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  • rambone

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    Here is a comprehensive list of all the reasons to oppose Newt Gingrich.

    Newt Gingrich is a political chameleon that has inexplicably managed to fool conservatives for 30 years. He is a globalist to the bone and supports every opportunity to erode American sovereignty and the constitution. He disguises his statist positions with an abundance of flip-flopping and pandering as needed. He has a long history of expanding the Federal Government and deficit spending. He is the very definition of an Establishment Insider.

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    MISCELLANEOUS
    - Voted for the creation of the Federal Dept. of Education in 1979 under Jimmy Carter.
    - Voted for NAFTA, a blatant circumvention of Congress’ exclusive power to regulate commerce with foreign nations. Took power from American people and put it into the hands of unelected Binational panels, made mostly of foreigners.
    - Supported GATT
    - Supported WTO
    - Supported the National Endowment for the Arts;
    - Big supporter of Foreign Aid -- even to Soviets through the Export-Import Bank.
    - In one year (1994-1995) Gingrich voted for nearly $45 billion in foreign aid.
    - He helped push through Federally-funded loan guarantees to Communist China.
    - He voted to raise the debt ceiling four times (one, two, three, and four).
    - Urged the House to repeal the War Powers Act and give the Presidency more power.
    - He was a draft-deferrer during Vietnam, yet pushed aggressive foreign interventionism his entire political career, and did say that Vietnam was the "right battlefield at the right time."
    - Urged Clinton to expand military presence in Bosnia.
    - Supports Afghan War
    - Supports Iraq War
    - Supports Libyan War
    - Calls for Iran War
    - Supported Clinton's welfare programs, education programs, labor programs, and environmental programs, as well as most of his foreign affairs programs.
    - Supported spending $30B for the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994 that shackled gun owners with new restrictions, federalized a number of crimes, and handed the feds police powers that the Constitution reserves to the states.
    - Voted to give billions of dollars to United Nations "peacekeeping" operations;
    - Pushed for a School Prayer Amendment
    - Worked on the Rockefeller presidential campaign in 1968. Was a Rockefeller State Chairman.
    - Mentored by Henry Kissinger
    - Described himself as a conservative in the Alexander Hamilton-Teddy Roosevelt tradition.
    - Described himself as a "realpolitik Wilsonian." (As in Woodrow Wilson)
    - He repeatedly praised FDR, and thinks he is the best president in the history of the country.
    - He describes himself as a "Federalist."
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    - Bailed out savings and loan institutions in 1991. $40B Bank bailout
    - He cheated on one of his wives while she was suffering from cancer, delivered divorce papers to her in the hospital.
    - Card-Carrying member of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), a globalist think tank
    - "Distinguished member" of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (neocon, pro-interventionism group)
    - Member of Bohemian Club (secret society)
    - Member of the World Future Society (globalist group)


    05/04/1979 - He voted for a federal land grab that put tens of millions of acres of land in the hands of Washington bureaucrats.
    09/20/1979 - He voted to raise the debt ceiling for the first time.
    09/27/1979 - He voted to establish the Federal Department of Education.
    06/04/1980 - He voted to raise the debt ceiling for the second time.
    02/05/1981 - He voted to raise the debt ceiling for the third time.
    06/28/1984 - He voted to raise the debt ceiling for the fourth time.
    04/02/1987 - He cosponsored the 1987 Fairness Doctrine (anti 1st Amendment legislation)
    04/11/1988 - He says that America doesn't want another Reagan.
    02/22/1989 - He cosponsored the Global Warming Prevention Act of 1989.
    10/22/1991 - He voted for an amendment that would create a National Police Corps.
    --/--/1992 - He bounced checks to the IRS.
    03/--/1993 - He was "passionately in favor" of sending $1.6 Billion in foreign aid to Russia.
    11/19/1993 - He voted for the NAFTA Implementation Act.
    11/27/1994 - He supported the GATT Treaty giving sovereignty to the U.N.
    12/25/1994 - He was quoted as saying that his wife was "not young enough or pretty enough to be the wife of the President. And besides, she has cancer."
    04/10/1995 - He supported Federal taxdollars being spent on abortions.
    02/21/1995 - He helped Clinton provide Mexico with a $52 Billion bailout to save the Peso.
    06/--/1995 - He wrote the foreword to a book about tearing down the U.S. Constitution and implementing a Fascist World Government.
    08/27/1995 - He suggests that drug smuggling should carry a death sentence.
    01/06/1996 - He himself conceived a secret CIA mission to topple the Iranian leadership.
    04/18/1996 - He voted for Federal restrictions on laser sighting devices.
    04/25/1996 - Voted for the single largest increase on Federal education spending ($3.5 Billion)
    06/01/1996 - He helped a "Clinton Clone" Democrat switch parties in an attempt to defeat constitutionalist Ron Paul in the 1996 election.
    09/16/1996 - He voted for the anti-gun Brady Campaign’s Lautenberg Gun Ban, which took away gun rights for people involved in certain misdemeanors.
    09/25/1996 - Introduced H.R. 4170, demanded life-sentence or execution for someone bringing 2 ounces of marijuana across the border.
    09/28/1996 - He voted for the "Gun Free School Zones Act" which resulted in schools being easier targets for shooters, and disarming law-abiding citizens.
    --/--/1996 - He earned a "D" rating from the Gun Owners of America.
    --/--/1997 - He kept funding an experimental program for developing an airborne jet laser weapon. By 2009, the program had still produced no results and cost billions over budget.
    01/22/1997 - Congress gave him a record-setting $300,000 fine for ethical wrongdoing.
    06/27/1997 - Newt advocates a federal biometrics database, requiring thumb-prints to buy guns.
    03/01/1998 - He says he is "very, very supportive" of Federal ethanol subsidies.
    06/26/1998 - He says it is "very, very important" that taxpayers fund the IMF.
    11/05/1998 - He resigned from his House seat three days after being elected to his 11th term.
    09/16/2001 - He wanted a "Homeland Security" agency led by FEMA in March 2011.
    07/--/2003 - He advocates expanding the Foreign Service Officer (FSO) program by 40%.
    --/--/2005 - He supported individual health care mandates during a debate with Hillary Clinton.
    10/13/2005 - He called for "universal but confidential" DNA testing of citizens.
    09/07/2006 - He wrote an article calling for World War III, in which he wants a "dramatically larger budget" for war, new homeland security agencies, and attacks on Iran, Syria, North Korea, & Lebanon.
    11/29/2006 - He said that free speech should be curtailed in order to fight terrorism. Wants to stop terrorists from using the internet. Called for a "serious debate about the 1st Amendment."
    11/29/2006 - He called for a "Geneva Convention for terrorists" so it would be clear who the Constitution need not apply to.
    --/--/2007 - He says that the Federal Government should subsidize Solar, Wind & Biofuels.
    --/--/2007 - He says that "I would require everybody to have health insurance OR to post a bond."
    02/15/2007 - He "strongly" supported Bush's proposal for mandatory carbon caps.
    04/04/2007 - He says that there should be a clear distinction about what weapons should be reserved for only for the military.
    04/20/2007 - He praised NYC Mayor Michael Bloomberg; said that he "takes his hat off to the mayor for proving government can be effective."
    04/24/2007 - He praised the corporatist business-model of Freddie Mac, saying it would be effective for space travel to Mars.
    04/24/2007 - He said about Government-Sponsored Enterprises (GSEs): "conservatives should embrace [them] and want to extend as widely as possible."
    05/20/2007 - He would bypass the court system by establishing a "military tribunal system to lock people up the way Abraham Lincoln would’ve done it."
    05/20/2007 - He would "establish a nationwide ID card with biometrics so you can actually track everybody in the country."
    04/11/2007 - He had a public debate with John Kerry on global warming, in which Newt agreed with Kerry and his views on the environment, praised his book, and almost hugged him.
    04/17/2008 - Made a commercial (see below) with Nancy Pelosi on Climate Change.
    04/28/2008 - He said that allow some terror to happen, to keep the people afraid.
    04/28/2008 - He wants yet another new Federal agency to be "very aggressive" against "terrorists" and have "extraordinary abilities" that are not restricted by the constitution.
    09/28/2008 - Says if he were in office, he would have reluctantly voted for the $700B TARP bailout.
    09/28/2008 - He says that McCain's vote for TARP bailouts rivaled President Eisenhower's pledge to send troops to Korea.
    10/01/2008 - Says in an article that TARP was a "workout, not a bailout."
    12/08/2008 - He was paid $300,000 by Freddie Mac to halt Congress from bringing necessary reform.
    02/--/2009 - He praises Obama for working toward a Federal health record database for every American.
    03/31/2009 - Says we should have Singapore-style drug tests for Americans.
    04/02/2009 - He says that he would launch a preemptive strike against North Korea.
    10/16/2009 - He angered conservatives by endorsing super-liberal Dede Scozzafava.
    06/10/2010 - He's cozy with VeriChip/PositiveID, a company that specializes in human-microchipping
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    07/30/2010 - Says that Iraq was just step one in defeating the "Axis of Evil".
    08/03/2010 - Advocates attacks on Iran & North Korea.
    08/16/2010 - Opposes property rights of the mosque owner in NYC.
    08/16/2010 - Compares mosque supporters to Nazis
    11/15/2010 - He defended Romneycare; blamed liberals
    12/02/2010 - He advocates a pathway to citizenship for illegal aliens.
    12/05/2010 - He said that a website owner should be considered an enemy combatant, hunted down and executed, for publishing leaked government memos.
    01/30/2011 - He lobbied for ethanol subsidies.
    01/30/2011 - He suggested that flex-fuel vehicles be mandated for Americans.
    02/02/2011 - He says we are "losing the War on Terror"; the conflict will be as long as the Cold War
    02/10/2011 - He wants to replace the EPA instead of abolishing it.
    02/13/2011 - He criticized Obama for sending less U.S. taxdollars to Egypt.
    02/15/2011 - His book said that he believes man-made climate-change and advocated creating "a new endowment for conservation and the environment."
    03/09/2011 - He blames his infidelity to multiple wives on his passion for the country.
    03/15/2011 - Says that NAFTA worked because it created jobs in Mexico.
    03/19/2011 - He has no regrets about supporting Medicare drug coverage. (Now $7.2T unfunded liability)
    03/23/2011 - He completely flip-flopped on Libyan intervention in 16 days.
    03/25/2011 - He plans to sign as many as 200 executive orders on his first day as president.
    03/27/2011 - He says that America is under attack by atheist Islamists.
    04/25/2011 - He's a paid lobbyist for Federal ethanol subsidies.
    05/11/2011 - His campaign video (see below) said that he wants to "find solutions together, and insist on imposing those solutions on those who do not want to change."
    05/12/2011 - He was more supportive of individual health-care mandates than Mitt Romney.
    05/15/2011 - Said GOP's plan to cut back Medicare was "too big a jump."
    05/15/2011 - He backed Obama's individual mandate; "All of us have a responsibility to help pay for health care."
    05/16/2011 - He also endorsed individual mandates in 1993 when Clinton pushed Universal Health Care.
    05/17/2011 - He has an outstanding debt to Tiffany's Jewelry of between $250K - $500K.
    06/09/2011 - His own campaign staff resigned en masse.
    07/09/2011 - He advocates "geoengineering"
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    the earth by spending billions of dollars to disperse aluminum particles into the atmosphere over our heads.
    07/15/2011 - His poorly managed campaign is over $1 Million in debt.
    08/01/2011 - He hired a company to create fake Twitter to appear as if he had a following.
    08/11/2011 - His recent criticism of the United Nations is United Nations by a long, long history of supporting it.
    09/27/2011 - He says that he "helped develop the model for Homeland Security"
    10/07/2011 - He said he'd ignore the Supreme Court if need be.
    11/19/2011 - He said Barney Frank should be arrested for his close ties lobbying for Freddie Mac, just one month before it became public that Gingrich was also lobbying for them at the same time.
    11/20/2011 - He has been outed as a paid lobbyist for drug companies, but he still denies it.
    11/22/2011 - He supports the Patriot Act and would like to see it strengthened.
    11/22/2011 - He says that matters of National Security should not be encumbered by giving Due Process to the accused.
    11/28/2011 - He is a Pharmaceutical lobbyist, and coincidentally thinks that non-Pharma drugs like medical marijuana should be banned by the Federal government.
    11/28/2011 - He said he wants to be "aggressive" with Cuba topple their government before 2014.
    11/28/2011 - He praised draconian drug penalties in Singapore for the second time.
    12/01/2011 - His comments about warning Freddie Mac of its "insane" business model are proven false when his laudatory interview from 2007 surfaced again.
    12/04/2011 - He claims that he "represented the spirit of the Tea Party before there was a tea party."
    12/05/2011 - He believes that life begins at "successful implantation."
    12/07/2011 - He says that he plans to kill the President of Syria.
    12/07/2011 - He says that he'd consider running alongside Mitt Romney.
    12/07/2011 - His campaign promise to nominate John Bolton to Secretary of State may have broken Federal law.
    12/10/2011 - He says that the Palestinian people were "invented."
    12/12/2011 - His budget plan will add $1.3 Trillion to the U.S. budget deficit in 2015 alone.




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    Club For Growth's Presidential White Paper #1: Newt Gingrich
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    The Marriages of Newt Gingrich
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    QUOTES
    "The idea that a congressman would be tainted by accepting money from private industry or private sources is essentially a socialist argument." - Newt Gingrich

    "[O]ur government, at all levels, must be modernized to successfully partner, let alone compete, with the private sector." -- Newt Gingrich, A Contract with the Earth (p.196)

    "The U.S. government operates endowments for the humanities and the arts…Perhaps, it is time we consider a new endowment for conservation and the environment." -- Newt Gingrich, A Contract with the Earth (pp. 115-116)

    "We agree that there is plenty of evidence that global climate change is occurring…While humanity is certainly causing its fair share of the change, scientists are still not able to precisely pinpoint the extent of the change, or the margin of error in their estimates." -- Newt Gingrich, A Contract with the Earth (p. 200)

    "In spite of the demonstrated liberal leanings in academia, we have nothing but respect for the nation’s scientists. They represent America’s best hope to protect the environment. We support a dramatic increase in science and technology research and development because we desperately need to understand global climate change and other environmental phenomena." -- Newt Gingrich, A Contract with the Earth (p. 201)

    "If you import a commercial quantity of illegal drugs, it is because you have made the personal decision that you are prepared to get rich by destroying our children. I have made the decision that I love our children enough that we will kill you if you do this." -- Newt Gingrich (source)

    "What we're being told is that free trade with Mexico would devastate the U.S. economy. With its low wages, Mexico would unleash a flood of cheap imports into our markets. There would be a mass exodus of U.S. factory jobs, as hordes of American companies fled across the border.... All this is scare talk." -- Newt Gingrich, on the House floor 9/22/1993. (source)

    Q: "Will you rally the troops for GATT and the World Trade Organization?"
    A: "Yes. In the first place, the Administration has accepted amendments of Senator Dole and myself giving Congress dramatically more oversight of the WTO, including the right to bring up a vote on withdrawal every five years in perpetuity, so at any point that we think it is out of control or inappropriate, we can simply withdraw." -- Newt Gingrich, 11/11/1994 (source)

    "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." He went on to profess an oxymoronic belief in "very strong but limited federal government," and pledged, "I am for the United Nations." -- Newt Gingrich, July 1995, speech at the Center for Strategic & International Affairs (source)

    On executing people for drug offenses: "The first time we execute 27 or 30 or 35 people at one time, and they go around Colombia and France and Thailand and Mexico, and they say, 'Hi, would you like to carry some drugs into the U.S.?' the price of carrying drugs will have gone up dramatically." -- Newt Gingrich, 1995 (NY Times)

    "See, when I smoked pot it was illegal, but not immoral. Now, it is illegal AND immoral. The law didn't change, only the morality… That's why you get to go to jail and I don't." -- Newt Gingrich, 8/8/1996, Wall Street Journal (source)

    When asked if he would change or repeal the Patriot Act: "No, I would not change it. I'm not aware of any specific change it needs. And I'd look at strengthening it, because I think the dangers are literally that great." -- Newt Gingrich, 11/22/2011, CNN Debate (source)

    "This is, by the way, one of the great tragedies of the Bush Administration. The more successful they've been at intercepting and stopping bad guys, the less proof there is that we're in danger. And therefore the better they've done at making sure there isn't an attack, the easier it is to say that there was never going to be an attack anyways. And its almost like they should, every once in a while, have allowed an attack to get through, just to remind us. Think about the psychology. Why do we wrap up so many people? Well, because we wiretapped. And again, I'm going to be a little controversial. I would divide the FBI into two agencies. I would have an anti-domestic-crime FBI which was very cautious, very respectful of civil liberties. You are innocent until proven guilty. And I would have a small but VERY aggressive anti-terrorism agency. And I would frankly give them EXTRAORDINARY ability to eavesdrop. And my first advice to civil libertarians is simple: Don't plot with terrorists." -- Newt Gingrich, 4/29/2008 (source)

    "I think we prefer to go to instant check on an immediate basis and try to accelerate implementing instant checks so that you could literally check by thumb print whether there was a convicted felon with dangerous behavior or dangerous mental behavior. Instant check is a much better system than the Brady process." -- Newt Gingrich, June 27, 1997 (source)

    "Wilson's speeches still work. I'm frankly a realpolitik Wilsonian." -- Newt Gingrich (source)

    "There are a lot of things to complain about in the Stimulus package... but there are 2 good things in the Stimulus Package from the standpoint of health. The first is a very serious investment in health information technology, which takes us a significant step down the road towards really having electronic health records for every American. And I applaud President Obama for developing and insisting on that approach. And second, a substantial amount of money for Medicaid..." -- Newt Gingrich, Feb. 2009, (source)

    "If I see somebody who is earning over $50,000 a year, who has made the calculated decision not to buy health insurance, I'm looking at somebody who is absolutely as irresponsible as anybody who has ever been on welfare. Because what they said is, (A) I'm gambling that won't get sick, and (B) I'm gambling that if I do get sick, I can cheat all my neighbors." -- Newt Gingrich, 2005 (source)

    "People like me are what stand between us and Auschwitz." -- Newt Gingrich, 1/16/1994 (source)

    "[T]here’s nothing to restrain a President from doing something dumb, but I trust the people in this room to tell me if that is the case." But then he noted more seriously that, "I’m a Federalist. I look to the Federalist Papers and the Constitution to guide me and restrain government." -- Newt Gingrich (source)

    "In March 1993, I got an assistance program I could support: $1.6 billion in direct aid to help Russia stabilize. Although a public poll said that 75% of the American people were opposed to giving Russia more money, and we were already in a hard fight for the economic plan, I felt we had no choice but to press ahead. American had spent trillions of dollars in defense to win the Cold War; we couldn't risk reversal over less that $2 billion and a bad poll. To the surprise of my staff, the congressional leaders, including the Republicans, agreed with me. At a meeting I convened to push the plan, Senator Joe Biden, the chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, strongly endorsed the aid package. Newt Gingrich was passionately in favor of helping Russia, saying it was a 'great defining moment' for American and we had to do the right thing." -- Bill Clinton, 2004 (My Life, p. 506-507).

    "Professor Gingrich hopefully will never be called upon to teach a course in the proper role of our federal government. His rare votes against bloated big government usually have been prompted by the partisan wrangling of the moment, not by any great respect for, or understanding of, the Constitution." -- James Toft of “Tax Reform Immediately” (TRIM)

    The perfect quote for Newt Gingrich:
    "Beware of false prophets, who come to you in sheep’s clothing, but inwardly they are ravenous wolves. You will know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes from thornbushes or figs from thistles? Even so, every good tree bears good fruit, but a bad tree bears bad fruit. A good tree cannot bear bad fruit, nor can a bad tree bear good fruit. Every tree that does not bear good fruit is cut down and thrown into the fire. Therefore by their fruits you will know them." -- Jesus Christ


    The Real Newt Gingrich:
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    Climate Change Commercial:
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    His campaign video:
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    rambone

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    This is what I do instead of letting FOX News brainwash me for hours every night.

    Funny how the big voices on the "Right" don't mention any of this stuff when they should be sounding the alarm to conservatives.

    Instead they just say how Newt is such a "genius." LOL.
     

    dleeharrison

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    So who are you going to pick to defeat Obama? I keep hearing that Obama is going down to defeat this coming November. As the old saying goes - don't count your chickens until the eggs hatch. The current crop of republicans are continually fighting each other for the nomination and keep exposing their vunerable areas to Obama (say as want about him - he and his staff are smart and not stupid) and if we have a third party candidate (Ron Paul) then the election goes to Obama. The economy will improve just enough along with people seeing the current congress as do nothing and being a roadblock to his initatives and will give him a second chance. We can't under estimate him. We will have to hold our noses when we vote in the next election. I would take Gingrich over Obama any day.
     

    mrjarrell

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    So who are you going to pick to defeat Obama? I keep hearing that Obama is going down to defeat this coming November. As the old saying goes - don't count your chickens until the eggs hatch. The current crop of republicans are continually fighting each other for the nomination and keep exposing their vunerable areas to Obama (say as want about him - he and his staff are smart and not stupid) and if we have a third party candidate (Ron Paul) then the election goes to Obama. The economy will improve just enough along with people seeing the current congress as do nothing and being a roadblock to his initatives and will give him a second chance. We can't under estimate him. We will have to hold our noses when we vote in the next election. I would take Gingrich over Obama any day.
    Why do people keep asserting that there will be a Paul 3rd party candidacy? There's been no evidence whatsoever that he has any plans to run as anything other than a republican. Shoot, in the past he's flat out had to come out and say it. What party's he going to go to? The greens? CP? LP? Sorry, but all those parties already have people vying for their nominations and not all of them have ballot access in all states. If he loses in the gop primary he'll likely just call it a day, finish out his term and retire (something he's already planned to do).

    As for Gingrinch, he'd be a lot worse than pretty much any of the others. Well, maybe not as bad as Perry or Bachmann, but damned near. He'd certainly not make a good president. He's a machine man, through and through and a Gingrinch run would equal an Obama win. He's a candidate without the "right stuff".
     

    Hoosierdood

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    Bring me some proof and I might just believe your ramblings. I mean just ONE article or video or website. Really rambone, you shouldn't post stuff like this unless you are able to back it up with evidence.



    Oh wait...
     

    SemperFiUSMC

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    The following ad was paid for by the Elect Ron Paul Campaign - Rambone, national campaign manager.

    Here is a comprehensive list of all the reasons to oppose Newt Gingrich.

    Newt Gingrich is a political chameleon that has inexplicably managed to fool conservatives for 30 years. He is a globalist to the bone and supports every opportunity to erode American sovereignty and the constitution. He disguises his statist positions with an abundance of flip-flopping and pandering as needed. He has a long history of expanding the Federal Government and deficit spending. He is the very definition of an Establishment Insider.

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    MISCELLANEOUS
    - Voted for the creation of the Federal Dept. of Education in 1979 under Jimmy Carter.
    - Voted for NAFTA, a blatant circumvention of Congress’ exclusive power to regulate commerce with foreign nations. Took power from American people and put it into the hands of unelected Binational panels, made mostly of foreigners.
    - Supported GATT
    - Supported WTO
    - Supported the National Endowment for the Arts;
    - Big supporter of Foreign Aid -- even to Soviets through the Export-Import Bank.
    - In one year (1994-1995) Gingrich voted for nearly $45 billion in foreign aid.
    - He helped push through Federally-funded loan guarantees to Communist China.
    - Urged the House to repeal the War Powers Act and give the Presidency more power.
    - He was a draft-dodger during Vietnam, yet advocates aggressive foreign interventionism in his political career.
    - Urged Clinton to expand military presence in Bosnia.
    - Supports Afghan War
    - Supports Iraq War
    - Supports Libyan War
    - Calls for Iran War
    - Supported Clinton's welfare programs, education programs, labor programs, and environmental programs, as well as most of his foreign affairs programs.
    - Supported spending $30B for the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994 that shackled gun owners with new restrictions, federalized a number of crimes, and handed the feds police powers that the Constitution reserves to the states.
    - Voted to give billions of dollars to United Nations "peacekeeping" operations;
    - Pushed for a School Prayer Amendment
    - Worked on the Rockefeller presidential campaign in 1968.
    - Mentored by Henry Kissinger
    - Bailed out savings and loan institutions in 1991. $40B Bank bailout
    - He cheated on one of his wives while she was suffering from cancer, delivered divorce papers to her in the hospital.
    - Card-Carrying member of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), a globalist think tank
    - "Distinguished member" of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (neocon, pro-interventionism group)
    - Member of Bohemian Club (secret society)
    - Member of the World Future Society (globalist group)


    10/22/1991 - He voted for an amendment that would create a National Police Corps.
    11/19/1993 - He voted for the NAFTA Implementation Act.
    11/27/1994 - He supported the GATT Treaty giving sovereignty to the U.N.
    08/27/1995 - He suggests that drug smuggling should carry a death sentence.
    04/25/1996 - Voted for the single largest increase on Federal education spending ($3.5 Billion)
    06/--/1995 - He wrote the foreword to a book about tearing down the U.S. Constitution and implementing a Fascist World Government.
    06/01/1996 - He helped a Democrat switch parties in an attempt to defeat constitutionalist Ron Paul in the 1996 election.
    09/25/1996 - Introduced H.R. 4170, demanded life-sentence or execution for someone bringing 2 ounces of marijuana across the border.
    01/22/1997 - Congress gave him a record-setting $300,000 fine for ethical wrongdoing.
    11/29/2006 - He said that free speech should be curtailed in order to fight terrorism. Wants to stop terrorists from using the internet. Called for a "serious debate about the 1st Amendment."
    11/29/2006 - He called for a "Geneva Convention for terrorists" so it would be clear who the Constitution need not apply to.
    02/15/2007 - He supported Bush's proposal for mandatory carbon caps.
    04/04/2007 - He says that there should be a clear distinction about what weapons should be reserved for only for the military.
    04/17/2008 - Made a commercial (see below) with Nancy Pelosi on Climate Change.
    09/28/2008 - Says if he were in office, he would have reluctantly voted for the $700B TARP bailout.
    10/01/2008 - Says in an article that TARP was a "workout, not a bailout."
    12/08/2008 - He was paid $300,000 by Freddie Mac to halt Congress from bringing necessary reform.
    03/31/2009 - Says we should have Singapore-style drug tests for Americans.
    07/30/2010 - Says that Iraq was just step one in defeating the "Axis of Evil".
    08/03/2010 - Advocates attacks on Iran & North Korea.
    08/16/2010 - Opposes property rights of the mosque owner in NYC.
    08/16/2010 - Compares mosque supporters to Nazis
    11/15/2010 - He defended Romneycare; blamed liberals
    12/02/2010 - He advocates a pathway to citizenship for illegal aliens.
    12/05/2010 - He said that a website owner should be considered an enemy combatant, hunted down and executed, for publishing leaked government memos.
    01/30/2011 - He lobbied for ethanol subsidies.
    01/30/2011 - He suggested that flex-fuel vehicles be mandated for Americans.
    02/10/2011 - He wants to replace the EPA instead of abolishing it.
    02/02/2011 - He says we are "losing the War on Terror"; the conflict will be as long as the Cold War
    02/15/2011 - His book said that he believes man-made climate-change and advocated creating "a new endowment for conservation and the environment."
    03/09/2011 - He blames his infidelity to multiple wives on his passion for the country.
    03/15/2011 - Says that NAFTA worked because it created jobs in Mexico.
    03/19/2011 - He has no regrets about supporting Medicare drug coverage. (Now $7.2T unfunded liability)
    03/23/2011 - He completely flip-flopped on Libyan intervention in 16 days.
    03/25/2011 - He plans to sign as many as 200 executive orders on his first day as president.
    03/27/2011 - He says that America is under attack by atheist Islamists.
    04/25/2011 - He's a paid lobbyist for Federal ethanol subsidies.
    05/11/2011 - His campaign video (see below) said that he wants to "find solutions together, and insist on imposing those solutions on those who do not want to change."
    05/12/2011 - He was more supportive of individual health-care mandates than Mitt Romney.
    05/15/2011 - Said GOP's plan to cut back Medicare was "too big a jump."
    05/15/2011 - He backed Obama's individual mandate; "All of us have a responsibility to help pay for health care."
    05/16/2011 - He also endorsed individual mandates in 1993 when Clinton pushed Universal Health Care.
    05/17/2011 - He has an outstanding debt to Tiffany's Jewelry of between $250K - $500K.
    06/09/2011 - His own campaign staff resigned en masse.
    07/15/2011 - His poorly managed campaign is over $1 Million in debt.
    08/01/2011 - He hired a company to create fake Twitter to appear as if he had a following.
    08/11/2011 - His recent criticism of the United Nations is United Nations by a long, long history of supporting it.
    09/27/2011 - He says that he "helped develop the model for Homeland Security"
    10/07/2011 - He said he'd ignore the Supreme Court if need be.


    MORE SOURCES
    The Grinch Who Stole Conservatism
    Newt World Order Gingrich supported GATT, NAFTA and WTO while in Congress
    Gingrich, Toffler, and Gore: A Peculiar Trio
    Newt's Contract with the Earth: Pseudo-Science, Big Government
    Newt Gingrich: The Establishment’s Conservative
    Newt Gingrich: The "Anti-Romney" or the "Other Romney"?
    Slideshow: The Many Flip-Flops of Newt Gingrich
    'Newt'worthy or Not? Is Newt Gingrich the Best Candidate for President in the Republican Primary?



    QUOTES
    "The idea that a congressman would be tainted by accepting money from private industry or private sources is essentially a socialist argument." - Newt Gingrich

    "[O]ur government, at all levels, must be modernized to successfully partner, let alone compete, with the private sector." -- Newt Gingrich, A Contract with the Earth (p.196)

    "The U.S. government operates endowments for the humanities and the arts…Perhaps, it is time we consider a new endowment for conservation and the environment." -- Newt Gingrich, A Contract with the Earth (pp. 115-116)

    "We agree that there is plenty of evidence that global climate change is occurring…While humanity is certainly causing its fair share of the change, scientists are still not able to precisely pinpoint the extent of the change, or the margin of error in their estimates." -- Newt Gingrich, A Contract with the Earth (p. 200)

    "In spite of the demonstrated liberal leanings in academia, we have nothing but respect for the nation’s scientists. They represent America’s best hope to protect the environment. We support a dramatic increase in science and technology research and development because we desperately need to understand global climate change and other environmental phenomena." -- Newt Gingrich, A Contract with the Earth (p. 201)

    "If you import a commercial quantity of illegal drugs, it is because you have made the personal decision that you are prepared to get rich by destroying our children. I have made the decision that I love our children enough that we will kill you if you do this." -- Newt Gingrich (source)

    "What we're being told is that free trade with Mexico would devastate the U.S. economy. With its low wages, Mexico would unleash a flood of cheap imports into our markets. There would be a mass exodus of U.S. factory jobs, as hordes of American companies fled across the border.... All this is scare talk." -- Newt Gingrich, on the House floor 9/22/1993. (source)

    Q: "Will you rally the troops for GATT and the World Trade Organization?"
    A: "Yes. In the first place, the Administration has accepted amendments of Senator Dole and myself giving Congress dramatically more oversight of the WTO, including the right to bring up a vote on withdrawal every five years in perpetuity, so at any point that we think it is out of control or inappropriate, we can simply withdraw." -- Newt Gingrich, 11/11/1994 (source)

    "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." He went on to profess an oxymoronic belief in "very strong but limited federal government," and pledged, "I am for the United Nations." -- Newt Gingrich, July 1995, speech at the Center for Strategic & International Affairs (source)


    "Professor Gingrich hopefully will never be called upon to teach a course in the proper role of our federal government. His rare votes against bloated big government usually have been prompted by the partisan wrangling of the moment, not by any great respect for, or understanding of, the Constitution." -- James Toft of “Tax Reform Immediately” (TRIM)

    The Real Newt Gingrich:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jWPz1Qdq1uI

    Climate Change Commercial:
    commercial

    His campaign video:
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    spec4

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    Any GOP candidate as POTUS is like a scratch on your finger. Obama winning is like being hit in the back of the head with a baseball bat. Either situation is unpleasant, its just a matter of degree.
     

    dross

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    I have no interest in going through that point by point. First, Gingrich isn't a perfect candidate. I disagree with him on many things.

    So much in that post was crap. This is the kind of thing that destroys your credibility, Rambone.

    Just to pick on one thing - you call him a draft dodger because he got a student deferment. That's not draft dodging. You may think there's something wrong with it - I don't and I served in the Army for 11 years - which is your opinion. A deferment doesn't make him a draft dodger. Clinton's issue was a letter he wrote to avoid the draft that talked about his lack of respect for the military. He wasn't a draft dodger, either.

    That's just one of dozens of misleading things you've posted above. You make it hard to defend you, something I've done many times by PM to some of my fellows here.

    I strongly advise you to learn to stick to the exact truth as you know it, without flavoring or misleading. You'll go farther to advance your cause.

    If you truly can't see a difference between Gingrich and Obama, then there is nothing else I can tell you about why libertarians are in the margins and always will be. You have placed yourself in a spot where you don't matter. Even if the revolution were to come, you'd help make it happen and then you'd go right back to the margins.

    You're mad at reality because it isn't how you want it to be. Go write a Sci Fi novel and create your own fantasy world. It doesn't exist here.
     

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    "The idea that a congressman would be tainted by accepting money from private industry or private sources is essentially a socialist argument." - Newt Gingrich

    Seems like the Ron Paul Support Group made this argument when it was revealed that Ron Paul takes money from White Supremacists.
     

    steveh_131

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    Just to pick on one thing - you call him a draft dodger because he got a student deferment. That's not draft dodging. You may think there's something wrong with it - I don't and I served in the Army for 11 years - which is your opinion. A deferment doesn't make him a draft dodger. Clinton's issue was a letter he wrote to avoid the draft that talked about his lack of respect for the military. He wasn't a draft dodger, either.

    I don't have a problem with draft dodging or deferments.

    I do have a problem with voting to send other people's kids to war when you weren't willing to go yourself.
     
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