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Posted on 12/21/2011 11:51:51 AM PST by presidio9
Newt Gingrich isn't exactly chasing the gay vote.
The Republican presidential candidate told a homosexual Iowa man at a campaign event on Tuesday to vote for President Obama.
Scott Arnold, a Democrat and associate professor of writing at William Penn University, approached the ex-House speaker in Oskaloosa wanting to know how Gingrich would represent him as President, according to the Des Moines Register.
"I asked him if he’s elected, how does he plan to engage gay Americans. How are we to support him? And he told me to support Obama," Arnold told the newspaper.
The Gingrich campaign did not immediately respond to requests for comment.
The White House hopeful — who had surged ahead as a top-tier candidate but has sunk in polls over the last week — is known for his opposition to same-sex marriage.
Earlier this month, he told the conservative Christian Family Leader organization that, if elected, he would “oppose any judicial, bureaucratic or legislative effort to define marriage in any manner other than as between one man and one woman."
His lesbian half-sister, Candace Gingrich-Jones, made national headlines earlier this month when she said she's was going to vote for Obama because of her sibling's rejection of same-sex marriage.
Arnold said he was disheartened by Gingrich's latest comments.
"When you ask somebody a question and you expect them to support all Americans and have everyone's general interest," Arnold said. "It's a little bit frustrating and disheartening when you're told to support the other side, that he doesn't need your support."
I’m liking Newt more every day.
I often thought it was something wrong with their genese. Their beeber could have been stuned, also.
. BEWARE: Deceptive Headline! This is he-said, he-said anecdotalism. No confirmation from Noot in the story!
Dang Italiacs!
Dang Italiacs!
What? No pandering to the homosexual lobby? Better go talk to Mitt Rino.
Merry Christmas
I think Newt missed a good chance to turn things back to Obama. He should have brought up Obama’s eagerness to treat this or that group of Americans as the enemy (big oil, wall street, bible toting gun clingers, ...).
And for the record, I am quite unhappy that our current president does not support; Americans, American ideals, American business, American Taxpayers, American Citizens, The Constitution...
Do I get a pity party now?
Sounds like a paraphrase. Perhaps Newt said, "I'm not going to represent gay Americans as if they were different from any other Americans. If you want a president who will follow the Constitution and reduce the size of government so that the private sector can create jobs, then I'm your man, but if you want someone who divides the country into special interest groups with special rights for each group, then you should probably support Obama." In that case, Newt's answer was what I want my president to think, and I personally don't have a problem with him saying it. The real question: what was the rest of Newt's answer?
FINALLY! Well said, Mr. Gingrich. I think he’s figured out that you can’t pander to the pillow-biters and expect to keep the conservative vote.
Lessee here, a Muslim writer bashing Newt for supposed anti-gay speech?
Muslims behead gays.
I guess the old saying holds: “The enemy of my enemy is my friend.”
I wasn't there but I can say categorically that this statement is a lie. The man likely tried to get Newt to state if he would off push for special rights for rights for gays and then Newt said he would be better off supporting Obama.
“When you ask somebody a question and you expect them to support all Americans and have everyone’s general interest,” Arnold said. “It’s a little bit frustrating and disheartening when you’re told to support the other side, that he doesn’t need your support.”
kind of like when obama told white working class males to go pound sand.
Now there’s a reason to support Gingrich! if only he were electable in the general election.
If gays want to be able to claim that any man who declines on their advances is homophobic, then, DumBO is their man.
Has the New York Daily News recently hired ex-NYT lefty “journalists” or is this simply the product of the inclusive progressive RINOs who think true conservatives should welcome gays and such with open arms? =.=
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