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Gingrich Said to Be Paid $1.6M by Freddie Mac (RINO Alert)
Bloomberg | 2011-11-15 | Clea Benson & Dawn Kopecki

Posted on 11/15/2011 9:06:05 PM PST by rabscuttle385

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TOPICS: Business/Economy
KEYWORDS: 2012gopprimary; beltwayinsider; bush; corporatewelfare; corruption; cronycapitalist; economy; financialcrisis; freddiemac; gingrich; gse; hispandering; housing; lobbyists; mortgages; pork; porkbarrel; rinos; toobigtofail
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To: paratrooper82; DoughtyOne; stephenjohnbanker; indylindy; calcowgirl; BufordP; cripplecreek; ...
I guess the only person left on the Republican side would be your RINO guy McRomney!

You're an idiot if you think I supported either McCain or Romney.

FUJM! FUMR!

21 posted on 11/15/2011 9:29:43 PM PST by rabscuttle385 (Live Free or Die)
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To: rabscuttle385

Romney = RINO
Gingrich = RINO
Paul = problems with his social agenda
Cain = driven out by media
Perry = imploded
Others = polling around 3% at this point
Therefore, 0bama = winner, November 2012.

As some forgettable pundit said the other day, Republicans eat their own. Who needs democrats or even the MSM to trash our people when we do such a great job ourselves.

So who ARE you supporting? Maybe the local drain commissioner has the requisite CV and will be recruited?


22 posted on 11/15/2011 9:29:47 PM PST by Joann37
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To: TitansAFC

NPR:

The questions began at the candidates’ debate in Michigan last Wednesday, when CNBC’s John Harwood asked Gingrich what he did for a $300,000 contract with Freddie Mac in 2006.

“I offered them advice on precisely what they didn’t do,” Gingrich said last week.

http://www.npr.org/2011/11/15/142349076/why-did-freddie-mac-pay-newt-gingrich-300-000

This didn’t make him a lobbyist, he said. And by the strict legal definition of “lobbyist,” he’s absolutely right.

“My advice as a historian, when they walked in and said to me, ‘We are now making loans to people who have no credit history and have no record of paying back anything, but that’s what the government wants us to do’ — I said to them at the time, ‘This is a bubble, this is insane, this is impossible,’ “ Gingrich said at last week’s debate.
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I guess it’s not a surprise that, you know, someone’s trying to reinvent history in terms of some advice they gave to Freddie Mac.
- Guy Cecala, publisher of industry newsletter “Inside Mortgage Finance”


23 posted on 11/15/2011 9:29:54 PM PST by fight_truth_decay (No Tag)
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To: rabscuttle385
Rabs, don't be a bone head with this crap. Why don't we just let the best man surface without stepping on our own d!cks?

Bad enough we have to fight the LSM, now we need to battle FReeper zealots too?

Damn, enough of this!

24 posted on 11/15/2011 9:29:56 PM PST by Las Vegas Ron (Rush Limbaugh = the Beethoven of talk radio)
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To: Las Vegas Ron
Rabs, don't be a bone head with this crap.

Dude, no matter how you slice it, Newt is a RINO.


25 posted on 11/15/2011 9:31:42 PM PST by rabscuttle385 (Live Free or Die)
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To: Las Vegas Ron

haha I agree with ya man! These guys were all over Cain any other conservatives when it suited their own guy. Now they are gonna have their turn and all of a sudden attacks are unfair, already been addressed, etc. They let a good man and conservative twist in the wind and in fact piled on with glee. Now it will be a hoot to see the stone throwers have to dodge the rocks lol


26 posted on 11/15/2011 9:31:48 PM PST by over3Owithabrain
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To: Orange1998

Sure, $1.6M is believable. Freddie and Fannie are great at wasting taxpayer funds. The only unbelievable part is that they gave it to a Republican.


27 posted on 11/15/2011 9:31:50 PM PST by Joann37
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To: Orange1998

I’ll buy it if you’ll brush up on your cognitive skills.


28 posted on 11/15/2011 9:31:50 PM PST by moonhawk (Broken Heart(less) Hobbit for Sarah...Now for Newt)
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To: Joann37
Romney = RINO
Gingrich = RINO
Paul = problems with his social agenda
Cain = driven out by media
Perry = imploded
Others = polling around 3% at this point
Therefore, 0bama = winner, November 2012.

Indeed....you would think we'd learn over the years. Nah, we're the party of stupid.

Here comes Romney and then we'll all lement.....why?

Hello obama 4 sure!

29 posted on 11/15/2011 9:33:02 PM PST by Las Vegas Ron (Rush Limbaugh = the Beethoven of talk radio)
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To: Oldexpat
If he told Freddie and Fannie that they were headed for disaster..then he earned his money and we should be applauding

Freddie already denied this happened.

30 posted on 11/15/2011 9:34:48 PM PST by Prokopton
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To: over3Owithabrain

Psssttt..... Please, keep this our secret.

There is only one reason that I bother to “Cain bash”..... it’s in retaliation to all of the Cain love fest members that bash all of those that don’t support him and all of those that question ANYTHING he does or says. He’s the Holy One and can do no wrong, don’t cha know...

Don’t worry about me, I’ll be okay.

Oh, and it gets me away from my other hobby of burying bodies under my house.


31 posted on 11/15/2011 9:36:07 PM PST by Gator113 (~Just livin' life, my way~.. Newt/West 2012.“I’ve got a lot swirling around in my head.”)
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To: rabscuttle385
Dude, no matter how you slice it, Newt is a RINO.

And Paul is an idiot, Cain is a womanizer, Perry is an illeagal alien fan, Mitt, no comment and the others don't have a chance.

Now what, should we just shoot ourselves cause there isn't anyone left?!

32 posted on 11/15/2011 9:37:17 PM PST by Las Vegas Ron (Rush Limbaugh = the Beethoven of talk radio)
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To: Gator113
it’s in retaliation to all of the Cain love fest members that bash all of those that don’t support him and all of those that question ANYTHING he does or says

Yeah, I've seen a lot of that childish idiocy around here lately.

For a while there, I was thinking Conservatives were actually grown up adults.

Posts like yours make me truly wonder.

Oh, and please don't retaliate, grow up.

33 posted on 11/15/2011 9:41:02 PM PST by Las Vegas Ron (Rush Limbaugh = the Beethoven of talk radio)
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To: rabscuttle385

Hey idiot, you are right, you did not support McCain or McRomney, you probably voted for Obumbum!

FU!


34 posted on 11/15/2011 9:41:02 PM PST by paratrooper82 (We are kicking Ass in Afghanistan, soon we will be home to kick some more Asses in Congress!)
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To: moonhawk

Agree, its late.


35 posted on 11/15/2011 9:41:14 PM PST by Orange1998 (Obama also inherited AAA credit rating.)
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To: Las Vegas Ron
Say what you will. Princess O has no idea what is coming. If you think the money kings are not ready for this , you are not paying attention. O is for over . No one is buying his jive. But keep your hopes up.
36 posted on 11/15/2011 9:42:08 PM PST by fantom (,)
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To: Gator113
There is only one reason that I bother to “Cain bash”..... it’s in retaliation to all of the Cain love fest members that bash all of those that don’t support him and all of those that question ANYTHING he does or says. He’s the Holy One and can do no wrong, don’t cha know...

That can be said of a select group of followers of ANY of the candidates. I'm just gonna find it entertaining that all the folks who piled on Cain will wake up to realize once the Cain attacks were legitimatized, it's open season on Newt who has FAR more problems both personally and politically.
37 posted on 11/15/2011 9:42:49 PM PST by over3Owithabrain
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To: rabscuttle385

So the same rabscuttle385 who spent so much time on FR smearing Sarah Palin is now doing the same to Newt Gingrich? That’s something you have in common with Vichy Republicans (Jennifer Rubin, David Frum, Kathleen Parker, etc.).

So good of you to do the Dems’ dirty work for them.


38 posted on 11/15/2011 9:43:10 PM PST by Josh Painter ("The only thing these 'investments' will get us is a bullet train to bankruptcy." - Palin)
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To: paratrooper82; EternalVigilance
you probably voted for Obumbum!

No, I didn't.

I voted for an actual third-party conservative in 2008.

39 posted on 11/15/2011 9:43:24 PM PST by rabscuttle385 (Live Free or Die)
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To: Josh Painter
smearing Sarah Palin

Really? How? Or maybe quite a few of her supporters didn't like the heavily-documented reminders of her treachery in Arizona in the 2010 elections?

The truth hurts, man.

40 posted on 11/15/2011 9:46:13 PM PST by rabscuttle385 (Live Free or Die)
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