Gingrich channels open-borders SEIU; Rubio rebukes; Update:Newt retreats
Photoshop: Reader Jimmy D.
Yesterday, the SEIU and left-wing USA Action launched Spanish-language radio attacks on Mitt Romney for his support of immigration enforcement measures. One of Romney’s advisers is Kris Kobach — a constitutional law professor, Kansas Secretary of State, and staunch leader in the fight against illegal alien amnesty and ACORN-style voter fraud.
Eliseo Medina, the secretary-treasurer of Service Employees International Union, blasted Romney on Monday during a conference call announcing a Spanish-language radio ad the union is launching in partnership with Priorities USA Action, a super-PAC supporting President Obama.
Medina, the No. 2 official at the influential union, was reacting to an answer Romney gave at a debate Monday night where he said “self-deportation” was the answer to ridding the country of illegal immigrants.
“It’s basically to say, ‘Make their life miserable’” by refusing to rent to them or to provide access to heat and water,” Medina said. “Make it difficult for their kids and their schools.”
Asked by The Hill how Romney’s comments could be construed to imply that illegal immigrants should be denied basic necessities, Medina pointed to Romney’s close relationship with Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach, who has endorsed Romney. Kobach has been credit with writing most of Alabama’s harsh anti-illegal immigration law, which has been challenged in the courts.
“Mr. Romney has said he wants to support and he joins in supporting Kris Kobach,” Medina said. “When he says he supports those kinds of policies, he has to own all of it.”
“This is a dishonest smear from President Obama’s liberal allies and a desperate attempt to distract from his abysmal record,” said Romney adviser Albert Martinez. “It will do nothing to help the millions of Hispanics who have been hit especially hard as a result of the Obama economy.”
Martinez said Hispanics, like all Floridians, believe Romney is the best person to rebuild the economy and to replace Obama.
Well, look now, who’s mimicking the open-borders SEIU and blurring the lines between illegal and legal immigration.
Yep. Newt Gingrich:
Sen. Marco Rubio scolded Newt Gingrich’s presidential campaign over a Spanish-language radio ad that accuses rival Mitt Romney of being “anti-immigrant”
“This kind of language is more than just unfortunate. It’s inaccurate, inflammatory, and doesn’t belong in this campaign,” Rubio told The Miami Herald when asked about the ad.
“The truth is that neither of these two men is anti-immigrant,” Rubio said. “Both are pro-legal immigration and both have positive messages that play well in the Hispanic community.”
Rubio’s sharp rebuke comes a day after he subtly corrected Gingrich for comparing Romney to former Florida Gov. Charlie Crist, branded by conservatives as a turncoat who left the party before Rubio beat him in 2010.
The criticisms from someone of Rubio’s stature in the Republican Party comes as polls show a near-even race, albeit with Gingrich surging.
Rubio plans to stay neutral in the race. He’s a potential running mate whom both candidates would love to have on the ballot.
The truth is that neither Gingrich nor Romney has a strong, consistent overall record on border security and enforcement. But at least Romney’s been traveling in the right direction…while Gingrich once again echoes left-wing language and plays the race card to get ahead.
Nose plugs. Get out yer nose plugs.
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Newt and his supporters have been deriding the notion of self-deportation as some sort of alien, offensive concept. Long-time readers of this blog and of my investigative work on immigration have been familiar with it for years. It’s attrition through enforcement, it’s humane, and it works.
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Can you be more two-faced? Newt has been winning massive adoration and applause for claiming he’ll stand up for states like South Carolina and Alabama, which have been sued by the Obama DOJ over tough immigration laws. Then he joins the likes of the SEIU and slams the very “anti-immigrant” policies authored by Kris Kobach that the Obama DOJ wants to overturn.
Emetic of the day.
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Update: Newt retreats. From GOP Hispanic leaders calling him out, via the Miami Herald:
While we may have differences of opinion with regard to some of Governor Romney’s policies on immigration, we nonetheless stand firmly behind him because we know he is the most qualified conservative candidate to defeat President Obama and to lift up all Americans, including Hispanics.
Like your attacks on the free market, attacking Mitt Romney as “anti-immigrant” only serves President Obama and his liberal allies.
Mr. Speaker, our party deserves better.
Sincerely,
Secretary Carlos Gutierrez
Senator Mel Martinez
Raquel A. Rodriguez
Zoraida Fonalledas
Jorge Arrizurieta
R. Alexander Acosta
Remedios Diaz Oliver
Rudy Fernandez
Jeanette Prenger
Jerry Natividad
Sal Gomez
Allen Gutierrez
Hector Barreto
Jose Fuentes
Bertica Cabrera Morris
Rafael Elias-Linero
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Once again it seems Nuter will go to bed with anybody who serves his personal interests. What do they call it…? Oh yeah. A whore.
Let’s see, if I vote for him I’ll need to bring nose plugs, haz-mat suit and a condom.
Santorum 2012
O/T Winner of the Happyscrapper Battle Skillet Award
http://www.news-journalonline.com/news/local/east-volusia/2012/01/25/daytona-woman-64-holds-suspect-in-yard-at-gunpoint.html
Amen sister. Thanks for shedding light on this important issue.
Newt is trying to present himself as a Goldwater and Tea Party Republican, when in reality he is a Rockefeller and Dede Scozzafava Republican.
For those willing to watch, I recommend this video:
I find both Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich unacceptable as Presidential nominees. (Here’s why I don’t trust Romney.)
My choice for the primary is between Rick Santorum and Ron Paul, and I favor Rick Santorum, but also think that Ron Paul is actually more electable because he would draw more Democrats in the general election.
I was watching WWII in color the other night and I saw Newt. Not the actual man but thousands of men just like him.
Eager for power and willing to do anything. To vilify anyone to be in charge.
I honestly believe Newt would round up a group of Americans and put them in concentration camps if enough people were convinced these people were what was wrong with their lives. It worked for Hitler and the Nazi party.
That being said, if he’s the nominee, I’m voting for him to give America a chance.
Four more years of Obama will doom us all.
You can’t be in the country illegally and you can’t get a job if your in the country illegally.
So it’s really really bad if you tell people that they need to go back to their home country?
That sounds way to reasonable, but we’ve become a nation of we don’t want to hurt any one’s feelings.
It’s BS letting the La Raza types control the conversation, and that’s what we’re doing.
Good for Rubio. It reinforces my belief that we need the senate, congress and the president to remain vigilant when defending the constitution and the God given rights of the citizens of this country. I’m not ignorant to belief that one man is going to be all for all or share all of my views or have the same priorities as I. I hope others use Rubio as an example and step up when necessary, regardless of the politics or politicians involved.
“Then he joins the likes of the SEIU and slams the very “anti-immigrant” policies authored by Kris Kobach that the Obama DOJ wants to overturn.”
Nothing like a bit of over the top smash mouth hyperbole to get the day started?
Who’s your choice again MM?
I’m anti-immigrant also, if they are here illegally. The rest are welcome. This isn’t rocket science.
Nothing over the top about it. Truth is painful sometimes.
Go Ron Paul or none at all!
Why do you care? Stop waiting for someone to hold your hand, and make your own choice.
The criminals are in full control of our nation. Obama & associates are not in it alone. They have the full cooperation of the entrenched politicians from both Parties, with cover being provided by all of the media. FOX has been co-opted by threat, and the rest are long time supporters of Left wing criminals. They are looting our treasury, destroying our country, and have every intention of subjugating the citizenry. People, we are in trouble.
What a load of crap post by MM.
Two or more completely unrelated events shoved together to create a fictional story.
Can we stick to FACTS and not imagination?
Doubt I’ll have a choice Rogue. They keep moving Texas back. I can certainly make up my mind if it does come to that but it gets a little wearing to have the constant pounding from our own side. I will give MM credit, she pounds ‘em all equally from what I can tell.
I still contend putting Gingrich in bed with SEIU is pretty harsh. To the point of absurd even.
Yes – either Romney or Gingrich would do as a VP to Rubio.
BTW – I still think Rubio would thrash Obama in a debate. Can we say “brokered convention”?
please elaborate. I’ve wondered what has caused this once fine news organization to become obsessed with all things Brittany Spears and a month old cruise ship run aground in lieu of reporting real news and employing liberals like Shepard Smith and Chris Wallace.
I’m in complete agreement with your comment #15.
Michelle, the web you linked to that rates each candidates position on I.I., puts O`Communist ahead of Ron Paul. I don`t see things that way.
Ron Paul believes you should end illegal immigration subsidies like free education, free health care obligations, as well as send criminals who don`t have legal status in the U.S. home. He also wants to deny them welfare benefits, deny them food stamps etc.
It`s the same approach as with cockroaches. Put your food away at night and wipe down the countertops and tables and you won`t have the infestation problem.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8y3zEP75kFM
You can’t handle the truth!
You’re blind, dude!
Newt Gingrich is a weasel. I don’t trust him. He is using the tactics of the left and he will say anything!
Michelle Malkin is providing links to stories (aka sources) to bolster her position. Where are your facts, bub?
Newt/Scozzafava liberal NY GOP’12
Newt/Pelosi global warming couch’12
Newt/Philander open marriage ’12
I sure want a brokered convention. I’ll take Daniels (even though he is short and bald) even though I think he has his shortcomings (pardon the pun). BTW, Luis Fortuno for vice president.
Sorry, my mistake. It gives RP a D- and O`Communist an F-. I was looking at two categories specifically that rated Obama ahead of Paul and made the incorrect statement I did based upon those two categories.
Anyways, for that website to suggest that Newt Gingrich is more anti-illegal immigrant than RP, as the website suggests, is absurd.
Here’s my immigration take, that I wrote over a year ago. I’m still to the right of Newt but I heard him a few debates back repeating what I had written and wondered if somebody had sent it to him. If that puts me in bed with SEIU then its over for them. I’d be the scab that never healed.
November 10, 2010
DanMan’s Manifesto on the illegal alien situation.
First a few basic knowns.
1. There are somewhere between 12 to 25 million illegal aliens living in this country. Something like 4% to 8.5% of the US population or so.
2. We have many incentives besides employment opportunities that lure illegal immigrants and extend our social safety net.
3. We are probably the only developed country in the world that rewards illegal aliens having babies within our borders by granting them some sort of status that eventually allows them to bring in their extended families for similar status.
Suppose we reform our approach to illegal immigration enforcement. Let’s set a date certain our new immigration laws are strictly enforced and that would include no allowance for providing a US birth certificate for any baby born to a non legal resident citizen. Not a green card holder’s baby, not a consulate member’s baby, not a sight seeing tourist’s baby, no interpretation at all. On that same date we cut off all social services to any non legal resident. If this seems draconian, just insert whatever tenets we place in our new immigration laws that we can consider “comprehensive”, but it must include enforcement. Of course this date certain will mean we have the ability to enforce our borders. If the borders cannot be certified to be sealed, permanently cut all of congress’ pay by 20% until it can be certified sealed. Cut an additional 10% per week until it is achieved. *UPDATE: The DC politicians have conceded the point regarding citizenship with their DREAM act legislation by attempting to give citizenship to anchor babies. They recognize they are not citizens and we need to gain control of the issue legislatively before the courts step in.*
Now we have a window of 24 years since we last granted amnesty that will have the birthdays of the millions of people who were born here to non legal residents and their relatives. Let’s assume they all want to become citizens and we give them a pathway. They will have to register by a certain date and provide key elements of identification that will be matched biometrically (it’s our country, they are not yet citizens, we get to make the rules).*UPDATE: Perhaps an identification card with GPS capabilities could be a viable option since it is already a requirement to carry ID and it would also allow us to track them.* After this date certain our data base potential should not be growing at all so that at least gives us some time to breathe. The data we collect will determine the potential status to start the process to citizenship. Criteria would include several categories and include command of the language, criminal record, record of paying taxes, record of using social services, etc. The information will be sorted to move those most assimilated towards the top and those that have shown to be a net loss lower in status. For those that have criminal records, evaluate them. Use of social services, evaluate them, allow them to pay our country back to improve the status. Basically allow for the sorting of the people that want to become to citizens and have shown the ability and willingness to improve themselves the opportunity to filter up and the least desirables to filter down with the chance to improve their condition.
All of these people will be in line BEHIND the people that are currently going through our legal process. None of them can achieve citizenship faster than a regular case emigrant that is in line on the date certain. That should not be that much of a hardship since they will basically be allowed to live their lives as they are except for the use of social services, which will not be available. That would also stop the political parties from reaching for/worried about a major imbalance of political power as we just saw in Nevada. It may take 10 years to get the mess sorted out but the beauty is the people that are waiting and working and improving their lives will have a vested interest in obeying the law to keep their status and they will know that they will not be kicked out if they do so. By the time they get citizenship they will be assimilated and have a stake in this country. They will have had time to see how our country works. For those that don’t want to make the sacrifice, ahem…go home.
I do not accept that an illegal alien that has gotten away with living here for a year is invested in our nation or state. I worked the entire time I was in college from delivering the Chronicle to working at UPS at night, waiting tables, working for the school, basically anything I could find. I paid full ride for my kids to attend A&M and UT with no assistance from anybody. It was hard and it did not allow my wife and I an opportunity to put aside anything for the years we paid that tuition.
I am sure there are loose ends that need to be cleaned up but I will always side with the more draconian way to achieve a resolution.
From another thread. It fits better here.
Don’t forget Jerry (spit) Rivers!
Oh, really?
Newt pandering to illegals.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tjYOunt5y-o
Marco Rubio MUST NOT run as VP!! He isn’t ready, he insists he won’t do it, the field is not the right one for him to be in, and he is needed more in the Senate!! I adore him. He is an amazing Conservative. To take VP right now would be a HUGE mistake and he might never recover from it.
Trust me…he needs to stick with what he has said, over and over and over!!!
To follow up (and this is why I respect Newt):
Romney’s Hispanic leadership team: Newt, pull down your ad. Gingrich: I will
link
I suspect that Rupert Murdoch’s legal problems are behind it with a “We can pursue it or we can drop it, your choice Rupert”.
Heck I’d take Romney for his business background and Newt for his parlimentary knowledge on the same ticket. These guys are ultimately going for the same voters and need all they can get.
That Newt pi$$es off the old guard is icing to me though.
Respectfully, that isn’t enough. A real solution to the problem does include those things, but must also eliminate the ability to get, and more importantly, to HOLD or maintain jobs here. (After all, for an unauthorized person to hold any employment in the US, necessarily requires that person to break no less than 2 or 3 Federal laws — which go under-enforced all too often). There is no ‘right’ enshrined in US law for any foreign national to get/hold a job in the US — none. Keeping the ‘extras’ out of bounds is helpful, but going after the ability for them to get jobs is even more important. Paul could do much better in this regard. Specifically, he has not espoused a national mandate for employers to use E-Verify in hiring and later screening employees.
https://www.numbersusa.com/content/action/2012-presidential-hopefuls-immigration-stances.html
(mouse over Rep. Paul to display the follow pop up summary)
“Although Rep. Paul has always said he opposes amnesties, he also refuses to back enforcement measures that would lead to signficant attrition of the illegal population. He is particularly weak on removing the jobs magnet that keeps illegal aliens in the country. His own book in early 2011 suggested a legalization that would provide legal residence and work permits but not citizenship. However, in all the months of debates and campaigning since, he has not promoted that idea (nor has he repudiated it). His strong advocacy of turning off the benefits magnet helps him to a FIRST STEPS rating.”
Now, having said all that, I will say there are a LOT of positions if his I really agree with. This is particularly true of his foreign policy/defense beliefs. I am not a Paul-basher by any means — just drawing attention to the fact he could do better and would be even more popular as a result.
Michelle, obviously you are not happy with the GOP candidates. I can understand that. But please do not insult us by telling us to HOLD OUR NOSE. Its the weakest campaign I can imagine. Either find someone to support or find a third party candidate. This Holding our Nose pitch is getting old.
He or Demint needs to replace McConnell.
Bachmann needs to replace Boehner.
Wouldn’t mind a brokered convention, but Rubio is not qualified to be President and I think we need a vetted candidate. We are seeing the warts now. I don’t want to have to first see them after they get nominated.
AMEN
Like it, or not, since Simpson Mazzoli (1986) no one has truly and effectively enforced that immigration law.
Alas, what to do?
That’s why I start at that time. Everyone has to be accounted for or removed. No hybrids bringing in extended family. No DREAM Act. No nuttin’ but order.
Us in the trenches on the conservative side did not want this mess but it needs to be cleaned up. My only explanation for our current situation is anybody in power that did allow it (McCain, et al) was cowed by accusations of racism for enforcing the law and folded. Obviously the dems got the upper hand in this regard.
Reality bites. Let’s deal with our circumstance under our terms logically.
Replace virtually everybody currently in office, shut down a number of agencies, fire a huge percentage of judges, in brief: Recover our country.
Amnesty or not, once the incentives to be here are gone, the illegals will go.
End birthright citizenship.
Where are the fiscal conservatives? If we don’t get the debt and spending under control, we won’t have an economy.Does anyone in the GOP get this or are they all focused on regaining power? Egypt is running out of money to pay for food. It won’t be pretty if that happens here.
Don’t misunderstand my questions, I personally like, admire and respect Sen. Rubio, thinking he is the real deal, I just question his eligibilty…and don’t try and justify his eligibility with the Kenyen usurper Oblabber, two wrongs doesn’t make it right.
Has it been determined if Rubio is even eligible to be president or v.p.? Is he a natural born citizen, where his parents were non-citizens at the time of his birth, NO. Does he not fit into the category of a native born citizen as are all the illegals that are born in the states now.
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sorry to say, I just don’t trust Newt, smart man, great debater that would have Odopey crying by the end of the 1st. and only debate…Barry’s not stupid, he wouldn’t debate him more than once. He appears to be very selfish, 1st on his list of priorities is Newt, that’s fine for the average citizen but not the an elected official. Now wouldn’t that be something if more politicians didn’t think of themselves 1st.
Just a side note here. There is a huge difference between us and the rest of the world – our citizens carry guns.
So do the mooslimb brotherhood.
Apples vs oranges.
While I enjoy watching Newt take it to the prog media types in the debates, I am really being turned off by statements he is making on illegal immigration and progressivism which Glenn Beck has illustrated with audio clips on his program. That leaves me in a quandary for November if he is the nominee.
Without regard to Gingrich or Paul, the root cause of what we are experiencing is the backlash to the elites annointing Romney and fair or not leaving people with the perception he is being crammed down our throats.
The RNC and elites have sown the wind and are reaping the whirlwind. It is a clear indication they never understood Obama, what he has done, the threat Obama poses to our way of life, the mood of the country or what the majority of the GOP base wants.
They thought that they could do business as usual. The world changed and they were asleep when it happened.
Actually, it’s more like Romney is being shoved up our ……..
Fly: It isn’t a perception.
Will a day ever come when we are all simply ‘Americans’ and not this hyphenated nonsense. Should I start trumpeting my Irish-German-English-Indian heritage, demanding my rights under that special minority class? It is absurd how everyone wants to boast of where they came from and ignore where they are.
Flyoverman…Your posts are giving me goosebumps!! You are truly inspired!
To add to your excellent post, Flyoverman @#46, notice how the LSM uses the word “electability” over and over…the GOP doesn’t have a clue about the electorate.
Another example for why no one should yet be endorsing anybody in this election. The only punctuation these guys use between flip-flops is a comma. It use to be a period. Before that, it was measured by the calendar.
Let’s take these clowns out ASAP so we can deal with the next Bush clown the GOP establishment throws at us. Looks like it’s going to be Mitch Daniels and then calls to draft Jebbie. By talking about it, I hope to get to the end game before the convention.
The message we need to take into the convention is:
“Sit down guys. We’re taking over now. You and your progressive pals have made a big enough mess already.”
We will be hearing that “Newt Retreats” headline a lot during this campaign. Talk now, retreat later. He is a loose cannon. Scary.
I guess it’s how you view things. I don’t see it as “retreating..” I’m also tired of “our side” viewing everything that happens so negatively.
Bingo!
Yes. Do it.
And I wish to inform all of Congress that in my veins flows the blood of peoples that have overthrown tyranny.
On my mother’s side, as crown subjects, they severed ties with the crown and helped defeat the British.
On my father’s side, as Irish immigrants given 40 acres of land and Mexican citizenship by Presidente Santa Anna, they rebelled and helped create the Republic of Texas.
If need be, I will give my sons and daughter to fight tyranny again.
They all want to be “moderate”. So which pig in the poke do you choose? Honestly any would make a good President. I am concerned abot the New “electability” factor though. My bet is that Romney is the best to oppose Obama.
Just because the Left may want Mitt does not disqualify him in my mind. It just means they fear a Newt, Santorum or Perry presidency more. I think they believe BHO will lose and they want to minimize the overall impact of a Republican government. They certainly don’t want the Republicans to have their turn at trampling them the way they just did the Republicans when the Dems held the House. LOL.
Immigration is going to remain a third rail problem until we get a President who will deal with it directly. Disabuse yourselves of the notion that the solution does not include some anchor baby and other amnesty also – due to political and bureaucratic misfeasance over the last 25 years. Statute of limitations etc…
This is why we need direct and punative accountability for politicians and bureaucrats. Since they only enforce laws that suit them, Liberals have to learn that they will most certainly pay for their sins of omission.
I was trying to be polite to the Romney supporters. My point was the perception is there. Fair or unfair, perception can be and often is reality in politics.
Easy to be a parrot. The regurgitation of thoughts from people far more learned than me.
SPOT ON!!!
I am not a risk taker. “Electability” does get my attention. If a Newt or Ron Paul gets the nod and the Vichy Media machine strikes the right political harmonic chord, Bammy could be there another four years. I will gladly swallow a Romney versus the possibility of having to live with this horror another day longer than necessary.
Trust me, if Obama gets a second term, millions of homeowners who are under water or with multiple mortgages will walk away. The ensuing collapse of the economy will be horrific. Without the collective psychological will of investors and the consumer, the economy will auger into the ground. That “will” cannot emerge with Obama and the Marxists still in power and exercizing mayhem on wealth creators.
If Romney makes the Republican and Democrat elites feel comfortable, I could care less. Romney with a Republican Congress is infinitely preferable to any alternative with Obama still in place.
George Washington: I am not a risk taker. (snort!) (snicker!) Blahahahahahaha!
Sorry, but my gut tells me NO NEWT. My instincts have always been pretty accurate. I have learned to trust them. You don’t have to, but he is bad news.
George Washington: “We can’t win. The redcoats are just too strong. Why even try. Let’s just hold our noses and back the lesser of two evils and hope for the best.”
I feel the exact same way! My cousin, Capt. John Parker was the first Leader of the Minutemen who fought the first battle of the Revolution. My other cousin, Jonas Parker was one of the first 8 Minutement killed in that battle. My ancestors go back to Charlemagne. My Grandfather x 12 was William Brewster of the Mayflower. I am a daughter of the American Revolution on both my Mom’s side and my Dad’s side.
I don’t say this to brag. It is just a fact. And I will DIE, if I have to, for this country. My ancestors would expect nothing less.
If I had any relatives in the Revolution they were Hessians.
A lot of them stayed after the war.
I just can not trust Gingrich…. sorry I did not like Ted Kennedy, Chris Dodd & Bill Clintn for cheating on their spouses…I can not support Newt. How do you explain to a child what the term tramp is when people are speaking of Callista as 1st Lady?
I would prefer at that point that Boehner and McConnell be replaced by conservatives like Bachman or King, Rubio or Demint. That would provide a necessary check on Romney IMO.
nobody should argue against this point, great take sir
My relatives that fought in the Revolution were German. In fact they received property for their mercenary abilities.
But Newt is such a great debater we just have to vote for him. He will be able to attack Obama better than anyone else. Who cares what he actually believes. We have to have a president with an ‘r’ after his name.
I had to look that one up, Flyover! So, I got my history lesson for the day. Thanks!
O/T but totus at it again! Does bho need totus to tell him how to unzip when he goes #1?
http://weaselzippers.us/2012/01/25/obama-needs-totus-for-this/
L
Reagan’s Young Lieutenant
Why would one in the position Mitt Romney now finds himself — thoroughly defeated in South Carolina by a surge of support for Gingrich’s conservatism — ever even entertain the idea of going after Newt Gingrich on Reagan?
Who knows why Romney gets tongue tied ? Or, as our friends at the Wall Street Journal note, “befuddled.”
But the very fact of this latest attack on Gingrich for what Romney tries to imply is Newt’s lack of ties to Reagan shows the “Massachusetts Moderate” (as Gingrich tags him) is unfamiliar with the details of Gingrich’s role. Worse, Romney indicates a considerable ignorance about why Gingrich and others — none of whom painted conservatism by the numbers — were there fighting in the first place. All working under Reagan’s leadership to begin to right a ship of state that was perilously close to the rocks in 1981 — economically, socially, and on issues of national security.
Be that as it may, Romney has raised the question of Newt Gingrich’s real role in the Reagan era. So let’s take a look.
http://spectator.org/archives/2012/01/24/reagans-young-lieutenant/print
Why did Newt Gingrich win South Carolina?
Because he was one of Reagan’s Lieutenants. A member of Reagan’s Murderers Row of conservative stars.
It’s too soon to know whether the conservative Gingrich or the moderate Romney will win this nomination. Or, yes, Santorum. Or even, if all those panicked rumblings from the Washington Establishment are true, someone not yet in the race — a Daniels, Jindal, or Ryan.
But whatever happens, quite unlike the picture Romney is trying to paint of his prime opponent in South Carolina, Newt Gingrich was very much present and accounted for on the Reagan team. To borrow from Reagan’s farewell address to the nation and the men and women who served him, Newt Gingrich wasn’t just marking time. He made a difference. He helped make that City on a Shining Hill stronger. He helped make the City freer.
Quite to the contrary of the Romney message, Newt Gingrich was in fact one of Reagan’s Young Lieutenants.
One of the best.
I hope they were lousy shots!
Any suggestions of better places to get news? – Drudge ran a huge headline with the Pelosi accusations all night and morning, but still (a/o 3 p.m.) hasn’t reported that she backtracked, and since pulling the Pelosi banner has been running this:
http://legalinsurrection.com/2012/01/panic-at-the-disco/
Update:
Not all hope is lost, h/t commenter Logos, Drudge has updated around 3:30 p.m. Eastern to reveal that Nancy has backtracked — see if you can find it. Drudge has an absolute right to do what he wants, and we have an absolute right to point out that he has been promoting Romney and targeting Newt:
Well, at least your ancestor survived! That is the main thing! Unless he planted his seed before going into battle!
There is bias on both sides of the aisle. Drudge has his own agenda too. I guess there is no getting away from it.
When you find one, please let me know.
Maybe he’s got a crush on Ann Coulter.
Pay attention.
Hessians were Army, not Navy.
No, Obama would do that.
Were those the guys with the spikes on top of their helmets? Wow, must’ve sucked to sit on them to eat c-rations.
You are more generous to them than I. They do know what Obama’s agenda is and are aware of its disastrous effect on this nation. They are partners in the crime, they benefit as do Obama & associates. Our problem comes from the entrenched political elitist that run the government and their coconspirator corporations and financial institutes. It doesn’t matter whether they have an “R” behind their names or a “D”, they are in it for themselves regardless the damage and destruction done to this great nation.They do not care what the “base” want, you the citizen,no longer matter.
*Just think of our great Republic atop a three-legged stool; One leg is unbridled illegal alien immigration supported by amnesty pimps like Newt; Another leg is our unsustainable debt and deficit; The third is the threat of Islam and sharia law; Get just one wrong and we collapse; Newt is dead wrong on this issue; Mitt is at least talking right about self-deportation and demagnetizing through enforcement of current law; And I speak as a former legal resident alien taking 13 years to become a citizen; Do it right or get the he.. out!
I am a proud Garden of Eden-American. I demand my Apple Pie since I now have to wear clothes.
How’s that, they are citizens of their country as we are here? Don’t need a 2nd amendment in Egypt to have a gun.
Could Mr Gingrich please come to my $395 a month 1 bedroom apartment, sit on my 10 year old loveseat I laughingly refer to as a couch, and please inform me as to the account numbers of my Swiss bank accounts and Cayman Island accounts, and explain to me what happened to my $20 million a year for doing nothing?
Apparently in Gingrich’s delusional world, every single illegal alien invader is a grandmother… presumably the grandmother of someone born here.
You have to live in some inside-the-Beltway fantasyland to think that the illegal aliens who’ve invaded us from south of the border did so with a desire to be American, rather than a desire to make money. You have to live in some inside-the-Beltway fantasyland to believe that we are getting decent, American-in-all-but-birthplace, cream of Mexican and Latin American societies, rather than the dregs of those same failed societies.
Gingrich has made it clear, to me, that he cannot be trusted with the issue of illegal alien invaders.
“K” rations, as in Kraut or Knockwurst.
Our system is now set up so that only the elitists can get elected. They have the access to the money which is the most important part.
Who else can run and win? Bill that lives at the end of the block? The cable guy? The pizza guy that reads MM’s blog and knows the issues? They all need the money. The ones that have it compete. The ones that don’t will lose. Ask Santorum and he is someone with at least a little money.
I believe it was in “Pravda Means Truth” that Heinlein explained the following idea. This is taken from memory, so it may not even be his…
In explaining how the Soviet citizens in the early 1960s could be so controlled, he used the analogy of a lion tamer.
How is it that a lion tamer can control several lions without being eaten or mauled?
One thing is the platforms the poor creatures are made to stand on. They are not *quite* large enough for the lion to stand on. Therefore, the lion is constantly worrying about his balance, rather than eating the lion tamer.
Now, picture Obama and company as the lion tamer. Picture the American people as the lion, and picture his endless regulations, made-up crises, the perpetually in fail economy, and you have the platform upon which the lions of America are trying to perch.
Why has NOBODY pointed out that, when Obama claims that Warren Buffets secretary pays more taxes than does Buffet, that Obama and everyone else assumes Buffet should pay a higher tax rate to be fair? Logically, the secretary should have a lower tax rate. That would achieve “fairness” as surely as raising Buffet’s rate.
It’s not about fairness. It’s about getting more money in Obama’s (and his crony’s) pockets, and giving Obama (and his cronies) more power.
Nobody wants me in the White House. I may know the issues, I may be right about most of them, but I don’t have a track record of achievement to even suggest I could handle the job.
Neither does the pizza guy, probably.
Equality is all well-and-good, but your track record indicates how equal you are.
That is one of the problems. Obama made that actual claim. However, it’s obvious that Buffet paid more tax dollars than his secretary. A lot more. It’s the rate they are talking about but Obama obfuscates that fact to paint a different picture in the minds of voters. He is misleading them.
Take muni bonds. They are tax free investments. If I make a lot of money and quit working and invest all that money in muni bonds, I will pay zero in taxes but will get a return that I live on. Whats wrong with that? Nothing. I also could have invested my money in ventures that lost money. The Federal government only allows me to recoup some of that money each year so I carry it forward for years and pay less taxes. I could have taken it all in one year and got tax money back. They make me spread it. It is fair.
I pay tax when I earn money. I pay tax on the earnings the invested savings gives me. If I get less than the secretary, then I will pay less but there are investment vehicles I can use legally. Munis are tax free to get me to invest in them. They may pay a lower return than other places I put the money. We all make choices.
I only know about Hessians because in Regency-era England, Hessian-style boots became really popular with the fancy gentlemen.
I am a huge nerd.
Stacey…you attributed this part of the quote to Flyoverman when it was me who has the Capt. Parker cousin and Flyoverman has the Hessians. Just setting the record straight for future reference!
Off topic…Has anyone seen the dust-up in Congress today with Henry “the nose” Waxman and an “R” whose name escapes me?
This was about the pipeline and Waxman decided that the Koch Brothers have an interest in the pipeline going through so therefore, the Koch Brothers should be subpoena’d to come to a hearing about it. Henry Waxman is certifiably insane. WTF?? Isn’t he the same guy who wants hearings on everyone? Just haul all our private industry leaders into Congress to answer to the Big Bad Government, because, well, WE work for Waxman, doncha know!!
Fortunately, he got smacked down real good!
If I find a link I will put it here. Actually, this is something MM might have a thread about soon.
Also, Juan Williams says that the republicans are making a big deal about the pipeline for “political reasons”. Gee, Juan, maybe it is because the pipeline is actually GOOD FOR THE COUNTRY!! Juan Williams is another freak. And believe me, it is not because of the color of his skin! It is his teeny tiny little worthless brain.
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2012/01/25/dem_congressman_gets_dressed_down_after_accusing_republican_of_calling_the_koch_brothers.html
HERE IS THE LINK TO THE WAXMAN THING! GOOD READING!