Nancy Pelosi told CNN last night that Newt Gingrich would definitely not become president, whether he was the GOP nominee or not.
“He’s not going to be president of the United States,” Pelosi said. “That’s not going to happen. Let me just make my prediction and stand by it. It isn’t going to happen.”
Asked why she was so certain by CNN host John King, Pelosi said, “There’s something I know,” but did not elaborate on what she was referring to.
Asked about Pelosi’s comments on Fox News this morning, Mitt Romney used the comments as a way to call on Gingrich to ask Congress to release more of the documents related to his ethics investigation.
“I wish I knew what that was,” Romney said about Pelosi’s remark. “I’d tell people what it is right now. That’s one of the reasons why I’m saying that all of the records that were part of the ethics investigation, all of the transcripts, all of the records have to be made public. Not just the final white-washed report, but the full record, the reason that 88 percent of the Republicans in the House voted to reprimand their own speaker, the first time in American history that’s happened.
“We need to understand why that is,” Romney added, “and those records need to be released because you know that if Nancy Pelosi knows those things right now, she will hand them to Barack Obama’s campaign if Speaker Gingrich were our nominee.”
In a Fox News interview after Romney’s this morning, Gingrich addressed the remarks directly, calling on Pelosi to be forthright.
“I think if she knows something, she ought to say it,” the former House speaker said. “If she doesn’t know something, she ought to quit saying it. But this is baloney. I don’t think any Republican is going to be threatened by Nancy Pelosi, and frankly, I’d rather have her threaten me than endorse me, so I feel pretty good about it.”
Asked about Romney’s push for him to call for more of the data related to the ethics investigation to be released, Gingrich pivoted into an attack on Romney.
“This is a guy who has a Swiss bank account . . . has Cayman Island bank accounts,” he said. “He’s never revealed a single thing about his business dealings. And he wants to keep staying on offense about transparency. I would love to have a transparency/accountability debate with Mitt Romney. I don’t think he can answer all sorts of questions that he doesn’t want brought up, including serious liabilities as director of a company.”
“So let’s make it a two-way street,” Gingrich added. “These guys have been throwing punches for weeks. The fact is, they have a lot they can’t answer and won’t answer.”
She's lying or, if you prefer, bluffing badly.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseMaybe.
But why did he threaten her back last time she brought it up by citing the House rule on disclosing investigations if there's no there there?
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseMakes you wonder why the Democrats are so determined to make sure Romney wins the Republican nomination.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseYES! Gingrich zings Romney again on business, taxes, and free enterprise.
Take that Romney for having Swiss bank accounts and stuff in the Cayman Islands. You big, terrible, awful free enterprise jerk. How dare you not want to pay more taxes!
NEWT 2012!
Reply to this commentLinkReport Abuse'I know something'
Oh brother. Get ready for a whopping anticlimax.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseIf the details that Ms. Pelosi are referring to are is related to an ethics investigation and information that of right and law is sealed, I think Ms. Pelosi's use of it makes for political gain further reinforces the idea that it is probably time for an independent "tribune" branch of the government to investigate the legislature and to serve as a check on the judiciary and executive branches via a veto power.
It also reinforces the idea that nothing in government hands will ever be truly secret if release of it could further Democratic interests. I think it could be fairly said that never was a faction more ruthless based on less talent in the history of man. Hothouse fascists. Simply hothouse fascist.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseHer ofiice reported via The Hill, Nan has nothing new on Gingrich, the public record is out there
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseNewt Gingrich will never become president, not because of Nancy Pelosi but because that is simply not the way this story ends. Ever.
The Republicans currently panting after Newt are like a guy who is having one last fling with a sexy, mouthy, dangerous little tramp who turns him on. But he knows, and so does everybody else, that before long he will ditch the unreliable bimbo and propose to the nice girl his family wants him to marry, and settle down to a safe, boring existence in suburbia.
That's just what always happens.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseSucks to be you, I guess.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseAw... cheer up, little kernel!
2016 isn't far away :-)
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseI think he was referring to your sad depiction of growing up and facing maturity.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseWhich of those female stereotypes are you in real life, filistro?
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseDear Mitt,
Forget what your consultants are telling you and listen to how this all works. When Pelosi attacks a fellow Republican, you side with the Republican. You could have said the exact same thing that Newt said about it without retreating from your own attacks on his record. You see, all of us really want to side with a Republican when faced with the choice of Democrat vs. Republican. When you side with the Democrat . . . well, we don't like that.
Furthermore, don't be surprised when confronted with your own standard if you win the nomination and a Democrat from Massachusetts begins telling people that he or she has a secret about you.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseI guess we all better just tremble in fear before Queen Nancy!
And, BTW, I'm not sure, Katrina that it helps your case for Romney to be putting him on the same side as Pelosi....
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseAgree it doesn't help Romney, but too bad Newt can't pounce on it since there is the small matter of him sitting on the couch next to Mad Queen Nancy yammering about climate change.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseSo now Romney is sitting on the same couch with Pelosi.
Does he have backups of computer disks he cleaned up when he left Governor's office in MA?
Gingrich was exonerated by IRS, Both pals, Romney and Pelosi know that.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseAre no other conservatives upset with Gingrich for (yet again) attacking business, wealth, and free enterprise? Is the Republican Party just a bunch of watered down Democrats? That they will fawn over someone like Newt, who will hate on Romney for being a successful *private* investor while Newt is every inch the "I got rich in D.C." plutocrat? Please, Republicans, stop the Gingrich affair (pun intended) before it's too late. Obama will destroy Gingrich. Romney at least has a fighting chance because there is no dirt there. Gingrich's dirt is so deep, it will leave a mound on the grave of his Presidential run when he comes in with low-forties in November.
Reply to this commentLinkReport Abuse"“This is a guy who has a Swiss bank account . . . has Cayman Island bank accounts,” "
Once again, the "real conservative" is railing against citizens investing in international funds. Is this what we can expect from President Gingrich: A tax and regulatory regime on private wealth and free enterprise that would make Michael Moore very, very happy.
Newt Gingrich, Reagan Conservative. Sure.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbuseNewt saying Romney should reveal business dealings and bank accounts that are private and came about while working in the private sector to deflect attacks that Newt should reveal everything that led to him being censored by the public House of Representatives when he was a public government figure supposedly working for the people who elected him is ridiculous and should never fly in conservative circles.
Funny that Nancy Pelosi is involved in this, I've always thought the Republicans choosing Newt as the presidential candidate would be the same type of suicide as the Democrats picking Nancy as their presidential candidate in 2016 or so. A large part of their very vocal and politically active base would love it, then they'd get destroyed in the general.
Reply to this commentLinkReport AbusePelosi knows something?
That would be a first.
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