Gingrich Called Reagan Weak, Pathetically Incompetent and Compared Him to Neville Chamberlain
The best examples come from a famous floor statement Gingrich made on March 21, 1986. This was right in the middle of the fight over funding for the Nicaraguan contras; the money had been cut off by Congress in 1985, though Reagan got $100 million for this cause in 1986. Here is Gingrich: “Measured against the scale and momentum of the Soviet empire’s challenge, the Reagan administration has failed, is failing, and without a dramatic change in strategy will continue to fail. . . . President Reagan is clearly failing.” Why? This was due partly to “his administration’s weak policies, which are inadequate and will ultimately fail”; partly to CIA, State, and Defense, which “have no strategies to defeat the empire.” But of course “the burden of this failure frankly must be placed first on President Reagan.” Our efforts against the Communists in the Third World were “pathetically incompetent,” so those anti-Communist members of Congress who questioned the $100 million Reagan sought for the Nicaraguan “contra” rebels “are fundamentally right.”
And the best part:
Such was Gingrich’s faith in President Reagan that in 1985, he called Reagan’s meeting with Soviet leader Mikhail Gorbachev “the most dangerous summit for the West since Adolf Hitler met with Neville Chamberlain in 1938 in Munich.”
Classic.
This is especially rich since Newt has been invoking St. Ronald of California more than any other GOP candidate.
Please, please, please let the Teabircher racist fascist psycho nut jobs nominate Newt.
He can take the entire Teabircher crowd of brownshirt imbeciles down with him.
Completely clearing the air of the 2010 GOP Teabircher brain fart America suffered.
If I were a psychopath, I would join the republican party, and get in on the gravy train taking the Teabircher morons to the cleaners.
Well Neville Chamberlain was a Conservative.
Blasphemy!
Not St. Ronnie?
How dare he!
Millions of conservatives from around the world are appalled, appalled I tell you, and sick, sick- that someone would insult the religious icon and symbol of crony capitalism and corporate fascism, and above all else - freedom; St. Ronnie of Raygun.
Because a true conservative knows, the three are intertwined.
If I were a psychopath, I would join the republican party, and get in on the gravy train taking the Teabircher morons to the cleaners.
If going through wives faster than Tiffany's credit lines or ethics violations doesn't get Republicans to drop Newt, blasphemy against the Patron Saint of Trickle Down just might do it.
Hopefully humanity will one day learn to be humane.
The correct term is piddle-down.
in a primary or caucus. I take Michigan on February 28th
kinda Super Tuesday is on Tuesday, March 6, 2012 - only 10 States that day.
Full Primary/Caucus Calendar(minus the ones that are over)
January 31, 2012 Florida (primary)
February 4, 2012 Nevada (caucus)
February 4–11, 2012 Maine (caucus)
February 7, 2012 Colorado (caucus)
Minnesota (caucus)
Missouri (primary) – *See note below on Missouri
February 28, 2012 Arizona (primary)
Michigan (primary)
March 3, 2012 Washington (caucus)
March 6, 2012
(Super Tuesday) Alaska (caucus)
Georgia (primary)
Idaho (caucus)
Massachusetts (primary)
North Dakota (caucus)
Ohio (primary)
Oklahoma (primary)
Tennessee (primary)
Vermont (primary)
Virginia (primary)
March 6-10, 2012 Wyoming (caucus)
March 10, 2012 Kansas (caucus)
U.S. Virgin Islands (caucus)
March 13, 2012 Alabama (primary)
Hawaii (caucus)
Mississippi (primary)
March 17, 2012 Missouri (GOP caucus) – *See note below on Missouri
March 18, 2012 Puerto Rico (primary)
March 20, 2012 Illinois (primary)
March 24, 2012 Louisiana (primary)
April 3, 2012 District of Columbia (primary)
Maryland (primary)
Wisconsin (primary)
Texas (primary)
April 24, 2012 Connecticut (primary)
Delaware (primary)
New York (primary)
Pennsylvania (primary)
Rhode Island (primary)
May 8, 2012 Indiana (primary)
North Carolina (primary)
West Virginia (primary)
May 15, 2012 Nebraska (primary)
Oregon (primary)
May 22, 2012 Arkansas (primary)
Kentucky (primary)
June 5, 2012 California (primary)
Montana (primary)
New Jersey (primary)
New Mexico (primary)
South Dakota (primary)
June 26, 2012 Utah (primary)
*Missouri: Missouri will hold a primary on February 7th, 2012, which will not count for delegates toward the 2012 GOP convention. The Missouri Republican Party will hold a caucus on March 17th, 2012, which will determine the delegates sent to the 2012 GOP convention
Wall Street is just a parasite on the actual labor and investments of average Americans.
Banks play with futures, debt paper, complex financial instruments, and other peoples incomes.
Sell 'em short & help 'em crash - Tear 'em apart & sell the pieces
not the polls.
Newtron can't go another 6 more weeks before he implodes.
Wall Street is just a parasite on the actual labor and investments of average Americans.
Banks play with futures, debt paper, complex financial instruments, and other peoples incomes.
Sell 'em short & help 'em crash - Tear 'em apart & sell the pieces
Somehow fitting that it would involve Virgin Islands...
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
monopoly money though....
that way I can buy some hotels... lol
Wall Street is just a parasite on the actual labor and investments of average Americans.
Banks play with futures, debt paper, complex financial instruments, and other peoples incomes.
Sell 'em short & help 'em crash - Tear 'em apart & sell the pieces
And I know a few laidys....
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
Rejoice if you will in this squabble and giggle at fresh evidence of Newt's hypocrisy (as if any more is needed), but ask yourself why this story is being featured on the Drudge Report, the sleaziest and most widely read of the puppet GOP web-rags.
Why is it aimed squarely at the mass of Teapublicans, Newt's base, whose love for Reagan is unquestioned?
Could it be that the Republican Establishment (in other words, Limbaugh/Ailes/Rove/the WSJ editorial board/the Koch twins) - who know neither Romney or Newt stands much of a chance against Obama - has decided to prepare the ground for the late entry into the race of Mitch Daniels or Chris Christie, both of whom have credibility among conservatives as fiscal Reaganites?
You might,(shudder), have something there..............instead of two stinking piles of excrement to choose from,(excluding Gift From God santorum), here's two shiny "new" turds...........take your pick.
The first casualty of republicanism is the truth.
Party politics are not only undemocratic, they are antidemocratic.
will get the last word.
Janek
… and apocalyptic urgency even back in the 80's. Some things never change.
Oops Newt! You must go to worship at the shrine of St. Ronald and do penance. The GOP is nuts! Newt is a megalomaniac and is evil.
and they call newt 'the smart one.' That's not saying much, for sure.
me-oww!
I feel bad for the Crooks and Liars writer that has to look at the Drudge Report.
i hope they wear eye protection
This can't be good for Newtie. Although that mob seems only to focus on the good and disregard anything bad.
Wait a sec... hmmm... I'll stop now before I put my foot in it. (wink wink) >.<
far left loon >.<
Liquor sales in the DC area ave QUINTUPLED EXPONENTIALLY....
what with Democrats consuming truckloads of CHAMPAGNE in celebration....
and Republicans guzzling OCEANS of hard liquor in suicidal DESPAIR.
well, at least newt is speaking from authority here
no matter who ends up with the GOP nod, they are going to have more holes than a slice of swiss cheeze..... and speaking of cheese, tonight should be a hoot.... the newtron is going to go off. you know a newtron bomb blows up whole towns kills all the people but leaves the buildings standing..... just like the GOP.
"what ever it is, I'm against it. & even if you change it or condense it, I'm against it!".... marx
What you have to remember id ron reagan was one of the biggest senile stooges in the history of the presidentcy Name One thing he did to help AMERICA
{OAK}TIGER
He died.
"Parachutes are allowed in checked or carry-on baggage, but may not be worn in flight."
---Southwest Airlines
Ooooh!
That was cold dude.
Then again, I can't quit laughing.
The truth sure is funny sometimes - ain't it?
If I were a psychopath, I would join the republican party, and get in on the gravy train taking the Teabircher morons to the cleaners.
http://thinkprogress.org/politics/2011/02/05/...
{OAK}TIGER
Ooooh...a real heretic isn't he? I'm really, really going enjoy the presidential debates.
I don't believe in God. Teach a man to be a good citizen and you have solved the problem of life.
-Andrew Carnegie
our first virtual president, one would like to think the president's before him were still nominally in charge, but they probably weren't. i know it's bash newt time, but something should be said about reagan's criminality. president's before ronnie at least used the cia to do the dirty work, when congress passed the boland amendment reagan hired outside thugs to skirt and subvert the law, that newt gingrinch thinks reagan wasn't hard core enough is scary as hell. i don't believe this guy will get the nomination, but just the fact that a man who was tossed out of office for ethics gets a hearing from the pukes shows how low the party of lincoln has sunk.
When it was finall announced that Reagan had Alzheimer's disease, my reaction was, "It took them this long to notice?"
I actually agree with Newt on something!!!
Gingrich Called Reagan Weak, Pathetically Incompetent and Compared Him to Neville Chamberlain
Gingrich manages to shoot himself in the foot by both criticizing Saint Ronnie, and being factually wrong.
If questioned on his old remarks, I wonder what his defense would be? Would he argue that it was Afghanistan and the hard work of Bush 1 that brought down the evil empire?
What an astounding pompous ass he is.
during Obama administration.
“Why would anyone with a functioning brain believe this guy?”
Some guy with an eating disorder
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