Apparently, Gingrich made about one and a half million bucks over 8 years as a contract consultant with Freddie Mac. Nobody forced Freddie to contract with him.
It was a private business. He was no longer in government. It is roughly 200 grand a year. He makes fairly big bucks.
Some freepers are starting to sound like they believe in Obama’s class envy. They hate, not just the rich, but the upper middle class, too. They hate people who make more money than they do.
The problem is that there is more to Newts record than just these things. He is a sitting duck. and, no matter how much you or any of us want to say “Oh, this was a private business” I guarantee the Left will go gangbusters about these things.
My refrain is always the same, "as long as it was made honestly I don't care".
We should look at this from the perspective of our own lives. What ever it is we do for a living there are things that accrue to our benefit over time and people do business with us because of them. For example, I sold real estate for a long time and I often picked up listings because I worked with a large number of European immigrants and sellers knew this was the market most likely to buy their property. If sellers gravitated to me because of this advantage and I made a lot of money because of it was this somehow evil? NO!
If Newt made a bunch money because he had been in govt for 20 years and was a former Speaker of the House what do I care as long as he did it honestly.
I think where Newt does run into trouble is the times he lined up with the foes of conservatives rather than fighting with conservatives.