Posted on 03/16/2012 8:46:11 PM PDT by Steelers6
Saturday, March 17:
8:00am CST: Senator Santorum will meet and greet voters in St. Louis, MO.
Location: Westminster Christian Academy 800 Maryvill Centre Drive St. Louis, MO 63017
9:15am CST: Senator Santorum will meet and greet voters in Wildwood, MO.
Location: Schnucks Wildwood Crossing Community Room 16580 Manchester Road Wildwood, MO 63040
10:20am CST: Senator Santorum will speak in Ballwin, MO.
Location: Ballwin Police Station 300 Park Drive Ballwin, MO 63011
11:30am CST: Senator Santorum will speak in Hazelwood, MO.
Location: Prairie Commons Library Auditorium 915 Utz Lane Hazelwood, MO 63042
2:00pm CST: Senator Santorum will hold a Rally for Rick in Effingham, IL.
Location: John Boos & Company 3601 S. Banker Street Effingham, IL 62401
4:00 PM The "Rick Bus" supporting Santorum campaign will be in Champaign, IL at West Side Park
5:00pm CST: Senator Santorum will hold a Rally for Rick in Mt. Vernon, IL.
Location: Mt. Vernon Airport 100 Aviation Drive Mt. Vernon, IL 62864
7:30pm CST: Senator Santorum will hold a Rally for Rick in Herrin, IL.
Location: Herrin High School 700 N. 10th Street Herrin, IL 62048
Monday, March 19:
9:00am CST: Senator Santorum will hold a Rally for Rick in Rockford, IL.
Location: Venetian Club 2180 Elmwood Road Rockford, IL 61103
12:00pm CST: Senator Santorum will hold a Rally for Rick in Dixon, IL.
Location: Reagan Statue Dixon Waterfront Dixon, IL
3:00pm CST: Senator Santorum will hold a Rally for Rick in Moline, IL.
Location: Moline Club 513 16th Street Moline, IL 61265
7:30pm CST: Senator Santorum will hold a Rally for Rick in Peoria, IL.
Location: Davis Bros Restaurant 2402 East Washington Street East Peoria, IL 61611
I saw Rick give a speech tonight in Arlington Heights, IL. Very good turnout with over 1000 people; full venue, lots of families. Rick talked for about 45 minutes, and I would say he appears much better in person. If Rick can pull off a victory in Illinois, Mitt is done. I’ve been a Newt supporter, but the longer the campaign goes on, the better I think Santorum has done. I’ll vote for Santo on Tuesday, since the polls in Illinois show him close to Romney, and since Newt is consistently pulling 15% in Illinois.
Is Newt Gingrich liberal? You better believe it. In fact, he has a long record of standing for just about everything that the Tea Party is supposed to be against. Newt Gingrich has long supported an individual mandate for health care, he supported the Wall Street bailouts, he supported the funding of Planned Parenthood, he did a global warming commercial with Nancy Pelosi and he has made tens of millions of dollars lobbying for liberal causes. In addition, he has a personal life which will make him unelectable when put up against Barack Obama in a general election. So what in the world are Republicans thinking? This is not the guy to hitch our wagon to. Are Republicans really going to nominate a guy who co-sponsored 418 bills with Nancy Pelosi? Newt Gingrich is so liberal that someone needs to tell him that he is in the wrong political party. Newt Gingrich is not just a RINO (”Republican In Name Only”). He is a progressive socialist and a consummate Washington insider. He represents everything that the Tea Party is supposed to be fighting to get out of Washington.
If you plan on voting for Newt Gingrich, please read the rest of the information below first.
The following are 10 reasons why Newt Gingrich is liberal....
#1 Newt Gingrich was promoting the principles of Obamacare before Obamacare was even invented. Republicans are supposed to be against Obamacare, and yet a huge percentage of them are supporting a candidate that was pushing an individual mandate way before Obamacare was ever even invented.
In June 2007, Gingrich made the following statement....
“Personal responsibility extends to the purchase of health insurance. Citizens should not be able to cheat their neighbors by not buying insurance, particularly when they can afford it, and expect others to pay for their care when they need it.”
That doesn’t sound very conservative.
Gingrich says that he will repeal Obamacare, but back in 2008 Gingrich wrote a book entitled “Real Change” in which he endorsed an individual health care mandate.
So should we believe what Gingrich is saying now or should we believe what he has been saying for nearly 20 years?
#2 Before he was running for president, he was running around the country with Al Sharpton promoting the socialist education policies of the Obama administration.
#3 Back in 2008 Gingrich actually did a television commercial with Nancy Pelosi in which he declared that “our country must take action to address climate change”.
#4 Not only that, Gingrich also has promoted the idea of a “cap and trade” carbon trading scheme. Back in 2007, Gingrich said the following....
“I think if you have mandatory carbon caps combined with a trading system, much like we did with sulfur, and if you have a tax-incentive program for investing in the solutions, that there’s a package there that’s very, very good. And frankly, it’s something I would strongly support.”
#5 While he was in Congress, Newt Gingrich co-sponsored 418 bills with Nancy Pelosi.
#6 As we have seen during the recent debates, Gingrich openly supports amnesty for millions of illegal aliens.
#7 In 2008 Newt Gingrich declared that he would have voted for the TARP bailout if he was still a member of Congress.
#8 While Newt Gingrich was the Speaker of the House the amount of taxes collected by the U.S. government soared from $1.001 trillion to $1.511 trillion.
#9 Newt Gingrich is a big time Washington insider that is often paid huge sums of money for doing next to nothing. Gingrich has said that he was paid $300,000 for “work” that he did for Freddie Mac, but according to Bloomberg he actually earned somewhere between $1.6 million and $1.8 million between 1999 and 2008.
So what did he do for Freddie Mac? Gingrich claims that he warned Freddie Mac about the housing bubble, but the report by Bloomberg disputes this....
None of the former Freddie Mac officials who spoke on condition of anonymity said Gingrich raised the issue of the housing bubble or was critical of Freddie Mac’s business model.
It turns out that much of the “work” that Gingrich was expected to do never actually got done....
Former Freddie Mac officials familiar with his work in 2006 say Gingrich was asked to build bridges to Capitol Hill Republicans and develop an argument on behalf of the company’s public-private structure that would resonate with conservatives seeking to dismantle it.
He was expected to provide written material that could be circulated among free-market conservatives in Congress and in outside organizations, said two former company executives familiar with Gingrich’s role at the firm. He didn’t produce a white paper or any other document the firm could use on its behalf, they said.
#10 The Republican Party is supposed to be the party of “moral values”, but they are getting ready to send someone to the White House that has a track record that would make Bill Clinton blush.
The following is how a recent Business Insider article described the “skeletons in the closet” from his personal life....
Newt’s personal baggage is either weird or scary. He married his high-school geometry teacher. He cheated on her and divorced her while she had cancer. So he married Marianne Ginther six months later. But that wasn’t to last.
Gingrich conducted a tawdry affair behind her back with one of his staffers while making political hay out of Clinton’s affair with a White House intern. He then divorced Marianne and married the staffer.
How in the world can Republicans be supporting this guy?
For more on the personal life of Newt Gingrich, please check out this video.
We desperately need to educate Republicans about this guy while there is still time.
The following is from a recent opinion piece authored by U.S. Senator Rand Paul for The Des Moines Register....
Both Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich supported the outrageous $700 billion Troubled Asset Relief Program, or TARP, bailouts — “one of the most unpopular government programs in American history,” even according to President Obama’s own Treasury Department.
Both Romney and Gingrich have been outspoken and unapologetic supporters of the individual mandate. This is the heart and soul of ObamaCare.
Since the tea party started as a reaction to Republicans who voted for TARP, and was strengthened into a national political force during the fight over ObamaCare, I believe this disqualifies both Romney and Gingrich from tea party support.
But Paul was not finished there. He went on to list many more reasons why Gingrich is not qualified to lead the Republican Party....
Gingrich began his career as a Rockefeller Republican from the liberal wing of the party. And though he has often spoken and occasionally acted like he left that wing, it is clear from his flip-flops and multiple “apologies” that his heart is still there.
His record features “highlights” such as global warming commercials with Nancy Pelosi, support for cap-and-trade, funding Planned Parenthood, and, recently, announcing that life does not begin at conception.
Not only that, but Gingrich took money as a Freddie Mac lobbyist — one of the well-known government-backed agencies that served as a root cause of the financial meltdown of 2008.
While one candidate in the race, my father, Rep. Ron Paul, was publicly warning about Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and the crisis they were helping to create, Gingrich was earning millions to not only endorse but also promote the status quo.
One group of Gingrich’s also took in nearly $40 million promoting big-government ideas, such as the individual mandate.
His lobbying and promotion of the housing crisis and the health care mandate have helped to make him a wealthy man, but they have also put him outside the conservative mainstream on most issues.
In conclusion, Paul claimed that Gingrich is not even a conservative....
So I will conclude by saying two things: Gingrich is not from the tea party. He is not even a conservative.
He is part of the Washington establishment I was sent to fight. He has been wrong on many of the major issues of the day, and he has taken money from those who helped cause the housing crisis and create millions of foreclosures.
Rand Paul is right - the reality is that Newt Gingrich is a rabid liberal and no Republican should ever cast a single vote for him.
For much more on why you should not vote for Newt Gingrich, please watch the short video posted below....
My goodness.
No, thank you, Linda.
Why would Newt supporters want to anger RIck supporters?
***to try to get us booted from FR.
BUT for the record if that might really interest you, ‘team player’ Rick the pious Santorum second in command of the Republican Senate helped Trent Lott PREVENT a literal trial in the Senate. AND Ricky the pious helped keep a lying liberal in the office of president. Some how playing for the team is more important to him than upholding his oath of office.
In the event you need a reference, Judge Rogan, a House Manager wrote a book about his experience, (he kept a ‘diary’). The book was released May 2011.
Greetings Mountian Mary:
Suffered through the 99% Myth and 1% RuPaul tag-team bash of Santorum in Ohio; dejavue at my folks place in suburban Chicago this week. Only thing worse: the FreeRepublic trolls using copy-paste Myth talking points to bash Santorum in the name of supporting Newt.
I believe it’s Myth’s strategy to splinter the Gingrich and Santorum supporters.
Cheers,
OLA
My point of posting that (I did not even read it all) is to point out that Newt and Rick both have things they regret doing. We also know sites where we can pick up trash and throw it back. Some Newt supporters have such hatred of Rick that if we post good news for Rick, they go from thread to thread only to trash Rick. They, like romney and the gop, expect us to support their candidate after attacking ours with such hatred. (and a few have a lot of hate for Rick and his supporters) They want us to turn our backs on our values and our beliefs and go with them. Every person has their reasons to support their candidate, and no one should bully people into changing theirs.
My point of posting that (I did not even read it all) is to point out that Newt and Rick both have things they regret doing. We also know sites where we can pick up trash and throw it back. Some Newt supporters have such hatred of Rick that if we post good news for Rick, they go from thread to thread only to trash Rick. They, like romney and the gop, expect us to support their candidate after attacking ours with such hatred. (and a few have a lot of hate for Rick and his supporters) They want us to turn our backs on our values and our beliefs and go with them. Every person has their reasons to support their candidate, and no one should bully people into changing theirs.
Don’t forget DeeDee Scozfava (sp?)! He supported her rather than the conservative and basically told the conservatives to shut up and fall in line, and then she went and endorsed the Democrat.
Furthermore, there is a decent humility within Newt that is totally missing within the other three remaining candidates. It is hypocritical to point out Newts ‘sins’ and then white wash over the pious Rick Santorum as if he walks on water.
Cease fire! Cease fire! Cease fire! Friendly fire isn’t.
Just in case anyone cares to notice: conservative candidates are human. Newt and Rick both made their share of mistakes.
Bottom line: both Newt and Rick hold impressive, but less than perfect conservative voting records.
Why would Newt supporters want to anger Rick supporters?
1. because they are just angry mean people
2. because some are really romney fans, not Newt fans, trying to divide Rick and Newt supporters. They know if Rick and Newt got together they are so powerful, romney can’t beat them.
3. because they want us to forgive Newt, but they don’t want to forgive Rick. Newt’s adultary was more recent than Rick’s votes in the 80s & early 90s.
Here’s my answer again.
My point of posting that (I did not even read it all) is to point out that Newt and Rick both have things they regret doing. We also know sites where we can pick up trash and throw it back. Some Newt supporters have such hatred of Rick that if we post good news for Rick, they go from thread to thread only to trash Rick. They, like romney and the gop, expect us to support their candidate after attacking ours with such hatred. (and a few have a lot of hate for Rick and his supporters) They want us to turn our backs on our values and our beliefs and go with them. Every person has their reasons to support their candidate, and no one should bully people into changing theirs.
Pious Ricky is NOT named once in your post 22. It was trash and bash and accuse Newt of being the 'devil'. Maybe you should read first what you post instead of posting and then claiming, well I did not even read what I posted.
Rick is a 'social justice' LIBERAL running on fixing the morality of this nation. But he has NO problem when it works for the team redistributing other peoples wealth.
Seriously...
Don't copy-paste the 420 talking points in the tread, just provide us with a link to your source.
People like to come into the threads that talk about what is happening with their candidates. 9 times out of 10, some Newt supporters come in ONLY to trash Rick. There are a lot of pro Newt threads, but some people come in to Rick's only to start trouble. I have always said i am a Rick supporter but will vote for Newt if Rick gets out. I have been called names like you would not believe because I won't stop supporting Rick and go with theirs. I know obama hasn't made it a communist state yet, so I should be able to support the candidate of my choice.
I posted that thread only to get rid of the Rick haters. As I said I did not read it. I only used it as a piece of trash to throw back at someone who's been going from thread to thread trashing Rick, they were in the thread I had just left. The last 2 days, the attacks have been bad, so I decided not to be quiet anymore. Sorry if I offended you, it was for someone else. I like Newt, I just don't like some of Newt supporter tactics.
Thanks for the Post Steelers6. Glad to see Rick is working MO up until the caucusing starts. BTW, the time is not CST now, it’s CDT. Just sayin’ .
BTTT!
Thank you. So far I have not noticed that. Nobody is cool with any thing Romney. He does depress turn out among those with bananas for brains though.
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