With Michael Reagan and Herman Cain speaking for him, Newt Gingrich made his last appearance in Tampa before tomorrow's FL GOP primary, insisting that he can pull off a major upset in his fierce battle with Mitt Romney.
Although two new polls show Gingrich closer than some other surveys (Insider Advantage shows Romney plus 5; Public Policy Polling has him up by 7 points), the former House Speaker said he knows of one poll that shows the race in a tie (which naturally lit up the rather modest audience assembled at an airport hangar off of Jim Walter Drive in Tampa).
Deriding the Romney campaign's barrage of attack ads as "$17 million full of falsehoods," Gingrich slammed his challenger for voting for Democrat Paul Tsongas in the 1992 presidential primary election in Massachusetts, and giving financial contributions to Democratic candidates, asking indignantly, "And he's questioning my credentials?"
This article appears in Jan 26 – Feb 1, 2012.