Newt Gingrich Joe Scarborough Destroys Newt Gingrich’s ‘Conservative Principles’

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Joe Scarborough Destroys Newt Gingrich’s ‘Conservative Principles’

Scarborough went on to list Gingrich’s support for the unfunded $7 trillion Medicare D program, “amnesty for illegals,” and mandatory health insurance (with an assist from Mark Halperin). He ticked off Gingrich’s ties to Freddie Mac, his anti-global warming commercial with Nancy Pelosi, and finished with a two-fer, saying that Gingrich “flip-flops more than Mitt Romney. Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney should have a contest. I’m so dizzy.”

Joe Scarborough Destroys Newt Gingrich’s ‘Conservative Principles’

 

[bluesc]

MSNBC should add to Mika Brzezinski's contract that she can no longer SHOUT OVER PEOPLE WHEN THEY ARE SPEAKING.

I'm pretty sure Joe supports Ron.

 

[LibertyEagle]

Good find. Thanks.

 

[milo10]

This is bigger than you think.

Joe Scarborough's whole personal story is that he was one of the people who helped bring some fiscal sanity to the Federal Govt with his position in Congress back in the 1990s. Joe is fiscally conservative, but very bipartisan and open-minded to other viewpoints, and that goes with the whole theme of his show.

A lot of people have a vague notion of Newt as one of the people who was also instrumental in that process, a man who could work with both parties and get things accomplished. Many still believe that a strong Republican congress, represented by Newt, made Clinton's presidency a relative success in financial and budgetary terms. I didn't follow party politics much in the 1990s, and until recently I thought that Newt was a Reagan-style conservative, as that is how he was originally sold by the general media back then.

Joe Scarborough ripping him a new one clears up that history well. Great news.

 

[georgiaboy]

chuckle. TARP support would've sealed it.

 

[JohnnyRocko]

Oh you need to watch the clip on MSNBC that is title "Newt is unmoored ideologically". Scarborough comes out and says the choice between Ron Paul, Newt, and Romney when endorsing Small govt. conservatism is easy. He does caveat it with some reservations on Paul's foreign policy but a pretty solid endorsement.

 

[Keith and stuff]

Thanks for posting the link.

The whole top of this New Hampshire blog website just got covered with that link

http://www.freestateblogs.net/

 

[MJU1983]

Lots of Newt craziness here as well: http://news.yahoo.com/blogs/ticket/...lements-campaigning-yahoo-news-152936251.html

 

[Suzu]

I'm pretty sure Joe supports Ron.

Perhaps. But I doubt his overlords would keep him in that job if he said so on air.

No, I think he's the start of the "Huntsman push" that we have to expect before the voting begins.

 

[freefromchains]

Joe likes Ron. Respects Ron. He said in the same show that he has reservations on some of Ron's foreign policy stuff, but would support him over Gingrich and Romney.

But he is a Huntsman supporter full and through. If I had to say how he'd rank the candidates in the GOP race I think it would be Huntsman at 1, Paul at 2, then he doesn't like anybody else.

 

[asurfaholic]

Grinch is going to fall, thankfully. But even if they push Huntsman, I really don't see a bunch of people getting on board with him - he is too dry or something. He lacks the oomph that the other inflated/deflated candidates had.

In any case, I do hope that they start pushing huntsman soon, because I see the media persuasion as something only soft voters are swayed by, and so it would only steal from newt, cain, and possibly Romney. Dilute the field further, he may get 10%, but I doubt he goes higher than that.