Posted on 05/19/2011 8:55:26 AM PDT by Bigtigermike
Another Republican operative said he had spoken with an old friend of Gingrich's in the South who had been planning a fundraiser for the campaign.
There were 18 co-chairs for the event until Gingrich's appearance on "Meet the Press" Sunday, where he labeled Rep. Paul Ryan's (R-Wisc.) proposed budget "radical" and "right-wing social engineering."
"He said like 13 of them dropped off within 24 hours of 'Meet the Press,'"
(Excerpt) Read more at gop12.thehill.com ...
Obama?
Superior intellect?
Having a third world denizen pick your pocket while dazzling you with his colorful loser culture does not in any way indicate superior intellect!"
Just saying.
... it may, however, define ours...
< /sarc>
Do you or anyone reading this have more specifics to identify this video?
Like approximate date and location?
I would love to have that video in my library for much future use, through 2012.
Or it could be something much more simple and sinister.
This could be a clue :
Seventy-eight percent of likely California voters support a 1 percent increase in the income tax rate for Californians earning more than $500,000 a year, according to the poll, which was conducted by Democratic pollster Ben Tulchin and sponsored by the California Federation of Teachers.
52% of the budget is not enough for these criminal thugs?
In the land of uninformed parasite idiots, polls drive social action and elections, instead of informed reason.
He is only in this to keep the campaign CASH!
Noot - PERFECT!! I like that and all well said!
LOL!! Good one!
this is like watching connie chung implode
That is one of the funniest comments I have read in a quite a while! Many times FR is best read for comments. And yours just made my day, no thanks to Newtie.
From Dick Morris:
In the 1980s, the pre-Blair leftist Labor Party issued its campaign manifesto to oppose Thatcher's Conservatives in the coming national election. Its loony, leftist proposals were so extreme that the Tory media promptly dubbed it "the longest suicide note in history."
The Republican proposal to shift Medicare from the current system to a voucher-based program of private insurance - in TEN years - falls into the same category. Don't blame Newt Gingrich for saying so. In fact, we have to hope that Romney, Bachmann, Daniels and the other candidates join him in distancing himself from the plan if we have a hope of electing any of them president!
Worse, the Ryan budget continues the $500 billion in Medicare cuts which formed the basis of the Republican critique of Pelosi and Obama in the 2010 election. It keeps the money in the Medicare system rather than spending it on other entitlements as Obama did, but that is scant compensation for someone seeking care now to stay alive!
(When I first endorsed Ryan's plan in a column and video, I was under the impression - as he had told me - that he would eliminate the $500 billion cut. I must have misunderstood him because his plan keeps that very cut on which we based our entire 2012 campaign. When I found that out, I switched to opposing his plan).
Gingrich was entirely correct in denouncing this part of the Ryan Budget. The rest of the document is fine. But Obama has, as we predicted he would, focused all his fire on the Medicare portion and that is what the campaign of 2012 will be about - unless the GOP candidate for president disavows the plan.
And the height of lunacy is that the Medicare voucher-based conversion is slated to take effect in a decade! Who can predict how medicine will evolve next week let along a decade hence? To hold the Republican Party's political fortunes hostage to a program that might or might not take effect in a decade is pure insanity.
So Gingrich called it what it is - "right wing social engineering." Granted, Paul Ryan has the best of intentions. He wants to keep the Medicare system solvent in the face of escalating costs, but even he concedes that changing Medicare is not necessary over the next nine years to reduce the budget deficit. It is only in 2021, when those who are now 55 turn to Medicare that he would effect his changes. The House should drop the Medicare part of the program, repeal the $500 billion cut that the Republicans vilified in the campaign, and go ahead and implement the rest of the Ryan budget.
Newt has acted responsibly and in the best interests of the Party by describing accurately what the stakes are. Don't blame him. Honor him for saying and doing the right thing.
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