Posted on 12/09/2013 2:05:05 PM PST by SeekAndFind
Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich said he is surprised at the "hostility and vehemence" that some conservatives have in reaction to a statement he made honoring the late Nelson Mandela.
"Yesterday I issued a heartfelt and personal statement about the passing of President Nelson Mandela. I said that his family and his country would be in my prayers and Callista's prayers," Gingrich wrote on Friday.
"I was surprised by the hostility and vehemence of some of the people who reacted to me saying a kind word about a unique historic figure. So let me say to those conservatives who don't want to honor Nelson Mandela, what would you have done?" he asked.
Former South African President Mandela passed away at the age of 95 on Thursday, with the majority of the world's political and church leaders sending their condolences and respects to his family.
President Barack Obama said that the world has lost "one of the most influential, courageous and profoundly good human beings that any of us will share time with on this Earth," following Mandela's death, and talked a bit about the 27 years he spent as a political prisoner before becoming South Africa's first black president.
"Through his fierce dignity and unbending will to sacrifice his own freedom for the freedom of others, Madiba transformed South Africa and moved all of us," Obama said. "His journey from a prisoner to a president embodied the promise that human beings and countries can change for the better."
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Set the koolaid down, Newt.
What would I have done? Let’s see... not used violence?
I just thought all that outpouring of grief and extravagant praises
“unseemly”
I view comments from Newt about the way I do those from the Kardashians.
“hostility and vehemence”
...I’m not sure those words are appropriate. I don’t like the idea of flags being lowered half staff for a communist when they weren’t for Thatcher or the Benghazi victims. He had nothing but contempt for the US and for freedom. Other then that, he was a heluva guy!
Someday he and National Review will be surprised by the hostility to St. Hillary or St. Obama I reckon
Stupid is as stupid does.
staying silent is better than ignoring the truth or whitewashing history
NOOTie you are a smuck.Mandela is unrepentant communist terrorist.
Mandela was many things during his life.
Some very bad - some so-so - and some good.
Some say it was him that kept the lid on the Communists during the take over. Some wanted to go all Zimbabwe on the whites in SA.
So I’ll leave it at “He passed and my flag is not at half staff for him.”
Newt said:
“ So let me say to those conservatives who don’t want to honor Nelson Mandela, what would you have done?”
Me?
Find the nearest mention of him, and, um, “Happily apply some human-produced light oil to it”!!!
Romney may have been a RINO, but he doesn't take quite the delight in poking conservatives in the eye with a sharp stick that a McCain, a Bush or a Newt would.
Oh boy, here we go again. The thread deja vu, it is palpable.
Well Newt... what you could have done is just STFU about it.
Or don’t you realize that Mandela and his missus were communist terrorists who employed their minions to torture and kill THOUSANDS of innocent civilians?
Oh... and for those of you who consider folks like me who speak out against Mandela to be “the storm front of the conservative movement”... the VAST MAJORITY of the innocents that Mandela and his henchmen tortured and murdered happened to be BLACK.
You want a lighthearted jolly good time? Check out “necklacing” on google images.
Disgusting, isn’t it? That, folks, is the real NELSON MANDELA.
The worms can have that sorry puke’s body and Satan can have his dark soul... and “conservative” pols like Gingrich (and, sadly, Cruz) who praise his name and attend his funeral are out of line.
Flame away. I won’t back down... to ignore evil for political expediency is not only immoral, it’s foolish.
Same with Ted Cruz? Some people are simply admiring Mandela for the things he did right, not judging him on everything he said or did. Oh, and, conservatives have condoned violence when it’s used in defense of liberty since the country’s founding.
Cruz’s statement said: “Because of his epic fight against injustice, an entire nation is now free.”
Politicians (by their very nature) are on Mandela’s death like flies on sh*t.
Just another opportunity to get a “sound bite” out there; make themselves be heard, stay in the media stream. Scum feeding on scum.
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