Who Said It: Newt Gingrich or Michael Moore? [QUIZ]

It was fun to hear what I have been saying for 20 years, not just by any Republican candidate, but Newt Gingrich.
 -- Michael Moore on the film, When Mitt Romney Came To Town

Newt Gingrich's hypocrisy can be truly surreal.

If the thrice-married aspiring swinger and former Speaker of the House can cast himself as a champion of traditional marriage and a Washington outsider, he would probably say or do anything politically expedient at the moment. With a Wall Street poster boy as an opponent in the primaries, he would even break Republican orthodoxy, co-opt the discourse of the 99% movement, and challenge the influence of high-octane finance.

This is exactly the situation at hand. Gingrich and his supporters, realizing their underdog status, are attempting to do a bit of political jiu-jitsu -- taking the giant down with his own strength.  Romney's biggest strength as a candidate is his successful business career. Thus, Gingrich has no choice but to transform himself into the most prolific critic of private equity (the leveraged-buyout business, if you are a little old-fashioned) since Bryan Burrough and John Helyar, authors of Barbarians at the Gate.

They might seem like natural enemies, but Newt is starting to sound a little bit like über-liberal filmmaker Michael Moore these days. Gingrich and the other non-Romneys have repeatedly casted Romney's former employer, Bain Capital, as a corporate raider that makes its money by "looting" companies and laying people off.  A super PAC associated with Newt Gingrich even took a few pages from Moore's playbook and made a Roger and Me-style documentary called When Mitt Romney Came To Town, about Bain Capital's record of taking over companies and leaving unemployment in the wake. Moore joked, "I wondered who they stole from my crew," after seeing the film.

To celebrate Newt Gingrich's rebirth as a tireless crusader for the common man against the callous fat-cats of finance, we found some quotes about private equity and Wall Street from both Gingrich and his political antipode behind anti-corporate documentaries like Capitalism: A Love Story. As it turns out, there's just a thin line between separating one's rhetoric from the other.

Can you tell the difference? Take our quiz!

See if you can figure out which ones are from a self-proclaimed "consistent conservative" that claimed a big hand in the Reagan Revolution -- and which ones came from a man who once claimed that "capitalism destroyed my town."

Click through to the next page for the quiz. Look for the answers on the third page. Best of luck!