Gingrich: Clinton Suffers From 'Victory Envy'

newsmax.com ^ | 4/17/03 | newsmax

[barker]

Gingrich: Clinton Suffers From 'Victory Envy'

Ex-President Bill Clinton can't resist criticizing President Bush almost every chance he gets because he's suffering from an acute case of "victory envy."

So says former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich, who discussed the phenomenon of the continually carping ex-president Wednesday with nationally syndicated radio host Sean Hannity.

"President Clinton suffers from a very bad case of victory envy," the one-time top Republican contended, before defining the term.

"Victory envy is when you're a loser and you didn't have any victories and now you see a guy who did it for real. And you realize that after all your puny Tomahawk missiles and your puny midnight or 2 a.m. attacks on the information building - I mean, all the different pathetic things that President Clinton did in foreign policy - suddenly you see what a real commander-in-chief and a real president is like."

"I think President Clinton can't take it," Gingrich explained. "I think he's being so critical and so harsh because it drives him a little nutty to see what a real commander-in-chief who really understands the presidency and who's really prepared to stand up and defend America is doing."

The architect of the GOP's 1994 congressional takeover differentiated between recent criticism of Bush leveled by ex-President Carter and Clinton's running commentary from the sidelines.

"Carter has consistently been for weakness and ineffectiveness in foreign policy his whole career," he told Hannity. "But there is some integrity there."

For Clinton, the former Speaker contended, "it's personal."

"He failed. He didn't get the job done. He didn't get rid of Saddam. He didn't get rid of bin Laden," Gingrich noted. "George W. Bush is doing the job and I think that it drives Bill Clinton nuts to see the difference between his performance and President Bush."

[Free ThinkerNY]

"Slick Willie also suffers from Legacy Envy"

Especially when this is your legacy

[river rat]

How can anyone take Huffington seriously...
A conservative woman - loses her husband to another MAN - then the shock of that, turns her into a bib wearing liberal...

The woman has no sense --- or shame...
She should find a man -- and vanish..

Semper Fi

[Bars4Bill]

Top 'Rat fundraiser doesn't look very healthy recently.

[WorkingClassFilth]

Paul, forgive me but you're being too kind.

Krinton is just plain psychotic and couldn't care less about character, let alone recognize it. What he envies are the public accolades and the historic measure of success in the wake of genuine leadership. The actual ethical cost and content of leadership is something he could never grasp as long as he keeps stroking his own bent version of...ahem...victory.

[Norman Arbuthnot]

I still say Newt would have been the perfect opponent for X42 in the Point-Countepoint debates onSixty Minutes. Newt would have handed Bubba his ass every week.

[mombonn]

In my view, Carter is the same as Clinton. I believe it is also personal with Carter...he is jealous just as Clinton is. They are 2 peas in a pod.

cartbilly is more loathsome to me than clintbilly, as he claims the name of Jesus.

They both besmirch the office they once occupied. Shame on them.

[blam]

"If I were O'Reilly I'd ask Ms. Huffington how many men, other than her ex-husband she has turned queer."

LOL!

[omega4412]

I would classify it as "character envy."

No. Clinton doesn't have enough character to realize he ought to be envious of W's character.

[barker]

I still say Newt would have been the perfect opponent for X42 in the Point-Countepoint debates onSixty Minutes. Newt would have handed Bubba his ass every week.

LOL I have thought the same thing myself. But I don't think Bubba would have agreed to going against Newt.

[anniegetyourgun]

xactly. The nation is in much better hands with adults who have integrity, experience, and a high degree of competence. The last administration had to fill in those blanks with n/a.

[TheSpottedOwl]

So many good points that I would of had to copy and paste the whole thing.

Bill Clinton is a juvenile delinquent. He is a narcissist married to a psychopath. Of course he's jealous of President Bush. George Bush is everything he will never be. George Bush is a man with a moral compass. He is not only a great president, he is a decent human being. I'll bet the legacy word never pops into his head, unlike that attention seeking piece of trash.

[LibertarianLiz]

And, for anyone who, like myself, didn't realize exactly who Jimmy Carter is; I recommend this Jay Nordlinger column from May, 2002:

Carterpalooza

[green team 1999]

who better than Newt Gingrich to say it,newt was attack from all sides of the left.
payback time

[PatrickHenry]

Don't see much difference between Clinton and Carter myself. They both failed as presidents.

Yes, but for all his faults, Carter -- unlike Clinton -- was a patriot. And I think he was honest. Carter was, unfortunately, an incompetent President. As was Clinton, but their incompetence was from different flaws.

[WorkingClassFilth]

"Clinton didn't accomplish *any* of his own goals..."

Oh, I think he did accomplish at least a few. He very likely gave away our nation's most sensitive military secrets like missile guidance systems (Loran), classified weapon controls (reverse engineering through uncontrolled military surplus sales) and our nuclear device plans (our Chinese friends and their helpful relationship with Mr. Krinton). In addition, he brought the dignity of the American Presidency lower than the level of a Hot Springs cathouse.

Excuse me. That was a low blow. At least whores work for their bread so they have the honest dignity of working over Krinton.

[Lancey Howard]

BUMP

[WorkingClassFilth]

"Newt would have handed Bubba his ass every week."

You are correct, Sir.

However, CBS ain't interested in 'Point-Counter-Point.' What they want is a limp RINO to whack and showcase socialism and they found it in Dole.

[solo gringo]

Newt is so rite plus clinton is on a rampage because he hate America and would like to turn it over to the enemy.

[John Lenin]

Bubba couldn't hold W's jockstrap, with two hands.

[CharacterCounts]

Don't see much difference between Clinton and Carter myself. They both failed as presidents.

One failed, the other never even tried.