Posted on 06/09/2009 7:46:32 AM PDT by rabscuttle385
Former House Speaker And Potential 2012 GOP Candidate Rallies Party Loyalists At Fundraiser In Washington.
(AP) Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich on Monday urged some 2,000 Republican party loyalists to stand up for GOP principles but to be inclusive as the party tries to retake the majority.
“I am happy that Dick Cheney is a Republican,” Gingrich said at the annual Senate-House fundraising dinner. “I am also happy that Colin Powell is a Republican.”
Cheney, the former vice president under President George W. Bush, and Powell, who was Bush's secretary of state, have feuded recently over the approach of the party, with Powell calling for more moderation and Cheney arguing against that.
“A majority Republican party will have lots of debates within the party,” Gingrich, the former Georgia congressman, said. “That is the nature of majority parties.”
Standing in as the party's de facto leader, Gingrich was filling a speaking role that Bush held in recent years and that was initially offered to Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, the 2008 Republican nominee for vice president, this year. He headlined a series of speakers who gave the crowd a blistering review of President Barack Obama and Democratic leaders on Capitol Hill.
Despite the rallying cry, the GOP faithful still weren't opening their wallets as they have in recent past. The event took in a relatively small fundraising haul of $14.5 million, the lowest total in at least five years. Last year, it raised $21.5 million, compared with $15.4 million in 2007 and $27 million in 2006.
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Screw you, Newt.
Successful parties look for potential converts, unsuccessful parties try to root out heretics.
Newt lost me when he embraced global warming.
“I’m happy that a Democrat calls himself a Republican.”
HEY GROUP . . .
THE globalist oligarchy has them all in it’s pocket.
It’s a deceptive dance of distraction while the worse horrors go on under the table.
Sara P is worth it. The rest are trash.
The SRM has figured out that Newt is unelectable, and more than willing to be the frontman for the GOP. The SRM is obliging with lots of face time for Newt.
It’s all in an effort to be sure Obama is re-elected in 2012.
Newt, for everyone’s good, shut up and go home.
Hey, if Colon Powell wants to be a Republican, fine. Just don’t give him any leadership position whatsoever, and don’t let him think he has license to arrogate to himself the role of “party spokesman.”
And REALLY stupid parties root out their base.
Power corrupts... permanently.
I’m starting to dislike Newt. Only yesterday I heard him giving a good speech (”I am not a citizen of the world...”). Today he’s slurping on Colin Powell’s shoes?
Is he bipolar or something worse?
We are “inclusive”
We have the right side of the issues and philosophies. Everyone who wishes to join our party may. “Inclusion” is about this, not what someone looks like or how they act behind closed doors.
It’s a big mistake to let the left define the terms. We are the party that has the ideas and behaviors that most people agree with, it’s up to us to sell the message, not pander and play the left’s manipulative games.
Newt, on this issue you have it WRONG
MOST american are clueless what it really means to be democraps. All they see are EVIL republicans in every TV show, movie, and newscast (except FOx)
So they think we are Evil.
If MOST american sheeple knew they truth they would NOT be democraps. I was a democrap for years only because my parents were kennedy democrats.
Then I grew up and made a CHOICE to be Republican
Newt makes me puke.
Not a thin dime for quislings like newt.
“I am also happy that Colin Powell is a Republican.”
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I know in-love-with-their-alleged-intellect academics like Newt, can make crossing the street into a complex, full of qualifiers and obfuscation, endeavor, but the simple matter Professor Gingrich, is that he is not.
...because we need more public leaders whose loyalty is (literally) skin-deep?
Every time this man speaks he does damage to conservatism and the republican party in general. I watched his remarks at that love-fest and was embarrassed that he’s affiliated with the republican party.
I wish Voight (sp) would’ve ended the meeting by calling out the RINOs that visited the stage, reminding them that constitutionally bound government doesn’t do 90% of what Newt was calling for.
Anyone have a direct contact address for this RINO schmuck?
As long as the leadership is willing to hold strong to the principles. In this case the principles are found in the 2nd paragraph of The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America. And, as long as they are willing to pledge there lives, fortunes, and sacred honor to uphold those principles.
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