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Gingrich calls GOP support for Hoffman a 'purge'
The Hill ^

Posted on 10/27/2009 7:45:09 AM PDT by Sub-Driver

Gingrich calls GOP support for Hoffman a 'purge' By Jordan Fabian - 10/27/09 09:47 AM ET

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) late Monday had some choice words for Republicans supporting Conservative Party party candidate Doug Hoffman (N.Y.), accusing them of conducting a "purge" of the GOP.

Many national Republican figures, such as Gov. Tim Pawlenty (R-Minn.) and ex-Gov. Sarah Palin (R-Alaska), have backed Hoffman over GOP candidate Dede Scozzafava in the 23rd district's special election this year. The district has been long-held by Republicans, but many conservatives have shied away from Scozzafava for her socially liberal positions and the local GOP's selection process that they say was not transparent.

Gingrich broke the mold and backed Scozzafava, saying her candidacy gave the Republicans the best shot of regaining a congressional majority. The former Speaker faced a push-back from the right after his announcement but he upped the ante on Monday.

"This idea that we're suddenly going to establish litmus tests and all across the country we're going to purge the party of anybody who doesn't agree with us 100 percent; that guarantees Obama's reelection, that guarantees Pelosi as Speaker-for-life," he told Fox News last night.

Gingrich called Scozzafava a "liberal Republican" for her support of gay marriage and abortion rights. But he defended those positions as in-step with her district and her predecessor, former Rep. John McHugh (R-N.Y.), who was tapped to be President Barack Obama's Army Secretary.

But he said that her endorsement from the National Rifle Association, her signing a no tax-increase pledge, and her opposition to cap-and-trade and healthcare reform legislation made her "adquately conservative in an upstate New York district."

Gingrich also attacked Hoffman for not having proper knowledge of local issues and living outside the 23rd district.

"So I say to many conservative friends who suddenly decided whether they're from Minnesota, or Alaska, or Texas, they know more than the upstate New York Republicans? I don't think so," he added.


TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: gingrich; hoffman; newt; ny23; rinopurge; scozzafava; whigpartyii
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To: AdmSmith; Berosus; bigheadfred; Convert from ECUSA; dervish; Ernest_at_the_Beach; Fred Nerks; ...

And it’s too bad Newtless doesn’t run for something again. I mean, other than the Presidency (as he’s been doing for a while now).

[Former Tennessee Sen. Fred Thompson] to Newt: We’re not ‘deaf, dumb’
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Posted on 10/27/2009 4:45:19 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
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281 posted on 10/27/2009 5:31:31 PM PDT by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/__Since Jan 3, 2004__Profile updated Monday, January 12, 2009)
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To: Sub-Driver

It’s not a “purge”, Newt. We simply reject your RINO values. Go apologize to your ex wife or something.


282 posted on 10/27/2009 5:57:04 PM PDT by Caipirabob (Communists... Socialists... Democrats...Traitors... Who can tell the difference?)
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To: Sub-Driver

Purge.

Well I guess then you don’t need my money or my vote. And I don’t need no stinkin’ GOP.


283 posted on 10/27/2009 6:03:10 PM PDT by EBH (it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute a new Government)
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To: Impy
"crowd"

Sorry, I should have said, "rabid pack of subversives."

284 posted on 10/27/2009 7:15:09 PM PDT by Cedric
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To: PGR88

Newt hasn’t been smart since the last century. The more he talks the more his idiocy surfaces...Never did like him and he just keeps verifying my early opinion of him...JMHO


285 posted on 10/27/2009 7:20:52 PM PDT by goat granny
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To: Sub-Driver

286 posted on 10/27/2009 8:07:28 PM PDT by SWAMPSNIPER (THE SECOND AMENDMENT, A MATTER OF FACT, NOT A MATTER OF OPINION)
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To: mountainfolk
"Conservatives cannot do it alone either so there has to be compromises made but that is everyday living for all of us. It can be done if there are ground rules and an agreed upon direction for the party to travel."

Absolutely. The biggest beef for most conservatives is that ground rules are so easily bent or broken, and there is a steady drift leftward by Party leadership.

It wouldn't be a surprise at all to see an immediate effort to "moderate" Hoffman and to pull him to the "more civil center" as soon as he is elected. The problem is that the center keeps moving further to the uncivil left in Washington D.C..

287 posted on 10/27/2009 8:09:49 PM PDT by LucyJo
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To: NFHale; rabscuttle385; fieldmarshaldj; Impy; Clintonfatigued; hiredhand; Squantos; Gilbo_3; ...
RE :”Well, they supported Arlen Sphincter over Pat Toomey too. How’d that work out?

I remember clearly. GWB went out and campaigned against Toomey for Spector in 2004. And it paid off because Spector was (even in the 1980s) and is a big spender. And look what Bush had planned for year 5 (2005) perfect for Spector, not for Toomey. Except about 2006 and 2007 the wild spending and debt party was starting to catch up with the economy, inflation , devaluation of the dollar and a very unhappy ending last year.

288 posted on 10/27/2009 8:14:59 PM PDT by sickoflibs ( "It's not the taxes, the redistribution is the government spending you demand stupid")
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To: Cedric; NFHale; sickoflibs; Impy
Sorry, I should have said, "rabid pack of subversives."

Rabid, no. But I am definitely a subversive...I work to subvert the globalist, collectivist, anti-American, anti-Constitution, RINO agenda of appeasement of and surrender to the Left.

Of course, we all know who you champion.

289 posted on 10/27/2009 8:22:52 PM PDT by rabscuttle385 (http://restoretheconstitution.ning.com/)
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To: Cedric; NFHale

poor cedric...cant get over himself...


290 posted on 10/27/2009 8:30:41 PM PDT by Gilbo_3 (Gov is not reason; not eloquent; its force... Like fire, a dangerous servant & master. GW)
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To: Sub-Driver
Hey Newt
It's probably time to start looking for your next wife because you've completely squandered any political capital you once had with this conservative. Look for me to turn off any talk show you're a guest on.

The republican party left me, I didn't leave the republican party.

291 posted on 10/27/2009 8:31:49 PM PDT by stig
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To: BAW

No, keep talking, Newt. We need the vermin out in the open where we can see them.


292 posted on 10/27/2009 8:54:10 PM PDT by ellery (It's a free country.)
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To: Mr. Silverback

Don’t forget Sessions and Boehner. Apparently they are not only pouring massive new money into DeDe’s campaign in these last days, but also have her campaign HQ fully staffed with their own National Republican Congressional Committee (NRCC) people, making calls, going door-to-door, etc.

Sessions and Boehner (and the rest of the NRCC executive committee) are even more culpable here than Gingrich and Steele—they’re the ones keeping Dede together behind the scenes.


293 posted on 10/27/2009 8:58:45 PM PDT by ellery (It's a free country.)
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To: PGR88
not sure how he got so stupid on this issue.

He got stupid on a few other issues before this one.

Go Green with the Newt and Nazi Newt and Hilly

294 posted on 10/27/2009 10:23:31 PM PDT by Just A Nobody ( (Better Dead than RED! NEVER AGAIN...Support our Troops! Beware the ENEMEDIA))
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To: ellery

I know Boehner’s one of these squishy “big tent at all costs” types, but what the heck is Sessions thinking?


295 posted on 10/27/2009 10:32:18 PM PDT by Mr. Silverback (We're right! We're free! And we'll fight! And you'll seeeeeeee!)
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To: Mr. Silverback
I know Boehner’s one of these squishy “big tent at all costs” types, but what the heck is Sessions thinking?

Which Sessions are you thinking about? House or senate?

296 posted on 10/28/2009 1:08:31 AM PDT by cva66snipe (Two Choices left for U.S. One Nation Under GOD or One Nation Under Judgment? Which one say ye?)
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To: Mr. Silverback
"Gingrich called Scozzafava a "liberal Republican" for her support of gay marriage and abortion rights. But he defended those positions as in-step with her district and her predecessor, former Rep. John McHugh (R-N.Y.), who was tapped to be President Barack Obama's Army Secretary."

No wonder The Kenyan put McHugh in charge of the army, he's the perfect guy for fags in uniform.

Gingrich approves.

yitbos

297 posted on 10/28/2009 1:14:31 AM PDT by bruinbirdman ("Those who control language control minds.")
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To: Sub-Driver

The NY Post said Scozzafava is the hand-picked candidate of former state GOP chairman Joseph Mondello and we have Newt as a subversive as well. When this ends Newt and Mondello will not have changed and will still be silently working in background of the party machinery undermining conservatism. Scozzafava is a puppet to these people. They intentionally hide themselves (Mondello) and/or their backroom deals (Newt?). Until the majority of these DIABLOs are PURGED, conservatism will lose to their picking the candidates: McCain, Scozzafava et al. How it is to come about I don’t know but the party machinery has to have a massive purging of these background figures because they are operating with impunity and feel secure in their anonymity.


298 posted on 10/28/2009 6:05:38 AM PDT by Duke of Milan
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To: cva66snipe

Oops, I got Jeff (Senator) and Pete (Rep.) confused. My bad...duh!


299 posted on 10/28/2009 7:08:50 AM PDT by Mr. Silverback (We're right! We're free! And we'll fight! And you'll seeeeeeee!)
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To: bruinbirdman

I’m no expert on McHugh, but a poster upthread from his district said it’s a lie to say he’s pro-gay marriage and pro-choice.


300 posted on 10/28/2009 7:14:34 AM PDT by Mr. Silverback (We're right! We're free! And we'll fight! And you'll seeeeeeee!)
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