Posted on 01/18/2012 12:10:39 PM PST by redstateone
With members of the mainstream media now hurling charges of using racially coded language against GOP presidential candidate Newt Gingrich, Big Government has uncovered a private memorandum written over three decades ago that offers a unique glimpse into Mr. Gingrich’s longstanding attitudes about race...
(Excerpt) Read more at biggovernment.com ...
I loved the 1980 version of Newt Gingrich. He would have made a great president. The post 1998 version, not so much.
Headline implies there is something negative in the memo. Couldn’t be more positive. Not sure what the point of this article is.
The NAACP Repsonse: Mr. Gingrich, you be a racist! Yo want us to work! Don’ts you knows dat work be a four letter word?
No, I think that’s the point. There’s no “there” there. And the timing couldn’t be more perfect. Look what Jimmy Carter is saying right now: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2012/01/18/jimmy_carter_gingrich_has_that_subtlety_of_racism.html
Is that because you think he’s gone soft? Just curious.
The MSM will never report this...it does not line up with the left party line and would be “off the reservation.”
But you can bet Gingrich himself will bring it up and act upon it...thereby throwing a wrench into their “reservation” politics as regards the black community...to keep them there, with their rascist views that somehow that community cannot make it without their help.
Gingrich can show them that they can help themselves and pull themselves up without a liberal politician for a step father.
The left will really flip out when Newt offers the veep slot to Allen West.
“Thinking everyone should be treated the same regardless of race” = “racist”
You really think even the MSM can ignore this memo?
Sad, but you’re probably right.
"Racially coded language" from "over three decades ago" - and from the ever impartial "mainstream media" no less!
Sounds more like something from Al Sharpton or the DNC!
The Mormon machine is in full swing. The Mormon political machine is scary. I pray for Newt. He would’ve made a great president in ‘80, and he’ll make a great president now.
The Mormon machine is in full swing. The Mormon political machine is scary. I pray for Newt. He would’ve made a great president in ‘80, and he’ll make a great president now.
The Mormon machine is in full swing. The Mormon political machine is scary. I pray for Newt. He would’ve made a great president in ‘80, and he’ll make a great president now.
Guess what words in that letter will be seized upon by leftists and race-baiters as proof that Republicans don’t like black people?
“Symbolic events”
Although the letter proves that Newt urged Reagan’s team to engage with black voters or face the consequences, and made the same case to other candidates down through the years, they’ll say it was all symbolic and meant nothing.
Newt was talking about political perceptions and the importance of engaging with all parts of society. Attending the NAACP convention would have been symbolic in that it would have shown blacks that Republicans were willing to engage with them on the issues.
The point of the article is to use a headline to smear.
The memo is wonderful, and utterly not racist.
So they put a headline out that makes it seem like he said something racist. 99.9% of americans will read the headline ONLY.
And that, is the point.
He urged Reagan to address the NAACP, an organization made up of blacks to support blacks, and that’s called racist?
He advocates a social security savings fund, which would actually be the property of black men, and that’s called racist?
I may not support Newt for President, but I’ll defend him against charges made up to buttress the idea he is a racist. Baloney!
He noted the shorter life span of blacks, and proposed they own their own retirement funds, so they wouldn’t be cheated out of their funds. That does black men a service. It was the right thing to do, and I support it 100%.
Gingrich/West would be an awesome ticket!
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