Why Newt Gingrich won’t last

Washington Post ^ | November 15, 2011 | Dana Milbank

[Cincinatus' Wife]

....The public got a taste of Gingrich’s relative moderation in May, when he disparaged PaulRyan’s budget plan, which House Republicans embraced en masse, as “right-wing social engineering” and “too big a jump.” He quickly retreated from this inadvertent honesty, uttered in the same “Meet the Press” interview when he defended his previous support for an “individual mandate” requiring health insurance — the part of Obamacare that conservatives find most objectionable.

...In 2005, he sat down with then-Sen.HillaryClinton to make common cause over health care. He said he and Clinton “have the same instinct” on health care and praised the notion of a health-care “transfer of finances” from rich to poor. “I risk sounding not quite as right wing as I should,” Gingrich said at the time. “I’ve spent enough of my life fighting,” he added.

In 2007, Gingrich appeared with JohnKerry and conceded that humans have contributed to global warming, saying, “We should address it very actively.” He complained about “the absence of American leadership” on climate change, pitched incentives to reduce carbon emissions and said: “I am not automatically saying that coercion and bureaucracy is not an answer.” Gingrich called for a “green conservatism.”

In 2009, Gingrich met in the OvalOffice with President Obama and the Rev.AlSharpton and emerged to proclaim that “education should be the first civil right of the 21st century.” Soon after that, he appeared on Capitol Hill with BillClinton and Trent Lott for an unveiling of the former Senate majority leader’s portrait, lamenting that “we wasted so much energy with controversy when we could get so many more things done.”

At one point during his dalliance with the Democratic establishment, Gingrich joked that “one can gradually rebuild almost any reputation if you pander enough to the authorities that write columns and show up on TV.”....

[Kenny Bunk]

Support them or don't, but do it based on who they are and not who we would like them to be.

Time to remember that Benedict Arnold was a highly decorated American veteran?

[rintense]

Clearly you haven’t seen Perry’s minions operate on FR.

[dfwgator]

Clearly you haven’t seen Perry’s minions operate on FR.

[rintense]

No, it's a bottom dwelling Krishna living in false reality that somehow, someway, the candidate she's spinning for will gain votes from the candidate's she's also panning.

FAIL.

[rintense]

More like:

I'm a Krishna,
He's a Krishna,
She's a Krishna,
We're all Krishna,

Wouldn't you like to be a Krishna too?

[dfwgator]

[South40]

[Deb]

Use your brain. Newt was the Speaker of the House so he's all about the GOP majority. Always. Of course he supported Scozzafava initially because she was backed, at first, by the RNC. Voting majorities are the most important thing to people who know you can only stop the Left with votes. If you don't control the agenda with your majority, your principles are worth nothing.

When her record was exposed, both Newt and the RNC dumped her for Hoffman. Lots of people made this mistake.

I was madder at Rush than anyone because he was under the influence of Love Gas and wasn't even aware of NY23 till it was too late.

[South40]

bashing Newt is a sure fire way to drum up support for Perry. /s

Yeah, well, it worked so well when they did it to Herman Cain. /s

[CajunConservative]

Gingrich on video from 7:00 to 25:07 - Overall immigration to make it as inexpensive and easy as possible. Goal as president to have all illegals in the country now be American citizens within 5 to 10 years. Much more.

http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/11208416

Newt’s website for legal and illegal Hispanics (to unite them all), Gingrich Communications, Newt Gingrich, founder:

http://theamericano.com/

[stratman1969]

I think Laura is a Mittbot because she and Ann Coulter are drooling all over Chris Christie. They’re sucking up to Mitt because Crispie Cream told them to.

[Dudoight]

I’ll take Newt over Romney or Obama any day.