Posted on 11/15/2011 8:03:21 PM PST by fightinJAG
For more info after watching the vid of Newt & Al:
Sharpton and Gingrich, Unlikely Allies, Talk Education (by Michelle Levi, cbsnews, Nov. 18, 2009):
Reverend Al Sharpton, Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich and Education Secretary Arne Duncan have teamed up for a national tour to spotlight education reform, and the trio stopped by "Washington Unplugged" Monday to discuss why their efforts to encourage cooperation on the issue.
[snip]The teamwork between Gingrich and Sharpton is meant to symbolize larger cooperation across the political spectrum.
[snip] Said Gingrich: "I hope it is going to lead in the Congress to more receptiveness to a bipartisan approach to writing legislation."
(Excerpt) Read more at youtube.com ...
Does this give a whole new meaning to “resist we much”?
Not just no...
I won’t vote for him in the primary.
Just when Newt starts to look plausible...
Many freepers comment about Newt on the couch with Princess Nancy, raising “awareness” of “global warming.”
But this thingie with Sharpton — not only with Sharpton but with Sharpton for the purpose of advocating Obama’s policies — and not only for the purpose of advocating Obama’s policies, but for “bipartisanship” and “reaching across the aisle” — takes the cake as far as I’m concerned!
And that chumminess in the video is . . . yucky.
“Just when Newt starts to look plausible...”
The video was in 2009. An attempt to reform his image are being an intransigent partisan. So what if he does photo ops with liberals? He will reverse the disasters created of Obama if he get in there. We must remove Obama. Think of the court. Think of Obamacare for the rest of our lives.
If you haven’t already, I invite you to listen to Newt on the vid.... this is a nothing burger.
I **am** thinking of Obamacare.
Newt is for an individual mandate to purchase medical insurance. This was the key to Romneycare, Obamacare and even Hillarycare. See a pattern here?
Newt NOW says he's all for repealing Obamacare. I'll take him at his word on that. But that says nothing about his continued support for an individual mandate -- or about his instincts that lead him to support a mandate.
And, no, that is not just a "photo op with a Lib."
Al Sharpton is bad enough, Arne Duncan???? Sorry, will never vote for Newt.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5Tsj3p4GXr4&feature=related
Newtie Kazootie teamed with Al Sharpton!
Whodda thunk it?
More importantly, who will vote for it?
Duncan, who stands at a lean 6'5", defined himself early in his tenure as a persistent yet compromising free-marketer, part of an education reform movement that stresses the use of data and competition to improve schools -- a departure from traditional Democratic education policy, which unquestionably supported teachers unions. Duncan used RTTT to push states to increase their standards and drive charter school growth. He pushed policies generally unpopular with teachers' unions, such as merit pay and hiring and firing teachers in accordance with their competence. Duncan recently announced that if states adapt his preferred reforms, he will free them from what they consider the burdensome strictures of the No Child Left Behind Act. President Obama will announce what shape these reforms will take on Friday.
“Newt is for an individual mandate to purchase medical insurance”
He did that? Dang. Is there no one who can win?
HA, he was instrumental in the homosexual agenda in MA, and specifically, the teaching in schools. He is a slime ball with no judgement at all, no just poor judgement. Competition is great, unless you have all the schools mandated to pervert the students.
I didn’t say he was a good guy, just not as bad as many of the truly despicable Obama appointees (Napolitano, Hilda Solis, HOLDER). I hadn’t heard about the gay agenda, but I know the labor unions hate him.
What product came out of their collaboration? And what is wrong with trying to find common ground, if possible to improve education? I have read that Sharpton is a big fan of charter schools and I think vouchers. Do you have something against charter schools and vouchers? Are not both favored by conservatives? If Newt could get the Obama Administration to support charters schools and vouchers would that not be a good thing?
LOL wut?
Was Newt off his meds again?
Well, I was concerned about this as well, so I did a little digging.
From what I could tell, during the conception of Hillarycare, Newt was in a Democratically controlled Congress that tried to minimize the effects of the bill. When he became Speaker..it died.
Later, in the 2000’s he still supported an individual mandate for people that made over a certain amount of money. I’d have to look up that amount, but it was pretty substantial. It probably wouldn’t affect most in the category, since they have insurance as a rule. The poor would be included in Medicare or state risk pools as they are now.
That being said..I would like to hear his explanation.
As far as global warming, lots of scientists have come forward to debunk this since many intelligent people climbed on board. I still haven’t heard him say why he jumped on board, but I have heard him “walk it back”. “Sitting On The Couch With Nancy” is a non-issue to me. How many politicians or activists shun the “other side” in photo ops?
It gives me pause in trusting his instincts to sniff out and REJECT socialism.
As for "sitting on the couch with Nancy," that also does not concern me in and of itself. Again, for me the point is that Gingrich's political instincts always end up showing his "typical politician" roots from the '90s, especially a pol who "grew up" in the minority. The instinct is always "reach across the aisle," "bipartisanship," etc. Which we all know are thoroughly corrupted, and in this day and time, practically dangerous concepts.
Gingrich's tour with Sharpton and Duncan is just another example of his old-school instincts.
In fact, I wonder if Gingrich was not trying to embellish his "bipartisan" image in prep for his presidential run when he did the global warming and the Sharpton thing. Then when he got whacked for endorsing Dede and calling Paul Ryan's plan "right-wing social engineering," he finally got the message and figured out how to go Tea Party.
As for who helped kill Hillarycare, here's something of interest. If you watch 'til the end, you'll see that one of the major news mags at the time called Herman Cain one of the main "saboteurs" of Hillarycare.
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