Do they really want to take on the one percenters? ; )
Posted on 11/12/2011 6:29:55 AM PST by Kaslin
The idea of 99 percent of the population versus 1 percent of the rich, which Occupy Wall Street protestors have made their mantra, is just wrong, GOP presidential candidate Newt Gingrich said on “The Kudlow Report” last night.
“I am for 100 percent,” he said. “I think this idea of 99 percent and 1 percent is grotesque European socialist class warfare baloney.”
And President Obama is playing right along with that class warfare by expressing sympathy for the protesters, he added.
“I repudiate anybody who wants to divide Americans and I think that that there is a fundamental destructive quality to this 99 percent idea,” Gingrich said. “I think that it is shameful the president of the United States would engage in class warfare and pit Americans against each other in way which can only be destructive of the fabric of American society.”
The former Speaker of the House, who is set to join the other seven candidates in a CNBC debate Wednesday, has been rising in the polls recently. An NBC News/Wall Street Journal poll on Monday put him in third place. In another survey, he’s just six points behind President Obama in a hypothetical match up.
If elected president, Gingrich plans to jump start the economy and create jobs by taking a page from Ronald Reagan.
The plan, he said, is simple—“lower taxes, less regulation, more American energy and work with the people who create jobs and don’t engage in class warfare against them.” Gingrich noted that while he was Speaker of the House, he worked with President Clinton on reforming welfare and cutting taxes. But Clinton was a centrist, he said, while Obama is a genuine “radical” who has difficulty negotiating.
The candidate also addressed the sexual harassment allegations plaguing his rival Herman Cain, telling Kudlow that Cain did the right thing by addressing the claims. “He was clear, he was forceful and he certainly deserves people giving him the benefit of the doubt," he said.
But, he noted, we'll have to wait and see how it plays out. “It’s not over yet,” he added.
how would newt know if cain’s problems are not over yet?
the rino establishment will do everything possible to keep cain out.
this election is becoming a Soviet-Politburo style election...where only Rinocracy approved candidates will be permitted on the ballot.
MSM (DNC) have been trying to push Newt to the top for two weeks now. Must figure their dirt campaign on Cain hasn’t totally destroyed him yet, so on to plan B...Destroy everyone so that mittens can get the nomination.
Thanks for posting. Some outstanding comments by Newt. Sorry folks are doing drive by comments based on - well - nothing to do with this article.
99 + 1 percent is democracy... or Mob Rule by mobsters.
Actually its probably 90 + 10 percent.. not 1 percent..
Mob Rule (democracy) is the source of socialism..
It is a political disease.. socialism is merely a symptom..
Democracy is indispensable to socialism. The goal of socialism is communism. -V.I. Lenin
The meaning of peace is the absence of opposition to socialism .-Karl Marx
that’s right.
as ann coulter observed, how is it cain worked ~40 years without sex harassment charges,
but it was only at nra that these false allegations showed up?
he never lived in chicago, but the locus of the allegations come from chicago, land of axelrod, rahm etc?
You’re welcome. Many here don’t read the articles, but they they feel they have to give their 2 cents
Powerful message. Others need to pick up on it.
It's one of most debaters best words rolled into four syllables. On par with When did you stop beating your wife?
Unfortunately, some folks are not able to glean worthwhile things from those they may not be voting for. A kind of stifling and immature black-or-white approach to people and issues.
Newt! Still the smartest man in almost any room.
He sure is, without any doubt
Its a powerful message. We should thank Cain for saying it FIRST in this campaign by releasing a tax plan where everyone has skin in the game.
Do they really want to take on the one percenters? ; )
I am going to record the debate. Major Garret, formerly of Fox News is one of the 2 moderators
Most people, i.e. the real “99%”, are too busy working to slum it in some downtown park, raging against the machine. I do not know anyone who knows anyone who knows anyone that can be found participating in one of these “occupations”. The worker bees—liberal or conservative—aren’t buying into the “99%” delusion because they’re not ungrateful, pampered, lazy bums.
Gingrich said. “I think that it is shameful the president of the United States would engage in class warfare and pit Americans against each other in way which can only be destructive of the fabric of American society.”
What does he think of the Americans that pit illegal immigrants against other Americans?
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