Who did Newt endorse in the 2008 primary? Just asking......
A truly cunning rejoinder you got there.
September 29, 2007
Newt Gingrich told FOX News Saturday that he won’t run for president in 2008.
“For the moment, I’m just going to watch the race,” Gingrich told FOX News in an exclusive interview.
Gingrich would not endorse a specific candidate.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,298597,00.html
So far as I can tell, he was disengaged from that race — he apparently endorsed nobody at all.
At least, I’ve asked that question a bunch of times, and the only answer I get is to accuse me of trying to imply something.
This article says Newt at least said McCain would be an acceptable nominee at CPAC in 2008, however at the end of the article it says he was not giving his endorsement or supporting him. Newt also had some very wise and prescient warnings for Republicans which, like much of everything else Newt says, they should have listened to, because he was and still is the smartest politician in the room...
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2008/02/09/gingrich-gives-nod-to-mccain-presidential-run/
He said he had traveled to Idaho last weekend, when Illinois Sen. Barack Obama attracted a crowd of at least 16,000 in Boise, and that the ability of a Senate Democrat to attract a crowd of that size in that solidly-red state was “inconceivable.”
“On Super Tuesday, there were 14.6 million Democrats who thought the presidential nomination was worth voting for, and there were 8.3 million Republicans” who felt the same, he said. “That is a warning of a catastrophic election.”
He said there was “something happening” in the country that conservatives did not understand, and “I believe we need to change or expect defeat.”
Gingrich – who made a grand entrance Saturday to a recording of “Stars and Stripes Forever” – received a far different welcome from the conservative crowd. “We need you, Newt!” called one member of the audience.
The former Georgia congressman had weighed his own 2008 presidential run before abandoning the idea late last year. In the 2007 CPAC presidential straw poll, only Mitt Romney and Rudy Giuliani earned more first- and second-place votes.
He did not say Saturday whether he officially endorsed or would actively support McCain.
“Who did Newt endorse in the 2008 primary? Just asking......”
I guess Newt didn’t endorse in 2008 while there was a contested primary, but he is certainly not clean and pure as the wind driven snow when it comes to bad endorsements. Dede in NY 23 in 2009 was as RINO as they come.