Newt Gingrich Illustrates What Is Wrong With The GOP
November 4, 2009 · carl · Print This Article
Yestrday’s races for Governor in New Jersey and Virginia are being hailed by many conservatives as foretelling what the Democrats will be facing in the 2010 Congressional elections.
And to an extent, that’s a safe assumption.
Republican Chris Christie defeated incumbent Governor Jon Corzine in heavily Democratic New Jersey in spite of, or perhaps due to, five campaign appearances by President Obama.
This is the first time in 12 years that a Republican has won a statewide race in New Jersey.
In Virginia, the victory of Bob McDonnell is being hailed as a repudiation of President Obama, who last year become the first Democrat in 44 years to carry Virginia in a Presidential race.
However, before the Republican party powers-that-be dislocate a shoulder by patting themselves on the back, they have a major issue to deal with, as is illustrated in this video:
At one time, I had a great deal of respect for Newt Gingrich.
That is no longer the case.
Gingrich exemplfies exactly what is wrong with the GOP.
Take note that in the video, his smug dismissal of the views of true conservatives such as Sarah Palin and Tim Pawlenty, and his support for Dede Scozzafava.
Scozzafava’s strongest challenger, before she dropped out out the race and threw her support to Bill Owens, cost the people of New York’s 23rd Congressional District the opportunity to be represented by a man who actually holds conservative values, Doug Hoffman.
Gingrich’s support for Scozzafava just proves that the Republican Party spent nearly a million dollars to support the campaign of a candidate who could be a poster child for the term RINO.
You would think that a light bulb would have gone off over someone’s head at the RNC when Scozzafava received endorsements, either directly or behind the scenes, from Planned Parenthood, left-wing bloggers, the Working Families Party and ACORN, just to name a few.
Yet the GOP and one of their biggest stars, Gingrich, threw their unquestioning support behind this woman simply because she has an “R” after her name.
Despite Newt’s babbling in the video, the GOP supported a candidate that holds far-left socialist views as extreme as any Democrat you would care to name.
Simply because she was registered as a Republican.
Therein lies the lesson that the Republican Party needs to learn right now.
If they fail to do so, not only will the 2010 elections prove to be a bloodbath for conservaties, it will just strengthen Obama’s chances for 2012.
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Amen, brother!! If Newt and the rest don’t wake up, they’ll find themselves “left” to cry in their milk. The message was very clear to the rest of us, we’re “right”, and we’re not alone. Let them call us “astroturf” now!! I expect the Dems to go all out, spending money as fast as Congress, who has been spending like a drunken sailor, to try and buy our votes. Will it work? Not this time!! And if the Republican candidates are as far toward the center, or “left”, as Dede, they will also be “left” behind. We’re mad, and we aren’t going to take it anymore! WE are the major taxpayers here, and WE want representation. WE want a government that thinks like WE do, acts like WE do, and works as hard as WE do, not some bunch of lazy, do nothings that doesn’t serve but themselves first, and expect US to pay for it.