Newt Gingrich Praised SEIU Head Andy Stern's Forward-Looking Vision

Newt Gingrich's own book "Real Chance: From the World That Fails to the World That Works" | Newt Gingrich

[Halfmanhalfamazing]

Newt Gingrich Praised SEIU Head Andy Stern's Forward-Looking Vision

In his book "Real Chance: From the World That Fails to the World That Works," Gingrich praises the SEIU head, who remains a close adviser of the President Obama. Pitching the need for conservatives to respect organized labor, while simultaneously pushing back against some of Labor's more cherished legislative goals, he wrote the following:

Conservatives cannot cheer unions overseas and then be blindly anti-union here at home. There are legitimate historic reasons for workers to organize together, and there is a strong need for a healthy, competitive, union, movement that helps improve the lives of its members and the competitiveness of our country.

Andy Stern, the head of the Service Employees International Union, is the union leader who probably best understands the challenge of the world market and the need to make American union members productive in the face of world competition. Sadly, he is a distinct minority among union leaders.

[Art in Idaho]

Oh Oh. Praising Andy Stern? CQ Alaska. . .

[Matchett-PI]

You’re welcome!

I’m STILL hoping that Palin will jump into the race.

Larry J. Sabato’s Crystal Ball
12/08/2011

2012 Republican Race: The Field May Not Be Closed

Conventional wisdom is that the Republican presidential field is set, and that it is much too late for a new candidate to enter the race.

In years past, that would be absolutely correct. Over the last few decades, dozens of primaries and caucuses have been shoe-horned into the opening weeks of the election year, with the tendency on the Republican side for the front-running candidate to score a quick knockout.

But next year, the arrangement of the primary calendar is much different. It is less condensed at the front, much more loaded with events at the back, with the prospect of a viable, late-starting candidate quite real.

[snip] Continue reading here: http://www.centerforpolitics.org/crystalball/

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Could Sarah Palin Still Get in the Race?

“.....Feb. 14 is the last day that a late entrant could enter the race and reasonably be expected to do well in subsequent races.

The scenario looks something like this: http://voices.yahoo.com/could-sarah-palin-still-race-10634503.html?cat=9

[Onelifetogive]

But I sure as all hell will never vote for that plastic, liberal-today-conservative-tomorrow piece of excrement from Massachusetts, Mitt Romney.

Seriously??? You prefer Obama to Romney?

[cripplecreek]

Newt makes no apologies for his support of the climate change myth, ——despite criticism from all over the right including Rush Limbaugh, who argued on his radio show that the former Georgia congressman had been aiding the “enemy.”

He's pretty quiet about his upcoming book titled "Environmental Entrepreneurs" which one of his co authors Terry Maple says is expected to come out in 2013.

We already know that Maple is a greentard loon and "environmental psychologist" but Katherine Hayyhoe (Climate Scientist) and author of "A climate for change" is another co author who deserves a look.

Katherine Hayyhoe, Climate Scientist

Katharine Hayhoe is a highly-respected expert on climate change, one of the most pressing issues facing the planet today. An expert reviewer for the Nobel Peace Prize-winning Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, her life’s work has been dedicated to discovering and communicating the realities of a changing climate to those who will be affected most by it.

As an associate professor in the Department of Political Science and director of the Climate Science Center at Texas Tech University, Katharine develops new ways to quantify the potential impacts of human activities at the regional scale. As founder and CEO of ATMOS Research, she also bridges the gap between scientists and stakeholders to provide relevant, state-of-the-art information on how climate change will affect our lives to a broad range of non-profit, industry and government clients.

Katharine's work has resulted in over 50 peer-reviewed publications and many key reports including the U.S. Global Change Research Program's 2009 report, “Global Climate Change Impacts in the United States,” the U.S. National Academy of Science 2011 report, “Climate Stabilization Targets: Emissions, Concentrations, and Impacts over Decades to Millennia,” and the upcoming 2013 U.S. National Climate Assessment. In addition to these reports, she has led climate impact assessments for a broad cross-section of cities and regions, from Chicago to California. The findings of these studies have been presented before Congress, highlighted in briefings to state and federal agencies, and featured in over 200 news and media outlets around the world.

Katharine is currently writing a guidebook and creating accompanying videos on how to incorporate climate projections into impact assessments for the U.S. Fish & Wildlife. She also teamed up with Andrew Farley, author, professor and lead teaching pastor of Ecclesia, to write “A Climate for Change: Global Warming Facts for Faith-Based Decisions," a book that untangles the complex science and tackles many long-held misconceptions about global warming. Her work as a climate change evangelist has been featured in the PBS documentary series, The Secret Life of Scientists.

I think its also important to look at what the "environmental entrepreneurs" have done for the world. Things like cap and trade is one of their fruits as well as the wind energy industry and the Chevy Volt are examples of environmental entrepreneurship.

[mmichaels1970]

Just skimmed through every page of text that was available online. It's a great read and I feel a lot better about Newt after reading it.

Great conservative arguments. He talks about not arguing within the framework of the left. Not compromising on solutions that will simply damage the country less.

I highly recommend reading what's available of it.

[cripplecreek]

The polish unions weren’t protesting for paid vacations, fully paid medical benefits, and more money. They were protesting against communist oppression.

Lech Walesa recently turned his back on the OWS crowd, Andy Stern embraces them.

[Eagle of Liberty]

I can’t believe how otherwise staunch conservatives on this forum can have so much collective amnesia about Newt, even when the evidence about him is pretty new.

Collective amnesia? How about accepting reality. Free Republic does not choose the Republican candidate despite all of the "newt sucks", "cain sucks", "perry sucks", "bachmann sucks", "santorum sucks" threads that are posted here. Someone is going to eventually come out of this process as the nominee and right now, the country is LOVING Newt's debate performances.

And now, here is the reality. MSM blasted Bachmann. She fell in the polls. MSM blasted Perry. He sucked eggs at the first few debates he was in and fell in the polls. MSM blasted Cain with slander and MANY people began to doubt him after the fourth accusation came out. He also had major troubles answering Foreign Policy questions and fell in the polls. Rick Santorum just cannot get any momentum, Gary Johnson is too libertarian for many and Ron Paul makes absolutely no National Defense sense.

So, this is where we are. Newt vs Romney and it looks like FR is not going to support either.

[netmilsmom]

All I have to say at this point is “THANK GOD FOR FReepers!”

I was listening to Beck this morning. I had seriously soured on Newt. I should have thought, hellsbells, I should have KNOWN that there was more to this story.

Thank you!

[faucetman]

“Newt saying FDR was the greatest president of the 20th century”

Again, this is a sound-bite. FDR was elected to FOUR terms as president. The American people must have thought he was doing something right.

He was a GREAT president. That is a fact. Was everything he did great? No. So,if Newt points out some attributes of FDR, that means he agrees with EVERYTHING FDR did? NO!

Let Newt make his case about his opinions on FDR and THEN decide. Not just jump to conclusions because Glenn Beck or Hufpo says so.

[GreyFriar]

It is better to vote for Obama than to vote for any conservative or Republican party candidate who is NOT absolutely perfect in every way, manner, and form. We should always vote for the democrat until we find the absolutely perfect conservative candidate to nominate and elect. It is better that we participate in the destruction of our country, than to try to save it with an imperfect conservative or republican candidate.

[Nervous Tick]

>> It is better to vote for Obama than to vote for any conservative or Republican party candidate who is NOT absolutely perfect in every way, manner, and form.

heh heh... I agree completely.

We’ve been standing in a toilet for three years. The front-running candidate provides only a partial step up and out. So clearly, the only thing for a conservative purist to do is to grab that handle and flush. :-)

[cripplecreek]

My favorites were Bachmann and Cain with Santorum as the acceptable compromise. Although I prefer Bachmann I was willing to vote for Cain in the Michigan primary because he stood the greatest chance of beating Romney and had a legitimate chance against Obama in the primary. Now Michigan will go to Romney so I’m free to just vote for Bachmann.

Oddly enough, my 3 candidates and strategic support makes me unreasonable in the eyes of those who support whoever the prevailing support goes to.

As for Gingrich, if he were truly the tea party candidate, he would have rocketed to the top when he announced back in the spring. Instead his campaign nearly ended with a collapse until the media dictated that he and Romney were all that was left.

[Grunthor]

I prefer neither man so I would not choose one.

I will vote in the downticket races, but I will never, not ever, vote for Mitt Romeny.

[Sudetenland]

Got news for you , Rush, and all the other folks who are so wrapped up in self-righteous anger over Newt saying "the Era of Reagan is over." He's absolutely correct.

When you have a Marxist-Narcissist like Obama sitting in the White House, guess what--the Era of Reagan is officially over. It ended when Bill Clinton became our 42nd President and began passing laws that reversed what Reagan had achieved. It accelerated in 2007 when the Democrats regained majority status in the House and began passing more anti-Reagan laws.

It's time for conservatives to grow up. Reagan is 20 years dead. There is no other Reagan. We have to stop wishing for a return to Reagan and move forwards on the principles for which Reagan stood.

What Newt said was absolutely true:

"I think if Governor Reagan were here today, and he were looking at where America should go, he wouldn't be saying, "Let's go back to 1980." He'd be saying, "Here are the solutions, here are the policies, here's what will carry us into the future." And I think we've watched these guys run around saying, "I'm like Reagan. I'm like Reagan." Reagan was a unique one-time personality whose great achievement in eliminating the Soviet empire was historic. Now we have a different world with a different set of problems. I don't think it can be, "Here's how you go back 28 years to reinvent Reagan." It's gotta be, "Here's how you apply conservatism to solve America's problems today."

Where is he wrong? What did he say the isn't absolutely true? We can't go back, we can only go forwards. There is no new Reagan, Reagan was a man of his era. All we can do is take the principles which moved Reagan which directed his actions and apply them to the problems we now face. Anyone who thinks that is not consistent with Ronald Reagan or in any way a rejection of Reaganism, needs to have his head examined.

I'll tell you and Rush and anyone else, selective reading and intentional misinterpretation of what Newt has said is the antithesis of Reaganism and beneath contempt.

Ronald Reagan didn't have to lie to make his points, all he had to do is state the truth. That is what Newt has done and it is not what Rush has done in this instance.

[aruanan]

We have to stop wishing for a return to Reagan and move forwards on the principles for which Reagan stood.

"A return to Reagan" means no other than "move forwards [sic] on the principles for which Reagan stood."

[Zevonismymuse]

You prefer Obama to Romney?

Yes, he does, because this isn't about what is good for America; this is about pride. The Romney haters here would rather see America destroyed than not get their way. Thank goodness this is not true for most self-identified conservatives. Sadly however, this small hateful band of Romney haters have made this site irrelevant in the upcoming election. Because the 2012 election is probably the most important election in a generation it is disappointing that a once respected website has turned into an echo chamber.

[Gipper08]

on what issue is Newt better than Romney? They are both Socialists and to the far left of GWB...

[Gipper08]

well said!

[KeyLargo]

Gingrich Flashback: ‘Progressive’ FDR Was ‘Greatest President of the 20th Century’ (Plus – SEIU’s Andy Stern Is Visionary Union Leader!)

video:

http://www.theblaze.com/stories/gingrich-flashback-progressive-fdr-was-greatest-president-of-the-20th-century-plus-seius-andy-stern-is-visionary-union-leader/

[KeyLargo]

Newt Gingrich
Consummate Politician and Quintessential Progressive Establishment Republican

~ Cashing In on His Political Connections ~
-by Scott Rohter, November 2011

“Ambition is a tricky little animal to tame, and very skillful at concealing itself from its master.”
- Thomas Jefferson, reprisal

“You can fool all of the people some of the time, and you can fool some of the people all of the time,
but you can’t fool all of the people all of the time!” –Abraham Lincoln

No Republican candidate running in the 2012 Presidential Primary is a bigger member of the Republican political establishment than Newt Gingrich is! He represents everything that the elite Progressive establishment has stood for, for the past thirty-two years! He epitomizes the ‘Rockefeller wing’ of the Republican Party. He is a typical ‘checked pants’ country club Republican! And just because he has not held an elected office for the last twelve of those thirty-two years, that does not mean that he has not kept his hand in politics, or that he has been out of the loop.

http://www.lessgovisthebestgov.com/Newt-Gingrich-establishment-politician.html