WASHINGTON — Newt Gingrich blames Mitt Romney for being a bad candidate.
More than that, he blames the Republican party for fostering a corrosive culture that produced Romney as its candidate. The former House Speaker argued that the GOP has grown stale and introverted, putting itself on the wrong side of history on issues like immigration and painting itself into a corner on others, like gay marriage.
Romney’s failed candidacy was just the latest illustration of this, the 69-year-old Gingrich said in hour-long interview that dealt, in large part, with the GOP’s problems and what he hopes to contribute to their solution.
Gingrich, whose staying power in the Republican primary has surprised many observers, was Romney’s most acerbic critic during that intraparty contest. He would go on to play the role of dutiful soldier during the general election, only to revert back to form a month and a half after the national contest ended with Romney losing handily.
“I think either [Texas Gov. Rick] Perry or I would have probably done better [against Obama],” said the former speaker, exhibiting a bit of his trademark braggadocio.
Read more at huffingtonpost.com . By Sam Stein and Jon Ward.
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sorry newt but voter fraud would have given you a loss same as Mitt……
Newts plan for illegals is no better then the socialist democraps all politicians want to kiss illegals asses for votes.This little fat audulterer has no business knocking others and this is what is wrong with the republican party.When do you hear socialist dems complaining about Holder selling guns to the bad guys.
If it was between Newt and Obama, I WOULD have stayed home.
Edward hit the nails on the head, when he put it this way “fat little adulterer”! Not only is Gingrich a fat little adulterer, he is a fat, hateful, divisive angry man because he is not as popular as he once was. He is bitter that he was not the “chosen” one. Bitter, angry words are all that he speaks, or has spoken since he was not able to win the nomination. I would have had to have voted for him, Seeks, simply because a vote not cast would have been one for the alternative, Obutthole. And I could not have lived with myself if I had done that. But I’d have hated to have done so just the same, because I never did like this fat little mouthpeice, and I still don’t. And, I think too, that he’d have been as much of a disaster as president as the current Disaster in Office. Romney would have had the business savy to try to get us out of this economic DEPRESSION we are now suffering under. Gingrich would have had us in more WARS! Talk about a WARMONGER! Some wars are necessary, but the ones we are involved in, I question them. Take care of America, as Romney had in mind, and THEN worry about others…………Gingrich is now irellivant, however that’s spelled! he doesn’t matter, he’s a has been. and that pisses him off.