Former Senator Bob Dole is the latest member of the GOP to say Newt Gingrich should not be the party's nominee. Nominating Gingrich would have disastrous down-ballot effects for other federal, state and local GOP candidates, Dole told the National Review. He noted Gingrich didn't work well with others, pointing out that hardly anyone who served with Gingrich endorsed him.
An increasing number of Republicans describe Gingrich as something akin to political plague, the National Review said. Here's what some prominent Republicans have to say about Newt Gingrich's candidacy:
* Speaker Gingrich set into motion the largest explosion of earmarks in the history of Congress. I was there, I saw the earmarks explode, I saw the corruption that it bred, and I saw the incredible waste of taxpayer dollars." -- Sen. John McCain, R-Ariz., 2008 GOP presidential nominee.
* "When you have a president of the United States, you have to have somebody that you believe in, somebody that has integrity. Poor ethics has no place in the White House. If you have a person of questionable integrity, it's very difficult to be a good leader, almost impossible." -- Dan Quayle, former vice president.
* " I'm not inclined to be a supporter of Newt Gingrich's having served under him for four years and experienced personally his leadership ? I found it lacking often times." -- Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla.
* "He's not really a conservative. ... He'll tell you what you want to hear. ? When he was speaker, he was erratic, undisciplined." -- Tom DeLay, former House majority WHIP.
* "I'm not his biggest advocate." -- George H.W. Bush, former president
* "Tom Coburn, Susan Molinari. Mickey Edwards, all these folks that were part of his inner circle who watched him on a daily basis said, 'Enough is enough. This man is not stable.'" -- John Sununu, former White House chief of staff
* "Nobody wants to be on the ballot with Newt Gingrich." -- Jason Chaffetz, R-Utah
* "He has to know he can't win unless he's totally delusional." -- Rep. Peter King, R-N.Y., chair of the House Homeland Security Committee.
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