Posted on 10/27/2009 4:45:19 PM PDT by Sub-Driver
Fred to Newt: We're not 'deaf, dumb' By: Andy Barr October 27, 2009 07:20 PM EST
Former Tennessee Sen. Fred Thompson brushed back former House Speaker Newt Gingrich on Tuesday over Gingrichs warning that the Republican Party is wrong to thrown in its lot with the Conservative Party nominee Doug Hoffman over Dede Scozzafava, the GOPs candidate, in the special election in New Yorks 23rd congressional district.
Gingrich has called the many prominent national Republicans including Thompson who have endorsed Hoffman over Scozzafava in recent days misguided, arguing they are making a mistake to back a third-party candidate over the partys nominee.
The conservatives who back Hoffman point to Scozzafavas support for abortion right and ties to local union leaders.
During his radio show Tuesday, Thompson said he was sad to hear when a good Republican friend of mine says that I, and the other good, conservative Republicans who have endorsed Hoffman, are misguided. And thatd be my friend, Newt Gingrich.
I respect Newt. Hes a friend. Done a lot of good, I think. But he endorsed Scozzafava early on. So, we have an honest disagreement in the family, Thompson said.
But, he added, Newt said that our support for Hoffman was a purge, was misguided, waswe were applying a litmus test that said if youre not 100 percent with us than you're not with us at all. And that Scozzafava was more in step with her district and therefore we shouldn't substitute our judgment for the party elders of the district.
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Thanks for the ping. Fred tells it like it is! Newt and the rest of the rino GOP need to get out of the way so we can take this country back from the commies!
No compromise with evil!
Bill Bennett had Newt on this morning, or maybe Newt asked to appear. He spouted the same old garbage and Bennett ended by saying he just did not agree with him. Heh!
DeMint AND Pence both endorsed Hoffman.
I swear Newt must be schizophrenic ..
andthere’s now no doubt that he’s
paving the way for running .. and
acting really stupidly.
Definitely kudos to Fred!
I can’t stand the mentality of following a party! Follow your views and to whomever that person is that believes as you do.
They should throw out the whole party system and vote for people (yeh, people of the Republic)
Then people will have to be informed on who they are actually voting for. Otherwise it’s an eenie meenie miney moe!
“and theres now no doubt that hes
paving the way for running”
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and towing the “Party” line....
I wrote this in a recent post I called, “What’s the Matter with These Repubs!
Where have they been for the last 9 months? in a drug-induced coma? in solitary confinement? in North Korea?
It is incomprehensible to me that they let Beck & Rush twist in the wind as if they are some hysterical, over-reacting ninnies starved for attention and ratings.
How can the obvious have escaped them? Their business is politics, government!!!! That’s what we pay these public servants to do -— to serve their constituency, the Republic, the CONSTITUTION.
They want to pick a fight with the only living, breathing, thinking organisms in their own party???
Is it possible that since the Dem Party has been taken over by Marxists and Nat’l Socialists, that RINOS think the Repub Party will become the new Democrats? Is that what they are thinking?
How delusional.
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“rino GOP need to get out of the way so we can take this country back from the commies! No compromise with evil!”
“Is it possible that since the Dem Party has been taken over by Marxists and Natl Socialists, that RINOS think the Repub Party will become the new Democrats? Is that what they are thinking?”
You may be on to something there, as well as the observation that that is delusional thinking. If the GOP and rinos continue in this path, there will be a third party(which will destroy our chances in 2010 and 2012. We are fixing to find out how much the rinos and Gop love their country. So far, they appear to love their own power more. A sad state of affairs.
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