Newsmax to sponsor 30-minute Iowa TV special defending Gingrich

…who is the only Speaker of the House ever to have been disciplined for an ethics violation.

Newt was the only Speaker of the House to have ever accomplished any conservative goals. He stepped on the toes of many pseudo-republicans when he did that, and they wanted revenge. Tells you more about the people Newt was successfully capable of thwarting than Newt.

Well, after a 3.5 year probe, after Newt paid the $300,000 fine, the IRS announced on February 3, 1999, that it found NO IMPROPRIETIES IN THE TAX FILINGS of Gingrich and the sponsoring Progress and Freedom Foundation. The IRS said the principles taught in the course were not of use only in political campaigns. “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.”

…who once announced to reporters that a personal grudge against President Clinton affected his duties as Speaker.

Give the quote. You have been asked repeatedly to provide the actual quote in context, you have refused to do so. Probably because this is nothing mre than a copy paste hit list from Ron Paul’s newsletter.

…who dumped his first wife because he fell for another woman, & after marrying her, he dumped her when he fell for yet another.

Actually she dumped him. She filed for the divorce, she had the control, he was just along for the ride through divorce proceedings, just like 85% of all men who have been divorced. Glad to see you finally gave up trying to push the “left her dying in the hospital bed” lies.

…who accepted $1,500,000 in “consulting” fees from the corrupto-crats at Freddie Mac, which probably were actually lobbying fees, which is probably illegal.

Lots of conjecture with not a bit of evidence. Even those very same establishment people who voted to discipline him for ethics violations have said he did not lobbying.

…who bragged about being a moderate with this comment: “There is a new synthesis evolving with the classic moderate wing of the party, where as a former Rockefeller state chairman, I’ve spent most of my life.”

Still looking for a date on that, as well as context. Since Ron Paul smeared this across the web on thousands of pages, it is impossible for me to hunt down the quote. So, give me an unbiased link.

…who starred in a 2007 global warming commercial with Nancy Pelosi that was sponsored by Al Gore’s Alliance for Climate Protection. He has since has flip-flopped spectacularly on global warming.

Should I get my chapter length argument out for this. Short story shorter. Global Warming was winning the polls in 2007. It looked completely inevitable that something was going to happen. No one else was out giving any alternatives to the full blown marxist plans that the Democrats would implement. Newt chose to take the heat and sit down next to Mrs. Toxic Waste Dump and try to get a conversation started. It was dumb, he admits it was dumb, but at least he did something while every single other person associated with the (R) brand sat back and watched on dumbfounded ensuring that the democrats would eventually get full blown legislation passed without their input. The only thing that stopped it, was Obama’s need to boost the economy first and the life long dream of the progressives to nationalize healthcare, and the climate gate emails. Newt was brave enough to do SOMETHING to stop the something that the democrats were going to foist on us.

…who was paid $312,000 by ethanol interests, and then said ethanol is good for national security and for the economy.

A man has a job? It is good for our national security, but not really for our economy. Then again, those are both opinions. They vary from person to person. Again, he had a job, got anything else to say?

…who has consistently supported the type of individual mandates for health insurance that conservatives are trying to overturn through court challenges to Obamacare.

The only place where he supports mandates as such is in the Hillarycare time it was enough to shut down the progress towards passage, and it worked. Also note, that when you force companies to do business with anyone without being able to write the policies based on actual risk, then you must have a mandate in order to prevent people from going without paying, then when they get sick buying insurance at the low rates to pay for their care and then dropping it again. Then again, does Newt promote must issue at a specified price insurance premiums which would make the mandate a required part of a demiworking policy? Find me the quote where he thinks insurance companies should be forced to accept all applications and immediately pay for existing conditions, and I will re-evaluate him as such.

…who went on NBC’s “Meet the Press” and called Paul Ryan’s Medicare plan “radical” and “right-wing social engineering.”

I disagree with him on the radiacal part. I can live with that disagreement, because I do not support Ryan’s weak tea plan that balances the budget sometime after every last current legislator is either dead or retired. I also do not agree with the idea that it is right wing social engineering. I tend to think of it as progressive light social engineering being packaged as if it was conservative. The conservative thing to do would be to get rid of SS and Medicare.

…who said of the Medicare prescription drug plan that was the largest expansion of entitlements since the Great Society, “Every conservative member of Congress should vote for this Medicare bill. Obstructionist conservatives can always find reasons to vote no.”

Bad on him. Can you name any current runners who have quotes to the opposite?

…who attacked Steve Largent, Tom Coburn and other conservatives as “the Perfectionist Caucus,” while giving his last speech as speaker in support of Dick Gephardt and Dave Obey’s colossal Omnibus Bill of 1998.

Wow, he did not use words like heartless, or inhumane or some other progressive left argument? What a bummer. When you are trying to get legislation passed, it is totally unheard of to try and twist some arms in the process.

itsnotaboutme on December 31, 2011 at 9:00 AM

Your right, lets talk about him. Maybe while your at it, you can talk about it with reasonable context. It is all about you. You can lie all you want, so long as it helps your cause.

astonerii on December 31, 2011 at 12:05 PM