Posted on 10/26/2009 9:54:07 AM PDT by pissant
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich is warning conservative activists that their support for a third-party candidate in a key upcoming New York special election is a “mistake.”
In a video captured last week and posted on YouTube Friday, Gingrich told tea party organizer Lisa Miller at a book-signing event that conservatives are inadvertently hindering the cause by backing Conservative Party nominee Doug Hoffman over Dede Scozzafava, the Republican Party’s nominee.
“I just think it is a mistake for the conservative movement to think splitting in the special election is a smart idea,” Gingrich said. “If we give that seat to the Democrats, shame on us.”
A number of top national conservative voices have endorsed Hoffman in the last week, while others have yet to weigh in on behalf of either candidate. Gingrich, however, is one of the few prominent conservatives to support Scozzafava.
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They want to galvanize the GOP. This is not the way to do it.
If this was a seat in LA or San Fran, maybe I’d consider it, but it’s not. This is a socially conservative district with a massive R registration advantage.
This is like nominating Lincoln Chaffee to run for the Senate seat in Alabama.
Thanks but no thanks.
Say hello to Fonzie for me, Newt.
If anyone decided to give the seat to the dems (God forbid!) it is the RINO GOP establishment.
Memo to Newt: You do not advance conservatism by electing a liberal...regardless of party.
Oh it gets worse. I was streaming what I thought would be the Rush Limbaugh show today...Rush is off; Mark Davis (who has a radio show in Dallas) is on in his place...and Davis, the fillin on the largest conservative audienced radio show is basically saying ‘Hoffman can’t win, can he? Isn’t it smarter to endorse someone you agree with 50%of the time’ and so now I find, he is parroting the Gingrich line.
Not a way to win anything (as proven historically). Why are they this stupid?
Newt is so....yesterday.
LET THEM GO THEIR WAY!
Hey Newt: Dede is a RINO. We’ve had it with RINOs. Stuff your opinion.
Newt needs to STFU and sit down.... while I respect what hes has accomplished over his lifetime he is one of the reasons the the republicans have failed.
I know where I stand.
Translation: Lets abandon conservative principles and just all be liberals so the RINO’s be in control...
I heard Davis and couldn’t believe my ears. Then turned him off. *shaking head*
Divorcing your wife when she is dying of cancer is a ‘mistake’.
Supporting a Conservative over a RINO, is never a mistake.
A mistake is defined as: “a state of mind not in accord with the facts.”
The GOP candidate is not conservative, while the conservative party candidate is conservative.
`Conservatives voting for the conservative, Doug Hoffman, would be a mistake.’
Newt “She Turned Me Into a Newt!” Gingrich
As the scientists like to say, Newt’s “not even wrong,” (and McCain’s no better.)
If Hoffman wins this race, I'm pretty sure that Gov. Palin will be the spokesman for the GOP. Whether the GOP likes it or not.
Has Newt seen the new polls?
Because they are not conservatives. They are republicans.
I live in Dallas. I quit listening to Mark Davis years ago.
Mark Davis is a self-important moron who likes to pretend he is articulate.
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