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Gingrich Misconstrued

November 11, 2008 by John H. Taylor | Filed Under American Politics, Congress, Republican Party 

Adam Nagourney’s whither-the-GOP article in today’s New York Times contains this odd paragraph:

But Mr. Gingrich, a veteran of what turned out to be damaging Republican wars with President Bill Clinton in 1993 and 1994, cautioned against that, saying the party would be wiser to offer a broad idea of what it stood for and how it would lead the country, and pick its battles carefully.

Whatever Newt Gingrich said, I’m pretty sure he didn’t caution Republicans against winning the House back in the next midterm election, as they did under his leadership in November 1994.



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