Newt Gingrich at a closed-door event in February said Donald Trump was not a “conservative” and that the New York businessman had “has found a formula which is worthy of study.”“This is not a guy who’s shallow or simple, but he is a guy who knows an immense amount about marketing, which is why he talks at a fourth-grade level. He talks at the lowest level of any candidate in either party, not because he’s stupid,” the former Speaker of the House said at to the Republican State Leadership Committee in Washington according to audio obtained by ProPublica. “He does it because he knows if you talk at a fourth-grade level everybody can understand you.”Gingrich told attendees that he doesn’t know how Trump would transition from the campaign trail to the White House. “I do not believe anybody including Trump can tell you what a Trump presidency would be like because he won’t know.”He went on to say, “How we make the transition from you know, language for 4th graders to real policy, I don’t know.”
There's still need to be some corroboration on this one, but Dan Señor has tweeted that he had a conversation with Mike Pence about how "unacceptable" Squirrel-Hair was.
Damn it, the Pubs are going to spend every day between now and the first Tuesday in November desperately rationalizing what they've allowed to happen and desperately looking for signs of statesmanship, depth and basic maturity from their presidential nominee.
And they had sixteen other choices.
Where has woulda, coulda, shoulda ever gotten anyone?
ReplyDelete#NeverTrump. Meant it last August, meant it in May, mean it now.
ReplyDeleteOne is not the loneliest word, it's woulda.
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ReplyDeleteI've always liked Pence, especially when he had his radio program. He kinda stiffened up as guv. I may be prejudiced, hailing for the last 40 years with significant departures for the past 13, from his home town, though not marinated, as an architectural blog alleged, in modernism, merely pickled there, arriving as a fresh faced 26 year old field claims adjuster to its shores down by that dirty water.
ReplyDeleteReally? You like him? Especially as a talk show host? You did pick up on his views, didn't you? They're pretty closely aligned with those of LITD.
ReplyDeleteReally. I thought you knew we agree on more than we disagree on. I don't trust the corporate types. Pence caved to them pretty fast. Like ISIS, the gays need to be ignored more. Hated, perhaps, and in the case of ISIS killed dead as fast as we can kill them, but, otherwise ignored more. Otherwise we're playing right into their sick, evil hands. How'd you like Newtie's blood and guts speech after another incident in gay Paree? I'm as sick of the Clintons as you are. IF the election were held today I still could not vote for Trump. And the first time I hear Pence praising Cheney and Rummy, a lot of love will be lost.
ReplyDeleteHe's describing himself as an evangelical Catholic. I'd better not hear him knock Pope Francis either.
ReplyDeleteWhen it comes to the Clintons, Mike Pence has often been a reluctant aggressor. He’s heaped praise on Hillary Clinton in the past, opining on national television about the historic nature of her White House run and referring to her as “one of the most admired, not only women, but public people in America.”
ReplyDeleteBack during his days as an Indiana conservative talk radio host in the 1990s, Pence typically let his callers and guests carry the water on alleged improprieties surrounding President Bill Clinton and the first lady. Despite a seemingly endless supply of material from the White House, he was no Democrat-hating shock jock.
Pence opposed Clinton’s policies. But his was a pretty tame act by talk radio standards, one that hewed close to the no-negative style that he has embraced in his career after experiencing first-hand the downsides of negative campaigning in America’s heartland.
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One big reason Pence would often find himself talking about Clinton: his audience in large parts of the state outside Indianapolis was listening to his three-hour bloc because it came right before Rush Limbaugh’s show.
ReplyDeleteOn many occasions before his political career really began with his 2000 election to Congress, Pence treated the Clintons with kid gloves. Sometimes he even agreed with them.
In an April 1995 interview with local Indiana political reporter Brian Howey, Pence was asked to weigh in about a remark from President Clinton — made soon after the recent Oklahoma City bombing — that lawlessness was being inspired by inflammatory rhetoric, including the “promoters of paranoia” on talk radio.
“I think President Clinton is right in that vein,” Pence replied, according to the interview published in the Howey Political Report. “We have rights in America. And in tandem with those rights, we have responsibility. Whatever type of journalist we are, whether it be in the entertainment business or as professional journalists, we always have the consequences of the way that we present fact and information.”
He at least used to be way too reasonable a gentlemean for the likes of your ilk.
ReplyDeleteYouse people ain't shovin' nothin', not even good, clean, pure living up anybody's, anywhere.
ReplyDeleteYou're the one who fell for the likes of Barracuda.
ReplyDeleteI know; he's always had this "nice guy" vibe to him that has really irritated me. It was what allowed George Stephanopolous to run right over him on the peak Sunday of the RFRA dustup.
ReplyDeleteAt least Barracuda has a warrior spirit. Tis true that the years subsequent to her coming onto the national radar have shown that she has a cartoonish streak that would have come out one way or another.