Kenneth P. Vogel, Politico.com, January 8, 2008
Newt Gingrich’s on-again, off-again adulation of Hillary Rodham Clinton appears to be back on.
The leader of the 1994 Republican revolution – who as House speaker in the mid 1990s clashed fiercely with then-first lady Clinton and her husband, Bill Clinton – attributed her surprise victory in New Hampshire to the Democratic presidential candidate’s courage, integrity and openness.
After Clinton’s third-place finish in the Jan. 3 Iowa Democratic caucuses, “it would have been very easy for her to have broken, accepted defeat,” Gingrich said in a weekly podcast e-mailed to supporters.
“Instead, starting on Saturday night, she fought back with greater and greater intensity, and she opened herself up,” Gingrich went on. “She talked as a person, without all the protection, without all the discipline, and she became more and more appealing.”
Gingrich said that shift demonstrated “the courage to learn” and enabled the New York senator to grow “in the space of three or four days to a much more attractive, much more aggressive and much more appealing candidate.”
Nice article. I sent it to my conservative in-laws so maybe they might unclench a little when they hear Her name. The GOP tried attacking and it backfired. Now they are going with the Bugs Bunny route and kissing her full on the lips. The “Hillary’s Tears” story was just as contrived as the “Dean Scream” and was brought to you by the exact same people.
Right now the right wing echo chamber is going after both Obama and Clinton while Edwards mysteriously gets less press than Fred Thompson. When strategic minded Republicans go out of their way to let you know they would rather run against Clinton, I don’t believe them. The race card they’ve been quietly working on for the last year has been played so they can whine that Democrats started it.
If I was a Republican looking at my lame field of candidates, I would go out of my way to divide my enemy.
Comment by Danger Bear — January 13, 2008 @ 3:18 pm
My Democratic strategery is to promote a Huckabee/Paul third party while running a subversive campaign to finally exorcise Reagan’s ghost.
Comment by Danger Bear — January 13, 2008 @ 3:28 pm