Newt Gingrich was so fired up about Secretary of State John Kerry’s speech on climate change that he misspelled the secretary’s name four times in a series of tweets calling for his resignation.
Speaking in Jakarta, Indonesia, Kerry called climate change “the greatest challenge of our generation” and compared the urgency of the problem to that of combating terrorism and weapons of mass destruction.
Gingrich thought Kerry’s remarks were a “terrifying prospect for American policy:”
The most direct reaction to kerrey’s global warming speech is to ask if he is completely out of touch with reality.
— Newt Gingrich (@newtgingrich) February 18, 2014
If kerrey believes his global warming speech it is a terrifying prospect for American policy. He is making policy in a fantasy world
— Newt Gingrich (@newtgingrich) February 18, 2014
Does kerrey really believe global warming more dangerous than north Korean and iranian nukes? More than Russian and Chinese nukes? Really? ?
— Newt Gingrich (@newtgingrich) February 18, 2014
Every American who cares about national security must.demand Kerrey’s resignation.A delusional secretary of state is dangerous to our safety
— Newt Gingrich (@newtgingrich) February 18, 2014
Gingrich’s wife apparently caught his error and he apologized for using the spelling of former Sen. Bob Kerrey’s (D-NE) last name.
I apologize to bob kerrey for spelling john kerry’s name as though he were bob’s relative. Callista caught my error. Please edit to kerry
— Newt Gingrich (@newtgingrich) February 18, 2014
Gingrich and then-Sen. Kerry debated climate change back in 2007. Unlike some conservatives, Gingrich accepted scientists’ consensus that human activity is contributing to global warming, but argued that government regulation is not an effective way to combat the problem.
