A long time ago, maybe extenuating circumstances but OUCH!
Newt is no conservative
is the new newt really new? I don't know, but I'm not willing to take a chance.
“1987”
Damn. In 1987 I did a lot of things I am not all that proud of either. I sure hope that I am never in a position that some political HACK can use it against me.
I have forgotten that one. Should have checked. Every liberal issue of our lifetime, you can find Newt there.
Global Warming
Amnesty
Free speech limitations
Individual mandate in Obamacare
Medicare reform and spending cuts
Constant attacks on conservatives (”radical right wing social engineering”, “Era of Reagan is over”, Dede in NY23), gun grabbing bills and personal baggage may be considered minor sins compared above.
I think it is time to consider Santorum. His primary support for Arlen was bad, but acceptable at that time (in comparison to the baggage of others). He is otherwise conservative. He lost by landsline in a very bad year for GOP. I wonder how he would have performed in 2010 in PA.
Sorry ! He has NOT been accused by a wacko of being a bad man - he must be the President !
No past legislative history matters in selecting a President.
The only qualification that matters is no wacko has stepped forward and accused him of being a bad man.
Next !
/SARC
Please remember that this was pre-cable TV, pre-talk radio, pre-internet.
Every media news source was LIBERAL.
He was concerned about the future of conservatism as there was virtually no way to get the conservative message out.
Newt? Norfolk n way.
You left out the part where Reagan supported the initial effort to change the twenty year old document and later vetoed the Democratic-controlled Congress’s effort to make the doctrine law. As to votes in Congress, how many times have we seen votes made or changed according to necessity for reasons other than the bill itself.
This is another in a long line of hit pieces we’ll see ... Reagan’s enthusiasm for this Newt co-sponsored bill (with 71 others - Gee, Wally, that almost means he did it all himself) was pretty well documented.
I don't know anything about this, but I'm sure if you ask Newt, he'll explain it. At worst, it was a mistake made a long time ago. What would be more important is .....Where does he stand TODAY on this issue.
You can sift through a 50 year career and find a lot of things that “sound” like ammunition to use against Newt. At the end of the day it is irrelevant to me. Usually, Newt will have a logical explanation for any soundbite you can come up with, but the present is what I care about, because that is where we live.
1987? That was a different time. Back then, there was no Limbaugh, no conservative media, no FOX News, etc. All there was on radio was NPR and liberals all over TV (and newsprint).
If we have to choose between Mittens and Newtered ... conservatives and the country are SCREWED
Very odd. But wait, that was the pre-Rush Era, did libs not dominate the airwaves then? Was the doctrine just an attempt, in Newt’s mind, to bring more conservatism into the liberal media? Inquiring minds want to know.
I'm predicting Palin will endorse Perry.
No surprise. He really has a trail of accomplishments doesnt he?
I saw Newt in an recent interview claim his work in congress(house member) in the 1980s helped the US win the Cold war.
Another interview he said he cheated on his wife because he got caught up in trying to save the country.
This would be really funny if it wasnt so tragic.
Let’s look at this in perspective...when this was proposed, there WAS NO CONSERVATIVE MEDIA. No Rush, no Fox News, no FR. It was Dan Rather, Walker Cronkite, etc. Conservatives supported the fairness doctrine because there was no competition to the leftist ideas of the day on the airwaves.
This was the time when there was only ABC, NBC, CBS, AND PBS. CNN was very new. There was no talk radio and no internet blogs. The only place folks got information was from the big 3 networks.
President Reagan’s staff all supported the continuation of the Fairness Doctrine because it protected THEM, the conservatives, from a liberal press.
That is why Gingrich also supported it. He was not alone, given that the president’s own staff supported it.
Reagan vetoed it anyway. But to pretend that Gingrich was some crazed liberal running around attempting to foist a liberal fairness doctrine on the nation is simply wrong about the times, the history, and about Gingrich.
In 1987 Phyllis Schaffely and the American Conservative Union supported the Fairness Doctrine because liberals dominated the airwaves...Newt does NOT support it today as things have changed..Fairness Doctrine
Newt opposes the left’s efforts to reinstate the Fairness Doctrine and vocally supported Rep. Mike Pence’s 2007 bill that prohibited government censorship in radio.
Newt does not support the Fairness Doctrine and he has been vocally critical of the left’s efforts to reinstate the doctrine over the past decade, including supporting Mike Pence’s bill that prohibited government censorship in radio in 2007.
In 1987, the three left-wing networks plus PBS/NPR dominated media, and talk-radio was still nascent; many of America’s most influential conservative activists, including the American Conservative Union and Phyllis Schlafly, supported the Fairness Doctrine at this time.
The rapid growth of conservative viewpoints in the media in the last 25 years is a testament to the power and innovation of the conservative movement once power is taken out of the hands of the elite networks and put into the hands of consumers.
I won't defend past actions of Newt. I've attacked them many times on this forum as well.
The sole reason Newt is where he is in the polls is that apparently he is the only remaining GOP POTUS candidate capable of stopping this! => Romney's the One.