Newt Gingrich signaled Wednesday that he believes his criticism of Mitt Romney’s record at Bain Capital is a mistake — and that he’s created an impression that he was echoing Democratic rhetoric.
Gingrich conceded the problem when pressed by a Rick Santorum supporter at a book-signing here Wednesday.
“I’m here to implore one thing of you. I think you’ve missed the target on the way you’re addressing Romney’s weaknesses. I want to beg you to redirect and go after his obvious disingenuous about his conservatism and lay off the corporatist versus the free market. I think it’s nuanced,” Dean Glossop, an Army Reservist from Inman, S.C., said.
“I agree with you,” Gingrich said. “It’s an impossible theme to talk about with Obama in the background. Obama just makes it impossible to talk rationally in that area because he is so deeply into class warfare that automatically you get an echo effect. … I agree with you entirely.”
After ditching promises of a positive campaign, Gingrich had been leading a multi-candidate pile-on of candidates attacking Romney’s Bain record, starting in Sunday’s debate and continuing in campaign events Tuesday. If he pulls back on the criticism now, it would be the latest abrupt shift in tactics from a candidate whose campaign has been full of them.
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This will either convince people’s he really is a fool who is never quite sure what he believes in from one day to the next, OR he is really the only honest man in politics, who actually admits he makes mistakes and apolgizes
or both
man its to late u lost it Forever!!
All the candidates of all the parties, every one of them, are shakranim.
We have to do our histadlus (i.e., evaluate their positions as objectively as possible and vote accordingly), but ultimately the leadership of the United States, as all nations, will be determined by Hashem, based on the spiritual level of Klal Yisroel.
Hashem Yishmor.
This article reports that Newt (“Chuckie”) Gingrich said: “I agree with you …. It’s an impossible theme [corporatist versus free market] to talk about with Obama in the background. Obama just makes it impossible to talk rationally in that area because he is so deeply into class warfare that automatically you get an echo effect. … I agree with you entirely.”
This is just another glaring example of Newt’s inability to take responsibility for anything he says or does. He is blaming the mere existence of Barak Obama for his (i.e., Newt’s) statements that unregulated private equity funds have adverse impacts on other Americans. Newt is flip-flopping as much as he alleges Mr. Romney is flip-flopping. Newt’s inability to make a clear and politically acceptable (to Newt) statement about private equity funds has nothing to do with President Obama. Newt and other Republicans know that they will offend a portion of their target audience if they defend private equity funds, which in many instances have – at least in the short run – adverse effects on middle-class wage earners. So Newt falls back on his excuse for every mistake he makes – somebody else is to blame. This is the second-lamest excuse he has offered since he blamed his “love of country” for his failures to love his first 2 wives.
Please, Newt, bring down Romney and thereby insure the well deserved re-election of President Obama.
I just love the fact that the first victim of the Citizens United horror is a conservative, brought down by another Republican. And you know nothings loved the case because you saw Democrats as the likely targets of unlimited fat cat funding of political campaign.