Not So Fast Newt

  

TRENDING: Gingrich: Romney ‘gifts’ comment ‘nuts’   Posted byCNN's Gregory Wallace

 

“The job of a political leader in part is to understand the people. If we can't offer a better future that is believable to more people, we're not going to win,” said Gingrich, who launched blistering attacks on Romney last spring while seeking the presidential nomination himself."

 

That's what he's saying now, which clearly shows that there hasn't been much change in the dynamic of the Republican party since the election.  During his run-up to the 2008 elections and since, he was singing a very different and off key song:

(CNN) – Republican presidential front-runner Newt Gingrich unveiled his plan to reform what he calls the "welfare empire" and make major overhauls to social programs like Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid.
 

"There are 185 federal programs that are income-related, that is, that are you know are supposedly helping the poor," Gingrich said St. Anselm College in Manchester. "185. Those programs collectively spend so much money that if you just gave it to the poor, there would be no poor left in America."


"Obama is the best Food Stamp President in American History.  "

Newt Gingrich claims that “more people have been put on food stamps by Barack Obama than any president in American history.” He’s wrong. More were added under Bush than under Obama, according to the most recent figures.