Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich charged Mitt Romney with “carpet-bombing” him with negative attack ads in Florida, adding that the ads were funded by Wall Street banking executives trying to protect the “old order” from a Gingrich presidency.
“Governor Romney has the ability to raise an amazing amount of money out of Wall Street, from Goldman Sachs to all the major banks,” Gingrich told Chris Wallace on Fox News Sunday. “And he has a basic policy of carpet-bombing his opponent.”
To emphasize Romney’s Wall Street fundraising, Gingrich threw a back-handed compliment at his rival. “I give Governor Romney’s campaign respect for the sheer volume of negativity that they use and the sheer amount of money they raise on Wall Street,” he said.
