Speaking of “flip-flops,” here’s a winner from Newt Gingrich, who currently despises federally mandated health care.
Before he opposed Obama’s massive scheme as a presidential candidate, Gingrich voiced enthusiasm for Mitt Romney’s Massachusetts health-care law when it was passed five years ago. This is the same plan he has denounced consistently over the past few months as he campaigns for the 2012 Republican presidential nomination.
In this newsletter under Newt Notes, Gingrich called the state plan “the most interesting effort to solve the uninsured problem in America today.” He was effusive in praise, saying “Massachusetts leaders are to be commended for this bipartisan proposal to tackle the enormous challenge of finding real solutions for creating a sustainable health system.”
“The health bill that Governor Romney signed into law this month has tremendous potential to effect major change in the American health system,” Gingrich enthused in the April 2006 newsletter published by his own former consulting company, the Center for Health Transformation.
Gingrich is too much the Washington insider to simply concede his earlier support for the plan and honestly explain why his views might have changed. It appears the virtue of dealing in a straightforward manner with voters never crossed his mind.
Here is another example of leaning left. Newt now calls this ad picturing him chummily talking global warming on a shared loveseat with Nancy Pelosi “a mistake.” It was done in conjunction with former Al Gore’s Alliance for Climate Protection – before former Speaker Gingrich decided to set his sights on the White House.
I trust Newton Leroy McPherson Gingrich as far as I can throw my house. He’s all over the board on a variety of issues, including the junk science of global warming and mandated health care. I’m confident his sudden surge will fizzle as fast as it rose. He’s an overly inflated (ego and size) bait and switcher, no different than a used car salesman with an heavy spray of cologne to cover his stench and a mint in his mouth to hide his halitosis.
Citing the idealism of youth, juxtaposed against the realities that come with age, Sir Winston Churchill was quoted as saying, “If you are not a liberal at 20, you have no heart. If you are not a conservative by 40, you have no brain.”
Using this as a standard, I conclude Newt is in his second childhood. And why not? With third wife Callista 24 years his junior, he could easily be her father. No wonder he’s regressing!!
He was closest to being himself on the couch with Pelosi.
Latest CNN/Time poll today shows Newt Gingrich slipping! This crop of aspirants must be dizzy from the rollercoaster ride they’ve been on….one day riding high, another in a slump. But Romney stays consistently at the head of the pack.
http://i2.cdn.turner.com/cnn/2011/images/12/28/topstate3.pdf
If any of you think that Romney is any less liberal or less of a RINO than Newt you just don’t have knowledge of his history.
It is just pathetic that we conservative Republicans can’t get a true conservative to first base. Both Newt and Mitt flip flop and both rewrite their history. Neither would be good for the country. Romney wants to run the country himself, at least Newt says he believes in We the People. Michelle is the closest to a true conservative and she will have my vote in the primary.
Overtaxed1:
None of them are perfect, but any of them are preferable to Barack Obama. Would you sit on your hands and allow your vote to go to Obama? If your answer is “yes” how would you face your children or theirs (if you had them)?
The “flip-flop” silliness must also end. If someone comes to the conservative side, do we continually chastize them for that? If an atheist converted to your faith, would you not accept him or her? Or would you continually remind them that they weren’t good enough?
I also prefer Michelle Bachmann, but she hasn’t gained the traction I wish she would have. Today, her Iowa campaign manager defected to the Wrong Paul campaign. You won’t be voting for her unless you live in Iowa. She won’t be the nominee.
“If someone comes to the conservative side” …Oh Please!
Give me a break, where is the dang fence builder now but in the lap of the liberals? If every so called conservative voted their conscience Michelle Bachmann would have a really good chance. I will face God first with my vote and I will never hold my nose again. If BO wins again it is because the Republicans didn’t unite behind someone who would stand up and defend our constitutional right to freedom from a socialist agenda.
God save us from these pseudo conservatives. We need a clear distinction to run against Obama. A guy with three successive wives and an equal number of religions (Lutheran, Southern Baptist and Catholic) points to a man with no core.
Ann Coulter spells out why it’s got to be Mitt Romney. He’s right on the two most important issues:
http://www.anncoulter.com/columns/2011-12-28.html
Ann is right on the two most important issues but Mitt Romney gets a real bad grade on both. How can you trust a man who had such bad judgement and no discernment in the past on either issue? This nation deserves a consistent conservative in
the White House, not double minded deceivers. We already have one of those and an R behind someones name doesn’t seem to mean much if their history tells a different story.