous, Gingrich admits it is people that support him that have created it. He just hasn’t
      “seen” it.

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    • Anonymous T. Irrelevant
      Posted on January 9, 2012 at 3:17pm

      @wtrfdsf
      I don’t see that statement in this story. Did you read that somewhere else?

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    • SUMTHINSTINKS
      Posted on January 9, 2012 at 3:50pm

      The person that made the video was with Rick Perry’s campaign. They decided not to use the video. It was offered to Huntsman…they passed too. So…the Gingrich SuperPAC got a hold of it. There are serious questions when Bain buys a company and walks away with $180 million and ALL of the employees walk away with absolutely NOTHING. It’s NOT capitalism in the traditional sense. It’s PREDATORY tactics and abuse of the system to line your own pockets!!! Mitt Romney is FRAUD!!!

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  • Derek01
    Posted on January 9, 2012 at 2:29pm

    Sorry, I like Newt. He managed to get a lot of good done for the American people. Both sides went after him and he got roughed up. I‘ve never seen a fighter that didn’t have a few scars.

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    • bullcrapbuster
      Posted on January 9, 2012 at 2:43pm

      Newt is too emotional for the job.

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    • searching for the Truth
      Posted on January 9, 2012 at 2:48pm

      They have to go after a sin and forget it can be forgiven – I like Newt as well – he’s smart enough not to start a war unless he has to , and has hands on love for Israel.

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    • Vechorik
      Posted on January 9, 2012 at 3:11pm

      Gingrich was roughed up alright — for his dishonesty!

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    • maryjsteng
      Posted on January 9, 2012 at 11:23pm

      As I recall when Romney got his first serious hit and Gingrich took the lead pre-Iowa– Romney got pretty whiney and shook up too–and then suddenly Iowa was bombarded with attack ads against Gingrich–and nobody said ‘romney is angry’ what a ridiculous thing to say. Gingrich is a politician–so is Romney. They want to win.

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  • Micmac
    Posted on January 9, 2012 at 2:29pm

    On one hand Newt talks about what is good for the country, then on the other hand provides the DNC with fodder to help re-elect NoBama. I now see what was said earlier about how Newt can get “personal.” I like alot of Newt’s policies, but I question him as a mature individual. At least Mitt disguises his immaturity. Neither exudes statesmanship. Frankly watching the debates Perry has come a long way towards handling himself. And Santorum is starting to show more emotion in his oratory. If Paul had a sensible policy towards international affairs and wasn‘t an isolationist I think he’d win. The heart of winning lies with the emotional middle of the road and collecting those votes.

    NoBama 2012

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  • NHwinter
    Posted on January 9, 2012 at 2:27pm

    I hope Newt hits both Romney and Paul really hard. They have been brutal in their attacks against Newt. Cry baby my a**. He should have put ads out againt them in Iowa. Newt has experience and knowledge and all these ads against him have clouded the water. Hes older and more mature and could turn this country around quickly and wipe the floor with Obama in a debate.

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  • TEIN
    Posted on January 9, 2012 at 2:25pm

    “…he “destroyed” the American dream for “thousands of Americans and their families.”

    That is all I need to know about Gingrich and his Super PAC… There is no “American Dream” only pursuit of happiness…American Dream supposes a set of item or accomplishments to obtain, therefore need to be provided…my happiness is my happiness..if that happiness is living in a hut and eating lizards and squirrels. then so be it…if it is gaining wealth and buying a 50000 square foot bungalow, then so be it as well…

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  • SheriS
    Posted on January 9, 2012 at 2:20pm

    It is amazing how low some of these backers of candidates will stoop! I have been on only one site of a candidate and that is the only one that is not harrassing me with garbage emails! Seems the Paul nuts are the ones that are doing most of this garbage, but now Newter’s people have started! Unfortunately for them, I send their messages to SPAM and those are reported to the govenment! The Paul nuts are the worst as they refuse to stop even tho you have “unsubscribed”! Shame on these disgusting people, but now we will see what the UCE does with my forwarding to them the garbage I’m getting! I’ve had it with some of these potential nominees who refuse to follow real rules!

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  • COFemale
    Posted on January 9, 2012 at 2:18pm

    Newt knows he can’t win and Romney will most likely become the nominee. Newt is either playing a game or he is a sore loser. Time will tell.

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    • SUMTHINSTINKS
      Posted on January 9, 2012 at 2:30pm

      BS…Romney is a FRAUD! Capitalism is a good thing, but when it is used in a Predatory and Unsavory manner it BAD! Romney only used it for his GREEDY purposes. Instead of Helping people…He Hurt people while lining his pockets with Millions and Millions of dollars!!!

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  • flipper1073
    Posted on January 9, 2012 at 2:16pm

    Support your Candidate in the Primary.
    Stop this rush to Decide it’s only January
    it would be all right with Me if we have 3 way ties all the way up to the Convention
    it only Strengthen Us as a Party.
    an they seem to be taking good idea’s from each other.
    Besides that it keeps our guy’s in the spotlight an drives the Lib’s NUTS

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    • VRW Conspirator
      Posted on January 9, 2012 at 3:09pm

      i say the campaign season should be shortened…it shouldn’t even start until January of the election year… you get 6 months to run all your primaries, have debates, run ads…January to June…
      and ALL States have their primary or caucus in JUNE.. PERIOD!! none of this “me first” changing dates CRAP!!
      then we have conventions end of July..and August-October is head to head with your opponents seeking the same seat or office from the other parties…vote in November.. BAM DONE!! Eliminate the need to have 300-400 million and taking nearly 18-24 months…end the perpetual campaigning of Congress members and the President. MAKE them show up for their JOBS!!!

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  • Locked
    Posted on January 9, 2012 at 2:16pm

    The GOP tearing itself apart reminds me of 2008 when Obama and Clinton were going at it. Birtherism started with a Clinton campaign staffer looking for a way to take a dig at Obama. There’s no enemy as nasty and cut-throat as one supposedly on the same side.

    The GOP needs to pick their candidate and stand with him. Gingrich in general just needs to drop out.

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    • riverdog1
      Posted on January 9, 2012 at 2:22pm

      birthers started with clinton staffer? haven’t heard that one yet. funny

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    • VRW Conspirator
      Posted on January 9, 2012 at 3:05pm

      yes it did…Clinton staffers were also the first to “leak” the fact that Obama spent time in Indonesia as a child, registered as a Muslim there, and attended a madrasa.

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    • Locked
      Posted on January 9, 2012 at 3:10pm

      “Who started it? And is there a grain of truth there?

      The answer lies in Democratic, not Republican politics, and in the bitter, exhausting spring of 2008. At the time, the Democratic presidential primary was slipping away from Hillary Clinton and some of her most passionate supporters grasped for something, anything that would deal a final reversal to Barack Obama.
      …
      That theory first emerged in the spring of 2008, as Clinton supporters circulated an anonymous email questioning Obama’s citizenship.

      “Barack Obama’s mother was living in Kenya with his Arab-African father late in her pregnancy. She was not allowed to travel by plane then, so Barack Obama was born there and his mother then took him to Hawaii to register his birth,” asserted one chain email that surfaced on the urban legend site Snopes.com in April 2008.”

      http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0411/53563.html#ixzz1izezEDnW

      Thought this was pretty well known? Yes, Clinton’s campaign started birtherism; it proved to be rather ineffective among the Democrats, but a bunch of GOP members (and conspiracy theorists) took up the torch after.

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  • Micmac
    Posted on January 9, 2012 at 2:12pm

    This little fight is almost as good as WWF. Be careful what seeds you sow.

    NoBama 2012

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    • riverdog1
      Posted on January 9, 2012 at 2:42pm

      remember now most of you approve of the way bain worked. buying companies, shutting them down and sending the remaining jobs overseas. unregulated free market baby, gotta love it.

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