Newt: Romney starved Holocaust survivors

Wow:

“He eliminated serving kosher food for elderly Jewish residents under [Medicaid],” Gingrich said. “I did not know this; it just came out yesterday.  The more we dig in, I understand why George Soros in Europe yesterday said it makes no difference if it’s Romney or Obama, we can live with either one.”

Newt robocall text:

As governor of Massachusetts, Mitt Romney vetoed a bill paying for kosher food for our seniors in nursing homes. Holocaust survivors, who for the first time, were forced to eat non-kosher, because Romney thought $5 was too much to pay for our grandparents to eat kosher. Where is Mitt Romney’s compassion for our seniors? Tuesday you can end Mitt Romney’s hypocrisy on religious freedom, with a vote for Newt Gingrich. Paid for by Newt 2012.

Commentary’s Alana Goodman explains why this claim is nonsense. Jonah Goldberg tweets that this accusation is “beneath him” — Gingrich, he means. I disagree. There’s very little that’s beneath Newt Gingrich. The man could stand upright under a rattlesnake’s belly and still wear his a ten-gallon hat.