In an appearance on The O'Reilly Factor, Fox News political analyst Brit Hume argued that current GOP president front-runner Newt Gingrich would be a dream contender for President Barack Obama because, well, he totes a trainload of baggage. Here is a partial transcript from Mediaite:
βIt seems clear they would rather run against anyone but [Mitt] Romney,β Hume told host Bill OβReilly, particularly because their attacks had been aimed at him.
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OβReilly asked him to compare that to whether the Obama campaign would like to run against Gingrich, to which he replied enthusiastically, βWould they ever! And with good reason.β He noted that Gingrich was βthe only Speaker in history to be sanctioned for an ethics violation,β and that after that scandal was over, βhe was the object of a mutiny within the Republican ranks in the Houseβ and was βultimately forced to resign as Speaker and resign from Congress itself.β
That history, Hume argued, will be new to young voters and have a significant impact.
After the charade of fallen GOP presidential candidates, the Obama campaign will likely be ready for anyone the party offers up. It's already looking as if President Obama will have four more years to finish up his work on that "hopey-changey stuff."
Read more at Mediaite.
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