Bill Bennett: Gingrich Is Like ‘A Box Of Chocolates, You Never Know What You’re Going To Get’
by James Crugnale | 10:04 am, December 15th, 2011
In an appearance on MSNBC’s Morning Joe, conservative pundit Bill Bennett described Newt Gingrich in Forrest Gump terms. Joe Scarborough told Bennett “my problem with Newt is you never know what you’re going to get tomorrow.” “A box of chocolates,” Bennett quipped, quoting the 1994 film. “You never know what you’re going to get.”
“Exactly,” Scarborough continued. “A few days ago he was channelling — as the Wall Street Journal said yesterday — Paul Krugman with his comments of Bain Capital. This past summer, just this past summer, he was calling Paul Ryan a right-wing social engineer.”
“I had him on my show and I said unforgivable, I’m not going to support you,” Bennett said. “Ryan steps out there, makes this very courageous position– I’ll agree with you. he then steps up and apologizes and says I’m sorry, I was wrong, I shouldn’t have done it. but then, and with Newt there’s always a ‘but then’, but then, ‘actually I was right the first time.’ Well, what the hell does that mean? That’s the unsettling and unnerving part about him.”
Bennett’s decision to quote Tom Hanks‘s developmentally disabled character to slam Gingrich may not be the shrewdest move for a political pundit.
Watch Bennett compare Gingrich to a box of chocolates below via MSNBC:
http://www.mediaite.com/tv/bill-bennett-gingrich-is-like-a-box-of-chocolates-you-never-know-what-youre-going-to-get/
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