After Tough Debate with Romney, Gingrich Sticks to Attacking Obama
by John Lantigua | January 27th, 2012
After absorbing various jabs and effective counterpunches from Mitt Romney in a Jacksonville debate Thrursday night, Newt Gingrich spoke to an influential Hispanic business group in Miami Friday morning without once mentioning his chief rival, targeting President Barack Obama’s economic policies instead.
Addressing about 200 people at an event sponsored by the Latin Builders Association, former House speaker Gingrich told the crowd that the renewal of their industry—construction– would depend on putting Americans back to work.
“The number one job of a president is to get job creation going,” Gingrich said in a speech in the Hilton Hotel in downtown Miami. “In the four years I was speaker working with (President Bill) Clinton the American economy created 11 million new jobs. The solution to the housing crisis is getting people back to work.”
Gingrich told the crowd, if elected, he would repeal Obama’s health care reform because of the onus it would put on business.
“Small businesses are not investing because they don’t know what Obamacare will do to them,” he said and the comment was met by applause.
He said he would also repeal the Dodd-Frank financial regulation law, which he believes is stopping banks from lending money for new housing
And he said he would reform unemployment compensation, obliging recipients to enroll in job training to learn new skills.
“ We should never again pay people for 99 weeks for doing nothing,” he said, again drawing applause
Gingrich was introduced by U.S. Rep David Rivera, R-Miami, the only one of the three Cuban-American Miami GOP members of Congress to endorse him. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen and Mario Diaz Balart both endorse Romney. Rivera praised Gingrich for his tenure as House speaker and his role in creating balanced budgets
But in the crowd Friday morning, most of those who had seen the debate Thursday felt that Romney had gotten the best of Gingrich, in part by being more aggressive than his rival.
Real estate broker Jorge Guerra Jr. said he thought Gingrich’s attempt to criticize Romney for having had money invested in government sponsored mortgage providers Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac had backfired. Romney pointed out that Gingrich, who also owns mutual funds, had almost certainly also had money invested in those two entities through those funds.
“I thought that was really good comment by Romney,” said Guerra. “In general, I thought Romney just showed better leadership.”
Contractor George Cuesta agreed. He criticized Gingrich for his proposal to build a colony on the moon . He said as much as contractors want building work, that wasn’t the answer.
“Gingrich has these big ideas, but they aren’t very practical,” he said. “Romney just seems more in tune with the country and he is also more electable.”
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January 27th, 2012 at 11:43 am
These debates are beginning to get old. It’s the same rhetoric every time and it doesn’t appear to matter anyway. Our next election is shaping up to be as big of a sham as the last. Do you know why Sarah Palin’s bus tour was really canceled? Do you know why she stayed 30 miles away from the second debate and chose the death of Steve Jobs to announce that she’s not running? Know what leaked out? Sarah Palin and Cain aren’t in the race for the same reason, the truth leaked out.
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January 27th, 2012 at 12:17 pm
Mitt Romney is a Professional LIAR and one of the most inauthentic, insincere, fraudulent, hollow and phony men to ever run for the Presidency in America. This is how he is seen widely by members of his own political party; even the establishment elites who have morally compromised themselves by backing the Mormon Madoff. Despite his daily battles with the truth, multiple videos of him in the public domain illustrating his clear and consistent lying, the mainstream media engages this guy as if his persistent deception and fraud is an acceptable part of our politics. It is NOT. The Romney Clown continues to present himself as an honest, honorable, humble family man who made his money as a glorified builder of American industry rather than as a Mormon Madoff engaged in predatory vulturous financial schemes on the backs of America’s collapsing industry. He is the only Presidential Candidate who maintains off-shore accounts in the Cayman Islands and Switzerland which in and of itself ought to disqualify this Illuminati plant from contention. You will forgive me if I and many Republicans, Democrats and Independents have a hard time seeing Romney as anything more than a totally insincere and duplicitous piece of human garbage who should ride on top of someone else’s station wagon until he Romney’s all over himself: http://spreadingromney.com/