Posted on 10/26/2009 9:21:18 AM PDT by Sub-Driver
Gingrich: 'You can't have a purely right-wing majority' Posted: October 26th, 2009 12:03 PM ET
From CNN Radio's Bob Constantini
WASHINGTON (CNN) – Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich has taken considerable heat from conservative activists for endorsing Republican Dede Scozzafava over Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman in next month's special congressional election in New York.
But Gingrich is defending his approach to re-building the Republican Party. It begins, he said, by accommodating those who might disagree with you.
"Both parties have to recognize, you can create a center-right majority in America, which we did with Reagan in '80 and we did it again with the 'Contract with America' in '94," Gingrich said in an interview with CNN Radio. "You can't have a purely right-wing majority; you can't have a purely left-wing majority."
The former speaker claimed that Democrats are doing their part to help the GOP by promoting a liberal ideology. "Today, the Democrats are moving toward a secular-socialist model that is guaranteed minority in America," he said.
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“You can’t have a purely right-wing majority; you can’t have a purely left-wing majority.”
Oh really? I guess the democrats didn’t get the memo.
So let me get this straight......vote for a flaming liberal with an R by her name and end up with same flaming liberal voting with the Demonrats and join her kindred spirits Collins and Snowe....just to put another, ahem, REPUBLICAN in the House? How’s about CONSERVTIVES vote for a REAL Conservative and tell you and your cohorts to go to hell?? I like my idea better.....:)
We have a leftwing majority in power now Newt. We can’t change it by joining them.
Isn’t “right wing” a Clinton word? LOL
Newt’s letting his real nature spill out for all to see isn’t he.
Hey, Newt! WE are trying to get at least one Conservative in Congress forget the majority and your are torpedoing this guys chances.
Gingrich: "Let's have an open debate on global warming...it's probably a fact!"
Gingrich: "We should make it easier for guest workers to come into the USA!"
Gingrich: "You know, maybe women should have a choice."
etc., etc., etc.
Newt, most people do recognize that not every elected Republican will be perfect, but electing a democrat claiming to be a republican because the district is republican doesn’t help the party.
Newt, Scuzzy is so far left she would be to the left of the center in the Dem Party. She is almost entirely outside the orbit of the GOP on all of its platform.
If you put Party above Principles you will end up with no Party and no Principles...
Temporarily. Obama used the campaign rhetoric of a conservative - less taxes, more efficient government, win at all costs in Afghanistan, etc, etc. He used that jargon to attract moderates/independents, and he did.
But, Obama then went and governed as a completely orthodox left-winger - raising taxes, spending with reckless abandon, criticizing America while abroad etc, etc. And, as a result, those same independents/moderates that carried him to victory are now running for the exits and account almost entirely for his plunge in the polls.
Having said that, Gingrich is wrong to endorse this lady in NY, because not only is she not a social conservative or a national defense conservative, she's not even a a fiscal conservative. To win and keep the independents/moderates you have to be fiscally conservative - you cannot spend with reckless abandon and you can't run historic deficits - which are both things that this DeDe woman both voted for, and what the pollsters are now telling us is what the independents/moderates dislike the most.
A horrendous ego is a difficult thing to subdue
It's time to say goodnight Newt...
“Newt is a fraud.”
I hate to say this because I used to really admire him but he is a fraud. I don’t know if he always was but it’s been apparent for a long time that he didn’t mean what he said. He only said it to acquire power. It’s a shame he’s a smart guy but he has no deeply held beliefs.
How about just going away Newt. You thought this would get by us and it didn’t now you’re trying to fool us with this crap.
>> But Gingrich is defending his approach to re-building the Republican Party. It begins, he said, by accommodating those who might disagree with you.
“You Lie!”
How about accommodating those who are aligned with the tenets of Conservatism!!!
In 1981, Newt dumped his first wife, Jackie Battley, for Marianne, wife number 2, while Jackie was in the hospital undergoing cancer treatment. Marianne and Newt divorced in December, 1999 after Marianne found out about Newt’s long-running affair with Callista Bisek, his one-time congressional aide. Gingrich asked Marianne for the divorce by phoning her on Mother’s Day, 1999.
People that do this are lower than pond scum.
40% of Americans classify themselves as conservative. That means you only need to convince 11% of an already right leaning populace to vote for you.
When Newt was on C-Span the other day, he said conservatives need to realize that in some districts, there is simply no way a 100%, true-blue conservative can win. He reasoned therefore that the local GOP organizations in such districts will be wise to nominate “moderate” candidates who can actually win.
Fine. Not an unreasonable conclusion IMHO.
But Dede is clearly no moderate. She’s a flaming liberal, who appears seriously out of tune with the deeply conservative nature of her district.
I believe it will be best that the voters in NY-23 elect a Dhimmi this time, somebody who probably can easily be outsted by a revived GOP in 2010, rather than install a leftist GOP candidate like Dede who — given the powers of incumbency — might hold the seat for years.
The sad thing, even though that district is not as conservative as it once was, Harris barely lost and could have used extra support.
That's when I really cancelled my RNC credentials. They have quit calling..
Newt is playing for the other team now.
He’s realized that sucking up to the bamministas can be very profitable.
Folks, we’re addressing this as if it were just Newt’s position. The truth is, this is the position of the Republican leaders both national and at the state level.
We now know why the Republican party did nothing when it was the majority party in Congress. It believed in most of the stuff the Democrats wanted to push.
By the time we were well entrenched in the Bush administration, even Great Society level programs were just the ticket.
If Newt and the party actually believe what Newt espoused here, why even go to the effort of having a Republican party? Just dissolve the party and all of you install the U.S.S.R. here and be done with it.
What a disgusting position we live in today. Nobody in D.C. is representing us. They’ve all bought off on the political tenets that cost nearly 100 million people their lives in the 20th Century.
One actually wonders who would be too far right for Newt to vote for. I’m thinking Michelle Bachmann (sp?) and Sarah Palin would scare him to death.
Reading of his statement makes me think he might vote for the ‘moderate’ Obama instead of these ‘radicals’.
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