Newt Gingrich's rough roll-out

http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0511/55082.html

Monday was supposed to be the day Newt Gingrich kicked off a 17-stop barnstorming tour through Iowa to debut his newly launched presidential campaign.

Instead, he got kicked in the teeth.

Gingrich’s Iowa rollout was marred by a bracing round of Republican criticism after he referred to a GOP proposal to reform Medicare as “right-wing social engineering” and acknowledged his own past support for requiring Americans to buy health insurance.

“I don’t think right-wing social engineering is any more desirable than left-wing social engineering,” Gingrich told host David Gregory Sunday on Meet the Press. “I don’t think imposing radical change from the right or the left is a very good way for a free society to operate.”

claiming imminent threat of physical harm.

ROFL