Posted on 12/13/2011 6:31:59 AM PST by 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.
Reagan praised FDR too...
*scurries away*
Bachmann is not ready for prime time
The RATS just love sitting back and watching the Republican party implode. We are doing their work for them by tearing down our most likely nominees. I propose a solution. Rather than saying Newt sucks or Romney sucks, or they BOTH suck, we need to change our attitude. If you are a Newt supporter phrase your arguement that “Romney is great, but Newt is better”. If you like Romney, “Newt is great but Romney is better”. The fact is that both these guys are great COMPARED TO OBAMA. OBAMA is the one we should be tearing down, on gun walker, solyndra, health care, the lost drone, etc. Continuing to attack our candidates weakens them with voters and insures an Obama victory. Neither of our guys is a Reagan but they are a damn site better than the America hating Marxist in chief and his band of flying monkeys.
What makes you think Gingrich is more capable of beating Obama than Romney? He's less. Gingrich can not beat Obama. He's completely unattractive--physically, politically, ethically, morally, culturally, and even intellectually. The Left hates him, the middle doesn't connect with him, and even the Right doesn't trust him any more. How do you build a majority out of that?
Still pushing the half truths, the misdirections, carrying water for the lame stream media and Socialists.
Freepers not familiar with you should ALWAYS read the wh ole things and check up on the facts.
Halfmanhalfamazing is more like HalfmanWholeHate
(That much hate will rot your insides out)
I have not and will not defend Newt Gingrich. But I sure as all hell will never vote for that plastic, liberal-today-conservative-tomorrow piece of excrement from Massachusetts, Mitt Romney.
Oh you think we have to be 100% anti union as in outlawing them all?
All this stuff will just immunize Gingrich from charges he’s an extremist on the right, and he’ll govern as a conservative.
I could care less but if you want to turn on everyone for every platitude in their books, go ahead.
Well, FWIW, unions are banned in China and were also banned in the USSR. It takes a freer society to allow unions.
The EXISTENCE of unions really isn’t the problem (except for public-sector unions). The dominance/requirement to join/political influence is the problem.
Stern is a decent guy by union steward standards. At least he wasn’t praising Trumka or whatever his name is.
Thank you so much for posting the truth in such a detailed way.
I can’t believe how otherwise staunch conservatives on this forum can have so much collective amnesia about Newt, even when the evidence about him is pretty new.
>> The quote.
Yes, I know. You posted it to me on that other thread too.
But I’m a thinking man, CC. I like to go *beyond* HuffPo pull quotes and understand the context (and the candidate) from a deeper perspective. So I read not just the silly quote you shove in my face but the considerable material around it that explains where Gingrich is *really* coming from.
I realize that thinking and understanding are foreign concepts to you and I apologize for jarring your tidy dogmatic world. But it’s just how I’m wired.
Thanks anyhow.
Huffington Post, Beck (Libertarian), Halfmanhalfamazing -
Now there’s a trio to trust -
Don’t worry about HuffPO. It’s in his book. No one has even bothered to discuss his “crony capitalism” activities with Rupert Murdoch.
He likes to “help” people with power.
Like Rupert Murdoch: 4.5 Millis the price tag for such help. Just think how high the price will go if he gets in WH.
he 1995 Murdoch Deal
You probably heard something about Newt’s book scandal. He was offered first $2.5 million, then $4.5 million by Harper Collins, a publishing company owned by Rupert Murdoch, who also owns the Fox TV network and newspapers and TV stations around the world. Murdoch has been having problems with a complaint by NBC that Fox is a foreign owned TV network, which is against US law.
In the past, Harper Collins has offered million dollar book contracts to several conservative politicians in countries where Murdoch was having regulatory trouble, including England (Margaret Thatcher, Jeffrey Archer) and China (Deng Xiaoping’s daughter). A week after the initial offer, Newt met with Rupert Murdoch - and Murdoch’s legislative lobbyist - to discuss politics, including the NBC complaint. As facts about the deal were made public, and even Republicans criticized him, Gingrich decided to give up the $4.5 million advance for a still-lucrative deal based on royalties.
Gingrich’s story kept changing through the controversy. First, Newt’s spokesman said that Murdoch knew nothing about Gingrich and the book deal. On Friday January 13, Newt’s spokesman admitted that Murdoch actually met Newt on a park bench the week before the deal was made, but didn’t talk about it. He also said he knew nothing about Murdoch’s lobbyist being at their meeting. The next day, he admitted the lobbyist was there, but claimed he didn’t say so because no one asked.
Newt also said repeatedly that the book wasn’t his idea; that a literary agent named Lynn Chu had sought him out and proposed it. After Ms. Chu said that Gingrich’s associate Jeff Eisenach called her first on Newt’s behalf, Eisenach and Newt’s spokesman admitted that was true.
The 1984 Book Deal Murdoch’s book deal wasn’t the first lucrative and controversial book deal Newt engineered. In 1983 he established a limited partnership in Atlanta called COS Limited, which pulled together about two dozen of his biggest campaign contributors to finance his book.
The former administrator of his congressional offices in Georgia, Dolores Adamson, resigned over the deal. “The manuscript was put together in the district office using office equipment,” she said. “He would just come in and say ‘This is what I want to do.’ I would say, ‘This is not ethical,” but after a while he didn’t listen.” That office equipment, of course, was paid for by US taxpayers including You.
http://www.realchange.org/gingrich.htm#book
Hoist by your own petard!!!
Perhaps you should read the material before you post.
A thoughtful author examines alternate opinions from a wide spectrum. That is Newt Gingrich’s strength. He has a professor’s approach to topics and by providing both positives and negatives - readers are allowed to make their own judgements. Sure beats propaganda.
Romney is incapable of taking on the media or Barack Obama because he’s incapable of talking tough.
Romney is incapable of exciting anyone because he’s the very definition of “generic Republican.” That’s why he’s unable to rise in the polls.
Romney is incapable of speaking without talking out of both sides of his mouth.
Most importantly, Romney signed universal health care into law and defends it to this day. He’s not just a RINO: he’s a flat-out socialist.
Romney’s a socialist, Newt is a RINO, Cain dropped out, Perry is incoherent, Paul is crazy, Bachmann is grating, and Huntsman isn’t even on the radar. Rick Santorum is (and always was) the best conservative left in the race. Unfortunately, because so little time remains between now and the early primaries, he would need a miracle to have a strong showing.
It comes down to Romney vs Newt, the socialist vs the RINO. I’ll take the RINO any day of the week.
Gingrich 2012...
... McCain 2008 redux!
"Historically, unions have played very important roles here in America and abroad. The American union movement, especially the AF:-CIO, played a major role in helping the Solidarity movement liberate Poland from a Communist dictatorship. Today, the bus drives' union in Iran is a major opponent of the dictatorship there. Conservatives cannot cheer unions overseas and then be blindly anti-union here at home. There are legitimate historic reason for worker to organized 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.Read the entire thing and it puts an entirely different light on what you quote. It is a statement entirely consistent with true conservative values.
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 in a distinct minority among union leaders.
A strong, healthy, competitive union movement focused on improving productivity and increasing incomes by increasing competitive capabilities would be a tremendous movement with a world wide appeal. The failure of most union leaders to rethink their role and to develop a new and more effective union movement weakens America."
Beck is still bashing Newt right now on the radio. Sound-biting Newt is a real disservice to the voters. If you disagree with Newt, at least listen to what he actually said IN CONTEXT. It is obvious that Glenn Beck is out to destroy Newt, so you should ignore his biased BS.
I actually went to the link and read from Newt's book. What he was saying was 180 degrees from what Beck was insinuating. Out of context smear. Beck obviously KNOWS what Newt really said, so he is a liar and a traitor to this country. Andrew Breitbart is right about Beck. See what he has to say about Beck. How Beck stabbed him in the back. Stole his material, stole his employees, stole most of his blackboard wisdom from bloggers. Beck is a FRAUD! I was duped by him, but not anymore.
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