It was only a matter of weeks ago that Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich‘s namesake website, NewtGingrich.com, led visitors to all sorts of nasty-for-Newt kind of places: Tiffany & Co., Freddie Mac, and an Atlantic piece entitled “Gingrich’s Campaign Still Looks an Awful Lot Like a Book Tour.” (For the record, Newt.org is his officially campaign website).
But that was then and this is now, where we are looking at a web savvier Gingrich campaign.
“Gingrich’s campaign folks or some other web troublemakers now have NewtGingrich.comredirecting to the anti-Mitt Romney website called StopRomneysPiousBaloney.com, complete with baloney sandwich graphics, a baloney-colored Romney cartoon and, of course, attack ads.”
Gingrich first used the meat-themed phrase during the NBC News-Facebook New Hampshire debate earlier in the month. “Can we drop a little bit of this pious baloney?” Gingrich quipped, after Romney told the debate audience that, for him, “politics is not a career.” The videos show Gingrich calling out Romney for running for office since the 1990s, and also for those SuperPAC ads that did damage to Gingrich’s surge before the Iowa Caucuses. “I haven’t seen them,” Romney says, before mentioning, “The ad I saw…,” which Gingrich’s campaign points out again and again in with its “Baloney-O-Meter.”
The website is paid for Newt 2012 and allows visitors to post it to Facebook, Twitter and donate to Gingrich’s campaign.
Now that’s a food fight.
