The Newt Gingrich 'Baggage' Ad:

Newt Gingrich 'Baggage' Ad: Restore Our Future Explains Why Barack Obama Is 'Happy' (VIDEO)

The Newt Gingrich 'Baggage" Ad



Mitt Romney, in his most recent attack ad against Newt Gingrich speaks about all the personal baggage Newt has carried with him during his twenty years as a Georgia Congressman and his career since Capitol Hill.  The ad was released Tuesday December 20, 2011 by "Restore Our Future".  The Super PAC, which backs former Massachusetts Governor Mitt Romney, lists a stream of grievances, casting Newt as a candidate that has more "baggage" than airlines.  On the top of the list is Newt Gingrich's dealings with Freddie Mac.  The ad demonstrates that the loan mortgage corporation helped caused the economic collapse of 2008 and Newt Gingrich cashed in on it.  The clip later shows Gingrich teaming up with Nancy Pelosi producing a global warming ad as well as supporting a bill giving millions to a U.N. program which supports China's brutal "one-child" policy.  Gingrich and Pelosi co-sponsored hundreds of bills together while they were in the House together.  The ad later strolls down memory lane during Gingrich's days as House Speaker.  The ad says that Gingrich was the only House speaker ever reprimanded in U.S. history.  He was fined $300,000 by the Republican Congress at the time. 

Gingrich also has his own personal baggage with the divorce of his two previous wives.  It was said that he served divorce papers to his first wife while she was in the hospital, even though this narrative was denied by Gingrich and his daughter Jackie Gingrich Cushman.  He told his second wife Marianne that she was a Jaguar and that "all I want is a Chevrolet."  That eventually led him to his third wife Callista, whom he had an affair with when she was a House staffer.  Also Gingrich has been inconsistent with his comments when he criticized Paul Ryan's budget plan as "right-wing" social engineering.  He pretends to be conservative but some of his comments say otherwise.  In 2009 Gingrich supported an absolute RINO in Dede Scozzafava when she ran for the open seat in New York's 23rd Congressional District over a more conservative independent candidate named Doug Hoffman. He claims to be a firebrand conservative but some of his statements say something else. 

The ad Mitt Romney unleashed concerning Newt's baggage is true.  He does bring a lot of baggage to the campaign.  And I do agree President Obama would be happy if Newt's the candidate because the Gingrich camp would give the Obama camp plenty of ammunition to aim against them.  Newt Gingrich is a Washington insider who was part of the problem when he was in Congress.  It's true that there were some good things that happened while he was House Speaker such as the House passing a budget amendment and the welfare reform bill being passed.  However, he also played a role in the Clinton administration giving nuclear secrets to China.  Gingrich is wishy-washy and you can't trust him.  If he is the Republican nominee next year, President Obama will win re-election handily.