Newt Gingrich Helps Out Mitt Romney and Connie Mack in Jacksonville
Former U.S. House Speaker Newt Gingrich hit the First Coast on Thursday to promote the candidacy of former Gov. Mitt Romney of Massachusetts, the man who beat him for the Republican presidential nomination. But there was another Republican that Gingrich was supporting on Thursday -- U.S. Rep. Connie Mack, the favorite to emerge in the August primary to challenge Democrat incumbent U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson.
Speaking to Republicans in Jacksonville, the former congressional leader said that the Sunshine State would be in the political frontlines come November.
“We have to win the White House and we have to win the Senate,” Gingrich said. “Florida plays a major role with both. ... No Republican is going to win the presidency without carrying Florida.”
Gingrich also said Romney and Mack needed to do well on the First Coast.
“For a Republican to carry Florida, they have to carry Duval County by a large margin,” Gingrich insisted.
Gingrich said electing Mack over Nelson was important. Noting that Rasmussen Reports released a poll earlier in the week showing Mack beating Nelson by 9 percent, Gingrich said he was “not surprised” since, he insisted, Floridians were finally realizing that the Democrat incumbent was a liberal.
“It’s beginning to sink into Floridians that Bill Nelson is a Barack Obama Democrat,” Gingrich said.
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11:32AM JUL 13TH 2012
Connie Mack IV quote: I think Newt Gingrich is the kind of guy who can be an erratic, kind of unreliable personality.
5:49PM JUL 12TH 2012
If Gingrich really wants to help Romney he'll remind him of what he's told Romney before and persuade him to be a little more open and honest:
1 - "He ought to release his tax records," Gingrich said, "because how do we know what he paid? All you’ve got now is his consultants' spin." [South Carloina primary]
2 - "The Bain model was to go in at a very low price, borrow an immense amount of money, pay Bain a great deal of money, and leave. Now, I'll let you decide if that's really good capitalism. I think it's exploitive. I think it's not defensible," Gingrich said about Bain Capital. [SC BIPEC 2012 Candidate Forum]
3 - "Those of us who believe in free markets and those of us who believe that in fact the whole goal of investment is entrepreneurship and job creation,” Mr. Gingrich said about Bain Capital, “we find it pretty hard to justify rich people figuring out clever legal ways to loot a company, leaving behind 1,700 families without a job.” [New Hampshire primary]
1 - "He ought to release his tax records," Gingrich said, "because how do we know what he paid? All you’ve got now is his consultants' spin." [South Carloina primary]
2 - "The Bain model was to go in at a very low price, borrow an immense amount of money, pay Bain a great deal of money, and leave. Now, I'll let you decide if that's really good capitalism. I think it's exploitive. I think it's not defensible," Gingrich said about Bain Capital. [SC BIPEC 2012 Candidate Forum]
3 - "Those of us who believe in free markets and those of us who believe that in fact the whole goal of investment is entrepreneurship and job creation,” Mr. Gingrich said about Bain Capital, “we find it pretty hard to justify rich people figuring out clever legal ways to loot a company, leaving behind 1,700 families without a job.” [New Hampshire primary]
