You can always expect former House Speaker Newt Gingrich to offer up some notable quotes as he continues his current role as the Republican most willing to critique his own party.
In an interview with Heading Right Radio’s Ed Morrisey this afternoon, Gingrich uttered the following gems:
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-On the current crop of candidates: “The most sobering thing about where we are right now is that the most effective candidate in the race is — Hillary Clinton. … Her answers are wrong, [but] she is a serious, competent, formidable person.”
-On African-American voters: “No group in America has been served worse by government than the African-American community.”
-“Other than Huckabee, none of these [Republican] candidates have the gumption to place themselves in the middle of that [African-American] environment …”
-On Republican consultants: “Let me be clear. I think Republican consultants are mostly very stupid. I think they have no education. I think they have no sense of history.”
-“If I throw away African Americans, and then I throw away Latinos, and then I throw away suburban women, and then I throw away people under 40, and then I throw away everything north of Philadelphia — there’s a morning where [Republicans] can’t get to a majority.”
The full audio file of this interview can be found here.
