Gingrich Warns of Conservative 3rd Party in 2012

Newsmax ^ | April 3, 2009 | Newt Gingrich

[John Leland 1789]

Gingrich Warns of Conservative 3rd Party in 2012

Friday, April 3, 2009 8:53 AM

Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich warns that conservatives could leave the GOP and form a third party in 2012 if Republicans don’t do more to rein in government spending.

“If the Republicans can’t break out of being the right wing party of big government, then I think you would see a third party movement in 2012, Gingrich said during an address to students at the College of the Ozarks in Missouri.

http://www.newsmax.com/insidecover/gingrich_third_party/2009/04/03/199346.html?s=al&promo_code=7D64-1

[vamoose]

The RINOs are the ones that need to exit the GOP. In fact, they left the GOP years ago. They just need to make it official.

[Star Traveler]

You said — Vote out the entire Congress before we’re down the toilet bowl!

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Ummm..., that’s you, me, Free Republic and “who else”? LOL..

In other words, it sounds great, but it will never happen....

[Star Traveler]

You said — Those crusty old blue blooded, elitist, liberal dinosaurs are irrelevant elephants and are impeding the path that we need to take our nation.

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Ummm..., you may be forgetting the plurality of almost 10 million more votes who voted in Obama. They might have to be “contended with” also... :-)

[Patrick1]

I agree.

[Star Traveler]

You said — Yeah that will work...NOT

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Yeah, take my own gun and shoot my own foot... LOL...

[DTogo]

Vote out??

[Logical me]

The GOP can do nothing. They are powerless thanks to the many stupid Americans that voted the cult leader King Obama. No Senate. No House. No way to do anything except just complain. We are now under the leadership of King Obama and the communists party RATS. The majority of Hollywierd and the MSM gives us little voice. We are between a rock and a hard place. Corruption will keep King Obama and his RAT force in power for many years, and we can blame it on stupid Americans that put this trash in power.

[Larry Lucido]

Newt, you created a conservative second party in 1994. What did you do with it?

[Star Traveler]

You said — As a lifelong conservative and a 40+ year Republican, I haven’t given up on the GOP yet.

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Yep, and precisely the reason why this will result in the Democrats winning from now on.... (can someone say H. Ross Perot?).... LOL...

[skinkinthegrass]

but it’s very likely that Newt is in it for himself

unfortunately, that mat be true...
IF he, were to disavow, running for WH...
he could help mightily.

"When buying and selling are controlled by legislation, the first things to be bought and sold are legislators." - P. J. O'Rourke
“The problem with socialism is that you eventually, run out of other people’s money.” - Margaret Thatcher
"There are two sets of rules. One set for the rulers and another for the rest of us." —Richard Yancey, former IRS tax collector

[Phileleutherus Franciscus]

I think it would be more accurate to describe it as a second party.

Aye. What we have now is like tweedledee and tweedledum and that's on the good days when they're not so alike.

[jedi150]

Yep!

[ExTexasRedhead]

All RATs and RINOs need to go!

[gorush]

He’s probably right, I’m done holding my nose. I admit defeat. There just aren’t enough of us strict-constructionists left.

[JoJo Gunn]

I, for one among many, believe that the upper crust of the GOP needs a scare. They need to be forced to feel that they and the whole party can be replaced.

And then what? Leave them where they are to continue running America into the ground? The hell with that. I will never again give the GOP so much as the sweat off my....

[Never2baCrat]

The newt lost all my respect when he sat on that settee with Plastic Pelousy and touted ‘global warming’!

[sionnsar]

BUT...I’m starting locally, and I advise anyone that listens to do the same. I’m working on local campaigns right now.

Been working on local campaigns since 1988. That's where it all starts and if you try to skip over for the highest levels only -- you lose.

I remember when Senator Patty Murray was making her first run beyond (school board)? The local Republican party was not great shakes then, and look at the result...

[eeriegeno]

The new conservative leader should outline the platform of a third (replacement for the second) party by specifying what it stands for! And that leader should outline what wrath is in store for those in the new ‘conservative’ party who do not follow that platform of ideas.

[Sen Jack S. Fogbound]

A 3rd party or a takeover of the GOP by a Conversative Group?

Why not?

The leftist took over the Democratic Party!

It is no longer the party we used to work with! They used to have people that we can work with as sometimes they have a point! But no longer as they seems to be stone deaf to any proposals the GOP makes! And we have too many RINOS in the mix!

We may have to consider the 3rd Party if we can get enough support!

[RushIsMyTeddyBear]

The RINO’s can just call themselves ‘LibDem’....as in the UK.