No, the problem is that he fell into the same-old trap that Republicans always make when they're accused of being evil right-wing KKK extremists by the Left: Try to soften their image and "reach out" to the very Left that wants to see them destroyed.
Newt got completely owned by Clinton and the media. Policy-wise, he is a master, but he was horrible at optics and pushing the narrative. Trump would NEVER sit next to Pelosi on a couch.
Him mentioning Tip O’Neil pissed me off. I had a very big burning dislike of him and his buttbuddy Ted Kennedy. I drank a toast to the gods of good fortune the day they passed. Nancy has caught them both.
Big deal. People make mistakes and that one was not big one.
I’m amazed how easily people get bugs up their butt because of one relatively small mistake.
Grow up
No what any self respecting GOPe or freepers who worries about such smears does when accused of being racist is
Point out it was those nasty red headed step children southerners who streamed into the party with John Tower, Jesse Helms and Strom Thurmond in response to civil rights legislation largesse
It wasn’t us
It was those hicks and grandsons of slave owners
We are pure as a Marilyn Chambers box cover