Gingrich Attacks Clinton in NY Post Editorial Board Interview

[wyldwolf]

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich yesterday called Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton "a nasty woman" who runs an "endlessly ruthless" campaign machine.

The conservative Republican made the surprising comments - after months of taking care not to trash the Democratic presidential front-runner - in a wide-ranging New York Post editorial-board interview.

Asked whether Americans are ready to elect Rudy Giuliani - a leader, the questioner noted, whom Ed Koch had called a "nasty man" - Gingrich shot back, "As opposed to a nasty woman?"

Gingrich added that he thinks she'll be the nominee, and cited the battle between Clinton's camp and Sen. Barack Obama's team last week over Obama donor David Geffen bashing the former first couple.

"Nobody will out-mud the Clintons," said Gingrich, who added that he'll decide in the coming months whether to run for the White House.

He called Clinton's political team one of the most "talented" in U.S. history, but "endlessly ruthless."

"You can't beat them tactically . . . They're too relentless, they're too well-organized, they have too big a machine and they'll just grind you down," he said.

http://www.nypost.com/seven/03012007/news/nationalnews/newt_rips_nasty_hill_nationalnews_maggie_haberman.htm

Newt Newt Newt, did you not learn anything in the 90s?

[Wapsie B]

1. No he didn't learn anything.

That's why he's the darling of rwingers. I think they'd love Newtie to run.

[Tellurian]

9. If their smear arsenal is empty and wanting..

they only have one sure Trump Card left to play and it would come from the Executive/Administrative deck.

"During the Post session, Gingrich also:

* Dubbed Obama a great "counterimage" to Clinton, but said he doesn't think the Illinois Democrat can win.
"If the country wants therapy, they're going to elect Obama," he said. (the country wants a candidate that will annihilate the Republicans.. imo, of course.)

* Said the GOP needs to nominate a Ronald Reagan-type candidate and added, "I think it's not an accident that Giuliani is running as well as he is in the polls." (Reagan formally was Democratic timber..no accident there.)

* Warned that the GOP is in the "early stages of an enormous transition" and suggested elect ability is an issue for Republicans.

"A normative Republican running like a traditional Republican, which means a non-Reagan Republican, and trying to beat Hillary by being negative is hopeless," he said."

...what they might try is to skew the election to Obama, thinking he can be manipiulated as the new kid on the block... the old voting machine trick has been their best sure thing!

[SaveElmer]

2. But, but, but...I thought the Right Wing WANTED Hillary as the nominee...

And that's why they were saying nice things about her all the time...right?

Gosh, calling her a "Nasty Woman" doesn't seem very nice...

Another left-wing conspiracy theory shot to hell!!!

:tinfoilhat:

[Doctor_J]

3. A thrice-married serial adulterer and deadbeat dad calls HRC ruthless

The irony just keeps gets better

[Missy M]

4. Good for Hillary....

the only way to beat the "nasty" neocons is to be just as "nasty" and "endlessly ruthless". He is wrong about "nobody will out-mud the Clintons", Newt and his Neocon cohorts are masters of wallowing in the mud. Just ask John Kerry about the Swift Boaters.

[Tellurian]

6. Kerry's team always was incomplete..

The Defensive team was more concerned about image than common sense.
The Offensive team complained here and to each other rather than prepared
to go to Ohio armed with gorilla tactics.

[JohnnyLib2]

5. In my way of thinking, that's a backhanded endorsement.

And if she can ruthlessly keep Gingrich down on the farm, so much the better.

[xchrom]

7. this from the man who blamed the deaths of murdered children on liberals/progressives.

from the man who abandoned his dying wife.

[Forkboy]

8. He's right on the last line you underlined

Which is why I think she's the one to beat.

[hatrack]

10. Wow, the New York Post HAS an editorial board?

Who knew?

[karynnj]

11. Gingrich is NOT a person with much room to speak about others