Gingrich to Romney: Drop the “pious baloney”

Saturday’s debate was mostly a dud, but there were a couple of good moments in the first half hour of Sunday’s, including this from Newt aimed at Willard (Romney):

“Can we drop a little bit of the pious baloney? The fact is, you ran in ’94 and lost. That’s why you weren’t serving in the Senate with Rick Santorum. The fact is, you had a very bad re-election rating, you dropped out of office, you had been out of state for something like 200 days preparing to run for president. You didn’t have this interlude of citizenship while you thought about what you do. You were running for president while you were governor,” he said. ”

“So this idea that suddenly citizenship showed up in your mind — just level with the American people: You’ve been running for — at least since the 1990’s,” he continued.

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