Posted on 11/19/2011 4:35:34 AM PST by BarnacleCenturion
JACKSONVILLE, Fla. — Alluding to the scandal embroiling his ascendant campaign, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich told a crowd in Jacksonville, Fla., Thursday that he would “cheerfully answer every single question” reporters had.
Following the event, however, he refused to answer any questions about the work he did for mortgage giant Freddie Mac.
In recent days, it has been revealed that Gingrich earned $1.6 million for work he did for Freddie Mac, the agency many blame for the housing bubble that preceded the financial crisis.
“In the next three weeks I predict to you, we’ll have all sorts of questions about me,” he said. “And it’s fine. You cannot ask the people of the United States to [give] you the most powerful governmental job in the world, particularly on a campaign that is promising very dramatic change, and not have them vet you carefully and thoroughly.
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This is the CNN New Hampshire debate on June 13, 2011. Newt states he helped write DOMA and stands by it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rN6X0M0rev8
My take on the differences between Marxists and American conservatives. Note that both systems have the same goals, a just society. However their views of a just society are vastly different.
Marxists believe man is inherently evil, by evil I mean greedy and a willingness to do anything to gain power over his fellow man. To keep his evil in check it is necessary to have a big government that can provide each and all the things required to survive. By having all men equal in there material processions mans' greed is kept in check.
American Conservatives view man in a more biblical context. A basically good but flawed creature. To keep man good requires a mostly religious citizenry with a government just big enough to defend society from foreign enemies and right the injustices that are bond to occur.
Are you kidding? org.whodat is a patriot just trying to ensure a moderate to liberal Republican does not get the nomination. We should have more like that. You caww and the others who are trying to compromise our principles are the ones that are the trolls. You guys will sell your soul to get a liberal in the Presidency.
I am fully aware of where Mr. Jim stands at this time. But like most each has his reasons for what he wants to see in a candidate..as well as not see. We are all free to choose...and I think Jim understands that all too well.
BTW...I do not choose a candidate based on who others might support. ..and I don't think Mr. Jim does either. Rather He provides a place for Candidates to be vetted and discussed.....and what is favorable or not about them.
Yeah and a lot of people here thought Bush 2 was a conservative, so what’s your point. (FYI I never thought Bush was a conservative).
You are right about the 1990s.
Rush has been a national treasure and Newt was the right man at the right time.
The question will be whether Newt could be kept to the straight and narrow now.
His greatest advantage as a candidate might be that he knows the press hates him, and he despises them in return, and at present he isn’t afraid to tell them so.
The day Newt will be sunk, and any potential supporters along with him, is the day that he once again starts making overtures to the enemy, including the media, the libs, the whole Washington machine.
The problem is that he has done it again and again.
Newt, like Obama, has to see himself as the smartest guy in the room. This leads him to propose dramatic “solutions,” some of which are anti-government and some the essence of big government.
Contrast Newt in the debate mopping the floor with CBS’ Scott Pelley and Newt last May sucking up to NBC’s David Gregory by ambushing Paul Ryan (a rival smart guy in the room).
I really like Newt as a candidate. As president?...well, it would never be boring.
It will take Newt a good four years simply to plug the leaks and cut out those who will fight him along the way. No one else has their plans in hand and ready to act when their feet hit the ground. None.
Were this some other time in our history I would be "happy" to consider others.....not now...not when the ship is fast sinking
“If we start ignoring our main principles then we will just continue to pick moderate to liberal candidates every time until you SERIOUSLY won’t be able to tell the difference between Democrat and Republican.”
Regarding marriage... Let me say this about that; Clinton was never divorced, Carter was never divorced, Obama was never divorced, Neither of the Bushes were (but they were not that conservative either). Yet Ronald Reagan, the poster boy for conservatism was divorced.
Marriage is simply not a delimiter.
Why are you worried about the democrats? They won’t vote for a republican anyway. I don’t get it. Pardon my French, but the hell with what they think OR say about our side. Are you paying attention to the damage the left is doing? Is anyone questioning them? Did anyone ask Obama how he could have afforded an Ivy League education when he claims he came from ‘poverty’?
The problem right now is WAY too many are too concerned with what ‘someone else’ says. If you don’t know by now that the media will attack ANY republican candidate, no matter how ‘vetted’ he or she may be, well, I mean no offense here, but you’re nuts.
Let’s just stop the circular firing squad.
Oh, well maybe I can help out.
First, I think people remember that Newt engineered the historic conservative congressional victory in 1994. I think they also remember the conservative princibles encapsulated in the Contract With America that Newt promised to have voted on in the first 100 days of the new Congress. A promise he kept. They also might remember that Newt battled Clinton over the budget and spending and in that battle he shutdown the government TWICE. Newt won the battle and the federal budget was balanced for the first time in most of our live times. He went on to implement welfare reform which was very high on the conservative to do list. Then in 96 for the first time in 60 years the out of power party, GOP, gained sits in Congress attesting to popularity of the conservatives things Newt and the GOP house did.
People that think Newt is a conservative, think he is a conservative based on his being the most conservative speaker of the house in the modern era and the fact that Newt has done more for conservatives then anyone since Reagan.
thanks for asking :)
Did he implement the whole Contract?
How did he do in the areas of tax cuts, tort reform, social security reform, welfare reform and term limits?
I'm a little rusty, but I think some of those things never happened.
Oh brother. I am not voting for Newt. I refuse too. I will vote for Cain, Bachmann or Santorum and that is it. People better get on board with those three or they will lose a ton of conservatives who don’t want a clone of Obama in Perry, Romney or Newt (they are the three least conservative). It makes me wonder why people are supporting the moderates.
He promised to bring things to a vote on the floor of the house, he could not promise (obviously) what the outcome of the vote would be.
Paragraphs would have been nice.
The story of Newt’s first divorce has been debunked by someone who was actually there at the time, his daughter:
http://townhall.com/columnists/jackiegingrichcushman/2011/05/08/setting_the_record_straight
Sounds like the story we’ve been told all these years is a media manufactured and media driven smear. The “journalist” who supposedly interviewed the first Mrs. Gingrich is now associated with Mother Jones.
Newt and his second wife lived apart for 6 years during their marriage. She had his name, his money, and nothing to do with him. She called this a “good marriage”
Newt is married to his third wife. She is the only woman he has ever admitted to having an affair with.
There seems to be a difference in the stories involving Newt’s personal life. I feel the past is between Newt, his wife and his God. I accept that Newt has a strong and happy marriage with Callista, and that his faith has been strengthened since his conversion to Catholicism.
I have mostly been staying away, not posting much, it’s easier that way. I will be glad when the 2012 elections are over, because I can see that until then, it’s going to get a whole lot worse before it gets better. Then we can all go back to talking once again about how sick America is for voting for the Kenyan, Barry Hussein Soetoro and electing him again.... or we can discuss how it sucks to have a RINO that won the election... or we can celebrate that a conservative beat Hussein... or we can celebrate a little that a RINO beat Hussein but that we have a conservative VP unless that RINO is Mitt then there will be no celebration regardless of who the VP is, even if it was DeMint, Palin, etc. ... or we can discuss how we beat the Kenyan but now have a RINO President AND VP...but at least we can all laugh at Hussein the Marxist’s defeat and at the same time beat the Mittens up should he win( which I highly doubt will ever happen)......It is about to get world class interesting and before anyone reads this and says HA! a Romneybot, please feel free to do the following:
Click on my name, that will take you to my home page, then click on in forum, that will take you to ALL of my past posts since the day I joined FR. Please feel free to find ONE single post where I ever supported, praised or spoke fondly of Mitt Romney. Just one.... I wish you luck, you will be searching for a long time and you will come up empty handed.
As for all the Axelrod Obots on FR right now that are bashing the GOP nominees 24/7, you may fool the mods, you do NOT fool most FReepers. You’re just way too easy to spot and your past posting history outs you.
If his daughter had come out with this back in 1999 or 2000 or 2001 or 2002 or even 2008, but for her to come out in May 2011 just before he announces he is going to run for President is BS. Seriously you cannot be that naive. Anyway, you are welcome to vote for him in the Primary and General. I will not. I will vote for Cain in the Primary and hope he gets the nomination. If he doesn’t than I will write in Cain and have all my friends and family to do the same. They have principles too. Thank God!!!!
Astroturfing: The use of paid shills to create the impression of a popular movement
So you find the word of a left-wing reporter who wasn’t there to be more credible than a conservative woman who was an actual witness?
If you’re going to use a write in to vote against the Republican candidate in the General, don’t come crying about what Obama does to our country in his second term.
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