ThinkProgress’ Jeff Spross has put together a video that claims the GOP is full of racist. According to an article from former Rep. Tom Perriello (D-VA), president of Center for American Progress Action Fund, “this Republican primary season has seen a normalizing of racist and racially-coded language.” He especially calls out candidate Newt Gingrich for calling President Obama the greatest food stamp president. Apparently this is one of those “dog whistle” terms we keep hearing about on MSNBC. Their claim is the Republican candidates are talking in code, and only a few know what they are saying. The race card has been overplayed for the last few years, and no one is listening anymore. They have completely devalued the term “racism” to have practically no meaning at all. I guess that is why they are reaching for “racially coded language,” something only they can determine is racism. I am sure now, that I am a racist for not buying their new coded language. This is all political coming from the left, and has nothing at all to do with race.
Bob Dole, a former Senator and Presidential candidate, has come out for Mitt Romney with an open letter to conservatives. Dole starts with Newt Gingrich saying, “I have not been critical of Newt Gingrich but it is now time to take a stand before it is too late. If Gingrich is the nominee it will have an adverse impact on Republican candidates running for county, state, and federal offices. Hardly anyone who served with Newt in Congress has endorsed him and that fact speaks for itself. He was a one-man-band who rarely took advice. It was his way or the highway.” “In 1997 a number of House members wanted to throw him out as Speaker,” Dole wrote. “But he hung on until after the 1998 elections when the writing was on the wall. His mounting ethics problems caused him to resign in early 1999. I know whereof I speak as I helped establish a line of credit of $150,000 to help Newt pay off the fine for his ethics violations. In the end, he paid the fine with money from other sources.” Dole also relied on his experience with Gingrich in his letter saying, “In my run for the presidency in 1996 the Democrats greeted me with a number of negative TV ads and in every one of them Newt was in the ad. He was very unpopular and I am not only certain that this did not help me, but that it also cost House seats that year. Newt would show up at the campaign headquarters with an empty ice-bucket in his hand—that was a symbol of some sort for him—and I never did know what he was doing or why he was doing it.” Dole sums it up by endorsing Romney claiming, “in my opionion if we want to avoid an Obama landslide in November, Republicans should nominate Governor Romney as our standard bearer.”
Here is the entire CNN GOP debate from Jacksonville, Florida from the University of North Florida, 1/26/2012. This was the last debate in Florida before the election on Tuesday, 1/31/2012.
Newt Gingrich was at an outdoor event today in Orlando today speaking about Mitt Romney’s recent attacks on Gingrich’s conservative credentials. “This is the man who stood up the other night and questioned my credentials as a ‘Reaganite’? This is the kind of gall they have to think we are so stupid, and we are so timid,” Newt Gingrich. “We need a solid conservative who can stand there, and look straight in the eyes of the President and say, ‘Mr President, you are wrong, and your policies have failed,” Gingrich told the cheering crowd. “If you are for paychecks, you are with us. If you are for food stamps, you are with Barack Obama. If you are for American Exceptionalism, you are with us. If you are for European socialism and Saul Alinski radicalism, you are with Barack Obama.” Gingrich had a message for Romney saying, “we aren’t that stupid, and you aren’t that clever.”
Michele Bachmann delivered a response to President Obama’s State Of the Union address for the Tea Party. She seems more relaxed since dropping out of the race and gives a good response. Bachmann offered a Tea Party rebuttal that blasted the administration on spending, taxes, and health care while offering ideas based on Tea Party principles. A Tea Party Express and Tea Party HD Exclusive Directed and Produced by Tony Loiacono. CNN was the only network to carry this speech live.
MSNBC host Rachel Maddow then rips CNN for airing this. People in glass houses shouldn’t throw stones. Maddow didn’t have the time to speak to the facts Representative Bachmann offered. Instead, she spent the time castigating CNN for airing the speech and recognizing the Tea Party as legit.
Herman Cain delivered the Tea Party’s State Of The Union address 1/24/2012. Cain says that we did not hear the “facts” from President Obama’s State of the Union speech, and he is here to deliver them.
Mitt Romney has a new ad out that plays on Nancy Pelosi’s recent statements about having some damning information on Newt Gingrich. According to the ad, “Nancy Pelosi served on the committee that found Newt Gingrich guilty of ethic violations. 88% of all Republicans voted against Newt Gingrich. Gingrich paid $300,000. A year later he resigned in disgrace. Now Pelosi, says she will leak information, so secret she made her husband leave the bedroom, so she could discuss it privately on the phone. Information so damaging, it would help Obama win. Newt Gingrich, we can’t afford the risk.”
Restore Our Future, the Super PAC supporting Mitt Romney, has an ad airing in Florida that knocks down any claims Newt Gingrich has made to working with President Reagan in the 80′s. The ad says, “From debates you’d think Newt Gingrich was Ronald Reagan’s Vice President. Gingrich exaggerates, dropping Reagan’s name 50 times. But in his diaries, Ronald Reagan mentions Newt Gingrich only once. Reagan criticized Gingrich saying Newt’s ideas would “cripple our defense program”. Reagan rejected Newt’s ideas. On leadership and character, Newt Gingrich is no Ronald Reagan.” You can learn more at Newt Facts.
Nancy Reagan gave a speech to the 1995 Goldwater Institute Dinner honoring President Ronald Reagan, and gave kudos to then Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich. Mrs. Reagan told the audience, “They believed that government should simply get out of the way. Ronnie and Barry fought for those principles, which, today, have been overwhelmingly embraced,” Reagan said. “So they must have done something right. Just take a look at the extraordinary men and women who make up the 104th Congress and of course its distinguished speaker, Newt Gingrich. The dramatic movement of 1995 is an outgrowth of a much earlier crusade that goes back half a century. Barry Goldwater handed the torch to Ronnie, and, in turn, Ronnie turned that torch over to Newt and the Republican members of Congress to keep that dream alive.”
Newt Gingrich spoke before a crowd of about 4000 people yesterday in Sarasota, Florida. Gingrich explained the difference between him and President Obama. He often invoked President Reagan in this speech. Gingrich told the crowd, “the goal is, an executive order will be signed on the first day. That, by the time President Obama lands in Chicago, we will have dismantled about 40% of his administration.”
