Right. The 2004 election was all about the new Medicare drug benefit.
Be careful playing 'what if' Newt.
If John Kerry had won in 2004, it's extremely unlikely Obama would have run or won in 2008.
So is Newt saying we have him to thank for Obama?
Anonymous sources again.
Bottom line even with anonymous sources:
More candid than tense. Gingrich, certainly, never showed anger.
And the truth comes tumbling out...
The Washington “Examiner” sounds like a RINO Loving, “Inside-the-Beltway” “Publication”.
Video???
I caught some of Huckabee’s debate last weekend. It appeared that Cucinelli was out to get Newt and trip him up.In contrast the exchange with Santorum was markedly more friendly.
But I will poke myself in the eye with a sharp stick rather than damage in even the slightest way someone who has a good chance of facing Obama in the general.
Anyone who does is definitely part of the problem. Try to sell your own favorite, but knock off the negativism about the other guy.
If nominated it doesn't matter what was written about Newt in the primaries - I will break a finger punching the button for him.
Was or will Romney be questioned ?
In other words, Newt is willing to jettison conservative values in order to win an election.
They gave Newt a standing ovation when he left... was this fact left out or is it buried at the end of this?
Any of these guys could have run themselves.
They didn’t.
Next time try leading from the front.
no matter what they say about Newt, HE IS BETTER THAN ROMNEY
” - - - Newt kept trying to change the subject, but Cuccinelli wouldn’t back down.”
Way to go Ken! You have hit Nanny-Newt’s soft spot! Keep it up!
“Nanny-State Newt” has never met a BIGGER Government Program that he did not like.
Dang it....
Why is it that “winning” beats out doing the right thing for the right reasons?
Seriously! Sometimes it is worth losing the battle in the pursuit of maintaining moral integrity! Kicking Moral integrity to the curb for any reason is an automatic loss!
Why is it that Politicos cant see that?
And then they wonder why we don’t trust them? Come on! You wouldn’t trust a slimeball like that to rake the leaves in your backyard with a moral compass such as this!
Seriously, this is just another example of the qualities inherent in the (political) Establishment class. It really IS the Establishment (made up of Democrats and Republicans) vs. the rest of us.
Newt is brilliant, but also without a moral compass as far as I am concerned. PLEASE America, we can do BETTER than this!!!!!!!!
Another heated exchange occurred when the American Conservative Union’s Donald Devine challenged Gingrich’s support of President George W. Bush’s prescription drug benefit.
It was my understanding that the prescription drug program was paying for itself from all those who bought the insurance and if the program started to take in less than it was spending there was a provision in the program to raise rates or review the cost. I also understand after the democrats took over the house they threw that provision out.So now it has the potential to be a big money loser if it isn’t already
“Kerry, would have defeated Bush in the 2004 election had the new Medicare drug benefit not been pushed by the president and approved by a Republican Congress.”
Nonsense! That reasoning was wrong when Bush was pushing his “kinder, gentler conservatism,” and it is still wrong. This is where Newt bothers me. Will he apply the same reasoning to global warming policies or socialized medicine, amnesty? We need clear messages from Newt and solid promises that he won’t reason himself into destructive progressive policies that grow an already unaffordable government.
“In response, Gingrich claimed that Sen. John Kerry, would have defeated Bush in the 2004 election had the new Medicare drug benefit not been pushed by the president and approved by a Republican Congress.”
For the umpteenth time Newt says that we have to grow government to shrink it.
Nonsensical.
American Conservative Union’s Donald Devine = David Keene (under investigation for a few million dollars that disappeared) = RINO of long standing who manipulated his own score card for Tokyo Rove and told us, with a straight face, Senior Amnesty- Mel Martinez was a conservative that should be elected head of the RNC - and didn’t THAT work out well?
Right. The 2004 election was all about the new Medicare drug benefit.