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Gingrich Demonstrates That The First Conservative Principle Is Enraging Liberals

By Big Tent Democrat

It seems pretty bad politics for an aspiring Republican Presidential candidate to claim that President Obama's tenure in the Presidency is "Bill Clinton's third term" (Clinton is very popular) but when your prime directive is pissing off liberals, then that's what you do:

[Newt] Gingrich seemed amused when noting that the Clinton administration redux that Democratic activists sought to avoid by supporting Obama over Hillary Clinton in the 2008 Democratic primary seemed to be happening anyway. "It must be fascinating to be one of those left-wing activist groups that spent so much time and energy beating Hillary Clinton, because they didn't want to see this kind of an administration, to now watch a member of the famous Daley machine in Chicago emerge," he said.

Speaking for me only

Full post as published by TalkLeft on January 21, 2011 (boomark / email).