Pro-Romney super PAC slams Gingrich as "desperate"

An outside group backing Mitt Romney for president is criticizing Newt Gingrich for attacking their candidate even as it launches its own offensive against the former House speaker.

"Restore our Future," a super PAC backing Romney, is airing a television ad in South Carolina and Florida that chastises rival Newt Gingrich for attacking the former Massachusetts governor's record running investment firm Bain Capital.

Gingrich and Romney -- and the super PACs backing their campaigns -- have been aggressively attacking each other in recent weeks. For instance, super PAC allied with Gingrich called "Winning Our Future" is targeting Romney for his leadership at Bain Capital, casting him as a corporate "raider" whose company orchestrated the layoffs of hundreds of workers.

In its new ad, the pro-Romney super PAC charges that "Newt attacks because he has more baggage than the airlines." The ad charges "Newt was fined $300,000 for ethics violations, took $1.6 million from Freddie Mac, and co-sponsored a bill with Nancy Pelosi that would have given $60 million a year to a U.N. program supporting China's brutal one-child policy."

Gingrich's legal counsel has threatened to sue television stations should they continue to air the ad, NBC reports. They claim that Gingrich was never "fined" $300,000 for ethics violations but rather paid Congress that amount to reimburse it for the costs of his ethics investigation. Restore our Future maintains the ad is legitimate.

The ad is part of the super PAC's $2.3 million ad buy in South Carolina, where the next Republican primary takes place on January 21. The race for the GOP presidential nomination is expected to get ugly in the Palmetto state.

Some conservatives have criticized Gingrich for attacking Romney's business record, saying it amounts to an attack on free enterprise, but in Columbia, South Carolina today, Gingrich kept up his populist rhetoric.

"I think when you have crony capitalism of politicians taking care of their friends- that's not free enterprise--that's just backdoor socialism in which the rich get all the money and the rest of us gets left, gets left with all the debt," he said. "And I'm not going to back down or be afraid to say we the American people have the right to know and any candidate for president has an obligation to tell us."

With reporting from Sarah Huisenga

[Ben37221]

Romney is a job killer, a vulture, and a certified outsourcer. Say what you may about Newt personel bargage, he does have a proven record as speaker to show for it. Clinton/Gingritch partnership created more jobs than any other administration in the past 50 years.
Compare to Romney who have helped shipped more jobs overseas as much as any other outsourcer in the country. No doubt that Romney is very smart. He is very smart at outsourcing and killing jobs. That is not the kind of skill this country need right now.

[tsigili]

Just the opposite......Gingrich beat him in the debates, and in order to win, Romney attacked with half truths and lies, against Gingrich, while Gingrich tried to run a positive campaign.

Now that Gingrich is returning the attacks, Romney wants to paint a lie.

Let the battle wage, and let the voters decide who to believe.

[TJphoto]

Oh how I love watching the republican playbook in action.

[NewtsArmy]

One day a man looked for a good home builder.
So the man asked "Bob The Builder" to share the whereabouts of his completed homes.
But "Bob The Builder" became furious at the man and said "that is an attack on my honesty!"

The next day the man looked for a good Princess.
So the man asked "Cinderella" to share her foot size.
But "Cinderella" became very furious with the man and said "that is an attack on privacy!"

The next day the man looked for a good Kitchen Chef.
So the man asked "Ratatouille" to share some of his cooking.
But "Ratatouille" became very furious at the man and said "that is an attack on goodwill!"

The next day the man looked for a good Jobs Creator.
So the man asked "Romney" to share where the jobs he created could be located.
But "Romney" became very furious and said "that is an attack on all Capitalism!"
So the story was FRAMED against the man and told again and again by all of "Romney's" surrogates, day after day after day!

[nearl451]

Here is an economic quandry question: Does Superpac spending help or hurt the economy? Since most of the money goes for media advertising, does it generate anything useful to our economy at all. Instead of commercials thaturge "buy our product" we have commercials that either say "buy our candidate" or "fear the other candidate".

I'm thinking that they may be the biggest cash holes of all time.

[msimamaji]

100,000 jobs in 15 years.

That amounts to 6,666.666 a year. That's the number of jobs Bain Capital generated when Romney was in charge. Of course, Romney doesn't explain how many jobs he destroyed or off-shored - or how much money he made. Also he doesn't explain to us the wages and working conditions that workers in his restructured companies received.

Obama's 2009 stimulus program generated a lot more jobs per year than did Bain Capital. So would Obama's Jobs Now program. The only complaint I have with Obama is that both proposals are way too timid when you examine the unemployment rate.

Our infrastructure is falling to pieces and global climate change is going to wreak additional havoc on our infrastructure. We'll need to spend more to maintain our infrastructure, not less. We also need to free ourselves from fossil fuels - or we will face a real horror story.

Neither Bain Capital nor Mitt Romney will produce these jobs. Let's tax the greedy to provide jobs for the needy.