Posted on 01/12/2008 12:16:09 PM PST by indcons
Newt Gingrich’s on-again, off-again adulation of Hillary Rodham Clinton appears to be back on.
The leader of the 1994 Republican revolution — who as House speaker in the mid 1990s clashed fiercely with then-first lady Clinton and her husband, Bill Clinton — attributed her surprise victory in New Hampshire to the Democratic presidential candidate’s courage, integrity and openness.
After Clinton’s third-place finish in the Jan. 3 Iowa Democratic caucuses, “it would have been very easy for her to have broken, accepted defeat,” Gingrich said in a weekly podcast e-mailed to supporters.
“Instead, starting on Saturday night, she fought back with greater and greater intensity, and she opened herself up," Gingrich went on. “She talked as a person, without all the protection, without all the discipline, and she became more and more appealing.”
Gingrich said that shift demonstrated “the courage to learn” and enabled the New York senator to grow “in the space of three or four days to a much more attractive, much more aggressive and much more appealing candidate.”
As a result, he posited, New Hampshire voters who made up their minds at the last minute “were going to Sen. Clinton, were affected by her campaign, by her integrity, by her openness.”
Gingrich’s podcast, one of many products cranked out by his political groups, also had similarly high praise for Arizona Sen. John McCain, who won New Hampshire’s Republican presidential primary.
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Newt also melted when slick bit his lip and teared up.
Wow, it’s tough to get much further off one’s meds than this.
The man jumped the shark years ago.
There’s definitely something in the water in D.C.
Wasn’t some freeper hoping Newt would endorse Fred? Yeah, right, that would give him a boost. /sarc
Sometimes I just don’t know where Newt is coming from.
wasn’t this the same moron a bunch of Freepers wanted to run for president?
they must have gone straight to McCain after that
Whether bending over to Clinton as Speaker or bending over female staffers in his office, Newt Gingrich has always been a man of very low character. Why anyone gives two craps what he has to say about anything is beyond me.
Newt has really lost it. He needs a shrink.....maybe two!!
And yet, this is the man who bought us "Green Conservatism(TM)." Makes me wonder if he is a ghost adviser for the Huckster.
And here, all this time, I had considered Gingrich to be well-above average in intelligence. My mistake.
Considering his new “green” streak, they may be supporting a Gore insurgency run for office.
I think he is almost always coming from Pander City.
I have no idea what his game is, but it has stunk for quite some time.
Where are all the FReepers who think Newt is a genius?
WTF? Is Newt smokin crack?
Please tell me that Newt was quoted out of context.
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