Newt Gingrich Called Segregationist by Muslim-American Group, Criticized by Former Presidents Clinton & Carter (Wikipedia)
They are coming out in full force against Newt Gingrich, on both sides, Democrats and Republicans. This infighting in the Republican Party and among the presidential candidates is only playing in Obama’s favor. First up the Democrats — former presidents Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter zinged Newt Gingrich and his pomposity:
Bill Clinton in an Esquire interview: Dissed Newt Gingrich as a Romney clone because of issues the former speaker has flip-flopped on. Clinton says, ”As a private citizen he was for certain important health-care reforms and believed in climate change and believed there had to be a strong reaction to it. And now he’s just like Romney. Neither one of them can say what they believe to be true and get nominated. Romney’s still trying to figure out what he did as governor of Massachusetts and still appeal to this driving vituperative energy.” Here’s more from Esquire’s interview with Clinton.
Jimmy Carter on CNN: ”Newt Gingrich is probably as enlightened as I am about being gratified that we’re in the desegregation years in the South.” “When you emphasize, over and over, welfare, food stamps, and ‘Why don’t the black people get jobs,” and if I’m president, I’ll make sure they turn toward a work ethic, rather than an ethic of welfare and food stamps, that’s appealing to the wrong element in South Carolina.”
From the Republicans: Mitt Romney released a scathing ad and his campaign hosted a conference call during which former Rep. Susan Molinari and Jim Talent unleashed on the egomaniac. (We posted that video on an earlier post.)
“But the surest sign that the Romney campaign considers Gingrich the main threat here in South Carolina was a conference call just now in which top surrogates for the GOP frontrunner unloaded on the former House Speaker. It was quickly followed by web ad featuring Talent slamming Gingrich as an “Unreliable Leader” (also the title of the conference call).”
Now Newt Gingrich is crying foul. Um, what did you think Newt, you are the only one who can play dirty? During a campaign stop in South Carolina, he called the Romney campaign “dirty and dishonest.”
Even a Muslim-American group is calling Newt Gingrich a “segregationist.” Yep, a regular race-baiter.
Council of American Islamic Relations: Calls Newt Gingrich “one of the nation’s worst promoters of anti-Muslim bigotry” and suggested Republican presidential candidate is a “segregationist.”
“Newt Gingrich’s vision of America segregates our citizens by faith. His outdated political ideas look backward to a time when Catholics and Jews were vilified and their faiths called a threat,” said CAIR Legislative Director Corey Sayolor in a statement.
“The time for bias in American politics has passed and Newt Gingrich looks like a relic of an ugly era,” Sayolor said.
Newt Gingrich is now crying like a baby. At a campaign stop he called the Romney campaign “dirty and dishonest” as though somehow he’s running such a clean and positive campaign. Newt Gingrich is a self-destructive, self-righteous egomaniac.
Politico: “I fully expect the Romney campaign to be unendingly dirty and dishonest,” Newt Gingrich said. “They thought they could buy this. They’re discovering they can’t buy this.”"I think they have internal polls showing them losing,” he said. “I think they will do anything at any level.”
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