[neverdem]

It's a little old, but I thought Newt's explanation should be posted.

[wgflyer]

“There is a big difference between left-wing environmentalism that wants higher taxes, bigger government., more bureaucracy, more regulation, more red tape, and more litigation and a Green Conservatism that wants to use science, technology, innovation, entrepreneurs, and prizes to find a way to creatively invent the kind of environmental future we all want to live in. Unless we start making the case for the latter, we're going to get the former. That's why I took part in the ad.”

The problem is, Newt didn't make the distinction in the ad, from what I've seen. And the distinction will never effectively be made standing shoulder to shoulder with the communist Pelosi. Bad plan, badly executed, and why I wouldn't support Newt as a presidential candidate. Newt talks great, knows his history, is a smart guy, but is unreliable as a conservative leader. This ad merely points that out.

[ROCKLOBSTER]

Newt, the only right way to have done this would have been to wait until Nasty was speaking, and then loudly cut the cheese.

[Soul Seeker]

“Green conservatisism”? Does this couple with his new found “tri-partisanship” and Bush’s “compassionate conservatism”? Screw him.

The ‘94 lovers can live in the past if they wish, this man as he exists today is no friend to conservatism.

[river rat]

Sorry Newt — I’m not buying that “explanation”....
You pimped yourself to the wrong side...

To make it worse - they are demonstrably wrong on the science and their agenda will totally wreck the economy without a chance of accomplishing anything to “save the world”...

[Tolkien]

Giving the global warming hoax any credence is a mistake. Newt is wrong again.

[Redbob]

"Conservatives are missing from this debate, and I think that's a mistake"

No, Newt, conservatives think "global warming" is a hoax and this "debate" is bullshit - something with which you must be intimately familiar - and so we refuse to dignify it with a response.

It'd be like arguing theology with a pig.

[ReleaseTheHounds]

Newt has overstayed his welcome... Newt is so “over.” Newt, please go away and stop trying to make us all work together Kumbaya style. You let us down once (well, more than once) so just remain in “retirement.”

[nmh]

Now Newt ... let’s not tell fibs and look to be excused for endorsing green socialism.

newt .....

[B Knotts]

I’m somewhat of a Newt fan, but his explanation is weak. If you grant the opposition the ability to control the terms of the debate, you are already at a disadvantage. If Newt really believes that global warming is unproven, and that, even if it is happening, human activity is not to blame, then he must make that argument at the outset.

[jws3sticks]

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[JohnnyZ]

Newt is a has-been who had a major part in squandering the Republican Revolution.

He's full bore in favor of entitlement spending and global warming nonsense.

Newt is a drag on the GOP, part of the problem and not part of a solution.

[steelyourfaith]

 

Beam me to Planet Gore !

[GVnana]

Yeah, I remember reading this on American Solutions.

I gave Newt a pretty hard time over the Pelosi photo. I mean, I was SCREAMING!!

[SierraWasp]

"Frankly, I think this makes a lot of sense."

Frankly, I couldn't disagree more! Gingrich did nothing to pursuade or convert the thinking of a single EnvironMentalist to return to commonsense treatment of the environment by appearing in this ad to lend support to the dominant left positions of Gore and Pelosi!!!

This lame explanation of his makes me think of a conservative Christian national leader publically reaching out and joining in with the militant Prop 8 "marchers" and trying to tell his fellow Christian conservatives that they shouldn't get upset at how the spoiled, sex obsessed preverts refuse to get it through their heads that Prop 8 was never about their "civil rights," but rather about CA's Judicial Branch overturning the voted will of the people in prior propostion 22! Then telling all of us we need to join in the perv's parades with their drum-beat in order to pursuade them of their error!!!

Gingrich has fed all of us this line before when he was ridin high and mighty, but he's got a weakness for GANG-GREEN thinking and "Big GovernMental CONservatisme" that betrays righteous, consistent, courageous and genuine commonsense conservatism!!!

He's just uncomfortable in risking a complete commitment to full conservatism with it's belief in a God-given world, with God-given rights and it's rejection of the fairytale that Earth's environment is fully in man's control and so delicate that everyone must bend to the will of the EnvironMental demigogs and look back into a return to "Born Again Paganism!!!"

[neverdem]

I don't see anyone else with Newt's genius to plot a stretegy to retake the Congress in 2010. That's why I like the idea of Newt as RNC Chief, despite his faults.

Bioterrorism’s Deadly Math - Despite billions spent, we’re not yet ready for a big attack.

Orwell's Children Very interesting thread

Center? What Center?

Iran Claims Successful Test of a New Solid Fuel Missile Bad news is at the link.

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[SunkenCiv]

from the "fool me once" dep't:

Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich recently did a global warming ad with Nancy Pelosi that was sponsored by Nobel Laureate Al Gore's Alliance for Climate Protection

Oh, we already know the reason. Thanks neverdem.

[Vanbasten]

Pitiful explanation if you ask me.

[Dr.Zoidberg]

Debate indicates refutation of another’s assertions

Where’s the debate aspect of your “debate” with pelosi, eh newt?

You’re so “brilliant”, surely you can see the lie behind man made global warming and attack that lie without appearing to give the con artists a standing by being seen at their side.

[HuntsvilleTxVeteran]

Will Newt explain why after pulling BJC kicking to welfare
reform, he shook his hand and allowed BJC to take credit
for it?

Some people even here on FR believe BJC did welfare reform.

Will Newt explain why he chickened out on the budget because
he felt people would be mad at him?