Newt Gingrich: Mitt Romney is a liar and a fraud but I'd vote for him anyway
"You scolded Mitt Romney, his friends who are running this Super PAC that has funded that, and you said of Mitt Romney, 'Someone who will lie to you to get to be president will lie to you when they are president. I have to ask you, are you calling Mitt Romney a liar?"
"Yes," Gingrich replied.
"I just think he ought to be honest with the American people and try to win as the real Mitt Romney, not try to invent a poll-driven, consultant-guided version that goes around with talking points, and I think he ought to be candid. I don't think he's being candid and that will be a major issue. From here on out from the rest of this campaign, the country has to decide: Do you really want a Massachusetts moderate who won't level with you to run against Barack Obama who, frankly, will just tear him apart? He will not survive against the Obama machine."
Yet, when pressed by CBS News' chief Washington correspondent Bob Schieffer on whether he could support Romney if the "Massachusetts moderate" became the Republican nominee, Gingrich replied, "Sure. I would support a Republican candidate against Barack Obama because I think Barack Obama is tearing the country apart.
http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-500202_162-57351153/gingrich-mitt-romney-is-a-liar/
http://www.dailykos.com/story/2012/01/03/1051068/-Newt-Gingrich:-Mitt-Romney-is-a-liar-and-a-fraud-but-Id-vote-for-him-anyway?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+dailykos%2Findex+%28Daily+Kos%29
= new reply since forum marked as read
Newt: YES
Nora - (with dumbfounded stare on face) asks him then again if he's calling Romney a Liar....
Newt: (again) YES
Funniest effing moment I've seen on television in a long time.....highly reccommend the video clip just to see the look on Nora O'Donnell's face (Bob Schieffer too)....they couldnt believe their ears....my guess is they expected the usual humming and hawing about truth stretching, misleading words etc etc....
Actually made me see Newt in a positive light for once....because he was speaking the truth!!
