Newt To Mitt: You’re Not A Career Politician Because You Lose

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Heading into this debate, everyone expected Mitt Romney to take some blows at the man polls suggest is the new frontrunner, Newt Gingrich.

The question was whether Newt would hit back. He’d previously suggested he would focus on running a “positive” campaign that wouldn’t stoop to negative attacks.

Well, that lasted all of about five minutes. Within moments he responded to Romney’s digs with a vicious blow: the only reason Romney isn’t also one of the “career politicians” he so often derides is because he lost to Ted Kennedy in 1994.

Watch below:

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