Imagining a Gingrich Presidency<\/a>
\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tHe's confrontational, volatile, and self-aggrandizing — but those aren't the only reasons his former colleagues fear him becoming leader of the free world.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A former colleague of Newt's, from their days in the GOP House, describes why a Gingrich Presidency would not be a good thing. Nothing tremendously new here, but well-stated. #ddtb Embedded Link Imagining a Gingrich Presidency He's confrontational, volatile, and self-aggrandizing — but those aren't the only reasons his former colleagues fear him becoming leader … Continue reading “Now there's a scary thought”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,99],"tags":[107],"class_list":["post-24767","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-elections-2012","tag-ddtb"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":25620,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2012\/01\/20\/a-catholic-position-that-im-sure-both-gingrich-and-santorum-will-ignore.html","url_meta":{"origin":24767,"position":0},"title":"A Catholic position that I'm sure both Gingrich and Santorum will ignore","author":"***Dave","date":"Fri 20-Jan-12 3:50pm","format":false,"excerpt":"A Catholic position that I'm sure both Gingrich and Santorum will ignoreWhile there are a variety of other obnoxious \"stereotypes\" and positions that I'd like to see the two Catholic candidates for presidency on the GOP side be chided for ... 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