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Newt 2012

"Pious Baloney"
  1:11 web video from Jan. 9, 2012.

Romney: I went to Massachusetts to make a difference.  I didn't go there to begin a political career, running time and time again.

Run again?  That would be about me.  This for me, politics is not a career.

[SFX]

Gingrich: Can we drop a little bit of the pious baloney.  The fact is you ran for the Senate in '94 and lost.  That's why you weren't serving in the Senate with Rick Santorum.  The fact is you had a very bad re-election rating, you had dropped out of office, you had been out of state for something like 200 days preparing to run for president.  You didn't have this interlude of citizenship while you thought about what to do; you were running for president while you were governor.  You had gone all over the country.  You were out of state consistently.  You then promptly re-entered politics; you happened to loose to McCain as you had lost to Kennedy.  Now you're back running.  You've been running consistently for years and years and years.  So this idea that suddenly citizenship showed up in your mind--just level with the American people.  You've been running at least since the 1990s.  [applause]


"Stop Romney's Pious Baloney"
  1:01 web video from Jan. 9, 2012.

Gingrich: Governor, I wish you would calmly and directly state it is your former running the PAC, it is your millionaire friends giving to the PAC, and you know some of the ads are not true.  Just say that.  Straightforward.  [applause]

Romney: Well of course it's former staff of mine, and of course they're people who support me; they wouldn't be putting money into a PAC that supports me if they weren't people who supported me.  And with regards to their ads, I haven't seen them...[SFX]

    TEXT: I haven't seen them.
    Let's see...

...I haven't seen them, and as you know under the law, I can't direct their ads.  Speaker.  Hold on a second.  I can't direct their ads.  If there's anything that's in there that's wrong, I hope they take it out.  I hope that everything that's wrong is taken out.  But let me tell you this.  The ad I saw...[SFX]

    TEXT: The ad I saw...

I haven't seen them...

But the ad I saw...

I haven't seen them...

But the ad I saw...

I haven't seen them...

Gingrich: Can we drop a little bit of the pious baloney?

[SFX]

    TEXT: Stop with the pious baloney
    Learn more at StopRomneysPiousBaloney.com

Notes: Exchanges from the NBC News/Facebook/Union Leader Debate held on Jan. 8, 2012 in Concord, NH.