Newt Gingrich has formally jumped in as a candidate for President in 2012. But judging by the quote on the front of Newt.org, I’m not sure if he is running against Obama or against Joe Biden to serve as O’s veep:
Newt Wants to Win the Future
May 11, 2011
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Scozzafava Endorses Democrat Bill Owens in NY 23
November 1, 2009Word is traveling around the web that Dede Scozzafava (the former Republican in the NY 23 race) has endorsed the Democrat, Bill Owens, in NY 23. Let me allow that sentence to sink in before I go any further.
When I was involved in the GOP, I was constantly reprimanded for voicing opposition to RINO/Liberal Republicans. The very reason I was vocal in my disdain of those types of Republicans was because of the very thing that Dede Scozzafava is doing. When she didn’t get her way, she went to the left. Not the right.
I hope people like Newt Gingrich are enjoying the fact that they elevated a terrible candidate onto a national platform where she could assist the left and harm the right. I wonder if Newt is considering endorsing Owens as well, since he trusts her judgment?
Erick Erickson from Redstate has it right on who else deserves blame here:
The Republican Party spent $900,000.00 to help her and this is how she repays them.
And Pete Sessions, Chairman of the NRCC, and Guy Harrison, Executive Director of the NRCC, still have their jobs and are failing to take responsibility for this disaster, instead blaming conservatives.
Will Sessions and Harrison still have jobs tomorrow? Most likely. But they better start expecting some hot hot heat from us as we will constantly be reminding them of their sheer and utter failures.
Check out The Other Mcain, he has the scoop on Dede’s endorsement.
UPDATE at 3:25 pm: I am curious about Newt’s official position in NY. So I tweeted to him to see if he will clear the air. I’m awaiting his response:
From @AdamBitely: @newtgingrich, will you be endorsing Bill Owens in #ny23. I would like to get your new position on the record
UPDATE at 3:30 pm: Upon inspecting Newt’s twitter feed, he seems to be supporting Hoffman, but that could have changed if he thought that Dede would be as well. His tweet that I am making this assumption on is comical. Newt says:
Scozzafava dropping out leaves hoffman as only anti-tax anti-pelosi vote in ny 23 Every voter opposed to tax increases support doug hoffman
Newt, Hoffman was the only anti-tax and anti-Pelosi candidate in the race to begin with. Thanks for coming late to the game.
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Gingrich: Support for Hoffman a “Purge”
October 27, 2009Newt, it’s time for you to go.
From the Hill.com:
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) late Monday had some choice words for Republicans supporting Conservative Party party candidate Doug Hoffman (N.Y.), accusing them of conducting a “purge” of the GOP.
Many national Republican figures, such as Gov. Tim Pawlenty (R-Minn.) and ex-Gov. Sarah Palin (R-Alaska), have backed Hoffman over GOP candidate Dede Scozzafava in the 23rd district’s special election this year. The district has been long-held by Republicans, but many conservatives have shied away from Scozzafava for her socially liberal positions and the local GOP’s selection process that they say was not transparent.
Gingrich broke the mold and backed Scozzafava, saying her candidacy gave the Republicans the best shot of regaining a congressional majority. The former Speaker faced a push-back from the right after his announcement but he upped the ante on Monday.
“This idea that we’re suddenly going to establish litmus tests and all across the country we’re going to purge the party of anybody who doesn’t agree with us 100 percent; that guarantees Obama’s reelection, that guarantees Pelosi as Speaker-for-life,” he told Fox News last night.
Gingrich called Scozzafava a “liberal Republican” for her support of gay marriage and abortion rights. But he defended those positions as in-step with her district and her predecessor, former Rep. John McHugh (R-N.Y.), who was tapped to be President Barack Obama’s Army Secretary.
The funny thing is, Gingrich announces she is a “liberal Republican.” So, as the “principled conservative leader”, why do you support her? This is typical hackery, or to borrow a term from Quin Hillyer, Newt has been Beltwayed.
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Newt Gingrich Choking
October 26, 2009The latest polls in the NY 23 race show Doug Hoffman leading the other two candidates (Dede Scozzafava-R and Bill Owens-D). Hoffman is the Conservative Party candidate.
Newt Gingrich endorsed Dede Scozzafava, the liberal Republican candidate in the race. Looking ridiculous as Newt usually does, he is still defending his support of Sozzafava even after her campaign looks doomed.
Quin Hillyer from the American Spectator writes:
IF this latest poll is accurate, showing Hoffman now leading the three-way race in New York’s special congresional election, then Newt Gingrich, Pete Sessions, John Boehner, and all the party hacks, including the NRCC staff who reportedly helped talk the local New Yorkers into endorsing Dede Scozzafava, will be eating so much rancid crow that they are bound to cough and choke and splutter. And they will deserve every bit of it. And this is before news of Scozzafava’s latest ethical questions had any real chance to permeate the consciousness of voters. Frankly, Newt Gingrich should be ashamed. He has been Beltwayed. (Continue reading)
But Newt continues to walk towards the cliff in a Politico article from earlier today:
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich is warning conservative activists that their support for a third-party candidate in a key upcoming New York special election is a “mistake.”
In a video captured last week and posted on YouTube Friday, Gingrich told tea party organizer Lisa Miller at a book-signing event that conservatives are inadvertently hindering the cause by backing Conservative Party nominee Doug Hoffman over Dede Scozzafava, the Republican Party’s nominee.
“I just think it is a mistake for the conservative movement to think splitting in the special election is a smart idea,” Gingrich said. “If we give that seat to the Democrats, shame on us.”
A number of top national conservative voices have endorsed Hoffman in the last week, while others have yet to weigh in on behalf of either candidate. Gingrich, however, is one of the few prominent conservatives to support Scozzafava.
Asked why he chose to back Scozzafava, who supports abortion rights, same sex marriage and has ties with local labor leaders, Gingrich responded, “Let’s just start with she is the nominee of the local party. My bias is to be for the nominee of the local party, and I don’t second guess the local party.”
There you have it folks. If you think that Newt Gingrich stands on principle, then you clearly have your eyes shut and ears covered.
I guess Newt has been out of power so long that he forgot how to read polls. This election is in Hoffman’s court and Scozzafava is in dead last according to the most recent poll.
(H/T American Spectator, Club for Growth and Politico)
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If You Follow Newt Gingrich, The Joke is on You
October 25, 2009Newt Gingrich is one of the greatest con men of our time. From campaigning for Dede Scozzafava in NY 23, to hinting at a Presidential run in 2012, Newt has somehow maintained to keep a following as a “conservative leader” after flip-flopping worse than Mitt Romney ever dared doing.
Why is that people still follow Newt? I have no idea. I just hope they don’t expect “conservative leadership” from this guy if he is ever given power again. I doubt that I have to worry about him winning anything though.
Here is the latest on Gingrich’s 2012 plans:
“Callista and I are going to think about this in February 2011. And we are going to reach out to all of our friends around the country,” he said on C-SPAN’s “Washington Journal” this morning. “We’ll decide, if there’s a requirement as citizens that we run, I suspect we probably will. And if there’s not a requirement, if other people have filled the vacuum, I suspect we won’t.”
Many political observers have tabbed former House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) as a presidential hopeful in past election cycles. Critics say that the leader of the 1994 Republican Revolution will not run because of his tumultuous personal life; he has been married three times and engaged in an extramarital affair during Bill Clinton’s impeachment.
(H/T TheHill.com)
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