Wednesday, May 30, 2007
Newt: "Je suis Sarkozy américain"
"Former U.S. Speaker Newt Gingrich recommended French President Nicolas Sarkozy as a model for Republicans and suggests he is the American Sarkozy," United Press International reports.
"In an interview with The New Yorker, Gingrich told writer Jeffrey Goldberg that Sarkozy managed to become 'the clear advocate of fundamental change' even though he had been in the Cabinet of an unpopular president who had been in office for 12 years.
"Sarkozy ran against President Jacques Chirac, suggesting that the Socialist candidate, Segolene Royal, would be more of the same."
The New Yorker quotes Gingrich as saying, "In a country that wanted to say, 'Not them,' [Sarkozy] managed to switch the identity of the 'them.'" ... "It was a Lincoln-quality strategic decision."
"In an interview with The New Yorker, Gingrich told writer Jeffrey Goldberg that Sarkozy managed to become 'the clear advocate of fundamental change' even though he had been in the Cabinet of an unpopular president who had been in office for 12 years.
"Sarkozy ran against President Jacques Chirac, suggesting that the Socialist candidate, Segolene Royal, would be more of the same."
The New Yorker quotes Gingrich as saying, "In a country that wanted to say, 'Not them,' [Sarkozy] managed to switch the identity of the 'them.'" ... "It was a Lincoln-quality strategic decision."
# posted by Joltin' Django @ Wednesday, May 30, 2007 
