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The Romney campaign is looking more and more juvenile and desperate. First the decision to show up at a restaurant Gingrich had previously scheduled an event at, and now this...
http://www.mediaite.com/online/romney-to-send-cake-to-gingrich-hq-to-celebrate-15th-anniversary-of-ethics-scandal/
At what point in the Republican primary can we start calling the entire exercise downright Nixonian? Probably at the moment campaigns start sending each other food. Today is the ill-timed 15th anniversary of the House of Representatives giving Newt Gingrich the dubious distinction of being the only Speaker in history to be reprimanded by his colleagues and ordered to pay a $300,000 fine for his ethics violations, and the Romney campaign is celebrating the only way it knows how: birthday cake!
The Romney campaign sent out a press release earlier in the day marking the occasion, entitled Happy 15th Anniversary, Mr. Speaker that listed a series of articles from the time explaining what Gingrich had done. The press release also notes that Gingrich called the ethics investigation partisan, and that it was rated Pants of Fire, as far as accuracy is concerned, by Politifact. Had that been the end of it, it wouldve been a witheringly comical example of how much Romney and Gingrich and their camps cant stand to look at each other. But Romney HQ wants to make sure they get their message across, so theyre bearing gifts:Not to be outdone, Romneys campaign later put out a statement celebrating the 15th anniversary of the House decision to reprimand Gingrich for ethics violations, during his days as speaker. The Romney campaign plans to deliver an anniversary cake to Gingrichs South Carolina headquarters to mark the occasion on Saturday.
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spanone
(135,858 posts)onehandle
(51,122 posts)dhill926
(16,351 posts)not The Onion. Wow, this race is devolving quicker than I could ever have wished for.......
ejpoeta
(8,933 posts)about bain isn't ok? i mean give me a break!! I don't like any of them. And gingrich is slimy and I think it's a legitimate concern regarding how he behaved in government in the past. But Romney's past should be equally legitimate. If his way of doing business was to tear companies apart and make his profit leaving workers unemployed, I think it's legitimate to see how he would fix things now.
Motown_Johnny
(22,308 posts)Oh wait, this is for Newt. Never mind.
rurallib
(62,437 posts)one of these fucking idiots is going to get probably at least 45% of the vote next fall.
RB TexLa
(17,003 posts)Because idiots on TV say we should have a civil campaign? No one wants that.
Dawson Leery
(19,348 posts)The "Christian" right is all about power. Read "The Family" by Jeff Sharlet.
AtomicKitten
(46,585 posts)I'm going to bake a cake!
LiberalEsto
(22,845 posts)with a Tiffany's logo.
MjolnirTime
(1,800 posts)What a prankster!