he hadn t described it that way. well, you just can t play to the center for those guys, can you? newt can t afford to have republicans keep hammering him on tv and radio so today he went on bended knee to a group of conservative bloggers basically saying, will you help me out? newt told them, my hope is to find a way to work with the house republicans. i used language that was too strong although the underlying principle i think was right. newt gingrich doesn t know the first thing about principles. newt has spent his entire political career tearing down his enemies and he s got the word list to do it. newt doesn t have a lot of friends to turn to right now. it might be too late. late this afternoon he knows it s kind of the 11th hour so he went into full damage control mode and he placed a phone call to paul ryan. he surrendered. he capitulated. he apologized. paul ryan called nool into a hate merchant, mark levine, and talked about it. i think he now understands
what you just did to paul ryan is unforgivable. i didn t do anything to paul ryan. yes you did. you undercut him and his allies in the house. no, i said you re an embarrassment to our party. well i m sorry you feel that way. why don t you get out before you make a bigger fool of yourself. i m sorry. i guess you could say the newtster ran into a 20 percenter out on the campaign trail in iowa. south carolina, keep in mind, is a big state on the way to becoming the republican nominee. tea party governor nikki hailey tore into newt on a phone interview on cnn. she said this. what he said was absolutely unfortunate. here you ve got representative ryan trying to bring common sense to this world of insanity and newt absolutely cut him off at the knees. what? gingrich is an embarrassment to the republican party right now in their eyes and elected righties can t afford to have him be an anchor around their necks. majority leader canter went after newt on one of the biggest r
on bended knee to a group of conservative bloggers basically saying, will you help me out? newt told them, my hope is to find a way to work with the house republicans. i used language that was too strong although the underlying principle i think was right. newt gingrich doesn t know the first thing about principles. newt has spent his entire political career tearing down his enemies and he s got the word list to do it. newt doesn t have a lot of friends to turn to right now. it might be too late. late this afternoon he knows it s kind of the 11th hour so he went into full damage control mode and he placed a phone call to paul ryan. he surrendered. he capitulated. he apologized. paul ryan called nointo a hate merchant, mark levine, and talked about it. i think he now understands the magnitude of his comments, how wrong they were, and i think
committed to it. everyone is locked in on this at this point. i mean, the clip you showed from canter is a perfect example. he is saying we are all onboard with this and newt was right. it is a radical plan. it is radical to tell somebody who is sitting at home and who is 54 today and is told oh, you know how you thought you were going to get medicare 11 years from now? you re actually not going to get medicare 11 years from now. you re going to get a voucher and oh, health care costs have doubled the last decade. if they double again, the next decade,ç we re not going to double the amount of the voucher that we give you. so the rest of that you re on your own. you could end up paying 70% or so of your health care costs. that, to anybody who is 54 or below, that is an extremely radical thought. there s no doubt it s radical to them because they ve never seen anything like this, any kind of proposal like this in their lifetime politically. now let s go to the comment that he made on
gingrich can t handle the heat so he s trying to spin it back into the media saying, well, it s the liberal media doing this. this is how newt put it on a low rated right wing radio show. if you re a conservative you better expect gotcha press and they took dramatically out of context what i said and tried to make it dramatically into a fight between paul ryan. i don t want to fight with paul ryan. well look, newt. you either said it or you didn t. you re calling it gotcha press? just for the record let s go back and look at what newt said on meet the press. i don t think right wing social engineering is any more desirable than left wing social engineering. i don t think imposing radical change from the right or the left is a very good way for a free society to operate. now i consider myself left wing media. i do. i m a çlefty. i m in the media. i had nothing to do with his appearance on meet the press and nothing to do with his speech on friday night.