A good portion of "Gingrich's record" Is based on allegations that were made by the MSM when he was speaker. Be sure to filter out specious charges when evaluating the fitness of republican candidates.
One of these candidates is going to be charged with challenging Obama next year and we should be careful not to poison our own. Unless that is actually your intention.
There's a lot more to it than that...
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Gingrich Calls GOP Medicare Plan 'Right-Wing Social Engineering' (supports individual mandate)
Gingrich Backs Obamacare's Individual Mandate Requiring Health Insurance (Newt praises Romneycare)
Gingrich Backs Obamacare's Individual Mandate
Gingrich Apologizes to Paul Ryan for 'Right-Wing Social Engineering' Criticism
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Of course it is not my intention to poison our own. In fact, I constantly argue against the short-sightedness that has GOP voters thinking if they support one guy they MUST KILL THE OTHERS.
We need a strong bench (so far as we can get it) and should keep every acceptable candidate viable for as long as possible. You never know when you’re frontrunner is going to stumble. It’s good to have someone breathing down the frontrunner’s neck for a while, too.
And of course I do my best to filter out specious claims and evaluate only those based actually on the facts of the candidate’s record — and there are a LOT of FACTS out there about Newt Gingrich.
I’m sure you do the same.