The images are stark, the music apocalyptic. If Newt Gingrich falters in the Republican presidential contest, Ron Paul’s scathing television ads may be a big part of the reason.
“If you want to put people in jail, let’s look at the politicians who created the environment. The politicians who profited from the environment,” Gingrich, in one of Paul’s ads, is shown saying during an October debate. Then, over 60 seconds, the ad casts the former House speaker as exactly that type of politician — through the voices of commentators, former congressional colleagues and conservative radio host Rush Limbaugh.
While other members of the GOP presidential field were slow to spend money to spread their messages, Paul’s campaign has been on TV with ads in early voting states since last summer. The spots have addressed topics like abortion rights and the debt ceiling negotiations while nudging rivals Mitt Romney and Rick Perry for being slick or inconsistent.
But his barrage against Gingrich and an equally tough anti-Gingrich ad sponsored by the pro-Romney super PAC Restore Our Future are raising questions about whether Gingrich can maintain his remarkable surge.
“When Ron Paul puts up a commercial blistering Speaker Gingrich, it’s going to have an impact,” said Bob Vander Plaats, a conservative leader in Iowa who has not made an endorsement. “Newt knew it was coming — the question is whether he can withstand it and respond. If not, he’s going to slip.”
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Romney and Bachmann got some explaining to do
why didn't Fox News cover this stuff ?? its all over the Place .What is this stuff on Romney about ? It even has Jack Abramoff' in it and the Daily KOS is ready to use this if Romney gets the nomination . http://tinyurl.com/dxwtmbt http://tinyurl.com/d5a8bwp
Bachmann Loves Newt Gingrich http://tinyurl.com/7dgmgvv
You Paul supporters are just determined to give the election away to Obummer arent' you? Give it up the idiot will be gone soon and I will be very happy. His supporters are like locusts in a wheat field.
No you are going to give it away. Nobody will cross the lines to vote for Newt or Romney. It will be a McCain election again with Obama being president. You need to read and study, cause you are following the NWO just as they want you to. Go read about the Constitution, Bill of Rights and Declaration of Independence. Then find a book on Hitler. Maybe your eyes might open up to what is going on in this country.
We're not giving anything away. We will vote and we will prevail. You can come along for the victory or stay hidden behind frauds like Romney and Gingrich. Do you want to know the differance between a democrat and a republican? A Democrat believes that the majority should rule as a collective. A Republican, and I mean a true republican, believes the majority should be controlled so EVERYONE, even the minority, has a chance at Life, Liberty and Happiness. Just as our founding father would have wanted. The usurper will not be reelected. He won't be able to run for office soon. Just watch and see. So Who will the dems throw out to run for president? So Let DR. Paul run a good campaign and may he be our next president. For liberty vote Ron Paul 2012
I wouldn't vote for Ron Paul for dogcatcher. He is an Antisemite phony. I detest seeing his face in the debates. Iran can have nukes? Only a total moron would make a statement like that. He is as dangerous to America's safety as Obummer.
If he gets to be dogcatcher his first act would be to pick you up and cage you. You do not deserve Liberty.
Here! Here!
I know…we are so saintly here in the US. For us to have HUNDREDS of nukes is OK for brain dead lemmings like you. But for Iran to have ONE while Israel has HUNDREDS…geezzz…what hypocrisy. But then again…let's say Iran builds a bomb, and puts it in a rowboat and brings it here…Now what?
It goes BOOM and some people die and we get on with life. Like we always have. You idiots can't see futher than your noses.
No No ………"Millicent"……..YOU are the FOOL!!! YOU REFUSE TO SEE, OR ARE TO STUPID TO SEE WHAT THE HELL IS OBVIOUS…..RIGHT THERE IN FRONT OF YOUR EYES and therefore are far past the reach of mental thearpy…….a lobotomy will be your best hope!!!
"TO STUPID"
Nice use of irony, Cam. And of capital letters and exclamation points.
Ron Paul 2012
Either vote for Ron Paul or Obummer will get it again…… Just like when the Republocrats gave there nomination bid to McCain……. You people who do not believe in the Constitution or Liberty might as well become used to Obummer cause your going to get him again…..
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It's only a matter of time before the left-wing media expose the racist Ron Paul Newsletters from 1996. Whether it be tomorrow, Monday or after the Iowa Caucuses. Make all the excuses you want but it's all there in black and white. And he stood by those comments.
I've look at those close because I don't like racism. To believe that he is a racist after what I read is really stttttrrreeeaatttcchhhiiinnnggg it. But hey what can we expect? THE PSYCHOPATHS want to stay in power and they don't want a NORMAL person in there. So you psychos keep supporting the status quo.
Uggh. PaulBots are almost as bad as Obots. Take a page out of the Alinsky handbook? All I said was that it's just a matter of time before the liberal media start attacking Ron Paul over the newsletters. “I think we can safely assume that 95 percent of the black males in that city are semi-criminal or entirely criminal,”
“we are constantly told that it is evil to be afraid of black men, it is hardly irrational.”
Stretching it? Hardly. The left uses the race card to their advantage and if it isn't this, then it will be his views on a nuclear Iran. Look closer.
Join the millions of people who want an HONEST man in office for a change. You don't like him because he's Honest? You want to feel normal so you want a dishonest man in office. Cheat on your Taxes? Please! Ron has a trick or two that you will really like if he gets elected. He's got my vote and all the money I can scrape up for his ads. He's not the least bit racist but if he ever was it would have been brought out by now after 30 years, don't you think?
And after 30 years he still says he isn't a career politician (yes, I know, he took some time off in between)? And those statements will fly well during a debate (which undoubtedly will be brought up if he were to get the nomination) with the first half black president? And did I ever say I didn't like him? As a person, maybe, as a president? No. This issue was brought up during the 2008 election and his excuse after 3 years is "I don't know who wrote it"? Just because he looks like a little harmless grandfather doesn't mean liberals will go easy on him, that is if Ms Desperate Bachmann doesn't use it first. The first mistake you made was believing a politician.
Ron Paul has repeatedly said he DID NOT WRITE those newsletter articles, and he has repudiated them and their contents dozens of times. Go ahead, vote for Newtie or Mittie and get a duplicate of Obozo. If Ron Paul doesn't win, it won't make a bit of difference which of the other globalist NWO commies we get.
I wouldn't vote for Paul to clean out the basement of an outdoor outhouse!
Why? Because he would be taking away your job?
~~of course not! Then you'd be out of a job!
Based upon the intellectual level of your "contribution" you no doubt live in your uncle's basement, pick your nose a lot, lick toads for "the thrill of it", and pop zit's for entertainment.
How would it be possible to support Gingrich knowing this? http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRdqGKA782A&fe…
You see, if you and I are truly serious about defeating President Obama in 2012 and turning our country around, nominating Newt Gingrich is the absolute LAST thing the Republican Party should do.
Newt Gingrich's record as the consummate Washington, D.C. insider is crystal clear.
For his support of the individual mandate central to "ObamaCare" and other Big Government schemes, Newt raked in nearly $40 million from health care giants.
For his efforts to stop conservative legislators from working to end government involvement in housing, Newt got $1.6 million from Freddie Mac.
And Newt shamelessly referred to feathering his nest with taxpayer money as "the standard Washington fee."
And this is all while I was doing everything I could to warn my fellow Members of Congress about just how much damage the housing bubble would cause.
Sadly, Newt was the one Congress listened to, and America paid a steep price.
The truth is, selling access and padding your own personal bank accounts at the expense of your country is hardly conservative.
Neither is supporting $700 BILLION TARP bailouts.
Neither is cutting TV ads with Nancy Pelosi or cosponsoring over 400 bills with her.
Neither is consistently supporting "global warming" legislation and pushing the environmental alarmists' agenda.
Neither is voting with Ted Kennedy to create the Department of Education.
Neither is campaigning across the country with Al Sharpton and Obama's Education Secretary for even more Big Government federal "solutions" for our education system.
Neither is joining with Big Government liberals to slam Paul Ryan's attempt to get our federal budget under control as "right wing social engineering."
Of course, Newt loves to make sure we all know he knows a little about history.
But he constantly demands you and I just ignore his own!
How Can Newt Be A Conservative? For generations, conservatives have defined themselves primarily as being opposed to FDR and the New Deal. This has been as much a conventional part of the American Right as support for low taxes. Still, Newt Gingrich has long heralded Franklin D. Roosevelt as the “greatest president of the 20th century.” Writes Quin Hillyer at The American Spectator: Not just an effective political leader, but THE greatest president of the 20th Century. So says (and says and says and says again) Newton Leroy Gingrich about the father of the confiscatory income tax, the author of multiple unconstitutional infringements of our liberties, and the man who attempted packing the Supreme Court: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embed…
Why Gingrich Couldn’t Predict the Financial Crisis (and Paul Could)
What we believe or say often reflects what we are. A Christian will typically contemplate questions within a Christian context. A conservative approaches the world within a conservative context. The same goes for liberals, and so on.
But what if you don’t possess a certain set of principles? Sometimes defying categorization is a good thing. But if you insist that you are a “conservative” shouldn’t this be reflected in your worldview?
What is Newt Gingrich, exactly? What guides his thinking? Here is Newt Gingrich vs. Ron Paul in predicting the housing collapse:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embed…
The reason Ron Paul correctly predicted the financial collapse—almost alone—is because he is a constitutional conservative in the strictest sense. Paul’s philosophy is as consistent as it is unwavering. Writes Richard Viguerie, direct mail pioneer and founder of Conservative HQ: “Dr. Paul’s candidacy continues to endure because he runs on constitutional principles and rarely panders to the establishment. And he’s been running that way for going on 40 years.” But why was Newt Gingrich unable to make the same prediction as Paul? Because Gingrich has no solid or consistent set of principles. Said Mickey Edwards, former Republican Congressman from Oklahoma and Chairman of the American Conservative Union: “I’ve known Newt now for thirty years almost. But I wouldn’t be able to describe what his real principles are. I never felt that he had any sort of a real compass about what he believed except for the pursuit of power.” Business Insider’s Michael Brendan Dougherty explains well Gingrich’s lack of conservative philosophy: “Newt Gingrich always has ideas. He has 5-point plans for fixing everything. He’s constantly pitching these ‘solutions.’ Ever wonder why Newt Gingrich has so many ideas? It’s pretty simple. Ideas come to you easily when you have no principles to get in the way of your roaming untrained intellect.” Many conservatives are now scrambling to explain or defend Gingrich’s fairly liberal record. They shouldn’t bother. Gingrich is politically schizophrenic. He’s been this way his entire career. Gingrich could have never predicted the financial crisis because he has no conservative or constitutional philosophy that guides his thinking—which remains as technocratic and micromanagerial as Mitt Romney or even President Obama. Dougherty is right: “Ever wonder why Newt Gingrich has so many ideas? It’s pretty simple. Ideas come to you easily when you have no principles to get in the way of your roaming untrained intellect.” Newt Gingrich’s entire career has been spent rationalizing big government from a Republican perspective. This is why he was so blind to the looming Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac meltdown. It was also because he was working for them.
Does Newt Gingrich Want The Constitution To Die? http://dailycaller.com/2011/12/13/does-newt-gingr…
Writes Ann Coulter: The Tofflers were a couple of old folks who couldn’t figure out how to program their VCRs, so they began writing about the “shock” of technology and how we needed government planning to deal with technological overload… Their big idea was that the world was about to change faster than it ever had before, creating a technological explosion that would frighten and baffle the masses… The government would have to have advisers and committees in order to ease the transition. Gingrich… announced that all legislation passed by the new Congress would have to pass a test: Will it help move America into the Tofflers’ vision of a ‘Third Wave’?” Coulter added: ”Not only were (the Tofflers and Gingrich’s ‘Third Wave’ ideas) completely crazy, but Newt’s grand schemes didn’t quite fit the Republican model of a small, unintrusive federal government.To say the least. Here’s a well done video recollection: Newt Gingrich and the Tofflers – “A Love Story” http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embed…
Des Moines Register – "Republicans would take a giant step backward by choosing Gingrich": http://www.desmoinesregister.com/article/20111209…
National Review – "A Choice of Two Temperaments": http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/285083/choic…
WHO'S NEWT? http://giveusliberty1776.blogspot.com/2011/12/who…
… and, most recently, he has proposed giving 30 MILLION Illegal aliens amnesty as long as they pay a small fine and can "speak English" — thus opening the door to ANOTHER 100 MIILLION, or more, family members! Good Bye America.
“If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.” – Thomas Jefferson
Whether it's flip-flopping on TARP, supporting the individual mandate that served as a model for "ObamaCare," joining with Nancy Pelosi in support of the global-warming crowd's radical agenda, or making millions off of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac as they helped destroy our economy, Newt Gingrich is trying to pull the wool over our eyes.
He's what is called a "counterfeit conservative." Here's an ad so you can hear Newt in his own words explaining his record of supporting liberal policies: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Jzi3HBCS2M
Another Big Surprise About Gingrich on Gun Rights & The Second Amendment: http://gunowners.org/gingrich-mixed-record.htm http://www.nationalgunrights.org/the-inconvenient…
Gingrich Explains His Support for Individual Health Mandate – From the Glenn Beck program 12/6/11:
GINGRICH: I am for people, individuals, exactly like automobile insurance, individuals having health insurance and being required to have health insurance, and I am prepared to vote for a voucher system which will give individuals on a sliding scale a government subsidy so it will ensure that everyone as individuals have health insurance.
President Obama on the individual healthcare mandate, August 2011: “(Obamacare) should not be controversial… the individual mandate’s important… It’s just like your car insurance…”
While in Congress, Gingrich co-sponsored 418 bills with Pelosi: http://dailycaller.com/2011/12/06/while-in-congre…
Gingrich Supported Rockefeller Over Goldwater: Barry Goldwater’s 1964 presidential campaign was arguably the most important in the history of the American conservative movement, leading to the “Reagan Revolution” in 1980 and it continued to have a significant influence on the Right well beyond that particular election. Where was Newt Gingrich in this fight? Supporting Nelson Rockefeller: http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embed…
The “Principled Leadership” of Newt Gingrich
“I am not inclined to be a supporter of Newt Gingrich’s having served under him for four years and experienced his leadership. Because I found it lacking often times. There’s all kind of leaders, leaders that instill confidence and leaders that are somewhat abrupt, leaders that have one standard for the people that they are leading and a different standard for themselves. I will have difficulty supporting him for president of the United States.” — Senator Tom Coburn (R-Okla.)
“We had to push Newt because he wanted to cave in… Those of us who told Newt, ‘If you don’t fight for a balanced budget and don’t fight for these tax cuts and don’t fight for the cuts in committee chairmanships, etc., etc., that we promised we were going to do, we are going to kick you out’ — those 10 or 15 or so, every one of them — Tom Coburn, Matt Salmon running again in Arizona, all of them. They may not be saying it publicly, but privately they’re sending me e-mails every day going, … ‘How many times does Newt have to teach these people he’s bad for the conservative movement?’–MSNBC host and former U.S. Rep. Joe Scarborough, part of the “Republican Revolution” of 1994
Via the The American Spectator’s Quin Hillyer:
Former American Conservative Union Chairman Mickey Edwards was even blunter:
“I’ve known Newt now for thirty years almost,” says former congressman Mickey Edwards. “But I wouldn’t be able to describe what his real principles are. I never felt that he had any sort of a real compass about what he believed except for the pursuit of power.”
The Sr. Administrator of HermanCainForums has soundly rejected Newt Gingrich & endorsed Ron Paul. In a Posting on the site he stated: "Now that Herman Cain has dropped out of the race my new candidate is….. Congressman Ron Paul. Ron Paul was the only candidate that actually had remorse for how the media treated Herman Cain and the alleged affairs, I will always thank him for showing respect in that nature, with that said. I had always liked a lot of what Ron Paul advocates, I don’t agree with him on everything but probably 90%. I am going to encourage all Ron Paul supporters to come here and openly support Ron Paul for he is now my new official candidate for President. I was asked to support Newt Gingrich, there is no possibly way I could every endorse Newt Gingrich, how the republican party is supporting Gingrich I have no idea. While Newt has had documented multiple affairs with women Herman Cain’s campaign was destroyed by accusations yet Gingrich is at the top of the polls? What the hell is wrong with the republican party?" Read More: http://bit.ly/hermancainforums-endorses-ronpaul
Oh No!!! It doesn't matter who compiled it, this is very disturbingly and overwhelmingly devastating information about the words, actions, and record of Newt Gingrich: http://clicks.aweber.com/y/ct/?l=O55ZV&m=IidS…
27 Reasons Why Newt Gingrich Would Be A Really, Really Bad President: http://endoftheamericandream.com/archives/27-reas…
Gingrich Center Took in $37M From Healthcare: http://www.newsmax.com/InsideCover/GingrichCenter…
Shocking To Hear From Newt In His Own Words: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CWKTOCP45zY&fe…
~~Planetaryhub.. I'm in love! You make this old World War II lady very happy to hear from someone with such strong love for one's country. I was beginning to fear that common sense was going extinct…
Did anyone listen to Ron Paul on Friday night's debate? Will he destroy our military faster than Obama? Is he so ready for an open society of anything goes? There are things I have agreed with him on but he really went out in left field to the point I would never vote for him. Even after the debate and he spoke with Hannity I was really concerned because he will go after the presidency with a 3rd party if he does not win the Republican nomination and if he does he will be behind the reelection of Obama and the American people will pay a HUGE price! The one thing we can do is find and vote in more conservatives in the House and Senate, if not we will lose everything we have had since the Constitution and Bill of Rights were given to us by the men who fought and died to do that.
SAnn— are you sure you understood what Paul said? Some of his most loyal support comes from young people, hoping to get a chance to have the great life that their parents enjoyed… freedom and love of Country comes to mind.. Paul would not 'apologize for the imagined shortcomings of America..' no more than he would undermine it in any other way..
It's a given that he's one feisty old coot, but he's Our Coot.. and he loves our America…
We could do worse… but who wants to?
~~this is one of the best we're likely to read for quite awhile. I love it when people state their cause.. then actually do the research and back up what they say! Any boob can mouth off obcenities (well, not oh this site, but on most) and actually believe they've made an intelligent observation…
We don't have the luxury of another Politically Correct Bumble like that in 2008… So, let's get it right this time around… I saw a great video of our Military's opinion of Ron Paul.. They like him.. a lot!