To: PROLIFE who wrote (640442 ) 1/1/2012 1:15:35 PM From: tejek Read Replies (3) | Respond to The pot calling the kettle ‘nasty’ flagged quote “Politics has become a really nasty, vicious, negative business and I think it’s disgusting and I think it’s dishonest,” Gingrich told ABC News aboard his campaign bus in Iowa. he literally doesn’t remember his own record. As Kevin noted a month ago, Gingrich is largely and personally responsible “for the poisonous state of partisan politics in America today .” looking back lengthy item New York Times Magazine today, and it includes this jaw-dropper. Gingrich says now, in what may be a characteristic bit of revisionist history, that it was clear early on that he needed to break free of his highly paid and conventional consultants , and that he and his wife, Callista, actually took their much-maligned Greek vacation last June — a pleasure trip in the middle of what was supposed to be his ramp-up as a candidate — in order to provoke a confrontation with the campaign’s leadership . (Gingrich later added that he really needed to see the Greek fiscal crisis up close.) go on a luxury cruise We’ve all heard plenty of after-the-fact spinning to explain away embarrassments, but this clearly belongs in the “you’ve got to be kidding me” category.
