Why Gingrich is Bad (and Romney is Awesome): A Politico Megathread Spectacular

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I gotta love how all these Republican insiders, who want to force Romney down our throats and are actually to left of Paul Ryan, are attacking Newt Gingrich, a man who shut down the federal government, as being insufficiently conservative.

Hmm, maybe Newt learned during his speakership that entitlement reform is difficult and openly promising to abolish Medicare is not the best way to win votes.

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attacking Newt Gingrich, a man who shut down the federal government ...

Yeah, that proved to be a real winner in 1996 when Clinton won re-election.

Why don't you quote the entire sentence instead of taking my words out of context?

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At no point did I claim that Gingrich handled it well. I was commenting on the insane assertion that he is less reliable than Romney, who was running away from Reagan and embracing gay and abortion rights at roughly the same time Newt was aggressively confronting Bill Clinton.