[Cincinatus' Wife]

It's Newt's fault?

..In response to the GOP's nuttiness, Mann and Orstein call on journalists to stop trying to present "both sides" on the issues, and instead concentrate on "truth," focus on who is "taking hostages, at what risks and to what ends," and to stop treating filibusters like they are routine. Ultimately, though, if democracy "is to regain its health and vitality, the culture and ideological center of the Republican Party must change," they write. And the only way that will happen is if voters start "punishing extremism."

Those methods exactly parrot Green gurus' solutions on how to confront global warming "skeptics." Perhaps the "extremists" have a solid foothold and the Elites can't shake it loose.

Newt Gingrich of Georgia and Dr. Brenda Fitzgerald throw mock tea crates into the Chattahoochee River in Roswell, Ga., in 1994.

[BilLies]

Ornstein helped draft key parts of the Bipartisan Campaign Reform Act of 2002, also known as the McCain-Feingold Act.[2]
Ornstein is a long-time friend of current U. S. Senator and former comedian Al Franken. Ornstein considers himself a centrist.[3]
(Wikipedia)
This is a conservative by the measure of Newser. Ornstein has always been a Rockefeller type “Conservative. He considers himself a Centrist LIBERAL.
NOT ALL THE FISH IN THE AMERICAN ENTERPRISE INSTITUTE TANK are Conservative or even close by FR standards.

[central_va]

A a certain point we will devolve to a one party system with gradations within the party. We may be there now. The left vs. right monikers will go away, and factions will exist inside that one party. Unfortunately the one party will be socialist/liberal.

Maryland is a perfect example of a one party state. So is most of New England.

[Daveinyork]

Having moved the center to the left, the radicals are accusing the conservatives of extremism for trying to keep it from moving further left, let alone getting it back to the right.

[TexasFreeper2009]

lol

Clearing the path for the RINO Romney.

[E. Pluribus Unum]

"I would remind you that extremism in the defense of liberty is no vice! And let me remind you also that moderation in the pursuit of justice is no virtue!" --Barry Goldwater

[EternalVigilance]

Our elite political class these days is so far removed from reality that they couldn’t find it with the Hubble Telescope.

[Conservative Vermont Vet]

GROVER NORQUIST IS NEITHER A "REAL" REPUBLICAN AND CERTAINLY, NO CONSERVATIVE....

IN FACT he is not only a TRAITOR and ISLAMOFASCIST SUPPORTER, ENABLER AND APOLOGIST....

....His influence peddling (going back to George Bush) and enabling has had a detrimental affect and allowed the Muslim Brotherdhood to gain a foothoold in the Conservative Movement and reaches to the highest levels of Gov't to include the White House, DHS, DOJ and Dept of Defense....

....Making this bottom-feeding, snake and charlatan one of the most despicable (AND DANGEROUS) scumbags in the US at the present time....

....And its about time that "we" Freepers do something about it/him.

SEE: http://muslimbrotherhoodinamerica.com/ and pay particular attention of parts III and IV.

[Biggirl]

Ignore at your peril Washington D.C.

[Biggirl]

Looks like 1972 all over again!

[dfwgator]

The GOP-E mouthpiece has spoken.

They are really scared....and they should be. Rebellion is brewing!

[JediJones]

Absolutely disgusting. These are more of the establishment liberals who Newt has been fighting his entire career. Newt stands for conservative principles. The RINO brigade and faux conservatives stand for violating conservative principles and calling it “compromise.”

They think the government needs more of our tax money. That’s all you need to know to know they’re immoral lunatics.

Romney is one of their type so they should be happy with where things are going now. Newt would’ve completely reformed the following:

Social Security
Welfare
Food Stamps
Unemployment Benefits
Management of the bureaucracy
EPA

Romney will “take a look at some of that” and do nothing.