In arguing today that Mitt Romney is a “liar,” former House Speaker Newt Gingrich delivered perhaps the most personal attack by any candidate in this debate cycle, while Romney called Gingrich “over-the-top.”
Asked if he would “stand by [the] claim]” that Romney is a “liar” now that he was on stage with Romney, Gingrich didn’t pull any punches. “Well, sure,” he answered during this morning’s debate. Turning to Romney, he added, “Governor, I wish you would calmly and directly state it is your former staff running the [super]PAC. It is your millionaire friends giving to the PAC. And you know some of the ads are — aren’t true. Just say that. It’s straightforward.”
Romney conceded that his supporters run the superPAC attacking Gingrich — “they wouldn’t be putting money into a PAC that supports me if they weren’t people who support me,” he noted — and defended the accuracy of one ad while claiming not to have seen the rest.”But let me tell you this. The — the ad I saw said that — that you’d been forced out of the speakership,” Romney recalled. “That was correct.”
