Since his campaign is built on coded dog whistles, Newt’s targeting a older, white electorate that knows the code and hears the whistle. So it’s no surprise that he ditched the Ryan plan almost immediately. And since he’s Newt, he has to make the Ryan plan sound like something Stalin cooked up:
Newt Gingrich slammed the House GOP budget on Meet The Press this morning, telling interviewer David Gregory that replacing Medicare with a voucher system was too “radical” an approach. His words were by far the harshest of any major presidential candidate towards Paul Ryan’s proposal on entitlements.
“I don’t think right-wing social engineering is any more desirable than left-wing social engineering,” Gingrich said, calling the plan “too big a jump” for the country. “I don’t think imposing radical change from the right or the left is a very good way for a free society to operate.”
Now that a Sunday show favorite has dropped a turd on Ryan’s plan, expect the beltway media to pile on with a bunch of “even Newt Gingrich … ” questions. Newt’s reprising the role he played in the 90’s, when he was often one of the Democrats’ biggest assets.