Here’s Newt Gingrich at a 2007 fundraiser in someone’s luxurious mansion, making an amazingly crude “joke” about public housing.

I want to thank the Cox family for inviting us into their home. It’s a wonderful thing to do this for us and we’re all very very grateful. I think any time you can visit a “starter home” like this …

[Laughter…]

You know, if you’re a conservative you come into a home like this and you think to yourself, “What a great country, people can work hard, they can save their money, they can create new jobs, and as a result they can live in a very nice home.”

If you’re a liberal, you walk in here and you think, “Public housing for 40 families.”

[Laughter…]

And that’s the beginning of the core difference.

(h/t: Andy Kaczynski.)