Newt has been off the reservation for a long time now. The Klintoons must have something on him. Or perhaps he is just brown nosing to whoever looks to be on the rise.
Posted on 01/12/2008 12:16:09 PM PST by indcons
Newt Gingrich’s on-again, off-again adulation of Hillary Rodham Clinton appears to be back on.
The leader of the 1994 Republican revolution — who as House speaker in the mid 1990s clashed fiercely with then-first lady Clinton and her husband, Bill Clinton — attributed her surprise victory in New Hampshire to the Democratic presidential candidate’s courage, integrity and openness.
After Clinton’s third-place finish in the Jan. 3 Iowa Democratic caucuses, “it would have been very easy for her to have broken, accepted defeat,” Gingrich said in a weekly podcast e-mailed to supporters.
“Instead, starting on Saturday night, she fought back with greater and greater intensity, and she opened herself up," Gingrich went on. “She talked as a person, without all the protection, without all the discipline, and she became more and more appealing.”
Gingrich said that shift demonstrated “the courage to learn” and enabled the New York senator to grow “in the space of three or four days to a much more attractive, much more aggressive and much more appealing candidate.”
As a result, he posited, New Hampshire voters who made up their minds at the last minute “were going to Sen. Clinton, were affected by her campaign, by her integrity, by her openness.”
Gingrich’s podcast, one of many products cranked out by his political groups, also had similarly high praise for Arizona Sen. John McCain, who won New Hampshire’s Republican presidential primary.
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I wonder that too. I think that real conservatives are possibly deliberately being squeezed out, because the power-hungry politicians who have no convictions to worry about think that it limits their voter base too much, having to address our (conservative) concerns. If we would just become marginalised, their mouths water for all those “moderate”, “centrist”, and even slightly left-leaning (ie, fiscal conservative but social liberal) votes that they could get. Life would so much simpler then, they wouldn’t have to dance around trying to reconcile the irreconcilable (seeing as they have no core convictions of their own to stand fast to0.
Actually, I lied. He’s not interested in the presidency anymore. The American Solutions racket is too profitable to abandon. But send me the check anyway.
Seems Newt has been cozying up to the Clintons for a year or so.
Lost all confidence in him and his judgement.
As the kids used to say, ‘gag me with a spoon’. Newt proves once again that those of us who were unpersuaded by his attempt to get support for a presidential run were on target in every area.
“He went on to advise her not to attack Obama but instead to counter his message of change by launching “the strongest possible appeal to women” on the grounds that “electing a woman president is in and of itself is the real change.”
Clinton did almost precisely that after her disappointing Iowa finish.
And in his podcast this week, Gingrich said Clinton was able to defeat Obama in New Hampshire “by arguing that her 35-year record of fighting for change was better than his immediate promise of future change.””
So, Newt told her how to win in NH.
No surprise here...the newtster is supporting the huckster too.
Expect many to soon begin to bow to “her inevitableness”.
The entire beltway is already anticipating her coronation.
” Again I ask, where are the conservative leaders of the party?”
They’ve fooled us. They aren’t conservative, but they need you to believe they are. Newt is right there with every little think tank and non profit that always has the same bunch pushing liberal notions. Grover Norquist is usually leading them, Bush’ #1 Trade/immigration/Arab adviser. They have given us warning. We should have paid more attention.
Grover Norquist: “I started out as a right-winger, and when I retire I want to be a squishy middle-of-the-roader,” he jokes, chortling at the thought.
http://towncriernews.blogspot.com/search?q=grover+norquist+squishy+middle
True. But then look at what our side buys into...
Clearly the she-devil has something on the Newt that requires that he not criticize her.
He just wants to keep being invited back to the news shows as a commentator.
Newt is SICKENING!
That’s nothing. Rush called Her Thighness “Sexy.”
Newt we hardly knew ye..
Newt has been off the reservation for a long time now. The Klintoons must have something on him. Or perhaps he is just brown nosing to whoever looks to be on the rise.
Actually, he is.
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