Posted on 11/14/2009 2:04:26 AM PST by DaveTesla
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich predicted disaster
for his party if the conservative wing of the GOP
continues to field independent candidates to the right
of the party’s nominee.
“If we get into a cycle where there are tea parties and
there are conservative third-party candidates, we will
make [Nancy] Pelosi speaker for life,” Gingrich told
POLITICO in an interview Thursday, calling the
practice “totally destructive.”
But Gingrich, who broke with many fellow conservatives
by getting behind the liberal Republican who was
nominated but ultimately dropped out and backed the
Democrat in a New York special congressional election,
admitted that Dede Scozzafava was too far to the left to
hold the GOP’s center-right coalition together
(Excerpt) Read more at politico.com ...
NO, NEWT, YOU WORTHLESS POS.
If we get into a cycle where there are RINOs, "moderates," pro-amnesty, pro-death care and pro-crap/theft candidates, the GOP and their DNC enablers will make Nancy Pelosi speaker for life.
He’s a has been. Can’t let go of his glory days.
Newt has gotta go.
He has rabies!
The important lesson to draw from this is that EVERY one of these “faces” they put up that are supposedly conservative are actually NOT.
They’ve been scamming us for a long time.
NG totally discredited himself with NY-23. I don’t read anything he says now, I might as well be reading David Gergen or Peggy Noonan. Perdition to them and good riddance.
He is a Republican first, a Conservative second.
Isn’t it time to start correcting the use of the word “rhino” when being used to refer to Republicans In Name Only. The acronym is “RINO” and should not be confused with a denizen of Africa’s veld.
theres a easy solution, stop putting up rinos, otherwise may the best man/woman win
The lessons learned from New York are so obvious that only a politician could fail to read them.
(1) The conservatives are on or part the point of open revolt against the RNC leadership.
(2) Conservative candidates with no RNC support do better than RNC candidates with no conservative support.
(3) The Republican party gave $900, 000 to a liberal who attacked the conservative and endorse the democrat.
I discovered it only recognizes RINO when it is in all caps.
And here’s Dr. Newt Frankenstein manning the tower, trying to protect the monster created by the GOP from the torch wielding townsfolk.
(Wish I could draw political cartoons.)
Go home, Newt. The castle is burning and we’ve breached the drawbridge.
As an aside, Gingrich loves to push his wife on people, it's obnoxious and no one believes that they are some great couple nor do they care. It's like a father desperate for his kids to like his third wife.
How about if the GOP starts running conservative candidates there won’t be a need to run third party candidates you genius...
If the GOP doesn’t want to be the conservative party then I’m no longer a Republican. It is as simple as that.
When I heard that Dede Scozzafava was given the
Margaret Sanger Award from planned parenthood (1-800-Murder)
I was very upset.
If anyone Is helping Pelosi and the Democrats it is Newt Gingrich himself.
Good summation.
~eh, Politico quisling. It *ain't* "Newt's party". Got it. The clown's a pariah, a leper.
The bumbling mumbling Newty's YOUR reader, that's *it*.
Gesshhhh, nice try quisling. LOL
Wake up folks!
This man has quite a bit of influence with the GOP and the media.
He is a danger to us all.
He is becoming the enemy amongst us.
He needs to be run out of Dodge, pronto.
And you folks have the power to do it.
I couldn’t agree with you more about his wife, WTF cares who she is or what she thinks, if she thinks.
I think that it is very revealing how politicians look at power. It seems that they will do anything, abandon any principle, ask their constituents to compromise all of their principles all for the sake of achieving power.
Whenever power is assumed, exactly when is principle returned to the administration of said power? Never, that’s when. If your daughter sets aside a principle temporarily while on a date with a boy and surrenders her virginity, when exactly does her virtue return?
Call me a purist if you like, but whenever I have a difficult time telling the difference between the RNC and the DNC, our tent is entirely too large. If we haven’t any principles left, to where exactly do we withdraw and reform?
I am sick of Gingrich’s arrogance.
Me to..
And worried about it as well.
I do not give a crap about the G.O.P., seems they left me not me left them.
I am a conservative not a f-ing dem lite turd.
I will never again vote for a RINO like mcLame.
If that destroys what is left of the g.o.p. so be it.
No more rinos, that means you mcLame
Go away, Newt.
I’m as angry - and disappointed - with Newt as much as the next guy, but listen to what he’s saying.
They don’t “put up” RINOs, there is a primary process. NY23 was a special election in which a candidate was appointed when ONE committee chairwoman threw all the votes she controlled to Dede, and is not indicative of anything.
If the Conservative cannot win the primary, it means there’s no taste for him in that particular district - hey, it happens.
What is the point of putting up a spoiler? And please don’t bring up NY23 - she was FAR to the left of mainstream Republicanism, and was NOT chosen by the people in that district. She was an outlier, and deserved to be challenged. She was not even a RINO, she was a liberal Dem in everything BUT her party affiliation.
Get Conservatives involved in the primary process and let’s go to war - but if the Conservative can’t get enough primary votes, why do we need a scorched earth policy that will, indeed, make Pelosi speaker for life?
Newt Gingrich: Useful Idiot for Pelosi, Reid, 0bama and company.
The guy was a failure as a Speaker and is one reason why now the GOP is back to minority status.
The 1994 takeover was done by Conservative's, not by the RINO's who were very content to stay in the minority and get along with the Democrats.
I am still trying, without much success, to figure out exactly what a “moderate” is.
Far as I can see, it’s someone who thinks taxes should go up a little at a time instead of one whopping shot, but that they should control my pocketbook one way or another.
Someone who thinks abortion should be a woman’s choice but the government ought not pay for it ALL the time.
Someone who thinks illegals ought to be given amnesty if they pay a few bucks borrowed from the government and sign some papers promising to pay it back.
Someone who thinks the government should fund and run public education INCLUDING charter schools and preschools.
Someone who thinks terrorists have rights that even I don’t have.
I could go on, but to me, anyone who thinks the government knows what’s best for me is NOT my friend.
Grassroots to Newt Dimwit, SHUTUP AND GO AWAY.
Newt, Newt - you don’t understand. The next round of primaries are the LAST CHANCE for the GOP. If you don’t nominate the Conservatives then they will go off on their own. The CONSERVATIVE PARTY, led by Sarah, will relegate your tired old Republican Party to third party status. It may take an election cycle or two but we will NOT stand for any more RINO candidates - get it??
The voice of reason.
Mr. Newt.....
Bite me
Newt has no point other than to spite Conservatives that
disapproved of his actions and meddling.
Who elected Newt as our spokesman?
FOX News?
Forgot about Newts behavior and resignation during the Clinton impeachment?
Forgot about Newts admission into the church of Global warming?
Newt tried to speak at the Tea Party in Atlanta but was booed.
Newt started his anti Second Amendment crap and went
along with the N.Y Times crap about the Mexican Cartels
buying their automatic weapons and grenades from Walmart
in Texas.
Newt sure like that socialized medicine idea.
Newt openly BACKED the Margaret Sanger Award Winning, Planned Parenthood Stooge, Destroy the family, Abortion Queen Dede Scozzafava.
The GOP has turned away from it's core (With the help of UNINSPIRING fools like NEWT) and will continue to
loose elections until it returns.
With Friends like NEWT who needs enemies?
....Steele...Newt, Scozzafava, Lindsey Graham, those 2 Senators from Maine...McCaine...
Get back to your conservative ROOTS or you will lose every election season....
it goes in the mail this AM.
Newt doesn’t get it.
The issue in the first place in district 23 was that there was no primary.
Unlike those on the other side conservatives believe in the democratic process.
If a conservative loes in the GOP primaries to a RINO, so be it but we will not support the RINO if he is given an exemption from having to fight for the district.
Where did the 1993 Newt go? Did he have a head transplant and leave us with a rino? What happened over the years? Looks like he fell in love with the MSM like so many pubbies do.
Yeah, The reason we will not only lose elections but our
freedoms as well.
You don't sleep with the enemy.
Because if you do you will start thinking like them after a while.
You lie down with DOGS you wake up with fleas.
And Newt's defiantly got fleas (plus a whole lot more).
While I agree with your statement, I don’t see where the Republican Party’s by-laws have been changed to exclude Independents from participating in Republican primaries like the last time. Perhaps I am wrong on this score — I hope I am wrong anyway.
We talk about how conservatives are going to make their presence knew, but I find little talk on exactly how that is going to be accomplished in the face of structural resistance within the party’s corporate leadership, of which Newt has obviously become their new front-man.
ex animo
davidfarrar
If they don't and don't support Conservatives, they will go the way of the Wigs, they are so close to seeing a new party started do to their incompetence that has lead to our frustration it isn't even funny.
If you cannot win primaries, you cannot win elections. This is not about Newt, or whomever he prefers as a candidate.
Run a Conservative in a primary and WIN; we achieve nothing by running a spoiler after losing a primary.
It’s not about Newt - I’m not defending him. But common
sense is common sense.
Take back your local and state parties. Use them to effect change at the National Level. Get solidly Conservative canidates to run for the leadership positions. RINO get involved and worm their way up to run he party machinery. Conservatives spend all their time bitching about the party but DO nothing. If Conservatives had quit bitching and started fighting locally around 2004, they, not the RINOs, would of controlled who got the nod in NY 23.
No more giving money, support and compromising our
core beliefs (what's left when they are gone?) for a bunch
of narcissistic politicians who are drunk on power, control and
statism.
Who really listens to this guy anymore. He’s finished.
His point, however, is well taken. We cannot run anyone who lost in a Republican primary as a 3rd party candidate. The context is very important: whether the winner is actually conservative or not, whether the district is conservative or not, etc.. Unfortunately, after what he did in NY23, Newt is not the right person to say this.
The Tea Parties have successfully drawn a line in the sand regarding Conservative values and principles, and will fight for the Conservative candidates in EVERY Republican Primary that they can. This purge of the limp-wristed "moderates", who vote and think with the Socialists, is scaring the crap out of the RNC, which has been outed as a "Democrat-lite" effort.
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