Posted on 10/24/2009 10:57:02 PM PDT by Talkradio03
This is new video of a Tea Party Protester asking Newt Gingrich at a book signing why he is supporting Scozzafava, the so called Republican in NY's 23 district, Newt's reasons are lame, (Video with Transcript)
(Excerpt) Read more at hotairpundit.blogspot.com ...
He basically saidbacking the liberal leftwing GOPers is a way to increase the conservative majority.
Makes ZERO sense
Actually Gingrich supporting candidates(no matter how vile) to fill Congress, implies that he’ll make a run in 2012 for President. At the very least he’s thinking about it. This is what he did prior to 94’ and the ‘Contract with America’ that catapulted him into House Leadership. He’s building bridges one trestle at a time.
Those bridges are facing the wrong way.
I don’t think that’s a fair assessment of what he said. What I walked away with after listening to both is that Newt, being an outsider, didn’t want to second guess the decision of the local party. As an outsider, isn’t that a legitimate statement?
This is a seat for the United States Congress, this is not for mayor of a small town. Newt Gingrich seems to think that electing leftists will give us a conservative majority.
I am not sure how that would work. Gingrich is very wrong on this one.
There is also an election in California’s 10th district, a real conservative. I bet that person is being ignored by the party that is pouring funds and staff to the Scuzzy lady. Thats the RINO MO.
Newt is lost. His magnificent intellect can’t even discern that Global Warming is a scam.
We saw how that worked out with Specter.
I used to like Newt. Now I see that he is a big, fat blowhard.
Newt said Hoffman doesn’t live in the district. Then how could he run for the seat?
NO MORE RINOs !!
Spectre, Jeffords, Snowe..
Good job Tea Party Protesters!!!
He’s doing the McCain thing - hoping for some funds from the lib handlers. He figures it’s his turn. What a sleaze!
Do you think he was being honest? Never mentioning her stance on the stimulus, on gay marriage, on abortion, etc. You think he doesn’t know that?
I hope Hoffman mops the floor with that Scuzzyfavabeans woman, and makes Newt irrelevant.
You had a good run, Newt, but it’s time to hang it up. We aren’t going to listen to you any more.
Facebook fans #
Hoffman 1931
Scozzafava 337
Owens 27
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Doug-Hoffman/104731159040?ref=nf
I thought his reasoning made sense if your goal is to pick a winner.
However, if you are trying to change things up, find and elect candidates that are more closely aligned with a value that Dede, clearly does not represent, then you would have to pick Doug.
Dede needs to be liked. People who need to be like have no core value other than to seek out the greatest number of people who will fulfill her need to be liked and validate her emotions.
Doug isn’t so much a “need to be liked guy” as he is a man who sees the need for change to core values of a conservative platform.
Doug will stand up and vote as a conservative and deliver.
Newt: YOU'RE FIRED...BTW - Nancy's laughing because she knows this...
I used to like Newt and thought he would make a good, thoughtful President. His backing of this liberal candidate just about removes him from the short list, IMO.
TC
Legitimate coming from the Author of the CONTRACT FOR AMERICA? Local Control? Back room Politics chose this candidate not the People in a Primary
Transcript from HotAir:
Gingrich:
"Lets just start with, she is the nominee of the local party, my bias is to be for the nominee of the local party, and I don't second guess the local party,
she has signed a no tax increase pledge,
she is endorsed by the National Rifle Association,
she has come out against Cap and Trade, [crosstalk]
she is opposed to the Obama Health Care plan,
she will vote for John Boehner instead of Nancy Pelosi.
All of those things together make her it seems to me, a legitimate, authentic, Republican nominee. In addition, the last poll that came out yesterday, she is well ahead of, and she is much more likely to beat the Democrat than Hoffman because
Hoffman doesn't live in the district, he's never won an election in the district,
she represents the biggest county in the district, she actually knows the local issues,
and Hoffman has says publicly he doesn't know the local issues..
So I just think it is a mistake for the Conservative movement, to think splitting in the special elections is a smart idea, if we give that seat to the Democrats, shame on us...
Is this true?
Newt’s spinning at 8000 rpm, and so are his hacks.
This is what conservatives need to realize: Not only have Republican leaders become completely unprincipled, the political process they have created in no way represents We the People.
In recent months we've seen polling that shows that there are more self-identified conservatives in EVERY state in the Union than self-identified liberals. And so it is obvious to those who think about it that if those conservative views are not being carried into actual conservative policies politically, the massive failure lies with the party that has been claiming to be conservative but is not.
I repeat: the Republican Party is a failed party.
Here’s Scozzafava accepting her Margaret Sanger Award. It’s only two minutes long, and there are two moments that stick out. First, she mentions that she served on the board of Planned Parenthood when she first came to the North Country—shades of Howard Dean! Alittle over a minute after that she speaks, with not a trace of irony, about every individual human having their own rights. Apparently the right to not be chopped up by Dede’s crew and thrown in the garbage is not on the list.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JwDkpDQtgKA
By your logic it was a failed party in 1974 and 1976. What was Reagan’s prescription?
How much of that are you getting out of the GOP now?
How much was coming out of the GOP in 1974-1976?
And what was the result of Reagan pushing principled conservatism in the GOP instead of leaving?
You’re making a huge mistake if you’re staking your hopes on some paramount leader arising to save you and your party.
I’m not confirming the NRA thing (I haven’t looked it up yet) but keep in mind the NRA is happy to endorse libs if they have a pro-gun record. For example, they gave Judy “Blagojevich in a dress” Baar Topinka their endorsement for governor here in Illinois because she is 100% pro-2nd Amendment..odd for a Chicago pol, but there it was.
I’m staking my hopes on conservatism and conservatives. In fact, the best thing about the Tea Party and town hall stuff this year is that we don’t have or need a leader...the conservative grass roots are more grass roots than ever before.
Yep. Folks need to quit looking for a leader and become a leader.
This country cannot survive in liberty unless millions of such principled leaders enter the fray right now.
Screw the GOP!
A bridge to the left bank is a bridge to nowhere.
Granted the NRA is a single-issue organization, but an important one.
Apparently, he merely has to live in the State in which he is running, not the actual district. Personally, if I were running, I would try to make sure I lived in the district.
If that's the case, her detractors should simply say "I won't vote for a pro-abortion candidate."
Newt brings up, what I think is, an important point. I've always respected the candidate selection process within the Republican party because it IS LOCAL. It is vastly more representative than the "top down" strategy employed by the Democrats. (Not withstanding presidential primaries!)
Is the tea party movement thwarting the will of the local citizenry? I can't answer that, but it is a concern.
Are we, in our fervor for better representation, engaging in a faulty strategy?
Any poitician can lie. We have only their record on which to make a judgment. It is the weight of their compaign pledges and their effectiveness that determines whether they remain in office.
Turn that thought around to the Democratic Party. The Won who was elected was the most likely to be elected and look what they got instead...a Communist masquerading as a Democrat.
This election is important in publicizing the facts that a party label is not necessarily the truth. Politics has alwasys been on the shady side of the truth, but nowadays lying appears to be condoned for the sake of winning.
Winner, winner...chicken dinner!!!!!!
If Rinos split the party by putting up a social and economic Marxist and permit the Democrat to win, shame on them. They will be hurting for as long as they play the Rino game.
Woo hoo! I love a chicken dinner. lol
My husband says Mr. Newt is an eft.
IS THERE ANY CONSERVATIVE LEFT IN NEW YORK STATE THAT WILL RUN AGAINST AND DEFEAT LOUISE SLAUGHTER,CHAIR of The Infamous Rules Committee????
Newt has become just another fat polititian thinking he knows what’s best for a party that may not recognize him as a conservative member anymore ,,, in fact he’s starting to sound more like lindsay scaham and john mclame .
Hm, he was talking out of the other side of his mouth back in April.
WALLACE: Let me get to the subject that we actually invited you both here for, and that’s to talk about the future of the Republican Party and how you rebrand yourself.
Mr. Gingrich, you said the other day that you see the real possibility that some conservatives will split off from the GOP and form a third party by 2012. I know that nobody would ever accuse you of this, but are you just being provocative?
GINGRICH: No, I’m trying to say very clearly, particularly to those Republicans who continue to insist, for example, on earmarks, continue to insist that they like big spending, continue to insist that they don’t have to pay any attention to the great vast majority of Republicans, that people are not trapped into a — into a system.
http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,512719,00.html
Who GIVES a rat’s patootie what the Newtster thinks???
HE became irrelevant when he resigned his seat allowing a Dimocrat governor to name his replacement, betraying all of us who had supported him and contributed to his campaign.
He’s lower than worm dung.
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