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Gingrich Backs Obamacare's Individual Mandate
Newsmax ^ | May 15, 2011 | Newsmax Wires

Posted on 05/15/2011 6:07:07 PM PDT by libstripper

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich said Sunday that he strongly supports a federal mandate requiring citizens to buy health insurance – a position that has been rejected by many Republicans, including several who likely will be running against him for the Republican presidential nomination.

Appearing on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” Gingrich told host David Gregory that he continues to advocate for a plan he first called for in the early 1990s as a Congressman, which requires every uninsured citizen to purchase or acquire health insurance.

Read more on Newsmax.com: Gingrich Backs Obamacare's Individual Mandate Requiring Health Insurance Important: Do You Support Pres. Obama's Re-Election? Vote Here Now!

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Front Page News; Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
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Newt, after having really done the job on his first two wives, has decided to do the same thing to the American people and conservatives in general. Once again, he's proved his really, utterly, genuinely contemptible character counts, and counts against him. NEVER SHOULD WE MAKE HIM OUR CANDIDATE!!!
1 posted on 05/15/2011 6:07:10 PM PDT by libstripper
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To: libstripper

Newt was once a champion of conservatism. It’s kind of a shame.


2 posted on 05/15/2011 6:09:23 PM PDT by Artemis Webb (artemis_webb@yahoo.com --Lord knows how long before I'm banned so please say hello sometime.)
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To: libstripper

What we NEED is a law that says if you don’t have insurance and cannot otherwise pay, no healthcare provider (doctor, hospital, etc.) is obligated to treat you.


3 posted on 05/15/2011 6:09:36 PM PDT by Wolfie
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To: libstripper

I’m not supporting Newt, but let’s not distort what he said. He isn’t exactly backing obamacare. Not even close.


4 posted on 05/15/2011 6:09:41 PM PDT by bluedressman
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To: libstripper

He’s just gone flat off the deep deep end. I don’t think I’ve ever seen a political figure who has been so brilliant and yet so looney in the same lifetime. It is indeed a character problem. Could be a brain tumor too. (and I’m not trying to be flippant - I mean it must be something physiological or chemical).


5 posted on 05/15/2011 6:10:21 PM PDT by C. Edmund Wright (American Thinker Columnist / Rush ghost contributor)
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To: libstripper

Newt has turned into Scott Ritter. Rahm Emanuel’s private eye’s must have really gotten the goods on Gingrich.


6 posted on 05/15/2011 6:10:32 PM PDT by vbmoneyspender
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To: libstripper

Wow! That was a short campaign. Bye Newt


7 posted on 05/15/2011 6:10:34 PM PDT by Buck-I-Guy
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To: libstripper

I think we should be glad he is revealing himself so early in the race.


8 posted on 05/15/2011 6:10:51 PM PDT by Nepeta
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To: Artemis Webb

I’ll sure vote for this conservative.....//NOT//


9 posted on 05/15/2011 6:10:54 PM PDT by richardtavor (Pray for the peace of Jerusalem)
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To: libstripper

Good bye Newt. No chance.


10 posted on 05/15/2011 6:11:32 PM PDT by bcr100
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To: libstripper

Sorry Newt, I really respect your intelligence but that is the kiss of death. YOU’RE OUT!!!!!!!!!


11 posted on 05/15/2011 6:11:34 PM PDT by taillightchaser (The last hope for America--2012)
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To: libstripper

adios noot


13 posted on 05/15/2011 6:12:02 PM PDT by SpaceBar
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To: C. Edmund Wright

He may have been doing more than just sitting on that couch with pelosi.


14 posted on 05/15/2011 6:12:32 PM PDT by richardtavor (Pray for the peace of Jerusalem)
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To: libstripper

Would Newt support a “one wife” for life mandate? It does appear Newt’s trying to get the Democrat nomination.


15 posted on 05/15/2011 6:13:08 PM PDT by A_Tradition_Continues (formerly known as Politicalwit ...05/28/98 Class of '98)
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To: libstripper

Gingrich should run against Obama.

In the Democrat Party primaries, where he belongs!


16 posted on 05/15/2011 6:13:58 PM PDT by airborne (Paratroopers! Good to the last drop!)
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To: Artemis Webb
Newt has always been and always will be a RINO !!

No more RINOS!

If the GOP nominates a RINO stay home as I will!

Rather the evil you know than a Rino implementing the progressive sociomarxist agenda anyways!

17 posted on 05/15/2011 6:14:34 PM PDT by Snuph ("give me Liberty...")
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>"Newt Gingrich said Sunday that he strongly supports a federal mandate requiring citizens to buy health insurance"

Is this an AZConservative satire?


We wish!

TEA anyone?

18 posted on 05/15/2011 6:14:58 PM PDT by rawcatslyentist (It is necessary that a person be born of a father who is a citizen; ~Vattel's Law of Nations)
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To: bluedressman

I’m going to support your statement on Mr. Gingrich. He has made some bad calls in his home life, but he has been very powerful in his political life. He is a very smart man, and I want to see the debates. Don’t let everything here detract you.


19 posted on 05/15/2011 6:15:20 PM PDT by eyedigress ((Old storm chaser from the west)?)
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To: libstripper

That and four buck will buy him a Happy Meal. He’s just another ruling class elitist. Piss be upon him.


20 posted on 05/15/2011 6:15:38 PM PDT by Noumenon ("One man with courage is a majority." - Thomas Jefferson)
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