Newt Gingrich Criticizes GOP for Being Too Newt-Gingrichy

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich has lashed out at the Republican National Committee for recent ads attempting to tie President-elect Barack Obama to scandal-ridden Illinois Governor Rod Blagojevich.

I was saddened to learn that at a time of national trial, when a president-elect is preparing to take office in the midst of the worst financial crisis in over seventy years, that the Republican National Committee is engaged in the sort of negative, attack politics that the voters rejected in the 2006 and 2008 election cycles.

Reached for comment, Newt Gingrich said, "I think one of the great problems we have in the Republican Party is that we don't encourage you to be nasty. We encourage you to be neat, obedient, loyal and faithful and all those Boy Scout words, which would be great around a campfire but are lousy in politics."