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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The Newt haters pack, who are most likely, since they won’t identify their preferences, supporters of some marginal candidates, of the sort that Pat Paulsen once was, are setting themselves up, hedging, really, to be able to say, whether Newt wins or loses: “I told you so!”, adding emphatically, as they do here now in their articulate ways: “STUPID!”
Ignore them, tease them, let them bark helplessly from their stinking cages!
Judging by your tagline, you’re not a 9-9-9 guy either. Now which pony are you betting on?
Gingrich is smart enough to do a lot of things, but not smart enough to see what a cruel dead end global socialist tyranny is.
(and don’t count on the court)
I’m not a frantic Newt basher, nor even a Newt basher, but I think it’s ok to bring problems up and deal with them prior to choosing a candidate.
And my preference is readily available by looking at my tag line.
I don’t understand why you think he is supportive of a Global Government.
After Palin bowed out, I was supporting Cain, but the American people are such sheep they let the mediots destroy an honest man and replace him with a lying serial adulterer, and hater of conservatives.
I agree. Newt/Perry or vice versa wouldn’t be a bad ticket, I tend to think.
He endorsed Heidi Toffler’s book, and even wrote the foreward. What other conclusion can be drawn?
Was Mr. Webster discussing Illinois as a particular or a general example for that quote?
Word on the street is that Herman Cain is endorsing Newt tomorrow at a press conference in Georgia.
Newt is not my favorite but that statement about him is ridiculous and over the top.
If nominated, Newt would win.
>> “Ignore them, tease them, let them bark helplessly from their stinking cages!” <<
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You’re pineing for company in your cell?
Why do you think they feed you on plastic through a drawer?
“Making sense of today’s total Chaos” is not a book I have read yet so I will refrain from a response on that.
If Herman Cain endorses Newt it will be for a couple of reasons.
One, he hates Rick Perry. Nobody can tell me why, but he was horrible to Perry who never did anything to him.
or, Two, he thinks there’s something to be had for endorsing Newt.
Or, he sympathizes with another guy who has women problems.
Prayers up for heart attack victims and presidential candidates Editor/Surveyor.
The mistress of Bleep!
“The third Wave.”
I will examine it and get back to you. This is what FR is all about. Merry Christmas
Since you chose to insult me, I guess I offended you with my comment about Cain.
I did not insult Cain while he was in the race as too many people I liked were somehow swept up with the man which I totally couldn’t figure out.
I never liked him. I never trusted him and he had little or nothing to offer as a presidential candidate.
He was not innocent on the wimmen thing and it’s pathetic that people still claim an innocent man was railroaded.
That’s why he dropped out and even Rush who spent at least 20 hours defending him was rather dismissive of him the other day, saying he’s jonesin for a job on Fox News.
Sounds like more of a hope than a conviction. If a conviction; what do you base it on?
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