Posted on 11/23/2011 8:39:11 PM PST by reformedcrat
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich is an interesting candidate because he has been around so long and is only now topping a recent Gallup poll for the Republican nomination. And yet as a candidate, he comes pre-packaged with his own dirt. No need for investigative reporting here. Usually a candidate has to top a poll or two before some dirt comes out about him.
And some of the dirt is pretty ugly.
Read more: http://www.americanthinker.com/2011/11/newt_is_no_gecko.html#ixzz1easwdUqB
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Newt is a liberal. The MSM isn’t a glove on him for the same reason it isn’t laying a glove on Romney. They will dump those 200 lbs of baggage later.
Let’s not forget that Palin is a dummy, but genius Newt came out in full support of radical leftist Dede Scozzafava in the NY-23 election.
Just suppose Sarah Palin had chosen to support, say, Olympia Snow or Susan Collins?
Newt’s got a record. And it’s not all one of conservatism.
I know it's probably fun to say that, but it denies reality.
Newt is pro-God, pro-life, pro-gun, pro-strong defense, pro-America, pro-natural marriage and family, pro fiscal solvency and sanity, and pro small government.
There isn't a liberal alive who believes those things. They are conservative positions. Every time Gingrich was in government, he governed/legislated as a conservative.
Newt is those things when it is convenient. His 2 ex-wives might have something to say about him being pro-family.
Not when conveniet, but definitely when in government he has been among the most consistent of conservatives. His near 100% rating by Right to Life is just another example.
His ex-wives have had plenty of apocryphal stories told about them.
His first wife was his high school math teacher who started hitting on him when he was 16.
That marriage was not made in heaven. The Catholic Church agreed and annulled it.
Pro-God means nothing. Plenty of Dems are also “pro-God”. We dont need someone who simply “believes in God”. We need someone who is a staunch conservative and has a long record of leading as such. Newt sadly aint it.
Newt is conservative, and governs as one of the most conservative. His ratings were among the highest.
He is the only man in your lifetime to have balanced the budget twice and had his policies result in 2 more balanced budgets. In his first 2 years the trajectory went from 100+ billion to 22 billion to a surplus.
He is the only man in your lifetime to have actually brought in more money than we spent.
Just because he has an active mind and talks aloud the current ideas that are banging around in there, many conservatives realize they don’t have the capacity to take ideas and shape them in conservative directions.
But, when he governed the House as Speaker (3rd in line to the presidency), his actions were conservative.
Newt, consistent?
lol.
Individual mandate for one. He was for it when it was politically convenient.
She effectively did so with her endorsement of Carly Fiorina in California.
Spousal behavior still does not excuse adultery on his part, nor does it say much for his judgment in selecting a wife.
People willing to tell you what you want to hear are just as easily convinced of an effective pitch with hidden perils. How else can one explain his positions on carbon regulation, mandated insurance, or amnesty? He had not scrutinized the data and thought those issues through and admits it.
It may be candid of him but it is also evidence of a mercurial personality.
Sarah Palin consistently supported RINOs. She was no conservative. You have people on here doing to conservatives what they did to opponents of Arnold Schwarzennegger. We don’t have say 8 years later we made a mistake. When people say things we know are counter-intuitive, we should believe they mean it. Supporting Red Arnold left a bad taste in my mouth. I’ll be damned if I do it again.
Yup. And I’m looking for consistency of character, principle and sound, considered judgment in a President. Newt Gingrich has none of those qualities. I’d like his supporters to name one.
He is the only man in your lifetime to have actually brought in more money than we spent.
The last time the US government ran a surplus was in the mid 1950's. "Borrowing" from SSI is a politician's lie, as Newt himself stated.
One of the things going for Newt with Palin, is that when she was picked to be the V.P. by McCain, Newt was one of the very very first folks extolling her virtues, and defending her, with maximum support.
That said, I wasn't to knowledgable about her at the time, and to be honest, the way Newt was defending and supporting her, gave me some doubts about her, but in the end, we saw, she was/is a true conservative.
That also said, everyone makes mistakes, Palin endorsed McCain in his senate election, and Newt is apologetic over that lefty. We'll see how it all unfolds.
In the article continuation, an incident was described where Ron Paul was beeing peppered with questions about a terminally ill person. He was asked “Should we just let him die?” Someone in the audience yelled YES, and the audience applauded. Does this mean that conservatives are rethinking their position on “death committees” which are actually payments to the patient’s doctor to discuss end of life questions and decisions, now that people are becoming more aware of the high cost of dying?
Personally, having cared for both my mother and husband when they were dying, I was very glad to have end of life advice from doctors. They did not want to die in a hospital, and I was able to care for them at home with far less expensive home visits by support personnel. My husband’s background was Scottish, and he said he’d be damned if he was going to see his hard earned money go to drug companies, hospitals and doctors, when he had a perfectly good home he could die in.
People choosing to die at home, is their choice. Euthanasia by the doctors hand (assisted suicide) is pure evil and the bastardization of medicine. Government has no business making those decisions.
The truth is irrelevant to Cain folks here
They are in love with him same as they were Sarah...like me
Newt is 94 lifetime ACU...only 2 points less than Jesse Helms....and 6 points more than Santorum and 13 more than Paul...and
Hardly a liberal
Bachmann God love her is 100 but nowhere...my first pick but unless changrs then my 94 lifetime pick will have to do
Not to mention her immigration utterances were same as Newt
And she endorsed Mr Amnesty McCain
Crickets here chirped then
I just dont see the “it” in Cain...weak...Oba and his media will destroy him and his strange behavior
Perry too...i like him but hes not national level speaker..to me anyhow
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