Posted on 12/11/2011 7:14:54 PM PST by Jim Robinson
President Obama's attack dogs have a new target — Newt Gingrich.
The Democratic National Committee on Sunday released a campaign ad that tags Gingrich as the “original Tea Partier.”
The ad hit the Internet less than four hours after Gingrich showed he could take the heat as the latest Republican front-runner during Saturday’s GOP primary debate in Iowa.
Gingrich’s foes warned his temper would erupt under a combined grilling from his opponents and the media.
But he didn’t self-destruct, and so became the latest target of the Obama re-election campaign, which until now had reserved its ammo for Mitt Romney.
“I want to invite you to a party — a Tea Party,” a smiling Gingrich says in the DNC video.
The ad tags Gingrich’s positions — from calling in 1984 to privatize Social Security, to seeking to end Medicare in 1995 to protecting tax loopholes in 2011.
“Newt Gingrich was a Tea Party politician , even before there was a Tea Party,” DNC Chair Debbie Wasserman Schultz said in a post-debate statement.
Gingrich polling so far shows he’s been able to fend off attacks on his record, including sniping from fellow Republicans, who argue Gingrich has shown himself to be temperamentally unsuited to be in the White House.
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I always considered the TEA party was a family values organization—but maybe that was just the ones I met.
Whatever—I still don’t much like Noot—but will vote for him if he gets the nomination. I don’t see that our side has a real winner for us to choose from.
I was really enthused by both Palin and Cain-—but we all know what happened to them.................
Its beginning to look a lot like Newt.
Let us pray that Debbie Wasserman-Schulz stays the face and the voice of the DNC.
I know exactly how you feel. Having grown up as my father’s daughter, I have never trusted politicans, though. If they turn out to do wise and good things while in power, I am pleasantly surprised. That does not happen often. :)
“This campaign commercial is supposed to make elderly people afraid of Newt and the Tea Party.”
Dems like having it both ways. At the “Kill the Bill” rally on Capitol Hill, March 20, 2010, a young lib rode by Tea Partiers, raising his clenched fist at the ‘old fogies’ in his estimation, screaming “Kill Social Security!” On the one hand, they claim the TP is old folks, yet they are trying to scare old folks about the Tea Party and SS?
It'd be a great pleasure for me to campaign, support and vote for someone I can really agree with on most issues, respect, appreciate and get excited about rather than holding my nose and just voting against the lesser of two weevils.
In Part 1, Newt challenges the Wake County GOP to do all it can in 2012 to make Barack Obama a 1 term president. He discusses energy policy, our debt crisis, the president's failure to lead on Libya, one nation under God, the Declaration of Independence and unalienable rights.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rpa4aCiP1Cw
In Part 2 Newt addresses the way left wing government erodes American Exceptionalism, why religious freedom is opposed by dictatorships, the work ethic, unemployment compensation, economic growth, 2+2=4, and government barriers to job creation.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y42oQgOb7OE
In Part 3, Newt discusses the importance of litigation reform, a more favorable tax code for job creation including abolishing the capital gains and death tax, and executive orders that should be signed on the first day the new president takes office. [Abolish all W/H czars, reinstate Reagan bans on taxpayer money for abortion, etc].
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMFV5h-wi7k
In Part 4, Newt confronts the sobering fact that ten years after 9/11 we are not yet winning in our conflict with radical Islamists. He draws analogies with the Cold War about how we need to rethink our strategies. He also discusses the Libyan engagement.
Newt presents a real conundrum for the Commiecrats.
They threw everything they had at him while he was Speaker, a redux of what they did to Reagan in the ‘80’s.
Since being the Speaker, Newt has been relatively trouble free and now, all the Commiecrats can come up with are replays of old songs.
Looks to me like The Messiah better crawl back into that manger and cover himself with Donkey Sh*t.
er, make that voting against the WORST of two weevils.
Hate it when I do that.
View these videos and they might give you a better idea:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2819114/replies?c=46
It’s commie agitprop and psychological warfare intended to fracture the right through infighting and should be dismissed as such.
As I posted on another thread, It will help give Newt both more time and money to better develop the national campaign strategy. A big thanks go out to the dnc national committee.
It’s already being recycled by some FReepers, sorry to say.
Not bold enough. Yet.
If the Tea Party makes it clear to Gingrich that it demands a clear and unwavering focus on limited government, through massive tax reform and actual cuts in government spending, and Gingrich takes on that focus and doesn't get bogged down in tinkering around the edges of the tax code, we're on our way to a real solution not only for our economy, but for preserving our freedom.
It wasn't so long ago in NY that Newt demonstrated that he really had no clue what the Tea Party was all about in practical political terms, as opposed to his aerial view of it from Wonkville.
In my view, this -- an intellectual disconnect between Main Street and Wonkville -- is one of the reasons why many of the things Gingrich has done over the years are inexplicable in light of the conservative principles he expresses.
That problem is fixable, imo, if the Tea Party makes clear they know they need to ride herd on Gingrich and that they are more than willing to bump heads with him if need be, now and in the White House. This will make him, and the relationship, stronger. It will help, not hurt him in the primaries and the general.
It's the same thing, really, with any President. But it's especially important in regard to a guy who can get so inside his own head that he doesn't pick up on the conservative zeitgeist on a particular issue and, therefore, instead of working with it, he (even if unwittingly) ends up working against it. Because, as Newt himself has said about this very thing, that is when he acts dumbly and ticks off conservatives, who are his political best friends.
Again, doesn't mean one can't support Newt with gusto and pleasure. It just means, as I posted previously, he's earning the nomination, not being annointed.
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