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"As speaker, Gingrich even supported taxpayer funding of some abortions."
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Newt Gingrich "teamed with Nancy Pelosi and Al Gore on global warming."
Newt Gingrich "was fined $300,000 for ethics violations."
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New Jersey —
"By the way, I'm not raising tolls 50 percent....Jon Corzine did."
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"The Social Security trust fund … is already facing imminent bankruptcy."
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Says Rick Santorum voted for the Bridge to Nowhere.
— Rick Perry
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