Excerpts from William Jefferson Gingrich by R. Emmet Tyrrell, Jr. Be sure to go read the entire piece.
"Newt and Bill, as 1960s generation self-promoters, share the same duplicity, ostentatious braininess, a propensity for endless scrapes with propriety and the law.
He blew the impeachment and in fact his role as Speaker. He backed out in disgrace. He now says Republicans in the House were exhausted with his great projects. Nonsense, I knew many of them, and they were exhausted with his atrocious leadership. He is not a leader. He is a huckster. Today Mitt Romney has 72 Congressional endorsements. Newt has 11. Possibly the 11 have yet to meet him.
Now he has found his key for hustling conservative electorate. He is playing the liberal media card and saying he embodies conservative values. Like Bill with his credulous fans, Newt is hoping conservatives suffer amnesia. Possibly some do. Perhaps they cannot recall mere months ago when this insufferable whiz kid was lambasting the great Congressman Paul Ryan for “right-wing social engineering” — more evidence of Newt’s not-so-hidden longing for the approval of the liberal media.
I do not know how much Newt has amassed, but he got between $1.6 million to $1.8 million from Freddie Mac, and he lobbied for Medicare Part B while receiving, according to the Washington Examiner’s Tim Carney, “Big Bucks Pushing Corporate Welfare.” Now after a lifetime in Washington he is promoting himself as an outsider.
Contending with Newt for the Republican nomination are Ron Paul, Rick Santorum, and Mitt Romney. All three are truer conservatives than Newt. I like them all."
Mr. Tyrrell, Jr. is founder and editor in chief of the American Spectator
Isn't a newt a type of amphibian lizard?
ReplyDeletenewt
Deletenoun /n(y)o͞ot/
newts, plural
A small, slender-bodied amphibian with lungs and a well-developed tail, typically spending its adult life on land and returning to water to breed
I always liked Newt. What sold me on him this round was who is against him most. The same Republicans who gave us Bush McCain and Dole not in that order.
ReplyDeleteNewt is the only viable candidate that can beat Obama. Obama wanted McCain so his team helped get him the nomination and they want Romney today. Newt will, despite his personal baggage deprive Obama of his election story line. Haves against Have-Nots. 99% against the 1%.
If anyone thinks Romney made his money without insider leveraging they know nothing. He was a predator investor who used political connections to amass a fortune for himself and his investors. He knows as much about the real economy as Al Capone. Even his charitable contributions was given in stock to avoid paying capital gains and his church pays no taxes. Not illegal but shows what he is about. H is a money junkie who would leverage the position of president to increase his own fortune and his fellow 1% rs.
Think of him as a wannabe Nelson Rockefeller.