Newt Gingrich on the issues

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Sweet! That image is based off of my list that I created & distributed. I'm positive, I recognize some of my wording.

I'm glad its getting around and making a difference.

Surely the voters can do better.

 

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Gingrich: Reagan is responsible for national 'decay'

Gingrich and Reagan

Here is Gingrich: “Measured against the scale and momentum of the Soviet empire’s challenge, the Reagan administration has failed, is failing, and without a dramatic change in strategy will continue to fail. . . . President Reagan is clearly failing.” Why? This was due partly to “his administration’s weak policies, which are inadequate and will ultimately fail”; partly to CIA, State, and Defense, which “have no strategies to defeat the empire.” But of course “the burden of this failure frankly must be placed first on President Reagan.” Our efforts against the Communists in the Third World were “pathetically incompetent,” so those anti-Communist members of Congress who questioned the $100 million Reagan sought for the Nicaraguan “contra” rebels “are fundamentally right.” Such was Gingrich’s faith in President Reagan that in 1985, he called Reagan’s meeting with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev “the most dangerous summit for the West since Adolf Hitler met with Neville Chamberlain in 1938 in Munich.”

Gingrich scorned Reagan’s speeches, which moved a party and then a nation, because “the president of the United States cannot discipline himself to use the correct language.” In Afghanistan, Reagan’s policy was marked by “impotence [and] incompetence.” Thus Gingrich concluded as he surveyed five years of Reagan in power that “we have been losing the struggle with the Soviet empire.” Reagan did not know what he was doing, and “it is precisely at the vision and strategy levels that the Soviet empire today is superior to the free world.”

Newt Rewrites His Reagan Connection

At the Reagan presidential library this fall, Gingrich boasted of how "I helped Reagan create millions of jobs while he was president." And after modestly acknowledging his own less significant role than Reagan's, added, "We helped defeat the Soviet empire." Unmentioned by Gingrich then, or in any of the 2,414 debates during this campaign, was his 1985 criticism of President Reagan's historic meeting with Mikhail Gorbachev as "the most dangerous summit for the West since Adolf Hitler met with (British Prime Minister) Chamberlain at Munich in 1938."

"I've done a movie on Ronald Reagan called 'Rendezvous With Destiny.' Callista and I did. We've done a book on Ronald Reagan. You know I campaigned with Reagan. I first met Reagan in '74. I'm very happy to talk about Ronald Reagan."

Just like when Newt went to the House floor during the Gipper's second White House term and declared the president's Soviet policy a "failure." Here is what Gingrich said: "Measured against the scale and momentum of the Soviet empire's challenge, the Reagan administration has failed, is failing and without a dramatic, fundamental change in strategy will continue to fail. ... The burden of the failure frankly must be placed first upon President Reagan."

This was after Gingrich, as reported in the Congressional Record, had found Reagan responsible for our national "decay": "Beyond the obvious indicators of decay, the fact is that President Reagan has lost control of the national agenda." Students of Newt-speak will recognize that by "decay," Gingrich was generally referring to factors such as crime, illegitimate births and illiteracy.

Gingrich: Americans don't want more Reagan
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Gingrich promises Moon Base that could become 51st State

Newt wants a brand new Space Race to throw money at. He pledged boldly that he wants to create a base on the moon within 8 years. And once his lunar colony has 13,000 residents, they can apply to be the 51st state.

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Gingrich promises moon base that could become 51st state

“By the end of my second term, we will have the first permanent base on the moon and it will be American,” the candidate insisted. “We will have commercial near-Earth activities that included science, tourism and manufacturing.”

“At one point early in my career, I introduced the Northwest Ordinance for Space,” Gingrich recalled, referring to it as the “weirdest thing” he’d ever done. “I said when we got — I think the number is 13,000 — when we have 13,000 Americans living on the moon, they can petition to become a state.”

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Gingrich suggests that his Moon Base would be a good place for sex

Newt Gingrich | Sex in Space

The former House speaker has long been known for his boyish enthusiasm for subjects like dinosaurs, zoos and outer space. And in his 1996 book “To Renew America” he even devoted a short chapter to proposals that are, in some cases, directly inspired by popular science fiction. “Why not aspire to build a real Jurassic Park?” Gingrich asked on page 190 of the book, adding in parenthesis that such an achievement “may not be at all impossible.”

We could also have sex in space.

“I believe that space tourism will be a common fact of life during the adulthood of children born this year, that honeymoons in space will be the vogue by 2020,” Gingrich wrote toward the end of the chapter. “Imagine weightlessness and its effects and you will understand some of the attractions.”

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Newt's flimsy answers on the RKBA (2007)

Here are Newt's answers to an interview about the Right to Keep & Bear Arms.



Newt Doesn't Get It


HEWITT: "...Do you support allowing individuals to own those weapons labeled assault weapons under that law?"

GINGRICH: "Well, if you remember, there are a number of weapons under that law that are not assault weapons, and the law the way it was written in the Clinton administration is an absurdity. And I think people proved that at the time. And I voted against the law, and in fact, I helped stop it at one point."

Note that he says a number of weapons that were covered by the ban aren't "assault weapons" & that it was written poorly. The first is partially true but I'd have argued that all the weapons covered by the ban were not "assault weapons" as it was a contrived term to facilitate that specific law. The second - well it was written absurdly, but the premise was the absurdity more so than the language, which Newt seemed to imply the latter in his statement.

HEWITT: "And so how would you…what weapons ought Americans not be allowed to own under the 2nd Amendment."

GINGRICH: "Look, I think we ought to draw a clear distinction about a whole range of weapons that are explicitly military, and I have no interest in arguing or defending the right of people to randomly hold weapons that are that extraordinary, except under very, very unique circumstances."

A huh. Basically Newt is saying that he has no clue what the 2nd amendment was about. I do wonder what he would define as extraordinary.

HEWITT: "All right, so basically, return the right for some of these higher caliber weapons, but keep the military weapons away from."

GINGRICH: "Right. I just think, you know, if you said to me would I feel comfortable if my next door neighbor had a 50 caliber machine gun, I would say no."

I'm not sure I'd feel comfortable if my next door neighbor had a radio talk show, or a congressional seat, or a presidential campaign, but does that mean we throw the weight of the law against those people even though they've done no harm to anyone? Of course what would be funny is if one of his neighbors did own a belt fed .50 (since Newt lives in Virginia & Virginia doesn't restrict automatic weapons as long as they're possessed in compliance with federal law).

 

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Gingrich voted for Chrysler bailout and wage controls (1979)

Newt supported bailouts before it was cool.

He voted for a Federal bailout of Chrysler and a 3-year wage freeze for their employees.

GovTrack: House Vote #659 (Dec 18, 1979)

 

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Newt's "balanced budgets" drove the National Debt up $1 Trillion

MYTH: “Newt balanced the budget.”
FACT: The National Debt went up nearly $1 Trillion while he was Speaker.

Gingrich was the House Speaker from January 4, 1995 – January 3, 1999.

The National Debt went up every year during that time.

The budget was not as balanced as he is constantly bragging about.


1994 - $4.692 Trillion
1995 - $4.973 Trillion
1996 - $5.224 Trillion
1997 - $5.413 Trillion
1998 - $5.526 Trillion
1999 - $5.656 Trillion

(Source: Treasury Direct.gov)

 

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Is it a conversation if you are talking to yourself?

 

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Funny piece by John Stewart about Newt:

http://www.mediaite.com/tv/jon-stew...ants-to-leave-the-earth-for-a-younger-planet/

 

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Maybe the thread title should be Newt HAS issues!

 

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Newt slams Reagan on the floor of Congress (1986)

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Before Palestinians were "invented", Newt was meeting with their leader (1993)

Newt took heat for calling the Palestinian people an "invented" race. But in 1993, Newt met with Yasser Arafat, the Palestinian leader.


Newt Gingrich's Literal Embrace Of Yasser Arafat

 

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Gingrich co-sponsored 418 bills with Nancy Pelosi in 12 years

While in Congress, Gingrich co-sponsored 418 bills with Pelosi

Gingrich co-sponsored 418 bills in Congress with Pelosi during the 12 years they served together in the House, according to the Library of Congress’s THOMAS database.

Gingrich was in Congress from 1979 to 1999. Pelosi has served since 1987.

As a matter of comparison, House Speaker John Boehner, who has served in Congress with Pelosi for more than 20 years, has only co-sponsored 104 bills with her.

Many of the bills Gingrich and Pelosi co-sponsored were hardly divisive: authorizing an award for Mother Teresa, giving a congressional gold medal to former President Gerald Ford and recognizing the 50th anniversary of the National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute.

But one piece of legislation could be problematic for Gingrich with conservatives: the Global Warming Prevention Act of 1989, which never made it out of committee.

 

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Newt Gingrich: Iran "should expect to get hit" if I'm president

"I would also point out that a Gingrich presidency would communicate publicly to the Iranians that if they continue to do what they’re doing, they should expect to get hit, and it will be their fault for having caused it."

-- Newt Gingrich


http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vo8HFN8aXh4

 

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Newt: Feds should subsidize state & local museums, arts, ballets (1995)

Yes, even Federal funding for the Atlanta ballet. Conservative, my eye.

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