Well, well....how can the GOP-Establishment attack him on this now?
If they didn't like Dems making a video of Ryan throwing grandma over the cliff along with her wheelchair, will they continue to throw Newt Gingrich under the bus in light of the truth?
We shall see if that talker of talk radio finds this revelation note worthy.... IIRC it was the mouth himself that claimed that Newt bashed Ryan way back when.
>> [And now, here’s the rest of the story]
Paul Harvey. The good ol’ days.
It’s time for Mr Tharp to invest in a working space bar.
This is an excellent article. It should be bookmarked and used against the Santorumbots who still squeal over Newt’s alleged political betrayals.
Someone on another thread has said that the GOP has set up a deal between Romney and Santorum to work together.
Can Sarah Palin get ’er done? Pros disagree
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-gop/2848107/posts
Begins at #6.
If true, it really stinks.
Now let’s see what gives all over talk radio on Monday. By then, this should be common knowledge and no excuse for not owning up to jumping to false conclusions. Ir’s about honor now.
i watched that interview - and i wondered how some coulda thunk gingrich was criticizing ryan’s plan.
musta been gingrich haters trying to tear him down in hopes of bringing up their own favorite.
idiots
I heard Gingrich praise the Ryan plan. I saw him do it. Then the whole "right-wing social engineering" thing came up, and I've been wondering where that sound bite came from and why use it when Gingrich had openly praised the plan?
Who got this started?
There is a perception lingering about NewtGingrich that he was a critic of PaulRyan’s budget plan and therefore a critic of conservative fiscal policy in the House of Representatives.
I don’t know. “Right wing social engineering” doesn’t sound like a compliment.
While I'm among the first to admit I wish we had different candidates to choose from, I am more convinced than ever before that Newt Gingrich should be POTUS.
Are we smart enough to recognize that fact in time to save ourselves, or do we commit political, then national suicide instead?
It's up to Newt to find a way to show the country what we need to see to make the right call. It's all on the line this election.
Campaign Advice to Newt: Don't just talk about the Reagan example, live it! Whatever comes at you, laugh it off and don't make it all about you, we don't care about you, make your campaign about US!
The GOP-e will NEVER admit this. Great article...needs to go viral.
Thank you for a great article and also the link for the Romney/Paul article.
About the Romney/Santorum deal, we will have to dig to find this information for awhile. For strategic reasons, the PA GOP insiders this came from say it’s not going public yet. Guess you could say they are playing this deal close to their..er..Vest.
Here’s the transcript of the interview...
MR. GREGORY: What about entitlements? The Medicare trust fund, in stories that have come out over the weekend, is now going to be depleted by 2024 , five years earlier than predicted. Do you think that Republicans ought to buck the public opposition and really move forward to completely change Medicare , turn it into a voucher program where you give seniors...
REP. GINGRICH: Right.
MR. GREGORY: ...some premium support and — so that they can go out and buy private insurance ?
REP. GINGRICH: I don’t think right-wing social engineering is any more desirable than left- wing social engineering . I don’t think imposing radical change from the right or the left is a very good way for a free society to operate. I think we need a national conversation to get to a better Medicare system with more choices for seniors. But there are specific things you can do . At the Center for Health Transformation , which I helped found, we published a book called “ Stop Paying the Crooks .” We thought that was a clear enough, simple enough idea, even for Washington . We — between Medicare and Medicaid , we pay between $70 billion and $120 billion a year to crooks. And IBM has agreed to help solve it, American Express has agreed to help solve it, Visa ‘s agreed to help solve it. You can’t get anybody in this town to look at it. That’s, that’s almost $1 trillion over a decade. So there are things you can do to improve Medicare .
MR. GREGORY: But not what Paul Ryan is suggesting, which is completely changing Medicare .
REP. GINGRICH: I, I think that, I think, I think that that is too big a jump. I think what you want to have is a system where people voluntarily migrate to better outcomes, better solutions, better options, not one where you suddenly impose upon the — I don’t want to — I’m against Obamacare , which is imposing radical change , and I would be against a conservative imposing radical change .
mark for reading
The little known fact is that when Newt called Paul Ryan’s plan “social engineering,” Newt realized he used a term that was not fair to Ryan’s good plan. Since Newt valued Ryan’s friendship, he called him and apologized. Ryan accepted Newt’s apology.