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Posted on 01/13/2012 1:49:07 PM PST by indianrightwinger
Gingrich is a perverse product of political system
byTimothy P. Carney Senior Political Columnist posted January 11, 2012 at3:26pm with26 Comments
One reason to deplore our corrupt revolving-door politics and crony-corporatist economy is that it has produced a man like Newt Gingrich.
Through his defenses of his pro-corporate welfare lobbying efforts and his facile attacks on Mitt Romney's profits, Gingrich has emerged this election as an enemy of the free market -- an unlikely distinction for a member of the Republican Party, which is supposed to stand for the free market. The pious preachments of liberal college professors, the foolhardy machinations of liberal central planners, and the even the greedy public-policy profiteering of subsidy-suckling CEOs and regulatory robber barons are all less harmful to economic liberty than the insidious and Orwellian campaign by the former speaker.
Gingrich, both himself and through a superPAC technically separate from his campaign, has attacked Romney's lucrative career at Bain Capital. This is not automatically unconservative. There is nothing sacrosanct about making money, and defenders of the free market certainly aren't obligated to side with finance, as the bailouts reminded us. But the Gingrich video doesn't hit Romney for chasing bailouts or subsidies, for using eminent domain, or any sort of cronyism. Gingrich is attacking Romney for trying "to reap massive rewards for himself and for his investors."
The knocks on Romney in Gingrich's video are that Bain Capital "took foreign seed money," and that the struggling firms Romney tried to save laid off workers. The Gingrich narrative -- that Romney made money by laying off good working men and women -- is breathtakingly simplistic, the sort of thing you expect from an Upton Sinclair or a Dennis Kucinich.
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Ahhhhhhh you’re a middle school student.
Yet another unctuous, hysterical rant by an apparent ideologue.
Gotta love these armchair Capitalists.
We already know that you’re a ROMNEY SUPPORTER.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=endscreen&v=ZWHpcKXt-qQ&NR=1
By all means. I have not heard any serious charges except the $10m pension bailout. And, even that pension bailout, I would like it to be debated.
I am all for it. Not for broad brush “evil venture capitalist” charge.
Gingrich was paid to secure taxpayer money for his clients.
This is a Parody of Mitt Romney Right?
This is a Parody of Mitt Romney Right?
This is a Parody of Mitt Romney Right?
If we get Newt we also get the first First Lady who is a certified home-wrecker. She can go around the country speaking to young girls about getting to the top by finding the right man, married or not.
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And the perfect, spotless, non-RINO candidate is?
None are, A more preferable field to pick from for me would have been: Thune; Jindel; Palin; Rubio; I’m not for any of these current folks, I’m against the Destroyer. Newt can lather on the best sounding conservative debate vibe of anyone. Trouble is he has an affection for all sorts of ideas that are not conservative. Cap and trade, ethanol subsidies, riding the couch with nancy, chiming in on the era of Reagan being dead, reaching across the aisle to hillary on healthcare. This is where the heart of my issue with Newt. He might have as much fidelity to conservatism as he had with his previous wives. The former is debatable, the latter is not.
He testified before Congress against Cap and Trade and campaigned AGAINST it.
He said the Nancy thing was a mistake.
Using the Democrat's lies really doesn't work.
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