With friends like Newt, who needs the Left? asks Mitt Romney in a sharp attack against presidential rival Newt Gingrich.
Romney is lifting Rep. Paul Ryan’s surprised response after Gingrich suggested that his budget was “right-wing social engineering.”
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In an email to reporters, Romney highlights Gingrich’s multiple positions on the plan, suggesting that he is not as conservative as people think.
“Speaker Gingrich’s attack on Paul Ryan’s plan as ‘right-wing social engineering’ – and then denying his own attack before doubling down on it – is the kind of Washington politics that Americans are tired of.” Romney spokesman Gail Gitcho writes, “Lifelong Washington insiders can’t fix the mess they helped create.”
To date, Romney hasn’t endorsed the Ryan plan.
“His plan is not the plan I’ll put forward, I have my own plan,” said Romney when asked about the Ryan plan in June.
