Gingrich: Romney Is a Liar, But I Could Support Him
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich insisted on Tuesday that that fellow candidate Mitt Romney was a "liar," but could support him over Barack Obama if the former Massachusetts governor became the eventual Republican nominee.
At a Monday campaign event, Gingrich had complained about Romney refusing to speak out against attack ads being aired by a pro-Romney Super PAC.
"Here is my simple tag line: Somebody who will lie to you to get to be president will lie to you when they are president," Gingrich told suporters.
In an interview Tuesday morning, CBS correspondent Norah O'Donnell asked Gingrich if he was calling Romney a "liar."
"Yes," Gingrich replied.
"You're calling Mitt Romney a liar?" O'Donnell pressed. "Why are you saying he is a liar?"
"Because this is a man whose staff created the PAC, his millionaire friends fund the PAC, he pretends he has nothing to do with the PAC - it's baloney," Gingrich said. "He's not telling the American people the truth."
After explaining that Gingrich had just called Romney a "flat-out liar," CBS host Bob Schieffer wanted to know if Gingrich could support Romney if he eventually won the GOP nomination.
"Sure," Gingrich said without hesitation. "I would support a Republican candidate against Barack Obama because I think Barack Obama is tearing the country apart."
"You're saying Mitt Romney would be a liar as president," O'Donnell pointed out.
"Yes," Gingrich agreed. "But less destructive than Barack Obama."
But there are some Republicans that even Gingrich would have trouble supporting over the current Democratic president.
In an interview with CNN last week, the Georgia Republican said that he could not vote for GOP hopeful Ron Paul.
"Here is my simple tag line: Somebody who will lie to you to get to be president will lie to you when they are president," Uhh. Gingrich is one of the biggest liars in politics.
Yes he is, but his self awareness is almost nil. He is intellectually challenged, in a classic way, as are all the republican candidates.
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-
Gingrich missed his chance. Why stop at just calling Romney a liar? Why not attribute several other crimes to Romney? Then he could say, "But I'm still going to support him."
What does this say about Newt? He would support a man he believes to be a liar for president of the united states? Guess he doesn't care much about his country or the people of his country. There you go other republicans other than Newt or Mitt, there's you next tv ad. You can thank me later.
Say what you mean. Mean what you say. But don't say it mean.
It says that he's willing to do anything if it means getting that "filthy n*gg*r" out of his (read: white peoples') White House.
"Whatever your particular problem is, I promise you, the Republicans are not the least bit interested in solving it. They are interested in two things, and two things only: making you afraid of it, and telling you who's to blame for it."
Liar and politician are synonyms.
Yes, but lying is at the core of republican philosophy - they are authoritarians, and for them the end justifies the means. They hate democratic America. They cannot be reasoned with, and they will never change.
"Government by organized money is just as dangerous as Government by organized mob"
-= Franklin Delano Roosevelt =-
of the fascist state, in which both parties are complicit.
Some people mistakenly equate money (lots of it) with power. No, my little grasshopper, real power is derived by lying.
The power of the lie is tremendous. You can lie your way to war. You can lie your way into untold (and unreported) riches and wealth. You can lie your way into people's hearts and have then open their wallets and give you and your false promises their hard earned money. You can lie to people and they will give you their sons and daughters to fight your "Just" war, enriching yourself and your crony friends. Lying is an art, mastered only by the those who abandon their souls and lust, cravenly, for the drug of power.
For when you experience the fawning of people towards your lies, you count the money that pours in after your speeches, you measure the tone and frequency of your lies and count the cash and plot your next great lie, more bold and audacious.
Yes, lying is the greatest drug of all. To witness how sycophantic lap dogs nod their heads and recite your prophetic messages like mindless zombies, all the while opening their wallets and pushing their children into your service.
Ahh, power. It's the greatest drug of all time.
. . . had his fingers crossed behind his back when he called Romney a liar? Gingrich is the last man in politics who should point an accusatory finger at anyone for any reason. He is without ethics or morals. And he's an asshole and liar.
..."lesser of two evils" thingy's.
audit-prosecute-incarcerate
got into a name calling contest.
maybe somebody could start a blog about that??
I bet it would be a good one...
Wall Street is just a parasite on the actual labor and investments of average Americans.
Banks play with futures, debt paper, complex financial instruments, and other peoples incomes.
Sell 'em short & help 'em crash - Tear 'em apart & sell the pieces
is a falsehood.
lies of omission, little white lies, everybody does it. the "level playing field", the "win/win" situation, the old "work hard and play by the rules" canard, that would be our emperor's fave rave.
this country lives a lie everyday of the week, give a physical break. you are going to call the gingrinch out on this? the ron paul bit? why at least old newtie pie can tell when someone's going to mess up a good thing, no more undeclared wars? what's a military industrial complex to do? where are the profits going to come from? book sales?
"I would support a Republican candidate against Barack Obama because I think Barack Obama is tearing the country apart."
What about Republican candidate Ron Paul?"
Newt the liar strikes again.
First they ignore us..then they ridicule us..now they are feeding us chicken crap- sign my petition:
http://www.change.org/petitions/fda-stop-feed...
www.ickenittlepost.com
is an expert on liars.
Up is down, Right is Left, Black is White...my mind is about to explode.
Newt, serial liar extraordinaire, actually says something truthful.
But...if a serial liar is saying something that seems to be the truth..is it actually a lie? I can't figure it out?
If his lips are moving, he's lying. Plain and simple. Does Newt just throw the occasional honest statement in there to fool his adversaries, or confound his critics? This guy is really a special creature. Slimy and smelly, and his origins somewhat shadowy, but there certainly hasn't been anyone like Newt since the Roman empire.
Doublethink
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doublethink
“ The power of holding two contradictory beliefs in one's mind simultaneously, and accepting both of them....To tell deliberate lies while genuinely believing in them, to forget any fact that has become inconvenient, and then, when it becomes necessary again, to draw it back from oblivion for just as long as it is needed, to deny the existence of objective reality and all the while to take account of the reality which one denies - all this is indispensably necessary. Even in using the word doublethink it is necessary to exercise doublethink. For by using the word one admits that one is tampering with reality; by a fresh act of doublethink one erases this knowledge; and so on indefinitely, with the lie always one leap ahead of the truth.[2] ”
think "level playing field", it's a win/win situation.
This is Political debate taken to level Iowans can understand.
Newt, says "Mitt you're a big fat liar".
Mitt immeditately responded with " I know you are but what am I?
Newt then double dog dared Mitt to a debate, loser has to stay in Iowa forever or least one more day.
These two calling each other names is like two monkeys having a turd chunking fight.
If not now, when?
if Romney is the nominee.
Ed-words
Newt said this is the biggest lie since Hitler told Poland he was only to stay over a couple of nights.
This was the biggest lie since Newt's second wife told him she was on birth control . I heart Newt.
If not now, when?
I guess that Citizen's United ruling isn't so nice when it bites you in the ass. I guess it isn't all bad is it? For whatever party is out of power or whose president has maxed his terms in office and has to have a nominating process is going to have to put up with all that money spent slanging those in the running. This should be damned interesting.
Hasa Diga Eebowai
What do you expect from a man that dumped his wife while she was in hospital battling cancer. This guy has no scruples.
It has come to this - endorsing liars.
Remember back to the (peace and prosperity) era that was Bill Clinton and the Rethuglicans were screaming "Character counts"...??
Neither do they.
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