In his debut in Washington’s power struggles, Gingrich threw a bomb

[jaxx]

By Bob Woodward, Published: December 24

<..> Gingrich’s actions both before and after his encounter with Bush showed a man willing, if not eager, to weaken the president and, as he put it, “to dismantle the old order.”

<..> Bush’s budget director, the late Richard G. Darman, said that the White House was not given serious notice that Gingrich would balk at the deal and that his revolt was “an act of political sabotage.” In one 1992 memo, Darman wrote in capital letters of the “1990 GINGRICH STAB IN THE BACK.”

<..> In a long interview on May 4, 1992, devoted almost exclusively to the topic of Gingrich, Darman concluded that Gingrich was “an unstable personality” who talks about four or five great people in history, including Pericles and himself. “Psychologically, he has got to go against the reigning establishment . . . . The establishment has to fail visibly.

<..> Weber portrayed Gingrich in various ways throughout the 1992 interview, at one point calling him “a high-maintenance friend and ally, needy” and at another saying that “Newt, as you know, views himself as the leader of a vast, national interplanetary movement.”

http://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/i...l_cuzheads

5 pages but well worth the read. Newt is 100% for Newt. All others beware.

[Born_A_Truman]

Bookmarking for later!

[Drunken Irishman]

There is a part of me who's glad Gingrich has totally tanked in the polls. Even though I think he'd be the easiest to defeat in the general, the idea of him as president scares the fuck out of me.

[jaxx]

(12-25-2011 03:31 PM)Drunken Irishman Wrote:  There is a part of me who's glad Gingrich has totally tanked in the polls. Even though I think he'd be the easiest to defeat in the general, the idea of him as president scares the fuck out of me.

I think he's delusional.

[KonaKane]

Nothing delusional about him. He is promoting his own profession, and after this election he will have the book sales and ludicrous speaking fees in pocket to show for it.

Bank it.

[Ikonoklast]

He is the epitome of what the current iteration of what the Republican Party sees as an ' intelllectual'.

Bill Buckley is spinning in his grave.