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Dick Cheney on Gingrich: ‘I Wouldn’t Underestimate Him’

Dick Cheney Says We Shouldnt Underestimate Newt Gingrich

Former Vice President Dick Cheney has a message for America: don’t underestimate Newt Gingrich. In an interview with CNN’s Erin Burnett, Cheney praised the Republican presidential contender’s persistence and tenaciousness, though he declined endorsing him (or any of the other candidates, for that matter).

“I have not endorsed anybody. I’ve stayed religiously out of the fray on our side this year,” Cheney told Burnett. “I‘ve been trying to sell books and that’s where my efforts have been focused.”

But when Burnett began asking about the GOP field, Cheney did offer his honest assessment of Gingrich’s record. After telling the CNN host that both he and Gingrich arrived at Congress during the same year — 1978 — the vice president went on to discuss the presidential hopeful’s quest for a Republican majority in the House of Representatives.

“When Newt showed up he said, ‘We can become the majority. We can take back the House of Representatives.‘ We hadn’t had the House since the 1940s,” Cheney explained. “Initially none of us believed him, but he was persistent and he was tenacious. He kept it up…and finally by ‘94, he’s the newly elected speaker of the House of Representatives with a Republican majority.”

Cheney concluded these remarks by telling Burnett, “I wouldn’t underestimate him.” The vice president was also sure to note, for a second time, that he isn’t yet endorsing any candidates.

Watch Cheney’s comments about Gingrich, below:

During another part of their discussion, Burnett asked Cheney of President Barack Obama should consider changing vice presidents in 2012.

“Any advice I’d give Barack Obama today would be, take a look at it,” Cheney responded. “Because there are a lot of good people out there. And it’s not personal. You go out and find the best candidate you can to run. And maybe, if he goes through that process, he’d end up with Joe Biden. On the other hand, there are people like Hillary Clinton, for example, your first woman vice president, that might have a certain appeal.”

Comments (49)

  • hannah
    Posted on December 14, 2011 at 5:40pm

    How do we get the information we all know through Glenn Beck, to people who don’t really know who Newt Gingrich is? There has to be a way to change their minds on voting for him, he will kill America just as Obama is doing right now.

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  • mertmag
    Posted on December 14, 2011 at 10:32am

    I hate to say it but I blame our young Republicans for not giving us the choice. Gov Christy, Rep Alan West, Sen Marco Rubio, Paul Ryan all of which could wipe the floor with Obama and all conservative and yet they don’t have the courage to run. So we are left with Newt, Romney, Bachman and what most people consider the crazy little man Ron Paul. Why Santorum doesn’t get any support is beyond me, the only thing I can think of is that the press keeps saying he can’t win and people are too stupid to ignore it.
    But Beck is wrong, if Newt is all we have I will vote for him over Obama or a third party candidate. If you think I’m wrong go talk to president Perot. You know Perot he’s the guy that gave us Clinton.

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  • your sensei
    Posted on December 14, 2011 at 12:25am

    Persistent and tenacious? So’s my jack russel terrier, but that doesn’t mean i want him to be president (though I’d vote for him over Newt any day.)

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  • bigdeg
    Posted on December 13, 2011 at 11:25pm

    Montel is….is….I really didnt know he was that stupid….informative…

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  • oldwhiteguy
    Posted on December 13, 2011 at 8:41pm

    Gingrich is overweight and 68, he will not last one term. I say lets pick his conservative running-mate and then feed Newt high cholesterol foods so he will stroke out. That’s as good as all the other conspiracy theories I read here.

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    • stage9
      Posted on December 13, 2011 at 8:51pm

      Sometimes I think that we don’t actually want to win as much as we just love to whine. Conservatives are starting to sound like a bunch of liberals. What’s happened to us?

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    • Agnes
      Posted on December 13, 2011 at 9:37pm

      Maybe the fatty foods have gone to your brain!

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  • Rached Madcow SHOW
    Posted on December 13, 2011 at 6:59pm

    Alex Jones tried to warn us about Glenn. Glenn says support Santorum. Someone that is safely out of race. Santorum says Newt was his mentor, so why isn’t he evil. Newt wins, Ron Paul runs 3rd party, Glenn Beck completes his mission. America has been duped. Glenn started this with by saying Media elite is pushing Newt. Somebody name 1. There isn’t 1. I trust Newt more than Glenn Beck. Where was this evil Newt at before. Glenn waits until he takes the lead and then he remembers that he is no better than Obama? All I know is Newt was the only one that stood on the stage and told the truth about Palestine. Now anti-semite Ron Paul should run 3rd party. I call B.S.

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  • neverending
    Posted on December 13, 2011 at 1:16pm

    He is right – do not underestimate Gingrich. Do your homework and search his past and then you will make the right decision.

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    • tmplarnite
      Posted on December 13, 2011 at 5:39pm

      Gingrich…is a white o’Vomit…a progressive wolf in sheep’s clothing! I wouldn’t trust this doughboy look alike further than I could throw tubby!

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  • Get off your butt and join the Marines
    Posted on December 13, 2011 at 11:07am

    Michael Savage is offering Gingrich $1 million dollars to drop out of the race. Will Gingrich do it? No, simple because the Newtster knows he can make much more money staying in the campaign. Another conservative web journalist wrote a great article in which some would say that Gingrich is mentally deranged. Not in a “Frankenstein” way, but in the following way: one observes in the former House Speaker [Newt Gingrich] certain symptoms—bouts of great grandiosity, megalomania, irritability, racing thoughts, speaking without any filter, beliefs in obvious outright falsehoods and lies, spending sprees—that go beyond the ordinary politician’s normal narcissism. Mr. former Speaker, lobbyist, and ultimate DC insider, DO YOU TAKE LITHIUM or other psychogenic drugs? If so, WE THE PEOPLE have a right to know! Get out of the race Gingrich you dumbass$!!

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    • shrinkwraped
      Posted on December 13, 2011 at 5:33pm

      Read the DSM IV criteria for narcissistic personality disorder. Obama certainly fits the criteria. The man has done nothing but spread hate and is the most divisive man to ever occupy the white house.

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  • Freedomtothink
    Posted on December 13, 2011 at 11:05am

    Doesn’t an endorsement by the previous Republican administration, who virtually prepared our nation for a Communist take over and Martial Law, raise even a small amount of suspicion among the Newt fans?

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    • riverdog1
      Posted on December 13, 2011 at 11:26am

      cheney is smart, i mean he is a war criminal and he got away with it.

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    • tweet
      Posted on December 13, 2011 at 12:21pm

      You must have listened to a different interview than the one above, I didn’t hear Cheney endorse Gingrich.

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    • shrinkwraped
      Posted on December 13, 2011 at 5:34pm

      Well, he did set the stage for a communist takeover: Obama.

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  • Bob DD
    Posted on December 13, 2011 at 10:43am

    Mr. Cheney-CAN NEWT WIN???

    BHO’s covert operatives are trying to force us to select Newt to run against. They want him. Maybe douchebag Nancy really does have something on him.

    I’d vote for a monkey before BHO. But, I’m wondering if it has to be Romneycare?

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    • DrFrost
      Posted on December 13, 2011 at 10:55am

      Newt is rising to the top because he’s winning debate after debate (being the smartest person on the stage doesn‘t make him the best candidate but it certainly doesn’t hurt). Conspiracy theories are superfluous in this situation.

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    • Get off your butt and join the Marines
      Posted on December 13, 2011 at 11:11am

      Yes, Bob DD, Barack Hussein Obama, the democrat president is behind Newt Gingrich’s campaign. Please take your meds, take a deep breath, readjust your tinfoil hat, and relax.

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    • shrinkwraped
      Posted on December 13, 2011 at 5:35pm

      I’d vote for a steaming pile of dog manure. It would do a better job than BO

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  • Detroit paperboy
    Posted on December 13, 2011 at 10:37am

    I will support whomever the nominee is, i agree completely with none of them… But as a small business owner, i dont think we can last 4 more years with this community organizer…. I mean has this guy ever had a job? He throws around billions and trillions but i gaurantee he could not sucessfully manage a donut shop, this is scarey, who is Obama? Where are his high school sweethearts ? Does he know what a 57 chevy looks like ? What jobs did he have as a teen ? Where are his buddies from childhood ? What about rev. Wright and Ayers ? Please tell me , who is this guy ? And where did he come from, he studied the Koran in Indonesia , and now he is president ? This scares the hell out of me…….

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  • LIBS-ARE-DINGLEHEADS
    Posted on December 13, 2011 at 10:25am

    Erin Burnett is a hack. Of course, a “member” of the CFR…..an in-the-tank yanker for Oblamer.

    Getting “married” to mask her lesbianism. Bet her coochie STANKS!!!!!

    Cheney…… Selling books huh? Must have spent all his Halliburton money (heavy sarcasm)

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  • Evil_Conservative
    Posted on December 13, 2011 at 9:26am

    In other news on Dick Cheney, conspicuously not being mentioned

    CHENEY: President should have gone in and destroyed drone…

    http://www.cnn.com/2011/12/12/world/meast/iran-us-drone/index.html?section=cnn_latest

    Glenn ignoring stuff like this ****** me off. Glenn is not what he was 10 years ago and it really sux. 2001 Glenn >>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>>2011 Glenn

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    • smackdown33
      Posted on December 13, 2011 at 9:38am

      Do you really think that this transfer of technology was an accident? If it was an accident, they could have destroyed that drone with any of a number of missile systems. Look back to Bernard Schwartz (Jewish) and the Loral Corporation technology transfer to China. It was no different than the Rosenberg (Jewish) transfer of atomic technology to the Soviet Union.
      No accident. It’s globalism in action.

       
    • sailor
      Posted on December 13, 2011 at 10:40am

      SMACKDOWN33 Like our laser guided missiles .//…your right on the target. Our enemies within America will destroy our way of life and economic system in any way they can. Remember from Rules for Radicals, the “end justify the means”. defined as “lie, cheat, steal, murder“ is all OK for the Progressive Radical because their goal is ”Right” and what exists is wrong. If you or I get in the way, we are expendable.

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  • mward.dinstudio.com
    Posted on December 13, 2011 at 9:24am

    Come on Tea Party wake up do not let the media and the establishment pick our candidates again. You know in your heart that Romney, Gingrich, and Perry are huge Progressives who are for big government. Please Tea Party stick to your Principals, you know the only Conservative Candidates in the GOP are Michelle Bachman and Rick Santorum. They both stand with Israel and stand for the Constitution. Don’t you see that the media are using these polls to shape and weed out candidates they support or not support. They can’t stand the Tea Party and they will do anything ( Herman Cain) to stop us. They want to tell us that Bachman being a women means she won’t get full support throughout the country in order to beat Obama. Truth of the matter is my big Labodor would win in an election againt Obama because most of the country can’t stand him. Vote your principals and moral character. Come on vote Bachman or Santorum.

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  • Rightallalong
    Posted on December 13, 2011 at 9:21am

    From one evil SOB to Another … nice. With Republicans like Newt and Cheney we can forget having small government, liberty and freedom.,,,but we will get endless wars, Big Sis/Bro watching us and if we store foood and water and ammo maybe just maybe we get an all expense paid vacation in Gitmo.

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    • Evil_Conservative
      Posted on December 13, 2011 at 9:28am

      Evil? lol. Liberal much?

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    • hauschild
      Posted on December 13, 2011 at 9:46am

      Newt’s a RINO, no doubt. But I have a hard time fitting Cheney into the RINO mold.

      I don’t know – maybe it’s because Cheney is low-key and from Wyoming, but I get a tremendous sense of security when Cheney is in charge and I can’t figure out why. Gut instinct? Has he hoodwinked me?

      I’m really disappointed in the current crop of candidates – they’re absolutely dreadful. That much I know is true.

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    • riseandshine
      Posted on December 13, 2011 at 12:51pm

      Yes EVIL!

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  • Churchill
    Posted on December 13, 2011 at 9:19am

    Anyone but Gingrich, hell even Romney or Perry would be better than him.

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    • smackdown33
      Posted on December 13, 2011 at 9:24am

      Not really.

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    • hauschild
      Posted on December 13, 2011 at 9:48am

      Anyone but those three……and Huntsman……and Santorum………….my God – they’re all shabby.

      300 million people in this country and this is as good as it gets?

      At least with Palin, we we’d had a dog in the fight. With what we’ve got to pick from now, there will be very little passion.

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  • Darla_K
    Posted on December 13, 2011 at 9:09am

    This country is in trouble. I am not sure when we are going to take the first step to pull ourselves out of this hole. Everyone wants the perfect canidate but it doesn’t look like we are going to even come close. I know I want Obummer out, but not sure of our choices of who I want in. God help us.

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  • patmajek
    Posted on December 13, 2011 at 9:05am

    In order to reverse the damage done by Obama, three things must happen in 2012. Republicans must maintain control of the House, win a 60 seat majority in the Senate plus choose the most conservative candidate that can defeat Obama. Without the Democrat majority in the Senate Obamacare would never have passed and our debt wouldn’t be accellerating as rapidly as it is. As the House passes bills to lower unemployment and balance the budget it is imperative to have a Senate that will approve and send the bills to a Republican President for signing without delay. We must be united once the candidates are chosen and remember that in many ways Obama’s administration has been much more destructive to this country than anything that has happened in our history. The Constitution must be restored and upheld for future generations to have any chance of living in a free society.

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    • smackdown33
      Posted on December 13, 2011 at 9:16am

      Sadly, you are parroting the sentiments of 2000. Back then we attained all of what you ask for, and nothing changed. Back then we had the House, Senate, and White House… and things actually got worse. Nominate another progressive like Gingrich, Romney, Perry, and nothing will change.
      Fools continue to do the same thing, expecting a different result. And, we have significant proof that the Republican party has enough fools to do the same.

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    • patmajek
      Posted on December 13, 2011 at 9:59am

      There is one huge difference between 2012 and 2000. We now have the tea party (which didn’t exist in 2000) to influence the candidates that will be elected to the House and Senate. That is where the laws are written. Once the law passes to the President‘s desk he can either sign or veto but it’s all about what’s written in the law that dictates the final outcome. The only fools are the ones that will get so caught up with not voting for the ultimate nominee in 2012 that they let Obama have another 4 years just for spite.

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  • smackdown33
    Posted on December 13, 2011 at 9:00am

    Cheney is a progressive neocon and former director of the CFR. Look no farther than the Bush II administration and its Carter-like spending. No surprise he’d go to bat for CFR Gingrich. They do not represent America. They represent the globe.

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    • cherigc
      Posted on December 13, 2011 at 12:46pm

      Smackdown, you are nothing but an antisemite! I read your comments…So sad…..You are a NATZI! sHAME ON YOU!!!!1

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  • RichNGadsden
    Posted on December 13, 2011 at 8:24am

    Oddly enough, while sitting here reading this our local talk radio station has been running recordings of Newt’s speeches past and present. In earlier days he praised Ronald Reagan and claimed that he would always be a Reaganite. In the latter speeches he praises FDR and refers to FDR as his favorite of all time modern presidents. Back in the ’90s I loved this guy, but he scares me as much today as Clinton and 0bama. I can see it happening all over again, the MSM will present us with another McCain candidate. I will vote for Newt over 0bama any day, but that is about as nice of a thing that I can say right now.

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  • The_Almighty_Creestof
    Posted on December 13, 2011 at 8:20am

    It’s at times like these that I feel any presidential candidate (even at this stage of the nomination process) should have to declare his top three choices for VP. It would be a helpful bit of information when it comes time to vote.

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  • mike_trivisonno
    Posted on December 13, 2011 at 8:06am

    Is anyone else tired of seeing these crusty old commies trying to play us like fools?

    They are transparent. They want to put us back to sleep so they can finish off what is left of the nation and turn the corpse over to the muslims.

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  • lukerw
    Posted on December 13, 2011 at 7:58am

    A Critical WARNING!

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