Romney’s Surrogate Disaster Continues as Gingrich Debunks Welfare Ad

[Tx4obama]

It just keeps getting worse for Mitt Romney. When pressed on CNN tonight, Newt Gingrich admitted that Romney has no proof that Obama will end welfare to work.

Throughout the interview Anderson Cooper tried to get Newt Gingrich to answer questions about the wording of the ad, and whether or not it was accurate. At the very end of the interview, Cooper came back to the question and asked Gingrich if the ad was factually correct. Gingrich answered, “We have no proof today, but I would say to you under Obama’s ideology it is absolutely true that he would be comfortable sending a lot of people checks.”

It really can get worse, and for Mitt Romney when Newt Gingrich uttered the words we have no proof, it got a whole lot worse. The welfare to work ad was the big Romney attempt to change the course of the discussion of the campaign, and get people to stop talking about his tax returns. They alerted the media, sent out press releases, and even deployed Newt “the food stamp president” Gingrich to drive the point home.

Instead of defining Obama as a welfare loving socialist, Gingrich blew the whole thing by admitting that the Romney ad is factually baseless. It was something to watch Anderson Cooper work Gingrich. Cooper finally got Gingrich to tell the truth by playing to his ego, and asking him how he would have worded the ad. Ol’ Newt got carried away and let the truth slip that Romney’s ad is a pile of baloney.

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Full article and video here: http://www.politicususa.com/romneys-surrogate-disaster-continues-as-gingrich-debunks-welfare-ad.html

[freshwest]

1. You know it's bad when Newt starts to sound good...

[crazylikafox]

2. Maybe it's payback for the way Mitt treated him in the primaries

[Proud Liberal Dem]

3. Whoopsie!

This is just like like the NRA campaign to convince us that him not pushing any gun control measures during his first term just means that he WILL be pushing it in his second term.

[RedStateLiberal]

4. Earlier with Wolf, Gingrich defended Bachmann and McCarthyism

http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2012/08/08/gingrich-defends-bachmann-and-mccarthyism-there-were-real-spies/

Keep putting him out there as a surrogate Rmoney campaign!

[flpoljunkie]

5. As Rick might say, 'Oops!'

Thanks, Newtie!

[FSogol]

6. Who could have seen that coming?

[Myrina]

7. Well shit, he 'sends alot of people checks' all the time ...

... defense contractors, federal employees, state govt's, social security .... means absolutely nothing with regard to "handing out free welfare money" ...


Jaysus they're desperate.