Oh, horse manure. What a yawn.
What does private whoring for Freddie Mac have to do with "conservatism"?
FFS. Please inform yourself.
$1.6 million paid out to a consulting firm over the course of 10 years—that’s chump change, not a bribe for buying influence. Further, apparently Newt didn’t do anything that Freddie Mac believed they could use on their behalf—perhaps because Newt told them what they didn’t want to hear?:
“He was expected to provide written material that could be circulated among free-market conservatives in Congress and in outside organizations, said two former company executives familiar with Gingrich’s role at the firm. He didn’t produce a white paper or any other document the firm could use on its behalf, they said.”
I wonder if Gingrich had been a consultant for Planned Parenthood or the Muslim Brotherhood if so many people would find it a yawn.
It’s not consulting that is a problem.
It’s the lack of conservative instincts demonstrated in the decision to shill for, or in some other way create a friendly political alliance with, an organization and its particular course of action that is the problem.