Posted on 12/09/2011 2:44:04 PM PST by Jim Robinson
Newt Gingrich, the senior Republican statesman and conservative dynamo slams the media, slams ObamaCare, slams Obama. Says all Republican presidential candidates are committed as a team to defeat Obama, repeal ObamaCare!!
Worth watching again when doubters try to convince you that Newt is for the personal mandate.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6DdrMBSI5Xk
I’m with you Jim!
Oorah! What were we sayin’ at lunch, Wednesday? Oh yeah!
Newt is saying all the right things now but I am sorry, I don’t trust the man. He is a serial adulterer and in recent years has acted on his progressive urges to work hand in hand with extreme leftist agendas.
I don’t know how I can make it any clearer. I just don’t believe newt is a real conservative anymore, if he ever was one.
And I'm not stopping anyone from doing just that. Just wish they'd get off their asses and hurry it up a bit if they intend on doing so. Meanwhile, don't mind me while I root for our leading candidate who appears to be WINNING the race!!
He’s saying all the right things now just as he said and DID all the right things when he was in office.
His actions in resent times don’t worry you?
He torpedoed a real conservatives chances to win in a blue state by supporting a whack left winger who supported and still supports democrats.
He bad mouthed Paul Ryan on his conservative budget just a few short months ago.
Newt says that the era of Reagan is over....this one troubles me tremendously.
His stance on global warming is frightening.
He supports a single payer health care system.
Forget an out what the man is saying and look at his actions TODAY. They are anything but conservative. What he did 15 years ago is a moot point IMO.
Newt believes that everything can be fixed with a govt program. This is a telling sentence. To me it means that’s newt is really a progressive at heart.
Draft Palin? ;-)
Yep, that was when things started looking up for the Newt ‘12 campaign. I was cheering him on and have been since. I’ve always liked him but even more so now. He ain’t perfect but right now he is the best we have running that can and will take it to O.
Let me say this. Newt has been attacked with a lot of lies and half truths lately. I don’t like what I have been witnessing with these unfounded attacks. I was not going to donate to a campaign yet but I have sent Newt a donation to his campaign. I can’t stand the nonsense that I am witnessing.
Well, I bad mouthed Ryan. He ain’t perfect, y’know. I was mad as hell at Ryan when he voted to increase the debt limit authorizing Obama to squander another trillion dollars and more on his Marxist wealth redistribution schemes.
Newt is a pro-life Reagan conservative. He’d be more likely to revive the era of Reagan than end it.
He wants to repeal and abolish ObamaCare. Hell, he wants to repeal and abolish all things Obama.
Newt has said some strange things, but he’s always been that way. His accomplishments are the measure of the man. No other candidates in this field have nearly the record of Newt’s actual conservative accomplishments. He’s a bulldog when he gets to chomping on Democrats.
Deeds, not words.
That’s what I saw. The first and on repeat.
If I trusted this man’s words, at least the ones that sound conservative, I’d be the biggest Newt booster in the world.
Yes, looks like we are going to have to support him.
But that does NOT require swooning or gushing or making him out to be Reagan II.
In fact, that is counterproductive.
Newt made a good mini-speech.
Speeches get you nowheresville.
BTTT, and Thank You, Boss!
Newt is also still for that other mandate — the ethanol mandate.
What a horrendous boondoggle on taxpayer money that has been over the years.
And so many ethanol lobbyists must have passed through the doors of the House Committee on Agriculture during the decade or so that Callista Gingrich was a staffer and then Chief Clerk there.
Yes.
There seems to be quite the fad going these days with discerning abject fear in anyone who doesn’t demonstrate that he is head-over-heels-in-love with Newt Gingrich.
I have posted this before, but will say so again here:
The welfare reform legislation was hardly something that was an actual victory for the Speaker, the GOP or the country.
Briefly:
President Clinton vetoed the first "welfare to work" bill that Gingrich got passed.
What happened next?
Oh, Gingrich and the GOP caved. They added into the new bill billions and billions in NEW entitlement spending, including a federally-funded childcare entitlement ($14 billion in 1996 dollars), new Medicaide eligibility, job subsidies and so on.
So, crediting Gingrich with welfare reform? The GOP won that "victory" the old-fashioned way: they bought it. It wasn't some big revolutionary act that Gingrich meted out by sheer force of his personality and leadership.
President Clinton then happily signed the "improved" bill and crowed and crowed about all the new welfare spending, basically, in the welfare "reform" bill.
Moreover, economists now say that the bill didn't even actually work. For all those billions in NEW entitlement spending, economists found that 40-80% of the people who left welfare did so simply because the country entered into the longest, biggest economic boom since WWII.
I have posted those exact same words numerous times in primary seasons past.
The usual freeper response was “you unprincipled RINO, so it’s all about winning, isn’t it.”
My how times have changed!
Again: here’s where I’m at. I agree with what you said in this post, but I think it’s tactically wrongheaded to dismiss Gingrich’s problems as completely irrelevant to this race, the general election or his presidency.
Moreover, I think many who predict a glorious return of Reagan conservatism are going to be sorely disappointed.
Is that my problem? No.
But it is the country’s problem if the next president can’t or won’t inspire conservatives to work with him, because conservatives are the only ones focused on saving the country.
Look, three months ago many freepers couldn’t even stand the guy. Why was that? Those reasons haven’t gone away. They’ve just been papered over by pragmatism, which I fully accept. But to proceed as if this man has changed his stripes is, IMHO, not well-founded.
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