Newt Gingrich: John McCain attack on Rand Paul 'sad'

[compromise]

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich is slamming Sen. John McCain for criticizing Sens. Ted Cruz and Rand Paul, saying it’s “sad” for someone who was once known as a maverick in Congress.
“What I find sad about Sen. McCain’s recent comments both to Ted Cruz, when Ted Cruz was frankly raising legitimate questions [about Benghazi] and with Rand Paul, is, you know, when I first knew John McCain in the House — he was a maverick. In the Senate, for years, he was a maverick,” Gingrich said Thursday on Fox News.

He continued: “Of everybody I know in the Senate, I didn’t know anybody who had a better record of bucking the leadership, doing what he thought mattered, marching to his own drummer. And I think that it’s unfortunate. But I think frankly it doesn’t hurt Ted Cruz and it doesn’t hurt Rand Paul — it hurts John McCain. The country is moving on, we’re in a new era, people know that these are legitimate questions.”

McCain criticized Paul on Thursday, calling the Kentucky Republican’s’s nearly 13-hour filibuster questioning the White House on its domestic drone policy a “disservice.” McCain has also sparred with Cruz, a freshman tea partier with a reputation in the Senate for being outspoken.



Read more: http://www.politico.com/story/2013/03/newt-gingrich-john-mccain-attacks-on-rand-paul-sad-88617.html#ixzz2Mxx8BVax

[compromise]

The sniping over Rand Paul continues, as Newt Gingrich called John McCain “sad” for criticizing Paul’s almost-13 hour filibuster in opposition to John Brennan’s nomination to head the CIA.

“What I find sad about Sen. McCain’s recent comments both to Ted Cruz, when Ted Cruz was frankly raising legitimate questions [about Benghazi] and with Rand Paul, is, you know, when I first knew John McCain in the House — he was a maverick. In the Senate, for years, he was a maverick,” Gingrich said on Fox News on Thursday.

He added: “But I think frankly it doesn’t hurt Ted Cruz and it doesn’t hurt Rand Paul — it hurts John McCain. The country is moving on, we’re in a new era, people know that these are legitimate questions.”

McCain had criticized Paul’s filibuster, quoting from an earlier Wall Street Journal op-ed and calling the Kentucky Republican’s filibuster a “stunt” to “fire up impressionable libertarian kids in their college dorms.” McCain also called some of Paul’s claims “simply false.”‘

Later on, McCain said Paul, along with other conservatives like Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas and Rep. Justin Amash of Michigan, are possibly “harmful if there is a belief among the American people that those people are reflective of the views of the majority of Republicans. They’re not.”

“They were elected, nobody believes that there was a corrupt election, anything else,” McCain added, according to the Huffington Post. “But I also think that when, you know, it’s always the wacko birds on right and left that get the media megaphone.”
Read more: http://www.salon.com/2013/03/08/newt_mccain_is_sad_for_attacking_rand_paul/

[Superfly]

I'll give Grinch credit, he sure can read the tea leaves in order to try to stay relevant. Best thing Rand has done is make his view on this subject the one that people like Rush, Grinch, etc see worth bandwagon-ing for.

[CaptUSA]

Oh jeez... Gingrich is on our side???

I may have to reconsider my thinking.


Seriously, though, it is awesome that even establishment hacks like Newt have decided that if they want to be relevant they need to at least pretend to be on board. That's an indication of our growing influence.

[Superfly]

Oh jeez... Gingrich is on our side???

I may have to reconsider my thinking.


Seriously, though, it is awesome that even establishment hacks like Newt have decided that if they want to be relevant they need to at least pretend to be on board. That's an indication of our growing influence.

Same wavelength haha

[asurfaholic]

This is cool. Good stuff happening here

[matt0611]

I love this pic:

http://www.tomwoods.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/72365_297901103669771_1743328834_n.jpg

[jmdrake]

I love this pic:

http://www.tomwoods.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/03/72365_297901103669771_1743328834_n.jpg

Yup!

http://twitpic.com/show/large/8vlfco

[enjerth]

Later on, McCain said Paul, along with other conservatives like Sen. Ted Cruz of Texas and Rep. Justin Amash of Michigan, are possibly “harmful if there is a belief among the American people that those people are reflective of the views of the majority of Republicans. They’re not.”

I absolutely agree, Sen. McCain! It would be devastating if the American people believed that such virtue was reflective of the whole of the Republican party!

Fortunately, I don't think the possibility of that is worth concerning ourselves with.

[jct74]

Newt Gingrich: I Am ‘Disappointed’ And ‘Saddened’ By John McCain ‘Lecturing The Next Generation’
http://www.mediaite.com/tv/newt-gingrich-i-am-disappointed-and-saddened-by-john-mccain-lecturing-the-next-generation/

this is from a different interview today on CNN