Gingrich tried to prevent Ron Paul from returning to Congress in 1996

[rambone]

Ron Paul may not be everyone's #1 choice for president, but what kind of person ever thought that he is not an important voice to be heard in Congress? Certainly not real fiscal conservatives or constitutionalists! No small government supporter would ever fear letting Ron Paul have a voice in Congress. And yet he did not receive a warm welcome from the establishment cronies as he returned to Washington.

In 1996, Speaker Newt Gingrich rallied his neo-conservative troops in an attempt to prevent Ron Paul from returning to the House of Representatives, and opposing the Clinton-Gingrich globalist agenda. Obviously Ron Paul won his seat back, but it remains another "WTF" moment on Gingrich's record.

Newt Gingrich tried to prevent Ron Paul's 1996 return to Congress

Gingrich and Paul have a history of conflict. In 1996, Newt Gingrich became Speaker of the House and aggresively urged fellow Republicans to tone down their conservative views. Gingrich was calling for the Republican party to modernize. It was at this time that Gingrich tried to keep Ron Paul from returning to congress.

Paul had decided to run for Congress in 1996 after a ten year absence. Gingrich went to great lengths to try to stop Paul in Republican primary. Ron Paul's primary opponent, incumbent Greg Laughlin, was a former Democrat. Newt Gingrich recruited Laughlin to the Republican camp in 1995 by promising him a position in the Republican controlled US House. Gingrich recruited fifty congressmen and then Texas Governor George W. Bush to endorse Laughlin over Paul.

 

[rambone]

Ron Paul works on exposing the slimy Newt

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWKTOCP45zY

www.youtube.com/watch?v=U3tQZWb51qs

 

[rambone]

Gingrich's endorsement went to a former Democrat he called a "Clinton Clone"

The man Gingrich pushed so hard for in 1996 was Greg Laughlin, a "Clinton Clone" Democrat incumbent whom Gingrich invited to join the Republican establishment in return for a committee seat.

Ron Paul's campaign against Representative Greg Laughlin

A median Texas politician representing a microcosmic district, Laughlin decided to go with flow - provided Speaker Newt Gingrich made it worth his while. A deal was struck whereby Laughlin switched parties in return for the Ways and Means seat he had been counting on before the Democrats lost power.

The announcement of Laughlin's switch in June 1995 jolted the national Democratic establishment. Over the past dozen years - despite droves of defections - only confirmed right-wingers from conservative constituencies had deserted the party. Now a moderate from a Texas bellwether was jumping ship; a man Gingrich himself had castigated as a "Clinton clone" only nine months before. The once "solid South" suddenly seemed lost forever, and moderate congressional Democrats were looked upon with suspicion. A sea-change realignment appeared imminent.

 

[rambone]

Paul's newest hard-hitting ad

Newt Gingrich: Selling Access


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRdqGKA782A

 

[BJMANIS]

Let me ponder all the Good??? qualities of Candidate Ron Paul...........He wants to reduce government by 80%......How many people will not have jobs if this happens??? Think about all the other BS ideas this flake has.... then go vote.....for someone that makes sense.

 

[rambone]

"If you love wealth more than liberty, the tranquility of servitude better than the animating contest of freedom, depart from us in peace. We ask not your counsel nor your arms. Crouch down and lick the hand that feeds you. May your chains rest lightly upon you and may posterity forget that you were our countrymen."
-- Samuel Adams

 

[dlbrown75]

Let me ponder all the Good??? qualities of Candidate Ron Paul...........He wants to reduce government by 80%......How many people will not have jobs if this happens??? Think about all the other BS ideas this flake has.... then go vote.....for someone that makes sense.

Who do you think pays the salaries of government workers? Thats right people who work in the private sector. With jobs vanishing in the private sector who will pay the government employees? Thats right no one. The government is bankrupt. How hard is it to understand? There is not enough money paid in to keep up with the spending done by government. What do you think is a good plan? For the Federal Reserve to just keep printing money and further devalue your dollar? Or maybe us folks working hard in the private sector should pay 70-80% of our income to government so the government agency employees can keep getting paychecks? Whats your brilliant plan?

 

[jeremy]

Welcome to Politics...

 

[HeadlessRoland]

Argentina done America-style. It's coming. The collapse is swiftly coming.

 

[dross]

That is exactly what newt should have done in those circumstances, what's more it was the honorable thing to do, and the fact you don't understand that is a perfct illustration of why libertarians are forever on the fringe.

 

[rambone]

That is exactly what newt should have done in those circumstances, what's more it was the honorable thing to do, and the fact you don't understand that is a perfct illustration of why libertarians are forever on the fringe.

You have got to be purple.

What does this have to do with libertarians??

 

[grube555]

Who do you think pays the salaries of government workers? Thats right people who work in the private sector. With jobs vanishing in the private sector who will pay the government employees? Thats right no one. The government is bankrupt. How hard is it to understand? There is not enough money paid in to keep up with the spending done by government. What do you think is a good plan? For the Federal Reserve to just keep printing money and further devalue your dollar? Or maybe us folks working hard in the private sector should pay 70-80% of our income to government so the government agency employees can keep getting paychecks? Whats your brilliant plan?

Your exactly right! Thank you! We keep paying for a lot of government jobs that are useless while we take teacher out of the classrooms! Oh and the $16 muffins we serve to "foreign dignitaries." Why do we do that? I will not pay $16 for a muffin! I think it is a treat to spend $1 on a Otis Spunkmeyer! Our government spends so much money recklessly and just wants us to contribute more! If we say no more $ they just crank up the printing press! Getting away from the gold standard was stupid!

 

[BJMANIS]

Who do you think pays the salaries of government workers? Thats right people who work in the private sector. With jobs vanishing in the private sector who will pay the government employees? Thats right no one. The government is bankrupt. How hard is it to understand? There is not enough money paid in to keep up with the spending done by government. What do you think is a good plan? For the Federal Reserve to just keep printing money and further devalue your dollar? Or maybe us folks working hard in the private sector should pay 70-80% of our income to government so the government agency employees can keep getting paychecks? Whats your brilliant plan?

So you are willing to support unemployment compensation with your hard earned dollars, rather than keeping these folks employed. Either way you lose.

 

[rambone]

So you are willing to support unemployment compensation with your hard earned dollars, rather than keeping these folks employed. Either way you lose.

Which department do you work for?

 

[88GT]

So you are willing to support unemployment compensation with your hard earned dollars, rather than keeping these folks employed. Either way you lose.

Well I for one reject the premise that unemployment insurance is a necessary component of our future. If we are assuming abolition of government jobs, might as well end it all.

Too funny Ram, too funny.

 

[HICKMAN]

Let me ponder all the Good??? qualities of Candidate Ron Paul...........He wants to reduce government by 80%......How many people will not have jobs if this happens??? Think about all the other BS ideas this flake has.... then go vote.....for someone that makes sense.

spoken like a union rep...

 

[dross]

You have got to be purple.

What does this have to do with libertarians??

You get a guy to cross the line and join your team you can't throw him off for a better candidate the next election. If you do that, you'll never get anyone to cross again. You don't see that?

 

[sepe]

Let me ponder all the Good??? qualities of Candidate Ron Paul...........He wants to reduce government by 80%......How many people will not have jobs if this happens??? Think about all the other BS ideas this flake has.... then go vote.....for someone that makes sense.

You're 100% right. I'm going to spread the word to as many as possible to vote for bigger government. Heck, they might as well double the salaries of all government workers even if they haven't been performing. Down with Ron Paul!!! Up with BIG GOVERNMENT!!!

 

[rambone]

You get a guy to cross the line and join your team you can't throw him off for a better candidate the next election. If you do that, you'll never get anyone to cross again. You don't see that?

Ron Paul was jumping parties too.

Given the choice between a proven defender of liberty, and a "Clinton Clone" (according to Newt himself), I'd pick Ron Paul all the way. The Republican party is overrun with RINOs already.

Newt also campaigned for Nelson Rockefeller against Barry Goldwater, so this was par for the course.

 

[jsgolfman]

So you are willing to support unemployment compensation with your hard earned dollars, rather than keeping these folks employed. Either way you lose.

So, if the state is not providing a job, said job simply ceases to exist?