Newt Gingrich Praised SEIU Head Andy Stern's Forward-Looking Vision

Newt Gingrich's own book "Real Chance: From the World That Fails to the World That Works" | Newt Gingrich

[Halfmanhalfamazing]

Newt Gingrich Praised SEIU Head Andy Stern's Forward-Looking Vision

In his book "Real Chance: From the World That Fails to the World That Works," Gingrich praises the SEIU head, who remains a close adviser of the President Obama. Pitching the need for conservatives to respect organized labor, while simultaneously pushing back against some of Labor's more cherished legislative goals, he wrote the following:

Conservatives cannot cheer unions overseas and then be blindly anti-union here at home. There are legitimate historic reasons for workers to organize together, and there is a strong need for a healthy, competitive, union, movement that helps improve the lives of its members and the competitiveness of our country.

Andy Stern, the head of the Service Employees International Union, is the union leader who probably best understands the challenge of the world market and the need to make American union members productive in the face of world competition. Sadly, he is a distinct minority among union leaders.

[BunnySlippers]

This is EXACTLY why I cannot support Newt. He has always crossed the aisle his whole career.

Please consider Rick Perry!

[BunnySlippers]

This is EXACTLY why I cannot support Newt. He has always crossed the aisle his whole career.

Please consider Rick Perry!

[Sudetenland]

No, it means returning to something that cannot be recaptured. Adults don't try to relive the past, they remember the past and move forwards and apply the lessons of the past to the present and the future.

Oh yeah, and the "[sic]" was unnecessary. You are clearly not as smart as you think.

[combat_boots]

Do you know if Newt is/is not pro-2A? His website and plenty of articles say yes, but there’s this, from Black Powder Bill

http://blackpowderbill.blogspot.com/2011/12/newt-gingrich-is-anti-2nd-amendment.html

Is Newt Gingrich yet another of these people who say one thing and do another, like 0bama?

[BunnySlippers]

I agree. This is the big problem with Newt. He is always spanning the aisles, cozying up with Liberals.

I support Rick Perry!

[KeyLargo]

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[mmichaels1970]

on what issue is Newt better than Romney?

All of them, and none of them. Depends on which side of the issue tends to be convenient for Romney on any given day.

[DebraAI]

Let’s be real here.

How about this statement.

President Obama has had an extraordinary career when one considers his rise. He has been an inspiration to African Americans all over America and reinforces the American dream.

Read the above paragraph - and you tell me if I am pro-Obama and the author has to be an Obama supporter.

I detest Obama truth be told. He is a Marxist and out to destroy this nation, but if you take one paragraph and somehow judge me on it maybe you would say I too am a Progressive (which would make me vomit)

Get it? Let us stop nit picking on this man. he is not as Conservative as we would like but this is what we have. I for one will vote for Bachmann or Santorum but if Gingrich wins he has my vote too.

[WOBBLY BOB]

some Newt Romney fan will be along soon saying ,”praising Stern’s achievements are not the same as praising his policies.”

Newt’s just so nuanced and brilliant we tea party bitter clingers can’t understand.

[LZ_Bayonet]

"I'm still in the anybody but Obama category"

You NavyCanDo are "the first bull who speaks".

AN AESOP FABLE

A fable that every Conservative voter in 2012 should read and think about.
* * *

A cattle dealer once drove some bulls to the slaughterhouse. And the butcher came with his sharp knife.

"Let us close ranks and jack up this executioner on our horns," suggested one of the bulls.

"If you please, in what way is the butcher any worse than the dealer who drove us hither with his cudgel?" replied the bulls."

"But we shall be able to attend to the dealer as well afterwards!"

"Nothing doing," replied the bulls firm in their principles, to the counselor. "You are trying, from the left, to shield our enemies -- you are a social-butcher yourself."

And they refused to close ranks.

[Osage Orange]

I suspect that's what Newt was referring to.......

But it's lost on many......

[sand lake bar]

Here’s my “Reagan Rule.” 1. Would Reagan trash Newt? 2. Would Reagan actively support Newt in the presidential election?

1=no; 2=yes.

[KeyLargo]

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[VanDeKoik]

Ok, thanks. I’m sure Michelle or Rick is a fine choice for you, but neither of them are perfection.

So when you write them next time, be sure to tell them to run a better race, and maybe I’ll care.

[mmichaels1970]

I suspect that's what Newt was referring to.......

It was. He was also referring to bus driver's unions in Iran playing a part in the opposition to the current regime.

[KeyLargo]

"Ok, thanks. I’m sure Michelle or Rick is a fine choice for you"

Yes.

[Pearls Before Swine]

Re your post 108:

Aren’t you jumping on me a bit hard? I said that if Gingrich was reported to have been positive about Andy Stern, what about Trumka? Do I have to put the “/S” in everywhere?

I don’t particularly like Newt, but I like him more than Romney, and I’d definitely vote for him over Obama, too.

[Helen]

Thank you for your comment. I also read beyond this quote and came away with the same conclusion.

It’s sad to me that so many on FR just jump on the superficial with the emotional and don’t bother to analyze.

[marstegreg]

Thank you for your comment. I also read beyond this quote and came away with the same conclusion.

No. Thank you! I was so worried that I would be excoriated for writing this. You gave me a big sigh of relief! :D

[Eagle of Liberty]

It's gotta be, "Here's how you apply conservatism to solve America's problems today."

That is my issue and has been my issue with Newt for a while now. Applying conservative solutions to progressive legislation. Accept the progressive

There is the liberal populace and the conservative populace mashing against each other, and then the Democrat and Republican politicians agreeing with each other. There is a clear distinction between what the populace thinks the priorities should be and what the elected officials think the priorities should be. Right now, the populace does not want to ACCEPT THE PROGRESSIVE PREMISE!