Posted on 02/12/2012 8:49:12 PM PST by katiedidit1
In 2008 when my wife, Gena, and I were on the campaign trail backing former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee for president, former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum was fighting to get former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney elected. (Listen in this video how Santorum passionately endorsed and elevated Mitt in his bid for the Oval Office.)
Just three years ago in his interview with radio host and conservative commentator Laura Ingraham, Santorum also emphatically told millions of listening Americans: “If you’re a conservative, if you’re a Republican, there is only one place to go, and that’s Mitt Romney.”
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“Senators have a job to do, and this is how they do it.”
Like passing Obamacare with 51 votes?
Am all ears.
Nope, not gonna trash Levin. Just recognize he’s gotta make a livin’, just like me and you.
Newt made a mistake on that one, but Newt at least has helped in getting Republicans elected, what has Santorum or Romney done?
http://www.newt.org/answers#Dede
Dede Scozzafava Endorsement
Newt has admitted it was a mistake to back Dede Scozzafava, the Republican nominee in the 2009 NY-23 special election.
Whether it was helping to build the Republican Party of Georgia back when Democrats controlled the entire state or leading the nationwide effort in 1994 to break 40 years of Democratic rule in the House, Newt has always tried to advance the cause of a truly conservative Republican party. This has always meant supporting the most conservative nominee possible as selected by Republican primary voters.
Therefore, Newt will almost always back the nominee of the Republican party and not back an independent candidate in a race against a Democratic candidate.
Newt still believes in this principle, however, he has admitted it was a mistake to back Dede Scozzafava, the Republican nominee in the 2009 NY-23 special election. Although she was the Republican nominee, the problem was that Republican primary voters did not pick her, the local party leaders did, otherwise her liberal views would have prevented her from becoming the nominee. The Conservative Party candidate whom Scozzafava was running against, Doug Hoffman, recently remarked about Newt’s endorsement of his rival, “I would advise other conservative republicans: Don’t hold this against him.”
Newt’s a scrapper! He WILL FIGHT Mr 0b0t0. Not roll over and play dead like mittens the kittens, juan mclame, or awful dull did.
Romney was the worst of those three candidates, Romney should not even be in Republican politics.
Romney is a true liberal, an actual anti-conservative, anti-Reagan, anti-Republican liberal ,with a sinister agenda to get revenge for the treatment of his family by America’s conservatives and religious right.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bnOMFL1ZfDg
Levin’s judgement trumps all those you just listed. Limbaugh must have had a lapse in judgement too.
Levin worked in the Reagan administration as Assistant Attorney General. If anyone knows Newt, Levin would, and yet Levin still made a conscious decision to support Santorum and Bachmann over the others.
Also, can you tell me something conservative Newt has done in the last 5 years? Going back to the 80’s and 90’s is like going back to Barry Goldwater’s record in the 60’s and 70’s. By the 80’s, Goldwater was much different from the conservative he was in the 60’s. He still considered himself a conservative, but most would call him a libertarian who soured on Reagan and started going after the Christian right. If Ronald Reagan had never been born and Barry Goldwater had ran for President in 1980 or 1984, what do you think his prospects would have been given his conservative record from the 60’s but his evolution into libertarianism in the late 70’s early 80’s. Do you think Goldwater could have still gotten away with running as a true conservative?
I know in the last 5 years, Newt has written a book on the environment with a chapter devoted to climate change, endorsed a liberal Republican in line with his “big tent Republican” concept, referred to Paul Ryan’s plan as “right wing social engineering”, sat with Pelosi on the infamous couch, and criticized the TARP on TV as an analyst, but admitted he would have voted for it as a member of Congress.
Now he wants us all to forget that and go back to his record of the 80’s and 90’s.
Newt trying to run as a conservative in 2012 is like Goldwater trying to run as a conservative in 1984. It only works if you ignore recent history and go back to the past.
LOL! Why would anyone listen to someone who was a Huckabee supporter?
I forgot to mention that I supported Mitt Romney is in 08, also. I thought that he was the only alternative to the loser, McCain. I don’t know if that was right or not. I don’t think that we would have won with either Romney or McCain.
Oh my....I didn't even notice that we'd jumped to another thread! So cool that you caught that!
Thanks for the compliment. Glad to back you up with that poster.
Oy vey. I voted for Romney too in 08. It was him or McCain. Sheesh.
Levin jumped the gun endorsing Romney that early on, but his predictions were correct.
Agreed. The guy takes himself too seriously.
He does not exude the kind of Reagan Conservatism that will garner wide appeal. To the contrary, there’s an aura of despondency that seems to follow him around.
I love Mark Levin, but he doesn't do my thinking for me. In the case of the current candidates, he and I disagree. I do not, and will not support Santorum, as long as Newt is in the race.
I can’t really get into the Gingrich vs. Santorum battles. I find each are 100-times preferable to the detestible Romney, yet I can’t say either of the two particularly enthuses me all that much. Really tough making a decision between them. Gingrich has a truly more impressive track-record of reform, but is weighed down by an assortment of heavy-duty flaws. Santorum has a most welcome solidness on social issues, but a past that is not too thrilling on the fiscal/reform side, to put it mildly.
A crummy choice to make. When the primaries come around to my state, all I suppose I’ll do is to vote for the one that looks most likely to beat Romney that particular day.
The extent of your research into Newt’s recent activities clearly hasn’t gone any deeper than the Mitt Romney spin room. In addition to being a CONSERVATIVE commentator on FOX News since the mid-2000s (i.e. not someone who was brought on to agree with Alan Colmes), here are some of his activities, which go far beyond your nitpicky spin over a handful of incidents you think imply something that isn’t there.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB10001424052748703916004576271263380723514.html
On any given day, the former Speaker of the House can be found on a chartered jet headed to Iowa to train future GOP candidates through his American Solutions group, or in Phoenix discussing ways to lower health-care costs with drug makers through his for-profit Center for Health Transformation. He might also be in Philadelphia, narrating a film produced by Gingrich Productions, or in Texas, reaching out to conservative Latino leaders through his bilingual news and commentary website, the Americano.
After raising money through one of his groups, Mr. Gingrich funneled $150,000 in seed money to a successful campaign last fall to oust three Iowa Supreme Court judges who supported gay marriage.
“Newt’s role was quiet and very low key, but it was pivotal,” said Bob Vander Plaats, a well-known Iowa conservative who led the anti-judges campaign.
In 2006, Mr. Gingrich started the group American Solutions for Winning the Future, with a $1 million donation from Las Vegas casino magnate Sheldon Adelson. The group allowed Mr. Gingrich to broaden his ambitions. It was billed as a centrist policy shop that would train local candidates and promote an array of pet causes, among them Social Security privatization and what Mr. Gingrich called “patriotic education,” including mandatory annual public-school instruction on the Declaration of Independence.
In March 2009, just weeks before converting to Catholicism, he formed Renewing American Leadership, a nonprofit group designed “to bring moral leadership back to our nation.” Six months later he created the Americano to target conservative Hispanics.
Mr. Gingrich tossed off a line in a paid speech that May in Las Vegas. “Someone in this room ought to simply have a bumper sticker that says, ‘Drill more, pay less,’” he told the Money Show conference, to a smattering of applause.
American Solutions launched an online petition campaign under the title, “Drill Here, Drill Now, Pay Less.” It got 100,000 signatures in a week, and more than a million in a month. Sen. John McCain made the slogan a core plank of his presidential campaign, and at the Republican nominating convention that September, it morphed into “Drill, Baby, Drill.”
Mr. Gingrich sees nothing unusual in the sweep of his many endeavors over the past several years. “This is just an institutional variation on what I have been doing since 1978, which is trying to build a permanent Republican majority,” he said in an interview. “Except now, I am reaching out to people on a huge scale.”
In the past four years, Gingrich Productions has produced three films on religion and one each on energy, Ronald Reagan and the threat of radical Islam—all done as joint projects with the conservative activist group, Citizens United. The latest project: A film on American exceptionalism, another likely campaign theme.
...the former speaker talks constantly of the need to reclaim the country’s Judeo-Christian heritage, expand oil drilling, rebuff secularism and protect against Islamic extremism.
Mr. Gingrich tossed out ideas for revamping the Environmental Protection Agency, replacing it with a joint venture between business and government that would make sure environmental regulations don’t stifle job creation. He also proposed getting the private sector to help slash regulations across other federal departments.
http://www.sunshinestatenews.com/print/4463516
Gingrich’s ties to the tea party movement are deep and long-lasting.
In March 2009, when tea parties were just beginning to be organized, the Georgian pledged to use his prodigious mailing list at American Solutions to publicize the inaugural Tax Day event.
He posted a link on every website he owned, sent emails to everyone in his database and produced a video while publicly announcing his support of the tea party movement — long before radio talkers like Glenn Beck jumped on the bandwagon.
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