Yikes! Newt Gingrich making sense!?!?
These are frightening words to type, but … Newt Gingrich and I agree with each other.
Talking to Greta van Susteren last night on Fox, the former speaker noted that Dede Scozzafava, the Republican candidate in New York’s 23rd congressional district, had been chosen by county party leaders in that district to be the GOP’s nominee in next week’s special election.
Yet Republicans from outside that district are trying to overrule that choice as ideologically unsuitable and impose their own candidate on the district.
Here’s an outtake of the discussion:
Gingrich: Well, I just find it fascinating that my many friends who claim to be against Washington having too much power, they claim to be in favor of the 10th Amendment giving states back their rights, they claim to favor local control and local authority, now they suddenly get local control and local authority in upstate New York, they don’t like the outcome.
There were four Republican meetings. In all four meetings, state Representative Dede Scozzafava came in first. In all four meetings, Mr. Hoffman, the independent, came in either last or certainly not in the top three. He doesn’t live in the district. Dede Scozzafava…
VAN SUSTEREN: He doesn’t live in the district?
GINGRICH: No, he lives outside of the district. Dede Scozzafava is endorsed by the National Rifle Association for her 2nd Amendment position, has signed the no-tax-increase pledge, voted against the Democratic governor’s big-spending budget, is against the cap-and-trade tax increase on energy, is against the Obama health plan, and will vote for John Boehner, rather than Nancy Pelosi, to be speaker.
Now, that’s adequately conservative in an upstate New York district. And on other issues, she’s about where the former Republican, McHugh, was. So I say to my many conservative friends who suddenly decided that whether they’re from Minnesota or Alaska or Texas, they know more than the upstate New York Republicans? I don’t think so. And I don’t think it’s a good precedent. And I think if this third-party candidate takes away just enough votes to elect the Democrat, then we will have strengthened Nancy Pelosi by the divisiveness. We will not have strengthened the conservative movement.
Gingrich goes on to conclude that if “we’re going to purge the party of anybody who doesn’t agree with us 100 percent — that guarantees Obama’s reelection. That guarantees Pelosi is speaker for life. I mean, I think that is a very destructive model for the Republican Party.”
Ladies and gentlemen, I give you Newt Gingrich, the voice of reason in the GOP.
That too is a scary thing to type.
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I Report (-: You Whine )-: mmm, mmmm, mmmmm!
October 28th, 2009
3:18 pm
GINGRICH: No, he lives outside of the district. Dede Scozzafava is endorsed by the National Rifle Association for her 2nd Amendment position, has signed the no-tax-increase pledge, voted against the Democratic governor’s big-spending budget, is against the cap-and-trade tax increase on energy, is against the Obama health plan, and will vote for John Boehner, rather than Nancy Pelosi, to be speaker.
Yeah and she’s pro abortion and associated with ACORN.
What happened to Newt’s messy little divorce you libs used to make a huge deal out of, claiming it rendered unfit to make any sound judgments?
hmmm?
mm
October 28th, 2009
3:18 pm
The wingnuts want to tell everyone else how things should be done. But you better not tell them how things should be done.
mm
October 28th, 2009
3:21 pm
Whiner,
“What happened to Newt’s messy little divorce you libs used to make a huge deal out of, claiming it rendered unfit to make any sound judgments?”
Why do you lie so much? hmmm?
I believe the rant against Newt was that he was fooling around on his wife while carrying the torch and pitchfork to get Clinton impeached over a BJ.
Jackie
October 28th, 2009
3:22 pm
The circular firing squad attracts more members.
If someone asks the Repubs what they want, their reply is usually stated “…I don’t know, but I will tell you when I see it.”
Bud Wiser
October 28th, 2009
3:24 pm
I always said Obowo was a lying sack of ****.
Here is proof right from the Liar In Chiefs own lips:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UErR7i2onW0
Doggone/GA
October 28th, 2009
3:24 pm
Jackie – ““…I don’t know, but I will tell you when I see it.””
I think they’re beyond even that. I think it’s more “I’ll tell you when someone tells ME”
Mrs. Godzilla
October 28th, 2009
3:26 pm
Still liking the idea of Newt/Liz 2012….
Immensely beatable.
Doggone/GA
October 28th, 2009
3:28 pm
Funny thing is, and I’ve thought this for a long time…Newt missed his calling when he got into politics. If he’d stayed in academia he’d be a respected, conservative scholar and critic now. Instead of a laughingstock.
Angry Black Man
October 28th, 2009
3:31 pm
So much for local control and States Rights. I guess the people in Texas know what’s best for upstate New York. Hmmm, maybe States Rights means that one state may better know what’s right for another state.
stands for decibels
October 28th, 2009
3:34 pm
VAN SUSTEREN: He doesn’t live in the district?
Kee-ryst, as of last night, did Greta really not know that?
Booger Sandwich
October 28th, 2009
3:35 pm
Chuck Norris once ate a whole cake before his friends could tell him there was a stripper in it.
A Chuck Norris-delivered Roundhouse Kick is the preferred method of execution in 16 states.
Chuck Norris doesn’t actually write books, the words assemble themselves out of fear.
When an episode of Walker Texas Ranger was aired in France, the French surrendered to Chuck Norris just to be on the safe side.
Normal
October 28th, 2009
3:38 pm
Said it below…Chuck Norris wears a tutu. It used to belong to Newt(ered)
Booger Sandwich
October 28th, 2009
3:39 pm
While urinating, Chuck Norris is easily capable of welding titanium.
When taking the SAT, write “Chuck Norris” for every answer. You will score over 8000.
When you’re Chuck Norris, anything + anything is equal to 1. One roundhouse kick to the face.
Little known medical fact: Chuck Norris invented the Caesarean section when he roundhouse-kicked his way out of his monther’s womb.
Normal
October 28th, 2009
3:41 pm
Chuck Norris eats tofu
Taxpayer
October 28th, 2009
3:45 pm
Come to think of it, the normally opinionated and glad to regurgitate it Republicans have been rather quiet of late. Is Rush on vacation.
Mrs. Godzilla
October 28th, 2009
3:46 pm
Chuck Norris?
Stole the clown cars…..
Booger Sandwich
October 28th, 2009
3:47 pm
Chuck Norris’ favorite halloween prank is to attend a party dressed as a “round house kick to the face”.
Angry Black Man
October 28th, 2009
3:47 pm
Moses did not part the Red Sea. The water jumped back in fear because Chuck Norris was right behind Moses.
The atomic bomb was created by scientist trying to recreate the energy released during a Chuck Norris roundhouse kick.
Taxpayer
October 28th, 2009
3:47 pm
Chuck once got his buttocks kicked by a grasshopper. But, grasshopper has gone to another place now.
Booger Sandwich
October 28th, 2009
3:49 pm
LMAO…too much fun…tomorrow friends!!
Nothing Is Free
October 28th, 2009
3:50 pm
DoggoneGA
**If he’d stayed in academia he’d be a respected, conservative scholar and critic now. Instead of a laughingstock.**
You just don’t get it. To liberals, anyone who doesn’t march the goose step is considered to be a laughing stock. That sort of makes you all look like the actual laughing stock.
Normal
October 28th, 2009
3:51 pm
Chuck Norris dates Barney Franks
Jimmy Carter
October 28th, 2009
3:52 pm
Newt makes sense on many occasions. You just need to get the Obama ear plugs out of your ears to listen to what he says.
Angry Black Man
October 28th, 2009
3:52 pm
David Banner never got angry at Chuck Norris. Would you?
Kamchak
October 28th, 2009
3:52 pm
Chuck Norris drinks PediaSure.
Nothing Is Free
October 28th, 2009
3:54 pm
Mrs. Godzilla
**Still liking the idea of Newt/Liz 2012….**
I saw Liz Cheney disassemble a panel of the best the DNC had to offer on ABC’s Sunday morning show. If you aren’t afraid of Liz Cheney, then you haven’t seen her debate a liberal.
Mrs. Godzilla
October 28th, 2009
3:54 pm
Chuck Norris facts…..sorta?
http://www.chucknorrisfacts.com/
Jackie
October 28th, 2009
3:55 pm
@DoggoneGA
Are you saying there is a sheepish element in their approach?
Not them!!!!!
Mrs. Godzilla
October 28th, 2009
3:55 pm
NIF
Chuck Norris is Liz Cheney….
Taxpayer
October 28th, 2009
3:55 pm
But, Chuck no roundhouse kick David Banner. If him did, David Banner turn green with envy.
Normal
October 28th, 2009
3:56 pm
oh,oh…gotta go
Kamchak
October 28th, 2009
3:56 pm
Is Rush on vacation.
Sadly, no.
Yo'momma Obama
October 28th, 2009
3:57 pm
Chuck Norris and Barney Frank? I bet I know who “pitches” and who “catches”, lol
Nothing Is Free
October 28th, 2009
3:57 pm
Mrs. Godzilla
**Chuck Norris is Liz Cheney….**
I would rather say that Liz Cheney is a verbal Chuck Norris.
Mrs. Godzilla
October 28th, 2009
3:57 pm
Ever see Liz Cheney and Chuck Norris together…….????
Jimmy Carter
October 28th, 2009
3:58 pm
Doggone/GA
October 28th, 2009
3:24 pm
Doggone/GA
October 28th, 2009
3:28 pm
Is this the same Doggone/GA who bashes others by claiming they add “nothing” to the discussion. HAhahahahahahahahaha!! I rest my case.
Angry Black Man
October 28th, 2009
4:00 pm
JC
What’s that old saying? Even a broken clock is right twice a day. J/K
Newt might be an ok guy. I personally go along with the hypocrite label though. The first impression I saw of Newt was his posturing on Clinton’s misgivings. I never really paid much attention to what he actually said before then. At the time, I agreed with him to a point about Clinton and the fact that he lied under oath. I lost respect for him after I found out he was doing the same thing. Once that respect is lost, it’s hard to get back
Kamchak
October 28th, 2009
4:02 pm
Ever see Liz Cheney and Chuck Norris together…….????
Nor have I seen chuck Norris and Macaulay Culkin together
Angry Black Man
October 28th, 2009
4:03 pm
Chuck Norris doesn’t fear terrorists. He actually enjoys them… for breakfast.
Nothing Is Free
October 28th, 2009
4:04 pm
Angry Black Man
When did Newt lie under oath?
Angry Black Man
October 28th, 2009
4:06 pm
NIF
Not Newt, Clinton.
wyldbyllhyltnyr@gmail.com
October 28th, 2009
4:06 pm
Jay. how a bout, we don’t change subjects when I’m making some headway? Couldn’t you have waited a little until I closed the deal?
Mrs. Godzilla
October 28th, 2009
4:08 pm
how about…and keep myself only unto you…..
IC Atlanta
October 28th, 2009
4:09 pm
I agree with Newt – it is up to the local folks to decide who their representative is.
Meanwhile – Hope & Change has struck again. Boy those dems really no how to turn around an economy.
http://www.ajc.com/business/atlanta-s-vacant-office-176491.html
@@
October 28th, 2009
4:12 pm
And YIKES, the dems had to seek out an independent turned Democrat to carry their water.
“My beliefs and principles are essentially Democratic beliefs and principles, and what label you want to slide on me I don’t think is necessarily appropriate,” Owens told me late Monday in his first interview as a candidate. “I think you have to look at how someone has acted over the span of your lifetime.”
Owens spoke about his experience in “job development” through the Plattsburgh Airbase Redevelopment Corporation, and how he believes a key to job creation is the luring of foreign companies to place some portion of their manufacturing operations in the U.S. through to satisfy “buy American” provisions.
Owens took a decidedly moderate line on health care restructuring, saying he does not support a public option available to anyone–the crux of the restructuring put forward by President Obama. He said some health plans in Congress not longer include the idea of a public option. This stance is gaining some traction in the Senate.
“It changes every day, the various iterations,” Owens told me. “The bill that I would vote for would have a couple of elements to it. It would cover the uninsured, it would eliminate the ability to exclude for a pre-existing condition, and also that focuses on cost-reduction.”
If the last special election in upstate New York was largely about the federal stimulus package, this one takes place in the shadow of the healthcare debate. While Representative Scott Murphy, a Democratic venture capitalist, squeaked to victory over Republican Assemblyman Jim Tedisco largely by wrapping himself in the cloak of a popular Obama, Owens is not looking to do the same. Obama’s poll numbers, of course, have since fallen and Owens did not mention his name once.
Of the final three prospective Democratic candidates–a dozen were interviewed at the Minnowbrook Conference Center–Owens is the only one who does not support a public option.
http://www.observer.com/4850/meet-bill-owens-dccc-approved-non-democrat-house
So are the dems running a DINO, an Independent, or what? One thing I know….the big money’s behind Owens. I thought that’s what we all wanted to get away from.
What the heck! It’s NY. I’m all the way down here in Georgia.
Jay
October 28th, 2009
4:14 pm
Byll, if I had to hold off posting until you “closed the deal,” I’d be forced to shut this blog down permanently.
Does the name “Sisyphus” mean anything to you?
Or maybe that should be “Sysyphys”?
Angry Black Man
October 28th, 2009
4:17 pm
Not to change the subject, because Newt and Chuck are so cool, but never overwork your secretary because they can cost you dearly.
Price to PepsiCo for Not Being in Court: $1.26 Billion
http://finance.yahoo.com/news/Price-to-PepsiCo-for-Not-law-3214509113.html?x=0&.v=1
Nothing Is Free
October 28th, 2009
4:17 pm
IC Atlanta
And we are about to get Cap and Trade so that the little improvement our economy makes will have it’s legs cut off by a system that will punish any industry that uses too much energy. So much for any manufacturing.
Obama can’t take over the country with a good economy. He needs these hard times. So don’t expect him to try and fix it.
Kamchak
October 28th, 2009
4:21 pm
Meanwhile, back in the statistical world of polls:
Put simply, the GOP’s brand is still a mess. According to the poll, just 25% have a positive opinion of the party (compared with 42% for the Dem Party), which ties the GOP’s low-water mark in the survey and which is a worse score than it ever had during the Bush presidency.
And some bad news for the Palinistas:
More than seven in 10 Americans think Sarah Palin is not qualified to be president, according to a new national poll. Seventy-one percent of those questioned in a CNN/Opinion Research Corporation survey released Wednesday morning believe the former Alaska governor and 2008 GOP vice presidential nominee is not qualified to be president, with 29 percent saying she does have the credentials to serve in the White House.
Taxpayer
October 28th, 2009
4:21 pm
That Jay, he’s just so sylly at times.