There is ALWAYS A WILLING CONSERVATIVE CANDIDATE and the RNC and NRCC SHOULD NEVER SUPPORT A RINO!!
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Posted on 10/27/2009 4:45:19 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
Fred to Newt: We're not 'deaf, dumb' By: Andy Barr October 27, 2009 07:20 PM EST
Former Tennessee Sen. Fred Thompson brushed back former House Speaker Newt Gingrich on Tuesday over Gingrich’s warning that the Republican Party is wrong to thrown in its lot with the Conservative Party nominee Doug Hoffman over Dede Scozzafava, the GOP’s candidate, in the special election in New York’s 23rd congressional district.
Gingrich has called the many prominent national Republicans – including Thompson – who have endorsed Hoffman over Scozzafava in recent days “misguided,” arguing they are making a “mistake” to back a third-party candidate over the party’s nominee.
The conservatives who back Hoffman point to Scozzafava’s support for abortion right and ties to local union leaders.
During his radio show Tuesday, Thompson said he was “sad” to hear “when a good Republican friend of mine says that I, and the other good, conservative Republicans who have endorsed Hoffman, are ‘misguided.’ And that’d be my friend, Newt Gingrich.”
“I respect Newt. He’s a friend. Done a lot of good, I think. But he endorsed Scozzafava early on. So, we have an honest disagreement in the family,” Thompson said.
But, he added, “Newt said that our support for Hoffman was a ‘purge,’ was ‘misguided,’ was—we were applying a litmus test that said if you’re not 100 percent with us than you're not with us at all. And that Scozzafava was more in step with her district and therefore we shouldn't substitute our judgment for the party elders of the district.”
(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...
Gingrich has lost any credibility he had.....
Newt’s always been a not-so-covert New World Order guy. Just another elitist who can KMA and DDRN.
ALWAYS back a third party Constitutional Conservative over a RINO.
Thank God for Fred!
When the (R) brand finally realizes no one wants to buy an inferior product anymore, maybe, just maybe they’ll start using quality ingredients and stop using tainted substitutes.
Only then will the (R) be worth purchasing again.
Fred should - theoretically - be our President. He had half my Reagan Democrat family peeled off for him.
He planned for Sarah as his VP, early on, too.
KILL ACORN.
Scuzzifavabeans is the “Third Party Candidiate” in this race. She doesn’t fit in either party, whereas Doug Hoffman fits the majority of Republicans’ idea of a Republican.
Man I wish Fred was our President.
What good does one vote for a Republican Speaker of the House do when all of her other votes, votes that affect US every day, are with the Rats?
There is ALWAYS A WILLING CONSERVATIVE CANDIDATE and the RNC and NRCC SHOULD NEVER SUPPORT A RINO!!
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Newt has had Potomac poisoning for years now.
I knew Reagan Democrats who loved Fred. If Fred had started earlier and Rudy, Hukabee, McCain had not been in the race.
Newt Be Gone!!!!!....... a new rinocide
The heck with Newt. If I wanted a communist I’d vote Democrat. I left the Republican party a while back. I usually vote Republican, but I WILL look at a third party candidate, and if I like what I see, I’ll go there.
Most of the Republican hierarchy would rather run a socialist and lose than run a conservative and win.
Fred Thompson bitchslapping Neut. That makes my day.
The popcorn concession is now open...
>> When the (R) brand finally realizes no one wants to buy an inferior product anymore, maybe, just maybe they’ll start using quality ingredients and stop using tainted substitutes. Only then will the (R) be worth purchasing again.
That’s a darn good way of putting it, FRiend.
Rinos ABSOLUTELY MUST GO.We cannot take this country back electing these same damn fools over and over. We need true conservatives
Can you ping the Fred list?
Birds of a feather flock together...
Thanks Tick.
Hope after Tuesday FOXNews and other commentators would stop giving air-time and TV face time to Newt. He’s so yesterday.
That's not a bad strategy. It could be national. But, we have to close our own primaries. In every state we should close our primaries to assure conservatives get our votes counted. The Dems and the liberals come in to spoil our primaries, and that's wrong but it's the ACORN way. Only we can change that.
Change the primary system in your state and you can change elections. Yes, you do have the power!
Newt, where in God’s name were you on 9/12 ?
Drinking Tea while watching NBC ?
A million Conservatives showed up on 9/12.
What’s it gonna take to get your attention ? WHAT ?!
He’ a DC autistic Squirrel gathering ACORNs.
They even coordinated their clothes for that picture....sheesh.
Right on FRED!
The GOP Doesn’t get it. They left US. We are looking for candidates who represent US, not the GOP. That may well mean that the Conservative Party takes over from the GOP, and the GOP may well die. It would not be the first time in U.S. history that a once strong party disappeared. Need I say Whigs? Hum?
Different circumstances yes, but a big part of the people who make up the grassroots are SICK of the GOP doing what IT wants rather than what WE want.
Enough is ENOUGH. The GOP has screwed us darn near as bad as the DNC. Time to vote cor candidates that represent the people. NOT a party.
The Dems and the liberals come in to spoil our primaries==deliberately. Knowing full well that McCain wasn’t our real choice...the media went full blast for him over any other nominee.
I think Newt is like the old fighter who took so many blows to the head that he finishes out his life being described as “punch drunk”. I honestly think he took such a beating at the hands of the Left and the MSM that it has addled his brain. And it really hurts to say that. I was among his staunchest supporters back in the days of “The Contract with America”. But he sure did take a beating those days, unlike any politician in my lifetime. Like that outrageous releasing of his cell phone conversation with other Republican leaders when he was up on charges before the ethics gurus of Congress. It was just so patently an obvious example of illegal wiretapping, pure and simple. It should have resulted in a RICO prosecution for everyone involved, starting with the granddad that made the tape and continuing right through to the congress critter that released it to the press.
Sadly, I fear he’s on the Jimmy Carter path to irrelevance.
If all that was true I would agree with Newt. I generally don't want to give elections to dems by supporting independents that haven't a prayer nor do I buy into conservative purism because I am pragmatic. But that is not what we have here. Here we have a conservative that seems to have a chance of winning and is worthy of a chance. So let's let the NY voters decide.
I (heart) Fred!
When asked, she wouldn't even commit to saying she would vote for Boehner over Pelosi for Speaker
Don't they have an ointment for that?
At first I gave Newt the benefit of the doubt. Changed my mind. He is misguided and a turncoat. He wasn’t concerned at splitting the Party, he really wants Dede Scozzafava.
That’s a darn good way of putting it, FRiend."
2BL BUMP!!!!!
Careful, Fred. The average Ruskie doesn't take a dump without a plan. :-)
Gingrich Loves Pelosi
We'd better! Else I foresee the nightmare: 0bama announces he wants another term, absolutely nobody in his party dares to oppose him, and by nightfall the Dem voters are stampeding to change their registrations to R so they can vote for Anybody But Palin.
Even a politically damaged 0bama would be nominated by acclamation. The Dem voters will be encouraged to help him win by selecting the most feeble, lackluster RINO-Republican opponent...unless we start changing the rules NOW.
Newt stepped in it with his endorsement of the RINO, and rather than change his shoes and walk away, he is intent on flinging poo all over everyone who looks more carefully where they were going ...
Romney: on the fence, RINO
Huckster: same as above
Fred: solid C
Sarah: solid C
Newt: RINO
- and so on.
Anyone know if Jim Demint has endorsed Hoffman? I recently started following Demint after his excellent Honduras article in the WJS.
What kills me are the RINOs that say, “Well, if you vote for a Conservative, a Democrat will win cuz YOU split the vote.”
“American to RINOs: Conservatives voted for McCain thanks to Palin and nearly won it. ‘Moderates’ and RINOs split THEIR vote and voted for OBAMA!”
My thoughts on the flag you posted. It needs a “BIG” cannon round through the Blue & White area.
Possibly from a pocket nuke.
There is only one type of “good” Commie.
Fred T withdrawing from the race was a great disappointment.
Want to go Rino and Dem hunting? Here is where to start looking:
“Congressional Voting Score Card”
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2341921/posts
Those in both Parties who have yellow highlighting are the enemy combatants.
SURRENDER MONKEYS ON PARADE
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2aQM-5u9CkE
Rush is correct.
When I go into the voting booth, I first look at the Conservative Line on the ballot. Then I check the Republican line.
If the same candidate is on both lines for a particular office, I pull the Republican lever down, if it is different, I pull the Conservative lever to vote against the Republican candidate, and for the Conservative candidate.
I am registered as a Republican, but actually consider myself an Independent Conservative. If I were to register as the latter, I wouldn’t be able to vote in the primaries, unfortunately.
And Fred has done...?
There was no bigger Fred fan than me. But you can't throw the hip of claining to run and then pull it back in. Any reason we should listen to this guy? He could have won.
The really strange thing here, and the article itself or others may have mentioned it, is that Newt actually picked the day that a poll was released that shows more people described themselves as Conservative, than by an other description. 40% of them picked Conservative, vs 20% picking liberal.
Still Newt claims that Conservatives are wrong to think they should lead the Republican Party.
Newt, bud, get a grip. If our party leaders, you included, would spend 1/10th as much time pushing Conservative ideals explaining them to the public, that you do backing liberal policies, that 40% would be 55%.
Get off your ass and help the rest of us retake this nation.
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