Tag: Newt Gingrich
Gingrish: Romney Blew His Chance to Be Nominee with Trump Speech
I think if Mitt had really wanted to maneuver for the nomination, he wouldn’t have given the speech he gave last week. Because that speech was so harsh and so intense that it virtually guaranteed that I think both for the Trump people but also for a lot of the Cruz people, that Romney would just plain be unacceptable.
— Newt Gingrich, blasting Mitt Romney’s speech denouncing Donald Trump as “vitriolic and nasty,” Politico reports.
Gingrich Compares Trump to Barnum
The amazing thing about Trump’s emergence is that it is self-made, without consultants, and virtually all by earned media. … Trump has gotten more news coverage for less money than any campaign I can remember. Part of his achievement is sheer showmanship. No one since P. T. Barnum has had the savvy for publicity that Trump demonstrates week after week.
— Former speaker of the house and GOP primary candidate Newt Gingrich.
Gingrich Still Owes Money from 2012 Prez Run
$4.6 million
Amount Newt Gingrich’s 2012 presidential campaign still owes, according to the latest FEC filing.
Newt Tweets Twaddle
Newt Gingrich was up in arms over “courtesy.”
He says bombing ISIS with courtesy’s heresy.
But CNN got it wrong,
And Newt’s tweet was a bomb.
So sheepishly, he tweeted a retraction, for accuracy.
Gingrich Lambasts GOP for Lack of Positive Messages
The fact that we do not have positive themes and positive issues is going to cost us seats this fall because moderates and independents aren’t going to turn out. It’s an enormous mistake. … You have to sound like you’re more than anti-Obama, and you’re more than some … politician whose primary role in life is to raise money for your consultant to buy attack ads. It’s pathetic … and it’s turning people off.
— Newt Gingrich, who is not thrilled by the current state of the Republican party, Roll Call reports.
Newt’s Whining About Obama Again
If you’re a conservative, you think Barack Obama is literally destroying the country you love. And you watch your leadership and they seem unwilling to take him head on, and also unable to outmaneuver him.
— Newt Gingrich, quoted by the New York Times.
Gingrich Notes GOP Has No Alternative to Obamacare
I will bet you, for most of you, you go home in the next two weeks when your members of Congress are home, and you look them in the eye and you say, ‘What is your positive replacement for Obamacare?’ They will have zero answer. … We are caught up right now in a culture, and you see it every single day, where as long as we are negative and as long as we are vicious and as long as we can tear down our opponent, we don’t have to learn anything. We have to do the homework.
— Newt Gingrich, reprimanding his fellow Republicans in unusually harsh terms, blaming GOP lawmakers for not developing alternatives to President Obama’s health care reform law, CNN reports.
Gingrich: There are Limits to U.S. Ability to ‘Export Democracy’
I am a neoconservative. But at some point, even if you are a neoconservative, you need to take deep breath to ask if our strategies in Middle East have succeeded. It may be that our capacity to export democracy is a lot more limited than we thought.
— Newt Gingrich, telling the Washington Times that the United States’ ability to “export democracy” needs to be reevaluated and that “alternative strategies” should be considered.
Rep. McDermott: Why Do Anti-Tax Political Groups Want Government Hand-Outs in the Form of Tax Breaks?
In a hearing on the IRS scandal, Rep. Jim McDermott (D-Wash.) questioned representatives from tea party groups that appeared to be political groups who oppose taxation whether they actually qualified as social welfare groups as required by law in order to receive tax exemptions. His prepared statement follows:
