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Newt Gingrich To GMA: George Soros Said ‘He’s Perfectly Happy With Either Obama Or Romney’

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GOP presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich gave an interview to ABC’s Good Morning America, where he told host George Stephanopoulos, where he invoked the words of none other than influential liberal magnate George Soros.

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The tension between Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich has been heating up as the two prepare for the Florida primary, prompting Gingrich to “bring out the big guns” — the fact that George Soros recently shared wouldn’t exactly move to Canada over the idea of a Romney presidency.

“I think Romney’s problem,” Gingrich told Stephanopoulos, “is that the big truth beats the big lie. George Soros in Europe yesterday said publicly in a Reuters interview on video that he’s perfectly happy with either Obama or Romney, that they’re the same people. Minor differences. He said “Gingrich, now, that would be a real change.’”

Romney “can bury me for a very short amount of time with four or five or six times as much money, most raised of it raised on Wall Street from the guys who got bailouts from the government,” Gingrich added. “In the long run, the Republican party is not going to nominate the founder of RomneyCare, a liberal Republican who is pro-abortion, pro-gun control and pro-tax increase. It ain’t gonna happen.”

RELATED: Newt Gingrich Suggests He Did Poorly In Florida Debates Because He Was ‘Amazed’ By Romney’s Lies

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  • Anonymous

    Newt trashing people for spewing lies. That is richer than Romney’s net worth.

  • Anonymous

    In the same way that the Koch brothers would be perfectly happy with either Romney or Gingrich.

  • Anonymous

    The Koch Brothers are happy Herman (their brother from another mother) has endorsed Newt. 

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Emma-Thomas/100003357377085 Emma Thomas

    If I were Newt I wouldn’t mention Obama. Obama looks good next to anyone, but next to Gingrich…  Not a good idea to believe your own BS, Newt.

  • Anonymous

    George Soros? The end must be closer than I thought if Gingrich is sounding this desperate. Pathetic.

  • Anonymous

    George Soros? What’s next, trying to associate Romney with Rachel Maddow? Al Gore? Hillary Clinton? Nancy Pelosi? Associating with, and getting the support of people who’re boogeymen for the left hasn’t worked for him so now he’s trying the opposite tactic to smear his rival and it looks desperate.

    Newt has lots of ammunition to use against Romney, he shouldn’t have to resort to blindly throwing out names as it makes him seem like the badly wounded candidate that he is, blindly kicking out, hoping to land some blow before it’s too late.

  • Gloves Angus Donahue

    Newt has destroyed himself.

  • BooBoo Bear

    Damn…There is a first time for everything. I agree.

    I want to know just when Newt the Salamander ever talked to George Soros…I believe that he only talked to him in his delusions of grandeur. He needs to be taken to a Sanitarium until the Doctors get his meds right. He may just be there a week, however it may be longer.

  • Anonymous

    Check out the segment from “Morning Joe” this morning, in which Joe, John Heilman (I think it was him), Michael Steel, etc. were talking about “Obamaism.” They were saying that people KNEW what Reaganism was and what Clintonism was, but Obamaism is undefined- that you couldn’t define it in six sentences, nor even six paragraphs. 

    They then said that Romney’s beliefs were even less defined. Heilman said that when you try to get your arms around what Romney believes, you’re left just whiffing the air.

    Perhaps, the Left sees what is Romney’s primary lack better than the Republican Party does. Romney only believes that he is ENTITLED to be President. In many ways, like George W. Bush, he’s avenging the slight to his father.

    Romney believes in nothing, so he will stand for nothing. 

  • Anonymous

    Who’s the Koch brothers and why would I care?

    Its childish to try to equate the Koch brothers to Soros, its a weak comparison that satisfies no one but those trying to make excuses for the corruption of parts of the liberal movement.

  • Anonymous

    The point is that it’s childish of Newt to raise Soros as a campaign talking point. When you have to borrow your paranoid conspiracies from Glenn Beck, you’re really scraping the bottom of the barrel.

  • Anonymous

    True.  Newt’s desperate and lashing out.  I think he’s turning more people off than on, but he’s the candidate and this shows both how he’d react when in a fight with Congress as well as how Romney would.

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/Michael-Johns/1681497708 Michael Johns

    You should’ve read the article. Newt never said he talked to Soros, but mentioned a video taken by Reuters where Soros says that Romney and Obama are essentially the same people. “There isn’t all that much difference…”

    Here is the link to the video:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OyftC27vNp0 

    OBAMA 2012

  • Anonymous

    George Soros,one more drink please

  • Walt

    Why don’t you think the oligarchs, the Koch brothers, are not corrupt.  Because you simply don’t want to believe their hands are all over the republicon party manipulating the political process?  Because you stubbornly embrace a dogmatism rather than the truth?

  • Hout Bosques

    Newt’s playing fast & loose with what Soros said:

    http://harndenblog.dailymail.co.uk/2012/01/george-soros-there-isnt-all-that-much-difference-between-romney-and-obama.html 

    Note at least these two things:  

    1. Soros is qualifying the entire comparison in a way that’s absolutely critical to understanding what he’s saying. Hs words: “If it’s between Obama and Romney, there isn’t all that much difference except for the crowd that they bring with them.”  

    See that” “EXCEPT for the the crowd that they bring with them”. Well, Reagan would not have been Reagan without Casey – no Casey, not Iran-Contra. And Bush the younger would have been very different without deferring most of his first 6 years to Cheney. The “crowd” presidential campaigns run with can hold tremendous importance. And the crowd that Romney running with – folks, it’s the same old, same old, the same neocon loons that have been hanging around on the edges of the GOP like hyenas since the Nixon administration. So that’s not a small distinction Soros is raising, not at all. 

    2. The reporter in the linked article allows that Soros may be up to meddling here. Well, yeah: Soros has been pushing Obama in a variety of ways to cease being a pragmatic centrist & make a commitment to ideology, & this is one way in order to push that button. It MAY be that Obama’s Kansas speech is a more reliable indicator of where he’s headed than his most recent SOTU, but we’ve already had 3 years of such verbal signals from Obama & each time he softened or reversed, so there’s really not any way progressive can depend on him sticking with the Kansas speech vision. I find it laughable that people suggest Obama’s given up on the Hopey Changey thing – he clearly has not; he’s still running on what people want to read into him. MAYBE he’ll turn into FDR in his second term – but not unless he’s got no choice in the matter; altho, in fairness, the same could be said of FDR also, and Lincoln, and Teddy Roosevelt – NONE of them went to the steps they’ve become famous or infamous for by choice; ALL of them were forced by circumstances. 

    3. The reporter, tho, goes with a different sort of meddling – implying Romney as RINO. I doubt that, very much; that is, I doubt that Soros’ thinking was, If I praise Romney, the GOP may abandon him or at least not support him all that strongly, such that Obama gets re-elected. And my evidence for that? Look at how out of touch Soros is on predicting the tone of the general election: he actually imagines Obama v Romney as “civilized”. What utter crap; Obama v Newt would be a fight where all the blows are above the belt – but Obama v Romney will be a war of low & evil blows, full of threats & actual violence, the LEAST civilized election we’ve seen since before WWII. It HAS to be that way, for Romney to exude that he has any chance at all; if it’s truly civilized, Romney goes down in a truly civillized way. But do people really believe Romney was “truly civilized” at Bain – he WAS NOT – he was a lying, scuzzy, heartless, scheming, bait & switch thug. 

  • Hout Bosques

    You’re only right in the sense that Soros has nothing like their money or money power or money influence & doesn’t use what he has like the Kochies use theirs. In other words, you’re trying to paint the exactly wrong picture.

  • Anonymous

    Newt/Cain/Palin Launch new theme song: We’re just a Swinging!

  • Anonymous

    Newt/Cain/Palin Launch new theme song: We’re just a Swinging! Can you see this bunch in the White House…at the same time!! LOL 

  • WiddleBabyDanielson

    weak comparison?

  • Centrist79

    Soros , and the American people would perfer Obama, or Romney over Newt. ABN- Anybody but Newt

  • Anonymous

    To paraphrase Bill Maher, who the f— is George Soros? Crazy ass Republicans love namedropping liberal boogeymen.

  • Anonymous

    First Alinsky and now Soros. I think Newt is morphing into Glenn Beck before our very eyes. 

  • Anonymous

    oh c’mon…you KNOW ‘librul’ billionaires are MUCH worse than GOP billionaires!  We can’t have a substantive discussion on money in politics because then I would be accused of ‘trolling’…

  • Anonymous

    Perish the thought!!!!

  • Anonymous

    This coming from the guy who is whining about negative campaigning and being taken out of context?  Oh yeah…that’s right…Romney started it…so no more high road for Newt.  So much for “enduring principles”….

  • Anonymous

    Wtf are you talking about?
    No one’s trying to equate the Kochs to Soros but wrong-wingers.
    And doing so, badly.
    Because no one’s pinned anything bad on Soros.

  • Anonymous

    Newt IS the bottom of the barrel, as is his base.
    So this is familiar territory for him.

  • Anonymous

    If he doesn’t, who else will?

  • Anonymous

    Newt should stick to “pressing the flesh” with U.S. citizens and leave this stuff up to Glenn Beck, who has unravelled Soros’ web so well.

  • Anonymous

    Do they have t-shirts of that cover where Lizard Gettinrich is dressed in a diaper throwing a tantrum from the Clinton years?

    The Romney people ought to be passing those out to people attending the debates and at Lizards campaign events.

    Mean I know, but it is oh so appropriate.

    Oh and Mitt? Find me and pay me for the suggestion you know you love it and you can afford to pay for it. It’s brain work product and it has value.

  • Anonymous

    It probably crushed Lizard Gettinrichs ego to have another 1%er reject him.

    He would love to have such a prominent DEMOCRAT say the same about him, maybe he can get Zig Zag Zell Miller to endorse him or the flawed jewel of the conservatives crown Joe The Weasel Lieberman to endorse him.

  • http://twitter.com/Chasvoice ChasVoice

    Are there still some of you who aren’t informed of the subversive reach of George Soros?
    Guide to the George Soros Network
    http://chasvoice.blogspot.com/2011/11/guide-to-george-soros-network.html

  • AliveStillKickin

    WOW!!!
    Obama must be agonizing over being placed on the same level with Mitt Romney….by his own puppet-master.
    That’s gotta’ hurt.

    Newt……2012

  • Anonymous

    Ignorance abounds. The lefties think Koch and Soros are on the same level. Maybe in terms of money, but not much else other than the Koches are patriots who want to restore freedom, and Soros wants to enslave us as part of his globalist agenda. Soros broke the Bank of England, crashed at least four economies, is a felon in France and has been asked not to return. He has many statements that he enjoys making money on people’s misery. That’s who George Soros is. Oh, and he owns this site.

  • Anonymous

    He’s not blindly throwing out names. Soros recently stated he likes Romney. Nothing like an endorsement from a felon who enjoys crashing economies.

  • Anonymous

    I believe Soros is attempting to turn the election to Obama by saying some good things about Romney.  No way is Romney one of Soros’ boys.  Soros is a “one world order” radical as is Obama.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_4NUONATZWPLGB3WZHAYVVSFXAQ KeepingItReal

    REALLY good reason to vote for Santorim!

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