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However, Gingrich is uniquely brilliant and inspires confidence as a leader and in America.
http://youtu.be/KEeHDCsetLc
Unfortunately and in later voting, Santorum voted to INCREASE Social Services block grant, INCREASE FHA loans, INCREASE Amtrak $550 million, INCREASE social spending 7 BILLION. Santorum voted to require Fed bureaucrats get same pay increase as military, voted FOR giving foreign aid to N Korea & taxpayer funding NEA
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| Win McNamee |
American Thinker, Gingrich versus Leftism: "the left's real fear of Gingrich comes from Gingrich's understanding of the weaknesses of leftism and the ways to defeat it."
"There was a reason why union goons entered Gingrich's offices and why House Democrats filed 84 ethics charges (one of which stuck, and most of which were absurd) against Gingrich when he was speaker and why Nancy Pelosi threatened to raise these ancient charges yet again. Not only was Gingrich liberals' enemy, but he defeated them."
"Gingrich can beat Obama and add more Republicans to elective office. His debating skills will eviscerate Obama, and a Republican platform like the Contract With America would put the left on the defensive through November. More importantly, however, Gingrich can actually defeat leftism in America."
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| One Hill |
"After three and a half years of investigation, the IRS has cleared Newt Gingrich and his allied nonprofit groups of any violation of the tax laws in the controversy over his television history course "Renewing American Civilization."
So after having run countless news reports highlighting the accusations that ultimately forced Gingrich to pay a $300,000 fine, did the media correct the record with a decent airing of the decision? Are you ready? ABC, CBS, and NBC devoted exactly zero seconds to Newt Gingrich's vindication. Only CNN's Brooks Jackson filed a decent TV report, on the early-evening show "Inside Politics."
Jackson began: "It was legal after all. Newt Gingrich's oh-so-controversial college course that he started back in 1993, before he was Speaker. Remember how Democrats denounced it?" He then showed old footage of Democrats David Bonior ("Mr. Gingrich engaged in a pattern of tax fraud") and John Lewis ("We now have a Speaker under investigation for lying to the outside counsel, investigating his involvement in a massive tax-fraud scheme").
Jackson quoted from the IRS decision: "The course taught principles from American civilization that could be used by each American in everyday life, whether the person is a welfare recipient, the head of a large corporation or a politician...The course was not biased toward particular politicians, or a particular party. The facts show the class was much more than a political platform." Of course, that was clear to anyone who watched the course, but that's simply too much to ask of today's press.
Gingrich issued a statement that clearly expressed his feelings: "I consider this a full and complete vindication. I urge my colleagues to go back and read their statements and watch how they said them, with no facts, based on nothing more than a desire to politically destroy a colleague."
But the damage hadn't been done simply by devious politicians like Bonior, but by journalists. In the face of Newt's innocence, some reporters couldn't muster even a regret." .....
"To grasp the media's antagonism - then, now, and probably forever - toward Newt Gingrich, compare their treatment of him with their coverage of a real crook, Webster Hubbell. They roasted Newt when he was charged, then ignored him when he was cleared. Hubbell was celebrated when he was cleared of tax evasion charges filed by Ken Starr, but when a federal court reinstated the charges on appeal, the networks aired no coverage."
Flashback 1999
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| Scott Olson |
Christie endorses Romney, ain't no surprise
Mark Levin on Chris Christie
Chris Christie laughs at Sarah Palin (Ingraham)
Christie on Ground Zero Mosque (Mark Levin)
Problem with Chris Christie (Kraemer)
Gingrich did not criticize Clinton over Clinton's affair; he criticized Clinton for perjuring himself. “It’s not about what he did in the Oval Office. You can condemn that. You can say it’s totally inappropriate. But it was about a much deeper and more profound thing, which is: Does the president of the United States have to obey law?”
Fred Thompson endorses Gingrich
Rick Perry endorses Gingrich
J. C. Watts endorses Gingrich
Todd Palin endorses Gingrich
Pam Geller endorses Gingrich
Herman Cain endorses Gingrich
Michael Reagan endorses Gingrich
Thomas Sowell endorses Gingrich
Pam Geller endorses Gingrich
Herman Cain endorses Gingrich
Michael Reagan endorses Gingrich
Thomas Sowell endorses Gingrich
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| Dream Ticket |
Did you say Krispy Kreme?
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| John Moore |
"Of the 53 individuals who have served as speaker, two resigned and Gingrich was not one of them. Henry Clay of Kentucky resigned three times -- on January 19, 1814; November 15, 1820; and December 5, 1825. James C. Wright Jr. resigned in 1989, the result of a complaint initiated by Gingrich over charges of ethics violations.
Gingrich himself, though reelected to the 106th Congress, did not take his seat for a third term as speaker. Instead, J. Dennis Hastert of Illinois took the job.
Gingrich reimbursed U.S. taxpayers $300,000 for legal expenses and costs incurred by the investigation by the Select Committee on Ethics into his use of tax-exempt funds to promote Republican causes and lying about it to the committee." "Gingrich himself technically did not resign -- he simply did not take his seat."
Video re muslim appointments
Rev. Jesse Lee Petersen agrees with Gingrich
Newt's pastor discusses Newt's past sins
Freddie Mac
"Lobbying – Newt has never engaged in lobbying, period. Newt made a decision after resigning that he would never be a lobbyist so that nobody would ever question the genuine nature of his advice and perspectives.
Relationship with Freddie Mac
Ulsterman Report: Evidence Suggests Gingrich Was Right – Freddie Mac Refused His Advice "A recently released report by Bloomberg shows that while Speaker Gingrich was acting as an off again on again consultant up until 2008, no lobbying was done by Gingrich on behalf of Freddie Mac."
"While Mr. Gingrich certainly was paid well for his consulting work, it also appears, at least to this point, he was being quite honest in his description regarding both his role as a consultant, and Freddie Mac’s repeated unwillingness to follow the advice Gingrich offered regarding their 'insane lending practices.'"
Recent reporting from Bloomberg News on the Gingrich Group’s consulting services for Freddie Mac confirms that Gingrich and his firm were not paid to lobby and that Gingrich never acted as an advocate to stop any legislation or regulation affecting Freddie Mac.
Furthermore, as the New York Times documents, Newt urged House Republicans to vote against the bailout of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. View Newt's Freddie Mac consulting contract here.
Newt is in favor of efforts to increase home ownership in America but as a conservative believes they must be within a context of learning how to budget and save in a responsible way, the opposite of the lending practices that led to the financial crisis. You can watch a video from March 2008 of Newt warning about the danger of politicized decision making in the housing crisis here.
As part of Newt’s Jobs and Prosperity Plan, Newt advocates breaking up Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac and moving their smaller successors off of government guarantees and into the free market."
From: http://www.newt.org/answers#FreddieSenator D'Amato, A man who does not support Gingrich: From 1989, Senator D'Amato's Denials
Glenn Beck at his most pathetic: http://youtu.be/owmZinzmTbM
Gingrich shunned lobbying, but hired lobbyists
Top Romney Advisers lobbied for Freddie Mac
Mitt Romney’s campaign is attacking Newt Gingrich as an “influence peddler.” But it turns out that some of Romney’s closest advisers (or the firms they lobbied for) were paid hundreds of thousands — maybe millions — of dollars on behalf of failed mortgage giant Freddie Mac.
The Romney campaign did not respond to requests for comment.
Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2012/01/25/top-romney-advisers-lobbied-for-freddie/#ixzz1loOvuSnW
Gingrich's connection to supply side economics confirmed: Below is from the article:
Newt Gingrich has taken a remarkable amount of flak for making claims that as a young Representative in Congress thirty some years ago, he was part of the group of supply-side revolutionaries that developed and pushed through the Reagan economic reforms, in particular the historic tax cut of 1981.
The criticism, oddly enough, has in the main come from conservatives. ......
I myself have been marveling at the back-and-forth about these details in supply-side history, in that I remain the only professional historian ever to have written on the topic.
I speak of my book Econoclasts, which it is true makes no mention of the name Newt Gingrich across its 358 pages. And yet what the book does say is that the supply-side revolution distinguished itself from its relatives in the free-market movement by being an amalgam of three things.
“The triumph of supply-side economics,” I wrote, “issued from a most unusual combination of intellectual profundity, journalistic acumen, and political strategy.” Without all three, no supply-side revolution. And the last of these will bring us to a piquant Gingrich connection.
As for the first – intellectual profundity – it was economist Robert A. Mundell who as early as 1961 first wrote the first papers outlining a strategy of monetary restraint in concert with tax cuts to get an economy out of a recession caused by big government. Arthur B. Laffer, Mundell’s protégé at the University of Chicago, where both taught in the late 1960s, refined the argument.
Second, there was journalistic acumen. Mundell and Laffer, despite their eminent perches in academe, found the resistance to their views too stubborn in the universities. So they took their case to Robert L. Bartley, editorial page editor at the Wall Street Journal, the nation’s largest newspaper. That page became a bulletin board for supply-side ideas in the 1970s. The business community and a good chunk of Washington were thereby won over.
Then there’s political strategy. Rep. Jack Kemp of New York actualized Mundell’s ideas in legislation. His “Kemp-Roth” tax cut introduced in 1977 provided for a 10% rate reduction over each of three years.
In addition to Kemp himself, there were other figures on Capitol Hill and environs who helped will the supply-side revolution into realization. These were not limited to such luminaries as economists Norman B. Ture and Alan Reynolds, Rep. John Rousselot, Sen. William V. Roth, and Congressional and later executive-branch staffers Paul Craig Roberts, Bruce Bartlett, and Stephen J. Entin.
And yet for all this, by the summer of 1981, the supply-side revolution was no sure thing.
In his first months in office, in early 1981, Reagan actually dithered on moving on his tax cut. He conceded to watering down Kemp-Roth, and he actually had to be convinced by Democrats that the top rate of the income tax had to be taken down all at once, instead of in phases.
Smelling blood, in spring of that year Democrats started to offer alternatives to Reagan’s tax cut, in the form of smaller, more “reasonable” tax cuts. Crucially, these did not index the tax code against inflation, as the Reagan bill would soon propose and has been a beloved staple in the tax code since indexing came into effect in 1985.
In stepped – Newt Gingrich. Gingrich, a second-term Representative, led an “Economic Recovery Working Group” in the House whose purpose was to show “what each member can do to help the Reagan tax cut” against its Democratic alternatives.
The group gave daily briefings and issued strategy memos on how to get the job done in the House. “Emphasize that the Reagan program is a real tax cut; and that the O’Neill/Rostenkowski program will mean a real tax increase for most Americans by 1984” was the gist of one memo. This particular point is the one Reagan would seize on in the famous chart (designed by Entin) that he presented to the American people in a televised address in late July, which closed the deal in Congress.
The free-market movement, and the history of economic theory in general, is littered with examples of grand ideas that got nowhere or were misapplied in practice. F.A. Hayek’s free-market reforms remained nothing but ideas for generations; Milton Friedman’s monetarism was bungled by the Nixon administration.
The supply-side revolution was something different. It had real follow-through in the political process, let alone the economy. It is the furthest thing from idle to speculate that had people like Newt Gingrich not acted in 1981, we would have had the alternative tax cut that would have been unrecognizable from any of Jimmy Carter’s tax shavings of the 1970s. The 1980s would have followed up the 1970s as a uniquely problematic decade in our economic history.
At scholarly conferences around the country, I have been insisting that we need still more work on the epic event that was the supply-side revolution, particularly in terms of its political culmination in real reform, reform which benefited the nation and world for decades on end. We don’t have those books yet, but if we did, and they were based on rigorous use of sources, they would reveal a not inconsiderable role that Newt Gingrich played at one of the supply-side revolution’s critical junctures.
N.B., a memo Newt Gingrich wrote pressing the strategy for passing the Reagan tax cut, July 1981 (Ronald Reagan Library): http://www.shsu.edu/~bfd001/EconoclastsSite/Images/Pages/Documents.html#6
Global Warming: Agree or not agree with him, he thinks we should not dismiss global warming, and that conservatives had better be a part of the discussion. In the past he said, "I think if you have mandatory carbon caps combined with a trading system, much like we did with sulfur, and if you have a tax-incentive program for investing in the solutions, that there’s a package there that’s very, very good." He might support a cap-and-trade system covering "the 2,000 most polluting places," if packaged with incentives for nuclear power and "green coal," among other things. He's never favored the approach taken by Democrats and has never favored Pelosi's cap and trade, saying that everyone called her ideas crazy to where they didn't hear his. Newt tends to support pro-market solutions over the pro-tax, pro-regulation approach. Also, he testified before Congress against "cap and trade" in 2009: http://townhall.com/tipsheet/greghengler/2009/04/24/newt_rips_gores_facts_to_pieces_in_testimony. http://youtu.be/G7VUg7nG3lw
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Newt opposes the left’s efforts to reinstate the Fairness Doctrine and vocally supported Rep. Mike Pence’s 2007 bill that prohibited government censorship in radio.Newt does not support the Fairness Doctrine and he has been vocally critical of the left’s efforts to reinstate the doctrine over the past decade, including supporting Mike Pence’s bill that prohibited government censorship in radio in 2007.
In 1987, the three left-wing networks plus PBS/NPR dominated media, and talk-radio was still nascent; many of America’s most influential conservative activists, including the American Conservative Union and Phyllis Schlafly, supported the Fairness Doctrine at this time.
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By: Teri Sasseville
Newt is one of the most gifted and accomplished leaders of our era. And he is human. With our country on the edge of an abyss, should we completely count out someone of his intellect, experience and talent because like all of us, he has failings in his past? I think not!
But the simple fact of the matter is, this election and the future of our country will turn on the willingness of Christians to forgive as we have been forgiven....
Newt has humbled himself before God and asked for forgiveness and he has corrected his paths. Isn't that all any of us can do? I remind Christians who are hesitant to offer support for Newt that God used David, Paul and others in mighty ways after they repented and changed their ways. Repentance is the key.
I really like the idea of a President who knows first hand the depth of God's forgiveness and redemption. There are important character lessons found in enduring the difficult processes of humility and vulnerability. You can see in Newt's demeanor that he is wiser for the journey, however difficult it may have been.
Newt, always a visionary is a now a man of purpose. Driven by the desire to preserve the America we love for his grandchildren and future generations. His urgency is sincere. And it is shared by those of us who believe he has exactly the skillset and experience to right the ship.
A friend has posed the question: If you need brain surgery, do you ask for the surgeon who's only been married once, or for the most skilled and experienced surgeon?
Our job as citizens and voters is to judge Newt as a candidate on his ability to fix what's broken in America. And to keep us safe and preserve our Constitutional Republic.
Newt Gingrich is quite simply the most accomplished conservative leader now walking planet earth. And unforgiving detractors want to disqualify him because he is HUMAN?
B: Teri Sasseville
What did the GOPAC Founder think of Newt?
His original intent was to build a fund for the conservative “farm team” in local and state races and was quite effective in the first years of Ronald Reagan’s Presidency.
What did Dupont think of young Georgia Gingrich? Enough that he turned GOPAC entirely over to Newt. (Are you younger conservatives stunned yet?)
From GOPAC’s Website: Newt Gingrich was frustrated by the Party's inability to capitalize on the Reagan Revolution at the state and local levels. Taking the helm of GOPAC, Gingrich emphasized spreading ideas and inspiring conservative, reform-minded citizens. Through countless campaign seminars, workbooks, audiotapes and years of grassroots organizing, GOPAC became the Republican Party's preeminent education and training center. The famous GOPAC tapes, in particular, galvanized Republican candidates and activists.
An Interview with Pete DuPont about Newt included:
- Gingrich is the Thomas Paine of the Regan Revolution.
- He would support a Gingrich candidacy for President.
- Colin Powell was a “country club” Republican. Newt is a “bowling alley” Republican and the GOP can not win without it.
- Newt’s entire philosophical basis was to take on the establishment.
- He still considered Gingrich an “outsider” even after being elected Speaker.
- Newt terrorizes liberals because he won’t give into their plan. Moderates warm up to him because they see he will be pragmatic.
- Gingrich began designing the funding, education communication and strategy for a conservative takeover of Congress 6 years or more before Contract With America.
- Newt set out to re-educate the moderate Republicans.
- Gingrich was the conservative conscious of the party when George Bush (41) took office and drifted back to establishment failures.
- The “100 ideas a day” is what makes him so effective in strategy. Like Edison, he becomes more sure what will NOT work.
Full interview with Dupont, click here.
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