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Newt Is the Problem
National Review ^ | December 12, 2011 | Avril Roy

Posted on 12/12/2011 6:28:46 PM PST by Steelfish

DECEMBER 12, 2011 Newt Is the Problem On health-care entitlements, Newt has moved left.

Newt Gingrich’s rise to the top of the GOP polls is fueled, in part, by Republicans’ mistrust of Mitt Romney. Romney’s signature Massachusetts health-care law, the model for Obamacare, leads many to wonder whether Romney can challenge the president on this most important domestic issue.

But any conservative who opposes Romney because of Romneycare should oppose Gingrich with thrice the intensity: Newt Gingrich is one of the principal abettors of the exploding health-care entitlement state we face today. Indeed, it’s not clear what would be worse for the cause of entitlement reform: Newt’s losing to Obama or Newt’s beating him.

“I wouldn’t switch my positions for political reasons,” Gingrich recently told a South Carolina radio station, in an apparent attempt to draw a contrast between himself and Romney. And perhaps Newt is right. He doesn’t change positions out of a considered desire to attune himself to public sentiment. Apparently he changes positions based on what he had for breakfast that morning.

“On Monday, we would say we’re not going to give a $500 child tax credit to people who don’t have tax liabilities,” said Sen. Lindsey Graham (R., S.C.) to National Review’s Brian Bolduc. “On Wednesday, he’d meet with President Clinton, and that position would change.” Newt has displayed egregious unreliability on the issues with the highest stakes.

As Bolduc recounts from the memoir of former speaker Denny Hastert (R., Ill.), “In May 1997 . . . Newt declared the GOP willing to separate tax cuts from other items in a balanced-budget deal that we were negotiating with Bill Clinton. That was news to us and represented a huge change in policy in less than twenty-four hours.”

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Called Paul Ryan's "Path to Prosperity, the boldest set of entitlement reforms as "right-wing social engineering"!!!!!
1 posted on 12/12/2011 6:28:49 PM PST by Steelfish
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To: Steelfish

Bachmann 2012!!!!! Santorum as VP.


2 posted on 12/12/2011 6:30:06 PM PST by napscoordinator (Anybody but Romney, Newt, Perry, Huntsman, Paul. Perry and Obama are 100 percent the same!!!!!)
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To: Steelfish

at least Newt is supporting legalizing illegals (who apparently are law-abiding citizens). That sure is bold.


3 posted on 12/12/2011 6:31:11 PM PST by heiss (heartless and inhumane (radical rightwinger))
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To: Steelfish
Newt Is the Problem ... for Mitt. [and that's a good thing!]
4 posted on 12/12/2011 6:31:20 PM PST by Servant of the Cross (the Truth will set you free)
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To: Servant of the Cross

Not if Newt is unelectable.


5 posted on 12/12/2011 6:34:25 PM PST by Steelfish (ui)
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To: Steelfish

Can’t we just re-elect Obama, just so we can get along?

sarc


6 posted on 12/12/2011 6:34:34 PM PST by Jonty30 (If a person won't learn under the best of times, then he must learn under the worst of times.)
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To: Steelfish

When NR-types endorse the enabler of Romney-care, I find ALL of these types of arguments disingenuous. Come out for Perry or Bachmann. But if we must have a big government guy, I’ll take Newt over Romney, if that’s all that’s on the menu.

Newt never attendd a NARAL fund-raiser, not even in his Rockefeller Republican days.


7 posted on 12/12/2011 6:34:50 PM PST by Dr. Sivana (May Mitt Romney be the Mo Udall of 2012.)
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To: Steelfish

Yes, he is the problem for the FRantic Newt-Bashers here, who refuse identify their favorite candidate (Paul?)

(Already posted.)


8 posted on 12/12/2011 6:35:19 PM PST by Revolting cat! (Let us prey!)
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To: Steelfish
I think people are missing one vital point. Romney comes across as smarmy and patronizing. It's almost as though he doesn't relate well to humans and feels the need to put on a theater act when in public.

It doesn't seem to hurt him in urban settings but it sets off alarm bells in flyover country.

9 posted on 12/12/2011 6:37:36 PM PST by SWAMPSNIPER (The Second Amendment, a Matter of Fact, Not a Matter of Opinion)
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Not if Newt is unelectable.

Why does the MAJORITY of movement Republicans always whave to kowtow to the Establishment crowd?

NO. ROMNEYS. EVER.

If Romney gets the nomination, the Republican Party will be in shambles as a majority will be UTTERLY unrepresented.

If the Establishment was so afraid of Gingrich, they should not have helped tear down Cain and Bachmann and Perry.

NO Nelson Rockefellers. No Gerald Fords. No Bob Doles. No John McCains.

No more Establishment losers.
10 posted on 12/12/2011 6:39:06 PM PST by Dr. Sivana (May Mitt Romney be the Mo Udall of 2012.)
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To: Steelfish

Of course he is electable. That’s a primary reason he’s the frontrunner.


11 posted on 12/12/2011 6:39:15 PM PST by Servant of the Cross (the Truth will set you free)
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To: Revolting cat!

You nailed it.
All these concerned stealth Paul butters are
Playing the Non stop trashing again .
Ron Paul the Jew hating 9-11 truther -Blame America for 9-11 vile crazy.


12 posted on 12/12/2011 6:42:09 PM PST by ncalburt (NO MORE WIMPS need to apply to fight the Soros Funded Puppet !)
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To: heiss

Yes a different name for amnesty but still the same act. Newt supports amnesty but you are free to make up any flowery name you wish.


13 posted on 12/12/2011 6:43:07 PM PST by org.whodat (Just another heartless American, hated by "AMNESTY" Newt, Willard, Perry and his fellow supporters)
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To: Steelfish

Gingrich is no more unelectable than Romney. There, simply, is no right or wrong position regarding anyone’s choice of candidate. I know that there are legions of partisans desirous of influencing our choiices in this regard but it’s all Bullshit! Of relevance is the piss-poor performance of that bumbling marxist in the Whitehouse vis a vis our liberty and and our economic well-being. Any of the Republicans contesting for the Presidency could beat an abject failure, the likes of which we have never seen! Let’s get freakin’ real!


14 posted on 12/12/2011 6:44:20 PM PST by old school
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To: Steelfish

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2819500/posts


15 posted on 12/12/2011 6:46:33 PM PST by org.whodat (Just another heartless American, hated by "AMNESTY" Newt, Willard, Perry and his fellow supporters)
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To: Servant of the Cross

Am wondering if Soros has ownership of National Review all of a sudden.


16 posted on 12/12/2011 6:51:02 PM PST by oldtimer (uee)
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To: oldtimer

Nah. They do have an inordinate number of writers in the tank for Mitty though.


17 posted on 12/12/2011 6:52:59 PM PST by Servant of the Cross (the Truth will set you free)
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To: ncalburt

I’m not a Newt fan and am sorry it’s come down to him or Romney, but I’ll get behind Newt anyday over Romney... Just don’t ask me to be happy about it. BTW, I’m not a Ron Paul supporter.


18 posted on 12/12/2011 6:53:17 PM PST by umgud
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To: Servant of the Cross
Newt Is the Problem ... for Mitt. [and that's a good thing!]

"When you become entitled to exercise the right of voting for public officers, let it be impressed on your mind that God commands you to choose for rulers, "just men who will rule in the fear of God." The preservation of government depends on the faithful discharge of this duty; if the citizens neglect their duty and place unprincipled men in office, the government will soon be corrupted; laws will be made, not for the public good so much as for selfish or local purposes; corrupt or incompetent men will be appointed to execute the laws; the public revenues will be squandered on unworthy men; and the rights of the citizens will be violated or disregarded. If a republican government fails to secure public prosperity and happiness, it must be because the citizens neglect the divine commands, and elect bad men to make and administer the laws."-- Noah Webster

19 posted on 12/12/2011 7:00:14 PM PST by loboinok (the Truth will set you free... but one must first KNOW the Truth)
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To: Dr. Sivana

Agree- but Newt is establishment too. Read the full article.


20 posted on 12/12/2011 7:02:35 PM PST by Steelfish (ui)
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