interested and i have been for many years. put that aside. did you think being associated with her in any form would be damaging to you? i thought at the time i was a private citizen and wasn t contemplating public life called contract with the earth with teri maple on a conservative approach to the environment and how to use incentives and having a better environment without the epa. i wanted to be in the middle of the argument about the environment to make a case that conservatives have better ideas about the environment than liberals do. that was a pretty eerie occurrence, though, looking back on it. very frightening. let s go to immigration. yeah, frightening. so newt says it s one of the dumbest things he s done in recent years. he has to limit himself to recent years, of course, because he s exhausted peace in vanity
private citizen and wasn t contemplating public life called contract with the earth with teri maple on a conservative approach to the environment and how to use incentives and having a better environment without the epa. i wanted to be in the middle of the argument about the environment to make a case that conservatives have better ideas about the environment than liberals do. that was a pretty eerie occurrence, though, looking back on it. very frightening. let s go to immigration. yeah, frightening. so newt says it s one of the dumbest things he s done in recent years. he has to limit himself to recent years, of course, because he s exhausted peace in vanity fair in 1995 after he was speaker. she quotes, gingrich s neighbor and campaign treasurer tip carter who tells this story
change. in his defense newt slipped into a romney-like explanation. i thought at the time, look, i was a private citizen. i wasn t contemplating public life. that s newt s i m running for office for pete s sake moment. it s the other side of that same republican coin, the i m not running for office for pete s sake, so i can do whatever i want. if it leaves you wondering what other shenanigans newt gingrich was up to when he wasn t running for office, you don t have to limit your imagination in any way. this is the guy who when he was running for office thought it was cool to have oral sex with another man s wife in a suburban driveway while his kids were walking past the car. doing a tv ad about climate change with nancy pelosi is nowhere close to the dumbest things newt gingrich has done in
to al gore about climate change on a website that soliciting money to continue delivering the al gore message on climate change. in his defense newt slipped into a romney-like explanation. i thought at the time, look, i was a private citizen. i wasn t contemplating public life. that s newt s i m running for office for pete s sake moment. it s the other side of that same republican coin, the i m not running for office for pete s sake, so i can do whatever i want. if it leaves you wondering what other shenanigans newt gingrich was up to when he wasn t running for office, you don t have to limit your imagination in any way. this is the guy who when he was running for office thought it was cool to have oral sex with another man s wife in a suburban driveway while his kids were walking past the car.
no. i thought at the time, look, i was a private citizen. i wasn t contemplating public life. see? i never understand that with people who say, well, i wasn t contemplating because i hear that all the time. as a private citizen, i said something i actually believed. i ve never understood this about politicians. you can go back to where i was in 1992 when i was a democrat and i was saying the same thing in 92 as i was saying in 94 as i was saying as a lawyer in 2002 as i was saying as a guy on the night time show. ann, you look back at what gingrich has said. time and time again, 1989 bragging he s a rockefeller republican. in actually in 1998 the last speech he gave on the house floor when he attacked people like me, and tom coburn calling us jihadists. on the couch with nancy pelosi. the flip-flops are mind