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Gingrich welcomes "insider" label as he deflects Freddie Mac questions
CBS News ^ | 2011-11-16 | Stephanie Condon

Posted on 11/16/2011 4:50:15 PM PST by rabscuttle385

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...the candidate says he isn't worried his association with the now government-controlled firm makes him look like a Washington "insider" -- if anything, he said Wednesday on CBS News radio, he embraces the label.

"There's no question when you serve 20 years in the House and as speaker of the House for four years, you know a fair amount about Washington," Gingrich told CBS News radio correspondent Dan Raviv. "We just tried an amateur for the last three years, and it didn't work very well... The country would be better off with someone determined to change Washington and who knows how to do it."

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On Wednesday with CBS News radio, Gingrich said he did not oppose the hybrid structure that allowed the private firms access to cheap credit with the implicit backing that if anything went wrong, Uncle Sam would step in.

"Government sponsored enterprises can have a positive role to play," Gingrich said...

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(Excerpt) Read more at cbsnews.com ...


TOPICS: Government; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: biggovernment; democrats; economy; fanniemae; gingrich4fascism; gingrich4gingrich; gingrich4obama; gingrichantiteaparty; housing; newt4biggovernment; rinogingrich

1 posted on 11/16/2011 4:50:20 PM PST by rabscuttle385
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To: rabscuttle385

Ouch.


2 posted on 11/16/2011 4:57:08 PM PST by Thunder90 (Fighting for truth and the American way... http://citizensfortruthandtheamericanway.blogspot.com/)
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To: rabscuttle385
Newt loves big government, he just thinks he can do a better job growing it than the rats.
3 posted on 11/16/2011 4:57:16 PM PST by org.whodat (Just another heartless American, hated by "AMNESTY" Perry and his fellow demorats.)
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4 posted on 11/16/2011 5:04:26 PM PST by DJ MacWoW (America! The wolves are here! What will you do?)
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To: rabscuttle385
Well there goes all the hard work us Tea Partiers did to elected conservatives in 2010.

Can someone explain to me how they can support a RINO insider, who will do anything for consulting fees, support big government programs, amnesty for illegals, global warming and state that right wing social engineering is just plain wrong?

Granted his is a great debater, but he has an uncanny ability to use his silver tongue to talk his way around just about any thing. He has so many retractions on his liberal policy statements I've lost track.

5 posted on 11/16/2011 5:08:25 PM PST by not2worry
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To: org.whodat

Is that why Gingrich shut down government twice? There’s lots to disagree with him about but he stymied Clinton twice by just shutting it down.


6 posted on 11/16/2011 5:08:30 PM PST by DJ MacWoW (America! The wolves are here! What will you do?)
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To: rabscuttle385

if anyone is deflecting anything its’ See BS as usual....

1) gingrich answers the charges that he told fanie they had a piss-poor operation in the story....the criminal liberal media has yet to dispel this...

2) as far as i understand it gingrich enterprised was paid $1.5mill, not gingrich himself...i’m sure the company has overhead and expenses that must be paid before $$$ gets into the hands of gingrich...


7 posted on 11/16/2011 5:09:06 PM PST by God luvs America (63.5million pay no federal income tax then vote demoKrat)
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To: rabscuttle385

A few days ago he said he was an outsider. Which is it?


8 posted on 11/16/2011 5:15:56 PM PST by napscoordinator
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To: DJ MacWoW
Completely different argument and clintoon got everything he wanted plus..
9 posted on 11/16/2011 5:21:42 PM PST by org.whodat (Just another heartless American, hated by "AMNESTY" Perry and his fellow demorats.)
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To: org.whodat

Whatever.


10 posted on 11/16/2011 5:22:40 PM PST by DJ MacWoW (America! The wolves are here! What will you do?)
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To: DJ MacWoW
That newt and the one today are not the same people, power went to his head after that. Today's newt is the one that said it was time to move beyond Reagan.
11 posted on 11/16/2011 5:25:20 PM PST by org.whodat (Just another heartless American, hated by "AMNESTY" Perry and his fellow demorats.)
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To: rabscuttle385
Gingrich said he did not oppose the hybrid structure that allowed the private firms access to cheap credit with the implicit backing that if anything went wrong, Uncle Sam would step in.

I would like to see the actual quote, not the CBS paraphrase. If what CBS wrote was Gingrich's actual intent then there is a gulf between him and constitutional conservatism that can not be crossed.

12 posted on 11/16/2011 5:28:34 PM PST by Pan_Yan
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To: rabscuttle385

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13 posted on 11/16/2011 5:46:05 PM PST by jobim
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