Newt Gingrich Attempts to Salvage His Campaign

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Ever take a shower, get dressed, and then do something--drool toothpaste down your shirt, drop a sausage link on your pants--that makes it all feel like it was for nothing? That must've been what it felt like for Newt Gingrich to announce his candidacy for the 2012 presidential election, and then promptly step in political doo-doo.  Not that he was ever particularly viable to begin with mind you. And who was the genius who made his official logo "NEWT 2012"? Among Gingrich's many liabilities is his ridiculous first name. I know that Hillary Clinton went with "Hillary" on her signs, but "NEWT?" I think "Newt", and I think of Aliens: "They mostly come out at night. . .mostly."

Anyway, after Newtie's little flub, dissing Paul Ryan's "kill Medicare" plan, he's trying really hard to backpedal his way out of a political quagmire.  And Newt spent enough time in the FOX "News" alternate reality machine to think that anything he says will erase anything he said previously. But a man with so many negatives has very little leeway. Newt's toast.

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Gingrich Tells Limbaugh That His Phrase ‘Right-Wing Social Engineering’ Was Not A Reference To Ryan Plan



All week, Newt Gingrich has been mired in controversy for his statement on Meet the Press that Paul Ryan’s budget plan, embraced by virtually the entire House Republican caucus, was “right-wing social engineering.” Gingrich’s answer was in direct response to a question about whether or not he supported the central component of the Ryan plan. . .
 
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