<i>ABC News</i>:<br><h1 class="pagetitle">Gingrich Back on Attack, Says Romney Campaign Has ‘No Principles’</h1>
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<p>FREDERICK, Maryland — After a week of laying off his rivals, GOP contender <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/Politics/video/newt-gingrich-full-speech-cpac-2012-15558504">Newt Gingrich</a> today tore into <a href="http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2012/04/former-president-clinton-on-mitt-romney-etch-a-sketch-is-what-hes-got-to-do/">Mitt Romney</a>, saying, “You can’t run a campaign with no principles,” and vowing to “go to Tampa” to contest the nomination.</p>
<p>Gingrich showed no signs of quitting the race, arguing that Romney
does not have close to the 1,144 delegates needed to secure the
nomination and insisting there is still the possibility of an open
convention in Tampa.</p>
<p>“I can’t tell you today how realistic it is that we will get to an
open convention, and I can’t tell you today with any certainty that I
will be the nominee,” Gingrich told a modest crowd in the showroom at a
car dealership.</p>
<p>“But I can tell you a couple of things. Despite six years of
campaigning, $40 million dollars of his own money, millions raised from
Wall Street — largely from people who got our tax money from the bailout
— Governor Romney doesn’t have it locked down. And we have no
obligation to back off and concede anything until he does.”</p>
<p>Resurrecting the controversy around the comments by Romney’s advisor
Eric Fehrnstrom that moving on to the general election would be like
resetting an Etch A Sketch, Gingrich swore he would carry on.</p>
<p>“I took very seriously the Etch A Sketch comments of his director of
communications. And I know how totally non-value centered political
consultants are. … You can’t run a campaign with no principles and win
the United States,” he said.</p>
<p>“You are not going to beat Barack Obama by being clever. And so I
want to ensure, and I will be going to Tampa, Callista and I will both
be going to Tampa.”</p></div><br clear="all"><br>-- <br>Art Deco (Wayne A. Fox)<br><a href="mailto:art.deco.studios@gmail.com" target="_blank">art.deco.studios@gmail.com</a><br>