"One of the most painful lessons I’ve had to learn, and I haven’t fully learned it, obviously, is that if you seek to be the president of the United States, you are never an analyst, and you are never a college teacher because those folks can say what they want to say," Mr. Gingrich said.
And yet, the frank admission was even more striking because it came at the end of an interview in which Mr. Gingrich proved himself completely unable to follow his own advice. He slammed the Republican Medicare proposals in Congress, declared the city of Detroit “destroyed” by food stamps and implied that he supported the individual mandates at the heart of President Obama’s health care overhaul.
When you don't even remotely represent the people who's votes your asking for, then yes candor is extremely harmful. Turns out that it'll take a little more that being repeatedly referred to the smartest man in Washington by establishment conservative publications to win the presidency.
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