Flashback: Kerry and Gingrich Hugging Trees -- and (Almost) Each Other

The Washington Post ^ | April 11, 2007 | Staff

[BarnacleCenturion]

Yesterday's global-warming debate between John Kerry and Newt Gingrich was, as the moderator put it, "advertised as a smack-down and a prizefight." But those labels were too modest for Kerry.

"Welcome to our environmental version of the Lincoln-Douglas debates," the former Democratic presidential nominee told the crowd in the Russell Caucus Room. "We flipped a coin, and I picked Lincoln."

But something funny happened on the way to 1858. Gingrich, a former Republican House speaker, refused to play Douglas to Kerry's Lincoln, instead positioning himself as a tree-hugging green.

Before Kerry got a word in, Gingrich conceded that global warming is real, that humans have contributed to it and that "we should address it very actively." Gingrich held up Kerry's new book, "This Moment on Earth," and called it "a very interesting read." He then added a personal note about saving vulnerable species from climate change. "My name, Newt, actually comes from the Danish Knut, and there's been a major crisis in Germany over a polar bear named Knut," he confided.

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Kerry didn't know quite what to do with his agreeable opponent. "I'm a little confused about sort of where Newt comes from on this," he said at first. Later, Kerry tried to switch places with Gingrich, branding him a big-government liberal. "You know, this is a huge transition," he exclaimed. "You actually want the government to do it. I want the private sector to do it."

By the end of the debate, Lincoln/Kerry was embracing Douglas/Gingrich as a global-warming ally, saying things such as "What we need to do is what Newt just said."

"I'll lay odds if Newt Gingrich and I were responsible for making this happen, we could get in a room and in a week, we'd come up with a program and make it happen,"

[reaganator]

Good reply, Happy Rain.

Let us not allow the left to choose our candiadate for us.

[Katarina]

Love what and how you said this.

[TheOldLady]

Click the Pic               Thank you, JoeProBono

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[BillyBoy]

>> However,I’m willing to—because of his political savvy—allow him to serve as President Herman Cain’s Vice President. <<

Not me. I don't want this slimeball having Cain's ear every week. And I certainly don't want him a heartbeat away from the Presidency. I don't care how "politically saavy" he is. So is Slick Willie (as most recently demonstrated at Obama's press conference when he took over). Bottom line is that Newt can't be trusted in power again.

Cain fans do their man a disserve when they constantly talk up the possiblity of a "Cain-Gingrich" ticket. I'm willing to consider Cain for President right now. If he gets in bed with Newt, he can forget it.

[goat granny]

Made mistake, Union of Soviet socialist republic, not united soviet etc...my bad