The ick factor here is off the charts.
“Clinton said, ‘You and I are alike.’ Which meant, shut up about Monica or I’ll start telling your story,” Armey said. “Newt and Clinton actually developed sort of a bond over it.”
This was talked about on FR back in the 90’s. Newt had many congressional investigations into the clinton crime machine shut down or severely curtailed in scope. Both are scum.
And.... the jockeying for 2012 begins.
But but its ok for Newt!!! He is one of us!!!....Ya
Clinton giving Newt humidor advice.
Could not help notice that this was revealed by Dick Armey
One of several reasons that Newt should never be nominated by the GOP.
At the time I noticed that, over night, Gingrich went from a hard-charger showing Clinton no mercy, to suddenly wanting to find common ground with the guy.
I said then, out loud, that Clinton had something on Gingrich. Which, as it turned out, he did.
At one time I’d have said Gingrich was going to remake Washington and then live in the White House. He blew it, and he’ll never get it back.
Well the bit of difference would be that Clinton lied about it, under oath, while being sued for sexual harassment.
Sick minds think alike.
No honor among theives.
Lie down with dogs and you'll get up with fleas.
I don’t believe Dick Armey.
So how did Dick find out? When and from whom?
This is one of those "something happened but I don't know exactly what so I'm going to let may imagination take me where it wants" stories.
You know, the sort of thing that you hear about J. Edgar Hoover or Lyndon Johnson or Nixon or the Kennedys.
And as one commenter noted, there just had to be a cigar somewhere in the story ...
Some where in this story there shoud be a place for Dick Morris.
Newt should respond by endorsing Sarah Palin for 2012.
I hope it was worth never being president Newt.
I wonder if Bill offered Newt one of his 'special' cigars.
(This most recent incident of Armey's noxious behavior harkens back to the time about a dozen years ago, when Armey spread slanderous rumors about Brit Hume's son Sandy, after the latter's tragic suicide.)
Look, Newt is no way gonna be the candidate for prez in 2012, he ain’t even gonna run, so what is the point of Armey’s cheap-shot?
We’re stuck with Newt on the intellectual, thought-leadership side of the conservative movement—he’s all full of flaws but we’re gonna be associated with him in any case.
He also comes up with useful ideas and can be a fairly good attack dog when push comes to shove. So what purpose does it do our side to attack him when we know the Left will do it anyway? I don’t get this. And I don’t believe anything Armey is saying about cigars and a “mine’s-bigger-than-yours” meeting in the WH.
Armey is engaging in some sort of 8th grade catty girl talk here. How about we create the Karl Rove Award—given to the person on the right who does the best job of trashing someone else on the right
Wouldn’t doubt it at all.
I wish Armey would dish ALL the dirt on Newt, so we can be so repulsed as to be finished with him once and for all. Frankly, his Dede Scozzafava betrayal ought to have been enough.