Hilarity, via
TPM:
Pushing his ongoing apology for attacking Paul Ryan's Medicare proposal to new heights, Newt Gingrich sent supporters an e-mail on Thursday requesting donations in order to promote the Ryan plan.
"The only way our country can win the future is by engaging our fellow citizens in serious discussions about major reform--not by avoiding hard choices," the e-mail reads. "Congressman Ryan has made a key contribution to entitlement reform, courageously starting the conversation about how to save and improve Medicare. And that's exactly the kind of national conversation I want our campaign to be about!"
Two weeks ago, Newt called Ryan's plan to end Medicare "right wing social engineering." Then he apologized to Ryan. Then he said that quoting his words is a "falsehood." Then he said he wasn't even talking about Ryan's plan—just, you know, taking a strong stand against the principle of right-wing social engineering generally.
And now he's asking his donors—or is that donor?—to help him spread the good word about Ryan's unpopular plan "communications challenge".
And this is all so Newt can try to curry favor with Republicans who have become so extreme, even Newt "I Shut Down the Government and Put a Contract on America" Gingrich isn't extreme enough for them.