Gingrich Says He’s ‘Conservative Alternative’ to Romney

Newt Gingrich, who not long ago was urging his fellow Republican candidates to avoid tearing one another apart in pursuit of the party’s presidential nomination, took a new approach on Monday by explicitly declaring: “I don’t claim to be the perfect candidate; I just claim to be a lot more conservative than Mitt Romney.”

With his candidacy on the rise, Mr. Gingrich opened a three-day campaign visit to South Carolina and warned Republicans to be suspicious of candidates who “adopt radically different positions.” It was a fresh glimpse into the sharpening tenor of the nominating fight as the first round of voting begins in five weeks.

“We think there has to be a solid conservative alternative to Mitt Romney,” Mr. Gingrich told WSC Radio in Charleston, S.C. “I’m the one candidate who can bring together national security conservatives, and economic conservatives, and social conservatives in order to make sure we have a conservative nominee.”

>> John F Kennedy was more conservative than Mitt Romney is. << <<

Depends. The 1994 Mitt Romney tried to run to the left of JFK's even more liberal younger brother Ted. But the 2007 and 2011 Mitt Romney moved considerably to the right to win nationally. Put the 1960 JFK on stage with the 2011 Romney and there's no doubt that Romney would make more conservative arguments on a whole host of issues from immigration to federal funds for education.

>> JFK would be a conservative in our day. <<

Bull. I'm tired of this argument getting repeated on FR. Even a squishy "moderate" Republicans around today don't worship the New Deal and Woodrow Wilson's "progressive" era the way Kennedy proudly touted.

>> He cut taxes <<

Obama did too, he reauthorized the Bush tax cuts. Is he a conservative?

>> He was adamantly opposed to abortion. <<

JFK had no position or record on abortion (or gay marriage or any other sick liberal contemporary cause for that matter). The federal government wasn't involved in abortion during the time JFK was in office (1948-1960) On the social issues that were around in that era (federal funds for contraceptives, support for parochial schools, etc.), the "Catholic" JFK took the liberal position and opposed his OWN church's teachings on those issues. Kinda like another modern day "JFK" from Massachusetts does (the one who married into the Heinz fortune)

>> He was strong on national defense. <<

Heard of the 'Bay of Pigs' fiasco? How about Vietnam? He was strong on national defense the way Slick Willie was "strong on national defense" when he was bombing aspirin factors in Sudan or lobbying for more action in Bosnia. Liberals are only against "waging war" when Republicans are in power. And Obama is yet more proof of that.

>> JFK would not fit in today’s democrat party. <<

JFK would fit in perfectly fine, one look at the 1960 debates where he denounces the Republicans as mean-spirited, greedy, heartless "party of the rich" that want to starve kids and throw grandma in the streets -- will confirm that. He was already a big government "nanny stater", he would have happily moved left and accepted whatever trendy liberal causes today's RAT party supports, just as the rest of the scumbag Massachusetts Kennedy clan has. JFK has to be the most overrated President in history the way both right-wingers and left-wingers now slobber all over this mobbed up empty-suit who's daddy stole the election for him with dead votes in Chicago. The Camelot MYTH is just that.

Read this thread posted about him this week and educate yourself:

The Cult Surrounding JFK

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