Posted on 11/14/2011 10:08:40 PM PST by Fred
Has it really come to this? Newt Gingrich as the conservative alternative to Mitt Romney? That's what many in the punditocracy have proclaimed as the former speaker of the House has surged recently in the polls.
Yet a look at his record reveals that Newt is hardly the "anti-Mitt" -- he's Mitt Romney with more baggage and bolder hand gestures.
Every Gingrich profile proclaims that he's a dazzling "ideas man," a "one-man think tank." It seems that, if you clamor long enough about "big ideas," people become convinced you actually have them.
But most of Gingrich's policy ideas over the last decade have been tepidly conventional and consistent with the Big Government, Beltway Consensus.
Gingrich's campaign nearly imploded this summer when he dismissed Rep. Paul Ryan's, R-Wis., Medicare reform plan as "right-wing social engineering." But that gaffe was a window into Gingrich's irresponsible approach toward entitlements.
In 2003, Gingrich stumped hard for President George W. Bush's prescription drug bill, which has added about $17 trillion to Medicare's unfunded liabilities. "Every conservative member of Congress should vote for this Medicare bill," Newt urged.
And in his 2008 book "Real Change," he endorsed an individual mandate for health insurance.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonexaminer.com ...
Ouch.
All you have to worry about is:
Is Newt more conservative than Mitt or Barack?
Everything else is wishing!
The circular firing squad is getting smaller and smaller and its time to put down the weapons.
So give it a rest, OK?
Only Sen Rick and MB are conservative.
The circular firing squad is getting smaller and smaller and its time to put down the weapons.
Amen to that.
The evil one in our White House is going to get another term if we’re not careful.
Get up to date....
http://www.newt.org/solutions/healthcare
And ask too, can Romney stand nose-to-nose with Obama and shoot down the unconstitutional and economically disastrous parts of Obamacare? Remember, Romneycare is 50% paid for by federal tax money. He does not mention that EVER unless a good reporter corners him with it.
-—”Only Sen Rick and MB are conservative.”-—
Those RINOs! Bah!
No Conservatives available. (sarcasm intended)
Is Newt more conservative than Mitt or Barack?
Everything else is wishing!
Exactamundo.
Newt loving CARD CHECK!!
http://www.examiner.com/county-republican-in-dallas/gingrich-blasted-by-national-right-to-work-committee-over-support-for-scozzafava-ny23-race
First Amend, NOT!!!
Newt Gingrich Co-Sponsored the 1987 Pro-Fairness Doctrine Bill
http://pjmedia.com/tatler/2011/04/29/newt-gingrich-co-sponsored-the-1987-pro-fairness-doctrine-bill/
Howard Dean Endorses Newt
http://articles.cnn.com/2010-07-25/politics/gingrich.dean_1_newt-gingrich-gingrich-candidacy-howard-dean?_s=PM:POLITICS
Stop the Insanity say no to Newt
http://articles.businessinsider.com/2011-11-10/politics/30381368_1_newt-gingrich-conservatives-herman-cain
Too many liberal BS positions to list
http://washingtonexaminer.com/opinion/columnists/2011/11/newt-gingrich-no-conservative?utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter&utm_
Newt with his BFFS Princess Nancy, Kerry and Al Sharpton
http://www.mofopolitics.com/2011/11/09/friendly-reminder-newt-gingrich-is-a-rino-wimp-and-a-scumbag/
Newt loves HC mandates always has
http://www.forbes.com/sites/rickungar/2011/05/13/newt-gingrich-long-time-supporter-of-health-insurance-mandates/3/
Newt Flip Flops on Libya
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RiXPLmbrefI
I’d take Newt over Romney or Obama. Let’s just hope it doesn’t come to that.
Oh, we can vote for somebody else rather than Newt or Mitt.
What we have to worry about is: who that might be.
Ronald Reagan is not on the ballot. Newt is the least bad of the sad sack choices we have.
No, Newt is not. He is a committed Globalist.
Oh no, the DNC will discover all this intel on Newt by lurking on freerepublic.
Why? Newt has gotten a pass this whole campaign.
Now, it’s not shooting down.
Fire away.
The Cain Cult is still out to destroy anyone who isn’t Herman Cain.
Expect them, like many PaulBots, to take their toys and go home if someone else is nominated.
The “Everyone is scum but Herman Cain” assault continues. Enjoy the ride. Cain fumbles the ball every day; they gotta dig into prior seasons to find Newt’s turnovers.
He is quite far from perfect, but he will take on both heads of the two-headed hydra.
He may not be the best conservative or the most conservative but he is the only one that can win..
Sen Rick is pretty close to a classic social conservative.
Not a tea party conservative, but a social conservative.
Sen Rick is one of the few who did go out on a limb, and took hits from the leftists, for standing with the conservatives on social issues. He deserves at least some respect for doing that.
Why has Sen Rick not gotten to be flavor of the week or month?
The media did not like to hear “man on dog”. We could say that it’s tough luck, that we can’t get a tea party conservative. But a Social Conservative would be better than a pure RINO.
We could say that.
Heck, what about Buddy Roemer, what about Gary Johnson?
I certainly do want everyone to be reminded exactly why Newt Gingrich was not the front runner from the beginning. There is a lot of record that needs to be freshly reexamined.
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