Posted on 12/01/2011 4:56:29 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
..A few of Newt Gingrich’s… Not-So-Greatest Hits:
August 30, 2004: “Now he’s back, preaching the gospel of party moderation. At an Aug. 30 forum held by the centrist Republican Main Street Partnership, Gingrich heralded the GOP’s new, bigger big tent. “Everywhere I’ve been, I’ve argued in favor of electing the moderates,” Gingrich said… He even chastised the fiscally conservative Club for Growth — a group that finances primary challengers to Republican incumbents they deem too liberal — for not getting with the program. “Their strategy is explicitly wrong,” Gingrich said. “The key is to elect more Republicans and have a bigger majority and be more inclusive.”
In June 2005, the New York Times raved about a “balanced and thoughtful” report from a bipartisan task force headed by Newt Gingrich, the former House speaker, and George Mitchell, the former Senate majority leader, declaring, “Lawmakers should take the time to at least thumb through this report, especially those who have been demanding Secretary General Kofi Annan’s resignation, supporting the ill-conceived nomination of John Bolton as the United States ambassador to the United Nations and backing the latest benighted attempt to withhold America’s legally obligated dues.”
In October 2005, Gingrich called for “universal but confidential” DNA testing.
In April 2006,...
In April 2007, he raved about the leadership skills of New York City Mayor Mike Bloomberg:....
....In 2007, he accused the Bush administration of fighting a “phony war” on terrorism, and declared “a more effective approach would begin with a national energy strategy aimed at weaning the country from its reliance on imported oil.”
In 2008, he hailed John McCain’s efforts in the crafting of the TARP legislation:....
(Excerpt) Read more at nationalreview.com ...
Held onto the congress until 2006 as well.
CW. It’s quite sad that all u can do is trash Newt and Cain. It isn’t going to matter cuz your guy can’t win unless he hypnotizes all voters into thinking he registers on the IQ scale.
Perry is dumber than box o’ rocks
But the 30% who now support Newt see things much differently than do you shrinking 2% er’s.
Newt truly is Conservative. Intelligently so; Not so radical, but then he has a similar stand on what Perry believes. So, once you open your mind back up and start thinking objectively again, you will quickly discover that for yourself.
“O.k. So he was two-four years ahead in his warning. Maybe he saw the writing on the wall...maybe.”
Could be.
But in American politics, two years is a long time, and four years is nearly eternal.
A more likely explanation is that the Republicans didn't do the CONSERVATIVE things for which they were elected, and folks gave up on them and figured, what the heck? We'll try the other brand, now.
At the end of that stretch of Republican congressional dominance, the Republicans had become just as big spenders as the Democrats. They didn't lose elections in 2006 and 2008 because they'd reined in spending, or defended marriage from the homosexuals, or anything else.
They lost those elections because they'd run out of gas as conservatives, and folks couldn't readily tell the difference between them and the Democrats. And folks decided to elect the real thing rather than the plastic copy.
After folks saw the difference between even the broken-down, barely-conservative Republicans and the spend-on-anything, regulate-anything, control-every-aspect-of-everyone's-lives Democrats, folks voted for the more conservative alternative in 2010.
In record-breaking numbers.
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You’re skilled at suspending reality. Fine with me if that’s your way but don’t insult my intelligence.
Newt was right about what????? That we should start spending trillions fighting "CO2 pollution?"
I too believe we are about as ready as we wil ever be for a true conservative win in every branch of government. I just can’t figure out who to really vote for. The way I see it, is we need to elect a very conservative house and senate. That way a president who SAID he was conservative could be very unelectable in the future if he does not sign conservative legistlation into law.
LOL! The one “suspending reality” is you. We will have to agree to keep it at that. You might stop trashing all the other candidates as well, who you see as a threat to yours.
Obviously, it’s not working for you. (Or your candidate)
Newt was right, we lost in 2006 and 2008. I’m just saying that he saw it coming, that is all.
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OK, but your post I replied to (#10) was a reply to a post (#6) about what Newt said about "global warming." Your post made it sound like the GOP lost because they did not go along with the left's ideology.
I’m sure he was feeling a trend. We lost EVERY branch of government. Every branch. I am not sure what exactly did us in, but perhaps he was onto something. About “global Warming”, it was the trend at the time. My kids were just starting in kinder at the time and , looking back, they were spoon feeding this stuff to the kids even then. Gore took it to the next level and made kids think they knew more than their parents if they believed this stuff. It was the youth vote that went heavily for Obama, wasn’t it? So maybe Newt saw that trend as well. Perhaps we should have paid attention (with a big grain of salt, of course). Not to global warming so much, but to the trend. If we knew the facts, i mean the REAL facts and confronted people with them we might not be in this mess today.....just thinking out loud.
I’m sure he was feeling a trend. We lost EVERY branch of government. Every branch. I am not sure what exactly did us in, but perhaps he was onto something. About “global Warming”, it was the trend at the time. My kids were just starting in kinder at the time and , looking back, they were spoon feeding this stuff to the kids even then. Gore took it to the next level and made kids think they knew more than their parents if they believed this stuff. It was the youth vote that went heavily for Obama, wasn’t it? So maybe Newt saw that trend as well. Perhaps we should have paid attention (with a big grain of salt, of course). Not to global warming so much, but to the trend. If we knew the facts, i mean the REAL facts and confronted people with them we might not be in this mess today.....just thinking out loud.
Oh, yeah. Forgot about Perry. I’d like him in the mix too. He’s found his stride.
In retrospect, given the results, don't you think Reagan's "one-time" amnesty was a mistake?
Except the SCOTUS.
Perhaps we should have paid attention (with a big grain of salt, of course). Not to global warming so much, but to the trend. If we knew the facts, i mean the REAL facts and confronted people with them we might not be in this mess today.....just thinking out loud.
OK. I believe if the GOP adopts the Left's positions to keep from losing elections (and that's what Newt's statements about CO2 sounded like 7 years ago) then that is worse than losing elections. But yes, we should learn how to debate the left, and we should not be 100% opposed to something just because the Left is for it.
I think humans will find better and cheaper ways to power things in the future. But there has to be an element of common sense involved. Obama wants to put too many eggs in the "green energy" basket while hampering conventional energy development. Imagine if the USA had stopped all production of conventional weapons while working on the Manhattan Project in WW2 (kind of like what Hitler did -- his "super weapons" were going to win for him).
Newt has admitted that he made a mistake sitting on the couch with Pelosi. (Compare Romney who flips without even admitting he was wrong.)
I still have some concerns about Newt on immigration, but I don't trust Romney at all.
Hell yes I do. Also signing a tax bill that trusted congress to keep their side of the bargain on spending cuts.
RR never said it was a mistake, nor his multiple tax increases. I’ll take his silence as his word, not Meese’s.
I still have some concerns about Newt on immigration, but I don’t trust Romney at all.
I think Newt’s mistake on immigration is assuming the “too big to fail” strategy. Meaning that there are too many people to really do anything about them. There has to be a way, one of them just needs to come up with one. As far as global warming goes, I don’t believe they should have adopted the left’s position, they just never delivered viable opposition to it. There were people on the right who were not convinced, there were people who agreed, but no one ( with a stake in this game ) came out vehemently against it. At least no one I cam remember. ( I’m talking big name politicians). a lot politicians were complicit in lending credibility to this farce not just the crazies.
I'm afraid you're right. It appears the conservative resurgence and the power of the Tea Party supporters has been vastly overrated.
The "conservatives" elected in 2010 have done nothing but go along with huge deficit spending.
We are arguing about the merits of the top two candidates for the Republican nomination for president by explaining how their clearly non-conservative pasts don't really matter.
We claim that Obamacare is a major catastrophe but our top two candidates have both supported similar programs.
We scream about amnesty but must decide on which of our top two candidates amnesty program would be least damaging.
We decry the corruption of the establishment insider politicians, yet we narrow are choices to two establishment insider politicians.
We jump up and down about big government and big government spending, yet we must choose between two candidates who have supported egregious big government and big government spending in the past.
I believe that Obama has a good chance of winning reelection, because I don't believe there are really that many conservatives, not in this Country, not in the Republican Party, and not even on FR.
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