Is Newt Gingrich a True Reagan Conservative?

Newsmax ^ | Thursday, 19 Jan 2012 06:09 PM | Newsmax Wires

[RedMDer]

A newly surfaced video shows Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich is a true Reagan conservative. The video, called “The Ronald Reagan Legacy,” recently made its exclusive debut on Newsmax and is already making an impact in political circles.

Is Newt Gingrich a True Reagan Conservative? Watch ‘The Ronald Reagan Legacy’ and Decide for Yourself!

The video couldn’t have come at a more perfect time for Gingrich, whose critics have been questioning the relationship he actually shared with Reagan. Mitt Romney is now taking a lot of heat for leading what many are calling a “smear campaign” against the former House speaker.

[RedMDer]

Is Newt Gingrich a True Reagan Conservative? Thursday, 19 Jan 2012 06:09 PM By Newsmax Wires
The video couldn’t have come at a more perfect time for Gingrich, whose critics have been questioning the relationship he actually shared with Reagan. Mitt Romney is now taking a lot of heat for leading what many are calling a “smear campaign” against the former House speaker.

Ronald Reagan Legacy - video - Must see.

[Parley Baer]

I sure hope it helps Newt. I am really ticked off at the Republican Party in the way they have acted in Florida. So much so I will not vote for Mitt. They are not go jam him down my throat. GO NEWT GO!

[RedMDer]

Newt Gingrich is a true Reagan conservative. Ping!

[old curmudgeon]

Look at Romney’s eyes. Look at his mouth.

You can tell a lot about a person by their eyes and their mouth.

Then look at Ron Emanual and little Timmy.

See the simularities?

[Christie at the beach]

It would be wonderful to have someone who was close to Reagan back in the White House. It sure would bring back stature for the presidency.

[Rembrandt]

The crop of Rep Prez candidates has only two who can succeed in being elected - Newt and Romney. So the question is actually who is more conservative btwn those two.

The obvious answer is Newt.

[RedMDer]

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2008 Flashback: Michele Bachmann Gushes Over Newt Gingrich
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[RedMDer]

Yes it would.Donate Here! Ronnie would approve.

[RedMDer]

Sneaky, slimy, evil little critters with really no soul at all aren’t they.

[upsdriver]

Is Reagan a true Reagan Conservative?

[RedMDer]

LOL! Was that just to wake me up?

[RedMDer]

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Palin: "Look at Newt Gingrich, what’s going on with him, via the establishment’s attacks.
They’re trying to crucify this man and rewrite history, and rewrite what it is that he has
stood for all these years."

[upsdriver]

;-) You might say that. LOL My point is that even Reagan in his day couldn’t live up to his legend.

[txhurl]

Is Reagan a true Reagan Conservative?

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lol

Also, to supplement Sarah, ‘We need to be sudden, SILENT and relentless’

[352Bill]

Newt the serial cheater would do this?

[352Bill]

Go Rick Go!!

[stormhill]

The pope really Catholic?

[Psalm 144]

It is the look of a sociopath. Not all sociopaths are physically violent. Those who combine intelligence, physical cowardice and diligence do very well as social crawlers.

Romney is every bit the headcase that Obama is. I hope significant power is never entrusted to him.

[Psalm 144]

“Newt the serial cheater would do this?”

Reagan was pilloried about his divorce as well.

I was there, and I remember. I like your signup date.

“In Flanders’ fields the poppies grow . . .”

[Vendome]

The rejoinder “ Is Mitt?”

Then who has a record of achievement that more closely does?

GOT NEWT?

[harpu]

"Is Newt Gingrich a True Reagan Conservative?"

Does it matter if he's the ONLY candidate that will take OBozo's miserable record on durng the campaign!

[jospehm20]

I agree. Newt doesn’t need to be a Reagan. He only needs to be better than Romney.

[southphilly]

If Regan was running now, he would be called a Rino on this forum..

[TheOldLady]

Great thread, Red! Bump for Newt and Florida!

[RedMDer]

Thanks!

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GO NEWT!
GO FREE REPUBLIC!!!

[Captain Peter Blood]

Newt is not Reagan or a True Conservative. All of the candidates on both sides are corrupt and there will no real change regardless of what happens next November.
There have been no real credible plans put forth to deal with the debt or deficit.
No political will or leadership to honestly tell the American people the truth and what really needs to be done, i.e. immediate across the board spending cuts of 50% for starters.

[Drew68]

No political will or leadership to honestly tell the American people the truth and what really needs to be done, i.e. immediate across the board spending cuts of 50% for starters.

Such a candidate could never get elected.

[RedMDer]

Newt Discusses the Facts and Florida With Greta

[RedMDer]

What Kind of Man - Mittens will say anything to win an election. (Newt Ad)

[x]

I guess Gingrich's record in the 80s and 90s comes close to that of a Reagan conservative. The argument against him, though, wasn't that he represented one ideology as opposed to another, but that he was too erratic and unreliable, that over time he's too easily distracted and ineffective.

It's a bum rap to paint Newt Gingrich as anti-Reagan. There's some bad faith and deception, perhaps deliberate, involved there. At the same time, Newt was always hard to pigeon-hole into the kind of categories that other politicians accept. Something about him was always expanding in ways that broke the old ideological molds, and that makes some people distrust him.

FWIW Maybe it's a minor point or something personal, but the "Rockefeller Republican" thing still amazes me. If you ever were a Rockefeller Republican yourself, as Newt was himself, you can't attack others and apply that label to them without some self-awareness or irony. If that irony or awareness isn't there it's not a good sign.

[RedMDer]

I believe that now is the time for a true leader with vision. Please take a look at the video interview with Greta here:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2839158/posts?page=29#29

[RedMDer]

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House Minority Whip Gingrich and 7th District congressional candidate
Brenda Fitzgerald throw mock tea crates into the Chattahoochee River on
April 15, 1994, as part of a "Taxpayer's Tea party" in Roswell, Georgia.
GO NEWT!
GO FREE REPUBLIC!!!

[Jim Robinson]

Great video excerpts. I even ordered the full video ($4.95 for a subscription). I really appreciate what Newsmax did for us by buying a top of the page banner ad on Drudge on bloody Tuesday to tell the truth about the coordinated attack on Newt. Must’ve cost them a small fortune.

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Repeal ObamaCare. Repeal Dodd-Frank. Repeal Sarbanes-Oxley.
Reform the federal bureaucracy drastically reducing government and regulations.
GO NEWT!
GO FREE REPUBLIC!!!

[RedMDer]

Go Newt!
TEA Party On!

[Jim Robinson]

er, bloody Thursday.

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[itsahoot]

No, but neither was Reagan. But he has the ability to change the direction of this country more profoundly than Reagan could ever dream, because the sleeping tiger is awake.

[Captain Peter Blood]

Your right and it's at best wishful thinking.
We are on a massive collision course on the Debt and Deficit.
It's either Default or some kind of collapse and none of the parties will address this.
When Greece goes under the chain reaction will start and where it ends is anybody’s guess.

[Alamo-Girl]

Bump!

[greeneyes]

Newt was not a Rockefeller Republican. He was an army brat.
A politician might move among the old guard, but they are never accepted as part of that group.

Reagan wasn't - he was an embarrassment to them as was Newt.

[CommerceComet]

I'll admit that Newt Gingrich is less a Reagan Conservative than Mitt Romney is a Rockefeller liberal. Does that help?

If the Gipper were alive today, there is no doubt that he'd be as opposed to Romney as the Romney family was to to him during his political career.