The case for Newt
By JOE SCARBOROUGH | 12/5/11 2:17 PM EST
I don’t know Newt Gingrich enough to hate him. The truth is the guy has been pretty damn good for my career. Add to that the fact we’ve never had a cross word in 15 years and it should become obvious to even the slowest Gingrich supporter that I have no axe to grind with my former speaker.
But when the subject switches from Private Newt to Public Newt, Mr. Gingrich drives me crazy. My criticisms of Newt have been documented in books, newspaper columns and news transcripts. Like Sen. Tom Coburn, I find his leadership skills to be deplorable. But I find his ideological inconsistency to be even more troubling.
As George Will said in his most recent column, there is nothing conservative about Newt Gingrich.
Will believes Gingrich would make a “marvelous Marxist.” He’s a firm believer in dogmatic solutions to all that ails America and has mastered the dark art of dehumanizing political opponents.
Bland bureaucrats like Health and Human Services Secretary Kathleen Sebelius are compared to Joseph Stalin by Newt while dorky accountants in the Congressional Budget Office are painted as part of a socialistic scheme to bring down America.
Meanwhile “Newt the Pure” champions $7 trillion socialist schemes and Washington institutions like Freddie Mac. While being paid millions to push massive federal programs, Gingrich has also found the time to trash Republican Budget Chairman Paul Ryan and his plan to rescue America from another generation of debt.
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