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Gingrich: ‘If you seek to be a perfect minority, you’ll remain a minority’
NRO ^ | October 20, 2009 | Robert Costa

Posted on 10/20/2009 4:31:29 PM PDT by ejdrapes

Former House speaker Newt Gingrich tells NRO that he is sure that endorsing Republican Dede Scozzafava in the upcoming special election in New York’s 23rd congressional district was the right thing to do. “I endorsed the Republican who has been endorsed by the National Rifle Association, opposes the Obama health plan, signed the ‘no-tax-increase’ pledge, and supports a comprehensive energy plan like I do,” says Gingrich.

Third-party candidates like conservative Doug Hoffman, Scozzafava’s challenger, often serve only to divide the GOP, says Gingrich. “Just look at what’s happening in New Jersey’s gubernatorial race,” he says, pointing to the campaign of independent candidate Chris Daggett, who has siphoned support from Republican candidate Chris Christie. “What’s happening in New York and in New Jersey should be a sober warning to every purist in this country.”

“If you seek to be a perfect minority, you’ll remain a minority,” says Gingrich. “That’s not how Reagan built his revolution or how we won back the House in 1994.”


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Gingrich can piss off.
1 posted on 10/20/2009 4:31:29 PM PDT by ejdrapes
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To: ejdrapes

“Gingrich can piss off.”

Seconded.


2 posted on 10/20/2009 4:33:12 PM PDT by TheZMan (Just secede and get it over with. No love lost on either side. Cya.)
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“I endorsed the Republican who has been endorsed by the National Rifle Association, opposes the Obama health plan, signed the ‘no-tax-increase’ pledge, and supports a comprehensive energy plan like I do,

Anyone got the fact check on this?
3 posted on 10/20/2009 4:33:19 PM PDT by randomhero97 ("First you want to kill me, now you want to kiss me. Blow!" - Ash)
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To: ejdrapes

What the hell has happened to him. With all due respect sir, you have had your chance and your screwed it up!!! Its our time buckaroo. so stfu!!!!!!


4 posted on 10/20/2009 4:33:24 PM PDT by GoCards ("We eat therefore we hunt...")
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To: ejdrapes

Newt. Go away.

kiss my (_|_)


5 posted on 10/20/2009 4:34:07 PM PDT by GeronL (They Made It Happen On Purpose Economically. MIHOPE)
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To: ejdrapes

Scuzzy almost got picked by the Democrats as their candidate, think about that. She has no business being elected to the Town Park Board.

We might as well co-nominate Barack Obama for President because we want to win.


6 posted on 10/20/2009 4:35:33 PM PDT by GeronL (They Made It Happen On Purpose Economically. MIHOPE)
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To: ejdrapes

Never mind the fact that Gingrich endorsed an out and out liberal whose husband recently approached local Rat bosses about the possibility of her switching parties.

Newt can go to hell!


7 posted on 10/20/2009 4:35:36 PM PDT by Virginia Ridgerunner (Sarah Palin has crossed the Rubicon!)
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To: ejdrapes

Gingrich hasn’t a clue.


8 posted on 10/20/2009 4:36:14 PM PDT by skeeter (Pterocarya fraxinifolia)
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To: ejdrapes

He is completely missing the point. This isn’t about Republicans winning power. If that’s all we cared about we could just switch parties and then we’d be in power today.

We care about the issues. When someone is wrong on so many issues and endorsed by DailyKOS...wtf do you expect us to do?

Let’s see how Arlen Spector worked out for the Republican party. We had him there just so we can keep some power away from the party of the Rat.


9 posted on 10/20/2009 4:36:38 PM PDT by for-q-clinton (If at first you don't succeed keep on sucking until you do succeed)
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To: randomhero97

She signed that pledged a few days ago after being pummeled for refusing to. She refused saying tax increases might be necessary.

She would vote for a tax hike in a heartbeat.


10 posted on 10/20/2009 4:36:45 PM PDT by GeronL (They Made It Happen On Purpose Economically. MIHOPE)
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To: ejdrapes

Easy Political Popularity and Success:

= Abandon all principles.
= Lie to get votes.
= Give other people’s money away.
= If you run out of money, print or borrow it.
= Continue giving other people’s money away.
= Talk, lie, talk, lie, talk, lie, etc...
= Party, party, party, take a vacation, party, party...

GOT IT? It’s working for 0bama (for now.)


11 posted on 10/20/2009 4:36:50 PM PDT by paulycy (PUBLIC OPTION = PREDATORY PRICING = UNETHICAL COMPETITION.)
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To: ejdrapes

Agreed.


12 posted on 10/20/2009 4:37:07 PM PDT by B Knotts (Calvin Coolidge Republican)
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To: GoCards
Chris Daggett is no conservative. How he's taking votes away from Christie is beyond me. But that's certainly not an example of conservatives looking for perfection in Daggett. Gingrich is talking nonsense.
13 posted on 10/20/2009 4:37:20 PM PDT by ejdrapes (Sarah Palin was John McCain's running mate)
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To: ejdrapes

Oh shut up, Newt.


14 posted on 10/20/2009 4:37:41 PM PDT by Bahbah (Only dead fish go with the flow)
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To: ejdrapes

Newt, just go back to sitting on the couch with Pelosi, where you belong. No one — except Fox News — cares what you think. And, whenever they put you on, I switch to CNN.


15 posted on 10/20/2009 4:39:06 PM PDT by Bigg Red (Palin/Hunter 2012 -- Bolton their Secretary of State)
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To: GeronL

lol. I havent seen that. Where is the straight line? lol


16 posted on 10/20/2009 4:39:32 PM PDT by GoCards ("We eat therefore we hunt...")
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To: ejdrapes

I don’t remember Reagan going radical leftist to win in 1984


17 posted on 10/20/2009 4:39:41 PM PDT by GeronL (They Made It Happen On Purpose Economically. MIHOPE)
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To: ejdrapes

He is sounding a little bit too much like the Democrats, isn’t he?


18 posted on 10/20/2009 4:39:59 PM PDT by marstegreg
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To: ejdrapes

Another way to become a minority is to win the house effectively and then blow the opportunity you have won. Now who did that?


19 posted on 10/20/2009 4:40:39 PM PDT by AmericanVictory (Should we be more like them or they more like we used to be?)
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To: ejdrapes

What’s happened to the 1994 Newt? Pity, he’s drunk the Rino kool-aid.


20 posted on 10/20/2009 4:41:39 PM PDT by Indy Pendance (Live Free Or Die)
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