Mitt’s campaign assails Newt’s history of conservative accomplishments

Mitt Romney’s campaign isn’t in a position to talk about another candidate’s record of failure. Still, that’s exactly what his press secretary did today:

The former Georgia congressman vowed to fight for the nomination all the way to Tampa, called Romney “Obama-lite,” and challenged him to another debate.

“It isn’t good enough for the Republican Party to nominate Obama-lite,” Gingrich told hundreds of cheering supporters at Stoney’s Rockin’ Country, a country music nightclub in Las Vegas.

Romney campaign spokeswoman Amanda Henneberg responded to Gingrich’s comments in an email Friday.

“Newt Gingrich’s flailing attacks are the sign of a candidate trying to distract from his own record to save his sinking campaign,” she said. “Newt Gingrich would rather make misleading statements about Mitt Romney’s record than tell Nevada voters suffering from the housing crisis why he took $1.6 million from Freddie Mac or why he filmed a climate change ad with Nancy Pelosi that was funded by George Soros.”

Newt didn’t raise fees and taxes to the tune of $700,000,000. Mitt did. Newt didn’t approve of expensive CO2 emissions regulations that cost Massachusetts power plants tens of millions of dollars a year. Mitt did. Newt teamed with John Kasich and President Obama in balancing the budget and paying $405,000,000,000. Mitt didn’t.

The other thing that’s apparent is that Mitt’s spokesperson didn’t say a thing about anything positive conservative accomplishments of Mitt’s. That’s because his list of positive conservative accomplishments is tiny. Newt’s list of positive conservative accomplishments is substantial and lengthy.

Like paying $405,000,000,000 off the debt in 5 years. Like putting the plan in place that helped Republicans win a majority in the U.S. House of Representatives in 40 years. Like passing the biggest Capital Gains tax cut in U.S. history. Like passing Welfare reform, the only entitlement reform of the last half century.

If little Miss Sassypants wants to pick a fight, let’s have that fight. Mitt can’t explain capitalism. Mitt thinks that the minimum wage should be indexed to inflation. Mitt thinks that Romneycare is working fine but that Obamacare is a disaster. Romneycare is bankrupting Massachusetts but Mitt thinks it’s doing ok.

Mitt’s spokespeople are trained in deflection. Notice that they didn’t say a word about Mitt. It was all about dishonestly attacking Newt. Mitt’s plan is timid and won’t move the country forward. At best, it’ll give people a better view of the iceberg before it sinks the Titanic.

It’s worth noting that an intellectual heavyweight like Art Laffer endorsed Newt’s economic revitalization plan. Thomas Sowell, another intellectual heavyweight, endorsed Newt’s economic revitalization plan. They didn’t endorse Mitt’s timid plan.

In other words, Ms. Henneberg’s statement that Newt’s attempting to deflect attention away from his record is BS through and through. Why would Newt run from his lengthy history of major conservative accomplishments? I know why Mitt would attempt to deflect attention away from himself if the subject of major conservative accomplishments came up.

If the subject of impressive conservative accomplishments came up, I’d be surprised if Mitt didn’t flee the stage with the urgency of a vampire fleeing a wooden stake. The Mitt-Romney-is-a-conservative myth has been exposed.

The Romneybots on Twitter talk about how he was pro-enforcement against illegal immigration. They talk about how he’s anti-cap and trade. Their answers are more than a little slippery. They’re downright deceptive. This post is proof of that deceitfulness:

Romney: As governor, I authorized the state police to enforce immigration laws.

Here’s FactCheck’s response:

Well, yes. But, as we noted in August, he didn’t do so until he had less than a month left in his term. He was already considering running for president, and the new governor-elect was expected to rescind the arrangement.

Mitt, the hardliner is a myth. So is Mitt, the anti-cap and trade guy. While it’s technically true, this post exposes that Mitt myth:

Governor Mitt Romney today announced that Massachusetts will take another major step in meeting its commitment to protecting air quality when strict state limitations on carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions from power plants take effect on January 1, 2006.

Massachusetts is the first and only state to set CO2 emissions limits on power plants. The limits, which target the six largest and oldest power plants in the state, are the toughest in the nation.

In addition to reaffirming existing stringent CO2 limits, the draft regulations announced today, which will be filed next week, contain protections against excessive price increases for businesses and consumers. They allow power generation companies to implement CO2 reductions at their own facilities or fund other reduction projects off-site through a greenhouse gas offset and credits program.

The key features of Mitt’s CO2 emissions limits regulations are a) limiting CO2 emissions, b) establishing price controls on power plants so they have to eat the cost of Mitt’s expensive regulations and c) a “greenhouse gas offset and credits program.”

The Cap and Trade bill that was defeated in Congress is different in that it controlled all greenhouse gas emissions. It, too, featured a system of offsets and credits. Like Mitt’s regulations, it will drive coal-fired power plants to the brink of extinction.

It’s noteworthy that the federal cap and trade legislation doesn’t include price caps. In that sense, Mitt’s MMGW regulations are more restrictive than the federal cap and trade system would’ve been.

When Newt was rising, Newt was inspiring people to join the conservative cause. Bold programs that had succeeded in the recent past were the centerpiece of his program. More importantly, Newt kept the promises made in the Contract With America. Meanwhile, Mitt was running from the Contract With America like he ran from Reagan that same year.

Suddenly, Mitt’s the conservative and Newt’s the liberal? That’s something only a liberal from an alternative universe could believe.

Tags: Politics of Personal Destruction, Mitt Romney, Romneycare, Cap and Trade, Price Controls, GHG, Immmigration, Tax Increases, RINO, Newt Gingrich, Contract With America, Tax Cuts, Thomas Sowell, Art Laffer, Endorsements, GOP, Election 2012

Authored By Gary Gross Let Freedom Ring Blog

Authored By Gary Gross Let Freedom Ring Blog