Posted on 03/06/2007 6:34:31 AM PST by ajolympian2004
Here's our second Hot Air video report from CPAC--
VIDEO here -
An interview with Newt Gingrich during his visit to bloggers' row.
Topics covered: illegal and legal immigration, the Diversity Visa Lottery (he'd kill it), Visa Express and Saudi visas, the matricula consular card (he said he doesn't know about it), the war, and defeating Hillary Clinton. My biggest regret in the interview is that I didn’t immediately respond to Newt’s dissing of the Swift Boat Vets. If he thinks he can win conservative hearts and minds by trashing their honor and their accomplishments during the last presidential campaign, he isn’t as smart as so many think he is.
Mind telling us what he said?
I thought it was a good interview. Can't you listen to it. If you want me to I'll do so again and take some notes for posting my own summary.
Liked what he said on illegal immigration. Secure the border first. Secondly, strictly enforce the current laws on immigration, then and only then have a very strict screening process for potential guest workers and a biometric ID card. He then ties it into stopping terrorists from entering the country.
Michelle is an outstanding interviewer. Her 'Hot Air' site and others like it are eventually going to overtake the evening news casts. It's just a matter of time, a decade at the most, IMHO.
Newt trashing the Swift Boat vets? Not good. It would be nice if Newt had military service and an honorable personal life that could make him a good conservative.
Why don't you do that. I can't listen. It's restricted.
One of the posters said that Newt was more in the mode of saying we should concentrate on why people should elect us rather than saying stuff about the other candidate.
I have total respect for the Swift Boat men. I donated to them. They were heroes who wanted to protect our country from being governed by a scum self-serving coward.
I would be very disappointed in Newt if he actually did diss them.
After seeing Duncan Hunter at CPAC last Friday and hearing his radio interview a couple of Sundays ago he is the candidate I'm supporting in the GOP primary, but I'm not going to trash other candidates. They would all be better than anyone the democrats will nominate, even John McCain. I go by Ronald Reagan's 11th commandment.
Newt did slam them at the very beginning. He used 'Swift Boat Vets' the same way that the liberal media and the democrats do.
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FWIW, I think if you watch the interview, you'll see that Newt was just citing the Swift Boat Vets as an example of what will not work against the Clinton machine, because no one will out-negative them.
Newt is far from perfect and needs to lay off the bashing himself with honorable men like the Swift Boat Vets when Newt has never served his country and Newt is far from being the perfect conservative when he couldn't even control himself as Speaker. These are Newt's downfall. He is not the perfect conservative and I'm just pointing that out.
He didn't slam them; he cited them as an example of what he is saying won't work against the Clinton slime machine.
After listening to the interview, I think he wasn't so much trashing the Swifties as saying, "If you want to be the Clintons you'd better have more than just negativity. You need a bold, positive vision for the country. You can't just attack the opponent, you need a positive idea of what our nation could be."
I think Newt was just commenting on the general tone of debate in the country. I don't think he had specific tactics in mind. If asked whether the Swifties were a net positive or negative in the last campaign, he would probably say they were instrumental in exposing John 'Efin's fraudulence.
That's how his remarks seemed to me anyway.
God bless you, sir (or madam)! I haven't picked anyone to back, but I am getting mighty discouraged by the vitriol I am seeing on this forum. Your position is the correct one, and I salute you!
Yeah, I agree after watching it a second time. At least he didn't use the term "swift-boating". That said he could have used the words "negative campaigning" and left it at that.
I agree, but I still do not like hearing any Republicans use any reference to the patriotic Swift Boat Veterans in a negative light.
I remember seeing one of the Swift Boat Vets and his wife at one of the televised discussions at CPAC last Friday. They are currently being sued by traitor john kerry and/or his minions or something like that.
"Liked what he said on illegal immigration. Secure the border first. Secondly, strictly enforce the current laws on immigration, then and only then have a very strict screening process for potential guest workers and a biometric ID card. He then ties it into stopping terrorists from entering the country."
A total common sense approach, unlike the current administrations approach.
He's been saying the bureaucracies are broken. True, but it is sure to get the unions and patronage pols motivated. We definately are at a juncture where the permanent bureaucracy refuses to follow the lead of the elected leaders and even sabotages their policies.
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