Michelle Malkin » Dear Newt Gingrich: Meet Ronald Reagan

Dear Newt Gingrich: Meet Ronald Reagan

By Michelle Malkin • October 20, 2009 06:47 PM

So, Newt Gingrich is invoking Reagan to defend his endorsement of radical leftist Dede Scozzafava in the NY-23 special congressional election?

Triple-gag:

“If you seek to be a perfect minority, you’ll remain a minority,” says Gingrich. “That’s not how Reagan built his revolution or how we won back the House in 1994.”

Let’s quote Reagan back to Gingrich, shall we? From his seminal 1975 CPAC address:

Let our banner proclaim our belief in a free market as the greatest provider for the people.

Let us also call for an end to the nit-picking, the harassment and over-regulation of business and industry which restricts expansion and our ability to compete in world markets.

Let us explore ways to ward off socialism, not by increasing government’s coercive power, but by increasing participation by the people in the ownership of our industrial machine.

Our banner must recognize the responsibility of government to protect the law-abiding, holding those who commit misdeeds personally accountable.

And we must make it plain to international adventurers that our love of peace stops short of “peace at any price.”

We will maintain whatever level of strength is necessary to preserve our free way of life.

A political party cannot be all things to all people. It must represent certain fundamental beliefs which must not be compromised to political expediency, or simply to swell its numbers.

I do not believe I have proposed anything that is contrary to what has been considered Republican principle. It is at the same time the very basis of conservatism. It is time to reassert that principle and raise it to full view. And if there are those who cannot subscribe to these principles, then let them go their way.

Perhaps it is time to go your own way, with Al Sharpton and Nancy Pelosi:

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Related: Voter fraud in NY-23 involving Scozzafava’s good friends at ACORN front Working Families Party:

Brian Suozzo voted with an absentee ballot in the Working Families Party primary on Sept. 15 because, as his application stated, he was “at home recovering from medical procedure.”

Jessica Boomhower’s application said she would be attending a “work conference in Boston.”

Michael Ward couldn’t vote in person because he was “taking care of elderly parent.”

Kimberlee Truell was on a “Bus trip to casino,” as was Miguel Vazques.

The only problem with these absentee ballot records at the Rensselaer County Board of Elections in Troy, N.Y., is that they’re phony, voters and investigators say — and they’ve prompted what’s being called an unprecedented investigation of suspected voter fraud.

Thirty-eight forged or fraudulent ballots have been thrown out — enough votes, an election official admits, to likely have tipped the city council and county elections in November to the Democrats. Candidates would have been able to run both on the Democratic and Working Families Party lines in two weeks, and that could have given the Democrats the general election.

A special prosecutor is investigating the case and criminal charges are possible. New York State Supreme Court Judge Michael Lynch ruled that there were “significant election law violations that have compromised the rights of numerous voters and the integrity of the election process.”

The Doug Hoffman campaign asks Obama for federal monitors. Can’t expect much from a corrupted DOJ, but at least the request is on record.

Conservatism you can count on!

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#827934

On October 21st, 2009 at 11:13 am, DBNinKY said:

Hopefully we can deftly segue it into a discussion about atheism and evolution.

Not before we rehash gay marriage first!
#828063

On October 21st, 2009 at 1:31 pm, AlohaGuy said:

So Newt is the new McCain?
#828078

On October 21st, 2009 at 1:56 pm, Thomas said:

Please.

No one is as evil and as poisonous to conservatives as Traitor McAmnesty.

No. One.
#828088

On October 21st, 2009 at 2:10 pm, love2rumba said:

There hasn’t been a “true conservative” as y’all define it to even win the Republican presidential primaries since Reagan (who as I’ve said before kinda wussed out on his own conservative bona fides).

They’re coming, RSS, it will be because of how far left the Left has progressed(?) candidate-by-candidate, issue-by- issue so far left they are indistingyuishable from Bolsheviks-why, some of Obama’s people openly admit their admiration for various Communists….something like this from the mouth of any Democrat Party official in any capacity would have been unthinkable just 30 years ago…
#828179

On October 21st, 2009 at 4:22 pm, yohannbiimu said:

On October 21st, 2009 at 9:36 am, ITookTheRedPill said:

In my opinion, it appears that Putin now has his puppets running Russia (Dmitry Medvedev) and the U.S.A. (Barack Obama)

Obama is indeed a puppet hanging from many strings, manipulated by a number of hands. The fact that he is constantly campaigning, fund-raising, and disparaging everyone he finds is at fault for everything that is happening under HIS watch is a clear indication that he is someone who will never actually make any hard, important decisions during his presidency–and will only function as an agent for the destruction of this country.

It’s amazing to me that our economy hasn’t totally ground to a halt by now, and it speaks volumes of our free market, laissez-faire system that it is still hanging on, even if it is no longer running on anything but inertia. After listening to the Maoist/Leninist idiots in Obama’s administration disparage the engine of our great economy, there can be no doubt that, given time, even the economic inertia, when acted upon by an outside force will grind it to a halt.
#828242

On October 21st, 2009 at 6:12 pm, ScottyDog said:

Don’t forget that Newt Gingrich teamed up with Hillary on health care too not so lone ago. It was 2005 when Newt singing the praises of the HIPPA Act which has resulted in no medical privacy BTW.

Even Bill O’Reilly could not believe it here.

If you look at Newt’s history and voting record, he has consistently sold out conservatives by crossing the isle just like the Maverick.
#828277

On October 21st, 2009 at 7:11 pm, Jimmie said:

Well James Carvile told him this would be a good pick…and James is always willing to advise the gop …he’s a pretty smart guy…no?
#828687

On October 22nd, 2009 at 1:53 pm, theloneranger said:

I don’t understand people’s fixation with Newt Gingrich. Maybe they don’t understand where Newt is coming from. Newt is a political “game-player”. He can sound great at times, but then he can also be the biggest sell-out because to him, politics is nothing more than a “big game”.

Newt gets up each morning and puts on whichever political “hat” he wants to wear for the day, and then goes about trying to draw attention to himself to maintain his “celebrity” status.

Underneath it all he doesn’t believe a word of what he says. People just think he does. When 5 o’clock rolls around, Newt takes off the chosen “hat” and goes back to being Newt – a person more interested in himself and furthering his personal finances.
#828717

On October 22nd, 2009 at 2:18 pm, martin.musculus said:

On October 20th, 2009 at 7:56 pm, Pasadena Phil said:

Phil, are you Glenn Beck?
NB: I’m not saying you are wrong, just that you are using terminology and phrasing concerning both the 1&1/2 parties that Beck has… which he’s been doing btw for the last 18, 19 months…

Anyway, keep up the good fight!