Ann Coulter: Gingrich a bombastic failure

Published December 15, 2011 5:00am ET



Ann Coulter is not a fan of Newt Gingrich. In her column titled “Newt: Speak Bombastically and Carry a Tiny Stick” she raises the tumultuous history of the former speaker and the damage done to conservatives.

An excerpt:

Gingrich went on to lose almost every negotiation with Bill Clinton — and that was with solid Republican majorities in both the House and Senate. His repeated capitulation to Clinton led former Vice President Dan Quayle to remark that the Republican “Contract With America” had become the “Contract With Clinton.” (Not to be confused with Newt’s book, “Contract With the Earth.”)

Perfectly good policies are constantly being undermined by Newt’s crazy statements — such as his explanation that women couldn’t be in combat because they get infections, whereas men “are basically little piglets,” who are “biologically driven to go out and hunt giraffes.”

Hunt giraffes?

With Gingrich we get the worse of all worlds. He talks abrasively — offending moderates and galvanizing liberals — but then carries a teeny, tiny stick.