Newt’s sweet nothings

By Jennifer J. Foster

Published: June 15, 2008

Newt Gingrich has some advice for John McCain.

For VP, Gingrich said McCain should pick Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal. Barack Obama would have a hard time objecting to Jindal’s age, he said:

Gingrich said the case can be made that Jindal’s “experience in the executive branch and in the legislative branch is greater than” that of Democratic presidential candidate Sen. Barack Obama (Ill.).

“It strikes me that it’s going to be very hard for Obama’s campaign to explain that Jindal, as a governor, who has served as an assistant secretary of Health and Human Services, has served as a congressional staffer, has served as a congressman, is not qualified but Sen. Obama is qualified,” Gingrich said.

And as for the gloomy prognosis politicos everywhere are giving congressional Republicans, Gingrich has the antidote:

“At $4 and $5 a gallon—if you have a more-production, lower-cost Republican Party running against a cripple-the-economy, hit-your-pocketbook Democratic Party, this election will change radically in September and October,” Gingrich said.

That Newt always had a way with words.