NYcarbineer
Diamond Member
After Gingrich's arrogant display of righteous indignation and sanctimony over the John King question at the debate about his adultery,
I think a quick reminder of what the old Gingrich used to think about such 'private' matters, especially as they related to politics:
October 30, 1998
Gingrich Orchestrated GOP Ads Recalling Clinton-Lewinsky Affair
The GOP's multimillion dollar ad campaign invoking President Clinton's relationship with Monica S. Lewinsky was devised by House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) and tested before more than three dozen groups of likely voters before Republicans unleashed the assault, party sources said yesterday.
In reviving the presidential sex scandal just one week before Election Day, Gingrich and his chief strategists aimed to energize their most loyal supporters, whose enthusiasm appeared to be waning after House conservatives lost the budget fight and the Clinton scandal fell off the front pages....
"We tested and tested and honed and honed until we got to the point we felt our base understood the message we were trying to get to them," said Rich Galen, an informal adviser to Gingrich.
In April, Gingrich told supporters, "I will never again, as long as I am speaker, make a speech without commenting on this topic," referring to the presidential scandal....
...the party had hoped the harshest anti-Clinton ads would slip under the national news media's radar and only reach conservative voters in the South....
And on and on and on.
I guess that shoe is really uncomfortable on the other foot, isn't it Newt?
Washingtonpost.com Special Report: Clinton Accused
I think a quick reminder of what the old Gingrich used to think about such 'private' matters, especially as they related to politics:
October 30, 1998
Gingrich Orchestrated GOP Ads Recalling Clinton-Lewinsky Affair
The GOP's multimillion dollar ad campaign invoking President Clinton's relationship with Monica S. Lewinsky was devised by House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) and tested before more than three dozen groups of likely voters before Republicans unleashed the assault, party sources said yesterday.
In reviving the presidential sex scandal just one week before Election Day, Gingrich and his chief strategists aimed to energize their most loyal supporters, whose enthusiasm appeared to be waning after House conservatives lost the budget fight and the Clinton scandal fell off the front pages....
"We tested and tested and honed and honed until we got to the point we felt our base understood the message we were trying to get to them," said Rich Galen, an informal adviser to Gingrich.
In April, Gingrich told supporters, "I will never again, as long as I am speaker, make a speech without commenting on this topic," referring to the presidential scandal....
...the party had hoped the harshest anti-Clinton ads would slip under the national news media's radar and only reach conservative voters in the South....
And on and on and on.
I guess that shoe is really uncomfortable on the other foot, isn't it Newt?
Washingtonpost.com Special Report: Clinton Accused