Newt Gingrich was reprimanded for ethics violations. He resigned the speakership & his seat in Congress after his party lost seats in the 1998 midterm elections.In addition, he was leading the fight for Bill Clinton’s impeachment on the flimsy charges relating to Clinton’s affair w/ Monica Lewinsky while he, Gingrich, was having an affair with a member of his staff. He resigned in order to quash the attention that that was receiving.We see his speakership as a disaster for America and for the Republican Party. He fought for lower taxes on the rich and on a federal government that would end unemployment payments.He time in the House was mostly spent picking fights, and he continued to do so while speaker. There is almost no constructive legislation authored by Gingrich.Since leaving the House, he has made himself inordinately wealthy as a lobbyist, while never registering as a lobbyist, thus affording himself deniability, so to speak, as he claims that Freddie Mac, say, paid him $1.5 million as a “historian”.Gingrich is as corrupt an self-centered as the day is long. There is no reason for anyone to choose him over President Obama.
Newt Gingrich was reprimanded for ethics violations. He resigned the speakership & his seat in Congress after his party lost seats in the 1998 midterm elections.In addition, he was leading the fight for Bill Clinton’s impeachment on the flimsy charges relating to Clinton’s affair w/ Monica Lewinsky while he, Gingrich, was having an affair with a member of his staff. He resigned in order to quash the attention that that was receiving.We see his speakership as a disaster for America and for the Republican Party. He fought for lower taxes on the rich and on a federal government that would end unemployment payments.He time in the House was mostly spent picking fights, and he continued to do so while speaker. There is almost no constructive legislation authored by Gingrich.Since leaving the House, he has made himself inordinately wealthy as a lobbyist, while never registering as a lobbyist, thus affording himself deniability, so to speak, as he claims that Freddie Mac, say, paid him $1.5 million as a “historian”.Gingrich is as corrupt an self-centered as the day is long. There is no reason for anyone to choose him over President Obama.