Dallas Tea Party activists push back against Gingrich’s straw men
Check this out. Newt Gingrich is on his latest book promotion tour — and his embrace of radical leftist Dede Scozzafava (whom he champions as a “moderate Republican”) is getting heated pushback from movement conservatives in the heartland.
Earth to Newt: There is nothing “mooooderate” about radical leftist Dede Scozzafava.
Here are video clips of Dallas Tea Party activists raising their voices at Borders Books in Dallas. I repeat: Can the GOP hear conservatives yet?
Oh, and does the rest of the media elite finally understand the Tea Party movement is not just an anti-Obama, anti-Democrat movement — but a movement to hold all politicians’ feet to the fire?
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Here Gingrich snarks that conservatives who object to backing radical leftists don’t think Reagan was conservative enough. There he goes again:
Here Gingrich worries about “intra-party” fighting in the NY-23 race. But he’s backing the radical Margaret Sanger, high-taxing, Big Labor and ACORN leftist who is splitting Republicans instead of backing the conservative:
A Dallas Tea Party activist calls for GOP commitment to core conservative principles:
Keep calling them out.
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Oh whatever happened to the Newt who wrote the Contract With America!?!?
We need him back!!
They’ll hear Conservatives when we donate more money than anyone else. They still won’t do anything about it because we don’t want the kind of pay off they know how to make. But they’ll hear us.
Sorry newt, you have lost my trust in you and I do not think you will ever get it back. YOU changed, I did not.
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Can’t say it better than that. Too bad Newt doesn’t get it.
Newt does not understand where the true American center is. Like most who’ve spent too much time inside the beltway, he thinks the true American center somewhere near Paris.
He should stick with Civil War books. They were entertaining.
Maybe in 20 years your reputation can be rehabilitated.
It happend to Jimmuh Cahduh.
Darn, I previewed it and still there’s a mispelingg.
GO GO GO DALLAS TEA PARTY!!
Hint: I am a member!
Newt was Conservative who began turning liberal. Same with McCain.
So, Michelle, we’ll keep our eyes on you, and tell you if you start turning.
Newt is my personal poster child for my disdain for the Republican party.
He’s all about the PARTY, not issues or philosophy. He talks a great game in explaining many aspects of conservative philosophy but in the end, like so many other party-boys, he’s all about the party’s success, not the ideology.
Tom DeLay is (or was) another example. When he was in the leadership, it became about entrenching Republicans more than doing what is right for this nation.
If you don’t keep the United States of America first and foremost in mind when you attempt to govern, then you are just one more political hack.
I can no longer tell the difference between a “moderate” republican, or a liberal republican, or a RINO, or a DIABLO. Likely there are people on this site happy to explain it to be me, but before they do, are they so sure themselves? Just asking.
As for what happened to Newt, I think it helps to imagine that he and his ilk were taken over by pod-people (yeah, the old Body-Snatchers reference), who look like what they replaced, but have no soul, no mind, and no feelings for the people they are selling out. Others may have better explanations, but do we really have the time to review the history of the Republican Party post-Reagan?
Newt, you drank the koolaid..
shaking my head in disgust…
and I had such hopes in you…
disappointed in you…
It seems that, over time, the compromise has become more important than values to Newt. Somewhere along the line, Newt may recognize this, but as for being seen as a true conservative, Newt is done.
Funny how y’all waited until a Democrat was in office to revolt, because the Bush-Delay prescription drug benefit bill dwarfs the stimulus in long-term spending.
Newt doesn’t need to be hanging with Rev Sharpton he needs to be doing dog and pony shows with McCain since McCain wants to change the Repubs into his image. Newty fits right into that irrational idea.
McCain doesn’t “GET IT” and Newt doesn’t “GET IT”. We want “conservatives” like Sarah Palin and Doug Hoffman (who she just endorsed) not the “hands across the aisle” RINOS.
Time to take back the Repub party–become a Precinct Committeman and change the policies of the Repubs back to first principles–like we have been telling them. Start at the bottom and work your way up— it is the ONLY way to get their attention !! that and don’t give any of the Repub organizations any money. Choose the candidates that YOU want to support –don’t let the RNC do it for you or you will wind up with more of the same same…………
Look at the scumbag Arlen Specter. He was supposed to be a ‘moderate’ Republican. I don’t belong in a party that kisses Specter’s arse. I’m a conservative. Give me conservative candidates that I can vote for. Most of the problems with the Republican party apparatus on every level. Too often they are impediments to conservatives getting nominations. The Republican party only dates back to Lincoln’s time. It doesn’t have an inherent immortality. Perhaps we need a Conservative Party that has a few simple, direct principles that reflect the common sense that you need to prosper in this world. Illustrating, arguing for, first principles and adherence to common sense is what created so many Reagan Democrats. That’s the kind of coalition conservatives need to put together to win elections. ‘Gangs of Fourteen’ are traitorous to conservatism.
ditto virtually all above! where the hell did newt of 94 go. alzheimer check please.
I saw Newt on O’Reilly recently and he said most Americans want Obama to succeed because we like for our Presidents to be successful. Not sure where he has been lately to get that little nugget of bull. Sure as an American, I have total respect for the office, but when we have a president who does not repect Americans or America I hope Obama fails in all his domestic agendas and he better get off his behind and take care of our troops.
Palin 2012!!!
It is always a judgment call.
Start with a core principle or two like limited government. Then you need to have a big enough tent to include broad enough interpretations of the core principles to get enough voters to have a shot at winning. Otherwise you might as well go play golf instead.
Simple, really. Just always a tough call on the margins.
For instance, can someone think manmade global warming is a serious threat, but still be considered to be in favor of limited government?
Of course. Really. But the guy should be fighting for limited government solutions to the threat, not for massive international bureaucratic tyranny to fight it.
Offhand, I can’t think of anyone who fits that description …… which is one of the reasons it smells like a con job to increase tyranny, not a real problem.
Lies. plain and simply, lies.
we revolted against that…and the immigration bill…and harriet miers…
get a clue.
He got the DC infection.
How can you resolve mixing a lie with a truth?
We need either a third party or a strong candidate like Michelle Bachman, John Kasich, John Bolton! None of the top repubs inspire me at this point but we need to get someone in line before it is too late.
I’d love to see Tea Parties like this at each and every one of Newt’s book signing tour stops.
I realize not every conservative is pro-life, but how can Newt be promoting a book about the Christian values that built this country, and at the same time endorse someone who won an award for her support of baby-killing?
Two words: Cognitive Dissonance.
I ask that of some of my ‘christian democrat’ friends…I have never gotten a straight answer.
Demint/Bolton 2012
Palin as RNC chair.
Our Tea Party Nation newsletter this week-
Worst Liberal of the Week
The RNC, NRCC and every Republican (Gingrich, Boehner, Cantor, etc.) who donated money to that RINO in NY, Scozzafava.
Just what party do they represent?
I have the wisdom to recognize I do not know everything, and other people often know even less. The person with the different opinion about manmade global warming is probably mistaken about that issue.
If you exclude everyone you think is mistaken about the facts on an issue like that, you will never vote for a major candidate, and you might as well go golfing.
Bolton as Sec State.
Irony:
Newt’s book is called “To Try Men’s Souls: A Novel of George Washington and the Fight for American Freedom”
Newt is one of the establishment Republicans who are trying our souls!
And we, not them, are the ones who are fighting “the Fight for American Freedom”!
They are trying to lose the fight before it even begins, by supporting a Democratic Socialist in Republican clothing.
Sorry Newt, you may have had the best of intentions, but you have lost your base by supporting Scozzafava.
On October 23rd, 2009 at 3:09 pm, Red State Skeptic said:
Funny how “y’all” didn’t see the many objections from conservatives at the time. There were plenty.
Anyway I’m sure “y’all” don’t have a problem with using the State to force people to pay for your grandpa’s nexium, so STFU.
I think Newt Gingrich was a canard from day one…I learned that by a pre-internet chance encounter at the bookstore with some of his “other” wrtings in 1995.
I stand corrected, and had considered that at one time…slipped my mind. Thank you.
You’ve been revolting from the beginning.
Just for fun let’s picture
‘Obama’s little red mop’
Anyway, I liked ‘The Contract With America’, but I’ve lost interest in Newt since he lost interest in Conservatism.
He does make a good point though for 2012. How do you work a 3rd Party into the Electoral College system and win enogh electors to take The White House?
Not impossible, but it takes more planning than I’ve seen in the 3rd party movement so far.
Funny, he’s in the MoveOn section – oops Travel section, sorry…
It *IS* pitiful that it took this long. We should have been on the RINO’s the first time one of them voted in a way that looked leftard, then we wouldn’t have had scum like Olympia Snowe floating in our pond…
Lets see, photo ops with Pelosi hanging around with Sharpton and he supports Scozzafava. Now he wants us to believe he’s Conservative! I’ll believe that, the day Obama resigns the Presidency.
Like Newt, if you have been inside the Beltway for more than 6 years and relected at least once you are a member of “The Club” regardless of ideology.
Therefore, “getting along” is more important than representing your consituents and getting anything done that might rock the boat.
Once they get to that point, time to replace them.
As far as parties, Republicans are not Conservatives, and Conservatives are not Republican.
Should Republicans and Conservatives split the vote between Scozzafava and Hoffman, and the Democrat wins. There will need to be some serious discussions to figure how to resolve how to proceed for both the Republicans and Conservatives.
Will current serving Republicans withdraw from their next race because they are opposed by both a Democrat and a Conservative? Will the Conservative? Will Democrats salivate with being opposed by a Republican and a Conservative? Will this result in more Democrats getting elected?
Is this a case of the perfect being the enemy of good, or the good being the enemy of the perfect?
Since several Republican committees chose Scozzafava, should there always be a primary to take this sort of decision out of the hands of the committees? Yep, should the rules be changed?
If this turns out badly, there are going to be lots of questions.
As far as parties, Republicans are not Conservatives, and Conservatives are not Republican.
Should Republicans and Conservatives split the vote between Scozzafava and Hoffman, and the Democrat wins. There will need to be some serious discussions to figure how to resolve how to proceed for both the Republicans and Conservatives.
Will current serving Republicans withdraw from their next race because they are opposed by both a Democrat and a Conservative? Will the Conservative? Will Democrats salivate with being opposed by a Republican and a Conservative? Will this result in more Democrats getting elected?
Is this a case of the perfect being the enemy of good, or the good being the enemy of the perfect?
Since several Republican committees chose Scozzafava, should there always be a primary to take this sort of decision out of the hands of the committees? Yep, should the rules be changed?
If this turns out badly, there are going to be lots of questions.
Although I give Newt credit for the Republican revolution in the mid 90’s, he lost a lot of my respect when after 4 years as speaker, he turned-tail and ran away from his duties because of the unwarranted criticism he got from the left.
It would seem that too many of those we have sent to represent us have become more enamored with their legacy than our Constitution.
Really? Name one time conservatives had a protest against the behemoth Medicare expansion.
Core Values?….Liberty and not Tyranny..Borders with controlled immigration…Lower Taxes and Smaller Government…States Rights to choose what kind of toilets we use…No weather control fantasies.
Colin Powell voted for Obama. Thats not a moderate Republican. John McCain open boarders and amnesty for 20 million illegals. Thats not a moderate. Arlen Specter becoming a Democrat. Thats not a moderate. Newt Gingrich cap and trade, hangin with Al Sharpton (a virulent anti-Semite who incites people to riot and randomly kill jews) and support of a radical leftist Dede Scozzafava. Thats not a moderate. NEWT DO US A FAVOR AND BECOME A DEMOCRAT. MAKE IT OFFICIAL. WE DON’T LIKE OBAMA THATS WHY WE DIDNT VOTE FOR HIM.
Eh, not so much. His “Contract With America” was a bust. Note to Newt: government already has a contract with America…we call it the Constitution. And he was getting major flack from both left and right in the end, and for good reason.
While championing the Clinton impeachment (which everyone knew would never get the 2/3 votes needed) he was having an affair that cost him his second marriage. Character points? Zero.
His real priorities now are obvious: Sell books and documentaries, and keep the camera in front of him at all cost. Whether dancing with Sharpton, sitting on the couch with Nanny Pelosi or being a talking head.
He is history and needs to dissapear.
I believe the question being asked by the Dallas tea party is “For what do Republicans stand?” Without a clear and consistent set of first principles, the (R) after someone’s name becomes meaningless.
Newt wants a big tent, but he can’t have that while avoiding naming any of the poles that hold the tent up.
Dallas rocks!
lets see I don’t remember any protests in the streets against harriet meirs or immigration either…but we managed to kill those….
nice try…just more BS…predictable…
I, and probably others on this blog, have been protesting for years with letters, telegrams, emails, petitions, literature distribution, working in precinct meetings, making telephone calls, etc. We didn’t work against only Medicare, but pretty much all the unconstitutional programs of the Federal Government. You are naive to think that conservatives have been just humming merrily along until Obama got in the White House. The fact that there are so many more people waking up now and getting involved (thank God for them!) does not invalidate our hard work over the last several decades. You show your ignorance and narcissism to assume that protests were not happening before you became aware of them.
So REALLY offends me seeing Newt next to Sharpie.
Newt — Sharpie Sharpton ISN’T an representative of the whole (or even fraction of) black race. Or an ambassador or envoy or spokesman — like a whole race needs one! If you need a token black next to you to look PC and “compassionate”, get a half-way intellectual one at least!
James Greenidge
Queens NY
AMEN Brother right4life,
Throw in Rush, Hannity, Beck, Levin, and most anyone of their regualr listeners as well.
I remember being livid at the time.
The Bribe the Voters before the 2004 Elections Act.
Newt said on Laura Ingraham this week that he supports the RINO because she can win and because that’s who the RNC nominated. It’s ridiculous. He doesn’t realize that you can’t gain support when you drop your VALUES to get VOTES. Who’s to say who’ll win anyway? Are we just supposed to be satisfied with a liberal who happens to have an ‘R’ next to her name–just so that we can have a seat?
I’m all for winning, but with the right people. I won’t give up what I stand for just to get votes.
Well said, couldn’t agree more. Newt sounds like a lib the way he preaches party 1st instead of country. I don’t care what party a candidate is from as long as they will govern for the betterment of America…which just happens to be conservative.
Oh I’m sorry, I didn’t realize you were sending telegrams. That’s absolutely comparable to hundreds of thousands of hee-hoos who have been coming out in droves to stand up to the Democrat in office now.
Face it: conservatives were so caught up in defending the war that they barely squeaked in protest of anything W and congress did until Harriett Meirs came along.
Exsqeeze me, but I have been braying about Newt Gingrich not being a “true conservative” for months. I maintain that position, even though I realize it ticks some people off.
True conservatives want the war to end as quickly as the left.
The difference is that the Right believes that victory is the end result, and the Left believes that retreat is the end result.
PS to RSS: What’s a “hee-hoos”?
Is “hee-hoo” anything like a “mahu?”
On October 23rd, 2009 at 4:40 pm, Red State Skeptic said:
You just don’t get it. It’s not just the Democrat in office that we want out.
It’s pretty much ALL of them. Clean the Slate. Start from scratch. Term Limits. Eliminate seniority.
Wow. You’re pretty dense. You’re turning out to be as bad as lgm. You need to re-read my previous post and actually try to comprehend it. You once again parade your ignorance for all to see, fool. In the old days, a telegram was a very good tool to get messages to our elected officials. It counted more than phone calls and letters. I threw in the telegram reference to show just how long I’ve been protesting. You’re just whining because there’s enough of us now to make a difference. Poor poor RSS, not getting his way.
It helps make the idea that people are coming out in droves in opposition to Obama’s health care plan more palatable if he can simply disregard them as “hee-hoos”.
You see, ad hominem en masse is fun.
“hee-hoos”-
Jeez- Are they running out of derogatory names to use? Scraping the bottom of the barrel now!
All I’m saying is that doesn’t compare to the massive tea parties. Nothing Republicans did during the Bush years compares to the massive tea parties, even though he was running up the long-term deficit far more than Obama has.
This you can’t deny: opposition to big government is far louder now than during the Bush years. And I think that leads a lot of people to question your movement. They wonder why would you object so strenuously to this guy when you didn’t to the last. And I think that’s a big reason why people discredit the tea partiers as racists — for them, that’s the x factor. I tend to give the movement as a whole the benefit of the doubt that y’all are partisan (anti-Democrat) rather than anti-black — although there is undeniably a strain of racism within Republican voters — and in some instances, within the party itself.
Hangfire said:
RSS does not get it and never will. If he/she can’t figure out that the federal government does almost nothing well including fighting a war, how can you talk to a person like that? Government Schools with zero tolerance for violence breed bullies and protect them and punish kids for carrying a can opener, Medicare is 38 trillion in the hole, The FAA can’t upgrade their radar in 45 years… and we are supposed to believe that these people can control the weather and cure cancer and do it for cheaper than any of the “Evil private companies” that have been keeping us all eating and allowing the government to get fat all these years? Sir are you blind, deaf and dumb?
I think they’re a lot like the “Confucious says” jokes:
Hee Hoo pulls out to fast, leave rubber.
Hee Hoo has large family , always in the hole.
etc.
RSS,There may be a strain of racism in the GOP but its out of control on the left. Tell us why pouring gasoline on live people and lighting them on fire because they are jews is not racism?
http://www.capmag.com/article.asp?ID=2411
Why is it with you people and your hero’s like peace prize winner Yasser Arafat killing women and children because they are of another race is ok but pointing out people with clubs is really really racism?
I vaguely remember hearing some of those years ago.
2 for 2 on the double entendres.
Good ones!
Red State Skeptic said:
While not letting Bush off the hook – here are the facts about The One and the boots you so love to lick:
President Bush expanded the federal budget by a historic $700 billion through 2008. President Obama would add another $1 trillion.
President Bush began a string of expensive financial bailouts. President Obama is accelerating that course.
President Bush created a Medicare drug entitlement that will cost an estimated $800 billion in its first decade. President Obama has proposed a $634 billion down payment on a new government health care fund.
President Bush increased federal education spending 58 percent faster than inflation. President Obama would double it.
President Bush became the first President to spend 3 percent of GDP on federal antipoverty programs. President Obama has already increased this spending by 20 percent.
President Bush tilted the income tax burden more toward upper-income taxpayers. President Obama would continue that trend.
President Bush presided over a $2.5 trillion increase in the public debt through 2008. Setting aside 2009 (for which Presidents Bush and Obama share responsibility for an additional $2.6 trillion in public debt), President Obama’s budget would add $4.9 trillion in public debt from the beginning of 2010 through 2016.
The amazing thing here: that ‘mob’ was self-organized. No general call to action went out went out from ANY organized group to show up and challenge Newt.
The Tea Party movement has reached critical mass and acts on it’s own with almost no direction from leadership. A truly grassroots movement.
According to basic Newtonian physics, an object in motion will remain in motion and an object at rest will remain at rest unless acted upon by another force.
The relevant force here is irrelevance. Give it a rest Newt.
Though there were several decisions that Bush made that I didn’t like, I don’t recall any President ever passing his own spending bill. I believe only the House can do that.
Um, you’re kidding, right?
All Newt will get trying to polish the turd that is Sharptons image is smelly and dirty hands
Let this be a lesson for all wanna be/has been republicans
Newt’s leadership brought us today’s agendas in the guise of the compassionate conservative meme. We were supposed , and did, develop a tolerance for social welfare and a big benevolent federal government under their omnipotent guidance.
He didn’t drink the Kool-aid – we did.
I am not talking about what the Dallas, Texas Tea Party is asking. I’d much prefer to see what the NY23rd Tea Party is talking about.
Lest we forget that all politics is local. The local Republican Party decided who should run. These are the rules sans a primary.
This election is beginning to be viewed as a National referendum on the Republican Party. The results will be editorial page fodder if the Democrat wins, and there will be plenty of questions to ask, and . . . answer.
Specifically, the questions I raised in my earlier post.
A Democrat has not been elected to that district since the War Between the States. A Democrat win will not be atrributed to Pres Obama, but to Republicans and Conservatives eating each other alive.
A Democrat win does not set the stage for a Republican resurgence, but the potential implosion of the Republican Party.
I am not big on polls, but the Democrat is currently winning. Yes, by an extremely thin margin, and the election may yet turn out well. But, there is concern that it may not, and that is my concern, too.
Scozzafava would be a rookie representative and the party will no doubt keep her in line for the short time she will serve until she has to run again in November. At that time when there will be a primary, Hoffman can contest her for the Republican nomination, and then win the general.
The potential downside is fairly perilous.
Yep, Hoffman can run again come November to oust the Democrat, but what about the damage in the interim, should the unthinkable happen?
Exactly. We may end up Argentina.
Just exactly what is this “big tent” stuff about??? A conservative adheres to conservative principles, broadly speaking: fiscal conservatism, small govt, state’s rights; a strong national defense, individualism, adherence to the Constitution as drafted by the founding fathers, not some living document that morphs into whatever the current generation needs or wants it to be.
We invite all people that share all or most of those beliefs to be part of the Republican party. It doesn’t mean pandering and changing your principles to attract the votes of liberals. Lately, Newt sounds like he is a proponent of the pandering version of the big tent, and he will lose conservative support en masse if he doesnt wake the **** up.
Frankly, I’m not sure what Newt’s core principles are, or what he believes in other than himself. It always seems like its about him. He hasn’t conducted his personal life in a very “family values” way, certainly. That much I can overlook, but he seems to always be trying to triangulate between the left and the right, politically, asserting that he’s found a higher, better way. Right, like climate change pseudo-science? Forget it. Write the books, show up on Fox now and then, and buzz off.
Newt Gingrich has always been much of his namesake. He’s a typical politician a cold blooded, calculating opportunist. Don’t even begin to be taken in by his ‘pure as driven snow’ facade. Even his “Contract with America” was just a manuever to come to power. No sooner did they become comfortably ensconced in the Congress than he and his friends became much the same as any pork lard ladling, tax and spend RINO as those that are now out of office and villifying the group of tax and spend. pork lard ladling Democrats now in power. Don’t be fooled again by the reptilian Newt or his bu**hole buddy Tom DeLay or any other of their ilk.
You think it might be because big government has gotten three times bigger in the new guy’s first 10 months than it was during the Bush years, with no end in sight? I’m guessing the phrase “The straw that broke the camels back” is completely lost on you.
According to you, if you don’t protest when a local restaurant serves you cold food, you’re probably racist if you protest 3 months later because they started putting rat poison in the food.
Or, to keep it simple….you’re an idiot. No surprise there though.
Newt Gingrich is scum, as well as any Republican who agrees with his “moderate” stance. These GOP’ers stand for nothing. I can’t imagine what motivates them to even get out of bed in the morning, other than their idiotic rah-rah partition mentality. At least the far left Democrats stand for something–ultimately the destruction of America and surrendering every ounce of our autonomy to the United Nations. The GOP stands for nothing. They will do and say anything in order to be looked upon with approval by leftist politicians and “journalists.” The pathetic actions for expediency of the GOP disgusts me as much as the out-and-out malevolent tyranny of the Democrats.
Newt has simply lost it. He is actively advocating against conservatives in the GOP while claiming to be an advocate of conservatives in the GOP.
I simply cannot stand to listen to Newt. He is NOT a conservative. He is an advocate of “big-government statism” and we simply don’t need that. That is what Democrats believe!
Sorry for the late reply. I had to attend another football massacre. Our Granbury High School Pirates lost their umpteenth consecutive game to the Stephenville Yellow Jackets – a 34 to 3 shellacking.
Look, you are right that the “opposition to big government is far louder now than during the Bush years”. The Republicans are scum. I will not defend them, so crucify away. More power to you. He who is without sin cast the first stone? I don’t care, I’ll be the first in line to rain boulders on those bastard sell-outs! I think your objection boils down to motivation. Why all the fuss now, rather than when Bush reigned, eh? You claim that it’s because a black man is President. You and I both know that is true for some …maybe many, but you and I also know that racism exists on the “left” as well. I am “white”. My “white” sister married a “black” man. Pray tell me the reason why they didn’t touch her potato salad at family reunions? Why were they so cold to her? The racism thing is a red herring. RSS, I would be the first in line to support a black President who espoused the principles championed by the Founders. I don’t know what motivates other folks, but I fight for the Constitution. The race of my allies and enemies do not concern me. We all bleed red. That’s what counts. I am not anti-Democrat nor am I pro-Republican. I am pro-Constitution as it was envisioned by the Founders.
So long Newt. You had my vote when you were my congressional rep. You’ve done a complete 180. You are now no different than those you sought to distance yourself from at one time.
Conservatives will not be fooled any longer by you and your ilk. By the way newty boy, Sarah threw herself behind your endorsees opponet.
I for one always found President Regan’s Conservatism the MODERATE way to run a country. Quite a few of our problems would have been MODERATED or even eliminated had he the congress to support him.
But then I am one who will not let the Left and their toadies in the media define the argument. Sadly Speaker Ginrich does.
Newt is after one thing, and one thing only…his idea as to how to get the GOP back in control of Congress. His plan has nothing to do with returning the GOP back to strict conservative principles, just his own formula of winning elections and earning the good graces of the MSM in the beltway. It’s a failed idea already.
We admire John Bolton. Has he indicated he would run for something … anything?
The TEA Parties are showing how effective they are – being ignored by the media and trashed by the administration is proof there is power in numbers.
We refused to participate in Medicare Plan D. Should we ever do so (which will never happen) there is a penalty. BHO has taken penalizing to a new level and it’s destroying the country we love.
got a call from Gingrich’s group last nite to participate in a one question poll. before they could ask the question I told them that Newt could stuff it because of his support for Scozzafava. The young man was mildly shocked and he mumbled a quick thank you. I said be sure to pass on the comment and he said he would.
Got the same call that Pakurilecz got last night. I was asked to listen to a one minute “important announcement” from Gingrich and then participate in a poll. Told the called the same thing: Gingrich could shove it up his you know where if he supports the likes of Scozzafava. Plus, I said his paling around with Al Gore and Nancy P was an indication to me that Newt has lost his was.
Got the same call that Pakurilecz got last night. I was asked to listen to a one minute “important announcement” from Gingrich and then participate in a poll. Told the called the same thing: Gingrich could shove it up his you know where if he supports the likes of Scozzafava. Plus, I said his paling around with Al Gore and Nancy P was an indication to me that Newt has lost his way.
Exactly. The reason Reagan was so popular was that he both ran and governed from the real American center.
The media successfully confused just enough of the frustrated voters into thinking Obama was a ‘moderate’ and McCain was ‘no different,’ so the baffled voters voted for the ‘black guy,’ since the media managed to convince the voters electing Obama would prove we weren’t a racist society and we could get past all of that garbage.
Well, moderate Obama voters? How’s that working out for ya? Glad there’s no more racial tension? Happy we apologized to the Muslims? Glad we get along so well with Putin now? Hoping to see our medical care get as good as they have in Britain? Still have your job? Glad your kids are already getting debt piled on to them so you can live the High Life now?
Are you proud of your vote?
In the Saturday open thread,
On October 24th, 2009 at 11:48 am, MarcoPolo said:
On October 24th, 2009 at 3:01 pm, MarcoPolo said:
My own Rep. Eric Cantor used to be reliably conservative before he got into “leadership”. Now he’s voting for bailouts and donating to liberals like Dede. If that’s the direction the “leadership” of the GOP is determined to take, I’m not following.
I am so done with these weasels.
Virginia’s 7th needs a Tea Party candidate to run against our RINO.
GOP=WHIG
GOP-RIP
Cantor seems to have gotten himself “Newt-ered” since he entered “leadership.”
If nobody is following you are NOT leading! When will the GOP figure that out? Probably not until they have to cancel the 2016 nominating convention when no delegates show up…
Newt has jumped the shark.
Next.