Newt: I crossed the line...

[one_voice]

SPARTANBURG, S.C. — 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 disingenuousness about his conservatism and lay off the corporatist versus the free market. I think it’s nuanced,” said Dean Glossop, an Army Reservist from Inman, S.C.

“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.”

Gingrich spokesman R.C. Hammond issued a statement from the campaign Wednesday afternoon that pushed back on the reports of Gingrich moving away from his criticism of Bain.

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http://dyn.politico.com/members/forums/thread.cfm?catid=1&subcatid=70&threadid=6319715


LOL! Rush got angry so Newt apologizes. Freakin' coward.

Rush Limbaugh: Newt Gingrich 'Sounds Like Elizabeth Warren'

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/01/10/rush-limbaugh-newt-gingrich-bain-capital-elizabeth-warren_n_1197922.html

[Enrique]

1. but the full video is now available online

http://www.democraticunderground.com/10176037

[Lisa D]

2. "Obama just makes it impossible to talk rationally"

Now we know the reason Newt and the other repubican candidates say so many crazy, stupid things. Obama made them do it!

[MADem]

17. It's that Kenyan Mind Meld thing, doncha know!!!

Pic from this article: http://www.salon.com/2009/05/07/obama_spock/

[JoePhilly]

23. They think Obama's very existance is an attack on them ... that's how crazy they are.

[tosh]

3. Too late, though.

All the cats are out of the bag now.

Well. maybe not ALL of them, but a lot of cats.

[Spazito]

4. Gosh, I bet Newt is SO upset at the SuperPac that released...

the blistering, 28 minute long attack ad on Mitt today. I am sure if he had ANY influence he would try to have it pulled, yes indeedee!

[Avalux]

6. He won't admit to it.

He'll say they acted on their own without his consent. And yes - he would have tried to pull it!

[Spazito]

10. Yep, it is the old wink, wink, nod, nod...

practice of saying one thing in public while doing the opposite in private. What will be interesting is if the SuperPac doesn't put out the ads from the 28 minute video they had said they would, could that be collusion between the Gingrich campaign and the SuperPac which is illegal? We shall see, gotta love the circular firing squad the repubs have set up for themselves, lol.

[Avalux]

11. It's really fascinating.

Newt is following Rove's playbook....be bloviates about how he wants to run a nice campaign and scolds everyone else for negativity, then the 'PAC' releases the Romney movie. I am enthralled when Newt speaks; he's a genius at projection.

[Spazito]

12. Poor Newt probably wishes the internet and google were never invented...

because he used to be able to hoodwink people much, much more easily when his lies couldn't be revealed with the click of a mouse.

[willing dwarf]

24. Showing his age

Seems to me there's a whole lot of politicians who haven't kept up with the technological revolution, who don't get it that they are no longer the sole holder of facts and information, and that each of us can source the quotes they use.

Newt and others of his generation are being left in the dust by people who are more agile with the touch pad. Soon he'll just be another asterix in the history books, he who would have been the maker of history.

[sofa king]

20. I don't think he can admit to it.

If I remember correctly, there is a regulation that prevents a candidate from directly coordinating with their shadow-PACs.

It's clear the Republicans have already violated those rules--apparently many of the PACs are headed by former campaign officials from the candidates the PACs support. But I don't think any of us seriously expected the GOP to take any route other than the criminal one.

[dimbear]

5. In the immortal voice of WC Fields, an "African American in the fuel supply."

It always comes down to that eventually.

[Old and In the Way]

7. Poor Newt....Obama made him do it!

Another right wing victim.

[Terra Alta]

8. newt blames Obama for his mistakes?

Hey newt, it isn't Obama's fault you can't speak rationally; it's your lack of common sense.

[unkachuck]

9. the enormous weight....

....of the rich Mormon and wall street is now being felt by some of the pukes for speaking what everyone knows, the truth!

"And crony capitalism, where people pay each other off at the expense of the rest of the country, is not free enterprise," Gingrich said.

"I know the difference between venture capital[ism] and vulture capitalism," Perry said.

[SixthSense]

13. where's the rest of the quote?

"... and I'd do it again to get that bastard who is stealing the nomination from me!"

[EC]

14. I think Newt hates Romney so much

he now wants Obama to win.

[MjolnirTime]

15. Newt is Romney's worst nightmare.

[Permanut]

16. And that's his daughter with him, right?

No? His niece then?

[Botany]

18. Way to stand up for your convictions Newt

Looks like Newt got a "talking to" from the money people who
run the GOP.

[JCMach1]

19. Flip-flopper, he'll say anything to get elected...

LOL

[MarianJack]

21. newt finally speaks the truth, but still blames Obama.

Obama makes it impossible to speak rationally?

newt has been speaking irrationally for the full 30+ years I've seen him in politics.

The rethugs are so in love with the teabagger movement that they can't possibly speak rationally this year.

It's nice to see newt finally say something with a trace of veracity, though.

PEACE!

[Crowman1979]

22. It's the battle of the scumbags!

No point in taking the side of Newt or Mitt. I suggest we all sit back and enjoy the clown show.

[caseymoz]

25. He's in my mind!!! He's in my mind!!! Oh, and vote for me. nt