Gingrich to Romney: 'Drop the Pious Baloney'
During a GOP debate on Sunday, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich told Mitt Romney to "drop the pious baloney" after the former Massachusetts governor asserted that for him, "politics is not a career."
"I think it's understandable and perhaps unusual that people who spend their life in politics imagine that if you get in politics that that's all you want to do," Romney said defending his decision not run for re-election as Massachusetts governor. "I went to Massachusetts to make a difference. I didn't go there to begin a political career, running time and time again. I made a difference, I put in place the things I wanted to do."
"Are you going to tell people you're not going to run for re-election for president if you win?" former Pennsylvania Rick Santorum interrupted.
"This for me, politics is not a career," Romney, who began running for office in 1994, replied. "For me, my career was being in business. ... I long for a day when, instead of having people who go to Washington for 20 and 30 years, who get elected and then when they lose office, they stay there and they make money as lobbyists or connecting to businesses. I think it stinks."
NBC debate moderator David Gregory gave Gingrich a chance to respond.
"Look, can we drop a little bit of the pious boloney?" Gingrich quipped. "The fact is, you ran in '94 and lost. That's why you weren't serving in the Senate with Rick Santorum. The fact is you had a very bad re-election rating. You dropped out of office. You had been out of state for something like 200 days preparing to run for president. You didn't have this interlude of citizenship while you thought about what to do. You were running for president while you were governor."
"You then promptly re-entered politics," he added. "You happened to lose to [Arizona Sen. John McCain] as you had lost to [former Massachusetts Sen. Edward Kennedy]. Now, you're back running. You've been running consistently for years and years and years and years. So, this idea that suddenly citizenship showed up in your mind, just level with the American people. You've been running for at least since the 1990s."
"I happen to see my dad run for governor when he was 54 years old," Romney replied. "He said, 'Mitt, never get involved I politics if you have to win election to pay a mortgage.'"
"I never thought I'd get involved in politics," the former Massachusetts governor continued. "When I saw Ted Kennedy running virtually unopposed in 1994 -- a man who I thought by the virtue of the liberal welfare state had created a permanent underclass in America -- I said someone's got to run against him. ... I was happy that he had to take a mortgage out on his house to ultimately defeat me."
No harm, no foul. No difference.
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I don't know when someone is going to point out the obvious bullshit lie that businessman make good government, but I have about had my fill of morons who still believe this complete and utter bullshit!
Many of our worst leaders came highly touted from the business sector. Many of our greatest leaders were miserable failures as businessmen. This is no coincidence.
Besides, Mitten's wasn't even a businessman. He made his money the old fashioned republican way - as a rich kid who used his connections and money to make himself even richer, at the expense of working people and the poor. Basically he's a typical GOP sociopath.
If I were a psychopath, I would join the republican party, and get in on the gravy train taking the Teabircher morons to the cleaners.
Because I'm RICH I tell ya RICH, and he was NOT! Oh Jeeves, Bring me over one of those common folk. I'm going to eat caviar off of his nipples, and then kick him until he's hopsitalized. But he doesn't have insurance because he's POOR! And it's his fault! Hahahaha!
Christ, this tool should be so easy to beat in Nov.
You first, Mr. Cheating, 3 Times Married, Devoted Once Again to a 3rd Religious Dogma, Who Doesn't Want to be President Anyway.
He learned the word 'pious' in Catechism. Fat arsehole.
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Janek
with a career spent in politics anyway? As with any endeavor practice makes perfect and in politics the regular performance reviews that are elections give everyone a say in that. I can think of more than a few people whose lives spent in politics made everyone better off. Roosevelt springs to mind.
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Nothing, really, but I might question why.
Some people really do want to make the world better. I think Mittens needs something else to conquer; a new trophy for his shelf; more ego stroking.
far left loon >.<
"you've got a degree in baloney"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=swDpWNKB5Co
'Talk to the hand'
.......real intelligent strategy kicking the dead Kennedy. Fib Newton ribbing Romney about losing elections when Fib has never won an election outside of his own district.
'Talk to the hand'
Golly, what a fun election this is going to be. This is the party of "grown ups"? that put on their "big boy pants" and make "adult decisions?"--these guys here? I'm glad I don't have to vote for any of them.
I'm hoping for many months more.
Ignorance is parent to religion.
Religion is parent to Hate.
Remember Matthew Shepard:
http://vimeo.com/fuksnickityClam/matthew
As he has his head tilted and bent looking up through his eyebrows at everybody as he attempts to lecture them as if he is so ... so.... uh pious. What a dick. And that is the reason everybody hates Newtoon.
Is that served with Grey Poupon?
Before enlightenment - chop wood, carry water. After enlightenment - chop wood, carry water.
Mention Raygun and watch the piety begin.
far left loon >.<
A new player has announced their "Canadacy"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BrhA0sEkuaM&fe...
Ron Paul knocked him down a few notches last night about being chicken hawk.
So the Mitster is "Proud" that he spend six months running against Ted Kennedy, probably a few million dollars, and "forced him to get a mortgage on his house"....
Pretty high goals there, Mitt!
Two conservative dicks. I'm so tired of seeing these same ugly faces on my teevee screen. I hate fame, the same bullshit people are constantly paraded on the idiot box for the sheeple as fucking entertainment. I get tired of seeing these old damn celebrities, fuck them. These idiots are not fun, and not news to me.
sorry folks but my Sand-O-Matic 6000 Hypocrisy Detector just blew itself to smithereens.
Newt ... the walking personfication of self righteous pious baloney and full time immoral scumbag liar and deadbeat phlanderer...telling someone else to drop the pious baloney? The man who shut down the US government because he didnt get the plane seat he wanted?
Mwaaa ha ha ha ha ha
As my icon, Father Jack Hackett, would say....
FECK ORF!!!!!
He's such a brilliant politician.
Sure, he's a total scumbag lying POS, but he's one crafty critter!
Only the Newtster can deliver such verbal punches.to the jaw. This quote was widely re-reported and its sound-bite potential blew holes all over the Romney campaign strategy.
This was a total "Oh Shit!" moment for the Romney campaign. No more playing the folksy, good ol' boy routine, but good old Newt saw his slack jaw just hanging there, so he reared up a delivered an uppercut to Mitten's jaw, putting him on the ropes. Newt and Santurm tag-teamed and mittens could only hope for the buzzer.
Round 2: Coming up.
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