Former Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-GA), who is under fire for attacking Rep. Paul Ryan’s (R-WI) proposal to privatize Medicare, and has also backed away from his past support for an individual health insurance mandate, now has a message for the public: The issues are so complex, that his positions will be “evolving.”
The Des Moines Register reported Monday night:
“The challenges that we face are so big, that no one has the solutions. And we’re going to have to run a campaign where ideas keep evolving,” the former U.S. House speaker said.
He said that would “drive the media crazy, because they’ll want to play gotcha” and say his position had changed.
Gingrich also said he wanted policy input from the public: “We’re entering an age when the challenges are so big, that we have to use the Internet and to use talk radio…to get many people helping us think things through so that they get used to the idea that they’re part of the process and it’s not being imposed upon them by Washington.”
