Newt Gingrich: A man out of time?
By Chris Cillizza
WashPost
Gingrich has had a bad week — and it’s only Tuesday.
Even as Gingrich is campaigning in Iowa on his first official trip as a 2012 presidential candidate, he has been forced to extinguish a self-started media fire fueled by his harsh critique of Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan’s budget proposal. He is also facing a new report in Politico that he carried as much as $500,000 in debt at Tiffany’s in 2005 and 2006.
Those two news stories — coupled with other past contradictory statements on health care and Libya — highlight a rapidly emerging issue for Gingrich in the presidential race: he appears to be a man out of time.
The last time Gingrich faced the political world as a candidate was in the late 1990s. That was long before Twitter, Facebook and You Tube not to mention the explosion of granular political sites and the rise in cable news channels reshaped the world in which politicians operate.
(More here.)
WashPost
Gingrich has had a bad week — and it’s only Tuesday.
Even as Gingrich is campaigning in Iowa on his first official trip as a 2012 presidential candidate, he has been forced to extinguish a self-started media fire fueled by his harsh critique of Wisconsin Rep. Paul Ryan’s budget proposal. He is also facing a new report in Politico that he carried as much as $500,000 in debt at Tiffany’s in 2005 and 2006.
Those two news stories — coupled with other past contradictory statements on health care and Libya — highlight a rapidly emerging issue for Gingrich in the presidential race: he appears to be a man out of time.
The last time Gingrich faced the political world as a candidate was in the late 1990s. That was long before Twitter, Facebook and You Tube not to mention the explosion of granular political sites and the rise in cable news channels reshaped the world in which politicians operate.
(More here.)
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