Posted on 06/09/2009 7:46:32 AM PDT by rabscuttle385
Former House Speaker And Potential 2012 GOP Candidate Rallies Party Loyalists At Fundraiser In Washington.
(AP) Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich on Monday urged some 2,000 Republican party loyalists to stand up for GOP principles but to be inclusive as the party tries to retake the majority.
“I am happy that Dick Cheney is a Republican,” Gingrich said at the annual Senate-House fundraising dinner. “I am also happy that Colin Powell is a Republican.”
Cheney, the former vice president under President George W. Bush, and Powell, who was Bush's secretary of state, have feuded recently over the approach of the party, with Powell calling for more moderation and Cheney arguing against that.
“A majority Republican party will have lots of debates within the party,” Gingrich, the former Georgia congressman, said. “That is the nature of majority parties.”
Standing in as the party's de facto leader, Gingrich was filling a speaking role that Bush held in recent years and that was initially offered to Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin, the 2008 Republican nominee for vice president, this year. He headlined a series of speakers who gave the crowd a blistering review of President Barack Obama and Democratic leaders on Capitol Hill.
Despite the rallying cry, the GOP faithful still weren't opening their wallets as they have in recent past. The event took in a relatively small fundraising haul of $14.5 million, the lowest total in at least five years. Last year, it raised $21.5 million, compared with $15.4 million in 2007 and $27 million in 2006.
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Screw you, Newt.
Successful parties look for potential converts, unsuccessful parties try to root out heretics.
Newt lost me when he embraced global warming.
“I’m happy that a Democrat calls himself a Republican.”
HEY GROUP . . .
THE globalist oligarchy has them all in it’s pocket.
It’s a deceptive dance of distraction while the worse horrors go on under the table.
Sara P is worth it. The rest are trash.
The SRM has figured out that Newt is unelectable, and more than willing to be the frontman for the GOP. The SRM is obliging with lots of face time for Newt.
It’s all in an effort to be sure Obama is re-elected in 2012.
Newt, for everyone’s good, shut up and go home.
Hey, if Colon Powell wants to be a Republican, fine. Just don’t give him any leadership position whatsoever, and don’t let him think he has license to arrogate to himself the role of “party spokesman.”
And REALLY stupid parties root out their base.
Power corrupts... permanently.
I’m starting to dislike Newt. Only yesterday I heard him giving a good speech (”I am not a citizen of the world...”). Today he’s slurping on Colin Powell’s shoes?
Is he bipolar or something worse?
We are “inclusive”
We have the right side of the issues and philosophies. Everyone who wishes to join our party may. “Inclusion” is about this, not what someone looks like or how they act behind closed doors.
It’s a big mistake to let the left define the terms. We are the party that has the ideas and behaviors that most people agree with, it’s up to us to sell the message, not pander and play the left’s manipulative games.
Newt, on this issue you have it WRONG
MOST american are clueless what it really means to be democraps. All they see are EVIL republicans in every TV show, movie, and newscast (except FOx)
So they think we are Evil.
If MOST american sheeple knew they truth they would NOT be democraps. I was a democrap for years only because my parents were kennedy democrats.
Then I grew up and made a CHOICE to be Republican
Newt makes me puke.
Not a thin dime for quislings like newt.
“I am also happy that Colin Powell is a Republican.”
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I know in-love-with-their-alleged-intellect academics like Newt, can make crossing the street into a complex, full of qualifiers and obfuscation, endeavor, but the simple matter Professor Gingrich, is that he is not.
...because we need more public leaders whose loyalty is (literally) skin-deep?
Every time this man speaks he does damage to conservatism and the republican party in general. I watched his remarks at that love-fest and was embarrassed that he’s affiliated with the republican party.
I wish Voight (sp) would’ve ended the meeting by calling out the RINOs that visited the stage, reminding them that constitutionally bound government doesn’t do 90% of what Newt was calling for.
Anyone have a direct contact address for this RINO schmuck?
As long as the leadership is willing to hold strong to the principles. In this case the principles are found in the 2nd paragraph of The unanimous Declaration of the thirteen united States of America. And, as long as they are willing to pledge there lives, fortunes, and sacred honor to uphold those principles.
That’s really the whole problem with the GOP. Its not about who is in the GOP but who controls it and holds the purse strings. Its the conservative party and should be controlled by conservatives.
They really just don't get it do they?
Colin Powell will be a Republican when Barack Obama is a honky.
He’s “Halfonky”...
this.
Unless, and until, RINO Pubbies like Newt realize they must step aside for real conservatives, wallets will stay tighter than Scrooge McDuck’s wallet.
Wait a sec, I thought that everybody in the GOP was a RINO? I thought all the REAL conservatives left and joined the Constitution Party????? /like I need it
“I am also happy that Colon Powell is a Republican.”
Even though this self described “Republican” publicly announced he would vote for the Democrat nominee, at a time when it would do the most damage to the Republican candidate. He did this in spite of the fact that McLame most closely represented the type of Republican that Colon Powell wants the party to embrace.
Newt wants Republicans who vote for Democrats. Newt you’re a has been. Just like you caved when you were winning on the government shutdown, you caved on pointing out that [sic] Sonja Sodameyer is a racist.
Succinctly put.
Newt's a brilliant man, brilliant men with a conservative bent ought to be in academia where they're needed, can have the biggest impact.
Until the career change Newt really needs to shut his mouth. He's not causing unity, he's causing the exact opposite visa vi severely pissing people off.
Which begs the question: whose side Newt really supposed to be on?
To me Newt shot himself in both feet when it turned out he was having an affair. Who needs an idiot like that to try to lead the Rep. Party. Just another Bill Klinton.
Starting? He’s been doing this for years now. I don’t know what he is prancing around declaring himself to be today, but I know he’s no conservative and therefore no friend of mine. He’s closer to Hillary, Pelosi, Al Gore, and yeah Powell then he is anyone I want to know.
The main problem with Newt is that you have these people nostalgic for 1994 but otherwise ignorant of what the man has been up to since that might split the conservative vote and leave us with yet another RINO to head the ticket in ‘12.
Despite the rallying cry, the GOP faithful still weren’t opening their wallets as they have in recent past. The event took in a relatively small fundraising haul of $14.5 million, the lowest total in at least five years. Last year, it raised $21.5 million, compared with $15.4 million in 2007 and $27 million in 2006.
Looks like the money comes in during even numbered years. Newt did a good job of outlining the needs by which the GOP can take control. Others may have ideas and hopefully they’ll be forthcoming.
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More and more, Newt reminds me of McCain.
Affair, Global Warming, Powell’s OK...Three strikes you’re out, Pal.
Newt lost me when he became a media whore.
An inclusive Republican Party is fine. Elevate the people who can win people over to conservatism, like Reagan did. Otherwise, the GOP will be contaminated with wishy-washy, Democrat voting dimwits like Powell. Can the moderates please tell what good is accomplished by kowtowing to people who vote for Democrats? This is not the time to buckle under, and betray the party with Democrat-lite policies. As for the RNC, I told them they should let Sarah speak. They would be about $10 million richer for it. Newt needs to quit drinking the Potomac koolaid. Gay marriage, acceptance of mass infanticide, succumbing to the globalist warming scam and the nationalized healthcare craze won’t win anything for Republicans. The only reason Newt and others are selling this manure is because they no longer have a conservative vision, so they want to get in on the liberal vision. It’s time for Newt and company to step down.
*frown*
Newt of the three wives Ginrich? That Newt?
“Newt lost me when he embraced global warming.”
Newt’s portfolio probably contains a lot of GE.
Since he is now a convert, I hope that Mr. Newt realizes that the Catholic Church takes a dim view of serial wife-dumping...
Cheating on his wife during the whole Clinton fiasco, global warming, now this.
Sorry Newt, stick to books and TV apperances, you are not presidential material.
Exactly. What good are party members who endorse the other party and attack your basic principles. We should be inclusive to people that have some differences, but Powell has endorsed everything that is counter to the party.
Newt apparenting is auditioning for the role of John McLame Jr. We already know that storyline.
Newt has jumped the shark with this proclamation. So sad.
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