You're irrational if you don't want...
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| Sun, 03-08-2009 - 3:37pm |
... the president to succeed, according to Gingrich.
"Newt Gingrich became the highest profile Republican yet to push back against Rush Limbaugh, saying on "Meet the Press" that it's "irrational" to hope for the President of the United States to fail."
""You've got to want the president to succeed," said the former House Speaker. "You're irrational if you don't want the president to succeed. Because if he doesn't succeed the country doesn't succeed... I don't think anyone should want the president of the United States to fail. I want some of his policies to be stopped. But I don't want the president of the United States to fail. I want him to learn new policies.""
(more and Meet the Press video:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/03/08/gingrich-takes-on-rush-ho_n_172852.html )
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He's trying to distance himself from the more rabid (Limbaugh) of the conservative movement:
Gingrich 2012?
March 6th, 2009 by Freddy Gray
Newt Gingrich is putting out feelers for a run at the presidency in 2012. It’s probably PR smoke and mirrors, but we should have realized something was up after Gingrich’s megalomaniacal appearance at CPAC last week. The former House Speaker, as Kelley noted nicely below, strutted into the Regency ballroom to the thumping chords of Survivor’s “Eye of the Tiger.” Ever the stuntman, he came in from the back, thus guaranteeing an affectionate public mobbing. It felt cheap; but crowd loved it.
Gingrich’s speech was depressing, too. All his red-meat criticism of the stimulus and his oft-repeated proposal to abolish capital-gains tax was fair game — albeit safely couched in Romney-like language of big-gov/big-biz. >>>full article at the link above
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