That’s not a position, it’s a statement of fact.
Conservatives were willing to settle for a mandate.
****I frankly was floundering trying to find a way to make sure that people who could afford it were paying their hospital bills, while still leaving an out for libertarians to not buy insurance.****
That is called examining the problem and attempting to encourage citizens to assume responsibility for their lives and to limit the role of government.
What a concept - and the man admits to floundering. Diogenes - we have found him!!!
lol.
Nothing “conservative” about complete capitulation
This man is willing to go halfway with the Dems on anything.
Abandon capitalism to save capitalism I guess
What conservatives and how come the average voter did not know this?
Spin is spin..
“On Saturday, however, said: “It’s now clear that the mandate, I think, is clearly unconstitutional.””
I would call it the evolution of ones thoughts. In this case in the right direction. I believe Newt is speaking openly about his ideas on the subject and how he came to the conclusions as to where he is at today. Of course his detractors will just call him a liar.
“He has more positions than China has rice...”
Yes, but thanks for posting anyway. That explanation he during the debate was factual, even though Newt seems to me to try to swim with what he perceives to be the tide of history, rather than fight it.
The Obamacare mandate is a hybrid between the more-market-oriented sort of mandate that Heritage floated as an alternative to Hillarycare, and full-on socialized medicine. Call Obamacare “fascist medicine”: state-designed and regulated everything, still provided by a vestigial market.
The several states might well try various and sundry types of health-insurance mandates and some variant might “work”, though it is hardly a small-government classically liberal idea. A Federal mandate is unconstitutional on the face of it (and if SCOTUS finds otherwise, that’s an argument for a Constitutional amendment to force a strict construction of the commerce clause and all other enumerated powers provisions).
He offered a conservative solution to a liberal problem.
I’d like to see him offer a conservative solution to a conservative problem. Like the deficit for instance.
He will be soon for the mandate to defeat Paul Ryan reforms.
I don’t care where the idea came from, it’s still a horrible plan that will ruin healthcare.
HEY YOU! YEAH, Nanny-State Newt, YOU IDIOT!
A “Conservative” CONSERVES! What is being “conserved” when your jack-booted, Nanny-Government forces us at the point of the Federal Gun to buy some Medical Insurance, or anything else that you “mandate”, that we do not want!
Apologize for calling yourself a “Conservative” or drop out of this Primary Race!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
BTW Newt, we simply can’t afford you, as we are TAXED ENOUGH ALREADY.
And did anyone notice how he tweaked his amnesty position? Now, he's for a "guest worker program." How original.
Hillarycare was defused, no “Conservative” mandate ensued.
Seems like it was more a device than a goal
“Fueled by the support from conservatives and the Tea Party, Gingrich is ahead of former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney by nearly 20 points in South Carolina. The winner of that state’s primary has gone on to capture each GOP nomination since 1980.”
Read the entire post... it’s even worse than you think!!!!!
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2818986/posts
Come on folks, you need to work harder and faster, if you’re going to bring down Newt before the nomination votes begin in only 24 more days. To help Romney win the nomination, you’re going to have to push and push even harder.
This made me laugh. Gingrich's defense is all smoke and mirrors. Appeal to authority, everybody was doing it. The FACT is he's no less flawed on this issue than Romney.
“The body is the temple of the Holy Spirit”. He, The Spirit owns the body, no government or any other organization...”ye are not your own”,
....not the government, or a hospital, or an insurance company, an insurance lobby behind bank bonds, not the pharmacia companies, not a bureaucrat, not the ritalin enforcers in education, a teacher or principal requiring a student to be “medicated” before the age of accountability vs. parents, not a doctor of medications, a so called “health secretary”, an investment lobby that attempts to call itself “insurance” and an “industry”, an agency, a foundation, or any other individual or organization.
Nor do any of the above have speech rights on mandates of the body. For the Spirit dwells within, speaks within,
“He whom the Son sets FREE, is free indeed.”
‘Medicine is the Keystone in the Arch of Socialism.’
—V.I. Lenin
only took 3 wives, 17 yrs, and a couch dance from nan, for newt to come to the enlightened decision that forcing an individual citizen to buy a private product, at gunpoint, is "cleary, I think UN-Constitutional...
whats the point spread down to now ??? 'clearly' if hes locked in a room with bambam, hed be the smartest man, and possibly the only man, in the room...