Who was for an individual mandate to buy health insurance between 1993 and 2011, praised RomneyCare in 2006, and agreed with Hillary Clinton on healthcare reform in 2005?
Newt Gingrich.
Who 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. And frankly, it’s something I would strongly
support...If he had instituted a regime that combined three things I just said --
mandatory caps, a trading system inside the caps, as we have with clean
air, and a tax incentive to be able to invest in the new technology and
to be able to produce the new technology -- I think we would be much
better off than we are in the current situation"?
Newt Gingrich.
Who said, "This is a serious problem that
will lead to a serious debate the first amendment, but I think that the
national security threat of losing an American city to a nuclear weapon,
or losing several million Americans to a biological attack is so real
that we need to proactively now develop the appropriate rules of
engagement"?
Newt Gingrich.
Who sponsored the "Global Warming Prevention Act of 1989"?
Newt Gingrich.
Who was PRAISED by John Kerry for his stance on MAN-MADE "global warming" in 2007?
Newt Gingrich.
Who believed that the Federal government could mandate diet & exercise?
Newt Gingrich.
Who said: “The American challenge in leading the world is compounded by our Constitution. Under our [constitutional system] — either we’re going to have to rethink our Constitution, or we’re going to have to rethink our process of decision-making. [I believe in a] “very strong but limited federal government. I am for the United Nations”?
Newt,
Newt, Newt!
Which "small, limited government, Tea Party Republican" said that we should "increase the size of State Department by 50%"?
Newt Gingrich.
Who believed that medical marijuana should be legal?
Newt Gingrich.
Who was one of the 71 co-sponsors of the
Fairness in Broadcasting Act of 1987 a/k/a the codification of the
Fairness Doctrine in 2006, which was thankfully defeated in the Senate?
Newt Gingrich.
Newt Gingrich.
Newt Gingrich.
Newt Gingrich.
Who said, "I am more in the Alexander Hamilton-Teddy Roosevelt tradition of conservatism"?
Newt Gingrich.
Who said, "I am Teddy Roosevelt"?
Newt Gingrich.
Who said, "It makes me, in some ways, like the two Roosevelts"?
Newt Gingrich.
Who said “I’m an Eisenhower Republican”?
Newt Gingrich.
Who said “I am a Rockefeller Republican”?
Newt Gingrich.
Who said "I am a realpolitik Wilsonian"?
Newt Gingrich.
Who said “It was an enormous mistake for us to try to occupy [Iraq]
after June of 2003. We have to pull back, and we have to recognise it”?
Newt Gingrich.
Who said that the US should adopt the "Singapore System" for our "(This) War on Drugs (is Lost), which means executing people for being in possession of even a certain amount of drug paraphernalia?
Newt Gingrich.
Who said “So while we need to improve the regulation of the GSEs
[Government-Sponsored Enterprises], I would be very cautious about
fundamentally changing their role or the model itself”?
Newt Gingrich.
Who said “The opportunity society calls not for a laissez-faire
society in which the economic world is a neutral jungle of purely random
individual behaviour, but for forceful government intervention on
behalf of growth and opportunity”?
Newt Gingrich.
Who said (about climate change and cap-n-trade) “I am not
automatically saying that coercion and bureaucracy is not an answer”?
Newt Gingrich.
Who said “Andy Stern, the head of the Service Employees International
Union, is the union leader who probably best understands the challenge
of the world market and the need to make American union members
productive in the face of world competition. Sadly, he is a distinct
minority among union leaders”?
Newt Gingrich.
Who said “I suspect, were I still in Congress, in the end, I would probably end up reluctantly yes (voting for TARP)”?
Newt Gingrich.
Who said “I believe in a lean bureaucracy, not in no bureaucracy. You
can have an active, aggressive conservative state which does not in
fact have a centralised bureaucracy. We have not seen an activist
conservative presidency since TR”?
Newt Gingrich.
Who said “I would never vote against my conscience. On the other
hand, I also make it a habit to have relatively few things I feel
bitterly moral about”?
Newt Gingrich.
Who said “I’m not a natural leader. I’m too intellectual; I’m too abstract; I think too much”?
Newt Gingrich.
Who said “I risk sounding not quite as right-wing as I should, but I’ve spent enough of my life fighting”?
Newt Gingrich.
Who said, "I think you can write a psychological profile of me that says I found a way
to immerse my insecurities in a cause large enough to justify whatever I wanted
it to"?
Newt Gingrich.
Who said, "It's not altruism! It's not altruism!
I have an enormous personal ambition. I want to shift the entire planet.
And I'm doing it. Oh, this is just the beginning of a 20-or-30-year
movement. I'll get credit for it. As a historian, I understand how
histories are written. My enemies will write histories that dismiss me
and prove I was unimportant. My friends will write histories that
glorify me and prove I was more important than I was. And two
generations or three from now, some serious, sober historian will write a
history that sort of implies I was whoever I was"?
Newt Gingrich.
Who idolises and wrote the Foreward to a book written by a man, Alvin Toffler, who said "The
system of government you fashioned, including the principles on which
you based it, is increasingly obsolete, and hence increasingly, if
inadvertently, oppressive and dangerous to our welfare. It must be
radically changed and a new system of government invented---a democracy for the 21st century"?
Newt Gingrich.
Who said this to Presidential candidate, Barack Obama, "Your campaign
has been brilliant. It has given you more support and more momentum than
most analysts expected a year ago. Keeping things simple and vague has
worked so far, and it might work all the way to the White House. “Change
you can believe in” is a great all-purpose slogan. It allows every
person to fill in his or her own interpretation of what it means. In
some ways, it’s reminiscent of Jimmy Carter’s 1976 promise to run “a
government as good as the American people"?
Newt Gingrich.
Who said, "It's petty, but I think it's human,” when asked by reporters why he shut down the government because Bill Clinton didn't speak to him on Air Force One flying back from a funeral in Israel?
Newt Gingrich.
Who said, “People like me are what stand between us and Auschwitz"?
Newt Gingrich.
Who said, "[I am] the most serious, systematic revolutionary of modern times"?
Newt Gingrich.
Who said, "I'm a mythical person"?
Newt Gingrich.
Who described his life as "a psychodrama living out a fantasy"?
Newt Gingrich.
Who said, "So, we’re gonna help the poor? Truth is, we don’t know how to help the poor. We’re gonna experiment and experiment and experiment until we break through. It makes me, in some ways, like the two Roosevelts"?
Newt Gingrich.
Who said, “I told somebody at one point [of my presidential campaign], ‘This is like watching Walton or Kroc develop Walmart and McDonald’s," about his 40-person campaign staff?
Newt Gingrich.
Who said, "None of the Founding Fathers would have said that George Washington, owning Mount Vernon as the largest landowner, should pay the same tax as somebody who was a cobbler"?
Newt Gingrich.
Who said, "I helped Ronald Reagan and Jack Kemp develop supply-side economics," which is strange because Wanniski, Laffer, Kemp, and Reagan had never heard of a certain history professor Newton Leroy Gingrich of West Georgia College when they developed it?
Newt Gingrich.
Who said, "I've always said you should have a choice between either having insurance or posting a bond, but that every American should provide for their medical future"?
Newt Gingrich.
Who said this about Bill Clinton - twice, "I've got a problem. I get in those meetings and as a person I like the president. I melt when I'm around him"?
Newt Gingrich.
Who said, "I'm going to sell a few more books for you, John," to Senator John Kerry referring to his book, This Moment on Earth: Today's New Environmentalists and Their Vision for the Future"?
Newt Gingrich.
Who said, "The better they've done at making sure there isn't going to be an
attack, the easier it is to say there was never going to be an attack
anyway. It's almost like they should every once in a while have allowed
an attack to go through just to remind us"?
Newt Gingrich.
Who wrote this about himself: "Gingrich—Primary Mission; —Advocate of civilization; —definer of civilization; —Teacher of the rules of civilization; —arouser of those who form civilization; —Organizer of the pro-civilization activists; —leader (possibly) of the civilizing forces"?
Newt Gingrich.
Who proposed “a mirror system in space [that] could provide the light equivalent of many full moons so that there would be no need for nighttime lighting of the highways"?
Newt Gingrich.
Who called for "...directed energy weapons and laser pulsing systems that could actually [shoot down missiles] from space"?
Newt Gingrich.
Who said, “It’s a parallel that enables us to do things that would be much more difficult to do in the real world.. [It's a] world that works"?
Newt Gingrich.
Who endorsed the pro-abortion, pro-union, big-government, RINO, Dede
Scozzafava, over the Tea Party nominee, Doug Hoffman, in the first
election with a Tea Party candidate running?
Newt Gingrich.
Who sat on the comfy couch with Nancy Pelosi in an ad for The We Change/Climate Reality Project, a Soros-linked group, when there is no reason to ever even sit in the same room, much less on the same piece of furniture, with the Wicked Waxwork of the West?
Newt Gingrich.
Who said to the Republican Main Street Partnership, a Soros-affiliated, "centrist" Republican organisation, “It’s impossible to create a right-only majority in America. The key to electing Republicans to more offices and hav[ing] a
bigger majority is to be more inclusive"?
Newt Gingrich.
Newt Gingrich.
Newt Gingrich.
Who said, in testimony before the House Ways and Means Committee in
June 1994, this about GATT, "I am just saying that we need to be honest
about the fact that we are
transferring from the United States at a practical level significant
authority to a new organization. This is a transformational moment. I
would feel better if the people who favor this would just be honest
about the scale of change. This is very close to Maastricht [a key
European Union treaty], and
twenty years from now we will look back on this as a very important
defining moment. This is not just another trade agreement. This is
adopting something which twice, once in the 1940s and once in the 1950s,
the U.S. Congress rejected. I am not even saying we should reject it;
I, in fact, lean toward it"?
Newt Gingrich.
So, to all of the so-called Newt's Knights (Knut's Knights?), every
argument you guys make about Mitt can be made against Newt; yet, you
give Newt a pass and he has more baggage than the baggage terminal at
Heathrow and none of the business successes. Very strange.
I am not a Mittens fan. I just can't square your argument that "Newt is a Conservative" and "Romney is a Progressive." Why the willful blindness?
I am not a Mittens fan. I just can't square your argument that "Newt is a Conservative" and "Romney is a Progressive." Why the willful blindness?
Newt's a nasty guy. He hated the CONSERVATIVES in the House when he was Speaker and blamed them for everything.
PS: If you are championing Newt because you think that his victory over Obama in the debates is a foregone conclusion, then go watch him fold like a cheap suit to John Kerry in the 2007 debate on climate change and watch him get his bum beat by Santorum and Romney last week...twice.
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