Posted on 10/28/2009 12:02:55 PM PDT by neverdem
ALBANY—Former House speaker Newt Gingrich never mentioned Doug Hoffman's name during a radio appearance this morning, but had a clear message for Republicans in the 23rd Congressional District: "The vote you're going to cast for a third-party candidate is going to guarantee the election of a Democrat. If you think that adding another vote to Nancy Pelosi's majority is a good idea, that keeping Nancy Pelosi as speaker is a good idea, then it's fine. But don't kid yourself."
"John McHugh is a moderate Republican, he's held the seat for a very long time, I think 20 years," Gingrich, who has endorsed Republican Dede Scozzafava, told Joe Donahue on WAMC's The Roundtable. "She's not dramatically different from McHugh. So in that sense, it would be like electing someone who's like a Republican from that part of the state."
Gingrich then sounded a similar theme as an appearance on Fox News earlier this week where he called out Sarah Palin and Tim Pawlenty for endorsing Hoffman.
"But the question I raise to all of my friends around the country is, if we all claim we don't want Washington to be in charge of everything and we all claim we want local control, and we want the 10th Amendment respected and we want to return power to the state and local level, how come when the New York State Republicans in four separate meetings make the same unanimous choice and at all four meetings pick Dede Scozzafava, how come that's somehow not good enough?" Gingrich said. "And we're now going to impose our judgment from all over the country even though we don't live there, we weren't part of the meetings, we didn't see hat happened, and I think that's a very bad policy. I think that we have some obligation to respect the fact that Georgia's not the same as New York and New York's not the same as California, and California's not the same as Alaska. I think we ought to be a little cautious about trying to impose our national genes on a local community."
ps. Boycott his book.
Another brain fart from the godfather of earmark spending and it’s-OK-to-cheat-on-your-wife family “values”.
Newt doesn’t seem to realize that Hoffman is polling higher than Scozzafava. What an idiot, this guy is suffering from long term, terminal Beltwayitis.
What’s up with Newt these days?
Isn’t this election for the Federal Congress?
What’s there to prevent Scozzafava from jumping parties after elected as Jumping Jim Jeffords did to give congressional power to the Democrats?
OK lets try and figure the logic here.
We have a conservative who will vote to help stop bozo’s agenda.
We have an R who will vote with bozo on nearly everything.
we have a Dem who is the same as the R.
OK so voting for the R who in turn votes with the Dems is not helping Pelosi.
HUH
If we wanted to stop this extreme lefty agenda then it would make sense to vote for the person who votes against bozo.
OK Newt you have been in the DC elitist circles too much and on TV
Much better that a democrat holds the seat than a “republican” that votes as a democrat.
The ‘rats are too cowardly to do anything without “bipartisan cover”, and these RINOs give them just that.
So be it.
Today, Gingrich keeps talking about keeping the election “local.” Fifteen years ago, he was all in favor of nationalizing congressional elections.
No more RINOs! If we have to take a step back in order to make a leap forward, so be it.
Man 10 dollar mouth, 10 cent brain. Way to go, Newt.
Voting for Scozzfava gives Pelosi another vote she can count on as well.
X2 Newt needs to tell Dede, to sit down so a real republican can get in.
Respect the fact that not all people have drank the Jim Jones Fool-Aid of the liberal Republican party! The country is being destroyed by politicians that have no moral compass.
Gingrich is a RINO and a Pelosi groin leech.
knute is particularly slimy because NO-ONE pimped Ronald Reagan for his own self-aggrandizement/advancement like newt has.
This is the SAME rationale Republicans used on us to vote for Mc nutsky...
NOT going to work this time.
Burned once shame on you RNC, Burned twice, shame on me.
Newt turned into a POS.
EFFF U Newt.
You must have voted for Goldwater.
My respect for Newt is dropping rapidly. He apparently doesn’t see the “wake up call” that Sarah and others are sounding. Hope he wakes up before its too late FOR HIM.
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