Newt "you expected intellectual consistency from me?" Gingrich (Daron Dean/Reuters)
It's nice to see that, at the very least, Newt Gingrich has no problem
embracing his inner, hypocritical assholishness when it comes to running for president.
Mr. Gingrich, like the other Republican candidates, regularly hears at town hall meetings in Iowa that a slice of voters are deeply disturbed about the 11 million or so illegal immigrants in the country. A woman pressed him at an appearance here on Monday: “How can you convince me and others that you’re the candidate” who’s going to do something?
He repeated that he would make English the official language of government, a call that earned him some of the loudest applause of the day.
What else happened on Monday?
[O]n Monday he sent an e-mail appeal in Spanish asking for support at the Iowa caucuses.
With the subject line, “Ayudenos en Iowa,” the message continued in Spanish: “The Hispanic community is so important to the success of this campaign and you can make all the difference by making calls and getting the citizens of Iowa to vote on Jan. 3.’’ [...]
“Juntos podemos reconstruir los Estados Unidos que amamos,’’ Mr. Gingrich’s message concludes.
“Together we can rebuild the America we love.’’
Gingrich's campaign was asked about the contradiction in these messages, and responded that Gingrich does indeed believe that English should be the official language of government, but that "he wants to communicate his message in the language of others." Gingrich: fluent in asshole in two languages.