Posted on 01/26/2012 10:51:53 AM PST by kristinn
Speaking in friendly territory -- before a tea party crowd of about 500 in Central Florida's bucolic Mount Dora -- the former House Speaker savaged Mitt Romney, the campaign ads that have been pillorying Gingrich across the state -- and his own Republican party.
Gingrich wasted little time in criticizing Romney as he took to the stage with his wife, Calista, decrying the "attack ads and all sorts of junk" and charging that Romney is hypocritical for attacking him for Freddie Mac when he has stock in it.
"He thinks we're going to back down, I don't think so," he said.
"This is the desperate last stand of the old order, throwing the kitchen sink, hoping something sticks because if only they can drown us in enough mud -- raised with money from companies and people who foreclosed on Floridians," he said. He charged Romney and his super PAC ads were "paid for with the money taken from the people of Florida, by companies like Goldman Sachs."
The Romney campaign issued an all-caps email with the headline and subtitle that read: "UNHINGED: DR. NEWT AND MR. HYDE...GINGRICH LEADS “OCCUPY MOUNT DORA"
But Gingrich, who had been surging in the Florida polls, said the race is now "very close" and that he believes the "weight of the negative ads" and what he called Romney's "dishonesty," had "hurt us some."
He called on the tea partiers to start working harder. "This group alone is big enough to start to turn this around," he said, declaring he wouldn't allow the "monied interests" to defeat him.
Gingrich is clearly banking on support from Florida's tea party -- which helped elect Marco Rubio and Rick Scott in 2010 and he thanked the crowd, some of whom wore tea party t-shirts.
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Don’t ZOT the Astronaut! What would we do without a contrarian point of view on this thread to rail against?
Perhaps after reading all the outraged posters posting against his defense of rich people, he will go to wikipedia and read what corporate raiders actually do, and be educated. Then, maybe he could be forced to watch the country-clubbers in action in “Caddyshack” and several episodes of Gilligan’s Island with storylines that focus on Thurston Howell III and Lovey. That should get his mind right!
So you and I know but Romney doesn't?
If that's true, it could be why, out of the blue, during Bret Baier's program yesterday, he had a "report" from James Rosen which white-washed Alinsky as some sort of benign figure.
Not one mention of Alinsky's plan (which Obama taught and follows) for how to "radicalize the MIDDLE_CLASS"
The RULES Alinsky layed out on how to radicalize the “rubes” in middle America:
[Saul].....Alinsky scolded the Sixties Left for scaring off potential converts in Middle America. True revolutionaries do not flaunt their radicalism, Alinsky taught. They cut their hair, put on suits and infiltrate the system from within.”
While his ultimate goal was nothing less than the “radicalization of the middle class,” Alinsky stressed the importance of “learning to talk the language of those with whom one is trying to converse.”
“Tactics must begin with the experience of the middle class,” he said, “accepting their aversion to rudeness, vulgarity, and conflict. Start them easy, don’t scare them off.”
To appeal to the middle class, Alinsky continued, “goals must be phrased in general terms like ‘Liberty, Equality, Fraternity’; ‘Of the Common Welfare’; ‘Pursuit of happiness’; or ‘Bread and Peace.’”
He suggested, for instance, that an effective organizer “discovers what their [the middle class’] definition of the police is, and their language [and] he discards the rhetoric that always says ‘pig’ [in reference to police]. Instead of hostile rejection he is seeking bridges of communication and unity over the gaps….
He will view with strategic sensitivity the nature of middle-class behavior with its hang-ups over rudeness or aggressive, insulting, profane actions. All this and more must be grasped and used to radicalize parts of the middle class.”
A related principle taught by Alinsky was that radical organizers must not only speak the language of the middle class, but that they also must dress their crusades in the vestments of morality.
“Moral rationalization,” he said, “is indispensable to all kinds of action, whether to justify the selection or the use of ends or means.” “All great leaders,” he added, “invoked ‘moral principles’ to cover naked self-interest in the clothing of ‘freedom,’ ‘equality of mankind,’ ‘a law higher than man-made law,’ and so on.”
In short: “All effective actions require the passport of morality.” ...”
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"It was Alinsky for whom ‘change’ was his mantra. And by ‘change’, he meant a Marxist revolution achieved by slow, incremental, Machiavellian means which turned society inside out. This had to be done through systematic deception, winning the trust of the naively idealistic middle class by using the language of morality to conceal an agenda designed to destroy it. And the way to do this, he said, was through ‘people’s organisations’.
Community organisers would mobilise direct action by the oppressed masses against their capitalist oppressors...
Revolution you can believe in- by Melanie Phillips Tuesday, 9th September 2008
Class warfare...never has worked for me.
I aspire to be worth that much some day...
It's a non-starter for me......but I realize it resonates with the masses.
A friend of mine last night was spinning a theory that the Republican leaders WANT a hard right-wing third party. That would allow them to become a center-right party and turn the US into a parliamentary system where they'd be able to hold the balance of power, triangulating each side to form coalitions against the third. Their power would grow even as their membership shrank.
Would it be illegal if Newt, while if FL, said something like: “If I win the nomination, I’d love to have someone like Marco Rubio for my Vice President” ? Would that be any kind of a campaign-law violation?
Newt Gingrich didn’t serve in the US military, but has publicly said he now wishes he had, that if he had it to do again he would. He is a student of US history and a student of military history. He teaches general officers the “Art of War” at their respective war colleges. Newt Gingrich’s father served 27 years in the Army infantry and was a veteran of WW2, Korea and Vietnam. His grandfather was a WW1 veteran. He has always been a strong supporter of the US military. He worked to help bring down the Soviet Empire.
On the otherhand Willard the liberal never served a day in uniform. He dodged the draft during Vietnam, pretending to a “minister of the Morman Church”. His missionary work for three years in France consisted of living in a castle. He has never apologised for his lack of military service and had never said he wishes he had went in. None of his five grown sons have ever served a day in uniform. He has made the smartass remark that they are “serving their country” by working for his campaign. His father was WW2 draft-dodger, his grandfather a WW1 draft-dodger, his GG grandfathers were Civil War draft-dodgers. None of the Morman Romneys EVER SERVED A DAY IN THE SERVICE OF THEIR COUNTRY.
Now this worthless piece of shyt thinks he has what it take to be the Commander in Chief and send our sons and daughters to fight in far off lands. Something he himself, and his five grown sons did not have the common decency to do. TO HELL WITH THIS MARXIST ANTI-AMERICAN MORMAN! Mormans even own another country and it’s name is UTAH! That’s where his alligiance lies, UTAH, not the United States of America. UTAH and the Morman Church. The rest of the country could fall in the ocean for all this asshole cares.
Your Post #9 is spot on henkster. The only exception I have to it is this: I will vote for whomever is the GOP nominee. I’d vote for a can of Spam to get Obozo out of the White House. But, I certainly understand you feeling the way you do.
I did not know that he was on the Marriott Hotel Board of Directors, but, it makes sense. The Marriott chain is owned by a conglomeration of Mormons.
You wrote: “.....You’re going to see the Romney who invented Obamacare and wants to keep it going. And conservatives will no longer have any say inside the Republican Party.”
We KNOW that Mitt is the Ruling Class / Establishment’s candidate because they can CONTROL him. They can’t control Newt (just like they knew they couldn’t control Palin and had to destroy her).
The establishment is desperately trying to neuter and silence Conservative voices within the party:
Trent Lott [R] on Tea Party candidates: ‘As soon as they get here, we need to co-opt them’
http://blogs.ajc.com/jay-bookman-blog/2010/07/19/trent-lott-on-tea-party-candidates-as-soon-as-they-get-here-we-need-to-co-opt-them/
12:27 pm July 19, 2010, by Jay
The money quote from a Washington Post piece on the Tea Party and Washington’s GOP establishment:
Former Senate majority leader Trent Lott (R-Miss.), now a D.C. lobbyist, warned that a robust bloc of rabble-rousers spells further Senate dysfunction. “We don’t need a lot of Jim DeMint disciples,” Lott said in an interview. “As soon as they get here, we need to co-opt them.”
But Lott said he’s not expecting a tea-party sweep. “I still have faith in the visceral judgment of the American people,” he said.
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Republican lawmakers gird for rowdy tea party
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2010/07/17/AR2010071702375.html?hpid=topnews
By Shailagh Murray
Washington Post Staff Writer
Sunday, July 18, 2010
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The Ruling Class, Big Clique, and “Why Don’t the Republicans Do X?”
July 19, 2010 http://www.rushlimbaugh.com/home/daily/site_071910/content/01125106.guest.html
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[]RUSH: Once in a while — it doesn’t happen very often — once in a while you stumble across an article, an essay that demands to be widely disseminated. This one that I stumbled across is from the July-August issue of the American Spectator, and the title is: “America’s Ruling Class and the Perils of Revolution.” It’s by Angelo Codevilla. ....” [snip]
Yep! bttt
Speaking of Paxon, here’s more to add to your commentary copied and pasted from another thread yesterday:
To: Jim Robinson
Thanks for the heads up! Can’t wait to see this! I just got a call from someone listening to Hannity radio show and Hannity said Molinari got paid to stop Newt Gingrich from regulating Fannie and Freddie! If so, that is HUGE!!!!
31posted on Wednesday, January 25, 2012 4:31:20 PMby sheikdetailfeather
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2837782/posts?page=31#31
To: sheikdetailfeather
“While the Romney campaign today has worked aggressively to justify its candidate’s Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac investments as a benign oversight, a new report has surfaced indicating that top Romney campaign aides worked as lobbyists themselves for both Fannie Mac and Freddie Mac. Matt Lewis at The Daily Caller reports: “According to the AP, former Rep. Susan Molinari a top Romney surrogate and adviser . . . was one of the former GOP lawmakers paid quite handsomely to help stop “any meaningful regulation in the years before the housing mortgage giant crashed.”
59posted on Wednesday, January 25, 2012 4:57:19 PMby ConfidentConservative
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2837782/posts?page=59#59
To: ConfidentConservative
Molinari’s name also appears as one of the GOP who facilitated kicking Gingrich to the curb in the late 1990’s. She, Talent, and I forget the other name that keeps cropping up - Lindsay Graham maybe?
Part of the Rockefeller wing of the GOP, no doubt; which holds that “centrist” is better, and the farther left they can go, the better.
66posted on Wednesday, January 25, 2012 5:08:02 PMby Cboldt
To: ConfidentConservative
Susan Molinari who led the coup against Gingrich in ‘94 because of her defense of queer marriages and abortion on demand
67posted on Wednesday, January 25, 2012 5:08:15 PMby advertising guy
To: Cboldt
Molinari is Paxon’s wife. She helppec form the Republican Unity Coalition which is basically social liberals who support a big tent (meaning accepting gay marriage) vision for the Republican party. These are the people opposing Newt and throwing a hissy fit over the base’s rejection of their dream candidate, Romney.
If Santorum stays in to spoil the race for Newt in favor of Romney, he is the biggest fraud on the planet!
86posted on Wednesday, January 25, 2012 5:25:45 PMby KansasGirl
Those who have prospered under existing rules will always hesitate to change the rules, for to do so goes against their major interest. Unless there is greater profit. to be had by changing those rules. My guess is that Newt would rather be TR than J.P.Morgan.
Those who have prospered under existing rules will always hesitate to change the rules, for to do so goes against their major interest. Unless there is greater profit. to be had by changing those rules. My guess is that Newt would rather be TR than J.P.Morgan.
But would you vote for socialist Spam?
That’s what finally decided it for me. When I go to my grave, I can’t just say “I never voted for a democrat.” I want to say “I never voted for a socialist.”
I did not know that about Romney thanks.
Brit Hume’s (now deceased) son, Sandy, is the one who broke the story of the attempted Paxon coup against Gingrich.
Don’t know what the whole story is, but Brit Hume seems to have a real hatred for Gingrich.
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Hume broke the story of the aborted 1997 coup by Rep. Bill Paxon against Speaker Newt Gingrich. MSNBC commentator and former Republican congressman Joe Scarborough says in his book, Rome Wasn’t Burnt in a Day, that he was Hume’s source.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sandy_Hume
Good stuff! Thanks.
Paxon was Newt’s right hand guy, the only one of the four co-conspirators for whom Newt had created a position in the House (Republican Leadership Chairman) specifically for the purpose of appointing him to it. When the coup failed, Paxon was the only one of the four that Newt could strip of his position, since his was an appointed one, whereas the other three had been elected to theirs. As part of the coup, it had been agreed between the co-conspirators that Paxon was to replace Newt as Speaker. When the conspiracy was exposed to Newt (by Armey’s chief of staff), Newt promptly canned Paxon, and shortly thereafter Paxon resigned from Congress, along with a promise never to return to public office, not even as dog catcher. Since Newt so trusted Paxon, that betrayal probably hurt a lot.
Molinari has as much reason as any to hate Gingrich. Actually, I’m paying close attention now to just who it is that’s willing to stand by Newt publicly. Those are the ones who are probably more deserving of our confidence and trust. Right now among my short list: Fred Thompson, Sarah Palin, Rick Perry, Herman Cain (I heard him on Laura Ingraham this morning telling her that of the candidates still in the race Newt is the one who is closest to Reagan’s principles.)
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