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GOP candidates for Congress bullish on Gingrich at top of ticket
MSNBC ^
| Dec 16, 2011
| By Michael O'Brien
Posted on 12/16/2011 1:04:19 PM PST by Jim Robinson
The hottest argument in Republican circles these days isn’t about immigration, taxes or even health care policy. It’s about New Gingrich and whether nominating him as the party standard-bearer would be disastrous or providential.
The pundits and professional consultants have weighed in on the question in a largely negative manner but many of the Republican candidates seeking election to Congress next fall don’t appear to share the concerns the GOP establishment seems to have about the impact Gingrich would have on downballot races as their presidential nominee. A dozen of the GOP’s top recruits to run for Congress, part of the National Republican Congressional Committee’s “Young Guns” program for 35 promising candidates, said in interviews with NBCPolitics.com over the last week that they’re not worried about running with the former House speaker at the top at the ticket. Some are downright excited about the prospect.
"I’ve been telling people all along that Newt is the real thing, and he’s substantially different than when he was Speaker of the House," said Dave Garrison, the Republican challenging Democratic Rep. Lloyd Doggett in Texas.
“I think for my race, my views are more in line with Newt Gingrich, and if the base rallies behind a Newt Gingrich-like candidate, it will benefit me,” said another Republican running for Congress in the southwestern U.S., who asked for anonymity in order to speak candidly about the race. “I think Newt’s a more exciting candidate; he’s going to bring more attention to the conservative cause.”
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KEYWORDS: elections; gingrich; newt; teapartyrebellion
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To: Gator113
41
posted on
12/16/2011 1:55:58 PM PST
by
going hot
(Happiness is a momma deuce)
To: Leto
His platform as per his website is solidly conservative
Like 'legalizing' somewhere between 3 and 30 million illegals?
42
posted on
12/16/2011 1:56:53 PM PST
by
TomGuy
To: Jim Robinson
I've slipped into a FReaky parallel universe...
Maybe I missed the transition, but when did FR become a place that cheers for Newt Gingrich for President? I guess things have gotten so bad, even he looks good now.
Don't get me wrong, I'll be voting for the (R) no matter what next November -- Obama is a force of destruction that hates our country, but my enthusiasm for upcoming election is completely gone.
Rah-Rah Newt? No thanks.
43
posted on
12/16/2011 1:58:13 PM PST
by
FightforFreedomCA
(we're stumbling towards Romney....)
To: Jim Robinson
Newt’s right. Get this show out of the ditch the Dems have driven it into with their total idiocy, and back onto the road.
44
posted on
12/16/2011 2:04:08 PM PST
by
rockinqsranch
(Dems, Libs, Socialists, call 'em what you will, they ALL have fairies livin' in their trees.)
To: Jim Robinson
Newt is not a lawyer, but he knows the LAW better than they do!
45
posted on
12/16/2011 2:04:15 PM PST
by
PALIN SMITH
(In a time of universal deceit, telling the truth is a revolutionary act.)
To: going hot
46
posted on
12/16/2011 2:08:16 PM PST
by
Gator113
(~Just livin' life, my way~.. Newt/Palin-West-2012."got a lot swirling around in my head.")
To: FightforFreedomCA
47
posted on
12/16/2011 2:08:25 PM PST
by
Jim Robinson
(Rebellion is brewing!! Impeach the corrupt Marxist bastard!!)
To: FightforFreedomCA
” ... when did FR become a place that cheers for Newt Gingrich for President? I guess things have gotten so bad, even he looks good now.”
Unfortunately, that’s the situation we are now in.
To: Jim Robinson
this is the time that Sarah Palin needs to come out and enthusiastically endorse Newt Gingrich.. her endorsement now would automatically send the Niki Haley, Chris Christi, Ann Coulter ect,ect endorsements of Romney(who wouldn’t be seen with the Tea Party) to the who cares level and put the values of the Tea Party front and center again.. Palin’s endorsement(against the establishment.. let’s remember she threw out the Republican establishment in Alaska) might create an unstoppable Gingrich momentum like Reagan got in 1980 to where Romney couldn’t stop it.. her endorsement would be HUGE
To: Jim Robinson
OK, that I liked. Not ready to order a bumper sticker yet, but will try to keep an open mind towards Newt. Blessings...
50
posted on
12/16/2011 2:23:47 PM PST
by
FightforFreedomCA
(we're stumbling towards Romney....)
To: Rashputin
Plus Newt will drive boehner and mcconnell crazy...
To: Lib-Lickers 2
Palin’s endorsement(against the establishment.. let’s remember she threw out the Republican establishment in Alaska) might create an unstoppable Gingrich momentum like Reagan got in 1980 to where Romney couldn’t stop it.. her endorsement would be HUGE
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Really? Ya think so?
Like when she endorsed John McCain in his senate race over the Tea Party candidate - J.D. Hayworth?
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posted on
12/16/2011 2:26:13 PM PST
by
Responsibility2nd
(NO LIBS! This means liberals AND libertarians (same thing) NO LIBS!)
To: FightforFreedomCA
Here’s another one that made me stand up and cheer. Once at his first answer, then again on his second at the end:
Newt Hammers Obama Over Blocking the Keystone Pipeline
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3q76DpaRSmE
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posted on
12/16/2011 2:30:31 PM PST
by
Jim Robinson
(Rebellion is brewing!! Impeach the corrupt Marxist bastard!!)
To: Responsibility2nd
Here is a link which provides answers to common attacks on Newt, and which invites readers to submit requests for issues they would like addressed by the official Newt Gingrich campaign:
http://www.newt.org/answers
It has a lot of FACTual information.
you're welcome.
To: Jim Robinson
You say: “Rebellion is brewing”
Damn straight - ans here’s they guy newt wants for his VP -
This ticket would cause apoplexy within the Establishment pubbie and hari kari would be rampant through Lib-Vamp and the media would turn into Susan “Estrogen” on the night of Bush’s win - drunk, disheveled with tears streaking down their faces.
Here’s the video of Newt’s pick when he was running for
Congress - where he has become the most known new senator - because he says it like it is.
REVOLUTION! “Bayonets”
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VP2p91dvm6M
Col West on ‘Palestinians?’ and the “Arab Spring” He ALSO knows history...;o)
http://mrctv.org/embed/aim-allen-west-schools-palestinian-statehood
Gingrich/West - none could beat them
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posted on
12/16/2011 2:36:51 PM PST
by
maine-iac7
(A prudent man foreseeth the evil,... but the simple pass on, and are punished. Prov 23:3 KJV)
To: Gator113
I’m mildly concerned about the several articles and news scrolls about Newt being “battered” in the debate (I thought he fought back and did well addressing the ISSUES), and Romney being “energized”.
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posted on
12/16/2011 2:39:24 PM PST
by
RockinRight
(If you're waiting to drink until you find pure water, you're going to die of dehydration.)
To: Responsibility2nd
Nice compilation of largely unsourced material—especially the excerpts from RP and Alex Jones sites, lol.
#1) This isn’t the same kind of individual mandate per Obamacare. If you listen to what he actually says:
“GINGRICH: If I see somebody who’s earning over $50,000 a year, who has made the calculated decision not to buy health insurance, I’m looking at somebody who is absolutely as irresponsible as anyone who was ever on welfare. Because what they’ve said is, A, I’m gambling that I won’t get sick, and B, I’m gambling that if I do get sick, I can cheat all my neighbors. Now, when you talk to hospitals, a very significant part of their non-collectibles are people who have money, but have calculated it’s not worth the cost to pay. And so I’m actually in favor of finding a way to say, whatever the appropriate level of income is, you ought to have either health insurance, or you ought to post a bond. But we have no right in this society to have a free rider approach, if we’re well off economically, to cheat our neighbors.” Source: http://nation.foxnews.com/newt-gingrich/2011/11/29/2005-flashback-video-newt-backs-individual-mandate
#2) Sharpton is sketchy to be sure, but I can understand that pairing the two makes for strong publicity. I don’t see anything about promoting socialist education policies in here.
#3) Climate change or anthropogenic climate change? There’s a big difference between the two. It’s one thing to say that climate change is occurring and that we ought to understand it and what it may do—it’s quite another to say that humans are influencing climate change in any significant way. AFAIK, his stated position on that is “we don’t know.” I’m fine with that position, because given the available scientific facts and evidence, “we don’t know” is the honest answer.
#4) This claim has no provided source, so I’ve no idea what was actually said.
#5) Even the source admits that the vast majority of the co-authored legislative proposals were innocuous: “Many of the bills Gingrich and Pelosi co-sponsored were hardly divisive: authorizing an award for Mother Teresa, giving a congressional gold medal to former President Gerald Ford and recognizing the 50th anniversary of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute.”
With exception of 1 potential bill which never made it out of committee. This sounds like a non-issue to me.
#6) Didn’t hear anything about amnesty and he’s stated he would secure the border within a year. Is there a single candidate who has vowed to throw every single illegal out, no exceptions? Don’t think so.
#7) Funny how the cited source (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJb2NfqwghY) cuts off mid-sentence. I wonder what Newt actually said.
#8) Symptom of a growing economy, perhaps? Tax revenues increased under Reagan, too. I guess Reagan was a liberal.
#9) $1.6 million paid out to a consulting firm over the course of 10 years, is chump change. And apparently Newt didn’t do anything that Freddie Mac believed they could use on their behalf—perhaps because Newt told them what they didn’t want to hear? I don’t see what the big deal here is.
#10) Rand Paul is obviously stumping for daddy, so none of this is even worth addressing.
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posted on
12/16/2011 2:39:47 PM PST
by
Utmost Certainty
(Our Enemy, the State | Gingrich 2012)
To: Responsibility2nd
Wow, you must be dizzy from all that spinning.
58
posted on
12/16/2011 2:41:45 PM PST
by
RockinRight
(If you're waiting to drink until you find pure water, you're going to die of dehydration.)
To: FightforFreedomCA
It is always the same. Same thing happened with Bush, McCain, ect....
It starts out with I would never vote for candidate X. And it ends with -You are a traitor if you don’t. You are a leftest OWS loving traitor if you don’t. The reality is that Newt is more of the same old thing. He will change anything in the long run from what it is unless he is absolutely forced to do so. Such as the US can’t borrow anymore money. Newt played a large part in forming the system as it is. Truth is that he loves things as they are. Freddie, Fanny, The borrow and spend game, Insider trading, Deception, all the corruption. He was born out of it, and he is not going to be changing much in this lifetime. Word is that his budget plan leaves us once heck of a hole once again.
But then who can say that Newt is any worse than the people he wants to represent. The people he wants to vote for him. He is not any different really. Just like Newt, the people who vote for him are never going to learn anything either. Worse- They are never going to stop being gullible. They are never going to learn anything different. We are close the end now. The Grand ole USA. And we are voluntarily jumping on the train that is heading over the cliff. I guess it is no wonder that I have kind of lost my faith in humanity. I know that it is vanity to post things like this, but once in awhile I just can’t help but cry out.
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posted on
12/16/2011 2:41:59 PM PST
by
Revel
To: RockinRight
Wow, you must be dizzy from all that spinning.
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lolol. Nope. I got more. Lots more...
(Wheee!)
Newt's Liberal Agenda Exposed
Newt Gingrich Backs Funds For Abortion - http://articles.sfgate.com/1995-04-10/news/17801484_1_poor-w... 02/15/2007 - Newt Gingrich supported a proposal for mandatory carbon cap and trade - http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/hotpolitics/intervie... 02/10/2011 - Newt Gingrich wants to replace the EPA instead of abolishing it - http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20031365-503544.html 01/30/2011 - Newt Gingrich lobbied for ethanol subsidies -http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405274870469800457610... Newt Gingrich's Environmental Problem -http://www.salon.com/2011/05/11/gingrich_environment_america... Newt Gingrich co-sponsored the Global Warming Prevention Act which says that “the Earth’s atmosphere is being changed at an unprecedented rate by pollutants resulting from human activities, inefficient and wasteful fossil fuel use, and the effects of rapid population growth in many regions...global warming imperils human health and well-being...and [demands] to reduce world emissions of carbon dioxide by at least 20% from 1988 levels by 2000... major threat to political stability, international security, and economic prosperity.” - 1998 - http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/bdquery/z?d101:H.R.1078: Newt Gingrich Supported the Bailouts/TARP Newt Gingrich says he would've voted for TARP -http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hJb2NfqwghY Newt Gingrich gets back on the couch with Pelosi-http://michellemalkin.com/2008/09/28/gingrich-gets-back-on-t... Newt Gingrich Supported Federal Health Insurance Newt Gingrich supports Obama and Mitt Romney's healthcare plan-http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYHSdRRLb7U Newt Gingrich says the government must force people to buy health insurance- http://www.healthtransformation.net/cs/opeds_news?pressrelea... Newt Gingrich Was More Supportive Of Individual Mandates Than Mitt Romney- http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/05/12/newt-gingrich-indiv... 11/15/2010 - Newt Gingrich defended Romneycare -http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/1110/Gingrich_defends... 03/19/2011 - Newt Gingrich has no regrets about supporting Medicare drug coverage. (Now $7.2T unfunded liability) -http://www.thenewamerican.com/index.php/usnews/health-care/6... Newt Gingrich said: “All of us have a responsibility to help pay for health care.” - http://online.wsj.com/article/SB1000142405274870350910457632... Newt Gingrich said: “I agree that all of us have a responsibility to pay — help pay for health care.” MSNBC’s David Gregory: But that is the individual mandate, is it not? “It’s a variation on it.” -http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/267330/gingrich-i-oppos... In 2008 Newt Gingrich suggested ‘insurance mandates for people who earn more than $75,000 a year.’ Two years later, he was telling Sean Hannity at Fox News that health insurance mandates were unconstitutional.” -http://www.csmonitor.com/USA/Politics/The-Vote/2011/0327/New... Newt Gingrich Supports Amnesty for Illegals Aliens Watch the video of Newt Gingrich proposing amnesty in his own voice -http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l-OKFOhCaDY Conservatives are critical of Newt's amnesty stance -http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/283932/gingrich-amnesty... More criticisms about Newt's desire for illegals to receive amnesty -http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1210/45873.html Newt Gingrich voted to raise the debt ceiling 4 times:
1 - http://www.govtrack.us/congress/vote.xpd?vote=h1979-449
2 - http://www.govtrack.us/congress/vote.xpd?vote=h1980-936
3 - http://www.govtrack.us/congress/vote.xpd?vote=h1981-7
4 - http://www.govtrack.us/congress/vote.xpd?vote=h1984-754 Newt Gingrich voted for a $50 billion tax increase - (House Roll Call Vote 569 - 1984) Newt Gingrich was paid by Freddie Mac to lobby Republicans for support -http://www.bloomberg.com/news/2011-11-16/gingrich-said-to-be... More on the Newt Gingrich Freddie Mac lobbyist scandal -http://www.cnbc.com/id/28108013/How_Freddie_Mac_Splashed_Cas... Newt Gingrich's Charity Paid Money to Gingrich's Business -http://www.theatlanticwire.com/politics/2011/06/gingrich-cha... Newt Gingrich voted to create the Department of Education -http://www.govtrack.us/congress/vote.xpd?vote=h1979-468 Newt Gingrich voted for the single largest increase on Federal education spending ($3.5 Billion) - http://clerk.house.gov/evs/1996/roll135.xml Newt Gingrich flip-flops on Libya in less than 16 days-http://www.slate.com/content/slate/blogs/weigel/2011/03/23/n... Newt Gingrich supported the World Trade Organization, voted for GATT/WTO - http://clerk.house.gov/evs/1994/roll507.xml Newt Gingrich supported GATT - http://www.cfaba.org/cf05006.htm Newt Gingrich supported WTO - http://www.nolanchart.com/article368-bill-clinton-and-his-na... 03/15/2011 - Newt Gingrich says that NAFTA worked 'because it created jobs in Mexico' - http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2011/03/15/150658/gingrich... Newt Gingrich helped push through federally-funded loan guarantees to communist China - http://www.lessgovisthebestgov.com/Newt-Gingrich-Candidate-P.... "Newt Gingrich was passionately in favor of helping Russia (with US foreign aid), saying it was a "great defining moment" for America and we had to do the right thing. Newt was trying to "out-Russia" me, which I was only too happy to have him do." - Bill Clinton -http://www.issues2000.org/My_Life.htm In one year (1994-1995) Newt Gingrich voted for nearly $45 billion in foreign aid - http://www.unelected.org/socialist-of-the-week-newt-gingrich. Newt Gingrich was for the United Nations before he was against it -http://thecable.foreignpolicy.com/posts/2011/08/11/gingrich_... 09/16/1996 - Newt Gingrich voted for the anti-gun Brady Campaign’s Lautenberg Gun Ban, which took away gun rights-http://www.nationalgunrights.org/the-inconvenient-truth-abou... Newt Gingrich has a bad firearms record - http://gunowners.org/gingrich-mixed-record.htm Newt Gingrich worked for the Rockefeller campaign -http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/newt/interviews.html 10/16/2009 - Newt Gingrich endorsed super liberal Dede Scozzafava -http://michellemalkin.com/2009/10/16/an-acorn-friendly-big-l... 05/04/1979 - Newt Gingrich voted for a federal land grab that put tens of millions of acres of land in the hands of Washington bureaucrats. -http://www.govtrack.us/congress/vote.xpd?vote=h1979-107 04/02/1987 - Newt Gingrich cosponsored the 1987 Fairness Doctrine (anti 1st Amendment legislation) - http://pjmedia.com/tatler/2011/04/29/newt-gingrich-co-sponso... Newt Gingrich voted to take land away from states and individuals. The “Alaska National Interest Lands Conservation Act,” which Newt Gingrich voted for in support of President Jimmy Carter, was a federal government power grab that put tens of millions of acres of land in the hands of the corrupt cronyism and bureaucracy in Washington. -http://www.govtrack.us/congress/vote.xpd?vote=h1979-107 Fiscal conservative Steve Forbes' magazine says that "Newt Gingrich Represents The Worst Qualities Of The GOP Primary Field" -http://www.forbes.com/sites/erikkain/2011/11/16/newt-gingric... The Many Flip-Flops of Newt Gingrich -http://www.tnr.com/slideshow/politics/85743/newt-gingrich-li... World Net Daily (WND) - Joe Farah says that "Gingrich is a Liberal" -http://www.wnd.com/?pageId=299873 Democrats Think Newt Gingrich Will Be Easy To Beat -http://www.politico.com/news/stories/1111/68414.html Jack Abramoff says 'Newt Gingrich is corrupt' -http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2011/11/jack-abramoff-n...
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posted on
12/16/2011 2:43:53 PM PST
by
Responsibility2nd
(NO LIBS! This means liberals AND libertarians (same thing) NO LIBS!)
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