Posted on 12/17/2008 7:49:05 PM PST by NEPAConservative
These days I’ve been scratching my head wondering what in the world is going on with a man I used to admire. I’m talking about Newt Gingrich. Newt’s new style of softball politically correct politics has really got me wondering, When did Newt decide to sell his soul ?
People who to some degree are bored by/distrust/loathe the MSM - supermajority.
People who disdain Congress (approval ratings) - supermajority.
People who think public education stinks - supermajority.
People who think crime is not being properly addressed - supermajority.
People who want genuine change - supermajority.
To paraphrase a great General, “The poor Liberal rascals, they’ve got us surrounded!”
“Oh yeah, it’s so terrible that Newt wants to work with Democrats and help solve problems. Let’s castrate him!”
Terrible?! Uh Yeah it is when it means compromising his past true conservative values. Perhaps you weren’t paying attention in the 1994 when Newt authored the Conservative Contract wtih America and was one of the strongest opponents of Nationalized Health Care—yeah it is pretty big that he has totally changed his tone. Even from this summer with his “Drill Here Drill Now Campaign,” he was all about standing up for conservative principles—so now that the Drill Here Drill Now issue has waned, Newt wants to compromise and shame RNC for having a backbone—uh yeah it is terrible.
Why is it that working with Democrats ALWAYS means compromising conservative values—never compromising liberal values?!
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“I think the pendulum will swing back, as it always does, but as screwed up as things are today it may take a bit longer than we think/hope.”
I agree. But conservatives will benefit from that only if we do not participate in the even bigger problems coming. No bipartisan cover. We need to be the respectful opposition. But we need to be voting no. Not compromising and voting yes to make terrible litigation a little less terrible. The only thing compromise will achieve is that we will be blamed for the problems that are coming.
If you think things are bad now, wait ‘til after cap and trade hits and the EPA starts taxing cow farts.
Newt has been going soft. Newt was the one who pratically told us to get over President Reagan’s style of Conservatism. Newt said that particular Conservatism is dead and gone. In other words, don’t expect him to fight for something he no longer believes in...
I’m not following you here, C.
“afrocentric” by which you mean, in this context,...what?
I’m not following you here, C.
“afrocentric” by which you mean, in this context,...what?
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obama’s last church was afrocentric.
Probably because O’s campaign did not emphasize such. Indeed, ran away from, disassociated.
Rev Wright, otoh, would not win an election.
A GOP candidate embracing the fundamentalist brand of Christianity would not win an election...not a national one, anyway. Scares the suburbanites.
There are immense mega churches in the suburbs around major cities outside the north east these days. They are not liberal.
‘kay.
Yes I remember the incident when a couple from Florida listened in on one of his cell calls to his lawyer. Newt wasn’t suppose to be discussing the fact that he received money from speeches I believe and this was being investigated. Anyway, he wasn’t suppose to be discussing the issue even with his lawyer and this couple heard and recorded him discussing the case, of which he had to return the money and face fines and just all kinds of hoops to jump thru. Meanwhile, democrats can be murdering, raping and stealing and all goes unpurnished. Newt was beaten back from that and has really never showed any real back bone after that incident. The couple who illigally recorded his call I believe was fined but who is say they really were fined. I lost hope for him ever being a candidate of any kind of real weight.
Time to reestablish the lines and bring real republicans back into offices who represent what we want.
“Let’s pray for people instead of curse them.
We need to exhort, not kick, people who fall short of our ideals.”
Fine. Which Newt do we pray for? The ‘conservative’ one that a few are still convinced he is....or the real RINO Newt who supported amnesty with the other open border hacks?
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2144086/posts?page=34#34
So,
Thanks for the advice.
Doesn’t matter if you or I or Newt or the Queen of England thinks he screwed up.
Unless the majority of the American electorate thinks he did, he will win re-election.
Perhaps along with his VP running mate, Senator Kennedy (D-NY)
He was my Representative. I think I can answer that. I drove past his Cobb County office every day to and from work. I attended rallies for Newt in the Wheeler High School Auditorium and in the parking lot of Williamson Bros. Bar-B-Q only a thousand yards from The Big Chicken.
His problem with me is trust. I helped resoundingly reelect him and the next day he announced he was leaving the House. Not just resigning his Speakership, resigning his House seat. He didn't have sense enough to know that he had an obligation to serve after a very successful campaign.
He has long had a problem standing up to the opposition. When attacked on the budget for being petty, he gave in instead of standing firm against the Democrats. He even gave up his limousine to accusations by the Democrats that it went against his stated goals of Congressional reform; although the fact is that Newt used it as a traveling office and got more work done in his limousine than ten other politicians together.
Rather than ignoring attacks and standing against the Democrats and the MSM, he will continue to try to usurp their positions with the effect that Republicans are constantly pushed to the left. Rather than trying to implement "green conservatism", Newt should be shouting from the mountains that the Environmental issue is a globally manufactured Socialist tool for the destruction of Free market Capitalism. Rather than trying to solve the "health-care issue", he should expose it as a manufactured Democrat Socialist issue that must have no federal involvement. Rather than attempting to "transform government" he should stop the Socialist transformation that has occurred for the past one hundred years. Rather than imploring the Republican party to give HWMNBN a chance to succeed, Newt should be drawing a line in the sand to obstruct all of the Socialist policies that will be enacted by a Democrat hegemony.
“Why did he avoid running this time around ?”
I think he correctly predicted it was a losing year for the GOP, what with the messes Bush left. Unpopular, unfinished wars, lousy economy, etc.
IMO
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