The Eleven Craziest Things Newt Gingrich Has Ever Said: The Nation

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The Eleven Craziest Things Newt Gingrich Has Ever Said

George Zornick, The Nation
May 11, 2011

Today, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich will announce a run for the presidency. Over his long and checkered career, Newt has said some wild and crazy things—most are deeply offensive, while some are outright bizarre. Here’s the most unhinged Newt-isms, 1989-present.

(1) “I am convinced that if we do not decisively win the struggle over the nature of America, by the time my age they will be in a secular atheist country, potentially one dominated by radical Islamists and with no understanding of what it once meant to be an American.” (Address to Cornerstone Church in Texas, March 2011)

(2) “The idea that a congressman would be tainted by accepting money from private industry or private sources is essentially a socialist argument.” (To Mother Jones magazine, October 1989)

(3) “All I would say is, why did it take so long? The whole thing is strange.” (Speaking to TPM about the recent release of President Obama’s long-form birth certificate, April 2011)

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