NASHUA, NH Newt Gingrich made an appearance at the Hillborough County Republican Gala in New Hampshire on the eve of the primary election here and said that winning the White House will be just the beginning of the fight for the GOP.
“We are a country where the incumbent president is going to have a billion dollars to attack and smear the Republicans. We are a country where every institution of the left is going to fight every day, so even if we win the presidency, that is only the beginning. But the struggle is going to go on. If you look at what is happening with Scott Walker in Madison, you have a pretty good idea of what this is going to be like.”
In Madison, newly-elected Governor Walker proposed a massive rollback of labor union’s collective bargaining rights, a roll-back which the former House Speaker seemed to suggest was orchestrated by the liberal media.
“They are going to try every single day to slow us down. They are going to try every single day to distract us. They are going to try every single day to put us in a corner, make us be on defense.”
Speaker Gingrich had vowed to run a positive campaign, but in Nashua drew contrasts with front-runner Mitt Romney, who he said wasn’t bold enough to stand up to President Obama.
“If we want to win, we had better have somebody who can get on that platform in October and defeat him in debates, and to defeat Obama in debates you have to know what you are doing, you have to know what you believe, you have to stand there and tell the truth even when the elite media and the president are lying about you. And if you are not clear in your head you cannot be clear with the country.”
Speaker Gingrich has languished in the back of the pack in polls here. He led nationally for several weeks before a barrage of negative advertising by Mr. Romney sunk his poll numbers.
Tonight, Mr. Gingrich bashed the former Massachusetts governor as a “Massachusetts moderate” who raised $750 million in taxes while serving as leader of New Hampshire’s neighboring state, including raising taxes on commuters and for “raising taxes on the blind”– a reference to an $10 fee Mr. Romney imposed on the visually impaired to receive a I.D. card identifying them as blind.
Mr. Gingrich described the measure as “scraping the bottom of the barrel.”
Mr. Gingrich has been competing hard in New Hampshire, but suggested that the real test would be in South Carolina, the next state to vote.
“I have always said South Carolina is the key. And I think we will do very well there. We win South Carolina, and we are in very good shape.”
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Dislike him more and more every day…
Bart, I never had any regard for him. The very fact that the Republican Party’s members can seriously consider this very flawed individual as a successor to Lincoln, Eisenhower, Regan and other great presidents is alarming. This fella lied, cheated and used his position to influence donations to his numerous shell fronts. He did this out in the open for all to see, the epitomy of an egomaniacal personality. Yet, many Americans would actually vote for him, we are in trouble as a nation if so many have such flawed ethics.
Bart, I never had any regard for him. The very fact that the Republican Party’s members can seriously consider this very flawed individual as a successor to Lincoln, Eisenhower, Regan and other great presidents is alarming. This fella lied, cheated and used his position to influence donations to his numerous shell fronts. He did this out in the open for all to see, the epitomy of an egomaniacal personality. Yet, many Americans would actually vote for him, we are in trouble as a nation if so many have such flawed ethics.
Washington is already seeing WI style or more accurately global anti-corporate, anti-greed style protests, as are many cities in the US and around the world. The spark that lit the world was a young man in Tunisia who set him self on fire in protest. Protests then spread across the world. Wisconsin lit the spark in the US for major protests but USUncut & UK uncut and I’m sure other movements led the way. I think I might even go as far as saying that the Koch brothers, Heritage foundation created group the Tea party brought awareness of the uninformed to the situation. Although these puppet-masters manipulated the genuine people who care about our country & misled them, they too are waking up. Their misdeeds will backfire on them as those they misled find out more about their motivations, manipulations and lies. I have been part of both the Wisconsin protests and the October2011 protests in DC that continue today. Freedom Plaza in DC has had a constant presence since the beginning of October and will only swell in the spring. A National Occupation of DC is scheduled for March 30th, I intend to be there again. In Wisconsin although we do not protest daily at the capitol we protest in many creative ways and we are active in removing the cancer that is Scott Walker and his minions from our government. The arrogant, uninformed, opportunist Newt Gingrich will be shown in the history books as one of the Reagan administration elected officials who greatly contributed to the dark ages of the US where our government was sold out to special interests and infected with greed and money once we the people extricate these cancers regardless of party from the US government and get it back to a government by the people and for the people, not corporations & the wealthy. Then the US and it’s people can work with other countries that respect human rights to coexist in a world that values people and our environment over profits and greed.
You many say I’m a dreamer, but I’m not the only one ……
Tom Paine how can you call a president great who engaged in a covert arms for hostages deal behind the back of a seated president – I call this treason.