“Neither here nor there to the point that Gingrich was opposing a GOP President’s reform of the GSEs. That’s an indefensible position for a conservative.”
Do you know that that is what Gingrich was doing? So far I haven’t seen any explanation of just what it was he did.
Gingrich’s contract with Freddie began in 1999 which is before Dubya took office.
I posted a link to you that answers this. Of course, if you are willing to take John Sununu’s word for it, which I imagine most Newt supporters are not.
Also, I recall listening carefully to Newt’s answers when this was brought up at the debates and in interviews and it seemed to me that he never denied, and in fact at some points admitted, that he was against the reforms pushed by most conservatives, including the Bush administration, re the GSEs.
Seemed to me it was typical Newt — all about how he had a better idea on how to do Freddie and Fannie that would fulfill their [Liberal] vision better and, therefore, conservatives were wrong to see these organizations as money-sucking relics of FDR’s socialism.
I stated the above in my last post to you, and just wanted to make sure you knew I wasn't directing that specifically at you. Just a general statement about people's tendency to dismiss-without-consideration any "negative" information about their candidate.
On the larger point of whether Gingrich worked against the Bush administration reform efforts, besides the link I previously posted to you, this article I just saw on Drudge is pretty damning, in my view.
Gingrich's 1986 floor statement -- which was indisputably made by him on the floor of this Nation's Congress -- is inexplicable. It sounds just like Harry Reid.