In his last year in the House Newt had a lifetime 90+% rating from the American Conservative Union. Is the ACU also a RINO organization?
Some people here drive me nuts. You look at the candidates you have backed and it is list of some of the most unelectable insignificant people in recent American politics. If you can’t win it doesn’t make any difference how principled you are. If Newt or Mitt is the nominee I will gladly vote for them because we simply cannot survive another 4 years of OBama. Surround them with a solidly conservative legislature,and hope for the best. If you want to fall on your sword for the sake of principle and hand OBama 4 more years, then don’t come back here and complain as the Country swirls down the toilet.
A partial list of Newts Record:
04/02/1987 He cosponsored the 1987 Fairness Doctrine
10/22/1991 He voted for an amendment that would create a National Police Corps.
03//1993 He Voted for sending $1.6 Billion in foreign aid to Russia.
11/19/1993 He voted for the NAFTA Implementation Act.
11/27/1994 He supported the GATT Treaty giving sovereignty to the U.N.
08/27/1995 He suggests that drug smuggling should carry a death sentence.
04/25/1996 Voted for the single largest increase on Federal education spending ($3.5 Billion)
04/10/1995 He supported Federal taxdollars being spent on abortions.
06/01/1996 He helped a Democrat switch parties in an attempt to defeat constitutionalist Ron Paul in the 1996 election.
09/25/1996 Introduced H.R. 4170, demanded life-sentence or execution for someone bringing 2 ounces of marijuana across the border.
01/22/1997 Congress gave him a record-setting $300,000 fine for ethical wrongdoing.
11/29/2006 He said that free speech should be curtailed in order to fight terrorism. Wants to stop terrorists from using the internet. Called for a serious debate about the 1st Amendment.
11/29/2006 He called for a Geneva Convention for terrorists so it would be clear who the Constitution need not apply to.
02/15/2007 He supported Bushs proposal for mandatory carbon caps.
09/28/2008 Says if he were in office, he would have reluctantly voted for the $700B TARP bailout.
10/01/2008 Says in an article that TARP was a workout, not a bailout.
12/08/2008 He was paid $300,000 by Freddie Mac to halt Congress from bringing necessary reform.
03/31/2009 Says we should have Singapore-style drug tests for Americans.
07/30/2010 Says that Iraq was just step one in defeating the Axis of Evil.
08/03/2010 Advocates attacks on Iran & North Korea.
08/16/2010 Opposes property rights of the mosque owner in NYC.
11/15/2010 He defended Romneycare
12/05/2010 He said that a website owner should be considered an enemy combatant, hunted down and executed, for publishing leaked government memos.
01/30/2011 He lobbied for ethanol subsidies.
01/30/2011 He suggested that flex-fuel vehicles be mandated for Americans.
02/13/2011 He criticized Obama for sending less U.S. taxdollars to Egypt.
02/15/2011 His book said that he believes man-made climate-change and advocated creating a new endowment for conservation and the environment.
03/09/2011 He blames his infidelity to multiple wives on his passion for the country.
03/15/2011 Says that NAFTA worked because it created jobs in Mexico.
03/19/2011 He has no regrets about supporting Medicare drug coverage. (Now $7.2T unfunded liability)
03/23/2011 He completely flip-flopped on Libyan intervention in 16 days.
03/25/2011 He plans to sign as many as 200 executive orders on his first day as president.
04/25/2011 Hes a paid lobbyist for Federal ethanol subsidies.
05/12/2011 He was more supportive of individual health-care mandates than Mitt Romney.
06/09/2011 His own campaign staff resigned en masse.
07/15/2011 His poorly managed campaign is over $1 Million in debt.
08/01/2011 He hired a company to create fake Twitter to appear as if he had a following.
10/07/2011 He said hed ignore the Supreme Court if need be.
11/16/2011 Was revealed he actually received 1.6 million from Freddie Mac, vs. his previously stated $300,000
- Gingrich voted for an increase in the debt ceiling in 1979, 1980, 1981, and 1984
- Gingrich voted to permit the Federal Reserve to purchase Treasury Debt
- Bailed out savings and loan institutions in 1991. $40B Bank bailout
- Gingrich voted to strengthen the federal home loan agencies
- Gingrich voted for increased powers to the FDIC to bail out struggling savings and loans through reorganization, purchase of bad assets, or recapitalization.
- Gingrich voted in favor of the Chrysler Bailout in 1979
- Gingrich voted for an oil windfall profits tax in 1979, which was signed by Jimmy Carter.
- Urged the House to repeal the War Powers Act and give the Presidency more power.
- Urged Clinton to expand military presence in Bosnia.
- Gingrich voted against a provision requiring congressional approval prior to deployment of U.S. troops into Central America in 1983.
- Gingrich voted to increase CIA secrecy and against any requirement that the President report covert activity to congress before it is initiated.
- Gingrich voted for Jimmy Carters Energy Mobilization Board.
- Gingrich voted for an increase in taxes on coal producers in 1981
- Gingrich voted for a 5-cent increase in the gas tax to fund highway and other mass-transit projects.
- Gingrich was one of the few who voted against the 1984 bill requiring the President and Congress to submit a balanced budget
- Gingrich voted for a congressional pay raise
- Gingrich voted against a bipartisan 1% cut to the Department of Defense budget for 1983
- He was a draft-dodger during the Vietnam War, yet pushed aggressive foreign interventionism his entire political career, and did say that Vietnam was the right battlefield at the right time.
Nice tantrum. Too bad none of it has any basis in reality.