Mitt Romney Rips Into Newt Gingrich on Pelosi, Paul Ryan's Budget

On Thursday, former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney slammed former U.S. House Speaker Newt Gingrich, his chief rival for the Republican presidential nomination, issuing a statement attacking the former congressional leader on a number of fronts.

When Republicans needed a leader to stand up against cap-and-trade, Speaker Gingrich did an ad with Nancy Pelosi about global warming, Romney said. When Republicans took one of the most courageous votes Ive seen in at least a decade to call for the reform of Medicare under the Paul Ryan plan, he goes public and says this is a right-wing social engineering plan. Recently he even called it suicide. I know it can be popular with some people to use extreme language, but were talking about the presidency of the United States.