Newt Gingrich pounded fellow Republican presidential candidate Mitt Romney
Tuesday for not releasing his income tax returns before South Carolinians vote
on Saturday.
“If you’re a South Carolinian, you say, ‘Wait a second, why don’t you want me
to know about it? Why are you going to wait until after I’ve voted?’ Last night
he conceded in principle that he owes it to the public to share it — strikes me
he ought to do it before South Carolina votes,” said Gingrich on CBS’s “This
Morning.”
Romney said at the debate Monday night that he will “probably”
release his tax returns around April, and that he’s “not opposed to doing
that.”
The former House speaker said that Romney’s decision to wait months before
releasing his income taxes “weakened” him.
“Last night, frankly, weakened him a little bit, and his refusal to release
his income tax weakened him some,” concluded Gingrich on the results of Monday’s
debate.
Gingrich added that he had to do two things in order to prevent Romney from
becoming the Republican nominee: convince voters he’s a more capable debater,
and convince uncertain Santorum and Perry voters that he’s the only one who can
stop the former Massachusetts governor.
“I think last night helped with both of them,” Gingrich said. “It’s going to
be a close run, but I think we can pull it off.”
Gingrich also addressed comments he made about how black Americans should
demand jobs instead of food stamps.
“That is true for all Americans … the context was I would love to be invited
by the NAACP to come to their convention because the president has particularly
failed to pay attention to the tremendous amount of unemployment,” said
Gingrich. We’ve had 43 percent black teenage unemployment. That’s a disaster. It
sets up a social pattern where it’s very hard for young people to get jobs, get
in the jobs market.”
I thought Newt Gingrich won the debate with an extremely strong, sound and intelligent argument FOR the continuation of the Reagan Revolution, which was derailed by the Establishment Republican folks, like “read my lips no new taxes” Mr. Bush Sr. Newt Gingrich schooled Juan Williams in the debate, went and exposed himself to a hostile black congregation, is going to follow President Obama around as our nominee until he agrees to 7 Lincoln-style debates, and will school Obama in those debates and win the election, in my opinion. Newt has done great things FOR America, like Welfare Reform and balancing her budgets, along with helping create an environment that created over 20 million jobs through the Reagan and Clinton presidencies. He has worked across the aisle to get great things done FOR America, and if given the chance, he will do it again, restoring America to its exceptionalism once more. Go Newt!
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I thought Newt Gingrich won the debate with an extremely strong, sound and intelligent argument FOR the continuation of the Reagan Revolution, which was derailed by the Establishment Republican folks, like “read my lips no new taxes” Mr. Bush Sr. Newt Gingrich schooled Juan Williams in the debate, went and exposed himself to a hostile black congregation, is going to follow President Obama around as our nominee until he agrees to 7 Lincoln-style debates, and will school Obama in those debates and win the election, in my opinion. Newt has done great things FOR America, like Welfare Reform and balancing her budgets, along with helping create an environment that created over 20 million jobs through the Reagan and Clinton presidencies. He has worked across the aisle to get great things done FOR America, and if given the chance, he will do it again, restoring America to its exceptionalism once more. Go Newt!
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