Posted on 11/13/2009 2:54:47 PM PST by rabscuttle385
This from the dumbass(two of them actually)that endorsed and stood behind Scuzziface, ignoring Hoffman and giving almost $1 million to a turncoat who endorsed the dem candidate. Yeah, contract my a** Newt.
Newt, I fell for your schtick once; ain’t gonna happen again.
You are sooooo last century.
Gingrich went on the record as saying that Scozzafava was "the future of the [Republican] Party." That, plus his endorsement of her candidacy, is sufficient to destroy whatever credibility Gingrich has left.
If you want to defend Gingrich or promote his RINO/DIABLO love here on FR over straight-up, no-nonsense conservatarian principles, I would suggest that both you and he can go get bent.
Anything Newt does at this point should be done from the background.
It was, first and foremost, a campaign device, nationalizing the elections, in contravention to the (then) conventional wisdom.
It contained 10 points which the GOP promised to BRING TO A VOTE, that’s all, just bring them to a vote.
I believe that ultimately 8 of the 10 passed. Term limits did not.
That was our first hint!
Newt could have gone on the be a very well respected elder statesman. Every time after 2000, that it sounded like he might actually wind up that he, he shot it down.
I’m with you.
“A November 13, 2000 article by Edward H. Crane, president of the libertarian Cato Institute, stated, “... the combined budgets of the 95 major programs that the Contract with America promised to eliminate have increased by 13%.”
Also from a different source:
“As a blueprint for the policy of the new Congressional majority, Micklethwait & Wooldridge argue in The Right Nation that the Contract placed the Congress firmly back in the driver’s seat of domestic government policy for most of the 104th Congress, and placed the Clinton White House firmly on the defensive.”
Gingrich engineered the greatest GOP congressional victory in history!
This new so-called Contract has nothing to do with Newt. This article says that Newt was simply speaking with students at C-SPAN’s Cable Center Class telling them what he has heard about the contract.
What bare you doing, ronnie, beside looking for a leader whom you haven't seen yet?
I’ve been thinking about this story and what it really represents.
It isn’t Republicans returning to principle, or standing on principle.
It’s Gingrich talking about Steele talking about talking about principle.
You have no idea what this is.
Newt? norfolk n way.
Well, a step in the right direction.
BFD, Does any true conservative care about newt or steele?
I believe that was Wild Bill Clinton. As I recall Newt was never in office with a Pubbie President.
“It isn’t Republicans returning to principle, or standing on principle.”
“It’s Gingrich talking about Steele talking about talking about principle.”
I think you nailed it. I am tired of Newt and his ScuzzyRINO in NY-23 who he proclaimed to be the new direction of the republican party.
Not so. The items in the contract were voted upon by congress. That was the contract. Some things passed, some such as term limits didn't. When Newt caved in the battle of the budget, soon after the pubbies took over, that hurt quite a bit and tarnished his leadership. The pubbies never really recovered. A tactical and strategic failure that didn't have to be.
I do not trust Mr. Steele
I do not trust Mr. Gingrich
Both should just get the H*LL out of the way.
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