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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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"Bush's Brain" aka Karl Rove has already defined the Grand Old Party as TOAST!!!
Its fun to watch the Republican Party fracturing into little cliques with each harboring the intent of "redefining' the GOP for the future. Sorry, folks ~ you are what you are and however you choose to package and market the product, its value will continue to be far outside the mainstream interests of voters. The partly is fastly degrading into a collection of cynics who contribute nothing but criticize everything.
Tea Party go away somebody needs to define policies that are good for mainstream America. The Tea Party and the Republican Party are too rigid. They have no room for mainstream America and the poor.
Newt needs to be the president of that permanent Moon base.
There is an old army ballard that goes: "old soldiers never die, they just fade away". With pride and dignity!
Why, oh why, don't these old moldy politicians just fade away and give the rest of us some peace.
agree. on both sides too.
Term limits, they need term limits.
We have somethig better than term limits. At least it should be better. It's called an election. A major reason elections don't work as well as they should is the horrible level of gerrymandering that takes place to create "safe" congressional districts.
The real battle for legitimacy in congress starts in each state's redistricting. This is a tough and difficult place to fight but it is where the people have to win the battle or suffer fools forever.
Newt and Karl. Two fine examples of GOP scum.
Loving this bonding effort. "...should be repugnant to every conservative and every Republican." I thought that was the Newtster.
Gingrich has a lot of nerve...
"No one person is smart enough nor do they have the moral right to buy nominations across the country...." do you mean like Sheldon Adelson - the guy that tried to buy you into the White House???
I guess that it's only wrong when he isn't doing it...
Today s Republicans are nothing like yester years Republicans. They all want to be Fur Coat Republicans, no more Cloth Coat Republicans.
They certainly are not the "Party of Family Values".
They are only in it for the Money, nothing else matters to them, just Money, money, money, and that goes for some Blue Dog Democrats too!
Hello Pot? This is Kettle. You're black!!
On a scale 1-10; 1 = scum and 10 = mother Theresa, both references are 1's. So, why is scum 1 smearing scum 2 I think is because both, are jockeying for pure hell? You tell me how GOP folks brain works...
Quote: President John Adams
AMERICAS FUTURE!!!
AMERICA of the RICH, By the RICH, and For the RICH!!!
Remember, democracy never lasts long. It soon wastes, exhausts, and murders itself. There never was a democracy yet that did not commit suicide. The jaws of power and Greed are always open to devour, and her arm is always stretched out, if possible, to destroy the freedom of thinking, speaking, and writing. There is danger from all men. The only maxim of a free 'government' ought to be to trust no man living with power to endanger the public liberty.
"What country can preserve its liberties, if its rulers are not warned from time to time that its people preserve the spirit of resistance? Let them take arms." Thomas Jefferson
Well, we live in a country with more guns than people. Looks like we have already taken step one maybe?
Lenin and Stalin raised money through bank-robberies for the pre-government Bolsheviks.
Yes, Gingrich ALSO had billionaire support, but, at-WORST it's like he relieved the pockets of big donors by walking-away with a big cheque.
Now, I'm not going to delve into Gingrich's past career as an electoral architect, nor, how he arguably squandered his opportunities there, but I am going to say that whereas, at WORST he too received money in his recent campaign, I THINK what he's aiming at with Rove is where he'd try to operate a 'central committee' controlling the levers of all subordinate campaigns.
Whereas Gingrich's personal transgressions are like venial (I hope I have the spelling right) offenses, and then it's hypocrisy that he so-pressed Clinton over 'proceeds of' offenses stemming from similar venial acts...what he considers with Rove is on a SOCIAL/mortal scale, maybe?
I think it's a mistake though to empower Rove's approach -- as IF so much value is to be found in what he does.
Remember the analysis post the election which said that all his PAC money splashed around had little to no result in a presidential -- that money can't buy much influence through advertising when with such a public area as a presidential election there are so many other information streams countering spin. Money, on the other hand, went the analysis, CAN have an impact in Congressional races as that they are so much less-profile, and so people's impressions are more easily impacted on, with less information to counter the framings....
I think what Rove is about, rather, is trying to pick a PIETY issue (a motherhood issue) regarding how silly someone like Aiken is, and then to try to GRIFT that by opposing him Rove is trustworthy.
It comes across, though, as just self-aggrandizing for Rove, whereas Gingrich taking a more principled but less popular stand (as that he's received past money, and is then open to a hypocrisy charge, and, that what Gingrich is arguing is more principled and less about tactical victories) seems more credible.
If Rove really DID care about his causes he'd quit the scene and allow someone else to carry the torch.
Maybe Gingrich should deliver a we don't want to have Karl Rove 'to kick around, anymore,' for him?
Oh Newt!!!! Talking out of both sides of your head again.
Newt,
You are barking up the wrong tree. You just have to look at a couple of 2012 US Senate races that should have been locks for the Republican party to see the real problem ; “too much Tea Party primary election process influence.” Billionaires picking the candidates are probably better than letting the Tea Party pick candidates who couldn’t get elected county dog catcher. Besides if Karl matches his 2012 performance in 2014 his money will dry up plenty fast.
The only reason that Newt is calling foul is because Karl's billionaires are richer than his billionaire. What a hypocrite.
Today's GOP;
A bunch of ignorant, fat, pasty, Jesus-pimping old white men trying to see how to best appeal to the least amount of non-white, fat, ignorant Jesus-pimping rubes to still win an election without actually giving up any power from their sugar daddy billionaires.
Newt I was sorely disappointed when you lost to Romney in the Primaries. I have hated Karl Rove for years and it is refreshing to see that you have no love lost of him either. The three stoogies almost totally destroyed the Republican Party and they are Micheal Steele, George W Bush and Karl Rove. Rove should be in jail for Spygate and not running around pretending he can define the Reopubalican party. He and john Boehner, John McCain, Mitch McConnell and many other Liberal Repoublicans are wha tis destroying the Party. I have been a Republican for over 50 years and when the Party decided to Run that Loser Romney over a good conservative Republican i said enough is enough. I am a Mormon and I wouldn't vote for him and I guess anyother Mormons didn't either or he would have been elected. We have one Party of Liberals we don't need two of them. We need good strong conseervatives to keep things in balance. Rove you need to go back under that rock where Bush found you and just keep your Fricking mouth shut.
You gotta love it! It's fun to watch the rats in the GOP maze starting to eat each other. The GOP power brokers haven't made very good picks in the last several elections. Rove's magic is gone and he's just in it for the money now. He's a big part of the rancorous nature of our country. He's already misplayed the Judd thing with typical GOP ineptness. What a fool!
As long as Mr. Nasty is around we can expect the GOP party to continue to fail. Rove is a twisted freak. The GOP needs to do alot of soul searching and they also need to stop trying to buy the White House with tainted Texas billionaire money. The GOP is trying desperatly to come up with a new image. You can put makeup on a pig but in the end it's still a pig. It'll be fun to watch the GOP continue to flounder.
Repugnant? While Rove certainly is as stated, the Neuter has no room to talk about repugnant.
What a true clown.
This statement made me laugh so hard, I literally almost hurt myself. I can't even type I just cant stop laughing...
It's comical watching the republican party members fight among themselves, pointing fingers at each other and blaming each other for this past election years loss. They did not re-claim the white house, they still control the house, but lost some seats, and the democrats still control the senate. I read where the different groups within the republican party are having meetings to re-define themselves, which means they will be saying the same thing, just trying to put a new coating on it to try to make it look more appealing. Unless they make some positive steps to include women, blacks, latinos and gays, instead of just at election time, they will find themselves losing even more elections.
What did the jackass say to the mule? You're an @ss too.
GOP: "We will tell you who you can marry; how you must be born and die (without helping at all with your living between those two events); and now, finally, we will tell you who to vote for. Mission accomplished!"
The Jesus-pimping party is fighting over which billionaire money changers are going to fund their 'Temple' to conservatism.
When does the base of the GOP really start to die-off demographically so that we are not forced to deal with their incessant ignorance and BS any longer?