Need anyone look any further for proof of Rinoism?
Posted on 11/20/2011 9:28:30 AM PST by TBBT
(Reuters) - Presidential candidate Newt Gingrich has roared into the lead of the Republican nominating race, brushing off concerns about his work for a troubled housing company, a Reuters/Ipsos poll showed.
Twenty-four percent of registered Republican voters would support the former speaker of the U.S. House of Representatives if the contest were held now, an increase of 8 percentage points from roughly a week ago, according to the poll, which was conducted on November 18-19.
Mitt Romney, the former Massachusetts governor who has stayed near the top of most polls, garnered support from 22 percent of Republicans, slumping 6 percentage points from the last survey conducted on November 10-11 and ending up essentially tied with Gingrich.
Despite allegations of questionable business ties, Gingrich is the latest favorite of conservative Republicans eager for an alternative to Romney, whom they see as too moderate.
(Excerpt) Read more at reuters.com ...
“Newt is smart, quick on his feet, a good debater, but otherwise is a genuine phony.” 9 posted on Wednesday, November 16, 2011 2:56:09 PM by Jim Robinson
Enjoy it while it lasts, Newtie.
The online survey of 1,432 Americans aged 18 and over included 423 Republican registered voters. Statistical margins of error are not applicable to online polls but the poll has a credibility interval of plus or minus 5.3 percent.
... and wonders. I heard Abramoff (sp?) on the radio last night. Having no political axe to grind that I’m aware of he was asked about Gingrich taking a cool million from Freddie. Was it corruption? His answer was unequivocal. It was the purest form of corruption, and yet perfectly legal. Gingrich is as establishment as they come, with skeletons in the closet, and cash to choke a horse. The chances that I would support him in any fashion, let alone to lead our nation? Is there something less than zero?
Why is it that all of our options are tainted? Why is the narrative lesser of 10 evils? I am at a loss as to how Mitt, Rick, or Newt get any support in the polls.
The worst case scenario, in my mind, would be the GOP with both houses, and a President Romney in the oval office. Where are the roadblocks to continued spending in that scenario?
President Newt could unite with the solid core of conservatives in the house and force the senate to go along with real changes in our fiscal situation.
Lets face it Romney is completely unacceptable, but lets look at Newt...
Newt Gingrich is a political chameleon that has inexplicably managed to fool conservatives for 30 years. He is a globalist to the bone and supports every opportunity to erode American sovereignty and the constitution. He disguises his statist positions with an abundance of flip-flopping and pandering as needed. He has a long history of expanding the Federal Government and deficit spending. He is the very definition of an Establishment Insider.
- Card-Carrying member of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), a globalist think tank
- “Distinguished member” of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (neocon, pro-interventionism group)
- Member of Bohemian Grove
- Member of the World Future Society
- Voted for NAFTA, a blatant circumvention of Congress’ exclusive power to regulate commerce with foreign nations. Took power from American people and put it into the hands of unelected Binational panels, made mostly of foreigners.
- Supported GATT
- Supported WTO
- Continually supported increased federal spending.
- Supported the National Endowment for the Arts;
- Voted for the creation of the Federal Dept. of Education in 1979 under Jimmy Carter.
- Big supporter of Foreign Aid — even to Soviets through the Export-Import Bank.
- In one year (1994-1995) Gingrich voted for nearly $45 billion in foreign aid.
- He helped push through Federally-funded loan guarantees to Communist China.
- Urged the House to repeal the War Powers Act and give the Presidency more power.
- Urged Clinton to expand military presence in Bosnia.
- Supports Afghan War
- Supports Iraq War
- Calls for Iran War
- Supported Clinton’s welfare programs, education programs, labor programs, and environmental programs, as well as most of his foreign affairs programs.
- Supported spending $30B for the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994 that shackled gun owners with new restrictions, federalized a number of crimes, and handed the feds police powers that the Constitution reserves to the states.
- Voted to give billions of dollars to United Nations “peacekeeping” operations;
- Pushed for a School Prayer Amendment
- Mentored by Henry Kissinger
- Bailed out savings and loan institutions in 1991. $40B Bank bailout
- He was a draft-dodger during the Vietnam War, yet pushed aggressive foreign interventionism his entire political career, and did say that Vietnam was the “right battlefield at the right time.”
- He cheated on one of his wives while she was suffering from cancer, delivered divorce papers to her in the hospital.
- Worked on the Rockefeller presidential campaign in 1968.
04/02/1987 – He cosponsored the 1987 Fairness Doctrine (anti 1st Amendment legislation)
10/22/1991 – He voted for an amendment that would create a National Police Corps.
03/–/1993 – He was “passionately in favor” of sending $1.6 Billion in foreign aid to Russia.
11/19/1993 – He voted for the NAFTA Implementation Act.
11/27/1994 – He supported the GATT Treaty giving sovereignty to the U.N.
08/27/1995 – He suggests that drug smuggling should carry a death sentence.
01/06/1996 – He himself conceived a secret CIA mission to topple the Iranian leadership.
04/25/1996 – Voted for the single largest increase on Federal education spending ($3.5 Billion)
04/10/1995 – He supported Federal tax dollars being spent on abortions.
06/–/1995 – He wrote the foreword to a book about tearing down the U.S. Constitution and implementing a Fascist World Government.
06/01/1996 – He helped a Democrat switch parties in an attempt to defeat constitutionalist Ron Paul in the 1996 election.
09/25/1996 – Introduced H.R. 4170, demanded life-sentence or execution for someone bringing 2 ounces of marijuana across the border.
01/22/1997 – Congress gave him a record-setting $300,000 fine for ethical wrongdoing.
11/29/2006 – He said that free speech should be curtailed in order to fight terrorism. Wants to stop terrorists from using the internet. Called for a “serious debate about the 1st Amendment.”
11/29/2006 – He called for a “Geneva Convention for terrorists” so it would be clear who the Constitution need not apply to.
02/15/2007 – He supported Bush’s proposal for mandatory carbon caps.
04/04/2007 – He says that there should be a clear distinction about what weapons should be reserved for only for the military.
04/17/2008 – Made a commercial with Nancy Pelosi on Climate Change.
09/28/2008 – Says if he were in office, he would have reluctantly voted for the $700B TARP bailout.
10/01/2008 – Says in an article that TARP was a “workout, not a bailout.”
12/08/2008 – He was paid $300,000 by Freddie Mac to halt Congress from bringing necessary reform.
03/31/2009 – Says we should have Singapore-style drug tests for Americans.
10/16/2009 – He angered conservatives by endorsing super liberal Dede Scozzafava.
07/30/2010 – Says that Iraq was just step one in defeating the “Axis of Evil”.
08/03/2010 – Advocates attacks on Iran & North Korea.
08/16/2010 – Opposes property rights of the mosque owner in NYC.
08/16/2010 – Compares mosque supporters to Nazis
11/15/2010 – He defended Romneycare; blamed liberals
12/02/2010 – He advocates a pathway to citizenship for illegal aliens.
12/05/2010 – He said that a website owner should be considered an enemy combatant, hunted down and executed, for publishing leaked government memos.
01/30/2011 – He lobbied for ethanol subsidies.
01/30/2011 – He suggested that flex-fuel vehicles be mandated for Americans.
02/02/2011 – He says we are “losing the War on Terror”; the conflict will be as long as the Cold War
02/10/2011 – He wants to replace the EPA instead of abolishing it.
02/13/2011 – He criticized Obama for sending less U.S. taxdollars to Egypt.
02/15/2011 – His book said that he believes man-made climate-change and advocated creating “a new endowment for conservation and the environment.”
03/09/2011 – He blames his infidelity to multiple wives on his passion for the country.
03/15/2011 – Says that NAFTA worked because it created jobs in Mexico.
03/19/2011 – He has no regrets about supporting Medicare drug coverage. (Now $7.2T unfunded liability)
03/23/2011 – He completely flip-flopped on Libyan intervention in 16 days.
03/25/2011 – He plans to sign as many as 200 executive orders on his first day as president.
03/27/2011 – He says that America is under attack by atheist Islamists.
04/25/2011 – He’s a paid lobbyist for Federal ethanol subsidies.
05/11/2011 – His campaign video said that he wants to “find solutions together, and insist on imposing those solutions on those who do not want to change.”
05/12/2011 – He was more supportive of individual health-care mandates than Mitt Romney.
05/15/2011 – Said GOP’s plan to cut back Medicare was “too big a jump.”
05/15/2011 – He backed Obama’s individual mandate; “All of us have a responsibility to help pay for health care.”
05/16/2011 – He also endorsed individual mandates in 1993 when Clinton pushed Universal Health Care.
05/17/2011 – He has an outstanding debt to Tiffany’s Jewelry of between $250K – $500K.
06/09/2011 – His own campaign staff resigned en masse.
07/15/2011 – His poorly managed campaign is over $1 Million in debt.
08/01/2011 – He hired a company to create fake Twitter to appear as if he had a following.
08/11/2011 – His recent criticism of the United Nations is undermined Nations by a long, long history of supporting it.
09/27/2011 – He says that he “helped develop the model for Homeland Security”
10/07/2011 – He said he’d ignore the Supreme Court if need be.
11/12/2011 – He advocates assassinating Iranian scientists and covert war with Iran.
hmm... now lets compare that with Cain....
annonomous accusations from mostly annonomous people
selective editing of an interview to make it look bad
hm..
Hard choice!
I think I’ll stick with Cain.
Good old Rueters right on que joining in the the latest smear of a Republican candidate. This time Newt. As per the case there will be those here on Free Republic happy to join in on the lies and deceit in order to promote their particular favorite candidate.
I think what you just proved is that we don’t have any good candidates.
ZZZZZ.....
I fell asleep after the first two sentences...
Newt didn’t brush off anything. He’s being protected by the same people that would really prefer Romney but know they can’t get him.
I’m leaning hard toward Cain. Newt’s starting to make Perry look good.
Here’s where you have gone wrong. Newt will not marshall forces to deconstruct the federal behemoth, he will manage a soft landing, continue the statist paradigm, and you won’t be able to bitch for one second because he will be YOUR MAN. Bush is the perfect example of this. The Republicans supported his NCLB, and Part B, because it was THEIR guy. He will be your guy if he wins, NOT MINE.
“I fell asleep after the first two sentences”
Check the polls when you wake up and you’ll see Newt back to 2%.
Need anyone look any further for proof of Rinoism?
The Establishment Republicans' dream. Speaker of the House Bohener and Senate Majority leader McConnell. The Tea Party will be muzzled, and the RINOs will be pedal-to-the-metal on government growth.
Why did we throw Perry aside? oh that's right! we disagreed with him on ONE issue... and yet, we disagree with Newt on dozens of issues. Why did we apparently throw Cain aside? oh that's right! unfounded accusations from anonymous or untrustworthy people that he might has been flirtatious 15+ years ago... and yet Newt has actually done far worse, he has an admitted and documented history of marital infidelity.
So in every way Newt is worse than the last two people we threw to the side.
People! wake up! stop letting the media control the narrative, stop letting them destroy our good candidates and stick us with this drivel.
Get back aboard the Cain train and send a real conservative to the White House!
GO CAIN !
“Newt is smart, quick on his feet, a good debater, but otherwise is a genuine phony.” 9 posted on Wednesday, November 16, 2011 2:56:09 PM by Jim Robinson
Every man is entitled to their own opinion, mine is slightly different.
“Newt is smart, quick on his feet, a good debater”, and unless we get stuck with RINO ROMNEY and/or another 4 years of that bastard in the While House, Newt is going to be the next President of the United States.
Sooner or later the body of evidence becomes overwhelming. Newt has at the very least risen to the top tier, if not outright lead.
There will be more denials of reality to be sure, but they start to remind me of Chip Diller in Animal House:
“Remain calm. All is well!”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2jqQsDklQEM
It MNJohnnie’s case the quote would be:
“Remain calm. Cain is still relevant!”
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