Newt Gingrich: 'No Proof' Of Romney Ad's Welfare Claim

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WASHINGTON -- Newt Gingrich admitted Wednesday evening that Mitt Romney's presidential campaign has no evidence the Obama administration dropped work requirements from the nation's welfare law, contradicting a Romney TV ad released a day earlier.

"We have no proof today, but I would say to you under Obama’s ideology it is absolutely true that he would be comfortable sending a lot of people checks for doing nothing," Gingrich told CNN's Anderson Cooper. "I believe that totally."

The Romney campaign on Tuesday released a TV ad claiming President Barack Obama "gutted" the 1996 welfare reform law, which changed welfare from a federal entitlement to a program run by states within federal rules.

"Under Obama’s plan, you wouldn’t have to work and wouldn’t have to train for a job," the ad said. "They just send you your welfare check."

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/08/08/newt-gingrich-romney-welfare_n_1758461.html

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Someone actually admitting an error in a politcal add. What a novel idea!

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Someone actually admitting an error in a politcal add. What a novel idea!

I don't think it's accurate to call a lie an 'error'.

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I like how he says there's no proof, but Obama WOULD do something like that, so who cares...