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To: Steelfish

Newt Gingrich had a consulting contract with Freddie Mac. Why are some Republicans upset about someone working for themselves, and making money at it?


29 posted on 12/17/2011 9:52:50 PM PST by SuziQ
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But then we fault those who had consulting contracts with Solyndra too. Don’t we? When taxpayer monies are siphoned off even in the form of consulting contracts, it matters. We need to be principled conservatives.


32 posted on 12/17/2011 9:59:35 PM PST by Steelfish (ui)
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To: SuziQ
Newt Gingrich had a consulting contract with Freddie Mac. Why are some Republicans upset about someone working for themselves, and making money at it?

Would you feel the same way if the "consulting" contract would have been with Planned Parenthood?

36 posted on 12/17/2011 10:07:24 PM PST by Prokopton (.)
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Ok just to set things straight. Palin was a money grubbing opportunist, but Newt is ?????


49 posted on 12/17/2011 11:11:20 PM PST by itsahoot (Throw them all out! Especially the Frugal Socialists who call themselves Republicans.)
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To: SuziQ
Newt Gingrich had a consulting contract with Freddie Mac. Why are some Republicans upset about someone working for themselves, and making money at it?

It's called "guilt by association", and it's one of the lowest and laziest logical fallacies. Since FM was in the sup-prime mortgage business, and Newt did work for them, then Newt is guilty of FM's indiscretions. Even though many admit right on this thread that they have NO IDEA what he was actually paid for. It's the kind of tenuous tie that a, say, Michele Bachman might use to say Newt was "for partial-birth abortion."

65 posted on 12/18/2011 5:45:49 AM PST by ez (When you're a hammer, everything looks like a nail.)
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