The Eleven Craziest Things Newt Gingrich Has Ever Said: The Nation

The Eleven Craziest Things Newt Gingrich Has Ever Said

George Zornick, The Nation
May 11, 2011

Today, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich will announce a run for the presidency. Over his long and checkered career, Newt has said some wild and crazy things—most are deeply offensive, while some are outright bizarre. Here’s the most unhinged Newt-isms, 1989-present.

(1) “I am convinced that if we do not decisively win the struggle over the nature of America, by the time my age they will be in a secular atheist country, potentially one dominated by radical Islamists and with no understanding of what it once meant to be an American.” (Address to Cornerstone Church in Texas, March 2011)

(2) “The idea that a congressman would be tainted by accepting money from private industry or private sources is essentially a socialist argument.” (To Mother Jones magazine, October 1989)

(3) “All I would say is, why did it take so long? The whole thing is strange.” (Speaking to TPM about the recent release of President Obama’s long-form birth certificate, April 2011)

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was threatening our "traditional" values.

Here's why:

Linda Lingle, governor of Hawaii from 2002-December 2010 was a Republican.

Neil Abercrombie became governor of Hawaii in December 2010. Less than six months later, Hawaii especially released the birth certificat upon request.

The usual Republican chicanery. That's all.

Linda Lingle (born Linda Cutter; June 4, 1953) was the seventeenth Governor of Hawaii. Lingle holds a number of distinctions: first Republican elected governor of Hawaii since the departure of William F. Quinn in 1962, first county mayor elected governor of Hawaii, first female governor of Hawaii, first Jewish governor of Hawaii; the first governor of Hawaii not to have any children; she has been married and divorced twice. During the 2004 Republican National Convention in New York City, Lingle served as chairman of the convention during the absence of permanent chairman Dennis Hastert from the convention floor.

Prior to her gubernatorial administration, Lingle served as Maui County mayor, councilmember, and chaired the Hawaii Republican Party.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linda_Lingle

Neil Abercrombie (born June 26, 1938) is the 18th and current Governor of Hawaii. He was the Democratic U.S. Representative of the First Congressional District of Hawaii which comprises urban Honolulu. He served in Congress from 1991 to 2010 when he resigned to successfully run for governor. He was also a state legislator and member of the Honolulu City Council.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neil_Abercrombie

"A mere 40 years ago, beach volleyball was just beginning. No bureaucrat would have invented it, and that's what freedom is all about.”

forget how he put it exactly -- whether he said it was illegal or

UnConstitutional? -- Something nuts, though!!


Newt also admitted to Bill Clinton that they have to lie all the time cause

if they told the truth they'd lose the election!!