Nuked Gingrich

Newt Gingrich, Sunday:

Newt Gingrich slammed the House GOP budget on Meet The Press this morning, telling interviewer David Gregory that replacing Medicare with a voucher system was too "radical" an approach. His words were by far the harshest of any major presidential candidate towards Paul Ryan's proposal on entitlements.

"I don't think right-wing social engineering is any more desirable than left-wing social engineering," Gingrich said, calling the plan "too big a jump" for the country. "I don't think imposing radical change from the right or the left is a very good way for a free society to operate."

 Newt Gingrich, Monday in Iowa:

“I’ve gone around the country for three years giving speeches attacking Obamacare,” Gingrich told a huddle of reporters at the Holiday Inn here Monday, after speaking to the local Kiwanis Club over lunch. “Now, somebody watches 22 seconds of a TV show and says, ‘Oh, what’s happening?’ Nobody said to Reagan, ‘Oh, you must be soft on communism because you said, ‘I like Gorbachev.’ I am opposed to Obamacare. Obamacare should be repealed. In toto. Not partially. All of it. And then we should have a discussion about what replaces it.”

And this is the result of that complete flip flop:



McCain in 2008 comeback stories aside, Newtie here is about done, I think.

The larger issue is now the rest of the GOP 2012 clown car cavalcade will now have to come out in full-throated support of the Ryan Unicorn Plan or suffer the consequences.  Of course, the consequences of supporting the Ryan Plan to end Medicare is going to be bad enough for these jokers.  The reality is if you don't support the Ryan Unicorn Plan, you get squashed in the primaries.  If you do support it, you'll get squashed in the general by voters who aren't going to take kindly to the end of Medicare.

After all, if the Ryan Unicorn Plan is so wonderful, why is Paul Ryan ditching his Senate bid in Wisconsin?

Oh, and Jay Ackroyd has a point:

@markos Hey! Emulate @stevebenen. Not "the Ryan plan." It's the GOP Budget. @johnboehner 's exploding-deficit, Medicare-killing budget.

I'll need to drop the "Ryan Unicorn Plan" stuff after this and go with the House GOP Budget.  They all basically voted for it.  They all need to own it.

Oh, and PS:  Newt still sucks and his wife is Stepford scary.