So I decided what with Newt rising in the polls and having a shot at becoming the new anti-Romney candidate, I'd see what I could find in Google Archives. Yeah, unlike Sarah Palin, he's been picked over and I wasn't going to discover something like that rape kit billing story, but I was hoping to at least find some amusing things.
And I think I did. First on the list, from 1983:
It is in the interest of the Republican Party and Ronald Reagan to invent new black Republicans, so to speak
Amusingness aside, I think he may want to "Cain" himself for wishing that, so to speak.
1980: We'd lose a conventional war against (a slowly decaying Soviet Union) in 3 weeks.
Let me say the unspeakable ... in a major conventional confrontation with the Soviet Union, by the third week of the war, we would lose. ... The reality is this country is in greater danger than at any time in 1939.
Newt really is a total NERD:
The Taiwanese: dead since 1978'
U.S. Rep.-elect Newt Gingrich, a Republican from Carrollton, called the announcement that the United States would cut diplomatic ties with Taiwan a "death sentence" for the Taiwanese.
What really delights Gingrich is his "stack card" to the Library of Congress. It gives the former history professor the rare privilege of taking books off the premises, and for Gingrich that's the best "perk" of all.
(actually, that's a pretty awesome privilege, or at least it was in the pre-Internet age).