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Romney Explains Why He Compared Gingrich‘s Campaign to ’I Love Lucy’

Republican presidential candidates Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney continue to spar as the Iowa caucus inches closer. On Tuesday, Romney decided to poke fun at the Gingrich campaign, which endured criticism over poor organization numerous times in the past.

Speaking specifically about Gingrich’s inability to qualify for the Virginia ballot — a blip Gingrich’s campaign director compared to Pearl Harbor — Romney came up with another analogy.

“I think he compared that to Pearl Harbor? I think it’s more like Lucille Ball at the chocolate factory. You’ve got to get it organized,” he joked, while speaking with reporters in New Hampshire:

Here, Romney was clearly referring to the famed scene in which Lucille Ball was struggling to package chocolates. The presidential candidate appeared on Fox & Friends, where he addressed his swipe at Gingrich. ”When I see mistakes, I try and find a little humor,” he said.

In his Fox interview, he went on to explain his “I Love Lucy” analogy. “You may remember that sketch where chocolates were coming out of the machine faster than she could stuff them in the boxes…and she started stuffing them in her face,” Romney said. “It’s such a classic scene. Those of us who have gotten a little behind can identify with poor Lucy.”

While Gingrich didn‘t appreciate Romney’s initial comparison, Romney dismissed his comments as mere humor. Watch the interview, below:

(H/T: Fox Nation)

Comments (54)

  • TemayElbor
    Posted on December 30, 2011 at 3:46am

    ROMNEY is well-organized and plans ahead.

    If he were the president today, there would not be any “cramming” on the two month extension of payroll tax cuts. He would have probably dealt with the problem three months before it expired.

    I believe ROMNEY will be a blessing to this country. IF HE COULD MANAGE HIS OWN PERSONAL FINANCES WELL, WE CAN TRUST HIM TO BE CAPABLE OF MANAGING THE NATION’S ECONOMY.

    Last presidential election, we failed to investigate the personal economy of Obama. We just accepted his promises of economic recovery hook line and sinker even if he was lacking in business and economic credentials.

    I pray that WE THE PEOPLE will be wiser in choosing their president this coming election.

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  • TE4CAIN
    Posted on December 30, 2011 at 2:01am

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  • P8riot
    Posted on December 29, 2011 at 12:46pm

    Romney is the ONLY candidate who can actually beat obama.

    Here’s the link to the drudge headline from today:

    http://www.rasmussenreports.com/public_content/politics/elections/election_2012/election_2012_presidential_election/2012_presidential_matchups

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  • jsciai
    Posted on December 29, 2011 at 12:05pm

    Ya know, most of you commentors make me sick. You love to speak in total absolutes, like you are god or something. Well here is an absolute for you–Obama had just about ruined this nation in the last three years. Here’s another one–if we don’t remove him in the next election we will be in trouble for GENERATIONS to come–we really already are. Here’s the last one–ANY candidate that speaks in total absolutes in all things will make a terrible, one term, president. That is Paul’s biggest problem–I know you paulbots will call it a strength–But if he can’t get congress to go along with any of the reforms he wants he will be the most ineffectual president we have had, this side of Gerald Ford. Paul has proven to be an agitator, outsider and non-partisan politician–not necessarily a bad thing for a Sen. or Rep., but a terrible thing for a president. I don’t know anyone who has worked WITH Paul, or Gingrich for that matter, that would like to see them as president. They know the type of trouble that type of personality brings. So, Instead of using this comment page to vent rants, try and make reasonable and rational commentary. Your cause/candidate will certainly benefit more from it.

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  • Micmac
    Posted on December 28, 2011 at 7:18pm

    Romney is arrogant. And Mr. Flip-flop.

    NoBama 2012

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  • nowhereman
    Posted on December 28, 2011 at 5:56pm

    Laurel and Hardy moving the piano up the steps are a better comparison for BOTH of them.

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  • PJL
    Posted on December 28, 2011 at 5:39pm

    LUUuuuuucy! LOL Love it.

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  • Santorum2012
    Posted on December 28, 2011 at 5:13pm

    I may have to correct my last post. Looks like Santorum’s support in Iowa has just tripled since the beginning of the month, according to CNN. Ron Paul is a nut and people are seeing that, his support is going down. If he can win in the top three candidates in Iowa, Santorum is in for the long run.

    So lets get rid of Paul, the nut, and support Santorum. He can win this. Just look at how much his support has increased already over the last month.

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  • ambrosia
    Posted on December 28, 2011 at 4:33pm

    Willard Romney-
    aka “Chatsworth Osborne, Jr.”
    likes to throw stones at Gingrich
    but doesn’t HAVE the stones to debate him,
    so which candidate should America laugh at & which one should we take seriously ?

    That would be Gingrich…a billion times smarter than Willard-the-Weasel.
    Yes, call him by his first name….Willard
    as in Willard the Rat….another RNC rodent….roadkill in the 2012 election.

    The American people KNOW that Willard Mutt Romney can’t win-
    tell me….why aren‘t his flamin’ flunkies like Karl Rabid Rove
    & “Zelda Gilroy” Coulter
    bright enough to see the writing on the wall ?

    If this is a competition between a phony, rich brat like Chatsworth Osborne Jr.
    and a real, concerned citizen like Dobie Gillis Gingrich-
    the American people are voting for their All-American folk hero, Dobie.

    Willard, Chatsworth, Mutt-
    or whatever creepy name he prefers….will NEVER beat the nemisis, Obama.
    Pack up your Brylcreem & button-downs, frat boy
    America NEEDS a LEADER not another desperate, stammering LOSER like you !

    Gingrich/West 2012

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    • Vechorik
      Posted on December 28, 2011 at 4:49pm

      Oh yeah West would be quite a disaster. His antiPatriot voting and the NDAA support was outstanding, wasn’t it? (not)

      Didn’t you see Beck grilling West about the NDAA?
      Gingrich and West are PROGRESSIVE Republicans.
      If you don’t know what that is, read up on Agenda 21.

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    • Vechorik
      Posted on December 28, 2011 at 4:57pm

      Gingrich is such a liar — here’s a small one:

      “I took that vacation to Greece because I needed to see the fiscal crisis up close”

      Gingrich: I took that vacation to Greece because I needed to see the fiscal crisis up close

      http://politicalwire.com/archives/20…to_greece.html

      (He went on a cruise to the Greek Islands not the mainland)

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    • ambrosia
      Posted on December 28, 2011 at 9:16pm

      @ Vechorik

      You want to know who, desperately, wants to see your “Crazy Uncle” Ron Paul get elected
      more than anyone else ?
      Achmadinejad !
      So what does that say about all the rest of you Ron Paul enthusiasts-
      you are ALL just as nuts….as Paul & Achmadinejad !
      With THAT logic, nothing you say, can be taken seriously.

      Get a grip & get real….what America needs, first & foremost, is a LEADER-
      THAT is IMPERATIVE !

      Gingrich/WEST 2012…..LEADERS not LOSERS !

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  • delawarebill
    Posted on December 28, 2011 at 3:32pm

    The proof is in the pudding…

    http://www.southernnh912.com/sites/default/files/PresidentialCandidatePositions_20111203.pdf

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  • MeteoricLimbo
    Posted on December 28, 2011 at 3:27pm

    Cut off your nose just to spite your face? Perhaps it is time these fellows go after the proper enemy. But what do I know……

    Report Post » MeteoricLimbo  
    • 13th Imam
      Posted on December 28, 2011 at 4:09pm

      Fact is Barry never has had a Real Job. Even one like working on a pie packaging line. Old slim finger‘s Odumbo wouldn’t last two days at a real man’s job. or a woman’s job, for that matter.

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  • Gypsy123
    Posted on December 28, 2011 at 3:26pm

    He does not get my vote

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  • SquidVetOhio
    Posted on December 28, 2011 at 3:21pm

    Romney is such a punk. This is the best chance since Jimmy Carter to run a conservative. If Romney wins the nomination, I will never in my lifetime get another conservative president. (and I’m only 37) A Romney win will reinforce the false notion that only a pink – o moderate can win the election. Bye Bye conservative presidency forever! Like Rush says, go to the library and find the book, “Great Moderates in World History”. Good luck with that.

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    • READRIGHTHERE
      Posted on December 28, 2011 at 4:07pm

      Because fiscal responsibility, Consistent turn-around success for Government and Private organizations, and a stable marriage are hardly the hallmarks of conservatism. Romney=Rino because he is an unrepentant flip flopper who dares to call a spade a spade and gently roast his competitor for failing to show up to the race.

      No, being a conservative means being born with the right opinion and never deviating from it, oh wait, that leaves out Gingrich and Perry, or being a fringe fanatic isolationist who believes the entire system needs to be scrapped, regardless of collateral damage, which leaves you with only one vote, Paul. And if it can’t be Paul it might as well be Obama again, cause there ain’t no way in Hades you will cast your vote for anyone else. Can’t wait to see what your opinion does for this country next November.

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  • Santorum2012
    Posted on December 28, 2011 at 3:14pm

    Romney has more Tea Party candidate endorsements (officials endorsed by the Tea Party express, Freedom Works, etc) than any other candidate.

    He even has a small group I joined, called: http://www.TeaPartyforRomney.com

    Gingrich was the one that had to buy Tea party support. Look at the emails TeaParty.net is sending out asking for donations to Gingrich’s campaign. I have a few in my email box from them. Bachmann claimed this a long time ago, Gingrich called her a liar. Well proof is in the pudding. This email says that Gingrich sponsors them financially.

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    • Santorum2012
      Posted on December 28, 2011 at 3:15pm

      Oh yeah, my name is weird, let me explain. Santorum is still my first choice, but if he isn’t there after Iowa. My support goes to Romney.

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    • GilbertAcct
      Posted on December 28, 2011 at 3:38pm

      Very believable fastfacts!! Did the Blaze finally catch on to your websites (the daily candidate and american parchment) so you had to create another one to advertise for Romney??

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    • GilbertAcct
      Posted on December 28, 2011 at 3:44pm

      Santorum2012 (aka fastfacts, and many other names). You are kidding yourself… Everyone knows who you are. You use the exact same language every time. Maybe if you’d stop posting your phony Romney websites it would be a little less obvious (and a lot less annoying).

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    • Vechorik
      Posted on December 28, 2011 at 4:45pm

      Did you know Santorum voted for No Child Left Behind and Medicare-busting medicare part D?

      http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0411/52993.htm

      He also endorsed Romney in 2008 and Arlen Spector more recently.

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    • Vechorik
      Posted on December 28, 2011 at 5:23pm

      I just read that Michelle Bachmann is telling folks in Iowa that Ron Paul isn’t sufficiently pro-life. The allegation is ridiculous of course, but here’s a data point that folks in Iowa may want to use.

      Ron Paul has introduced the Sanctity of Life Act at least five times, most recently earlier this year (HR 1096). The Act provides that as a matter of federal law life begins at conception and it removes federal court jurisdiction to review state laws restricting abortion.

      Michelle Bachmann has never co-sponsored the act (several Representatives have over the years) and at least in this term has introduced no legislation of her own on the subject. Bottom line–she’s done nothing as far as I can tell to try to end abortion while RP has repeatedly tried to do so.

      Her attack on RP on this point is way off base and she should be challenged on it. Would love to see someone point out specifically that Ron Paul has introduced legislation repeatedly to protect the unborn and Bachmann has refused to support it.

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  • Stoic one
    Posted on December 28, 2011 at 3:05pm

    hey there CHARLIE876Q
    I let the BLAZE know you are here….

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  • Detroit paperboy
    Posted on December 28, 2011 at 2:59pm

    Your buddy’s step sister is a broke internet whore, at least be honest…

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  • kramh
    Posted on December 28, 2011 at 2:59pm

    I know that most of you do not care for Romney. The problem is that the voters will not vote for someone that will reduce the amount of their government checks. That includes social security. We all understand that huge cuts need to be made now. Even if real uts were to happen , they will not be enough to matter. We might slow this train wreck down a little, but we are too far in debt to stop the coming pain. At this point I am more concerned about a tyrant like Obama continuing to make radical changes to our country. I do not think that Romney would not force a police state down our throats. Newt has some good ideas, but I would trust Romney more not to more damage with my liberty.

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    • Vechorik
      Posted on December 28, 2011 at 4:47pm

      Ron Paul says it’s not necessary to cut government assistance as he balances the budget.

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  • Detroit paperboy
    Posted on December 28, 2011 at 2:56pm

    Wow Mitt, way to take off those gloves bro, i mean that is reall some hard hittin stuff there buddy, i mean Lucy, come on that is just knock down drag out stuff ya got there buddy, i bet the Iranians are shakin in their boots now….. Ugh , we are so screwed

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    • READRIGHTHERE
      Posted on December 28, 2011 at 4:17pm

      Actually, the jab is pure brilliance. Who can get upset about being referenced to I Love Lucy. As you pointed out in your sarcasm, it doesn’t come across as particularly vicious. But the truth is, for those of us that have laughed our butts off watching Lucy and Ethel try to box chocolates in complete chaos, that picture attached to Gingrich says it all. How in the heck do you spend as many years as he did as an elected politician and Washington DC insider and not know that he needed to get signatures to even be on the ballot. His operation (his first example of our potential future White House) is laughable. I won‘t trust him to box our nation’s chocolates. He should stick to studying and writing about History, so that those who can get it done will have excellent reference material.

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  • Bro. Chuck
    Posted on December 28, 2011 at 2:48pm

    I‘m really getting depressed at these bozos’ antics

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  • DrFrost
    Posted on December 28, 2011 at 2:47pm

    Newt’s campaign managers messed up. There’s really not much more to say about it….

    As for Romney, as a governor he was for bigger government. Why am I to believe that as a president he won’t be bigger government? He has failed to answer that question to my satisfaction. I will not be voting for him in the Republican primary.

    But come November 2012 I will be voting for whoever has the best chance of beating Obama, whether that be a TPC or Romney. The absolute worst thing that can happen is four more years of Obama and I’m willing to put my personal desires aside in order to do whats best for the country as a whole.

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  • progressiveslayer
    Posted on December 28, 2011 at 2:45pm

    A progressive cat fight ya gotta love it.Mitt & Newt two progressives in a pod.

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    • SquidVetOhio
      Posted on December 28, 2011 at 3:25pm

      Let’s see, was the government bigger or smaller when Newt left office? Oh yea….. it was the only time in the 20th century that the government shrunk. If he’s a progressive, he’s a lousy one.

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    • progressiveslayer
      Posted on December 28, 2011 at 3:41pm

      He‘s in favor of the individual mandate which will be ruled unconstitutional and he wants to arrest judges that make rulings that he doesn’t care for.He‘s fond of TR the man who gave us the twisted ideology of progressivism so yeah he’s a progressive.

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    • Lloyd Drako
      Posted on December 28, 2011 at 3:56pm

      “The only tine in the 20th century that the government shrank?” It also shrank after World War I and, briefly, after World War II. its shrinkage in the 1990s may be as much attributable to the end of the Cold War as to either Gingrich or Clinton, though naturally both would like to take credit for it.

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    • TE4CAIN
      Posted on December 29, 2011 at 9:20pm

      It is astonishing to me that Newt Gingrich is the only one that has laid out a complete list describing all of the issues that need to be dealt with and has laid out a complete solution needed to deal with these issues and how he would approach initiating the solution. Each of the other candidates seem to spend most of their vocal time listing issues about what is wrong and that only they have a plan to fix it, but in telling us about all the problems, they forget to include any description about how they would accomplish fixing anything. I could stand up and tell you I had a plan all day, as long as I did not have to fill in any of the details.
      All I hear is how horrible everyone else is and watching as each are all too eager to peddle negative BS of untrue accusations about their opponents.
      Now as far as I am concerned the only person running for President that anybody needs to be pointing out as being a destructive unqualified person unable to help bring about the America we all want, is a complete failure as an American President, that has caused extreme misery and is hell-bent on a Socialist Marxist agenda is BARACK OBAMA.
      Talk about someone with Baggage, I think Barack Obama wins that category hands down!!!
      http://www.newt.org/news/video-newt-outlines-jobs-plan-iowa-townhall

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    • TE4CAIN
      Posted on December 29, 2011 at 9:26pm

      Using common sense, as Herman Cain used to say, Newt Gingrich is the only person that has explained in detail how he will approach the many problems we face with real Common Sense and intelligent solutions. Why not have a candidate that is talking about solutions, not how horrible their Republican opponent is.
      In stating the above, I am in no way trying to change any person’s opinion about the candidate of their choice, only point out that each of us should look, listen and compare what each candidate says. In my opinion, Newt Gingrich has the most detailed solutions map of anyone. Now that may change if all the other candidates start spending more time addressing solutions rather than taking cheap shots at their Republican opponents.
      http://www.newt.org/news/video-newt-outlines-jobs-plan-iowa-townhall

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  • MAC12ME
    Posted on December 28, 2011 at 2:40pm

    If you think Romney is a joke.. you haven’t done your own homework. http://www.nytimes.com/2011/12/25/us/politics/how-harvard-shaped-mitt-romney.html?_r=1&emc=eta1

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    • DrFrost
      Posted on December 28, 2011 at 2:49pm

      I agree. You can call him liberal, pro-government, progressive, etc…. but he‘s certainly proved he’s a serious contender for the Republican nomination.

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    • HippoNips
      Posted on December 28, 2011 at 2:49pm

      OH look , a NEW YORK TIMES article supporting the lefty Romney.

      OMG , I should take their claims as fact and switch my vote to the far left liberal ORomney

      NOT!!

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    • Santorum2012
      Posted on December 28, 2011 at 3:10pm

      Romney is no liberal and he has more Tea Party endorsements than any other candidate. Here is the group I belong to http://www.TeaPartyforRomney.com .

      At least he didn’t have to buy the Tea party support like Gingrich did. I have emails from Tea Party.net that says I should support Gingrich financially because Newt supports them financially. Want to see them?

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    • GilbertAcct
      Posted on December 28, 2011 at 3:14pm

      Santorum2012… Did you buy a new computer? Let’s see, Top_Down is for your home computer, mad_hatter_ is for your work computer… So Santorum2012 must be for you laptop right? Or maybe your iPhone? Didn‘t you claim once that you’ve never tried to hide who you are? So how do you explain posing as a Santorum fan now? What kind of Santorum fan creates fanatical websites for Mitt Romney? It looks like you are still representing the kind of behavior that we have come to expect from your candidate, who also tends to pose as something that he is not.

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    • Santorum2012
      Posted on December 28, 2011 at 3:17pm

      GilbertACCT,

      Huh?

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    • GilbertAcct
      Posted on December 28, 2011 at 3:32pm

      Santorum2012… “Huh?” Haha! You kill me fastfacts! Okay, simple yes or no question. Do you know anything about the websites thedailycandidate or americanparchment?

      PS… I already know the answer… You are sneaky, but not too smart.

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    • Vechorik
      Posted on December 28, 2011 at 4:50pm

      Check out DemocratsforRomney.com

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  • Dcjones
    Posted on December 28, 2011 at 2:00pm

    This guy is a joke!

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BI9yjhd8b84

    Report Post » Dcjones  

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