Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich slammed former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney on Monday, saying the Republican front-runner is “not telling the American people the truth.”
“This is a man whose staff created the PAC, his millionaire friends fund the PAC, he pretends he has nothing to do with the PAC. It’s baloney,” said Mr. Gingrich on CBS’ “The Early Show.” “He’s not telling the American people the truth.”
Mr. Gingrich’s comment comes as a series of recent polls show the Georgia Republican trailing Mr. Romney in Iowa. Mr. Gingrich has faced a series of attack ads from political action committees promoting Mr. Romney’s campaign. Speaking earlier this year, Mr. Gingrich called on Mr. Romney to condemn the use of political attack ads by the political action committees. Mr. Romney responded, saying his campaign is prohibited from coordinating with the PACs.
In Monday’s CBS interview, Mr. Gingrich said Mr. Romney’s claim that he was not responsible for the super-PAC ads was “just like his pretense that he’s a conservative.”
“Here’s a Massachusetts moderate who has tax-paying abortions in Romneycare, puts Planned Parenthood in Romneycare, raises hundreds of millions of taxes on businesses, appoints liberal judges to appease Democrats, and wants the rest of us to believe somehow he’s magically a conservative,” said Mr. Gingrich.
