Newt Gingrich now appears to be channeling Charlie Sheen, a warlock with tiger blood in a fight against the Washington establishment.
That, at least, appears to be the view of Gingrich’s spokesman, Rick Tyler, who put out a doozy of a news release about his boss yesterday.
“The literati sent out their minions to do their bidding,” Tyler began, before going on to explain that Gingrich’s stumble-filled first week on the presidential campaign trail was a consequence of Washington’s inability to “tolerate threats from outsiders who might disrupt their comfortable world.”
“A lesser person could not have survived the first few minutes of the onslaught. But out of the billowing smoke and dust of tweets and trivia emerged Gingrich, once again ready to lead those who won’t be intimated by the political elite and are ready to take on the challenges America faces.”
Tyler’s epic lament followed days of uproar over Gingrich’s recent description of GOP Rep. Paul Ryan’s budget plan as “radical” and “right-wing social engineering.”
The conservative base lashed out furiously, and Gingrich was later forced to disavow his remarks and apologize to Ryan — something Tyler sought to portray as the work of the vicious media mob.
“The firefight started when the cowardly sensed weakness,” he wrote. “They fired timidly at first, then the sheep not wanting to be dropped from the establishment’s cocktail party invite list unloaded their entire clip, firing without taking aim their distortions and falsehoods.”
The unusual statement comes during period of internecine sniping in the incipient GOP presidential campaign — and not only for Newt.
Last week, a speech by Mitt Romney defending the health insurance plan he instituted as governor of Massachusetts — and which many believe closely resembles the health care law backed by President Obama — fell on deaf ears from typically supportive allies.
“Mr. Romney is compromised and not credible,” the Wall Street Journal wrote in an editorial about the health care speech. “If he does not change his message, he might as well try to knock off Joe Biden and get on the Obama ticket.“
On Tuesday, former Sen. Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania, who is considering a presidential run, raised eyebrows when he suggested that Sen. John McCain, who was tortured in a Vietnamese prison camp, “doesn’t understand how enhanced interrogation works.”
The outburst prompted another choice remark from a GOP spokesman:
“For pure, blind stupidity, nobody beats Santorum,” wrote McCain’s former longtime aide Mark Salter on Facebook. “In my 20 years in the Senate, I never met a dumber member, which he reminded me of today.”
The Iowa caucus, the primary season opener, is still nine months away.
That, at least, appears to be the view of Gingrich’s spokesman, Rick Tyler, who put out a doozy of a news release about his boss yesterday.
“The literati sent out their minions to do their bidding,” Tyler began, before going on to explain that Gingrich’s stumble-filled first week on the presidential campaign trail was a consequence of Washington’s inability to “tolerate threats from outsiders who might disrupt their comfortable world.”
“A lesser person could not have survived the first few minutes of the onslaught. But out of the billowing smoke and dust of tweets and trivia emerged Gingrich, once again ready to lead those who won’t be intimated by the political elite and are ready to take on the challenges America faces.”
Tyler’s epic lament followed days of uproar over Gingrich’s recent description of GOP Rep. Paul Ryan’s budget plan as “radical” and “right-wing social engineering.”
The conservative base lashed out furiously, and Gingrich was later forced to disavow his remarks and apologize to Ryan — something Tyler sought to portray as the work of the vicious media mob.
“The firefight started when the cowardly sensed weakness,” he wrote. “They fired timidly at first, then the sheep not wanting to be dropped from the establishment’s cocktail party invite list unloaded their entire clip, firing without taking aim their distortions and falsehoods.”
The unusual statement comes during period of internecine sniping in the incipient GOP presidential campaign — and not only for Newt.
Last week, a speech by Mitt Romney defending the health insurance plan he instituted as governor of Massachusetts — and which many believe closely resembles the health care law backed by President Obama — fell on deaf ears from typically supportive allies.
“Mr. Romney is compromised and not credible,” the Wall Street Journal wrote in an editorial about the health care speech. “If he does not change his message, he might as well try to knock off Joe Biden and get on the Obama ticket.“
On Tuesday, former Sen. Rick Santorum of Pennsylvania, who is considering a presidential run, raised eyebrows when he suggested that Sen. John McCain, who was tortured in a Vietnamese prison camp, “doesn’t understand how enhanced interrogation works.”
The outburst prompted another choice remark from a GOP spokesman:
“For pure, blind stupidity, nobody beats Santorum,” wrote McCain’s former longtime aide Mark Salter on Facebook. “In my 20 years in the Senate, I never met a dumber member, which he reminded me of today.”
The Iowa caucus, the primary season opener, is still nine months away.
