Gingrich is not a great Presidential candidate, but he’s quite a good political wordsmith. He’s especially fun to listen to when he’s feeling maligned by powerful forces—like the Romney campaign and its allies, who have buried Gingrich by about five to one in advertising spending here.
Here are nine of the best Newtisms from the Florida primary campaign.
1. “I’m a little bit tired of being lectured about respecting every … religion on the planet, I would like him [Romney] to respect our religion.”
2. “We nominated a moderate for president in 1996 and he lost, badly. We nominated a moderate for president in 2008 and he lost, badly. If we nominate a Massachusetts liberal, I don’t see how he defends ‘Romneycare’ as being different from ‘Obamacare.’ I don’t see how he defends his gun control as being different, his pro-abortion position as being different, or for that matter his tax increases being different.”
3. “I thought to myself, what a pathetic situation to be running for the president of the United States with nothing positive to say for yourself and nothing available, a big idea, a big vision, a big future, and all you’ve got is to tear your opponents down so they get to be smaller than you are.”
4. “The conservative movement is not going to sit back and say, ‘Oh yes, let’s let Wall Street and Mitt Romney buy the election.’ So you’re going to see a real grassroots fight. It will be people power vs. Goldman Sachs and Mitt Romney.”
5. “I’d like to have an American on the moon before the Chinese get there.”
6. “I want to see us move from one [space] launch occasionally to six or seven launches a day.”
7. “It will be an American campaign open to every American who prefers a paycheck to food stamps, who prefers the Declaration of Independence to Saul Alinsky and who prefers a strong national security to trying to appease our enemies.”
8. “As your nominee, I will not accept debates in the fall in which the reporters are the moderators. We don’t need to have a second Obama person at the debate.”
9. “Romney cut off kosher food to elderly Jews on Medicare.”
2. “We nominated a moderate for president in 1996 and he lost, badly. We nominated a moderate for president in 2008 and he lost, badly. If we nominate a Massachusetts liberal, I don’t see how he defends ‘Romneycare’ as being different from ‘Obamacare.’ I don’t see how he defends his gun control as being different, his pro-abortion position as being different, or for that matter his tax increases being different.”
3. “I thought to myself, what a pathetic situation to be running for the president of the United States with nothing positive to say for yourself and nothing available, a big idea, a big vision, a big future, and all you’ve got is to tear your opponents down so they get to be smaller than you are.”
4. “The conservative movement is not going to sit back and say, ‘Oh yes, let’s let Wall Street and Mitt Romney buy the election.’ So you’re going to see a real grassroots fight. It will be people power vs. Goldman Sachs and Mitt Romney.”
5. “I’d like to have an American on the moon before the Chinese get there.”
6. “I want to see us move from one [space] launch occasionally to six or seven launches a day.”
7. “It will be an American campaign open to every American who prefers a paycheck to food stamps, who prefers the Declaration of Independence to Saul Alinsky and who prefers a strong national security to trying to appease our enemies.”
8. “As your nominee, I will not accept debates in the fall in which the reporters are the moderators. We don’t need to have a second Obama person at the debate.”
9. “Romney cut off kosher food to elderly Jews on Medicare.”
Original Article
Source: new yorker
Author: Ryan Lizza
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