GET LOST
Posted on 05/16/2011 7:14:15 AM PDT by AAABEST
White House hopeful Newt Gingrich called the House Republican plan for Medicare "right-wing social engineering," injecting a discordant GOP voice into the party's efforts to reshape both entitlements and the broader budget debate.
In the same interview Sunday, on NBC's "Meet the Press," Mr. Gingrich backed a requirement that all Americans buy health insurance, complicating a Republican line of attack on President Barack Obama's health law.
The former House speaker's decision to stick with his previous support for an individual mandate comes days after former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney defended the health revamp he championed as governor, which includes a mandate.
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Fork...stick....done...Newt.
Put a fork in him! He’s DONE! Bye Bye Newt!
Pls keep your mutt on a shorter leash!
He is a confused man.
What a politically stupid move. Hard to believe he would make this statement right out of the gate.
Thanx, Newtie -
and buh-bye...
Newt and Mitt: statists supporting government control over our lives. RINOs. I won’t vote for either of them.
The Washington Examiner posts following the column has a lot of negative posts on Newt. I cannot figure out why he is even running, it is a waste of time!
or post a bond that would be used to pay for the emergency room health care that congress mandated the hospitals provide for free. I saw the interview. I dont see House Republicans addressing the free health care mandated on hospitals. That is too popular I guess.
Will any candidates for president take up support for the Ryan plan?
Does Newt have any support from any group? I dont know of any.
Newt! Don’t you have another girl friend to find?
Perhaps he and Hillary! can run against Obama in the Democrat primaries?
Really. What kind of idiot watches Mitt Romney eliminate himself from the running by doubling down on supporting RomneyCare, then decides to jump off the cliff after him?
Newt... We knew you were an arrogant old blowhard, but this is stupid in a way that defies comprehension. Please, do yourself a favor. Fold up your tent, and go home now.
Newt should have remained retired. He is completely out of touch and delusional. He is also a philandering fat tub of crap. Newt will be humiliated as he deserves.
At root, Gingrich is a condescending, elitist professor.
‘Nuff said.
Actually, I think Newt is purposeful and calculated in his statement. He is probably trying to differentiate himself.
I also think he is misguided. I predict the fastest campaign implosion that we have seen in a quite a while.
I didn't vote for McCain in 2010. I would not vote for you in 2012.
Hey, Newt... Why not shave your ass and walk backwards... It would be a change for the better, you brain-dead old fool. I would not vote you for dog catcher... But oh, wait... From that picture of you sitting with Nancy, then I see you already have caught a dog.
... and that is one of the real problems with newts. They get their ass handed to them and they just grow another...
I do believe that the past 10 - 14 years, have separated many GOP political elites so far from the reality of the REAL political landscape of America that they really have zero clue that what they are doing is suicide.
Too much K street, MSM, & lobbyists, too little common sense.
Goodbye Newt - Neither you nor Mitt are going anywhere but down the tubes. - Bye.
I would like to thank Newt for making it so easy to discard him as a CONSERVATIVE candidate.
Good. I’m glad he said this now....two down.
BTW, lizards are often mistaken for newts. Perhaps the same error has taken place here...
Buh bye!
Now we can dump him for good.
Newt is a pure Washington DC power whore.
In all seriousness, what was Newts plan here? His only fan base was people that could overlook his obnoxious, grating personality because of his ideals. That group, pretty much to a man, hates the individual mandate. Passionately. People that like the idea like Obama, and wouldn’t vote for Newt under any circumstance.
So why go there at all? Newts now aligned himself against the Tea Party. The only group he had a shot at winning over. It makes no sense at all.
Yet, the posters failed to recognize a couple of really important things.
(1) Newt is responding to questions from a KNOWN Leftwingtard ~ and he is asking questions that he knows are going to trip Newt (or anybody else) up because any conceivable answer needs to respond to both prior proposals in Congress as well as with current brief discussions of the same matter. That's pretty difficult so the consequence is you get a Republican answering a question that will PO certain self-styled conservatives.
(2)We have already been through this sort of thing earlier (for years and years) with the Leftwingtards. Adults need to always totally discount whatever the Leftwingtards have tried to elicit and turn instead to the written record or well known accomplishments of the person who was interviewed.
Frankly, sometimes I think some of our posters putting up this and other articles are actually in thrall to the whims of the Obots.
Why am I not surprised that the DNC's running dog lackeys on the WSJ editorial board were equally uncritical of Gregory.
If I were Newt Or Mitt, I’d save my money and energy. These two losers are DOA!!! The Tea Party gets stronger with powerful Governor Primary win In west Virginia. Keep all eyes on Cain, Palin & Bachmann!!!
I hope he drops off the GOP charts so fast it will make the democrats dizzy.
Also, he is neither a wartime leader or consigliere.
This makes his position nearly identical to Mitt Romney. And Romney at least had the excuse of being governor of the most libtard state in the union.
Plus, Mitt has a better hair-do and can control his zipper. And, so far at least, Mitt has the sense not to attack Paul Ryan or the rest of us TEA partiers floating alternatives.
If Newt is trying to beat Mitt out of the New York Times endorsement for the Republican nomination, he's certainly made a shrewd move here. < / sarcasm >
The RINO Gingrich: “I obviously don’t speak for the American people.”
The fact is Newt may have said something that offended some conservatives. The truth is, why would people fight to eliminate Obobu’s plan to force people to buy insurance, and then engineer another with the same force buy-in scheme. The plan to force people to buy anything is a non-starter. Insurance is not an answer to anything except to the insurance companies, their employees, and their profits. Insurance is nothing but a scheme that plays on fear and results in higher heathcare costs. IMO
I swear this Clown is pitching for Bambi’s 2012 Running Mate when Biden gets dumped.
Sure, he's a self-promoting egotistical jerk, but a pretty good writer.
Read his "Gettysburg" - great book. And yes, he should stick to teaching college history.
Rightwing social engineering? Newt, a proud supporter of the prescription drug plan, should be an expert on that.
If he’s looking for the stupid vote, he needs to run as Democrat.
The more I listen to Newt - the more I like Herman Cain.
Bye-bye Newt!
Good to see that noot was never serious about running.
That picture is all we need to know about Newt.
The idea if an individual mandate is so against everything we stand for - and it is unconstitutional. How can he come off supporting this nonsense? Whose vote does he think he is going to get with this? About as dumb as the climate change crap.
Sorry, Newt. I was willing to give you the benefit of the doubt. Not anymore.
T Paw or Daniels better go to some Carnegie Mellon courses on effective speaking and take charge of this party or we are doomed!
Bye-bye, Newty
I’m gonna miss you so
Bye-bye, Newty
Why’d you have to go?
(1) Newt is responding to questions from a KNOWN Leftwingtard ~ and he is asking questions that he knows are going to trip Newt (or anybody else) up because any conceivable answer needs to respond to both prior proposals in Congress as well as with current brief discussions of the same matter. That’s pretty difficult so the consequence is you get a Republican answering a question that will PO certain self-styled conservatives.
(2)We have already been through this sort of thing earlier (for years and years) with the Leftwingtards. Adults need to always totally discount whatever the Leftwingtards have tried to elicit and turn instead to the written record or well known accomplishments of the person who was interviewed.
There is only one answer to any question about Obamacare. That answer is “repeal.” If that is NOT the candidates’ answer then that candidate has removed themselves from the race.
I think his campaign is going to die a very quick death due to: (1) lack of money and (2) interest. Of the two, money will be the killer.
I don’t agree with everything Newt says, including this bit about health insurance, but...
Huckabee is out, now which serious candidate is left besides Newt who is willing to stand up and proclaim America to be the Christian Nation that our Founders intended?
It seems like too many so-called conservatives would rather worry about what’s in our Nation’s wallet than what’s in its heart!
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