Santorum to FL: Conservatives Ousted Speaker Gingrich
Mitt Romney, Newt Gingrich, POTUS 9:57 AM
Newt Gingrich has taken some sharp jabs on the campaign trail recently - not from rival Mitt Romney, but Rick Santorum.
In Coral Springs this weekend, Santorum launched his Florida campaign by taking Gingrich to task over his short tenure as Speaker of the House. Broadsiding Gingrich from the Right, Santorum said it was conservatives that wanted Gingrich fired as leader. “When Newt was speaker of the House, within three years conservatives in the House of Representatives tried to throw him out and in the fourth year they did. Why? Because he wasn’t governing as a conservative!” Santorum said.
Rick Santorum had an alarming take on Newt Gingrich's "conservative" record:
Santorum on healthcare: “For 20 years, Congressman Gingrich has demanded and encouraged and fought to get a mandate from the federal level – the very thing that the attorney general in this country is fighting for at the Supreme Court,” Santorum said. “Up until last year, Speaker Gingrich supported that mandate.”
Santorum on pandering: “We don’t need someone who sits on a couch with Nancy Pelosi – I mean it’s not as bad as sitting with Debbie Wasserman Schultz, but it’s close,” Santorum said, to loud cheers. “I’m not gonna sit on the couch with anybody!”
Santorum on rhetoric and record: “He didn’t live up to all of the hype. If you look at what he tried to do and what he accomplished, it just didn’t match with what he said.”
For his attacks on the media and rhetoric against Romney, Speaker Gingrich certainly sounds the dog whistle for conservative voters. His record, however, is cautionary at best. Florida Republicans should take a serious look at Gingrich's past before they cast their ballot. Historians often recall that Gingrich's greatest accomplishment as Speaker was securing a second term for President Bill Clinton. Is that the legacy we want repeated?
Florida Republicans, you decide...
Posted by Nick Stone
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While I agree that dws and nancy cannot be dealt with, santorums loose lips and negativity seem to be sinking the republican ship. While his rants may have won evangelicals in Iowa, I believe he's portraying a party of narrow minded individuals that obama has been telling the world we are... counterproductive of what we're trying to do. the two front runners are just as bad. it's obvious we've moved past the "no negative ads" and into complete war. Times up and I still haven't given 100% of my support to any candidate because with all of the negativity it's hard to see the lesser of evils. it's unfortunate christie didn't throw his hat in the ring, then we'd debate positive track records over who failed worse, whos more of a crook, who's a nut, etc...