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Newt Gingrich – whose candidacy for president last year was helped enormously by a billionaire supporter – condemned a new effort to support more viable Republican candidates as “a bunch of billionaires financing a boss to pick candidates.”
The former House speaker, who benefited as a 2012 Republican presidential candidate from the super PAC Winning Our Future, lashed out against Karl Rove, the former Bush political guru and founder of several Republican super PACs, on Wednesday for his effort to bounce GOP primary candidates who might fare poorly in a general election.
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Gingrich wrote in the conservative publication Human Events:
I am unalterably opposed to a bunch of billionaires financing a boss to pick candidates in 50 states. This is the opposite of the Republican tradition of freedom and grassroots small town conservatism.
No one person is smart enough nor do they have the moral right to buy nominations across the country.
That is the system of Tammany Hall and the Chicago machine. It should be repugnant to every conservative and every Republican.
Chris Keane / Reuters
Republican presidential candidate and former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich speaks at a rally on the night of the New York, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Rhode Island and Delaware primaries in Concord, North Carolina April 24, 2012.
The former House speaker joined a series of conservatives to pile on Rove’s Conservative Victory Project, a new initiative associated with the super PAC American Crossroads to ensure more electable congressional candidates. Rove’s effort is meant to discourage GOP voters from nominating candidates like Todd Akin and Richard Mourdock, the candidates for Senate in Missouri and Indiana, respectively, who lost races that many Republicans regarded as more easily winnable.
Of course, Gingrich was the beneficiary of billionaire largess, too. Sheldon Adelson, the Vegas-based casino magnate, and his wife, Miriam, donated a total of $20 million to the pro-Newt super PAC Winning Our Future last year, according to Federal Election Commission records.
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Until the political organization known as the Republican Party can find a candidate that represents more libertarian viewpoints (and assuming the media actually practices journalistic integrity), especially on the issues of things like abortion and decriminalizing marijuana...they will fall farther and farther behind...
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Dear GOD,
Thank you for Obama and saving our country from falling under the control of Republicans.
Amen
God allowed Obama to win as a form of punishment for America. As a nation we have kicked Christ out of the picture, embrace unnatural marriage, and continue to kill millions of babies each year. Obama is the curse God has placed to destroy our nation because of our SINS. While I don't believe Obama is the anti-christ, I do believe his welfare stare will result in the end of America as an economic superpower and military powerhouse. America our greatest days are behind us thanks to folks like "Newbook".
I'm sure Jesus is much more upset with the amount of money and resources we spend on WMD's and the military, our insane gun culture and excessive consumption culture that is destroying his creation...
If GOD is cursing us, it's because his followers have betrayed his teachings and lack any sense of "oneness" with people who are different then themselves...
@zipcode
GOD caused the elephant people to lose because they actually think hurting the sick and lame are one of HIS principles
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Until the Supreme Court decision is reversed, we will continue to have billionaires trying to buy candidates. I don't know why some of these billionaires don't run themselves. Maybe they aren't up to the fight!
OK so I find it very interesting that most of our right wing friends like Obamanation, Dee Ten, Cockroach, leftisfacist, gunowner45, Urban Roman, ldo, Joe in Albany, dont mess with texas, Blamo, and all the jimbobs tomroy calmikes with random numbers are conspicuously missing from this thread. They are definitely here though as I had to search the sequestration, McCain, Kerry and Jesse Jackson thread to remember all their frickin names!
So is it just me or are these posters less interested in the future of their party than they are calling people who don't hate Obama names? I aint sayin I'm just sayin...
Green Puppet, what you and the rest of the people don't understand, the core support of the RePugs are actually workin class and small business owners who strive to live under the American Idea of individualism. They are just constantly hijacked by big the money puppetmasters and just dance slower, but always headin toward totalitarianism.
You DEMOs could care less about principles and rally 100% for "The Party". If you study history you will see where that gits you. Your PARTY will win and become ALL Powerful. Generally not good for da sheeple. Just ask the Germans, Soviets or Red Chinese. LOL!
Nope.
Just some of us actually have a life.
@MAC
What you and yhe rest of the elephant people dont get is that white done make right anymore. You bozos lost the election because you didnt see that the country is now truly a melting pot
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Mac
Hey dont lump me in with the libs just because of an objective observation. I'm on neither side here. I think the parties are the same oligarchy that no longer represent the people. And as to the core of the Republican party that's true which is why I find it so fascinating that you guys consistently stick with a party whose policies no longer benefit you. I guess because you have no choice eh?
I used to vote Republican a lot. I no longer make enough money to do so nor do I think they have had a real Republican candidate since McCain ran against Bush in the primaries in 2000. McCain and that party changed when Rove did the hatchet job on McCain in SC. Now it's just the party of Nixon not Ike or Reagan.
Obamanation, good to have you prove me wrong! You must have gotten tired of bashing libs on other threads. Now count the number of posts between us and tell me which of us has no life! (Answer? Neither of us!)
If you guys read my post history you will see that I go after you guys more because frankly you spend most of your time sounding like libs in a mirror. Republicans used to be a lot smarter than that and they stuck together. Not anymore...
BTW spend some time reading through some of the posts of people I named above and tell me they are objectively arguing their beliefs. No to a person they spend most of their time insulting the other side. Now I could just as easily compile a similar list of libs who do the same but some of the posts I see from the right are more than just the football game rhetoric. Some of it is dangerous talk that sounds more like neo-mazi right wing militia crap (civil war, kill all libs, etc...). It's there go search the posts. When the libs lost they whined and moaned about Bush and the American Empire. These guys above lose and they talk killing and civil war. Doesn't sound anymore patriotic or American to me than the side they hate. The Constitution says ALL men are created equal. Not just the ones who agree with YOU.
Green Puppet, I be no RePug, consider myself a libertarian who generally has to vote REPug since the press watches them REAL close and they can (Bush/Cheney) only dream of gittin away with what President Obama has so far. For the Libs not to call him on his Enhanced Patriot Act, NDAA, Tuesday afternoon death panels by Executive decree, TRILLIONS given to da BANKSTERS and so on just paints how partisian they are.
Research McCain and Soros NGOs. McCain and Bush, little difference, both RINOs who are major GLOBALIST! Just about 3 months ago I stumbled on the fact that the Saudi oil firm that bought Baby Bush's failed oil company was had a 51% controlin factor manipulated by Soros. So SOROS hated bush but set up a Saudi Oil COmpany to save his bacon and enable him to continue to be a player. The NEw WOrld Order OWNES them ALL. LOL!
Kemestry: Why do you people hate Western Civilization so much? Do you not realize that the apex of Human Freedom was prior to 911. Do you think Mexico is better run than the US? Do you believe South Africa is a better society? You people have won and we are now being Transformed by da greedy BANKSTERS.
See if you like the end result in about two more years. It ain't goin to be pretty. Git used to "not consuming more than your "FAIR SHARE" of the worlds resources" as the ELITES jet all around the world as they are doing now. LOL!
Mac good to know and good info. I do not doubt it for a second. Can't call myself libertarian though my dad calls me one. Too many nuts in that party too! I got no party to go to! So sad... <snif> :)
Green Pupet. That's the beauty of being a Libertarian. You have the FREEDOM to be as crazy as you want as long as it does not adversely affect other people. That includes actions that are self destructive such as drinkin a BIG SLURPE in NY or smokin dope to "make me smarter", even though MOST ALL us ole timmers know that smoking a good amount daily makes ya stupider and paranoid.
If ya make bad choices ya pay da price!
It would take 100 years of conservative leadership to restore America to her greatness. The Obnoxious Bully Aggressively Misleading America (Obama) has destroyed the basic fabric of our nation (freedom, hard work, and seeking a better future for yourself and your family). He is our nation's first dictator and his welfare state will only continue to produce poverty at the expense of middle class America. Let's fact it America is done and we have white liberals, blacks, and hispanics to blame. As a hispanic conservative, I am ashamed that hispanics have adopted the black model of government welfare and handouts. As a community hispanic should fight against illegal immigration and resist slavery to big government.
You get the "Dumb FUX NEWS" award for the dumbest post of the day!
WOW, you need to take a walk in the woods.
Rove was W's right hand man. We all know W like his Daddy are beltway RINO's as was seen by their spending. W and Rove bamboozled us with their term "compasionate conservatism". They duped conservatives just as Obama dupes working class Democrats with his motto of change (never telling them the change is into Western European socialism). Please show Mr. Rove the door.
We have a Western European Socialist style country just to our North. It is called Canada. It must be that the Canadians just aren't smart enough to realize that they have been duped all these many decades. Universal health care is coming up on 50 years - they just don't seem to learn.
You people who fall in the left/right paradigm are unbelievably blind. The BILLIONAIRES are the Major financiers of the Lib Demos now. The RePugs are just bought off cheaper. It's ALL good cop/bad cop show. The Repugs need to reclaim thier small government PRO-FREEDOM roots of the libertarian.
1. Secure the borders. It would be hard for either party to argue we need more poor people or even professionals. A professional engineer makes less than a big city cop does now. LOL!
2. Dig Drill and Build, energy prices are DEPENDENT on Supply. If ya got to charge an export tax on energy LEAVIN the US. CNG is 50 year technology which should supply gas for 1.50 a GGE. Instead we are fixin to send it to Red China at a major discount.
3. Fair Tax not rip of tax. Make the BILLIONAIRES pay, not just the high EARNED INCOME employees!
4. FAIR TRADE not Free/rip off Trade. MAKE TARIFFS DEPENDENT ON EACH COUNTRIES TRADE SURPLUS WITH US, startin with Red China. Unions, where are ya?
5. Audit and END da FED! Treasury print money like they did before 1913! Just say NO to da BANKSTERS.
Run on ISSUES, people understand we are gittin ripped off by the energy companies and everything is made in Red China. How long can that last with these deficiets?
Poor simple people in Ky understand this, surely some of you big city Libs can! LOL!
Rove is a criminal and should be in jail !, Newt stands in a lot better light now; for US to hear someone with enough guts to say the TRUTH. What a legacy to leave behind from the BUSH era. I can not believe anywone will even give them any attention!! Oh, and what a record Carl left from the last election, How did these billionaires get their money, surely it wasn't from supporting old ideas and stupid bullys like Rove. Thanks Newt!!!
I wonder who has the Bigger Account at Tiffany's, Newt or Karl?
It's lovely watching the immoral, irresponsible, radical republic-dumb crowd eat each other like ruthless rabid dogs!
I would have to say if you don't have some disagreement with the things your party does you are nothing but a programmed clone.
Kinda like watching Hillary say that Oblahblah was inept and not fit to run the country.....
Funny how portraying Republican in a German Uniform from the past, is not racist, but, portraying our Democratic POTUS, with a Hitler hair lip, is considered inappropriate! Oh, I forgot he is appeasing Muslim policies, and aiding Muslim's, with our technology!
Kinda like Hillary bashing liberal political organizations, saying ""They flood into these caucuses and dominate them and really intimidate people who actually show up to support me"
They're both disgusting.
Ahhhh, the beautiful Newt, republican sage who took tens of millions from Sheldon Adelson to finance his campaign of lies and deceptions. Newt , the beautiful, the poster child for where America went right-- and soooo wrong. Well, not to take some of that credit that is due Reagan, the B movie president.
Well what do the Democrats have to show in all of this? First we have Jimmy "Peanut Head" Carter, "Wet Willie" Clinton, and "Transparent" Obama. That does not excite anyone does it?
I have liked Karl Rove for a number of years. That being said I also have been finding him exceedingly arrogant lately. He needs to reign in his attempted domination and allows others to have a say also. Not everyone in a political party gets along anyway. So actually this is an article with only some fluff. Must be a slow news day at MSNBC.
Kinda like Joe Biden, when asked if Oblahblah was ready to be president, saying "I think he can be ready but right now, I don't believe he is. The presidency is not something that lends itself to on-the-job training."
Don't you know it, Joe.
Don't you know it.
Kinda like Thomas Friedman on Bill Maher, just a few days ago, saying of Oblahblah :
Obama has spent a lot of time lately bashing the rich to pay their “fair share.” You know what? There are definitely some Wall Street bankers and C.E.O.’s who deserve that bashing. But there are many successful Americans who got their wealth the old-fashioned way — by risk-taking, going into debt to start a business or pursue a dream. It’s time for the president to do some risk-taking — to stop just hammering the wealthy, which is so easy, and to start selling the country on a strategy to multiply them. We need to tax more millionaires, but we also need more millionaires and middle classes to tax. The president was elected to grow our national pie, not just re-divide it.
Kinda like Paul Krugman saying "progressives who had their hearts set on Obama....were engaged in a huge act of self-delusion.”
Newt, since you are worthless detritus, roundly rejected by the electorate, a source of buffoonery, a favorite target for late-night comedians, a disgrace to the congress, and a hypocritical adulterer, it perplexes me as to why you think anyone gives a rat's ass WHAT YOU THINK. The money must be good. They paying you as well as the millionstyou got for your health care consulting fees while you were publicly bashing "Obamacare?"
Kinda like the Daily Kos saying that with Oblahblah "Even Social Security is on the table … not even Bush tried to cut Social Security.”
Kinda like Drew Westin of the New York Times saying of Oblahblah :
Those of us who were bewitched by his eloquence on the campaign trail chose to ignore some disquieting aspects of his biography: that he had accomplished very little before he ran for president, having never run a business or a state; that he had a singularly unremarkable career as a law professor, publishing nothing in 12 years at the University of Chicago other than an autobiography; and that, before joining the United States Senate, he had voted “present” (instead of “yea” or “nay”) 130 times, sometimes dodging difficult issues.
If you are bewitched by eloquence (And Obama isn't that great) you need to spend more time going to church rather than listening to politicians - Read bout them, research them and you won't become bitter - remember, you bought the message.
He just will not go away, like that nuisance in grammar shool that keeps forcing himself into circles in which he is not welcomed. Always there. Just never gets the message: "NOT wanted here. Go away." In Newt's case, there must be a rock somewhere with a vacant spot under it. Surely, there are some newts under a rock somewhere that would not be repulsed by him.
Its sad to see them fall apart this way. Now they feed on themselves
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The GOP isn't legal anymore as a functioning part of our government. It needs to be overthrown more then votes can do. They made you poor & want you all dead, out of the way once your not working til death to line their pockets. If the GOP had their way, people would revolt against them & Civil War would follow.
Uhhhhhh..........no.
Johnessy
You are talking about the democrats there.
Ha ha - the party of "nope" - How's that workin' out for ya lately? Haven't learned anything yet, have you?
The only one saying No is the Democrat Senate not voting on job bills passed to them by the House.