Posted on 12/21/2011 3:20:34 PM PST by Syncro
NEWT HELPED FORMULATE CHRISTMAS
December 21, 2011Every few years, heinous Democratic policies -- abortion, gay marriage, affirmative action, Hillarycare, Obamacare, to name a few -- compel previously uninvolved Americans to leap into politics.
This is great, except for two things: (1) We have to get heinous Democratic policies first; and (2) newcomers have short memories, sometimes no memories at all.
The second point is the only possible explanation for why some conservatives seem to view Newt Gingrich as the anti-Establishment outsider who will shake up Washington.
Newly active right-wingers would do well to spend a little more time quietly reading up on Newt's political career, and a little less time shaking their fists at some imaginary "Establishment" -- which now apparently includes Michael Savage, Mark Steyn, Christine O'Donnell, Ramesh Ponnuru, Glenn Beck and me, all of whom oppose Newt's candidacy. (By the way, guys, are we car-pooling to the next Trilateral Commission meeting? I have a thing at the World Bank that same day.)
Only then will they realize that Gingrich would be a disaster for everything they believe in.
His history of lurching from guru to guru, fad to fad and wacky pronouncement to wacky pronouncement has produced few real gains -- except for Gingrich's personal bank account.
Despite Gingrich's constant claim that he -- hand in hand with Ronald Reagan -- lassoed big government and won the Cold War, this is delusional. Newt was a freshman House member when Reagan was elected president, no more important than Rep. Bill Green, R-N.Y., who was also elected to the House in 1978.
But Gingrich recently told Sean Hannity, "I helped Ronald Reagan and Jack Kemp develop supply-side economics ..."
In Ronald Reagan's autobiography, "An American Life," he writes extensively about supply-side economics. He cites Jack Kemp several times. He never mentions Newt Gingrich.
(However, in Reagan's massive 784-page diary, Newt's name does come up -- once. On Jan. 3, 1983, Reagan wrote that he met with "a group of young Repub Congressmen," and says that one of them, "Newt Gingrich," proposed freezing federal spending at 1983 levels, which Reagan rejected out of hand because it would "cripple our defense program.") Read More »
"Establishment" -- which now apparently includes Michael Savage, Mark Steyn, Christine O'Donnell, Ramesh Ponnuru, Glenn Beck and me, all of whom oppose Newt's candidacy
Yup, what's come over all of you that you now support someone that will bring Obama back for another term?
Read the rest at AnnCoulter.Com
Conservative fraud Ann Coulter says the opposite of what she’s recently said, here in a 2008 interview.
Ann Coulter-”Whenever we run a moderate Republican, we lose.” 7.8.2008
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=788GLElNE4c
Mark Steyn is the only one on that list who’s opinion I take seriously. Just saying.
So long Ann, I never knew you
That was on a seadoo, but this crew-—Michael Savage, Mark Steyn, Christine O'Donnell, Ramesh Ponnuru, Glenn Beck and the inimitable Mz Coulter take the cake!
For the first time, I am not going to read the rest of her column.
NO ROMNEY.
Michael Savage is a Jerry Brown supporter, so I wouldn't expect him to support Gingrich.
She’s back on drugs.
Sorry Ann, you’re just another over-the-hill blond.
like i said, i flippin ham sandwich over obama. certainly, newt over obama.
Go Proud, Romney and Christie. I’ve lost respect for Ann.
So do we mark Ann down as “undecided”?
Seems as though she is still trying to talk herself into something.
Just not Newt. At least not yet.
Jeez, I miss Herman Cain. Herman has not actually dropped out, he has “suspended” his campaign.
I absolutely will spend NO time thinking of positions of the homsexual GOProud group!
You RINO sellout!
LOL don’t hold back!
Annie Pulled a Humbug--The Midnights
Oh! Me, too, LOL.
ann coulter made her money playing conservatives for fools by saying whatver outrageous thing she could think of about ‘liberals’. She doesn’t need conservatives anymore now that she can pay her way into the cocktail circuit.
Never liked her. Never trusted her. She always seemed like a phony to me and I am proud to say I never bought one of her ten page overpriced books.
SO sick of her!!!!!
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