Posted on 05/15/2011 6:07:07 PM PDT by libstripper
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich said Sunday that he strongly supports a federal mandate requiring citizens to buy health insurance – a position that has been rejected by many Republicans, including several who likely will be running against him for the Republican presidential nomination.
Appearing on NBC’s “Meet the Press,” Gingrich told host David Gregory that he continues to advocate for a plan he first called for in the early 1990s as a Congressman, which requires every uninsured citizen to purchase or acquire health insurance.
Read more on Newsmax.com: Gingrich Backs Obamacare's Individual Mandate Requiring Health Insurance Important: Do You Support Pres. Obama's Re-Election? Vote Here Now!
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Bush sucked at debating. People don't vote for successful debaters.
If Gingrich is useful as a master debater, fine, let him be a debating coach for a conservative. Having him in the debates only allows the MSM to push him as being the best chance the Republicans have, and that is unacceptable, IMO.
Well, thro a few out there HR. I am on record as to who I support but you just ain’t that Savvy. :^)
Gingrich has some ulterior motive for running. He is smart enough to know he doesn’t have a chance to win.
He also has someone(s) funding him in his hugely expensive endeavor.
figNewton just consummated himself politically...for the final time.
Looks like the field is getting cleared, that’s for sure.
Milt,
Hucks,
figNewton - all DOA or not running.
Who is funding him? Source?
With the polls showing 57% or more opposed to Obamacare, no GOP candidate can expect to play around the edges of this issue and survive. Obama is, after all, already working that side of the street. Oh, the party elites want that revenue stream just as badly as the Democrats do, but it's pure poison in the primary elections. As it should be.
You are having fun eh? Newt Gingrich is a serious debater. I will support him in this endeavor. That’s all.
I didn't say that he did. I said he supported "the individual mandate of Obamacare" -- which is the very issue being discussed on this thread.
But, if one supports the individual mandate, do they not support the very premise that we contend makes Obamacare unconstitutional?
Except for individually wealthy candidates such a Romney or Trump, there is always someone(s) funding any candidate. A primary campaign costs millions upon millions of dollars.
It’s good to know who any candidate’s major donors are.
Gingrich is a loser and a waste of sperm.
I have liked Newt in the past ... but the total nonsense Newt has spoken today about Ryan’s work and about obamacare is beyond nuttiness ... Newt has just committed political suicide ... I would not now vote for Gingrich if someone PAID ME GOOD MONEY...
Wikipedia Hillarycare, Newt, Herman Cain
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clinton_health_care_plan_of_1993
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In 2004, as a U.S. senator from New York, Hillary Clinton argued in The New York Times that the current health care system is unsustainable, and she offered several solutions Her article also mentioned areas of agreement with one-time opponent Newt Gingrich, and likewise Gingrich has expressed agreement with Senator Clinton on some aspects of health care, including a bill to modernize medical record keeping.
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One key turning point against the Clinton plan was a televised town hall meeting in April 1994. During the event, President Clinton was challenged by businessman Herman Cain on the resulting effects on small businesses.[19]
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How Herman Cain Killed Hillarycare
Posted Thursday, January 13, 2011 2:39 PM | By David Weigel
http://www.slate.com/blogs/blogs/weigel/archive/2011/01/13/how-herman-cain-killed-hillarycare.aspx
bttt
We shall see at the end of July...
I guess he should have been aborted.... Right?
granted, but they do vote for the debaters ideas. Even people so incompetant as to be Democrats can understand a good arguement. That having been said, even I, with limited debating skills, have (I think) converted three very liberal people that I know to consider voting for whoever runs against Obama........come to think of it, how hard can that be....oh well.
If I advocated that position I suppose you’d probably vote for me, eh?
Concur. There have many, many, many, other times in Newt’s public appearances where he has walked the fence, sacrificing conservative principles, thinking he could win political percentage points, but never providing a political voice enumerating the perspectives of those he sought to represent.
What we have identified as “RINO” is too frequently a public personality/celebrity, who believes they can simply report a somewhat counter-liberal commentary and be associated with conservatism and politics.
The degeneration of American virtue is too far along to condone this type of mediocrity in conservative leadership.
Politics is more than simply expressing some popular thoughts. There is a process of identifying and communicating amongst multiple parties with similar base values and virtues, their common perspectives, especially to adversarial opponents lacking any virtue in worldly power structures.
Newt too often has rolled into the same mediocre level od popular politics, which appeals to the criminal and corrupt, as well as the conservative.
At this stage of the game, I would recommend he not only back out, but change his attitude back to virtue and provide guidance to those less scarred in the public eye.
If he runs now for public office, he simply becomes a detractor, encouraging a split between Tea Party candidates and Republicans, affording Obama the same advantage Perot gave Clinton nearly 2 decades ago.
What position is that?
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