In an appearance on “Hardball with Chris Matthews” that aired tonight on MSNBC, Newt Gingrich asserted that the tea party wing of the GOP will never coalesce behind presumptive frontrunner Mitt Romney. When asked by Matthews how such an ardently conservative faction of the party will ever express enthusiasm for the former Massachusetts governor at the Republican National Convention in August, Gingrich insisted that they will leave Romney at the altar:
“They would never cheer him. Why would you cheer someone — if you are a tea party person, why would you cheer somebody who raised taxes, created the prototype of Obamacare, appointed liberal judges to appease the Democrats? That’s his language, not mine. And put in tax-paid abortions, took care of Planned Parenthood. I mean, here’s an easy question for you guys. Name one conservative accomplishment in public policy.”
