Newt the Peddler

Newt denies he's an influence peddler!

 

Mitt Romney went for a face-to-face assault against his surging primary opponent in Monday night’s Florida debate, calling out Newt Gingrich as an “influence peddler” who had to “resign in disgrace” from the House of Representatives.

In the first minutes of the debate, Romney quickly went after Newt who routed him in last weekend’s South Carolina primary of being unscrupulous, unreliable and simply unelectable.

“I think [the election is] about leadership. And the speaker was given an opportunity to be the leader of our party in 1994. And at the end of four years, he had to resign in disgrace,” Romney said. “In the 15 years after he left the speakership, the speaker has been working as an influence peddler in Washington. And during those 15 years, I helped turn around the Olympics, helped begin a very successful turnaround in the state of Massachusetts.”

Romney kept at it throughout the first half of the debate, criticizing Gingrich for having been rebuked by his GOP colleagues in the House, earning money as an advocate for Freddie Mac and teaming up with Nancy Pelosi to talk about global warming.

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