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
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.)