In a videotaped interview with Reuters, billionaire financier George Soros said that should Romney win the White House in November, there would be "little difference" between him and Obama.
"If it’s between Obama and Romney, there isn’t all that much difference except for the crowd that they bring with them," he said while at Davos, Switzerland.
The suggestion is that on economics, there is little to distinguish between the current occupant of the White House and Romney. If Gingrich wins, however, he believes the situation would be much different.
"Romney would have to take Gingrich or Santorum as a vice president and you probably have some pretty extreme candidates for the Supreme Court," Soros added.
"So it won't be that great a difference," he concluded
He also said there would be little enthusiasm for either candidate, and the election would be "more civilized."
On Monday, Gingrich responded by noting that Goldman Sachs is one of Romney's largest contibutors in 2012.
"Goldman Sachs: largest fundraiser of Obama in 2008, largest funder of Romney in 2012," he said on CBS' This Morning.
“He can bury me for a very short amount of time with four or five or six times as much money most of it raised on Wall Street, coming from the guys who got bailouts from the government," Gingrich said.
"In the long run, the Republican party is not going to nominate the founder of RomneyCare, a liberal Republican who’s pro-abortion, pro-gun control and pro-taxes. It ain’t gonna happen.”
According to opensecrets.org, Goldman Sachs has donated over $2 million in the current election cycle, mostly to Republicans. Mitt Romney has received $7.8 million from the entire financial sector, almost twice that of Barack Obama at just over $4 million.
Gingrich has only received $200,950 from the financial sector.
The reason for this, according to Soros, is that Obama seeks to raise taxes on hedge fund managers and the wealthy.
The Hill adds:
Gingrich has claimed that Romney has run ads with attacks he knows to be false. On Monday, Gingrich suggested that Romney had also misled voters on his tax returns which he released last week. "He misled the entire country on his own voting pattern," said Gingrich of Romney. "He misled the country on a whole lot of things ... he had 23 foreign assets he didn't list on his disclosure forms."
Gingrich though said that he would back the eventual Republican nominee, saying that any GOP candidate would be preferable to Obama.
"Re-electing Obama is a disaster," he said.
"I will certainly endorse the Republican nominee but Mitt Romney will have a very difficult time differentiating himself and that's what George Soros's message is this morning," Gingrich continued.
Newsmax reported that radio talk radio host Rush Limbaugh said Soros is endorsing Romney: "He's endorsing Romney. 'Romney, that's cool, no difference, I could go either way that way.'"
"My only difference, he said, Gingrich now that would be real change but Romney’s fine.""My only difference, he said, Gingrich now that would be real change but Romney’s fine."
More on Newt Gingrich at examiner.com here.
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