It’s always happens. Whenever a group of Republicans get together sooner or later they’ll try to “out conservative” each other in some form or fashion. It’s like whipping it out and seeing who has the biggest conservative.
ABC News reports Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich may be promising to stay positive amidst the barrage of attacks coming his way from former Governor Mitt Romney and other GOP rivals, but not every utterance out of his mouth is a glowing homage to his opponents.
Case in point, in an interview with journalist Ben Domenech in the podcast Coffee & Markets, one could hear the following exchange:
GINGRICH: The Contract with America was probably the most conservative, successful legislative platform in modern times.
DOMENECH: And, of course, that Contract is one that your primary opponent Mitt Romney did not support. I wanted to ask you a question based on –
GINGRICH: That’s not totally fair. He was running for — He was running to the left of Teddy Kennedy in Massachusetts in 1994. And he said flatly, he wasn’t for the Reagan-Bush policies, he was independent. And he couldn’t possibly have been for the Contract because, how do you run in Massachusetts to the left of Teddy Kennedy favoring a Gingrich Contract?
Romney ran as a liberal Republican in that 1994 Senate race against the late Sen. Ted Kennedy, D-Mass.
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Both of these candidates have questionable conservative pedigrees. Yes, Romney used to be pro choice before he was against it. But, so was Ronald Reagan who used be a a flaming Democrat. Yes, the Contract with America was the most conservative piece of legislation in modern times. And Gingrich had a big hand in it to his credit. But, Newt also sat on a couch with Nancy Pelosi and agreed on Global Warming. And he accused Rep Paul Ryan of right wing social engineering for trying to fix entitlements. That’s worse than anything Romney has ever done.
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