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Newt Gingrich ~~ 2012 GOP Repuke POTUS Nominee (Original Post)
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Jan 2012
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zbdent
(35,392 posts)1. The polishing of Turdrich has begun ...
(by the "liberally-biased media", no less)
all that "ethics" and stuff will be "old news" and he's "reformed" ...
n2doc
(47,953 posts)2. What they seem to be trying is the old "but but but THEY do it too!"
Linking Gingrich with Clinton. And acting like questioning Ginrich's ethics is 'unfair' because no-one ever gave Clinton a hard time about his ethics Somehow that doesn't seem to be working....
Hugabear
(10,340 posts)3. I think the line of reasoning is "those ethics charges were bogus"
I caught a few minutes of Mark Levin the other day, that was the line he was toting. Said that all those ethics charges were bogus, the whole thing was a witch hunt, and the only reason Newt resigned was because those mean old Democrats drove him out of office.
zbdent
(35,392 posts)4. my head went nuts over this, but Ann Coulter pointed out that
ABC was the first to bring up the "indiscretions" by Clinton in the early 90s ... and Turdrich is whining about how it's the "liberally-biased media" doing this to him ...