Gingrich: Paladino "Limited" in Public Policy
The Wall Street Journal reports:
Newt Gingrich weighed in on the roller-coaster New York gubernatorial race Thursday, pointing to Republican nominee Carl Paladino as a candidate riding a wave of public anger despite what Gingrich called a ”fairly limited model of public policy.”
The former House speaker, delivering the keynote address at a real-estate conference in Chicago, used Paladino’s unexpected surge in the polls this week as Exhibit A in how Republicans would claim a sweeping victory at the polls in November. Gingrich predicted a GOP gain of 45 to 70 House seats and seven to 11 Senate seats.
“In a normal year, you wouldn’t even think of this guy as being a candidate,” Gingrich said of Paladino, a little-known businessman from Buffalo who has never held elective office. “His number one battle cry is that he’s really angry and his number two battle cry is that he wants to take a sledgehammer to Albany — which is a fairly limited model of public policy.”
Gingrich also compared the Tea Party voters who propelled Paladino to victory in the Republican primary to the people who supported third-party candidate Ross Perot in the 1990s. “Except the Tea Party people are much angrier,” he quipped. “It could be because they’re Perot voters who are now older.”
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