Brutal Newt Gingrich Ad in the Works
Newt Gingrich is responding to last night’s debate with a brutal new ad accusing Romney of trying to mislead, deceive, and distort his way to the White House.
Here’s the money line: ”What kind of man would mislead, distort and deceive just to win an election? This man would: Mitt Romney.”
The ad essentially accuses Romney of lying at least twice in the debate last night: 1) about his blind trust and, 2) about his vote for Paul Tsongas in 1992.
The ad is still being produced, but here is the full ad script:
Governor Mike Huckabee:
“If a man’s dishonest to get a job, he’ll be dishonest on the job.”
Voice-over:
“What kind of man would mislead, distort and deceive just to win an election?”
“This man would: Mitt Romney.”
“Romney said he has always voted Republican when he had the opportunity.”
“But in the 1992 Massachusetts Primary Romney had the chance to vote for George H.W. Bush or Pat Buchanan, but he voted for a liberal Democrat instead.”
Romney said his investments in Fannie and Freddie were in a blind trust.
But, as reported in the National Journal,Romney earned tens of thousands of dollars from investments NOT in a blind trust.
Romney denied seeing a false ad his campaign used to attack Newt Gingrich.
But Romney’s own campaign paid for the ad…and Romney’s own voice is on the ad approving its false content.
If we can’t trust Romney in a debate, how can we trust him in the White House?
In response to the ad, Huckabee issued the following statement on Friday afternoon:
“Any use of an out of context quote from the Republican Presidential primary 4 years ago in a political ad to advocate for the election or defeat of another candidate is not authorized, approved, or known in advance by me. I have made it clear that I have not and do not anticipate making an endorsement in the GOP primary, but will support the nominee. My hope is to defeat Barack Obama and win majorities in both the House and Senate, not to attack any of the Presidential candidates who might be our nominee.”

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NEWT is right, Romney has been lying about a lot of things. And when you question him about it, he hides behind the “PAC” Except last night he got caught lying. At the end of the ad it said “I’m Mitt Romney, and i approved this message.”
He’s a moderate at best who cowers to the polls. Romney is not presidential material. And neither is Obama!
Posted by: TALL MAKO | January 27, 2012, 11:02 am 11:02 am
This guy is such a letch. He claims OTHER people are doing EXACTLY what he does on a regular basis. Newt is a weasel and he will NEVER become President. This man LIES so much that even HE believes himself.
Posted by: demNme5 | January 27, 2012, 11:04 am 11:04 am
Newt’s got a problem with lying. That’s funny!
Posted by: Brave Brick | January 27, 2012, 11:14 am 11:14 am
Beating on Newt is easy. He has so many places to hit……..It’s not hard to imagine what would happen to him and his ideas should he somehow wind up as the GOP nominee. Frankly, I can’t imagine what the GOP primary voters are thinking when they waste their votes on such an unethical person…..On the other hand, Romney’s only fault is that he appears to be good at making money. A capitalist in a capitalisitic economy. Who cares if he has an inconsistent record at being a conservative? He’s smart, experienced, and looks good on the billboards….Paul is a nut-job, plain and simple. Too bad the voters haven’t given Santurom his due.
Posted by: munster42 | January 27, 2012, 11:20 am 11:20 am
In all honesty, both of them are used to lying so much, it is second nature; they can’t talk straight to their own mother! shortly after saying he didn’t see any of the ads his superpac is running, Romney said in the same debate, that “in the ad he saw, there was nothing negative.” I thought he just said that he didn’t see any of the ads?
Posted by: dabu | January 27, 2012, 11:31 am 11:31 am
For those of you who think that running a business somehow makes you a better president and is the same us running a govt, let me remind you that George Bush was a business man too. he owned and run the Texas rangers!
Posted by: dabu | January 27, 2012, 11:35 am 11:35 am
People, you are not buying a Big Mac., I am never sure why people are swayed by Political Ads, as if they are not slanted to paint the opposition in the worst light. Become informed People. Go to the Cogressional Record to look up Newt’s record as speaker, Look at Romney’s time as governer, Santorums time in public life, Ron Pauls record. Are people really that stupid that they can be won over by a simple ad?. Read articles about each candidate and realize that the truth lay somewhere in between. Just make informed votes, not based on a Political Ad’s solely.
Posted by: MiketheElectrician | January 27, 2012, 11:50 am 11:50 am
Mr. Gingrich is more of a bully/spoiled child lashing media for asking questions. Which personally I think are way to soft and easy. Mr. Gingrich reminds me of a commercial for Sour Patch Kid. Where the Kid squeeze the pigeon on the boy and then wants to be friends. Mr. Gingrich is squeezing that pigeon all over Mitt in front of the press and in ads but then wants to be his friend in the debates.
Posted by: MTATL67 | January 27, 2012, 12:16 pm 12:16 pm
what a laugh. i wouldn’t trust Newt with my beautiful wife, much less being president.
Posted by: walter crockett | January 27, 2012, 12:21 pm 12:21 pm
Being an independent i am sick of hearing these arguements. I do not care about what you did i want to know what your going to do. I have investments that include Fannie and Freddie so what!!! some of my invetsments cover oil, green energy as most of you also have. So what
Posted by: Jim Rod | January 27, 2012, 12:31 pm 12:31 pm
A great irony of Romney and the republican establsihment’s tactics are they are making Newt a Washington ‘outsider.’
Newt can make hay with this in the general election.
Posted by: zumwalt | January 27, 2012, 1:01 pm 1:01 pm
Well of COURSE Newton is going really, really ugly and nasty. A leopard can’t change his spots. Newton IS a really, really ugly and nasty guy. The only surprise is he waited this long…
Posted by: A Cynic | January 27, 2012, 1:36 pm 1:36 pm
I laugh when Newt attacked Mitt on his great financial fortune. Newt is not a pauper either as anyone with an open account at Tiffany’s can’t be poor. Both are so far from what is really going on in this country and the hurt many are suffering. They say a lot of words but when you ask them what is their policy…they say to continue the tax breaks for the wealthy (who they call the job creators and that is a laugh) and when someone asked Mitt Romney where would they get this money from..he said I’ll have to tax those making under 40,000. These are the very people who cannot afford the tax ….do they ever think of anything else but making money? Both of them…they cannot relate. Newt claims to have worked on every project since 1969 that has gone on in Washington…one wonders where he found the time to cheat if he was that busy? Me thinks he brags too much. How egotistic of him to say in my second term as president….I will make sure we have a station on the moon. Where does he come off….he hasn’t one but one primary. The selection of candidates by the republicans have been poor to say the least. Many do not want Newt…even his own party. They ran him out of the speaker’s job because of impropriaties…should that have disqualified him from this job not to mention his lack of morals. Yet, some so called religious right think he is great because he tells people off. That does not make for a good president. Romney has his own problems in convincing people he can understand their problems but some of his ideas say otherwise. Ron Paul wants to take you back twenty years…we have come a long way baby…he has not. And Santorum whom I thought was a kinder person, did not have the courage to tell the woman who called Pres. Obama a muslem and said he had no right to be president….as a christian ..he should have said, I disagree with him but he is not a muslim… he would have scored more points had he at least done that as Mc Cain had. As a former republican…I see no one I could vote for in that party….now as an Independent…I will continue to support the one person who is talking about the middle class for a change. President Obama.
Posted by: talmag | January 27, 2012, 1:44 pm 1:44 pm
By “brutal” you must mean “truthful”.
Posted by: Wendy | January 27, 2012, 2:34 pm 2:34 pm
I am so tired of hearing about Newt’s alleged ethics violations. Yet another lie by Romney. Yes, Newt paid $300,000, but if any of you have ever been sued, sometimes you pay costs, sometimes you settle just to put it behind you. The pertinent facts of that ethics scandal are: 1. Only 1 out of hundreds were voted on; 2. The violation was him using 501c3 (charitable funds) to fund a college political science course that was deemed too political; 3. the charges were brought by the guy who he defeated in his last election; 4. the 300,000 was paid to end the ordeal not as a confession of guilt (or in shame); 5. He did not resign in disgrace. In fact he was re-elected as Speaker of the House after that and resigned 2 years later as speakers sometimes do when there is a shift in power; 6. THE IRS EXONERATED HIM!!! He was cleared of all any violation of the 501c3 laws that resulted in the 300,000 payment of Congressional investigation costs in the first place. I challenge any of you to try to navigate the mine field of 501c3 accountability laws. Its very tough to dot your i’s and cross your t’s in this confusing tax area.
Also, Romney’s PAC is CONTINUING to lie about Gingrich’s connection with Reagan. There is a video where in 1995 Nancy Reagan (speaking for Ronald) said that Barry handed the torch to Ronnie and Ronnie handed the torch to Newt, etc.
Romney is a pathological liar, and eventually the public is going to get tired of him feigning lack of knowledge every time he is caught in yet another lie.
Also, I have never seen a Presidential candidate that outbests the best “mean girl” in high school . Those ads: this person said Newt is disgusting; that person said Newt is shameless; this person said Newt is deplorable. In other words, “Newt is bad, anyone who is anyone says so.” So, you should follow the “in crowd” and think he is bad too. Yuk!!! How mean girl childish. Romney should NOT get anywhere near the White House.
Posted by: GigiC | January 27, 2012, 3:53 pm 3:53 pm
This is fun… And we’re supposed to want to vote for one of these clowns once the primaries are over? Will the losers endorse the winner of the nomination?
Posted by: Sandy | January 27, 2012, 5:51 pm 5:51 pm
ABC NEWS is a part of the controlling establishment, the powers that be in this country, in case anybody didn’t now. And even though I enjoyed watching them when Peter Jennings and Ted Koppel were around, they are not the same, and they can no longer be trusted for objective reporting. Judging by the transcript, that commercial was definitely not brutal. When Gingrich points out something negative about another candidate, the establishment press tries to make him look angry, mean, or unstable. But they are not fooling me, and I sincerely hope that they are not fooling the Republicans down in Florida. The reason why the polls have been swaying back and forth shouldn’t be a mystery to anyone. People are just now tuning into the election and whatever they say in a poll is an unstable and soft vote. But you are not going to hear that too much from the news media. What you are going to hear and see is Romney’s name, repeated over and over, and that repetition of his name is what creates name recognition, and name recognition plays an important factor in the polls and in the election. It’s going to be difficult to try to get through to people with such a constant and destructive force –which the news media is– going against you. But people are not stupid and Gingrich is well aware of the persuasive nature of the establishment press, and so, I am hoping that he is able to buy some large blocks of air time in Florida for the next four nights with very poignant and convincing speeches, and I am hoping that he will be able to get through to enough of the electorate in time. Good Luck Newt. And for those Republican Floridians out there, please do not allow the establishment hacks in the news media to persuade you on who to vote for. Thank you.
Posted by: Jeff | January 27, 2012, 8:07 pm 8:07 pm