Oh, the Hilarity: Gingrich Now Says He's been 'Romney-boated' in Iowa

[DeathToTheOil]

MARSHALLTOWN, Iowa (AP) - Struggling to reverse a slide in his standing, Republican presidential contender Newt Gingrich said Sunday he'd been "Romney-boated" in Iowa and suggested his GOP rival would buy the presidency if he could.

The sharp words against Mitt Romney, a multimillionaire many times over who is in strong contention to win Iowa, come two days before voters here weigh in on the Republican field. It was part of a stepped-up effort by Gingrich to contrast himself with Romney, and the candidate said he would adopt an even more aggressive strategy when the race moves to New Hampshire, the former Massachusetts governor's backyard.

Gingrich's nautical attack was a reference to a 2004 TV ad campaign by a group called the "Swiftboat Veterans for Truth" that bloodied Democratic presidential candidate John Kerry. This year, Gingrich has faced an onslaught of negative TV advertisements by a group aligned with Romney.

Asked Sunday whether he felt that he had been "swiftboated," Gingrich replied, "I feel Romney-boated."

Read more: http://www.siouxcityjournal.com/news/state-and-regional/iowa/newt-gingrich-i-feel-romney-boated/article_e7745c2c-34e5-11e1-bf54-0019bb2963f4.html#ixzz1iKciZGMq

Yeah, Newtie, it's a bitch from Hell when your own party's tactics are used against you, ain't it?

[Donnachaidh]

1. oh boo hoo!

[customerserviceguy]

2. Forgive me for saying this

But sometimes he's cute when he gets whiny!

[Dirty Socialist]

5. Some Things Never Change

It's Newt being Newt

[pipi_k]

3. This is one of the things

I love about this whole thing

Seeing them tear each other up with their teeth and fingernails like they'll have been doing for a whole year.

[Survivoreesta]

6. Hopefully!>

I'm rooting for a loooooooooooong Republican primary fight!

[gratuitous]

4. "Romney-boated" Newt?

Holy fucking shit. Please, oh PLEASE let this get into the mainstream. Gingrich should be pilloried for this one from now until St. Swithins' Day. Newt would have been "swift" boated if he'd ever served in the military. Or won a Purple Heart. Or been in combat. Or actually done anything in his miserable life besides suck up his taxpayer-funded paychecks and pocket his sinecures from his corporate overlords.

[SteveW]

7. Hoisted by his own petard...

pe·tard (p-tärd)
n.
1. A small bell-shaped bomb used to breach a gate or wall.
2. A loud firecracker.

[French pétard, from Old French, from peter, to break wind, from pet, a breaking of wind, from Latin pditum, from neuter past participle of pdere, to break wind; see pezd- in Indo-European roots.]

Word History: The French used pétard, "a loud discharge of intestinal gas," for a kind of infernal engine for blasting through the gates of a city. "To be hoist by one's own petard," a now proverbial phrase apparently originating with Shakespeare's Hamlet (around 1604) not long after the word entered English (around 1598), means "to blow oneself up with one's own bomb, be undone by one's own devices." The French noun pet, "fart," developed regularly from the Latin noun pditum, from the Indo-European root *pezd-, "fart."

http://www.thefreedictionary.com/petard

[MisterP]

8. wouldn't it be his "own party's chronic criminal laziness"?

[SpiralHawk]

9. Willard (R) is defintely running a Occult Surrogate Black0ops Attack Machine

Willard (R) and his Republicon crony backers are running a viscious occult attack campaign -- and that should tell everyone something about him and his "Republicon Family Values." Dark shit indeed. I got a feeling a lot more will bubble up from Willard's cesspool as time goes on...Watch out America.

[getdown]

10. up Mitt Creek without a paddle

[karynnj]

11. Well he IS right that it is not swiftboating - swiftboating involved using lies

Though Newt says the attacks on him were not fair - there is nothing that has been used that is an out and out lie. Just because he has decided that he and God are now ok on his first two marriages - no one else has to take his work for it being irrelevant. As to the money he got from Freddie and Fannie, if it really was not lobbying, but "history" - where are the documents either commissioning that history or the history itself. His answer that most went to people in his company - what did they do?

That is why your tag line is wrong - this is NOT using the GOP's 2004 tactic. In fact, there was nothing in Kerry's life that would have worked as a huge negative just by making sure people knew about it.

[DesertRat]

12. Here's your Romney boat

[Marnie]

13. He also says he is a paleontologist.

If Santorum is the Sarah Palin of the Republians
Then Newt is the Michelle Bachmann of the Republicans.

Oh wait the Republicans already have Palin and Bachmann.

I almost feel sorry for them.

Almost.

Not.