Newt Gingrich: The Obama Re-Election Team Is ‘Determined To Distort Everything They Can’
EmailABC News’ Michael Falcone reports:
Newt Gingrich says “it’s clear the country is talking to itself” and what they’re saying is: “We need Newt Gingrich.”
In an interview with Fox News’ Sean Hannity that will be broadcast Wednesday night, Gingrich acknowledges that even he’s been surprised by his rapid rise in the GOP primary field.
“Whereas I would have thought originally it was going to be Mitt and not-Mitt, I think it’s going to — it may turn out to be Newt and not-Newt,” Gingrich tells Hannity, according to excerpts of the interview . “And that’s a very different formula than, frankly — I mean we’re having to redesign our campaign strategy because we’re at least 60 days ahead of where I thought we’d be.”
When asked about his ties to Freddie Mac and his business interests as head of the Gingrich Group, the former House Speaker said that the media and the Obama campaign were out to get him.
“Some elements of the press — largely the Obama reelection team — are determined to distort everything they can,” he said.
Gingrich said he considers himself “the more conservative candidate by any rational standard” as well as the most electable.
Among the qualifications he listed: “I helped Ronald Reagan and Jack Kemp develop supply side economics. I helped lead the effort to defeat communism in the Congress.”
And in the interview, which will air at 9 p.m. ET on Wednesday, he offered mostly praise for his opponents.
According to Gingrich, Michele Bachmann “brings a lot to the table”; Herman Cain “is a very good businessman”; Mitt Romney “is a great manager”; Rick Santorum “is a genuine expert on Iran and foreign policy.”
“I think of them as my friends,” Gingrich added. “I have one opponent, Barack Obama.”
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Posted by: phantomniter | November 30, 2011, 4:30 pm 4:30 pm
How can you possibly distort a train wreck?
Posted by: tmferretti | November 30, 2011, 4:32 pm 4:32 pm
“Newt Gingrich says “it’s clear the country is talking to itself” and what they’re saying is: “We need Newt Gingrich.””
Bwahahahahahahhahahahahaha! What country is that, Newt? Iran?
This guy is so insanely delusional and egotistical it almost defies description. Newt, let me spell it out for you. YOU are becoming the “anti-Romney” flavor of the week. You aren’t a likeable guy. Mainstream America will NEVER embrace you as their candidate. The ONLY reason you are rising now is you are getting the Cain supporters who are abandoning THAT sinking ship…er, train. Which is hilariously ironic: people are leaving Cain over more allegations of sexual shenanigans, and coming over to YOUR camp. You, an admitted serial adulterer. The Fundamentalist Religious Right will never support you. The Moderates and Independents will never support you. And I doubt you really want the job. Because you have made literally MILLIONS just RUNNING for office. And I don’t see you taking a pay cut, because you are ALL about the money…………….
Posted by: Searambler | November 30, 2011, 4:35 pm 4:35 pm
Among the qualifications he listed: “I helped Ronald Reagan and Jack Kemp develop supply side economics. I helped lead the effort to defeat communism in the Congress.”
Wow. So now Newt also LED THE EFFORT to defeat communism? There is no more communism, anywhere? Hmmmmm……………
Posted by: Searambler | November 30, 2011, 4:38 pm 4:38 pm
the obama team only choice is to distort reality as their reality is a train wreck. the worst presidency since jimmy carter but there is still time to eclipse jimmy as well. the truth is ugly for the obamabots and therefor distorting it is their only hope cause their certanily hasnt been any change.
total disconnect from the american people. keep in mind that obama won based on lies and media who chose not to investigate the man and the biggest reason was anyone could have been bush. thats how bad bush became.
things are so bad that NEWT GINGRICH can beat obama.
Posted by: catman | November 30, 2011, 4:47 pm 4:47 pm
Love Newt !!!
He scares abc news, for sure. You guys are going to have to work hard to get Hussein Obama re-elected…. well… he hasn’t done anything good for the country anyway, so you were going to have a tough go of it to begin with.
Posted by: BadAvocado | November 30, 2011, 4:53 pm 4:53 pm
keep in mind that obama won based on lies….. Posted by: catman | November 30, 2011, 4:47 pm.
OK, I’ll bite. WHAT lies were used to get Obama elected? Please be specific.
Also, didn’t anyone at FOX, World Net Daily, or the Republican Party, bother to do any research on Obama? You said “the media” didn’t investigate him. So what you’re saying is that World Net Daily and FOX are NOT really part of “the media”…………right?
Posted by: Searambler | November 30, 2011, 4:54 pm 4:54 pm
Clearly obama has made so many promises he didn’t keep it should be clear to even a simpleton. That said, his loyal supporters don’t care. They are so blinded by idealogy they no longer make any sense to themselves, let alone to others.
Posted by: jonny | November 30, 2011, 5:20 pm 5:20 pm
“Kip Carter, his former campaign treasurer, was walking Newt’s daughters back from a football game one day and cut across a driveway where he saw a car. “As I got to the car, I saw Newt in the passenger seat and one of the guys’ wives with her head in his lap going up and down. Newt kind of turned and gave me this little-boy smile. Fortunately, Jackie Sue and Kathy were a lot younger and shorter then.”
Posted by: lexingtonlady | November 30, 2011, 5:31 pm 5:31 pm
ROFL!
Let’s examine some of obama’s baggage. One thing for sure, Gingrich is not afraid to call out the media on their bs. He will give as good as he gets. After all, no one is flawless, least of all, obama. Let’s open up obama’s closet and shine the light on HIS baggage. I bet there is more in his closet besides a teleprompter. Lol!
2012 – ABO
Posted by: ceeLeelee | November 30, 2011, 5:54 pm 5:54 pm
Newt Gingrich is Barack Obama’s intellectual superior in every possible way.
Posted by: Dino | November 30, 2011, 6:25 pm 6:25 pm
“the former House Speaker said that the media and the Obama campaign were out to get him” …………..well this is a recurring theme today. Both Cain and Gingrich think the Democrats are out to get them. I don’t suppose it ever occurred to them that it might be someone running against them in the primaries? What a pair of knuckleheads.
Posted by: Taintedbylies | November 30, 2011, 6:27 pm 6:27 pm
Newt would mop the floor with Obama in a debate. No contest!!!
Posted by: wact1 | November 30, 2011, 6:34 pm 6:34 pm
jonny | November 30, 2011, 5:20 pm ………….Blinded by ideology? That’s funny coming from the other side of the debate.
Dino | November 30, 2011, 6:25 pm……………Newt? Oh please. That’s a ridiculous statement.
Posted by: Taintedbylies | November 30, 2011, 6:35 pm 6:35 pm
…dont care if you bite or not.HOPE AND CHANGE says it all…solving our economic problems by soaking people making over 250k…wont work as there isnt enough wealth. anyone with brain knew this other than the media and the obamabots.yada yada 5 days to review a bill…transparency….gitmo,,,fast and furious. hope and change….there is no hope for obama as nothing has changed therefor his onl;y hope is to deflect from his own performance. lets put obama through the same scrutiny as the republican candidates.
i have said since day one THIS DOG DONT HUNT! in other words his platform was and smoke and mirror b.s. that wont ever work and it hasnt.end of story.
Posted by: catman | November 30, 2011, 6:38 pm 6:38 pm
I would pay to see Gingrich debate obama. By the time Newt is through with the “constitutional lawyer”, obama’s butt will be as raggedy as a bowl of spaghetti.
I bet obama breaks out into a sweat everytime he thinks about it.
Lol. :)
Posted by: ceeLeelee | November 30, 2011, 6:42 pm 6:42 pm
ROFL!
obama is Carter, Jr.
Ronald Reagan was not a failure.
Posted by: ceeLeelee | November 30, 2011, 7:16 pm 7:16 pm
Oops – wrong blog. Lol.
Posted by: ceeLeelee | November 30, 2011, 7:23 pm 7:23 pm
The emperor has no clothes and everyone with any sense knows it. Chicago politics does not work for most of America. Gingrich is one heck of a lot smarter than Barry. Why has Barry not released his grades? If he were as smart as the liberal media tries to make him surely he would not need his teleprompter but Gingrich has offered to let him use it if he needs it. 2012 Can’t come fast enough to vote this president out of office. Like Gingrich said if you have someone who is radical and incompetent the country can’t stand it. Go Newt you have my families vote.
Posted by: Susan | November 30, 2011, 9:47 pm 9:47 pm
Did Newt really claim he had “helped lead the effort to defeat communism in the Congress”? Strange, I wasn’t aware that Congress had been ruled by communists.
Posted by: newd grinch | December 1, 2011, 1:26 pm 1:26 pm
I would not vote for Gingrich even if i was Republican because his way of running a country is you don’t have a right to agree on what policy you want I make it you just go by it.
Posted by: J Good | December 1, 2011, 3:38 pm 3:38 pm
Aw, Newty. No has to distort anything about you or your record. Are you saying that you’re NOT a serial adulterer? That you didn’t leave the House disgraced and amid numerous ethics scandals? That you haven’t been bought by whoever pays you enough to change what you believe and say?? No need to distort. Too true to make up.
Posted by: Dr. bubba | December 1, 2011, 3:44 pm 3:44 pm
Story after story running down the Republican candidates, where is the stories and fact checks about President Obama? There is so much to choose from, Solyndra and other big donor giveaways of our money, Fast & Furious, all the campaign promises, unions, the Revolt, can’t run on his record, and all the lies just to name a few. Journalism is dead at ABC.
Posted by: Freedom | December 4, 2011, 8:37 am 8:37 am
We already know what a loser Newt is so Obama doesn’t have to say a word ! Whoever it was that said Newt would mop the floor with Obama during a debate……..HAHAHAHAHA! First of all the GOP is dumb and greedy, but I don’t think they are so stupid that they would have Newt as the nominee. If they do, then they are downright moronic! Besides that, most Americans have morals and NEWT DOESN’T, NEITHER DOES HIS WIFE.
Posted by: SinTexas | December 5, 2011, 4:17 pm 4:17 pm
you democrats can say all you want to about Newt Gingrich. The only person that you are trying to convince is youself. It wouldn’t make a difference who the republican nominee is. Obama administration is gone in 2012. The more you protect him the more you will be disappointed.. Your give aways are over.You better look for a job. Be careful where you apply because we will remember who you are and will starve you out. Your idiotic brains put us into this situation.there will be jailtime for a lot of democrats this time around and your Muslim will be one of them..OH,and you don’t have to worry about the debates. Obama has already said that he would not debate Newt Gingrich.Have a nice day.
Posted by: gaetano | December 14, 2011, 7:49 am 7:49 am