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Bachmann: Newt Gingrich is a “frugal socialist”
Hot Air ^ | DECEMBER 5, 2011 | TINA KORBE

Posted on 12/06/2011 11:46:09 AM PST by RobinMasters

In an interview on GBTV, Michele Bachmann criticized Newt Gingrich’s support for the Medicare Part D prescription drug entitlement program, calling him a “frugal socialist.”

“It doesn’t help to have a frugal socialist,” Bachmann said. “That’s really what we’re talking about is managing socialism and trying to be a frugal socialist.”

Host Glenn Beck invited her to repeat the accusation, asking her pointblank whether she was calling Newt Gingrich a socialist.

“I’m saying a frugal socialist, yes! Because you’re looking at proposals and programs that are in effect redistribution of wealth and socialism-based, and are we going to have real change in the country or are we going to have frugal socialists?”

Bachmann then delivers an inspiring soundbite in which she explains why the solution to high health care costs is to eliminate federal involvement in the health insurance space entirely.

“What I would do is have free markets in health care,” she said. “The problem has been the federal government intervening in free markets in health care. That has driven the cost up everywhere. What we need to do is go back to allowing people to buy any health insurance policy they want anywhere in the United States with no federal minimum mandate requirement … and then have them pay for their policies with their own tax-free money … and then have true medical malpractice reform.”

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TOPICS: Constitution/Conservatism; Culture/Society; Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: bachman; sharkjumpingchampion; tardshotsgother
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1 posted on 12/06/2011 11:46:14 AM PST by RobinMasters
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To: RobinMasters

I guess she’s not close enough to 0% yet.


2 posted on 12/06/2011 11:48:49 AM PST by Cyber Liberty (To Obama, bipartisanship is giving the opposition the opportunity to do as they are told. (WGensert))
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To: RobinMasters

Please, God, stop the GOP candidates from destroying each other and focus their aim at Obama!!


3 posted on 12/06/2011 11:49:06 AM PST by CWW (Pray for God's Protection!)
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To: RobinMasters

So much for the 11th Commandment.

Idiot.


5 posted on 12/06/2011 11:50:08 AM PST by Choose Ye This Day (The thing that counts is not what we could do, but what we actually do. -- Leo Spears)
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To: RobinMasters

She appears to be picking up lots of former Cain endorsements.


6 posted on 12/06/2011 11:50:29 AM PST by cripplecreek (Stand with courage or shut up and do as you're told.)
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To: RobinMasters

SHE NEEDS TO JUST SHUT UP AND GO AWAY. DID YOU KNOW SHE RAISED 28 KIDS - FIVE NATURAL AND TWENTY THREE FOSTER!?!


7 posted on 12/06/2011 11:51:17 AM PST by Buckeye Battle Cry (Mittt Romney - he lacks the courage of his absence of convictions .)
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To: RobinMasters

I’m really tired of Republicans who spend their energy attacking other Republicans, instead of attacking Obama.


8 posted on 12/06/2011 11:51:36 AM PST by Parmenio
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To: CWW
She would be better off attacking zer0 personally.
9 posted on 12/06/2011 11:52:09 AM PST by C210N (Dems: "We must tax you so that we can buy our votes")
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To: RobinMasters

I know that Michelle will not be the President, but she needs to be at the table. She would be a great cabinet candidate.


10 posted on 12/06/2011 11:52:59 AM PST by Why So Serious (There is no cure for stupidity!!!)
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To: Cyber Liberty

“I guess she’s not close enough to 0% yet.”

I wonder how that strategy meeting went:

Aide: “You know Michele, you’ve been cast as a crazy woman for some time now by the media, and you’re barely a blip in the polling. I think it’s time you went somewhere receptive... like Glenn Beck, because... well, because he’ll have you. And then you can start taking vicious jabs at your rivals. Aside from Santorum, Gingrich is probably the most conservative, so how about you call him something good... like a socialist?!”

Michele: “I like it! Wild claims on Glenn Beck! That will get me noticed, and establish I have gravitas.”


11 posted on 12/06/2011 11:54:08 AM PST by brownsfan (Aldous Huxley and Mike Judge were right.)
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To: cripplecreek

But I doubt she’ll get the Cain endorsement.


12 posted on 12/06/2011 11:54:16 AM PST by C. Edmund Wright (Moderator of Florida Tea Party Convention Presidential Debate)
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To: Why So Serious

Not if she keeps trashing the rest of the field.


13 posted on 12/06/2011 11:54:20 AM PST by Cyber Liberty (To Obama, bipartisanship is giving the opposition the opportunity to do as they are told. (WGensert))
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To: RobinMasters

From left to right, Newt Gingrich, John Huntsman and Mitt Romney.

I'd vote for Michele Bachmann instead of the many RINOs in the race.

14 posted on 12/06/2011 11:54:51 AM PST by fishtank (The denial of original sin is the root of liberalism.)
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To: RobinMasters

Bachmann is the ONLY conservative.. Noot and Myth don’t even come close..
FOR Noot and Myth will NEVER DO WHAT THEY SAY THEY WILL DO..
Like Obama they will say one thing and do another..


15 posted on 12/06/2011 11:56:18 AM PST by hosepipe (This propaganda has been edited to include some fully orbed hyperbole...)
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To: fishtank
I'd vote for Michele Bachmann instead of the many RINOs in the race.

Same here and the freepers who consistently attack her are a bunch of cowards who sound exactly like the scum who attacked Sarah Palin.
16 posted on 12/06/2011 11:56:51 AM PST by cripplecreek (Stand with courage or shut up and do as you're told.)
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To: Why So Serious

Assuming a GOP POTUS in ‘13, she may have to look to a cabinet appointment. She’s talking herself right out of her House seat.


17 posted on 12/06/2011 11:58:03 AM PST by EDINVA
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To: Why So Serious

I would not be so upset with her were it not so patently obvious at this point that she is still in the race soley to shill her book.


18 posted on 12/06/2011 11:58:56 AM PST by Buckeye McFrog
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To: cripplecreek
She appears to be picking up lots of former Cain endorsements.

Whatever they are, they aren't translating where it matters ...Bachmann at 4.8% RCP average

19 posted on 12/06/2011 11:58:56 AM PST by Servant of the Cross (the Truth will set you free)
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To: RobinMasters

Note to Bachmann - front towards enemy. Figure out who that really is.


20 posted on 12/06/2011 12:00:14 PM PST by dirtboy
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