Posted on 12/28/2011 12:56:14 PM PST by Jim Robinson
This is a rush transcript from "Hannity," December 26, 2011. This copy may not be in its final form and may be updated.
MARK STEYN, GUEST HOST: It made all the campaign chaos. Newt Gingrich has picked up a much needed endorsement from former Oklahoma Congressman J.C. Watts.
Here to explain why he's chosen to throw his support behind the former speaker is none other than the man himself, former Congressman J.C. Watts.
Welcome to the program. What's Newt got that the other guys don't have as far as you are concerned?
J.C. WATTS, FORMER OKLAHOMA CONGRESSMAN: Well, Mark, thanks for having me on this evening. Let me say that I appreciate your work.
STEYN: Likewise, thank you, Congressman.
WATTS: You know, Mark, I am long past looking for my president or my presidential nominee to be my savior or to be my pastor. I'm looking for someone that is prepared to do the heavy lifting to get us where we all want to be and I think where we need to be. You consider in Washington, around the country today we are talking about balanced budgets, paying down our national debt, getting the economy going, defending ourselves, activist judges.
Newt Gingrich did all those things when he was speaker.
We got tax relief. We got balanced budgets. We got, you know, job creation. We paid down our national debt. If you think about it, Mark, we haven't done that since he left. So I think he's been there, done that. I think he is lot more seasoned person today than he was 15 years ago. I know him well. He is a personal friend. He asked me for an endorsement. I chose to give it to him.
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My thoughts exactly. JC Watts used to get a lot of respect from me, but not anymore. If the color of a man’s skin is more important to Watts than a man’s principles and ideas, then you have lost my respect and your endorsement is of little value to me.
Lost all respect for JC when he announced over & over he was considering voting for Obama in 2008. He’s never said he didn’t as far as I know.
He hasn’t said he didn’t either...what does that tell you?
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