printHe was supposed to be courting the tea party in a town hall meeting in Jacksonville, Florida. But Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich did everything but. Google reflects the focus in the media on a single question one toadying attendee asked the speaker; she was bemoaning media bias against Newt, who is the consummate insider. They’ve all neglected Gingrich’s reply to a preceding and very poignant question from a tea partier.
For this reason, I am unable to bring you the question and the answer arrogant Gingrich gave. But the speaker, in essence, told this hard-core fellow that he had asked the wrong question with respect to the candidate’s fidelity to conservatism. He, Newt, would be governing an enormous country and he would, therefore, tailor and aim his policies to holding a 60 percent majority.
Can anyone locate the snake’s exact words?
UPDATE (Nov. 19): Kerry, unless I missed it, the link you provided doesn’t feature the question to which I was referring. It was from a pissed-off tea-partier. He wanted to know how faithful NG would be to tea party principles. Not at all was the sum of the arrogant Gingrich’s reply.
Newt’s history as a pouting egomaniac and adulterer will come to light. The millions he raked in “consulting” for ethanol lobbyists, Freddie/Fannie, and other corrupt statist interests (and why should tax money get channeled to the big “consulting” contracts – I hate to say it but Republicans who talk about freezing “federal employee” salaries and workforce size never talk about Blackwater & favored “contractor” salaries whom they hire instead!).
Newt-care-mandates, Cap-N-trade, etc. are all things that Romney would be proud of.
Ron Paul mentioned that his supporters were the original Tea Party but the “professional” Republicans have come in to try to hijack and corrupt the movement. It all brings back the way D. B. Norton corrupted the “John Doe movement” in the famous movie:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Meet_John_Doe
I think this is what you are talking about right Ilana? http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2011/11/newt-gingrich-dodges-questions-on-freddie-mac-link-in-florida/
“Snake” is far too kind when referring to Newt.
I can’t remember a president so ripe for not being reelected than BHO. Even Jimmy Carter and Gerald Ford. But today’s Republican party can’t find a candidate. Some in the field look pretty good and some are terrible but all are hopping around because they keep shooting themselves in the foot. Obama has been practically caught in the act committing high treason and high felonies yet he will be lied for and covered by the media and will likely be reelected due to a nation of doofus voters and a weak stupid Republican party.
Sorry, I thought it was the question about Newt’s links to Fannie May and Freddie Mac.
Took a little bit of work, but from a CNN transcript:
“Also, Newt Gingrich holding a town hall in Florida. Let’s listen.
UNIDENTIFIED MALE: Probably registered Republicans. But having said that, I would say that one of the things that bothers a lot of people in the Tea Party Movement and all over the place in this great country is that we consistently see politicians selling us out for their party.
We are looking for someone who is going to sell out for us. Sell out for we the people. My question to you would be, how would you define yourself? Are you a conservative who is a Republican? Or are you a Republican who is a conservative?
NEWT GINGRICH (R), PRESIDENTIAL CANDIDATE: Well, I think I reject that kind of distinction. I think a healthy Republican Party is inherently the conservative party in America. And has no future as anything else.
And I think conservatives want to recognize that if you run in Vermont, you probably don’t run on the same themes as you run in Jacksonville. And we want to govern an entire country. Thing this is a country of over 300 million people.
And that means we want — I always tell people. A stable governing majority is about 60 percent. That is 180 million people. You call a family reunion and all 180 million show up, I guarantee you. There will be some strange people in the majority.
So when I was speaker, I helped create a majority because I helped the Republican Party win everywhere. We won in New England. We won in Oregon. We won in Washington State. We won in California. We won in Florida. We won in Georgia.
Our goal was to win everywhere and I have a very simple definition. I want to build a coalition around one simple question. Two questions actually, one economic and one about the nature of America.
First of all, every person of every back ground who would prefer a paycheck to a food stamp. I welcome into this campaign to build a majority to get us going again.
Second, every person of every background who believes that we are endowed by our creator and this is an exceptional country, I want in our majority and then we’ll figure out how we work together.”
[Wow! Thanks. Good job.]