Newt Gingrich, Make Nice With McCain?
Not Ready Yet
Laura Ingraham guest hosted for O’Reilly Friday and her first guest was former House Speaker Newt Gingrich. Gingrich didn’t come out and either endorse or pledge to oppose John McCain in the general election this fall, so there’s no bombshell in this interview along those lines. He did say than when push comes to vote, he’ll vote for McCain because he’s better on enough issues than either of the Democrats who’ll face him, but that doesn’t mean that McCain should get a pass from the conservative movement when he transgresses conservatism. Ingraham and Gingrich also make pitch perfect points about how a conservative ought to build bipartisanship. It’s not by moving left as McCain tends to do, but by standing on principle with the American people to force the Democrats to move to the right. Gingrich was very effective at that. McCain has yet to earn any meaningful spurs in that area. The interview then moves into the veepstakes, and that’s where it gets interesting. It’s at about 2:40 into this clip.
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