Category Archives: Newt Gingrich

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The Big Newt Link List

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Newt References

By Bill Quick and Laura Hult

About Newt:

Newt’s first Tea Party (with photo)
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Partial Transcript:  Newt Gingrich Campaign Rally in Jackson, Mississippi – March 8 2012
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Newt Gingrich: Autism Advocate
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RNC’s delegate count shows Gingrich ahead of Santorum
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Newt and Alvin Toffler
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Newt on the Issues:

Setting the Record Straight: Newt’s Positions on the Issues and His Record
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Gingrich Now Says He Was ‘Wrong’ to Support Individual Mandate
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Newt Gingrich: Growth and Prosperity Rather Than Austerity
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Newt: Fix Social Security So Obama Can’t Keep Scaring the American People
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No, Newt did not endorse the Obamacare mandate
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The Inevitable yet Breathtaking Decline of Ann Coulter

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Ann Coulter, high-speed wail, has reached a new low in her column of April 11, 2012, and I suspect she is nowhere near quitting.  Her unsupportable position regarding Romney demands support, and now she must lie and distort in order to make the words come out.

This column is not composed of actual shrieking, which she seems to have gotten out of her system in this Ricochet podcast, but it’s breathtaking nonetheless in its dishonesty and flat-out malice for the Tea Party, which she calls “conservative primary voters”.   I’m not going to fisk the whole thing.  Let me just outline it and poke a limited number of holes in this seamlessly rotten garment.

Romney Stumbles

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Seems The One (Okay, The Other One) is having some trouble.  Let me tell you why:

[pullquote]”I have already implemented your program, and ten years down the road, I can tell you now–it simply does not work.”[/pullquote]Mitt Romney had a golden opportunity to seize the nomination and skewer the president.  In my opinion, all he needed to do was cast off his illegitimate offspring, RomneyCare.  He should have said that he used the laboratory of democracy called Massachusetts, with its rich history of political innovation, to see once and for all if a large role for government can improve critical services in health care.  He would have been in a unique position to assail the president on ObamaCare.  ”I have already implemented your program, and ten years down … Continue reading →

Newt: Not Joking

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[Update, 10 Apr 2012: Here’s where I started to become a Newt convert. Believe me, I was against him early on.
This was after the Tea Party had knocked down several attempts to unseat Cain, which was important, but the writing was on the wall.]

I think the Tea Party is in very good shape, having demonstrated that it can and will go to bat for those who earn its protection. This message needs to be heard, among other places, in the offices of the Freshmen we sent a year ago, and those who wonder whether opposing the GOP leadership means defeat at home.

My unofficial motto for the Tea Party is “I Got Your Back!”

If we had already gelled behind a candidate, we would have been … Continue reading →

Been Busy up in Heah!

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Man, I’m tired.  I’ve been clipping along at work, back to wa-a-ay long days on a project I like a lot, and whacked a test on Tuesday.  Only missed one question on the ITIL V3 Foundation exam.  I resisted the urge to stomp and glower while muttering and swearing about having missed a question, as the other guy finished and failed, and the third guy was visibly agitated as he kept plugging away.  So I’m good for ITIL something or other.  Thanks Knikki!

I also took the ITIL Service Operations class offered by HP a few weeks ago, and have the test for that coming up soon.  The place I work is implementing improvements along the ITIL lines, and running us through these courses.  So it feels darned … Continue reading →

Obama's Bus Trip to Hell

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If he had it to do all over again, he wouldn’t.

Somehow the President of the United States has been reduced to commissioning a million-dollar bus to support a three-state misery tour of his own home turf.  Presumably this is to shore up sagging numbers in the wake of the Republican Iowa shenanigans sucking all the oxygen out of the midwest.

He should have stayed in Washington.  Jay Leno is roasting him, the Democrats despair for leadership, and even the reprehensible Wasserman-Schultz is hard put to defend this tawdry little man from his own lies, caught on tape.  And aired on, well, one major network, at least.

Fox News is gleefully showing clips of him being grilled by Tea Party people who ask him fair questions, and the … Continue reading →

Newt Gingrich Unhorsed

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Newt Gingrich was an overpowering force on the Op-Ed pages, and could have provided crucial support over the next two years.  He was always an establishment man, but his personal baggage meant that he could not return to the front.  He cast away an important back-bench responsibility in pursuit of a post more glorious but impossible to attain, and is now hopelessly on the defensive.   Newt is already defeated, because he should not have run.

For some reason, he chose to denigrate a damned good plan and along the way, to wound a man who is under a sustained personal attack from the other side, even from the President himself.  Gingrich now says that he supports “improving the plan”, but for a man who has had twenty … Continue reading →

Disappointed in Newt Gingrich

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I have always liked Newt Gingrich.  He gave an address in 2002 at some dinner somewhere, and this was the first “Podcast” I ever heard.  This was perhaps the height of his oratory, in the days when “federal chipmunk” featured in many of his speeches.  I have long been impressed with his ideas and his presentation.

I saw him as a magnificent piece of field artillery, able to deliver withering fire in support of any truly conservative position from behind the lines, perched on the editorial pages with a commanding view of the valley below.  Military minds know not to scoff at the big guns in the rear of the battle area just because they are in the rear:  the ability to bombard the enemy at a time … Continue reading →

Final Jeopardy for David Gregory

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Republicans should use this opportunity to fire back at the biased media by boycotting Meet The Press.  The advantages outweigh the drawbacks.

On the wildly popular game show Jeopardy, contestants must state their answers in the form of a question.  That’s pretty much the rule in lefty hack journalism as well.  I do not support the candidacy of Newt Gingrich, but we cannot accept this sort of thing or we are bound to lose.

David Gregory, the host of NBC’s somewhat less popular Meet The Press,  made an assertion of fact along the way to slandering a Republican candidate for President. I say he needs to put up or shut up. If he cannot produce the goods, and will not apologize for his baseless slander, then … Continue reading →