Sen. Tom Coburn: I Will Have Difficulty Supporting Newt Gingrich as President of the United States
Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) said Sunday that he cannot support GOP presidential frontrunner Newt Gingrich because the former House speaker lacks leadership skills.
“I am not inclined to be a supporter of Newt Gingrich’s having served under him for four years and experienced his leadership. Because I found it lacking often times,” Coburn said on Fox News Sunday. The Oklahoma senator served in the House of Representatives from 1995 to 2001.
“There’s all kind of leaders, leaders that instill confidence and leaders that are somewhat abrupt, leaders that have one standard for the people that they are leading and a different standard for themselves,” he said. “I will have difficulty supporting him for president of the United States.”
Wild Thing’s comment……
Sen. Tom Coburn would have an inside track on what Newt was like. I think Chris Wallace was surprised to hear the answer to his question. But Chris has not done his homework, because Sen. Tom Coburn has spoken out a few other times on how strongly he feels about Newt and not supporting him.
Sen. Coburn is a straight shooter. Yes, he has spoken out before about Gingrich. Coburn does not like Gingrich’s flip flopping or amoral character. Newt can be bought for a few pieces of silver and a play to his massive ego.
Tom Coburn is the kind of carreer politian that wouldn’t support the Republican agenda in the 1990’s. Newt talks too much and too loud but he did not go back on his word and if people like Coburn hadn’t we would have a balanced budget and no debt today.
Rick Perry is a fine man but Newt Gingrich has a history of delivering. The WSJ calculated it using dynamic scoring and the last dollar of US debt would have been paid off early in 2007 had Newt Gingrich been Speaker until that date. Since Newt got drill here drill now through congress only to see Clinton veto it. Some of you don’t like NAFTA and it has benefited Canada more than the US but it provids a way to divert jobs going to China to go to Mexico.
Lots of judgement calls on newt’s part but none as bad as Romney’s Massachusetts.
Tom Coburn is the kind of carreer politian that wouldn’t support the Republican agenda in the 1990’s. Newt talks too much and too loud but he did not go back on his word and if people like Coburn hadn’t we would have a balanced budget and no debt today.
Rick Perry is a fine man but Newt Gingrich has a history of delivering. The WSJ calculated it using dynamic scoring and the last dollar of US debt would have been paid off early in 2007 had Newt Gingrich been Speaker until that date. Since Newt got drill here drill now through congress only to see Clinton veto it. Some of you don’t like NAFTA and it has benefited Canada more than the US but it provids a way to divert jobs going to China to go to Mexico.
Lots of judgement calls on newt’s part but none as bad as Romney’s Massachusetts.