Newt Gingrich: Had I Known Romney Owned Stock In Freddie Mac, I ‘Would’ve Had A Pretty Good Zinger’

On her radio show today, host Laura Ingraham asked former Speaker Newt Gingrich the questions that really matter. For one: Does he do how own laundry? (She asked with tongue firmly in cheek, of course, but the way some were ravenously discussing the recently-circulated photo of Romney doing his own laundry, to say this question “matters” isn’t, unfortunately, entirely untrue!) And for the record, yes, Gingrich did indeed do his own laundry on Sunday. Why Ingraham didn’t then ask whether he uses fabric softener is beyond me. She did say, however, that she’s looking for a president who doesn’t have time to do his own laundry. “We don’t need Tide spokesmen, ok?”

Moving on the debate, Ingraham noted that Gingrich seemed to “hang back” a little. “Part of it was the format,” he explained. “They had been instructed beforehand not to applaud, the room was much smaller. I don’t go in and automatically do things, I go in and try to feel the mood and feel the situation we’re in.” Plus, he added, “this was Romney’s night to be desperate:”

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This was Romney’s night to be desperate and my job was to, frankly, not make a major mistake and let him pound away and pound away and pound away until he disgusted people. And I think from our perspective it worked reasonably well. Now, I must confess, had I known that he owned stock in Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac I probably would have had a pretty good zinger at that point but we didn’t learn that until we left the debate last night.

Concerning Gingrich’s missing contracts with Freddie Mac, the candidate said only that he has no idea where they are, but that Freddie Mac “presumably” has copies of them and that they do not contain the word “lobby.” And, reiterating something he’d said during the debate, Gingrich said that Romney had said so many false things about him during the debate, that his team is prepared to put up a website dedicated to refuting his statements.

As for what the future may hold for Ron Paul should Gingrich become our next president, Gingrich said that “I think there would be a role for him,” but that “I’m not sure [putting] him in the administration is necessarily the right way to approach it.” That said, “I do think that his values and his goals would be important and I think he’d play a major role at the convention. Which the McCain people did not give him.”

Have a listen, courtesy of The Laura Ingraham Show:

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