Posted on 10/23/2015 6:59:14 PM PDT by Whenifhow
Congressman Paul Ryan has received enough support from the House Freedom Caucus to secure his nomination for Speaker of the House, and he may have gained some of the support from conservative efforts going on behind-the-scenes.
The House Freedom Caucus, a small but fierce group of conservatives, succeeded in their efforts to oust John Boehner from Speaker of the House, but scrambled to find a nominee for Speaker that would satisfy their list of demands and rule changes to the Republican Conference.
The group initially endorsed Florida Representative Daniel Webster; however, a closed-door meeting pushed them into supporting Congressman Paul Ryan, a person that they saw as only an extension of Boehner.
Texas Congressman Louis Gohmert told One America News that some very familiar names pressured members of the House Freedom Caucus to rethink who they would endorse for Speaker.
Promises were made and as I understand it, our friend Senator Jim DeMint, now head of the Heritage Foundation was making calls persuading really shocked me. I dont guess I was so surprised that Newt Gingrich was making calls behind the scenes to Freedom Caucus members to tell them, you gotta cave and go with Paul, Gohmert said.
Gohmert told One America News that he was most shocked that these conservative officials were backing Ryan, given his track record with some conservatives.
I was really surprised that the head of the Heritage Foundation, Jim DeMint was making calls telling conservatives to back off their conservatism and back the guy for Speaker that doesnt just have a D, he has an F under the Conservative Review analysis, Gohmert said.
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We have very different estimations of Newt’s judgment on these things these years (or decades).
And I find your defeatism (if you are yourself against amnesty) distasteful, though realism suggests that even the best we’ve got, Trump, is more or less pro-amnesty.
That’s because in ‘94 the Clintonista stuff HE was up to just wasn’t being used against him. Yet.
Hard to be ‘agin’ some politician for lying about extramarital sex when they were all doin’ it.
Got it , corrected my mistake in previous posts.
Got it , corrected my mistake in previous posts.
You’re welcome.
Newt also supported very, very RINO Dede Scozzafava when she ran against conservative Doug Hoffman in NY’s 23rd district. Sarah Palin and Rick Santorum endorsed Doug Hoffman, of course. I guess Newt is part conservative and part RINO.
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