Newt – Answer the Friggin Question
In typical teabag-rethuglican manner, Newt Gingrich, who is closing in on a win in tomorrow’s primary in South Carolina, attacked CNN newsman and debate anchor John King for asking a legitimate question about his ex-wife’s interview with ABC News.
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Newt, yeah you claim to be saved and that you have turned over a new leaf, but if you still need to answer the friggin question. While your response played well with the confederates in the audience, it won’t play well around the rest of the country. And the only thing that is despicable is the platform you and your buddies are running on, not to mention that you screwed around on not just one, but two wives.
So, Mr. Former Speaker, are you going to answer or not?
Of course, it is a character issue, which is why Newt did not wish to address it. Since it was CNN, his outburst got a standing ovation, as he skillfully redirected the question back at CNN. Newt is an expert at playing to his audience, but to everyone else, his face is covered with scars, scars which he is unable to ever mask. He will lose, and the sane Republicans (Is there such an animal?) know it well.
“(the Gingrich attack on the liberal media) played well with the confederates in the audience, it won’t play well around the rest of the country.”
I’m not sure about that. If he can make himself into the victim of the liberal establishment, there are a great many American idiots who will go along with that. I’d point to George Bush as proof who ran, in equal parts, against the Al Gore and the “liberal” media.
Newt isn’t as personable as Bush, so playing the victim might not work – but he laid the foundation for trying it.
I wonder what wife #1 has to say about all of this.
Instead of the wives why aren’t his ethics while Speaker being brought up. While Newt tried to do destroy Clinton with a cheating on your wife issue, most people forget Newt role and the hypocrisy of it. The people as a result believe that cheating on your wife is more of a privacey thing and thus forgivable.
It’s not just a character issue, it also directly undermines the “Family Values” BS that these people like to run on in order to make themselves somehow more worthy and apart from everyone else. In this, however, the GOP hypocrisy is bred in the bone. Unless you’ve got a wide stance.