Valentine's Day Attack From Newt Gingrich Swipes Mitt Romney For 'Liberal' Support

Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich is celebrating Valentine's Day with a new attack targeting rival Mitt Romney for supposedly getting love from the left.

Gingrich has rolled out the new offensive on a website called "Liberals Love Romney," which features a simple layout with cutouts of conservatives' most prominent liberal bugbears, from Saul Alsinsky to Al Gore. Each character includes a fabricated quote that underscores a story about Romney's persistent problems gaining the trust of conservatives.

The move comes amid a Gingrich campaign slide. As the former House speaker has stumbled, Rick Santorum has seen a rise to the top of the pack nationally, on the heels of a triple win last week, while Romney has taken key victories in a Conservative Political Action Conference straw poll and the Maine caucuses over the weekend.

Despite Romney's weekend triumphs, he is still struggling to shore up his conservative credentials, even after telling the CPAC crowd that he governed Massachusetts as a "severely conservative" governor. Former Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin announced on Sunday that she was still "not convinced" about Romney's political ideology, and a poll released the next day showed that GOP voters still had the same concerns.

Also on HuffPost:

Comments

[CKA2010]

06:15 PM on 02/14/2012

It is pretty funny to watch Newt becoming irrelevant, much like Sarah P.

[Octagonalsign]

05:57 PM on 02/14/2012

What scares me is that with Newt's number dropping fast, he'll have no choice but to announce a new plan to start a human colony on Alpha Centuri using avatars in order to get the new element "Unobtainium" to end our dependence on foreign sources of Unobtainium.......

[irmsjags]

05:56 PM on 02/14/2012

Valentine's Day has to be a very confusing time for Newt, having to sort out the women he cheated on with the women he cheated with, because some fall under both categories.

[deck27]

05:46 PM on 02/14/2012

Romney was the Mother of the health care mandate...it's no surprise conservatives don't trust him. You might say, he was the birth'er of the mandate!

[Barry Clarke]

05:55 PM on 02/14/2012

Not only Romney care for Massachusetts, but this state ranked 47th in job growth under his watch. If Romney is such a great jobs creator as he claims, how does he explain this?............

[Begonia Buzzkill]

05:45 PM on 02/14/2012

Newt's celebrating Valentines puts him at odds with the Vatican who fired the priest St. Valentine & booted the holy day from the church calendar in the 1960's. Since Newticles is no fan of repenting, how will he pay down his blatant sinning to celebrate the holiday they based on a priest who sent love letters to his jailer's daughter?

Visualizing Newt & his blonde bot making goo goo eyes at each other over a blue box of diamonds. . has the same reaction as guzzling Ipacac

[Skydave]

06:20 PM on 02/14/2012

I wonder if Newton and wifey, spent the day at Tiffany's?

[Bubbawubba Gump2]

04:57 PM on 02/14/2012

What a shot! Newt says Romney is popular with many people, not just the rabid right. Next thing you know he might even be electable! The Horrors!!

[csmomo]

04:35 PM on 02/14/2012

Oh Newton, do not worry your pretty little head about us liberals falling for Mittens--ain't gonna happen.

[Gringostan]

04:33 PM on 02/14/2012

A valentines day kiss from Newt; just like the Judas kiss, all warm and cuddly.

P.S. I don't believe this man deserves to use the honorific title of Speaker of the House; unless prefaced by Disgraced.

[csmomo]

04:17 PM on 02/14/2012

Court conservatives???? The definition of the "conservatives" they mean is: I either inherited mine or I got it by nefarious means that you need not worry about--now if you were smart as I am you'd have yours.

[Ukrainian American]

04:55 PM on 02/14/2012

you can say the say about the dems!!

[csmomo]

09:17 AM on 02/15/2012

Some of them, perhaps, but not so blatantly (if you mean "the same" instead of "the say", otherwise I don't KNOW what you mean.

[csmomo]

04:05 PM on 02/14/2012

EARTH TO NEWT---WRONG AGAIN! "Liverals" DO NOT love Romney. Newt has been drinking too much moon juice again.

[artistic1025]

04:02 PM on 02/14/2012

Let's get something straight, the presidential election has turned into a event of voting for the lesser of two evils. The people who can really run this country correctly don't because they can't afford to. It costs about $100,000,000 to run for president along with party support. Look at these presidential candidates, not a one of them has less than $50,000,000 in personal assetts. I remember that as a child I was told that any naturally born American citizen can be the president; that is such a lie. The truth of the matter is that any naturally born American millionaire or billionaire can be the president of the United States. Greed is what is destroying America. Until laws can be put in place to significantly reduce the amount of money a presidential candidate can take from one source, we are all going to pay and pay big.

[aristocracyrules]

04:24 PM on 02/14/2012

You're just a teensy-weensy off on your numbers. The President raised $770,000,000 in 2008.

[artistic1025]

03:55 PM on 02/14/2012

I heard that if Newt becomes president his first order of business will be to change the Star Bangled Banner to Deutchland Duberlas. All hail the new fuhrer!

[csmomo]

04:06 PM on 02/14/2012

News for you: NEWT IS NOT GOING TO BECOME PRESIDENT.

[Jim281]

03:43 PM on 02/14/2012

As a staunch progressive, who would probably be considered "radical" by the entire GOP field (except may Ron Paul), I can't let this opportunity pass me by.

HAPPY VALENTINES DAY, NEWT! I LOVE YOU! (as long as you keep stirring it up in the GOP)

[jbeachboy32]

03:23 PM on 02/14/2012

does anyone think the republican nominee can win the general election?

[ComedyFan]

03:33 PM on 02/14/2012

A friend of mine just told me that her elderly aunt, a staunch life-long politically astute Republican, said she can't vote for any of these candidates. So I think your answer is no, even among the Rs.

[jbeachboy32]

02:40 PM on 02/15/2012

also i saw economy is improving and there is now an 8 point lead over romney in polls

[RoofinReality]

03:35 PM on 02/14/2012

Objectively, and even subjectively, I don't think so.
Santorum - TOO far right, esepcially on woman's rights.
Mittens - Flip flopper extraordinaire. Pulled too far right by Santorum, especially on Latinos.
Gingrich - Great debater, and angry helps. But his baggage is TOO heavy and Repubs won't allow him to drag down the entire ticket. Women will not like him.
Paul - Great concept on auditing fed. But even folks on Fox News (Repub mouthpiece) don't like anything he says on foerign policy.

So, while it can happen, I really think that as long as the economy doesn't falter (just maintains where it is today), Obama should win again.
After all, according to Fox News just a few days ago, Obama beat Mittens by 52-42 and Santorum by 53-43.

[csmomo]

04:08 PM on 02/14/2012

There may be a few intelligent people left in this country in spite of what the Republicans have been showing us for the past few weeks.

[Tom4]

09:40 PM on 02/14/2012

You sure watch a lot of Fox News.

[bpalmer342]

03:15 PM on 02/14/2012

Newt'r is just too dangerous to be taken seriously in a position of real power. Shooting from the hip, as Reagn often did, wouldn't work in this world, at this time. I'm not saying delicate is the way to play politics but, delicate is the world economy and balance needs finesse.

[csmomo]

04:09 PM on 02/14/2012

Reagan??? Who ever paid any attention to his "shooting?"