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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.
1 posted on 01/27/2012 9:24:49 PM PST by RedMDer
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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!


2 posted on 01/27/2012 9:27:46 PM PST by Parley Baer
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Newt Gingrich is a true Reagan conservative. Ping!


3 posted on 01/27/2012 9:28:48 PM PST by RedMDer (Forward With Confidence!)
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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?


4 posted on 01/27/2012 9:30:30 PM PST by old curmudgeon
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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.
5 posted on 01/27/2012 9:31:57 PM PST by Christie at the beach
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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.


6 posted on 01/27/2012 9:32:17 PM PST by Rembrandt (.. AND the donkey you rode in on.)
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To: RedMDer

Is Reagan a true Reagan Conservative?


10 posted on 01/27/2012 9:53:12 PM PST by upsdriver (We Tea Partiers need Sarah Palin for president.)
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To: RedMDer

The rejoinder “ Is Mitt?”

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

GOT NEWT?


20 posted on 01/27/2012 11:12:42 PM PST by Vendome (Don't take life so seriously, you won't live through it anyway)
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"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!

21 posted on 01/28/2012 4:06:33 AM PST by harpu ( "...it's better to be hated for who you are than loved for someone you're not!")
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Great thread, Red! Bump for Newt and Florida!


24 posted on 01/28/2012 8:50:02 AM PST by TheOldLady (FReepmail me to get ON or OFF the ZOT LIGHTNING ping list)
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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.


27 posted on 01/28/2012 9:15:32 AM PST by Captain Peter Blood
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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.

31 posted on 01/28/2012 10:55:21 AM PST by x
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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.


34 posted on 01/28/2012 7:55:19 PM PST by Jim Robinson (Rebellion is not just brewing, rebellion is here!!)
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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.


40 posted on 01/28/2012 9:14:09 PM PST by itsahoot (You are no longer a person, you are now a Unit when you need health care.{)
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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.

44 posted on 01/30/2012 9:35:52 AM PST by CommerceComet (Governor Romney, why would any conservative vote for the author of the beta version of ObamaCare?)
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