I Am Endorsing Doug Hoffman

Updated 11/1 - The race has evolved into a contest between a conservative and a pro-Pelosi, tax increase, big government liberal Democrat.

This is both a tribute to the power of the national conservative movement to define an issue and a commentary on the populist anger against politics-as-usual.

The New York GOP has now had two troubled special elections and it is clear they should go to a primary nominating system so everyone will feel it was fair and open.

The age of party leaders picking people is over.

Scozzafava did the right thing in dropping out. I am, however, deeply disappointed that she has chosen to back Owens over Hoffman.

I am endorsing Doug Hoffman and believe everyone who wants to create jobs with lower taxes and to control spending and deficits should vote for Doug Hoffman Tuesday.

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By Anonymous @ Friday, November 20, 2009 3:32 PM

For sometime I've been disappointed by the Republican Party leadership
and what appears to be an effort to retreat from the conservative
principles epitomized by Ronald Reagan.

You carry some considerable weight in the modern Republican movement
based on your reign as Speaker of the House and the so called "Contract
with America" in 1994 that resulted in a landslide victory for the
Republican Party. But over the intervening years the Republican party
has drifted left and now vacillates between Moderate and Democrat light.
I cite your recent endorsement of Ms Scozzafava as the Republican
nominee to represent the 23rd district of NY.

You were not alone. John Boehner, Michael Steele and others, including
some Democrats, joined you.

The results of that election should have rocked all Republicans who
endorsed her back on their heels. Conservative Doug Hoffman might have
won, came very close to doing so. Scozzafava dropped out and promptly
endorsed Bill Owens. And this is the woman, the "Republican" you'd have
representing us in Washington? How does a man in your position not
recognize this as a dreadful mistake and what does this do to your
American Solutions movement in particular and the Republican Party in
general?

So much for the judgment of the senior Republican leadership in
selecting the candidate "most likely to win," a Democrat with an (R)
next to her name as if having the (R) was more important than what this
liberal women stood for which by all accounts was the antithesis of
Republican/Conservative values and perhaps the most egregious mistake of
expecting that the voters in the 23rd district of NY were too stupid to
see past the (R).

Do you sir or your staff look at the polls and not see that this country
leans a lot further Right than Left?

If we, Republicans, Conservatives and Libertarians are to ever regain
control of the Congress and stop this relentless, headlong rush to
increase the size and scope of Government and get back to fiscal
conservatism, reducing the size of Government, the reestablishment of
the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence as the guiding
governing principles, strengthening our military, controlling our
borders, enforcement of our immigration laws, reducing taxation,
balancing the budget, drawing down our enormous debt burden, real
entitlement reform, eliminating government waste, ending the Wars
against "terror," identifing the most significant threat to world peace,
Political Islam, accept and identify Saudi Arabia as the main source of
funding directed towards the spread and eventual dominance of Islam all
over the world, including in the U.S., redirect our war effort
accordingly, honor our commitments with respect to missile defense,
reestablish our commitment to Israel, cripple Irans nuclear program,
accept and unashamedly magnify our role as the world's fiercest
adversary and most powerful economic engine on the planet, etc., etc.,
etc.; a large order and getting larger everyday.

Our country is now in the hands of people who are intent on
"transforming America" into a second rate, socialistic society,
eventually governed by a global community that might forgive us for all
the "evils" we've committed if we become sufficiently apologetic and
submissive; the apologists inexplicably ashamed of our past position of
military and economic dominance that has been responsible for so much
that is considered progress and freedom in the modern world.

Are you in this fight sir for the rebirth of America? If not please get
out of the way and make room for some folks who are dedicated and ready
to take the gloves off.

I'm stuck between the proverbial rock and a hard place. I don't want a
third party but neither do I feel compelled to financially support a
party that is so out of touch with what in my view are the bedrock
principles that have, from the beginning, defined this nation. What do
you suggest, sir?

By Anonymous @ Friday, November 20, 2009 1:35 PM

Speaker Gingrich,
I admired you years ago when you were a bulldog for the Conservative movement. But in recent years, you have become 'soft' and dare I say it...'moderate'. In other words, you are a member of the Republican Leadership establishment and elite. This does not bode well for your 2012 presidential ambitions. If Republicans wish to gaurantee failure in 2012, all they have to do is have another 'moderate' to 'liberal' Republican as their candidate. I believe with all sincerity that had McCain not been the candidate, the Rs would have won the election.

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By Anonymous @ Sunday, November 15, 2009 4:11 PM

Newt, your time is over. It is now time for a real conservative to fill the void.

Get behind Sarah Palin, get behind her fast and be unwavering in your support and she (and the American people) might have use for you.

Other than that, your time has come and gone.

By Anonymous @ Friday, November 13, 2009 6:42 AM

Newt, where to begin?

You are for stealing our money with your Global Warming BS (go to climate audit.com for the science on how this is a fraud).

You hang out with hate filled racist who make a living peddling resentment and have made race baiting comments yourself to anyone who does not share your twisted political goals.

You brought us the marketing gimmick and pork party known as "Contract with America" that acutall GREW the programs it was supposed to CUT BY MORE THAN 13%!!!

Gingrich, you are a lying, scumbag, opportunist and snake oil salesman in the same mold as Preacher Hucksterbee.

And I mean that in the most personal way, from the bottom of my heart.

You have done incalculable damage to conservatives and the Republicrat party.

So, how about just sitting on the couch with your freaky friends and let the adults take over now you P.O.S.

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By Anonymous @ Tuesday, November 10, 2009 8:09 PM

Well, better late than never Mr Gingrich. Actually, it would have been better for you to support someone who truly personified conservative ideals from the get go rather than the person who believed mostly in liberal ideas with a dash of conservatism thrown in for show. If you had, we wouldnt have another liberal in the form of Owens in New York right now.

I am deeply disappointed in your partisanship, as a Reagan republican myself i know full well that the principle is more important than the party. Having blind loyalty to the party is something the left is infamous for, it has no place among true conservatives.

I think you should rent the original "Miracle on 34th street" and pay especial attention to the part where Kris Kringle refers Macy's customers to Gimble,s despite the fact that they carry the same products. The reaction he received from the consumers was one of shock, followed by relief...relief that there are people in the world who dont just advise others to shop at their store, but rather at the store with the better product.

You would do well to remember that, Mr Gingrich.

By zlegatoz @ Monday, November 09, 2009 1:30 AM

There are a lot of Reagan fans here.

Ronald Reagan used to have a saying he called "The Eleventh Commandment."

"Thou shalt not speak ill of any fellow Republican."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Eleventh_Commandment_(Ronald_Reagan)
http://www.ronaldreagan.com/campaign.html

Did he hold this view because he was sacrificing his principles? Or was it that he shrewdly understood that to do so only serves the purposes of the other party?

The White House is making huge hey out of this whole thing. But they can only do so if two pieces of the puzzle are filled:

1. Part of this is that Newt laid the ground work by taking a position you weren't going to like. He owns a good share of this.

2. The biggest part is that you all play right into their hands; angry at Newt, defining him as the problem, and dividing the party.

I'm not just channeling my own opinion here. This is my hero and yours. If we're
going to espouse Reagan, and then completely ignore one of the things he says was a key to his success, we're gonna lose. And we deserve to.

By zlegatoz @ Sunday, November 08, 2009 9:13 PM

There are alot of Reagan fans here.

Ronald Reagan used to have a saying he called "The Eleventh Commandment."

"Thou shalt not speak ill of any fellow Republican."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Eleventh_Commandment_(Ronald_Reagan)
http://www.ronaldreagan.com/campaign.html

Did he hold this view because he was sacrificing his principles? Or was it that he shrewdly understood that to do so only serves the purposes of the other party?

The White House is making huge hey out of this whole thing. But they can only do so if two pieces of the puzzle are filled:

1. Part of this is that Newt laid the ground work by taking a position you weren't going to like. He owns a good share of this.

2. The biggest part is that you all play right into their hands; angry at Newt, defining him as the problem, and dividing the party.

I'm not just channeling my own opinion here. This is my hero and yours. If we're going to espouse and Reagan, and then completely ignore one of the things he says was a key to his success, we're gonna lose. And we deserve to.

By zlegatoz @ Sunday, November 08, 2009 4:43 PM

I was disappointed that Newt blew this. I have also felt that the majority of posts on this thread have been irrational temper tantrums.

I would like to "tip my hat" to:

"November 06, 2009 5:56 PM"
&
"November 06, 2009 3:57 PM"

for their well-spoken and principled arguments agains what Newt did here.

As for the rest of you: "Take a lesson."

By Anonymous @ Saturday, November 07, 2009 5:24 PM

http://newt.org/tabid/193/articleType/ArticleView/articleId/4641/Reagan-and-the-Berlin-Wall.aspx

By Anonymous @ Friday, November 06, 2009 5:56 PM

Newt,
Everyone just wants to hear you say that you were wrong to abandon the conservatives. I am conservative and i feel totally betrayed. You used to be my #1 choice for president in 2012, but now you are looking like McCain all over again. Do us all a favor and either apologise or don't run for president.

By Anonymous @ Friday, November 06, 2009 3:57 PM

Newt,
I hope you look at the volume and intensity of complaints here and take a long hard look at your beliefs.

You have wonderful ideas, mostly based on reason and principle. However, I believe you have too little faith in the nation's ability to understand the principles behind a particular policy. This leads you to want to "play politics".

I have to believe your position on global warming is insincere and based on politics. I have to believe your endorsement of Scozzafava is based on politics. I have to believe your over-the-top appeal to Spanish speaking Americans is based on politics.

These politics have severely damaged your credibility with the conservative movement.

Your best chance at remediation is to first evaluate why you hold stances anathema to the conservative movement which otherwise agrees with you precisely on principle. Second, if you agree that you've been wrong, state that publicly - probably with a book. Thirdly, begin to support only those ideas that agree with your principles regardless of the percieved chance of success.

I hope you come around.

Jeremy Thompson

By Anonymous @ Friday, November 06, 2009 6:59 AM

NEWT GRINGRICH: My #1 choice for Pres in 2012 until you made the CATASTROPHE mistake of backing SCOZZZAFAVA. On 11/1 you stated that you were supporting HOOFMAN. What happened? Your action of endorsing a controversial GOP canidate, one that displayed, more liberal tendencies than the DEM canidate. The DEM won out by only 4%. If you had supported HOOFMAN as you presviously stated, he most likely would have won out by the number of GOP swing voters. I beleive that Hoofman would have been good for the GOP. Up until this action, I beleived that NEWT was for the AMERICAN PEOPLE and if that coincided with the GOP then fine. This present action indicates to me that it is party politics as usually even from Newt. I am looking forward to your admitting your mistake on either Hannity or O'Rielly or whatever so that I can continue to support Newt for 2012 or begin my support for my second choice.
David Ridings
Searcy, Arkansas

By Anonymous @ Thursday, November 05, 2009 10:08 PM

Yep Newt, prostitutes wear suits and ties and have their own websites.......

By Anonymous @ Thursday, November 05, 2009 5:44 PM

Go away Newt. You are a RINO. You make face time with Nasty Pelosi and you back a loser in New York because you are spineless. Then you spin it at the last minute. We are tired of grabbing our ankles for people with too many skeletons in their closet and too many years among the Beltway crowd.

By Anonymous @ Thursday, November 05, 2009 10:30 AM

Dear Newt,
I heard your explanation on Hannity yesterday about why you endorsed Scozzafava. While you may feel it was an overall good political move to try to get “another republican” elected – I feel you were WAY off base here!

She is/was not a Republican, and probably would not have voted with a Republican majority given the chance. As a supporter of partial-birth abortion, card-check union schemes and massive government spending programs, she was less Republican than John McCain.

Even Markos Moulitsas of Daily Kos called Scozzafava the most liberal candidate in the race -- which may explain why she was the choice of George Soros' Working Families Party and why she promptly endorsed the Democrat after withdrawing from the race last weekend.

If your concern was for another “Republican” vote in congress that could have resulted in a “Republican” as Speaker, then Hoffman would have been MUCH more likely as a real conservative to have voted with “Republicans”.

You have made a huge political blunder! While you may have sincerely thought an endorsement for Scozzafava was good for the “Republican” party, you were wrong. And because you did endorse her, I will no longer consider you a person I would vote for for President.

I like most of your positions, with the exception of crazy “Global Warming” hysteria. But the fact that you endorsed this woman who has ZERO conservative principles – just lets me know that you are really a political operative who votes not for principle but for political expediency.

You have lost my support and vote.

Don’t feed the RINO’s!!

Rob S.
Fayetteville, AR

By Anonymous @ Thursday, November 05, 2009 5:31 AM

Newt: Where have you gone, man?
The spirit and ideas that led to 1994??

Lead, follow, or get out of the way!

You, Graham, and many others who were so great in taking back the Republic are now in our way, either get on board or get out of our way. You have lost your creditability to lead!

Sadly, Paul

By Anonymous @ Thursday, November 05, 2009 1:14 AM

Newt,

Just caught your sales pitch and interview on Hannity and was once again disgusted with you.

You don't get it. We are sick of Republicrats and Demicans alike and you represent both and all the corrupt pols on both sides.

Keep peddling your pathetic Newt products but stay out of national politics for the good of the country.

You and Bill Clinton deserve much of the blame for the mess we are in today.

Those of us that know the details of the Contract with America and what was really accomplished regard that as an opportunistic joke also.

The reason R's did so well was the reaction to your spiritual twin, Bubba Clinton.

Get a dose of reality dude.

Don't care if you go away mad, just go away for the good of the country.

And thanks for the midnight basketball...big help, great stuff.

By Anonymous @ Wednesday, November 04, 2009 11:56 PM

I was in the car and heard your take on NY 23. I don't think you still understand the movement that is taking place in America. This is not about democrats or republicans. This is about the American way. There is no free lunch here. The tea parties are about hard work and bearing the fruits of ones labor. I have been paying into Medicare for over 30 years. Now the government is going to give the same benefits to somebody that never paid. That is the redistribution of regular Americans money. It is time to stop the freebies. You know there is an element of our society that just takes. They have stopped parenting their children they have stopped educating themselves and their children. They just want more and more from the government. They have no idea this is the worst kind of socialism. The tide is turning and it has nothing to do with democrats or republicans. It is bringing back the ideals that make is country great. Freedom from tyranny, freedom to follow the Constitution. Please stop trying to make this blue vs. red. We need leadership like Reagan and Kennedy, Jefferson and Lincoln, Washington and Adams.

By Anonymous @ Wednesday, November 04, 2009 11:02 PM

The author of the previous comment is
Michael Spence
Collierville, TN

And I will never hide behind my beliefs.

By Anonymous @ Wednesday, November 04, 2009 10:59 PM

Mr. Gingrich,
I hope the comments on this Blog will open your eyes as well as those of the RNC leadership to the power behind Tuesday's political earthquake in VA, NJ, and NY and the Tea Party movement as a whole in America.

It is not stand for nothing milquetoast 'Big Tent' moderate realpolitik Rockefeller Republicanism that is driving this revolt.

Rather, the power behind this movement is bedrock "Conservatism" - the rock solid belief held by the majority of people in this country that Gov't that governs best governs least, and its corollary that says the Gov't that governs best governs "closest" to the people not from some unaccountable Czars in Washington DC.

That is truly how the "Republican" form of Gov't is defined. The Gov't in power today is not "marginally" wrong - as many RINOs would have you believe. Rather this Gov't - and Liberalism in general - is blatantly and openly destroying our free market system, debasing our currency and corrupting family values with its grotesque "everything is acceptable" form forms of morality. The Dems and their liberal Republican brethren are a bunch of scam artists and if you and your RINO friends can't see that now then you will never have the kind of influence you had with Conservatives again.

By Anonymous @ Wednesday, November 04, 2009 10:12 PM

The only way you can ever redeem yourself or be relevant again is to STRONGLY ENCOURGE AND ENDORSE SARAH PALIN FOR PRESIDENT IN 2012!!!!!! ALSO THIS POST WAS NOT ANNONYMOUS!!! MY NAME IS JAMES POPULO AND I AM PROUD TO HAVE THE WORLD KNOW MY OPINION!!!!

By Anonymous @ Wednesday, November 04, 2009 10:11 PM

By Anonymous @ Wednesday, November 04, 2009 10:07 PM

The only way you can ever redeem yourself or be relevant again is to STRONGLY ENCOURGE AND ENDORSE SARAH PALIN FOR PRESIDENT IN 2012!!!!!!

By rczinki @ Wednesday, November 04, 2009 9:33 PM

Sorry Newt your answer puts party first and principles second. You don't get and it showed tonight on Hannity.

By Anonymous @ Wednesday, November 04, 2009 7:26 PM

You have angered many conservatives.You have lost your credibility to represent conservative values..You need to ttake some time away from expressing an idwas.

By Anonymous @ Wednesday, November 04, 2009 6:27 PM

Too late, you revealed you are more loyal to the party than to true conservatism. Game over, forget about running for pres.

By Anonymous @ Wednesday, November 04, 2009 6:08 PM

You and the Republican Party are fools!
As a contributor to the RNC, I want the money back from that Liberal Pig!

By Anonymous @ Wednesday, November 04, 2009 4:59 PM

DON'T EXPECT PEOPLE TO BUY YOUR BS ON HANNITY TONIGHT. NOBODY WILL BELIEVE YOU. YOU'RE DONE. YOU'RE FINISHED! YOU'VE SEALED YOUR FATE.

By Anonymous @ Wednesday, November 04, 2009 4:17 PM

You’ve been a loser in my mind since you joined Pelosi on the park bench to preach to us about the nonsense of global warming, but the way you misjudged the NYCD23 race is beyond the pale. You and the GOP endorsing/supporting a liberal instead of a real conservative is simply an example of choosing Party over principle and Conservative like me are sick to death of your nonsense. You are not the smartest man in the room and don’t know what is best – you, Newt, are an elitist like so many in the GOP.

I haven't given a dime to any cause with your name linked to it since you sat on that park bench with Nancy Pelosi and preached to us that we needed to "reach across the aisle". You see a profit in that nonsense and will sell your soul and sell us taxpayers out at the same time.

After Obama was elected, you scolded us that we needed to moderate and "give him a chance" -- gosh, does anyone remember the Dems giving Pres. Bush a chance? You finally filled in the picture for us; that you are nothing more than one of the many elites in the Republican Party who know what's best – and your idea of what's best is moving the party to the left -- go along to get along mentality (who was it that said the era of Reagan is over?). Let's see, who else supports moving to the left? Amnesty Graham, Maverick McCain (who is no maverick at all) Peggy Noonan, Gov. Strudel in CA, Charlie Crist, Colin Powell, Bill Kristol who pouted when conservatives in the Republican Party voiced their dissatisfaction with McCain as the candidate last election, -- there are too many of you and it’s time for you to either get in touch with reality or shut up and sit down.

I won't support any Republican whose claim to fame is "reaching across the aisle" -- I'm fed up with Republicans compromising conservative principles to work with Democrats. Norm Coleman bragged about that over and over again – a RINO through and through. He ended up losing to Al Franken, a complete idiot, here in MN – voters would rather have a complete dope than an insincere moderate pile of mush.

Democrats don't brag about reaching across the aisle; they play hard ball and if Republicans can't stand the heat of standing on conservative principle, they best stay home. Instead of cow towing to the polls, maybe Republicans should be educating voters on the issues and conservative principles and why those principles will make their lives better and ensure their freedoms and their children’s freedoms as guaranteed under our Constitution – anyone remember that old thing?

The Era of Reagan is NOT over; the Era of Reagan was not about the man, but rather about the conservative principles the man believed in and supported in his policies. The same conservative principles reflected in the Republican platform that RINOs can't stand by these days for fear of being seen as "too conservative." What is "too conservative" anyway? Newt maybe has an answer to that.

You have been so wrong on so many fronts, Newt – you are no longer the smartest man in the room and conservatives like me are tired of your games. Take your marbles and go home.

By Anonymous @ Wednesday, November 04, 2009 3:56 PM

Newt:

Great work, my friend. Thank you for agreeing to meet with me following the Global Warming TV spot we did together. Everything is going as planned. Glad to have you on the team.

--Nancy

By Anonymous @ Wednesday, November 04, 2009 3:44 PM

This is just the latest act of a long, long play.

To all of you who are now willing to dump Newt, congrats and welcome to the party.

Many of us knew what was up the first time we saw the global warming ads.

If you got taken by Newt and now feel stupid, learn from the experience. Conservatives are principled, not opportunistic. Most of you out there, conservatives, would never support a pro-choice crypto-socialist no matter what their party monkier. Why? Because you are honest and have standards.

Now, you can see quite plainly that Newt does not have your standards, your principles. He's a fraud.

BTW, he's not only a fraud as a conservative, he's apparently a fraud as a newly-minted Catholic, too. Or, at least, he (like Hannity) has chosen to be very "nuanced" in his Catholicism instead of...wait for it...conservative.

Done with Newt? I've been done with him for a long time. Onto the same heap with Buckleys, the Bushes, and McCain he goes.

By Anonymous @ Wednesday, November 04, 2009 2:36 PM

To the 1:42 post, what "good" has Newt done since his self-proclaimed great strategy and credit taking of 1994? BTW: writing books doesn't count.

By Anonymous @ Wednesday, November 04, 2009 2:30 PM

Yea! Don't forget about all his appearances on t.v. (Hannity his buddy), and radio to promote himself, his books, and ideas. He is nothing but a D.C. insider who happens to live in GA. Maybe him and Obama have alot more in common than we thought = narcissitic?

By Anonymous @ Wednesday, November 04, 2009 2:26 PM

Who keeps knighting Newt as "intellectual"? Everyone acts as if he's the one we have to cling to for our next marching orders. We need to lose this Newtmania! He is nothing but a fool. The guy can disappear for a year with another writer, and re-write everything he's been studying about the great G. Washington for a book, then show back up to select a liberal "R" and still arrogantly claim he was right and it was the people were wrong. Give me a freakin break. All Newt is concerned with is taking care of Newt...look at his website, books, gingrich productions, online store......how foolish we are to continue supporting this "intellect" that can't match that with his own actions.

By Anonymous @ Wednesday, November 04, 2009 2:19 PM

I agree with the previous few posts, and would like to add; The fact that we have to evaluate whether someone who calls himself a conservative as to whether he has done more good than bad is enough reason for me to say it's time to move on. There are millions of conservative leaders out there waiting to be discovered, they just haven't had the luxury that Newt has to use a platform from Reagan to garner a name. Newt is a has been.

By Anonymous @ Wednesday, November 04, 2009 2:14 PM

So now we have bloggers willing to accept Newt once again? Intellect = Conservative. I guess now we have to grow the tent to include those who are worthy to be called "intellectual" regardless of their actions in the past? My 10 year old can make a liberal reporter look like a fool. Should I have him be the new "R" elitist?

By Anonymous @ Wednesday, November 04, 2009 2:10 PM

To the poster that claims we should give Newt a break and that he made a mistake! Are you kidding me? Equating someones intellect as a reason to keep them onboard is nonsense. I'd rather have one who stands on principle over one who's always making calculated decisions... and in this case he & the RNC truly affected the race that resulted in the defeat of a conservative. How do we continually support someone who helped defeat conservatism in an election? A line has been drawn in the sand and Newt has crossed it based on what is deemed his "intellect".

By Anonymous @ Wednesday, November 04, 2009 2:05 PM

Somehow I think that Newt and the RNC are celebrating the results of NY 23 today! They affected the race by not supporting the conservative running, and running ads against him up until scozzzz dropped out. They didn't want Hoffman to win - it would ruin their "R" party status. So Newt got his way in the end my allowing a "moderate" Dem to get elected. A message has been sent to the "R" elitist...an unknown conservative accountant 30 days ago became a National statement for the true conservatives in the country. He would have won if only the party that calls itself the "conservative" would have supported him and not have allowed scozzz to still be on the ballot and still taking 5% of the votes. What a shameful political game Newt and Steele has engaged in.

By Anonymous @ Wednesday, November 04, 2009 1:42 PM

Newt made a mistake as we all do occasionally, He's done far more good for our party than bad and we should give him another chance. His intellectual might alone justifies the second chance, have you ever watched him own a liberal reporter.....haha

By Anonymous @ Wednesday, November 04, 2009 1:27 PM

Imagine what Hoffman could have done with the RNCC's $900,000.

Thanks for NOTHING, Newt!

By Anonymous @ Wednesday, November 04, 2009 12:40 PM

Many of us conservative / patriot [Independents] are thoroughly disgusted with you, Newt.

Some of us thought that you might be a viable pres. candidate in 2012. Now, you have shown your true back stabbing colors, by supporting an extremist lib who masked her candidacy, by running as a GOP candidate -- and, in the process, you cast asperson upon Palin, by referring to her as an "Outsider."

Now, you are an "Outsider!" Do all of us a favor and minimize your exposure on Fox to Zero [0]!

You have betrayed conservative / patriotic values. Shame on you!

By aggiemomcpa @ Wednesday, November 04, 2009 12:34 PM

Do not confuse r(h)inos with pachyderms!

By Anonymous @ Wednesday, November 04, 2009 12:23 PM

I have supported you through thick and thin. You really screwed up NY 23. Go see Sarah for therapy. I will no longer support you.

By zlegatoz @ Wednesday, November 04, 2009 12:07 PM

Just to say up front, I'm going to post why Newt was wrong here and why I think the vast majority of posters here are wrong as well.

I'm surprised Newt would go into this without absolutely knowing who he was dealing with. He really screwed this up. It was a tactical error that I would have guessed was beneath Newt. I know he saw this as an opportunity to build the big tent, and now he wishes he had never weighed in at all.

Now here is why I think most of you are dead wrong . . .

For a moment, try to adopt the perception of the average (and very common) casual voter. This person is probably a center-right kind of cat. Like most Americans, they want politics and policy to make sense. They are wary of things that smell ideological because their past experience tells them that it is fraught with peril.

The majority we seek is going to be FILLED with this kind of voter. This voter probably agrees with most of what a Hoffman type candidate proposes, but is not going to vote for a Hoffman. They will ask "what's goin on with Hoffman that he can't simply run as a Republican? Hoffman is a third-party candidate. I'd rather vote for the familiar Republican."

Regardless of what's actually going on, to the casual voter the NY 23 situation smells ideological. The other choices seem safer. Let's not assume that casual right-leaning voters are going to understand a Hoffman groundswell candidacy.

Many of you here are invoking Reagan as a means of describing Newt's error. The irony is that the voter I just described LOVED Reagan. He was a mainstream cat whose conservatism was so well-articulated that this "casual right-leaning" voter was drawn to him in droves. If Reagan hadn't been so adept in attracting this mainstream voter, his margins would have been much slimmer.

The next conservative landslide is not going to occur because of ideological superiority. It is going to be because the right mainstream conservative candidate was adept enough to attract this casual (and very common) voter. This candidate is also going to be smart enough to realize that denouncing every soul who isn't "pure" enough is not the way to win a majority. A "big tent" does not mean compromising principles. It means recognizing that the real threat is an out of control government.

If you are prepared to ignore the sheer intellectual power Newt brings to the table; if you are prepred to call him a RINO and throw those like him under the bus, then prepare to basque in the glory of your superior minority.

By Anonymous @ Wednesday, November 04, 2009 11:05 AM

Newt - you have really shown yourself to be a complete imbecile on this one. How can any of us ever respect you again? I suggest you try to explain yourself and give us all a huge apology!

By Anonymous @ Wednesday, November 04, 2009 10:39 AM

Newt,
we no longer support you or the Republican party.

You've lost our respect.
How could you back a pro-abortion, tax & spend liberal ?

We're leaving the Republican party and supporting the most Conservative candidate who shares our values and will properly represent us in Washington.

Shame on you, you do not speak for us - so stop !!

By Anonymous @ Wednesday, November 04, 2009 9:40 AM

To be blunt, you have no guts, no balls and no brains. You are just a fool who is now not worth a damn.

By Anonymous @ Wednesday, November 04, 2009 9:31 AM

Darn it Newt. You backed the WRONG PERSON AGAIN! If you had backed the Democrat, you could have had a chance for some more positive SELF-PROMOTION. Nothing wrong with a little reaching out as long as it promotes all things Newt. You could have had a book signing at Bill Owens' campaign headquarters. Sorry about that Newt...

By Anonymous @ Wednesday, November 04, 2009 9:15 AM

I've defended you for 15 years but you lost me with your idiotic, go-along-to-get-along endorsement of leftist Scozzafava. Your tag line "Real Change Requires Real Change" is exactly right, and real change means moving on, belatedly I now feel, from supporting YOU.

By Anonymous @ Wednesday, November 04, 2009 9:14 AM

Newt, you are a disgrace as an American. You are nothing more than an establishment shill. You are morally and intellectually vacuous. You are a professional politician who puts party before principal and will sell out the Constitution to further your own agenda. Please, just leave.

By Anonymous @ Wednesday, November 04, 2009 9:06 AM

Forget you Newt. Your just like the rest of them. You should call yourselves the RINO party. See ya !

By Anonymous @ Wednesday, November 04, 2009 9:05 AM

Well I hope you're happy now. The conservative lost to the democrat your candidate endorsed. Without your efforts, perhaps this wouldn't have happened.

By Anonymous @ Wednesday, November 04, 2009 9:01 AM

Newt, now that the election is over will you admit you wrong in terms of what the Republicans want in a candidate for office. You need to get out of the old guard backroom politics of the party if you want to be relevant again (where is the man who brought about the "REPUBLICAN CONTRACT WITH AMERICA"). Why are you afraid to stand up now - are you really just a disgraced "polotician" who is trying for another 15 minutes of fame no matter what it costs the country.\?

By Anonymous @ Wednesday, November 04, 2009 4:14 AM

You have been conspicuously quiet Newt. It was bad enough that "your" Republican candidate was a Dem in drag but then when she threw her support to the Dem, it was all over. Guess she thought the tent was TOO big. How about the liberals (who in doublespeak are called "Moderates") bend to us instead of the other way? You are through now Newt-get used to it.

By Anonymous @ Wednesday, November 04, 2009 3:20 AM

Newt, you threw your support behind a woman who was as big a RINO as they come, when from the very beginning you should have thrown your support behind Hoffman. You are a sell-out. In the end, you were a day late and a dollar short in your support for Hoffman.

You put party before principles. That's what Democrats do.

Get out of the Republicans Party and take your elitist, Washington DC insider buddies with you.

By Anonymous @ Wednesday, November 04, 2009 2:45 AM

Newt,
this is a post that I sent to Mr. Hoffman to thank him for his support for seeing what a mistake the GOP and you made against the people that supported both of you, I hope that you and the GOP do the same.

Dear Mr. Hoffman,
I want to thank you for stepping up and supporting the Conservative people, when the GOP wasn’t. I know, along with the millions of others, that you were working against the odds in a short period of time. The GOP, I hope has learned a valuable lesson in supporting a candidate that is against our core values. You, Mr. Hoffman met our values and I'm very proud of you and my support of you. You are a true Patriot of the people and I will always remember what you and your family have sacrificed for us...
God bless you and your family and we are forever grateful.

By Anonymous @ Wednesday, November 04, 2009 2:37 AM

Wow, Newt tells you all you need to include people with some disagreements if you want to rebuild the GOP, you blast him, he turns out to be right, the Democrats win because the district rejects your narrow-minded extremist approach, and you still blast him. Seriously, Newt, the GOP has been taken over by simple-minded extremists led by demagogues and neophytes. How else do you explain the fact that an intellectual bantamweight like Sarah Palin is considered a front-runner for the 2012 GOP nomination, and someone with your brilliance and broad-mindedness is written off? The GOP is being taken over by the tea bag morons, and the tent is going to get a lot smaller and a lot stupider. Take the initiative. It's time for a real 3rd way! Say no to liberalism, and no to tea-baggers, and establish a credible force in politics!

By Anonymous @ Wednesday, November 04, 2009 2:29 AM

You backed the Republican Party Steele and the local hacks who have driven the party to state-wide defeat in New York and stated that because they are local, they local pols knew better than "outsiders". You're as much of a Republican as Dede S., Snowe of Vermont, Specter of Penna, and Colon Powell. Your performance just killed you like McCain voting for the first bailout killed him for president.

Stay on TV and get out of politics. You are through.

By Anonymous @ Wednesday, November 04, 2009 2:17 AM

Newt,
Please don’t gloat about Hoffman losing because we won in stopping the most liberal GOP candidate from winning. Hoffman only had 30 days to get his message out in support of the conservative movement that we have been protesting for nearly 9 months for our core principles. Now is the time for the GOP to regroup and listen to the people that have been supporting with our hard earned money. If you don’t listen, we will no longer support the GOP, but will send our money directly to the candidate of our choice. The GOP has let the people down in a major way that might not be recoverable to support you. You also need to send an apology to us but to Mr. Hoffman, who tried to correct your mistake. I want to personally thank Mr. Hoffman for his valiant support to correct your mistake.

By Anonymous @ Wednesday, November 04, 2009 1:33 AM

Why did you ever support the GOP-Dem to begin with? If the GOP tent were fill with nothing but high-taxing, high-spending socialists, would that be okay, since the GOP "needs" to have a big tent? How about an alternative to the socialists? How about limited government and allowing taxpayers to retain what's in their wallets?

By Anonymous @ Wednesday, November 04, 2009 1:27 AM

You dope! Thanks a lot Newt!

By Anonymous @ Wednesday, November 04, 2009 1:22 AM

A day late and a dollar short. Too bad that endorsement didn't come earlier. Unfortunately your early push for liberal Republican candidate probably contributed to Hoffman's loss. A shame to say the least.

By Anonymous @ Wednesday, November 04, 2009 12:03 AM

Thanks a lot, Newt.

Take Scozzafava, Boehner, Steele, and all your RINO friends with you and GET OUT.

By Anonymous @ Tuesday, November 03, 2009 11:12 PM

Wow, I was going to put in my 2 cents worth to scold Newt and let him know how disappointed I am in his endorsement of a liberal extreme left candidate just because she is a Republican but I see I am just like Newt a bit late. Good job fellow conservatives.
Newt you may change but you have lost my respect and shown you will abandon any real conservative principles in the name of party politics or maybe when the wind blows the other way politically. that is the problem who knows and no one can depend on your doing the right thing now.

By Anonymous @ Tuesday, November 03, 2009 10:22 PM

To support a person soley on political party grounds instead of the principles involved shows that you are not a critical thinker and are simply a political idealog after all.

It is a shame but as John Adams once said, if anything tears down this democracy it will be partisan politics.

Try to remember when you are enspousing conservative principles .... it is the values expressed not the party affliation.

You screwed up and lost a good share of your personal support by your choice to endorse party over principles.

By Anonymous @ Tuesday, November 03, 2009 9:59 PM

Newt,
Wow, I think people are really upset that you endorsed Scozzafava. I like you and hope that you will eventually find something you are good at. Promoting Conservatism just doesnt seem to be your "thing". Best of luck.

By Anonymous @ Tuesday, November 03, 2009 9:54 PM

I have a hard time understanding what you did supporting a big government anti working class liberal! With all your rhetoric over the last 2 years, particularly on FOX NEWS, I thought you were standing for the independence of the average American. I looked at you as a different kind of politician! A history professor in between all the laywers, someone that knew what history is always teaching us - big government DOES NOT WORK! I cannot believe that I offered to go door to door for you back when.... I understand that anyone can make an HONEST mistake, this is not one like that ! This one was done deliberately just to get votes for "THE PARTY", not one for the American people. Considering that you know this country's people are right of center makes brings up the question:" Where is your loyalty - really??? I believed in you Newt, so did my kids and you let us down! I suspect this is ends any possibility of you running for office again, that is unless you run your campaign in the liberal camp and and get a hold of Soros's money. That might work for you, it did for a Kenyan that ran based on his skin color and not his loyalties which should have been to the American people. You did a lot of damage Newt, a lot of damage...

By Anonymous @ Tuesday, November 03, 2009 9:32 PM

Mr. Gingrich & Mr Steele - will you please refund the $1,000,000 you paid Dede to endorse a Democrat? The New Republican Party, under the leadership of Pailn & Thompson, will put those funds to good use.

By Anonymous @ Tuesday, November 03, 2009 7:28 PM

Just wanted to remind all the lesser intelects here of how much smarter I am than you, and how much I love illegal aliens. Long live the State!

Dave_A

By Anonymous @ Tuesday, November 03, 2009 6:35 PM

I remember you in the Reagan Years, I listened and agreed to your statements on democracy, conservatism and "VALUES" I am a former & forever Marine... Your original stance on Hoffmann was and is a stain on you, one which will cloud my views of what is "Sincerely" within your soul- I was once told you are just a politician and I disagreed- you make it very hard for me to now do so...

By Anonymous @ Tuesday, November 03, 2009 6:05 PM

I once believed you represented conservatives and conservatism.

As you have rudely disabused me of that notion, I no longer care what you think.

I will not support you and I will never again give a dime to the Republican party.

I will support conservatives directly. You can take a hike.

By Anonymous @ Tuesday, November 03, 2009 6:04 PM

By Anonymous @ Tuesday, November 03, 2009 5:52 PM

Endorsing Hoffman after it is obvious your RINO will lose is just the kind of leadership the Dems are looking for. Good luck to you sir.

By Anonymous @ Tuesday, November 03, 2009 5:29 PM

Okay you guys, calm down. It's been 2 days of this silliness, let's save some of that spirit for the real threat to our nation and it isn't Newt. He made a bad call and we all expected better from him because he's been so darned politically astute in the past. He's a thoughtful person and I'm confident we got our message through.

Go vote.

By Anonymous @ Tuesday, November 03, 2009 5:10 PM

Maybe after socalism sweeps the elections today we can start putting conservatives and gold owning ron paul supporters into reeducation camps. As the command specalist major of the army and the smartest person alive I will be happy to fire up my A-10 and make it happen......

Dave_A

By Anonymous @ Tuesday, November 03, 2009 4:39 PM

Mr. Gingrich,
Just what do YOU Stand for??? Selling Books?? Making Speeches for Hire???? Realpolitik???

I would like to know what your driving principles are these days that would cause you to have miscalculated so badly the Conservative response to the race in NY.

Where are your allegiances these days??

By Anonymous @ Tuesday, November 03, 2009 4:37 PM

Just wanted to check in to remind everyone how smart I am and to express my wish that big government will prevail. Also its time to not only give amnesty to illegals, but to start sending checks to every third world peasant in the western hemisphere. Long live the State and national socalism!

Dave_A

By Anonymous @ Tuesday, November 03, 2009 4:14 PM

Newt, you did well in 1994. But, your time is up.

Could you please leave the GOP? Please take Lindsay Graham and McCain with you.

It is time for conservatives to stand up. 40% of the nation is conservative and yet you spew this idiocy.

By Anonymous @ Tuesday, November 03, 2009 4:07 PM

Newt, you were a fool for trying to foist a RINO on us (or as some wit dubbed her, a "DIABLO" -- Dem in all but label only"). Us little folk are sick and tired of "more of the same". The Republicans porked out for the last fifteen years, instead of keeping to the commitment that the Contract with America was supposed to represent. The peasants are now revolting. On your head be it. I look forward to Hoffman's win, and even though I am an atheist, I will cheerfully support the religious wackos of the Constitution Party over yet more backroom deals, bailouts, bribery, blackmail, and bullsh*t.

By Anonymous @ Tuesday, November 03, 2009 3:54 PM

Please do the right thing! Forget running for any office, support true conservatism! Stay out of site! Let the true leaders that do not seek to befriend and suck up to the left lead this party! When you continue to go on conservative media you are asking those that have given you air time to not be taken as serious. Dont wreck the party for your personal gain. Conservatism wants to win or lose based on the merits. We do not need another Dole, Mc Cain or any other moderate. Join Jumpin Jim or Sen. Spector, they team up with democrats as well.

By Anonymous @ Tuesday, November 03, 2009 3:53 PM

Mr. Gingrich,
It is high time that you do the GOP a huge favor big guy.
Resign any notion of you being a Republican, or in actuallity a conservative.
You disgust me.

By Anonymous @ Tuesday, November 03, 2009 3:23 PM

http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/11/02/new.york.23/index.html

"Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich, who had pointed to the Scozzafava backlash this week to caution against a "purge" of party moderates, formally switched his endorsement from her to Hoffman. But the architect of the "Republican Revolution" warned that the Conservative candidate's ability to drive the official Republican pick from the race could mean tough times to come for the GOP. Conservatives protest Biden appearance in New York

"This makes life more complicated from the standpoint of this: If we get into a cycle where every time one side loses, they run a third-party candidate, we'll make [House Speaker Nancy] Pelosi speaker for life and guarantee [President] Obama's re-election," Gingrich told the New York Times hours after Scozzafava's exit. "I think we are going to get into a very difficult environment around the country if suddenly conservative leaders decide they are going to anoint people without regard to local primaries and local choices.""

No more RINOs, Newt. Better to lose with a true social conservative than to put up a RINO against a Liberal/Leftist.

NO to abortion. NO to gay marriage. If a RINO doesn't like it, then let them show their true colors and let them join the liberal Democrats.

By Anonymous @ Tuesday, November 03, 2009 2:48 PM

reading through the comments, I came across one that was mildly approving of Newt's very late endorsement of Hoffman. It was written by an anonymous poster and I wonder if that poster was actually Newt Gingrich himself. Maybe you can write another book about another personal disgrace.

By Anonymous @ Tuesday, November 03, 2009 2:33 PM

You Newtered the GOP - shame on you!

Will you please go now - and take Reynolds, Steele, Graham, Snowe, Collins, Alexander, McCain, and all the other RINO's with you.

By Anonymous @ Tuesday, November 03, 2009 2:15 PM

shame on you Mr. Gingrich! You should have endorsed Hoffman to begin with. You declare that you are a Conservative and you endorse a Liberal? I thought highly of you prior to this. Now I truly believe that you are a party man through and through. You people still haven't learned anything concerning what is going on across the country. We want conservative nominees. If the GOP won't get rid of the liberals in their party, then a third party may be forced to emerge. You people better change or you will never win the presidency. I will no longer vote for the "lesser of two evils." You should not have chosen PARTY over PRINCIPALS! You may just have blown your chance at a Presidential run.

By Anonymous @ Tuesday, November 03, 2009 2:11 PM

In my opinion, the reality is that the GOP establishment considered plans in terms of their power and while considering what to do. The grassroots considered the plans in terms of "We the people's" power and beat the establishment (whose perspective was ill-fated).

We can have a growth in our democracy based on the Constitution powered by freedom and ingenuity of the American people. I agree with a commenter on PJMedia who said "NY-23 is not “magic.” No special circumstances obtain there. It’s just an example of the alterations to political dynamics caused by the new modes of communication available to us....And so NY-23 will happen again…and again…and again, until the power-brokers of the Republican Party learn who’s now subservient to whom in the national political discourse."

By Anonymous @ Tuesday, November 03, 2009 2:03 PM

Your presidential ambitions in 2012 are toast. The cheating on the sick wife, and photos with Nancy the Marxist Pelosi to support Al Gore's cap and trade disaster were bad enough, but you have all the core principles of Bill Clinton.

You probably would have taken a pay cut to be POTUS anyway. "Stop the Energy Tax" link. That is a howler, after snuggling with Nacy Pelotox to support an energy tax.

By Anonymous @ Tuesday, November 03, 2009 2:00 PM

I was once a Newt supporter. However, Ron Paul has correctly outlined the problems and the solutions and votes according to the Constitution. He is adamantly against the healthcare bill. He has authored h.r.1207 to Audit the Fed. It has over 290 cosponsors in the house. If we don't control the money and reduce spending, inflation will be the least of our worries.

By Anonymous @ Tuesday, November 03, 2009 1:45 PM

Newt,
Too little too late. You can't now switch from Dede to Hoffman and take any credit for getting behind a true conservative. I personally gave money to Hoffman's campaign and I'm all the way out in Seattle. Just goes to show you that all of us conservatives need to get behind individuals and forget the party until they return to their Regan roots. I use to think you had a chance in 2012, but never again will I let you betray my conservatism. Get out of the way and let the new leadership that is coming take charge! 1994 may happen again in 2010, but you had your turn and now need to get out of the way.

By Anonymous @ Tuesday, November 03, 2009 1:41 PM

What were you thinking when you took that money from Frannie Mae (or was it Freddie Mac) ? These folks were buying politicians with taxpayer-backed money .. the perfect storm for corruption.

By Anonymous @ Tuesday, November 03, 2009 1:23 PM

DEAR NEWT: I CAN'T THINK OF A WORD TO DESCRIBE HOW I FELT WHEN I HEARD YOU ENDORSED SCUZZYFUZZY IN THE NEW YORK RACE. HOW IN THE WORLD COULD YOU HAVE DONE THAT, I WOULD REALLY LIKE AN EXPLANATION SINCE SO MANY NEWS OUTLETS PEGGED HER AS A WAY FAR LEFT PERSON FROM THE GIT GO. DOESN'T YOUR STAFF VETTE PEOPLE AND KEEP YOU INFORMED????? CONSERVATISM IS WHAT THIS COUNTRY IS ALL ABOUT, NO PARTY, JUST ASK IF THEY ARE LIBERAL OR CONSERVATIVE, THAT SAYS IT ALL. IN FACT I HAVE BEEN FOLLOWING POLITICS VERY CLOSELY SINCE RETIRING AND FEEL MCCAIN DID NOT WANT TO WIN THE ELECTION AND HE SURE THREW SARAH PALIN UNDER THE BUS FROM THE VERY START. HOW DISGUSTING, I PUT MCCAIN IN THE SAME BUCKET AS GRAHAMNESTY, SPECTOR, FUZZYSCUZZY AND ANY REPUBLICAN WHO SAYS "WE CAN REACH ACROSS THE ISLE" BULL!!!!!!!!!! THAT IS NOT AN OPTION, THE FOUNDERS OF THIS REPUBLIC USED GUNS TO WIN OUR FREEDOM, IT IS A SHAME WE CAN'T APPROACH WASHINGTON WITH A SHOTGUN WITHOUT BEING PUT IN JAIL IN A HEARTBEAT, THESE PEOPLE IN CONTROL OF OUR GOVERNMENT ARE THE ENEMY AND IF YOU CAN'T SEE THAT, YOU BETTER GET A BETTER PAIR OF GLASSES. WE ARE IN THE BATTLE OF THIS COUNTRIES LIFE TO REMAIN FREE AND YOU REALLY BROKE MY HEART WHEN YOU BACKED THIS RINO OVER THE GRASS ROOTS CONSERVATIVE....NO MORE MONEY FROM ME. YOU WILL HAVE TO DO SOME SPLAININ AS THEY SAY IN THE SOUTHLAND.
DAMN HOW COULD YOU DO IT????????????????????????????

By Anonymous @ Tuesday, November 03, 2009 1:11 PM

Too little, too late, Newt. You betrayed conservatism. Because of your endorsement of Scozzafava, I have officially left the GOP and have joined the American Conservative Party. All because of you, Lindsey "Shit-Eating Grin" Graham, and the rest of the GOP leadership. You all suck, and the GOP will NEVER get a single penny from me again.
CAN YOU HEAR ME NOW?

By Anonymous @ Tuesday, November 03, 2009 1:09 PM

I have watched you for many years and was hoping you would run for President in 2012. The fact that you would endorse a Liberal Republican (Dede Scozzafava ) over a conservative requires me to rethink my position. It just proves you and Michael Steele just don't get it.

By Anonymous @ Tuesday, November 03, 2009 12:23 PM

When I heard of your endorsement earlier this week I was deeply disappointed. I personally will not vote or support for anyone who labels themselves with the "R" brand but has values the same as the "D" brand. I was very grateful that Palin and others stood up and made the right choice. If the GOP goes liberal you can count me out.

By Anonymous @ Tuesday, November 03, 2009 12:14 PM

Newt, once you started cavorting with Nancy Pelosi on the couch, I knew you had gone off the deep end.

Please do a principles check and come back when you've got your head on straight.

By Anonymous @ Tuesday, November 03, 2009 11:56 AM

OK Newt;

I saw you support of Scuzzafuzza expressed by YOU on Fox News over the weekend a couple weeks ago. I was rather dismayed when I listened to you expand on this, and NEARLY imply those then supporting Hoffman over the GOP selected "Republican" were being 'traitorous' to the party, or similar.

You owe us an apology sir.

I am CONSERVATIVE first, Republican for convenience. Conservative to the point of being, dare I say, Libertarian - Less Government is BETTER Government!! The R is only a small part of my life.

And Sir, the Scuzzafuzza endorsement of Owens upon her dropping out of the race was a big slap in the face to you, and others, who supported her merely because she was labeled an R candidate.

I'm out here in SoCal, or Left Coast. I was attracted to this NY23 race over media coverage. It took me about 5 minutes to read enough that I knew I would never have voted for/supported Scuzzafuzza - she's a supporter of ObamaCare, Increased Taxes, and much more that goes against my grain.

Whereas Hoffman sounds like he's part of the Tea Party movements. Took me 5 minutes to decide for myself.

And you're going to see much more from Tea Party movements, Sir - you should watch your public spoken words closely - you show yourself not to be Conservative and you could become a Tea Party target yourself.

You really blew it with your Scuzzafuzza support!!!

-Pat

By Anonymous @ Tuesday, November 03, 2009 11:45 AM

I see you have joined the ranks of the flip floppers, Newt. First you bash people like Pawlenty and Palin for supporting Hoffman, now you support him. How about going on national TV and issuing an apology to these two conservatives who obviously have more conviction than you do? And the Republican party wonders why I no longer contribute to them? The Republicans say "Oh, we have to be the party of the big tent!". But the Democrats get away with having their un-apologetic liberal left-wing nuts and somehow they get away with it. Maybe the Republicans need to go figure out how they get to embrace the moderates and the nuts and win elections.

By Anonymous @ Tuesday, November 03, 2009 11:29 AM

You were once MY CONGRESSMAN. Your missguided original endorsement was the worst mistake of your career. Do you see from these responses what has happend to you? I wanted to believe that you just did not know the candidate's stances, but you have waited so long to correct your mistake, that I know that you now agree with her, or worse, have no priniples. I am so ashamed that ever voted for you.

By Anonymous @ Tuesday, November 03, 2009 10:50 AM

Party over values? Might be how we got into this mess.

By Anonymous @ Tuesday, November 03, 2009 10:18 AM

Newt, I signed on to let you know that a Conservative is a Conservative, first; not a Republican, first. I just read other comments, so am assuming you are getting the message. You blew it!

By Anonymous @ Tuesday, November 03, 2009 10:17 AM

Hey Newt,
Why don't you go join your buddy Dede? I'm not surprised she is CAMPAINGING for Owens now. So why did you pick her? Oh yeah, she claimed to be an 'R'. I think people are starting to choose values instead just choosing the 'dem lite' party.

By Anonymous @ Tuesday, November 03, 2009 9:58 AM

I entered the Marine Corps during the G.H.W. Bush administration and was serving when Speaker Newt led the Republican Revolution of 1994. When I left active service two years later, I returned to Atlanta, where I attended Newt's appearances at the Chamber of Commerce breakfasts.

Newt, I have lost all respect for you. Today, my congressional representative, Bob Inglis, and one of my senators, Lindsey Graham, call themselves Republicans but have little concern for conservatism or the principles of the Founders. Both went to Washintgon with you in 1994 as fellow revolutionaries.

I see that you three are still at your revolutionary game. The revolution, however, is simply a far slower and more insidious version of the 1917 revolution.

In fact, I cannot help but notice that, at the top of this, your own web page, that the red, white, and blue of Old Glory have been overlaid with red. The blue field is purple, the color of royalty. The white stripes and white stars are pink in your vision of the flag.

I allowed myself to be fooled into being a Republican since my first vote for George H. W. Bush, but no more. I now identify myself politically as an American who still holds dear the values and principles upon which our founders formed this Union, and I am sad to see that precious few politicians represent that today.

You say that you support one, but only because the liberal whom you supported was smoked out as a enemy of the principles you once claimed to represent. Like the rest of us, you knew who Scazzafava was when you endorsed her, so forgive me if your endorsement means nothing--even if you accidentally endorse the candidate of liberty.

By Anonymous @ Tuesday, November 03, 2009 9:42 AM

This is a perfect example why I, after 40 yrs voting GOP, changed my voter registration to independent. Newt and the rest of the limp wristed GOP can kiss my a##. You will never receive another dime in contributions from me or my family.

By Anonymous @ Tuesday, November 03, 2009 9:27 AM

Yes I agree with your slogan "real change requires real change" I on[y wish you truly meant it along with the rest of the other vested and gutless inside the beltway republican leaders. after your flipflop on canddtates in NY. you have shown your real colors now get out of the way and let some fresh air take over this party before it's to late

By Anonymous @ Tuesday, November 03, 2009 9:19 AM

Oh, how you have changed. I used to respect you, but no longer. You are now a waste of air.

By Anonymous @ Tuesday, November 03, 2009 8:43 AM

It's been obvious for some time that Newt is an opportunist who will go where he thinks the votes are, principles be damned. I mean, climate change? Really? He slipped up and showed his true colors with Scozzafava, take heed and remember when 2012 comes around and send him packing back to RINO land where he comes from.

By Anonymous @ Tuesday, November 03, 2009 7:48 AM

I agree with Derek's thoughtful comments. Regarding your big tent philosophy, even a tent has a boundary. There are many conservatives who choose to be libertarian on social issues, but I can't imagine any conservative turning a blind eye to the tyrannical tactics of unions pushing card check. Read your own website! This was a severe error in judgment from someone I had hoped to vote for in 2012. Upon learning about your recent associations with Pelosi and Al Sharpton, I am quickly losing faith in your ability to be a spokesman for conservative ideals altogether. This breaks my heart, because you are a brilliant and innovative thinker. Please take stock of your recent actions and set things right with your longtime supporters.
-Susanna, Texas

By Anonymous @ Tuesday, November 03, 2009 7:44 AM

I had always thought you would stand strong for our conservitive believes, i am saddened that i am now against you, the republican party has not see yet why it lost and will continue to loose, we don't want to be big spending liberial party we want our party back tume now for you to go too!

By Anonymous @ Tuesday, November 03, 2009 7:09 AM

Newt, you let us down. We were trying to tell you Scozzafava was a Liberal in GOP clothing but you ignored our pleas. Instead you derrided us as unfaithful to the Party. At the end of the day, those of us who were opposed to Dede were being faithful to the Party and what the Party stands for. Are you doing the same? Can't you see that we are fighting day after day to stop the push for bigger government? Why must we be required to fight people within our own party? Sometimes I feel like a foot soldier who's own Generals are against us. Sometimes I feel like I have to cover my own back. SUPPORT YOUR TROOPS NEWT.

By Anonymous @ Tuesday, November 03, 2009 6:59 AM

Newt, I still remember how you cheated us with that 'contract', stage managing things so that the popular amendments could be voted on without risk they'd get the needed two-thirds vote, and end up in the states' hands to ratify. And now you've changed your tune on this race only after your favorite candidate dropped out.

Why does anyone listen to you? It's beyond me.

By Anonymous @ Tuesday, November 03, 2009 6:58 AM

Hey Newt, what were you thinking? Dee Dee, lower-case r, Scozzafava?!?
Actually, you did me a favor. Now that I know what you are REALLY all about I can add your name to a growing list of political has-beens. I'll stay tuned to FOX, but will be working my remote if you show up.
So long Mr. S... - no, I can't bring myself to say it; too respectful.

By Anonymous @ Tuesday, November 03, 2009 6:39 AM

What has happened to the mind of the man who led the conservative Republican revolution when he was Mr. Speaker?
You endorse the liberal and now claim to favor the conservative only after the liberal drops out. Sounds like the words and actions of a R.I.N.O to me.
"Go with the Flow Newt" is how I will refer to you forever.

By Anonymous @ Tuesday, November 03, 2009 6:14 AM

Newt, I've always had such great respect for you as a conservative and a thinker, but I must ask, "What were you thinking when you endorsed Scozzafava?" And you're hurt that she endorsed the socialist, i.e. Democrat? She is only showing her true colors. You stated that a vote for Hoffman was a vote for Pelosi; in fact the opposite is true. Get your head back in the game!!! Thank God, the people rose up and did not allow this to happen. And frankly you should be ashamed of your original endorsement- just "good ole boys" politics as usual. We are sick of it.

By Anonymous @ Tuesday, November 03, 2009 3:22 AM

"I hope Sarah Palin and company wreck the campaign of every RINO out there."

I agree.

Social conservativism must be an enduring priority. That means NO to abortion and NO to gay marriage (among many other things).

McCain's a RINO and the Republican leadership who pushed for him and Romney over Huckabee got the shellacking they deserved in '08.

RINO's are liberal wolves in sheep's clothing.

By Anonymous @ Tuesday, November 03, 2009 2:14 AM

This is the new RNC if you want or need a big tent join the Ringling Bros Barnum & Bailey circus, we need a few conservatives and they need a few clowns.

By Anonymous @ Tuesday, November 03, 2009 2:04 AM

I look at your face and I get disgusted. You cannot be trusted. You are a fair-weather opportunist. A sham. A disgrace. I truly loathe you.

By Anonymous @ Tuesday, November 03, 2009 1:12 AM

Wall Street + Daggett = Corzine Win. Let us see if Newt picked that race right. Could he go 0 and 2 as a political pundit? You didn't pick Deeds did you?

By Anonymous @ Tuesday, November 03, 2009 12:43 AM

What I have found unforgiveable about Newt's behavior is not that he endorsed Scozzafava--though that was a very tough pill to swallow--but that he personally attacked those who disagreed with him and protested, suggesting that they were self-indulgent. No, that's wrong. They had a stronger grasp of reality and more courage. He has yet to apologize to us for his ill-conceived support of an out and out liberal or for his disparaging aspersions. Supporting Hoffman at the last minute is not enough. An apology is in order.

By Anonymous @ Tuesday, November 03, 2009 12:13 AM

Newt,

I have supported you through thick and thin, and I remained quiet the entire time you were endorsing Scozzafava; though it concerned me, and as more time went by and you remained adamant about endorsing her, I did become more and more worried about the direction you were heading... becoming part of the power-sponge that is 'politics as usual'. Covering up one fib with another. Sometimes the best thing you can do is admit a mistake at the very moment it becomes clear it was a mistake. Otherwise, we begin to become suspicious.

I am glad and very thankful you have finally made the right choice. I still support you, Newt. But I'm hoping, pleading with you to show us a sign that you're a CONSERVATIVE. Please, Newt, do it for the people. For the country. For America.

It worries to me even have considered the possibility that you were enveloped by, and your choices controlled by the lobbyists, the less-than-conservative unions, or whomever controls this country right now. Newt Gingrich, you aren't just a "Republican," you're suppose to be about fiscal responsibility, conservative values, less taxes, no bailouts, smaller government, and for liberty! And for failure!!! Failure in corporate America drives innovation, and it has always delivered; that is, until the government starts to train corporate America that they can fail, and that if they do fail but are backed-up by powerful Unions who throw money at politicians, then they will be bailed out. HUH??!!

Obama conned half of the country into voting for him based on the belief that he was a moderate, or centrist, or whatever. But clearly he is not. Clearly HE IS NOT!!!

So many politicians in this country appear to have lost sight of what made this country so great, I just hope you still have your free will to work for the people, by the people; NOT for the big-government, back-stabbing liberal unions, or the big-money lobbyists that have taken over politics in this country. NOT for the pro-bailout thugs, and NOT for the pro-stimulus thieves! And ABSOLUTELY NOT for SOCIALISM!

Americans are beginning to get very angry about the waste, and the reckless direction our politicians are taking this country. Citizens are showing you REAL fear, we're scared for what type of liberty we may lose during the next round of failed businesses that aren't allowed to fail anymore... or the socialized healthScare that will force big-government corruption to control even greater portions of our lives. It's the corruption, Newt. We the people are NOT stupid!!!! Fear is an unpredictable thing, humans are unpredictable; but the cause of this fear, there are so many politicians who are doing something very drastic right now that is creating a lot of it. And it's not a good thing, I guarantee you that.

We may be gullible at times; Obama can thank us later for that one. BUT WE ARE NOT STUPID. The people's sensors have been turned on ultra-high due to Obama, Pelosi, Reid, Dodd, and the rest of the gang's reckless behavior; we can sense a politician lying to us a mile away now. And if we do sense it, we will find out what is causing our sensors to go off. We won't be conned again - due to Congress and Obama forcing the American people to bailout THE UNIONS and many companies that by all means should have failed years ago. Since when did the government of the United States of America start choosing who fails, and who survives??! NEVER! That's when. Until Obama. Until Bush messed up by throwing Wall Street a no-strings-attached $700 BILLION check!

Just stop. No lies. No nonsense. We want our country back. And as God is my witness, we will do whatever it takes to make this happen.

I'm with you, Newt. But I'm pleading with you, please, as a supporter, throw me a bone.

-Derek

By Anonymous @ Monday, November 02, 2009 11:26 PM

Newt, I have read your articles for years and I have always thought you understood what is really happening in America. I cannot explain how disappointed I was when I found out that you endorsed Scozzafava. It was such a huge let down for me to read that you went against everything I was so sure you believed in. It is painful to realize how wrong I was.

To this day liberals are benefitting from Ross Perot's original statement that there really is no difference between the two major parties. You proved it by your endorsement of Scozzafava. You also greatly angered the base who too often wants to send the Republicans like you a message by supporting a 3rd party candidate at some point in the future. You know very well the effect of that action on 99.9 percent of elections.

We have all lost faith in you Newt and I do not see that changing in the future. The big problem is that you have negatively impacted the Republican party as a whole. Not everyone understands that sending Republicans a message now will only result in the current administration continuing on its course unbridled.

Way to go Newt. You failed your party miserably. Your actions are a clear example of why Conservatives are through with the Republican party. You invalidated everything you appear to stand for by endorsing such a truly liberal Republican. I am surprised that you did not see this coming. Maybe I just overestimated you.

By Anonymous @ Monday, November 02, 2009 11:20 PM

Newt, I WISH you'd have done this from the git-go. You compromised your principles for the "go-along-to-get-along" crowd. I pray you've learned a lesson.

By Anonymous @ Monday, November 02, 2009 11:07 PM

Newt,
I am an OIF veteran, a Republican (but Christian and conservative first), and a former supporter of yours. The most encouraging thing I have taken from your website this evening is that there are many individuals out there who have principles similar to mine. Unlike you, they understand that anything is possible in the United States, and their principles and core values are more important to them than any political party.

I sadly thought just recently that you were going to be the conservative/great communicator who was going to lead our country after the next presidential election. After your support of Scozzafav, I have learned your true colors. Win at all costs. Party is more important than principles, and a big tent party means that we must moderate conservative principles at all cost, rather than do a better job of communicating why conservative principles are best for our country.

If you want to have any chance of being a leader in the conservative movement again, you have a major apology to make and will need better than a year of action to rebuild any level of trust with conservatives.

As of today, you have lost the support of this veteran.

By Anonymous @ Monday, November 02, 2009 10:56 PM

The answer is -- he doesn't have any principles, except when it seems politically expedient.

Oh, he can eloquently talk the talk -- but he doesn't live them.

By Anonymous @ Monday, November 02, 2009 10:46 PM

Newt-

A day late and a dollar short. How in the world could you ever have compromised your principles to support Scofazza in the first place??

You had my support in the past. It now goes to Gov. Palin. She had the courage to do what was right before it was fashionable. I know she won't sell me out for convenience.

We do not need any more "moderates" who support the goals of the democrats.

By Anonymous @ Monday, November 02, 2009 10:43 PM

How dare Newt to disgrace the memory of Ronald Reagan, whose name and picture are display prominently on the home page of this web site, and endorse Scozzafava, who represents everything Ronald Reagan was not.

Newt has shown his true colors -- just one more party hack with no core values.

He writes books (probably ghost-written) about God in American history and government but supports a candidate who never saw an abortion or a gay marriage she didn't like. Perhaps Newt needs to read some of the books published with his name on the cover.

By Anonymous @ Monday, November 02, 2009 10:33 PM

You know what Newt..... I DON'T CARE ABOUT BUILDING A REPUBLICAN MAJORITY. I support candidates with traditional conservative values and principles. I hope Sarah Palin and company wreck the campaign of every RINO out there. With proper backing and articulation, conservatism will win almost every time. If you, Newt, can't help conservative candidates explain why their vision for the country is better than their opponents, then shut up and get out of the way, so people like Sarah Palin, Fred Thompson, Rush Limbaugh, etc. can do it.

....and if that just splits the vote and Democrats turn this country into a government-run, socialist, nanny-state, militarily-weakened liberal mess......... then people can move to a better country. If this country is destroyed for our children and grandchildren, then we move somewhere better. No big deal. ....and we can tell stories of how people like Newt Gingrich failed to step up to the plate and fight for what the United States was always about.

By Anonymous @ Monday, November 02, 2009 10:24 PM

f--k you newt

By Anonymous @ Monday, November 02, 2009 10:21 PM

a lettedear glen ,,this whole NY congressional race had me very upset..I cant believe that the conservative crusader newt gingrich had actually endorsed a liberal like dede what's her face.......then it hit me ,I remembered what you always told us...follow the money...then it hit me like a brick,,,,,,,,,Jesse Jackson and al sharpton are in the race business..and make no mistake it is a business and they have been making millions over the years not stamping it out but fueling the fires ,we see it because we are on the other side.but to the people that are all worked into a frenzy and used by them they are heroes...if there were no racism no more money ,no need for Jesse and al.........
now lets look at NEWT....conservative hero with all these organization always looking for donations to champion and further the cause of conservatism...drill here drill now.... selling books videos..ect ect and dozens more.....STARTING TO SEE THE SIMILARITYS..........now his big chance to put up or shut up and what does he do...supports the liberal Republicans.....if all of a sudden conservatives won the white house and took over congress........oops what would happen to all newts causes.....no enemy no money............................am I crazy or are these to opportunists looking a lot alike.........
curios to get your take on it
a letter i wrote to glen beck

By Anonymous @ Monday, November 02, 2009 10:16 PM

message to all members of Constitutional Emergency

Patriots,

Is there any clearer indication of just what the republican leadership has become when we look at the disaster in the New York 23rd District Congressional race debacle?

Republican Party Chairman Michael Steele, heavy hitter Newt Gingrich, and others indorsing a congressional candidate with positions in direct opposition to conservative principles. The republican candidate Dede Scozzafava who was indorsed by republican leadership dropped out of the race because of poll numbers, is now supporting the democratic candidate...her opposition while she was a republican candidate. Is there enough egg in the world to cover the faces of the republican leadership?

Those who claim to be conservative in the republican party just don't get it......we don't want more "blind support" to a political party...the answer is "principle", "principle", "principle" and right now the principle leads to the resignation of Michael Steele as head of the republican party, and a strong repudiation to the wisdom of Newt Gingrich.

On the other side of the coin, Gov Sarah Palin, Gov Tim Pawlenty, Senator Thompson and others demonstrated a measure of courage and principled support of conservative Doug Hoffman...standing on principle rather than supporting a political apparatus is the message Michael Steele and Newt Gingrich seem unwilling to recognize...therefore they must go.

Conservative congressional candidate Doug Hoffman is poised to upset the political apparatus and win over both the republican and democratic political apparatus...music to the ears of "we the people".

Harry Riley, COL, USA, Ret

By Anonymous @ Monday, November 02, 2009 10:15 PM

Wow......... I am a huge Newt Gingrich fan, but this utter failure of judgement really has me scratching my head. HOW, Newt, can you be THIS wrong?

I'm guessing a vast majority of these responses are from your supporters, and you really owe us a good explanation. You are sounding like John McCain.

By Anonymous @ Monday, November 02, 2009 10:08 PM

Newt, here's a novel idea to stop people from tearing you to shreds on your own blog. Offer an unequivocally sincere and heartfelt apology admitting you were outrageously wrong, then follow up with YOUR OWN personal donation of ONE MILLION DOLLARS to the GOP to make up for what was wasted on your previously endorsed Scuzzyfavors! You see, Newt, a million dollars isn't so much to you, but to me and most everyone else, it is a LOT of money! Until that time, Newt, please get out of our collective faces!

By Anonymous @ Monday, November 02, 2009 10:08 PM

Newt,

You have a long way to go to regain my trust and respect.

But I bet Colin Powell and David Frum salute you.

By Anonymous @ Monday, November 02, 2009 9:43 PM

You have lost credibility Newt. Enough of the political spin. Give your audience the respect we deserve and just admit you were sloppy, didn't do your homework and you were WRONG. Interesting that her poll numbers reflect her politics and we saw through it and someone supposedly of your calibre missed it. I have a bridge I'm selling...interested?

By Anonymous @ Monday, November 02, 2009 9:40 PM

With all due respect Newt, you are out of touch with the rest of us. The GOP is finished. You and your kind ignored the rest of us one too many times. It is time we formed a Constitution Party that follows the letter and spirit of our Constitution and Bill of Rights. No more illegals, no more hemmoraging jobs to the third world, no more political indoctrination in our schools, no more politicians telling us what to think or how to behave and last but not least, no more taxing us into poverty. Good bye GOP. To the Democrats- Go to Hell!

By Anonymous @ Monday, November 02, 2009 9:34 PM

Mr. Speaker, You indorsed Scozzafava who was for Card Check! What were you thinking? Yes, I know you are now supporting Hoffman. Sir, you are putting politics above principals. Sir, you are not my kind of conservative.

You need to check your values.

By Anonymous @ Monday, November 02, 2009 9:13 PM

Sorry Newt. Loved your Reagan movie, but this NY 23 thing was wrong. No more of your material in my house, and I'll be unsubscribing from your email and American Solutions.

I may consider re-evaluating if I see what is to me a sincere apology.

By Anonymous @ Monday, November 02, 2009 8:54 PM

i was through with Newt when he wasted the Republican majority in Congress fighting over fringe issues, instead of being a Republican by cutting government size, spending, and interference with our day to day lives.

with his latest antics, he is now forever fixed in my mind as a member of the RINOP, and is not a conservative in any way shape or form.

his judgment is neither to be trusted nor his support to be desired by anyone other than another RINO, or an out of the closet Democrat.

Begone Newt, and do not darken our door again.

By Anonymous @ Monday, November 02, 2009 8:49 PM

Newt: "The age of party leaders picking people is over. "

vs

Newt: “Lets 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,"

Newt, you and the rest of the pathetic GOP establishment owe us $900K+ that was wasted on that pathetic excuse for a candidate.

By Anonymous @ Monday, November 02, 2009 8:36 PM

September 12, 2009 millions of people marched on Washington D.C. sending a message.........WE ARE FED UP WITH BUSINESS AS USUAL. Did you think, you elites were excluded. Did you think the Tea Parties were only about those D's? How egotistical.
We want to know about those who selected Dede. What kind of men/women do something like that, at a time when our country is imploding? We want names. It's time this type of conduct stops. We no longer accept blind devotion to those who willingly have brought us to where we are now.

By Anonymous @ Monday, November 02, 2009 8:27 PM

Prof. Gingrich, I have always been a great admirer of yours. I was ecstatic when you led a revolution and unseated the Democrats from Congress in 1994. I thought we finally had true conservatives in power.

That is why I was incredibly disappointed in your choice to back an extreme Liberal simply because of her Party enrollment.

The reason the GOP lost the Congress is because of the same misguided idea that Party trumps principle. We are Republicans because we are conservatives, not the other way around. Our ideals and principles come first and the Party MUST follow. Inasmuch as the GOP departs from those principles, conservatives will turn their backs on the GOP and say - as Zell Miller did of the Democrats - that we did not leave our Party, our Party left us.

The era of the Big Tent is over. That idea is a failure and it must be discarded on the rubbish heap on which it belongs. Those who are not true conservatives will no longer be tolerated by those who are. They can find homes elsewhere, but not in our GOP. And make no mistake: this is OUR GOP. We, the rank and file conservative base will henceforth make the decisions.

What this fiasco has proven is that the Party has no right to demand loyalty from us. We, however, have every right to demand that our Party be loyal to us and our shared values.

We will not support our Party when it is wrong.

By Anonymous @ Monday, November 02, 2009 8:17 PM

If you hadn't come on FOX to tell US how wrong WE were and that WE needed a bigger "tent" which is NOTHING like what the true Conservative Leader Reagan would EVER say perhaps it would be easier to give a damn what you say but NOPE you are done!

By Anonymous @ Monday, November 02, 2009 8:15 PM

Newt, you have lost my support and will never get it back. We require "real change".

By Anonymous @ Monday, November 02, 2009 8:07 PM

Newt! WOW Higher taxes prochoice and you back a candidate like that! you are going to have to act like a conservative for me to EVER vote for you!

By Anonymous @ Monday, November 02, 2009 7:38 PM

I don't know how to say this politely, but I'm sick of us republicans being stupid. We are fooled so easily, me included, Years ago here in PA we had arlan specter vs toomey in the primary, The republican came out & supported specter, He always was stabbing us in the back but instead of standing for principles "we had to back the incumbant" I'm sick of this junk. I mean that, then this endorsement of yours is the same junk, they stick an "r" beside there names & we forget about their liberal stances and believe they'll do the right thing.

Each election canidates should stand on their own. Even someone I like as much as you, I question their judgement -- Is it sincere or are we just supporting the "r"S

Most times I love you Newt!
Diane,
Brownstown Pa

By Anonymous @ Monday, November 02, 2009 7:05 PM

Newt
WE ARE STILL WAITING FOR YOUR APOLOGY

By Anonymous @ Monday, November 02, 2009 6:32 PM

I long for the day when the last vestige of liberty and freedom are swept from this land. I wish we could all join together under the heal of the national socalist jackboot to become the chattel we were ment to be. I also love illegal aliens.

Dave_A

By Anonymous @ Monday, November 02, 2009 6:27 PM

Speaker Gingrich,
the comments on your blog are overwhelmingly negative to your previous support of the liberal Republican from NY Distr 23. This should serve as a wake up call to you and the other milquetoast Republican leaders (i.e. moderate and liberal wing of the party) who espouse the wrong headed premise that only by diluting its conservative principles can the Republican party maximize its appeal to the broader electorate and win back power in Congress and the White House.

It is a "law of nature" that more and more people will flock to the Republican party when they realize that the party stands for principles (conservative and libertarian) above and beyond personality and expediency, and will throw its weight behind candidates that believe in those principles.

What's happening to this country is that the prevailing multi-cultural and relativistic attitude among the governing and intellectual elite (liberals and moderates) is destroying this country from within. The people commenting on this blog see that even more clearly than you. That explains the urgency and the vehence against your initial position.

If all you wish to do is to try and sell your books to the widest audience you can, then by all means continue down the road you are on and emasculate the conservative message that made you a household name. But, whether you know it or not, your cavalier attitude towards the conservative base only serves to abet the enemy - which is the Obama Administration and the Pelosi/Reid led Democratic establishment. Join the 2009 Conservative tsunami Speaker Gingrich or risk becoming wholly obsolete - especially in 2010 and 2012 - on the national scene as the Conservatives win back this country from the reprobates.

Mike Spence
Collierville, TN

By Anonymous @ Monday, November 02, 2009 6:17 PM

Since Dave_A has been working so very hard to get some recognition I'll acquiesce and spare a few words for him.

Dave_A,

Please go troll somewhere else no-one is bothering to read your drivel.

So sad that you are not smart enough to agree with me. I am the smartest person here. I love the federal government and illegal aliens.

Dave_A

By Anonymous @ Monday, November 02, 2009 6:09 PM

Since Dave_A has been working so very hard to get some recognition I'll acquiesce and spare a few words for him.

Dave_A,

Please go troll somewhere else no-one is bothering to read your drivel.

By Anonymous @ Monday, November 02, 2009 6:04 PM

Do I think Newt wants the best for America? YES! Do I think he is misreading the political sentiment out here in flyover country? YES! Specifically, he's making the mistake of believing we want to apply a litmus test to all republican candidates. Newt, we all recognize that 1/2 a loaf is better than no loaf at all the issue here is that the rebulican candidate was so in name only and we all could see it, and we had a conservative alternative. NY-23 has certainly provided us all an opportunity. Won't you join us?

By Anonymous @ Monday, November 02, 2009 5:48 PM

You don't have to wonder, they're doing it on purpose. Whether they're socialists, RINOs, Blue Dogs, moderates, whatever label they want to carry for local political purposes--they're ALL new world order globalists. Very few from any party are there to fight for the people and our constitutional rights and freedoms. Those things would be obstacles to the globalist government.
Don't wonder, they all know full well what they're doing.

I resent this. As one who has worked long and hard to undermine the constitution and make the world a better place for illegal aliens I resemble this remark!

Dave_A

By Anonymous @ Monday, November 02, 2009 5:38 PM

To Anonymous @ Monday, November 02, 2009 3:25 PM--

You don't have to wonder, they're doing it on purpose. Whether they're socialists, RINOs, Blue Dogs, moderates, whatever label they want to carry for local political purposes--they're ALL new world order globalists. Very few from any party are there to fight for the people and our constitutional rights and freedoms. Those things would be obstacles to the globalist government.
Don't wonder, they all know full well what they're doing.

By Anonymous @ Monday, November 02, 2009 5:34 PM

Fred Thompson:

who Newt wants to be when he grows up.

By Anonymous @ Monday, November 02, 2009 5:09 PM

>>> What happened to the man whose every word we listened to? Who we respected? Who seemed to be the patriot we all longed for?

He's gone. These days, Newt is all about promoting... NEWT! Newt books, Newt videos, Newt and Callista sales chtick, Newt and Jackie self-promotion, Newt commercials with Pelosi, Newt appearing with Sharpton... it goes on. No, these days, it's all about Newt! Good riddance Newt. This time you really are a day late and a dollar short Newt... No, wait, I take it back about the dollar because he's Newt!

By Anonymous @ Monday, November 02, 2009 5:07 PM

You blew it, Newt. Why not save some time and ask Arlen Specter to help you switch to the (D). So, NOW you want to support the conservative?

You're a has-been, and any real conservatives will no longer take you seriously, nor should they.

By Anonymous @ Monday, November 02, 2009 5:03 PM

Glad to read your latest statement and hoping that NY23 has been a big wake up call for yourself and all of the political world. You are a brilliant, knowledgeable individual, Newt Gingrich, and an important, key player in the fight against this present administration, but as you can see, we will not tolerate compromise anymore. Fat cat, career RINO politicians are out!

By Anonymous @ Monday, November 02, 2009 5:01 PM

Mr Speaker,
We are going to take back our country/with the GOP's help or with out!! Hope your with us!!

By Anonymous @ Monday, November 02, 2009 5:01 PM

"It's time to nut up, or shut up".

By Anonymous @ Monday, November 02, 2009 5:00 PM

Jeez Newt,

On the left side of this page under "Make Real Change Happen" you say you support secret ballots for workers but backed Scozzafava who supported card check? Unreal.

By Anonymous @ Monday, November 02, 2009 4:59 PM

I'm sorry Newt but you sir jumped the shark. When you and other Pro RNC'ers threw your support behind a RINO instead of a conservative your true colors shown through. What has happened to the man I once respect and who's opinion I trusted?

By Anonymous @ Monday, November 02, 2009 4:59 PM

You are endorsing the Conservative Republican after the Liberal Democrat or Republican drops out. What were you thinking from the start. Third party Conservative time.

By Anonymous @ Monday, November 02, 2009 4:51 PM

Disappointed in Newt, expected more from him.... Apparently his move was for more GOP power, not principles. Hopefully Newt and GOP leadership have learned the lesson, but I doubt it. They don't want the people deciding.

By Anonymous @ Monday, November 02, 2009 4:43 PM

What happened to the man whose every word we listened to? Who we respected?
Who seemed to be the patriot we all longed
for? I'm sorry for you, Newt. You have disappointed many that believed in you....

By Anonymous @ Monday, November 02, 2009 4:33 PM

Newt was duped and outstrategized by the "political elites", several news outlets online are now reporting that Obama had his fingers in selecting the uber-liberal GOP in District 23. That doesn't surprise me. Have a nice life Newt! 1994 is a bygone era.

By Anonymous @ Monday, November 02, 2009 4:27 PM

Newt, please, please get your and the GOP's political strategy right in time for 2010. I strongly believe the best way to return this country to its principles is through a reformed GOP. Hopefully Hoffman will prove an excellent lesson in how this is done. Or, read this article: http://biggovernment.com/2009/11/02/the-long-dark-tea-time-of-the-gops-soul/
America cannot afford for you guys to get this one wrong.
Thank you.

By Anonymous @ Monday, November 02, 2009 4:26 PM

The only person on the national GOP scene to have the balls to be truely conservative is Sarah Palin. Its about time you, Steele and otherr jump on the bandwagon and quit supporting these GOP lunies (Dems in sheep clothing).

By Anonymous @ Monday, November 02, 2009 4:23 PM

I am standing by for A10 strafing runs on the conservatives. My call sign is "brown bomber".

Dave_A

By Anonymous @ Monday, November 02, 2009 4:20 PM

Run Sarah, run. Save our country from the wobbly republicans.

Save us from the people who will compromise our core principals away, for a little bit of political power.

By Anonymous @ Monday, November 02, 2009 4:17 PM

Good job Newt. Way to not look at what the candidate you supported stood for. LOL. Good thing Sarah Palin has a backbone and principles.

By Anonymous @ Monday, November 02, 2009 4:12 PM

Sorry Newt, your time is over. You have backed RINO after RINO. We, the people have decided you are irrelevant. Sure you might get talking head time, but no one is going to listen to you any more.

Write some more books, hell, I will even buy them, but keep your mouth shut about my GOP party.

By Anonymous @ Monday, November 02, 2009 4:10 PM

As a national socalist this situation pleases me.

Dave_A

By Anonymous @ Monday, November 02, 2009 4:09 PM

Sort of MONTHS late, and now MILLIONS of dollars short, don't you think?

Will donors get their money back from your Liberal (don't you DARE say moderate) RINO?

By Anonymous @ Monday, November 02, 2009 4:08 PM

I was very disappointed in you when I found out you publically backed a socialist, claiming to be a Republican. I have respected you since the Contract with America, because you seemed to understand that the Constitution gave the real power to the people (who pay ALL the bills) and the states, with very limited power to the federal govt. I feel betrayed. I guess I'll stay with Palin and Beck for advice...they get it! The "Socialists" are finishing the take over of our country by putting socialists under the (D) and (R) columns so they win both ways. Has Arlen Spector taught you nothing? You owe those of us who believed in you an apology.

By Anonymous @ Monday, November 02, 2009 4:00 PM

Newt, are you familiar with John McManus ? He created a video which details your one-world government views. I was very surprised and shocked to hear about it and of your voting record since up to now (at least) I considered you to be a true conservative. Here is the web address - http://vimeo.com/6445068.
I suggest you review and refute the charges he makes (if you can) because not to do so would be extremely damaging to your reputation.

By Anonymous @ Monday, November 02, 2009 3:59 PM

I love the form of government in North Korea. I would like to see the US modeled after North Korea, just with less personal freedom.

By Anonymous @ Monday, November 02, 2009 3:58 PM

i am glad you got it. better late than never. she would have been another Arlen and done more harm to the republicans, than good.
more of this country is conservative than liberal. if we have clear leadership from the republicans, we will vote for them. if you all continue to give us this muddled message that implies that the 'R' is more important than the issues, we will find our leadership elsewhere.
Lincoln did it. do not think that we can not!

By Anonymous @ Monday, November 02, 2009 3:46 PM

Want some ketchup with that crow, Noot?

Go clean out your desk, has-been. The grownups are pulling into the driveway.

(Exeunt, singing a chorus "A Nation Once Again"...)

By hugokatz @ Monday, November 02, 2009 3:40 PM

Now that DeDe Scozzafava has withdrawn from the New York district 23 race and is throwing her support to the Democrat candidate should not Newt do likewise and continue to support Ms Scozzafava’s astute political decisions? I think this is fare question considering Newt courageously endorsed her over the conservative in this race earlier. Since she is only acting consistently with her beliefs and since supporting the liberal ideas of the liberal Democrat are entirely consistent with her past actions, why won’t Newt now join with Joe Biden in supporting Bill Owen in NY 23 now? Newt supported her as a candidate should he not also join with her in supporting the candidate that she is now telling her supporters to vote for?
Newt is not being very consistent changing sides at the last minute in changing his support for Hoffman and he should continue with his support in DeDe Scozzafava by now supporting her fine decision in telling her supporters vote for Bill Owen. What are we to think?? With a change this radical, was he misleading us in the first place when he supported DeDe Scozzafava in the first place? This sort of thing is emblematic of the problems we are having in this country. How can anyone know where a person stands when they make such a radical change in beliefs in midstream. Newt should just stick with what he believes instead of trying to placate people as it makes him look a little flakey.
Please tell me Newt’s last minute change in direction is a mistake. Certainly it’s hard to believe it’s genuine. Newt needs to quit hiding his beliefs and just boldly go out and support Owen especially since Owen’s beliefs are consistent with Newt’s on so many issues. Otherwise people are just going to think that Newt is sticking his finger in the air and saying what he believes will get people to support his bid for the presidency.

By Anonymous @ Monday, November 02, 2009 3:39 PM

Republican candidate Dede Scozzafava drops out of the race for N.Y. 23, leaving conservative Doug Hoffman to represent the GOP. Hoffman's committment to conservative values has put him ahead in recent polls which is forcing Republican leadership to eat crow. - http://is.gd/4La4Z

By Anonymous @ Monday, November 02, 2009 3:37 PM

As the command specialist major of the army, I am so much smarter than everyone else. I am a huge fan of a strong, fascist national socalist government. Someday I will bring the full force of my A-10 of justice against all gold owning, ron paul supporting rebel scum!

Dave_A

By Anonymous @ Monday, November 02, 2009 3:34 PM

My name is dave_a and I approve this message

As a neocon and proto-fascist, I would like to take this opportunity to say how much I love the federal government and illegal aliens.

By Anonymous @ Monday, November 02, 2009 3:31 PM

As a neocon and proto-fascist, I would like to take this opportunity to say how much I love the federal government and illegal aliens.

By Anonymous @ Monday, November 02, 2009 3:25 PM

I left the Republican party a while ago and went to the Conservatives precisely because you guys keep giving us crap RINO 'reach across the aisle and forge common ground alliances with the opposition' candidates like Dede and McCain and all the rest. Including you, Newt! What were you thinking?
I will never ever EVER give money to the GOP or the RNC because of stuff like this.
Worse, it looks like we Conservatives were right about Dede all along - she immediately jumped ship and ran to the Libs. What does that tell you about her? It doesn't matter even if Hoffman loses in NY, so long as we get the point across to you guys before 2010. Unless you guys are deliberately doing this to us, and lately, I'm beginning to wonder.

By Anonymous @ Monday, November 02, 2009 3:22 PM

Never again will I think of you as anyone I will support. You can go on O'Reilly or any other show all you want. No longer will I pay attention. You do not believe in the conservative values of the Ronald Reagan you so often quote. Fortunately, because of your positions in this race, we all now know what you stand for - NOTHING

By Anonymous @ Monday, November 02, 2009 3:18 PM

There's no chance I'll ever consider voting for you for president. Everyone knew what a snake this woman is. Everyone but you. You thought it was more important to have someone calling themselves a Republican in office than a true America loving conservative. You're no better than John McCain in my book. Its people like you that handed Obama and the Democrats such a handy victory in 2008. The problem isn't Republicans who are too far right, the problem is Republicans who are Liberals.

By Anonymous @ Monday, November 02, 2009 3:16 PM

Newt. It was nice but, I think its time we stopped seeing each other. BTW, you owe Sarah big time...

By Anonymous @ Monday, November 02, 2009 3:10 PM

I lost ALL respect for you when you did that commercial sitting on a bench with Nancy Pelosi. Your support for Scozzafava, simply because she had 'R' behind her name sealed it for me. You have become a RINO and are now irrelevant to those of us with Conservative values. Please stop espousing Ronald Reagan - you have nothing in common with him any more.

By Anonymous @ Monday, November 02, 2009 3:06 PM

Newt - I heard you on Laura Ingram's radio show last week defending your endorsement of Scozzafava as "the Republican nominee". At the time I didn't know she was selected by 11 members of the state NY GOP rather than being elected in a true primary process, so I thought that Hoffman was simply being a sore loser. Now I know differently.

Shame on the NY GOP for bypassing the electorate when electing a nominee! Hopefully they will learn a lesson from this fiasco.

Finally, conservatives need to stop funding the NRSC and NRCC. These two organizations are notorious for backing RINO's like Snow and Specter. Instead, donate directly to the campaigns of the solid conservatives.

By Anonymous @ Monday, November 02, 2009 2:54 PM

Mr. Gingrich, with all due respect, YOU came out on the losing end of this fiasco. Even more so than Dede Scozzafava! You called her Conservative opponents "misguided", who's misguided now?

The Conservative base was well aware that Scozzafava was a RINO of Arlen Specter/Olympia Snowe proportions, sadly, you were all to eager to endorse her simply because of that useless "R" after her name.

As you & the powers that be in the Republican party are finding out, the CONSERVATIVE base is rejecting Michael Steele's ridiculous "hip hop makeover" of the party.

We are seeking out candidates who represent OUR values. We reject candidates who play ball with the "business as usual" Republicans - who in all actuality are not much different than Democrats! Such as Dede Scozzafava.

By Anonymous @ Monday, November 02, 2009 2:51 PM

Newt, you put your money on the wrong horse. Your choice shows that your political skills have diminshed greatly. Makes it kind of hard to listen to your pontifications on just about anything.

By Anonymous @ Monday, November 02, 2009 2:50 PM

Well our liberal republican friend showed her true colors, endorsing the democrat over her fellow, but conservative, republican. If she would have been elected, she would probably have caucused withe the dems.

Newt, what the hell were you thinking ? I am sick and tired of republicans, who call themselves conservatives, being afraid to stand up for what they believe in. Doug Hoffman was the right choice for the republican party to make in the first place, now he still has an uphill battle in a republican district because party bigwigs were too chicken sh** to endorse Hoffman.

KUDOS to Sarah, Fred and others who show what true conservatives should do when the "party" makes a bad decision.

We wany conservatives elected to congress.

I have lost a lot of respect for you.

By Anonymous @ Monday, November 02, 2009 2:42 PM

Why not call in to Rush, Hannity or Beck to apologize (or just fess up to making a mistake) and then endorse Hoffman?

By Anonymous @ Monday, November 02, 2009 2:41 PM

I hate to pile on, Newt, because I like you a lot and always listen to your opinions, but I have to ask - - What were you thinking??

By Anonymous @ Monday, November 02, 2009 2:37 PM

With all due respect, Sir, I am not surprised you supported the establishment candidate against the conservative.

You and Rep. Kasich abandoned Reagan's growth paradigm in favor of phony balanced budgets.

I suppose the fact that this approach was more popular with the Beltway/ NY Times axis deemed so important to prestige and reelection of career politicians was pure coincidence.

By Anonymous @ Monday, November 02, 2009 2:32 PM

Here, let me get that egg off your face Newt. How sad of you. You blew your trust with me. Screw you and the RNC too. I heard you say "I'll not second guess the party". Super, so give us a piece of crap like Scozzafava will ya? Pathetic of you and the RNC. Hey Newt, ask Sarah Palin who you should support next time.
We want those who will support and defend the constitution to the death. Shame on you and shame on the RNC, they and you haven't a clue how pissed off we are do you?

By Anonymous @ Monday, November 02, 2009 2:16 PM

It's sad to see a political future go down the drain through brainless support of a candidate who switched parties in an attempt to win an office. This candidate was the epitome of RINO.
Newt I've thought about supporting you in the past, glad I didn't, never will consider it again.

By Anonymous @ Monday, November 02, 2009 2:11 PM

Wow! I was just going to complain. Looks like nearly everyone jumped on you first. Dittos to many above!

By Anonymous @ Monday, November 02, 2009 2:11 PM

Newt ~

Why is the candidate you supported now throwing her support to the democratic candidate instead of her republican rival?

You blew it Newt. I don't trust you! I don't agree with you. I DON'T SUPPORT YOU!

I am conservative first, republican second!

By Anonymous @ Monday, November 02, 2009 2:03 PM

He is what is wrong with the whole notion that the GOP needs to be more moderate to win elections. We are tired of the moderates and their votes for liberalism

By Anonymous @ Monday, November 02, 2009 2:03 PM

Looks like just about everybody has already said what I am thinking. Disappointed and disgusted that you, Newt, thought we should be like lemmings follow your endorsements right over the cliff. It's hard to even think what was in your mind in urging us to support a RINO who has now endorsed the Democrat. Sad, sad, sad, Newt.

By Anonymous @ Monday, November 02, 2009 1:57 PM

Newt - What happend to you? Was it all a sham? Was the Contract with America just a show?

Please remove yourself from the discourse. And take Maverick McCain (and his daugher!) with you.

By Anonymous @ Monday, November 02, 2009 1:43 PM

Newt, you made the same mistake Obama is making. Obama won on the platform of change, and he believed that he would be allowed to make decisions without the wrath of the people. People voted for change, not Obama. He is now realizing that people are sick and tired of career politicians. I have seen the right start turning against bloggers who are dishonest and do not push conservative principles. The people want a government that is BY US and FOR US, not by slimy politicians, race-baiters, union leaders, or radicals. I hope you realize that the Republican party found success is doing what is right and promoting conservative values. My right-wing ideology comes before my party affiliation. Scozzafava has had numerous left-wing ties and has proven herself to be a RINO. I'm sure had she been elected and voted with Dems that you would be on Fox News crying about the problem of RINOs.

We are seeing something occur with TEA Parties: the people are becoming informed. People are reading legislation, seeking out alternative news sources, educating themselves about their elected officials, and they are spreading their knowledge like wildfire “How fortunate for governments that the people they administer don’t think.” - Hitler...Fortunately for the people we are thinking...

The GOP needs to realize that we the people want a CONSERVATIVE party. We want small government, less taxes, and less government intervention. We have the values that MOST people want. We believe in the country that our Founding Fathers set up. Perhaps the GOP thinks they control the people, yet we the people control the GOP (where do you get your money from?)...My wallet will be closed until the GOP wakes up and starts fiercely promoting conservative values.

"I have one yardstick by which I test every major problem – and that yardstick is: Is it good for America?" - Eisenhower

By Anonymous @ Monday, November 02, 2009 1:24 PM

Newt,

I just read this account of RNCC “intelligence” at work in the NY23rd election:

“But hours after Rudy Giuliani spurned the pleas of NRCC chairman Rep. Pete Sessions to endorse Scozzafava, according to NRCC sources, Sessions told staff to suspend anti-Hoffman media efforts online and in the district. ‘We thought Rudy endorsing would have been the game changer,’ says an NRCC source. ‘But even he wasn't going to eat the dog food we were trying to sell. We had a lousy candidate and the other guys had a better campaign strategy and more energy.’ “

Guess that there's a lesson here. Trying to sell "dog food" and giving support to "lousy" candidates is not exactly a good strategy.

With a million dollars spent by the GOP on this lesson, seems pretty expensive.

We need a law allowing contributors to recoup money donated to a political party that has spent those contributions with such utter disregard, and even contempt, for the donors.

Punitive damages would be appropriate, too, when that political party ends up giving that money to admittedly lousy, "dog food" pols.

And treble damages should apply when the party turns around and blames its base for the result of its own stupid choices for which candidates to support.

Good for Rudy for throwing cold water on the RNCC's dash to waste money on a disaster!!!

Wonder how much money the GOP would have saved if other "leaders" had earlier refused to go along with the fake republican?

By Anonymous @ Monday, November 02, 2009 1:10 PM

Newt Gingrich is a Global Elitist selling us out. His contract with America was a scam. He only marketed the idea to get himslef re-elected. Check out this video.

http://vimeo.com/6445068

By Anonymous @ Monday, November 02, 2009 1:08 PM

We always knew you were a phony and a fascist (definition: Someone who believes in collusion between big government and big business), Newt, but this one is a gigantic stinker even by your low standards.

It's obvious that you're nothing but a ventriloquist's dummy for the RINO elite. Quit clogging things up and move over for real Americans like Ron Paul and the Tea Party movement.

By Anonymous @ Monday, November 02, 2009 1:06 PM

Wow. Feeling the heat Newt?

Look, it's very simple now. Conservatives have finally decided that we'll no longer compromise our principles just to end up with the lesser of two evils election after election. Either we will win with our principles, or not. The old way is over. The GOP can either represent our values and become part of the conservative solution to the mess we're in, or not, but we're through with the Spectre's, McCain's, Graham's, and Scozzafava's of the world. If this splits the GOP and the Dems stay in power longer as a result, so be it, because the GOP has just been taking us to the same place the Dems are anyway. The GOP either changes to meet this demand, right now, or it's a dead party without a base.

By Anonymous @ Monday, November 02, 2009 1:05 PM

You should have backed Hoffman in the first place. Scozzafava is to the left of anyone in the Republican party and farther left than some Democrats.

It takes a lot of nerve to fault Sarah Palin for backing Hoffman then turn around and do it yourself.

You owe her an apology.

By Anonymous @ Monday, November 02, 2009 12:59 PM

Newt - you really got it WRONG this time!
And now you back Hoffman? HUH??? A little late!

Shame on you! I thought you had Principals and Values? Guess not!

By Anonymous @ Monday, November 02, 2009 12:56 PM

Newt, We want an apology. Before you open your mouth to support the candidate you trashed, this is what I want to hear from you.

1. I am wrong.
2. I put party before principels and what's good for America
3. I wanted to win more than I wanted to honor the Republian platform
4. I've let power and praise discolor and cloud my thinking for some time now.
5. I will from this time forward, do what's right for America. I will put America first.

By Anonymous @ Monday, November 02, 2009 12:54 PM

Ditto, Ditto, Ditto to everything everybody else has said. I held great respect for you and believed that you would be our next Reagan. NO MORE. You will not get any more of my money. Too bad. So much potential but you've sold out just like the rest of the liberal Republicans. Saving my money for Sarah.

By Anonymous @ Monday, November 02, 2009 12:49 PM

Give my regards to Algore, you Gorbal Worming huckster.

By Anonymous @ Monday, November 02, 2009 12:38 PM

Hell NO, I won't give him a pass because he just switched endorsement like if nothing has happened, do we forget all the trash he talked about Hoffman and his inexperience. In order to receive forgiveness you first have to apologize and mean it.
Your endorsement will no longer carry any weight from this point on.

By Anonymous @ Monday, November 02, 2009 12:34 PM

well newt, it is party over principle again. you are nothing but a party hack, and i suppose, a fairly good writer of wishful thinking.

stay home, write books, make lots of money and stay out of national politics. your opinion means nothing anymore.

By Anonymous @ Monday, November 02, 2009 12:23 PM

Newt,

I will be in the camp that will forgive you this momentary lapse in judgement... this once.

Scozzafava is a RINO: (1) as a state legislator, she supported Obama's 780 billion dollar socialist giveaway, (2) she supported Patterson's new tax hikes, and (3) to add insult, to injury, she was appointed in the back room by party bosses. When you forget the constitution, and the principles this nation was founded on, you lose your legitimacy to lead us.

Get back to basics. You get a pass, this once. You ever choose an elitist choice over democracy again, and I will forget that you were ever my countryman.

By Anonymous @ Monday, November 02, 2009 12:22 PM

Newt, I have marked you off my list. You should have supported the conservative independent candidate in the first place instead of the liberal Republican. You are part of the problem, not the solution.

By Anonymous @ Monday, November 02, 2009 12:20 PM

Newt, no Conservative will ever believe a word you say.
Kiss your political career goodbye.

By Anonymous @ Monday, November 02, 2009 12:15 PM

It is amazing the number of posters saying that we need to ignore Newt's betrayal of Reagan Conservatism because at one time Newt did such wonderful things for the Party. Admittedly, the Contract With America was a good thing that resonated with a lot of people throughout the country. However, for those who think that makes up for all his more recent crap such as joining the Church of Anthropogenic Global Warming, palling with race pimp Sharpton, endorsing a leftist lib just because she has an R after her name, etc., look up "Benedict Arnold". General Arnold was a hero of the American side in the Revolutionary War. Then he committed treason. Should the colonists have said, "Oh, never mind. He rendered great services to us earlier, so we don't need to take this betrayal seriously?" General Arnold was, in his mind, a pragmatist. So is Newt. And, no, just because he did great things for America 30 years ago does not excuse his behavior now.

By Anonymous @ Monday, November 02, 2009 11:56 AM

Newt, I generally agree with you, but I am shocked you would have endorsed the RINO candidate. Are you doing your own research or taking somebody's word for it? She really showed her true colors by endorsing the democrat. The RNCC is equally foolish for having not only backed her but in doing so attacking Hoffman too. The establishment Republicans are so confused and lacking leadership and direction it is pathetic. I'm surprised you are falling for this too. Your endorsement of Hoffman now is really too little too late. What you should do is apologize to him and to the rest of us.

By Anonymous @ Monday, November 02, 2009 11:49 AM

Newt, we're sick of your lack of priciples. Go home. You've proven you are just another party hack that could care less about doing the right thing. There a movement out there which you do not understand , so get out of our way.

By Anonymous @ Monday, November 02, 2009 11:48 AM

You might as well retire to the couch and get back to playing kissy-face with San Fran Nan, Fonzie...er...I mean, Newt.

By Anonymous @ Monday, November 02, 2009 11:47 AM

It's ironic that after Newt's critics grow, and his blogs are rightfully full of people who are fed up with him, he updates his post with pictures of him and his "fans" at a recent book signing. I think he's silently giving us the finger and saying; "look at me, I'm still selling books regardless of what you no nothing's say".like the RNC has. The 2010

By Anonymous @ Monday, November 02, 2009 11:43 AM

I could not be more disappointed in Newt. He has shown himself to be as transparent as Spector but maybe twice as foolish. I want an apology to all Republicans and an explanation for his gullibility, not a last minute phony "noble" switch of positions. Does he think we all have 24 hour memories?

By Anonymous @ Monday, November 02, 2009 11:41 AM

Hey wait a second. I thought Newt criticized Palin for endorsing Hoffman. I have to tell you, that criticism has really made me rethink my opinion of Newt. He's just another Republican saying the party should not have a conservative agenda, leaving the party standing for nothing at all.

By Anonymous @ Monday, November 02, 2009 11:10 AM

Mr. Gingrich's statement is not enough. I want it explained to me in detail as to how Scozzafava was picked in that district. I want to hear, and see, those local GOP leaders... I mean, we're told NY23 is conservative, right?

In this new age of tea parties, who thought they could make such a pick and on what basis.

And, I want Newt Gingrich himself to explain this.

I'm angry! Enough is enough.

By Anonymous @ Monday, November 02, 2009 11:09 AM

Spare me, nobody cares what you think anymore. You showed your true colors.

I am deeply disappointed.....in you. Why you would be deeply disappointed that she back the Democrat is beyond me. She is and has always been a liberal Democrat in RINO clothing. Do you finally get that?????????

By Anonymous @ Monday, November 02, 2009 11:08 AM

Newt, I can shrug off your Scozzafava endorsement as going along with the (nominal) GOP candidate even though you should know that when the NYS Conservative Party doesn't endorse a GOP candidate, something is amiss.

However, your paling around with Al Sharpton -- a race-baiting neanderthal who is to New York State what the KKK is to the Deep South -- is disgusting. Aside from his baboon-like antics in the Tawana Brawley Hoax, this race-baiting piece of filth was behind the racist arson at Freddy's Fashion Mart (7 dead) and the Crown Heights Riots (3 more dead). Oh yes, he also made sure to protest the at the trial of the Central Park Jogger, with Sharpton and his supporters calling her "WHORE" and saying she was raped by her boyfriend. Sharpton said the jogger didn't even suffer any physical or emotional scars in one of his most vilest statements.

That's the piece of garbage you are working on with educational reform, Newt ? Sorry, but you should be pushing for the Justice Department to be indicting Sharpton's ass instead of kissing it.

By Anonymous @ Monday, November 02, 2009 10:56 AM

Oh...So NOW you're backing Doug Hoffman!! I get it! Now that you're fellow Rhino LIB has backed out and thrown her support to the other LIB in the race Mr. Owens, NOW YOU'RE backing Doug Hoffman???? After you trashed Sarah Palin for doing it out of the box??? You're a disgrace Newt!! A real disgrace to Georgia and the Conservative movement. Adios to 2012!! Go Sarah!!!

By Anonymous @ Monday, November 02, 2009 10:55 AM

Newt, we get what you were trying to say about 3rd party candidates. This race NY23 was different as the people did not get to pick who could run. Her friend picked her. We need good conservative representation in Washington, no more Rino's. Obviously, that was what Dede is. Right now people in America are in sad shape and our only way to get ourselves back to normal is to back people who are more in tune to our needs. We are tired of being called names and not being heard by the people we have elected to represent us. We want a say in Government. There is much buyers remorse out there for Obama. Don't discount tht. With that said, you can either join us or get out of the way.

By Anonymous @ Monday, November 02, 2009 10:53 AM

Mr. Gingrich I was highly disappointed to see you throw your support to the RINO in NY-23. She drops out, strongly supports the Democrat, and now all of a sudden you like Hoffman. I have always trusted you sir, this is the one error in judgement you get in my book. Either the Republican Party of which I am proud to be a member fix itself and come back to the Center...or we abandon it and take the country back ourselves. Same goes for Mr. Steele and the rest who think they need to "transform" instead of sticking to principals.

By Anonymous @ Monday, November 02, 2009 10:49 AM

You said in your update, "The race has evolved into a contest between a conservative and a pro-Pelosi, tax increase, big government liberal Democrat."

The problem is, in your label-blindness you didn't recognize what the rest of the country did, that Scozzofava was a pro-Pelosi, tax increase, big government liberal Republican.

Until it's proven to me that those in charge of the GOP understand the difference between "socialist-leaning elitist with a R label" and "fiscal conservative that happens to be in bad odour with the local RINO elitists", you will get NO more of my money. You will get NONE of my support for those RINO candidates.

By Anonymous @ Monday, November 02, 2009 10:49 AM

Real Change Requires Real Change is the slogan on your web page, say what you mean and mean what you say.
How could you have endorsed Scozzafava and now after she drops from the race because of pressure from conservatives you come with a straight face and endorse Hoffman

By Anonymous @ Monday, November 02, 2009 10:47 AM

Newt, why not come back and represent us in the 6th District again? Oh, I forgot, we already have a real conservative....

By Anonymous @ Monday, November 02, 2009 10:25 AM

Sorry Newt, you were on the wrong side of this one... too little, too late.
I hope this was a "learning" experience for you, as it will be for the "Progressives".
Charles

By Anonymous @ Monday, November 02, 2009 10:16 AM

For everyone here who wonders what happened to Newt. After he sat with Pelosi on the couch and more recently this whole Scozzafava incident. I have the answer!

Newt is being held in a bottomless wooden chest. The Newt you see today is really Barney Frank who has taking Poly-Juice potion!

Or it could be the Imperious curse as well.

By Anonymous @ Monday, November 02, 2009 10:10 AM

I think Newt should bless us by exiting his public punditry politics and find some obscure junior college somewhere down in GA, to teach history and write books. Newt, if you run in 2012, I will do all I can to support any candidate that opposes you. I will not let YOUR ambitions destroy any principles that are still left.

By Anonymous @ Monday, November 02, 2009 10:08 AM

I suppose that its a good thing that we finally realized that the Republican Party has been hijacked by moderates in essentially an off year for elections. A vote for the "hand picked" candidate would have been a vote for winning the seat in name only. A vote for Hoffman is a vote for Conservative principles over party association, AND ITS ABOUT TIME.

We have a chance to affect the way elections are seen next year by what has been done this year. The Republican Party should ask for its money back after its candidate decided to back the Democrat.

The Party needs to stop positioning itself to win elections and start believing in ideals again and the election wins will come.

By Anonymous @ Monday, November 02, 2009 10:08 AM

Newt needs to get a real job. Scewed up this one by pretending to be a conservative and hiring people to call us regularly and ask for money. Not working for the RNC or for Newt any longer.

By Anonymous @ Monday, November 02, 2009 10:08 AM

Newt,
I stopped trusting you when you sat on that couch with Pelosi. You had your chance in 1994 and BLEW IT! Step down and step aside and let the real conservatives take back the party of REAGAN!

By Anonymous @ Monday, November 02, 2009 10:00 AM

NY 23 is a microcosm of next years elections. I only hope that the RNC, and the RINO's like Newt get the message loud and clear that if they try and give us another McCain like candidate, we will make them irrelevant and chose a true conservative to run and support them 100%. I like many of you are fed up with the ilk’s like Newt. For those on the blog that are upset at the "vitriol" that's being released on Newt, wake up! It’s his political strategy, and party above principles that are infecting the RNC into giving us watered down Democrats to run against Democrats.

By Anonymous @ Monday, November 02, 2009 9:57 AM

I really consider myself as disenfranchised!
As a Conservative, I need a party that reflects my values. These are the values of THE MAJORITY OF THE COUNTRY! I'm sick to death of the words "purity" and "litmus". There is already a party for the liberals. I like to think that "we" believe in original interpretation, saving unborn babies, and fiscal restraint to the extent of rolling back the incredible federal burden that we find ourselves with.
This krap has "tactical" and "strategic" written all over it. Do we see the Liberals compromising? Are they interested in reaching out to the conservatives in the middle? Do you see them giving two hoots about inclusiveness? But we, in our attempt for fairness, bend over backwards. Compassion and unity has it's place, and that place is NOT in compromising our principles! We will never be able to roll back this big govt if we take the attitude that we must scratch and beg for the middle. If we stand on our principles, raise the flag, and march, the majority will follow. THAT's what Regan did, not sell away the farm! Dagnabbit! LEAD!!!!!

By Anonymous @ Monday, November 02, 2009 9:57 AM

Sad... I had better hopes for you Newt. It's sad to see you sell out the GOP and this country.

Rino

By Anonymous @ Monday, November 02, 2009 9:53 AM

Can't believe my ears. You get it when it comes to the war on terror. But we got some Big Fish to fry and we can't do it with the Specters, Snowes, and Scozzafava's of the world. Don't even think about 2012, you dug too big a hole on this one.

By Anonymous @ Monday, November 02, 2009 9:48 AM

Newt, you are a phony. Sad, but true. I used to respect you but not any more. Your embrace of the liberals' global warming scam was the last straw for me but the Dede endorsement verified my sense that you had gone over the edge. You're no better than Bill Clinton with your finger in the wind. What a waste of a clearly superior IQ and public speaking ability. You are one of the classic examples of someone who may very well be too smart for your own good. For the sake of your own dignity please announce right now that you have no intention of ever seeking office of any kind.

By Anonymous @ Monday, November 02, 2009 9:36 AM

You exercised insanely poor judgment re. NY 23. Earth to Newt--she was actually a Democrat! You've lost my trust.

By Anonymous @ Monday, November 02, 2009 9:34 AM

Newt, first pull your pants up then make the endorsement. What a joke. Goodbye, its been nice know'in you!!!

By Anonymous @ Monday, November 02, 2009 9:25 AM

I thought at one time you had some principles. Sorry to say, now I believe you have none.

By Anonymous @ Monday, November 02, 2009 9:21 AM

Newt, I hope this walk of shame has taught you a valuable lesson.

Oh, and please change your tagline, it makes no sense.

By Anonymous @ Monday, November 02, 2009 9:20 AM

How much do you really think your "endorsement" is worth these days?

By Anonymous @ Monday, November 02, 2009 9:08 AM

Newt is a great writer & historian; however, he has walked away from too much in his life: wives, conservatism & his religion just to name a few. That is not a person with real core beliefs, Sorry Newt, with me you may as well be yelling into the wind. I am done with you.

By Anonymous @ Monday, November 02, 2009 9:01 AM

“The degree to which the conservative movement is dissatisfied is very real. Conservatism is at its biggest crossroads since Reagan was nominated in 1980.” ~ Newt Gingrich

Sometimes our own words come back to haunt us, don't they Mr. Gingrich?

Sharon McPherson
West Central, Florida

By Anonymous @ Monday, November 02, 2009 8:54 AM

Your initial choice, who you chose because she was Anti-Tax and Anti-Pelosi, was so principled in her stand that she endorsed a Pro-Tax and Pro-Pelosi candidate after she dropped out. Good job.

By Anonymous @ Monday, November 02, 2009 8:46 AM

You were willing to sell us out on NY-23. The Republicans have been selling us out for years and that's why our country is perched on the brink of destruction at the hands of the leftists now controlling everything. Be ashamed. If you have enough sense to be ashamed but I see no indication you have the morality, ethics or commonsense to know the damage you do.

By Anonymous @ Monday, November 02, 2009 8:28 AM

Hey Newt, I did not know Dede decided to enter the race again, maybe if the polls change you can change your mind again and do like the democrats who poll to see where they stand. "Updated 11/1 - The race has evolved into a contest between a conservative and a pro-Pelosi, tax increase, big government liberal Democrat."

By Anonymous @ Monday, November 02, 2009 8:27 AM

I just have to say that Dede wasn't even a RINO. She was more than a RINO. She was just as liberal as the democrat candidate so it shouldn't have surprised anyone that she would have backed the person she shares the same values with. Dede was a mistake, and I hope the leadership learns what a huge mistake this liberal, liberal "republican" was.

By Anonymous @ Monday, November 02, 2009 8:23 AM

U sir are a fool, U sir are done. U sir are a fool, stick a fork in U. U are done. FOOL!!!!

By Anonymous @ Monday, November 02, 2009 8:16 AM

We can now put to rest this canard that "only the local leaders know best the interests of their own district", OK?

These local leaders are SO in tune with their district that they...nominated a woman who has now endorsed a Democrat?

I mean, what do we "outsiders" know about NY-23, right? All we know is that the district has been a cherry red one for 138 years, and the predecessor (John McHugh) was a staunch conservative, especially on abortion and gay marriage. So these "local leaders" at the NY pizza joint felt that the best person to represent this red district was a purple candidate? Yeah, these "local leaders" know MUCH more about their district than we "outsiders" do, right?

By the way: does our esteemed blog host NOT see the irony of a man from GA lecturing us "outsiders" on what's best for NY-23? I'm sure Mr. Gingrich takes the subway from Marietta to Oswego daily, so he clearly is more qualified than this commenter from Jacksonville, FL.

By Anonymous @ Monday, November 02, 2009 8:12 AM

Newt:
You jumped the shark with your global warming association. Now you've nuked the fridge with your attachment to Scozzafavi. See ya.

By Anonymous @ Monday, November 02, 2009 8:12 AM

Hey Newter,
Scuzzie may have done the right thing by dropping out. But, that does not excuse you from doing the wrong thing when you endorsed her in the first place.

By maidintheus @ Monday, November 02, 2009 8:09 AM

What's with people who look at Newt as if he's allowed a mistake once in a while? So, he's so ignorant that he comes out on the right side with ideas that work most of the time but the few times he makes "mistakes" are on extremely crucial and costly issues So, to be a conservative one can be correct 90% of the time and wrong in areas that ruin the economy and restrict liberty. One can sit on a couch with Nancy Pelosi and promote things based on junk science that cause excruciating costs to we the people.

Mm, mmm, mm. Climate change based on twelve trees:

http://bishophill.squarespace.com/blog/2008/8/11/caspar-and-the-jesus-paper.html

http://cobb.typepad.com/cobb/2009/10/twelve-trees.html

http://www.climateaudit.org/

Green conservatives my azz!
HR 1388 promoting volunteerism my azz!
Not wrong much, just on the most important things: Trust Newt my azz!

The only thing I can say for Newt is just maybe he thinks he's running a popularity contest.

By Anonymous @ Monday, November 02, 2009 8:04 AM

BTW, If you decide to run for president, I'll try to make it to at least one of your campaign events with a Scozzafava sign.

By Anonymous @ Monday, November 02, 2009 7:57 AM

Are you still around Newt? If so I can't imagine why. There is no man-made global warming. There is no need for RINOs. We don't want a one-party system in this country where Democrats and want-to-be-Democrats battle it out for election.

By Anonymous @ Monday, November 02, 2009 7:55 AM

I have officially given up on you Newt.

You should give up on politics and just write your little books.

By Anonymous @ Monday, November 02, 2009 7:54 AM

Newt, You've been scammed. I think you're a smart guy but... obviously not as smart as you may think you are. Your post 'Contract W/America' need to be respected or better yet liked by liberals has become an albatross around your neck. I understand! It couldn't have be fun to be daily lambasted by the "cool" & "educated" crowd as evil during your stint as speaker. However, your esoteric conservative ju-ju dance as become passe.

By Anonymous @ Monday, November 02, 2009 7:52 AM

LOL. Newt stands at the finish line, sees who is winning the race, points with enthusiasm, "Thats my pick!"

By Anonymous @ Monday, November 02, 2009 7:51 AM

Next target: Party leaders that foisted her on us in the first place.

By Anonymous @ Monday, November 02, 2009 7:46 AM

Newt had his chance back in 1994. He could have made real, lasting changes in our country. Instead, he decided to sleep around, cheat on his wife and ultimately left office. You had your chance, Newt. You proved you don't have what it takes when the pressure is on. I thought I might be able to support you again one day ... until this debacle. You seem to want everyone to LIKE you rather than stand on principles. There are too many GOPers that are the same way. Vote them all out and let's start over with real conservatives in office.

By Anonymous @ Monday, November 02, 2009 7:43 AM

I love you man but you screwed up big time on this. Now that Scozzafava has endorced the Democrat it really shows how we dodged a bullet on this one. Please Mr. Speaker don't be so quick to endorse anyone simply because they have an R after their name. Especially when they are a donkey in elephants clothing.

By Anonymous @ Monday, November 02, 2009 7:42 AM

Step aside. The revolution did not begin with overpaid ivory tower eggheads. The revolution began with the working stiff! Thanks for all your commentary, but we are standing on our own now!

By Anonymous @ Monday, November 02, 2009 7:39 AM

Hey Newt, you want Real Change (tm)?? Let's replace Michael Steele with Liz Cheney as head of the RNC. Short of having Ms. Cheney as President, I can't think of a better use for her talent.

By Anonymous @ Monday, November 02, 2009 7:05 AM

Wow. What an act of bravery! LOL This is so funny it makes me cry/laugh...now he endorses Hoffman. Hey Newt, <newsflash> the train already left the station....we don't care about your endorsement. You and the RINO establishment have been fired. See ya! LOLOLROFLMAO.

By Anonymous @ Monday, November 02, 2009 7:01 AM

I'm disappointed. Conservatives are going to leave republicans behind if Newt and others don't catch up..REALLY QUICK. I am angry that you thought you could get away with this when every step of the way the subterfuge was picked up on. Scozzafava is a republican and i suppose her union boss husband is too, heh? please. I"m about sick and tired of this.

By Anonymous @ Monday, November 02, 2009 6:20 AM

As for all you conservatives...

Why don't you start your own free blog?

Go to http://open.salon.com and follow the easy instructions.

Join the revolution!

Sincerely, Poorsinner101

http://open.salon.com/blog/poorsinner101

By Anonymous @ Monday, November 02, 2009 6:07 AM

I'm confused, "The race has evolved into a contest between a conservative and a pro-Pelosi, tax increase, big government liberal Democrat." Wouldn't this statement have been more appropriate if made a few weeks ago regarding Hoffman and the phony republican? I'm sorry Newt, but you lost me when you sat on that couch with Pelosi.

By Anonymous @ Monday, November 02, 2009 5:55 AM

Newt, I've always liked you. I have to wonder though, what the heck is going on with you and your "leadership" buddies. You seem to have forgotten the way to win is not to out Democrat the Democrats, but to have conservative principles and stick to them.

Come on Newt. You guys need to get your heads out and start realizing what is going on in this country, or you WILL be left behind.

By Anonymous @ Monday, November 02, 2009 5:52 AM

Dear Newt,

WTF? The time is now for conservatism and yet you chose a liberal over Hoffman. After the couch time with Pelosis, I wrote you off my 2012 list. Palin made the right choice, you were forced to make the right decision only after your dog couldn't hunt no more.

http://open.salon.com/blog/poorsinner101

By Anonymous @ Monday, November 02, 2009 5:09 AM

Just because a mouse lives in a cookie jar doesn't mean he's a cookie.

In other words; Just because someone registers as a Republican doesn't mean she's a Republican.

I am fed up with RINOS and will vote for the conservative candidate in the future.

By Anonymous @ Monday, November 02, 2009 4:48 AM

Sigh ... Newt you are a very big part of the problem, not part of the solution.
You repukelican'ts better get a grip on CONSERVATIVE values, and implement them yesterday, or your sick RHINO fraud of a partee is going the way of the Whigs.
Talk is not going to cut it anymore.
There is wave happening and you either go with it or it WILL crush you
Btw newt, you are no Reagan, you never were, and you obviously never will be.

By Anonymous @ Monday, November 02, 2009 4:32 AM

Newt, I'm so disappointed with your lack of discernment.

By Anonymous @ Monday, November 02, 2009 3:36 AM

Now let me get this straight...

Mr. Gingrich is allowed this "mistake" and we must attract and retain moderates within a big tent in order to regain power.

Waaallll, let's analyze this for a moment -

A "mistake" by a seasoned political operative can certainly happen, but this was so basic in its nature, and the silly 'justifications' he put out so juvenile (big tent, bring in people who disagree, ad nauseum), that I am now convinced that the former Speaker is a pragmatist at heart...Sir, I am an American/conservative, not a Republican, first and foremost. Your reaction to this farce has been appallingly cowardly...why not just own up to this 'mistake,' if in fact that's what it was?

Secondly, please stop attempting to invoke the legacy of Ronald Reagan while spewing forth this Big Tent Myth. Goldwater, Reagan, Buckley, etc. were known for their uncompromising principles. The lack of same was the reason I did not vote for McCain....(or OBAMA!).....

I've been in politics for decades as a Republican.....looks like the Party, as typified by your recent judgments in NY23, has finally and irrevocably left me.

Very, Very Sincerely,

Stephen.

By Anonymous @ Monday, November 02, 2009 3:10 AM

Newt, how can you support Hoffman? You just said a few days ago that a vote for Hoffman was a vote for Nancy Pelosi as speaker!

Oh wait, I saw that TV ad you made with Pelosi...maybe that explains it...

By Anonymous @ Monday, November 02, 2009 3:05 AM

Real Shocker that Dede is backing the Liberal now.
Who didn't see that coming.

By Anonymous @ Monday, November 02, 2009 2:53 AM

I hope the money was worth it Newt, because you were not standing on principal backing Dede.

The problem is, you have been in the beltway so long you can't see what you have become.
You are a part of the elite that is fleecing this country.

I think Arlen Specter is looking for a campaign manager - should be right up your alley.

By Anonymous @ Monday, November 02, 2009 2:48 AM

It's wonderful, that you are finally on board. What were you thinking?

Boy, I can't take this much longer. We need a lot more new blood running America. How about stepping aside, Newt?

By Anonymous @ Monday, November 02, 2009 2:44 AM

Stop, drop, and roll Newt!

RINOs, Diablos, Me-too Republicans, it's all the same. Fiscal conservatism, Social Moderatism is the way to go. Independents are going to have their voices heard in the next 4 years, you would do well to listen.

By Anonymous @ Monday, November 02, 2009 2:43 AM

I tell ya, there's something in the water along the whole Eastern seaboard... Repubs turn into RINOs and forget there was ever such a thing as conservative principles. They start thinking the way to beat the Dems is to out-Dem them.

No, not so.

The best way to beat the Dems is to STAND FOR SOMETHING. Which Newt, apparently, forgot.

Don't support a candidate because of the initial after the name. Support the candidate because they believe in smaller, less-intrusive government.

Is that a difficult concept?

By Anonymous @ Monday, November 02, 2009 2:41 AM

Now that you've come to your senses and endorsed Mr. Hoffman, what about those who've already voted absentee based upon your original endorsement? Those votes, which might have gone to the true conservative, have been rendered worthless.

Thanks for nothing.

By Anonymous @ Monday, November 02, 2009 2:15 AM

After signing on to the Global Warming Hoax--which has now been definitively, totally exploded by Prof. Lindzen at MIT--Newt supports a pro-abort for Congress.

If you endorse a pro-abort, you ARE pro-abort, Newt, unless the only alternatives are all pro-abort, and worse in other respects.

By Anonymous @ Monday, November 02, 2009 2:11 AM

• Nevertheless Conservatives around the nation got behind the Howard campaign, raised him a ton of money and, in polls released at the end of last week, he was running neck-and-neck with the Democrat Owens. Scozzafava was falling into a distant third.
• Saturday she dropped out; yesterday she endorsed the Democrat.

Great job newt (small case intentional).
Mayby Pilosie will let you back on the set for another "climate sit down". I thought you walked on water in 90 & 92. Now I find that you are just another politician.

Some state here that you can still lead--Do use all the favor of not being a distraction and stay out of this grass roots effort.

By Anonymous @ Monday, November 02, 2009 1:51 AM

"Where is this generation's Ronald Reagan?"

SHE's in Alaska! :)

By Anonymous @ Monday, November 02, 2009 1:44 AM

Yeah, unfortunately, I have to add my voice of disappointment to all of the other voices here and only because I know what Newt is capable of seeing what he did in 94. I was/am so impressed with the man, but he gives the impression of someone who is beholden to other interests rather than putting principles (not ideological purity, but principles) first.

Honestly, it wasn't until this six months that I've finally agreed with the sentiment that it is better to stand on principles and lose so that when things go south everyone can clearly see your way would have been better than to compromise and appear to be just another part of the corrupt system that caused the problems.

Newt, you can be a great leader. You still can be a great leader especially now that we need deep thinkers like you who can communicate principles. Just stand on principles and stop appearing to compromise principles that make it appear you are beholden to other interests. This Scozzafava incident should be your final wake up call to break the pragmatist ties that have been binding you and once more be the principled conservative that will once again give you the freedom to accomplish great things now that we need you and people like you the most.

"Where is this generation's Ronald Reagan?"

By Anonymous @ Monday, November 02, 2009 1:41 AM

Newt,

This just goes to show that you've been in Washington way too long and you're totally out of touch with reality. Now step aside and let the conservative movement take back our Country, no thanks to you!

By Anonymous @ Monday, November 02, 2009 1:38 AM

I glad Hoffman now has your support.

By Anonymous @ Monday, November 02, 2009 1:36 AM

Just in case anyone is really interested this all really got in high gear with newt after he got chummy with the pope.

By Anonymous @ Monday, November 02, 2009 1:30 AM

http://vimeo.com/6445068

the jig's up.

By Anonymous @ Monday, November 02, 2009 1:29 AM

First of all, I loved the DVD on Ronald Reagan...but I think you really missed the point on the NY-23 election. It is the principles of the candidate, not the initial after the name that is important. Sure Dede S. was running as a Republican, but when it came down to voting on an issue, which way do you think she'd vote? It's obvious now, isn't it?

By Anonymous @ Monday, November 02, 2009 1:28 AM

So Newt made a real big mistake lets not thow him under the bus he is kind of beat up from the last bus. So lets look at the positive he sure did show alot of politicions how not to behave and that is a good thing.

By Anonymous @ Monday, November 02, 2009 1:24 AM

My name is Richard Canty.

I am a Conservative.

Newt Gingrich died today.

I mourn for no RINO.

Go away now, Newt.

I am Richard Canty and I approve this message.

By Anonymous @ Monday, November 02, 2009 1:21 AM

I was disappointed to see you were endorsing Scozzafava as part of the "Party" and not necessarily the Conservative with conservative views. You are the problem with the Republican Party. You and others that put the Republican Party above "We the People" are worse for this country than the Liberal Democrats. I do hope this is a wake up call to you, now that She has stabbed you, and the Conservatives in the back.

To be fair to you, I do appreciate your service.

By Anonymous @ Monday, November 02, 2009 1:16 AM

Newt Gingrich and the Republican Party continue to *earn* the animosity of the Conservative movement.

Henceforth, you are both irrelevant.

Bill Krupicka
Linville, NC

By Anonymous @ Monday, November 02, 2009 1:15 AM

Newt lost most of his credibility, with me and a lot of other conservatives, when he declared his support for the Religion of Global Warming; what remained was shredded with his endorsement of Dede. There's no coming back from this, unless he'd like to take over the recently vacated Green Jobs Czar position in the Obama administration.

I hear doublespeak for political points is highly respected there.

By Anonymous @ Monday, November 02, 2009 1:12 AM

I hope Newt reads every word in this thread. He might learn something about how the disdain citizens have for the spoiled elite that inhabit the beltway.

The RNC sent me a nice large envelope for donations. I sent them Newt's book with a note that read simply "NY 23"

By Anonymous @ Monday, November 02, 2009 1:11 AM

Newt was interviewed on Sean Hannity's radio show a few days ago. Did Hannity hold Newt's feet to the fire over his endorsing Scuzzywuzzy, or did he give his pal a pass? Anyone hear it?

By Anonymous @ Monday, November 02, 2009 1:03 AM

Who would have ever thought the man who wrote the Contract With America would commit political suicide over Dede Scozzafava? Newt Gingrich - the Great American RINO!

Angry White Dude

By Anonymous @ Monday, November 02, 2009 12:59 AM

Hey RINO, the website makes it "Anonymous". This is Jim McGovern in Apopka, FL and Newt Gingrich needs to get a clue because he apparently does not realize the shift ocurring in this country to Conservatism. Or, maybe he does and isn't one? Either way, he's not who I hoped he was but I suppose I knew that already when I saw him on the couch with Pelosi.

By Anonymous @ Monday, November 02, 2009 12:52 AM

I didn't agree with Newt endorsing Scuzzy but trashing his web page with vitriol anonymously is trollish. You guys are just here on some little hatefest. Hopefully, you'll save a little of your venom for 0bama, Pelosi and the Dems.

By Anonymous @ Monday, November 02, 2009 12:52 AM

Your a good and decent man however next time think of how Reagan would have approached that race...'NO pastel colors'....Reagan would have endorsed Doug Hoffman from the beginning :)

By Anonymous @ Monday, November 02, 2009 12:50 AM

I just read this about Newt, I thought I knew who was... Not so. It has 2 parts.
http://www.newswithviews.com/Devvy/kidd449.htm

By Anonymous @ Monday, November 02, 2009 12:49 AM

My goodness! I had no idea so many others were as outraged by your initial support of Scozzafava as I was.. Newt, there is a groundswell of Reagan conservatism moving across the country. We are all tired of politics as usual and the erosion of the America Reagan believed in and we all still do. But on Sunday, when Scozzafava issued a written statement in which she backed Democrat Bill Owens, I hope you realized how flawed your blind support of the republican party was. Instead, you should be championing the cause of conservatism

By Anonymous @ Monday, November 02, 2009 12:40 AM

I mean if this isn't the ultimate example of how when people stay in Washington to long they become part of the establishment, I don't know what is. I guess everyone, including Newt, are defenseless against it's power. Even he will sell out his Conservative convictions for a little air time, one-on-one with Pelosi, or the "good of the GOP". They never understand we are through with the GOP and the RINO takeover. Get a clue Newt or get out of the way.

By Anonymous @ Monday, November 02, 2009 12:39 AM

For those of you who are saying this is Newts' only mistake haven't been paying attention. The change Newt is talking about on the top of this page is changing from conservative principles to whatever needs to come out of your mouth to get elected. I am sad. I have backed Newt forever and his iron grip on history. It's time for him to join it. History that is.

By Anonymous @ Monday, November 02, 2009 12:28 AM

"The man admitted he made a mistake by rescinding his endorsement. He's been a fighter for, literally, decades on our behalf. And now, because he made a mistake regarding some small district none of us ever even heard of until two months ago, Newt should take a permanent hike?"

Made a mistake? No, my friend... he did more than that. He ABANDONED his principles in an attempt to get some sort of "win" in this particular race. What he has done for "decades" is irrelevant when those gains are being tossed aside.

THIS is how the Democrat's snuck up on us. Those little victories in "some small district none of us ever even heard of" add up.

By Anonymous @ Monday, November 02, 2009 12:26 AM

Take a hike Newt. You have been voted out of the 'big tent'.

By Anonymous @ Monday, November 02, 2009 12:26 AM

Hey, what's a million or two out of the RNC and NRCC for a candidate none of us wanted right Newt? That's pocket change for you guys. Except it came from us of course. And you have the nerve to ask me for $100 for a DVD? Oh and your moderate that you were backing is now backing the Democrat candidate. Pure genius Newt.

By Anonymous @ Monday, November 02, 2009 12:17 AM

You have been exposed as a consummate Beltway elite who cares only about the TV circuit and hanging out with the self-appointed and self-congratulatory crowd in DC. I am sure you consider yourself a member of the ruling elite, just the sort of folks that were pushed aside during the US Revolutionary War.

Good riddance Newt. You suck.

By Anonymous @ Monday, November 02, 2009 12:13 AM

Newt. It's ok. Please continue fighting for freedom. I don't care if you miscalculated. I do care if you have lost sight of why you became a conservative. Keep you chin up

By Anonymous @ Monday, November 02, 2009 12:11 AM

Newt, standing on principle is always most important. When you support someone with ideas you (supposedly) don't believe in you are lying to yourself and others - regardless of "strategy". The truth of Conservatism is what wins and when people are true to it they win.

Is not standing on principle the 'Real Change' you're talking about? Seems like the same old BS games to me from yet another Republican afraid to support a conservative.

By Anonymous @ Monday, November 02, 2009 12:09 AM

TOO LITTLE, TOO LATE NEWT - YOUR PICK NOW ENDORSES THE DEMOCRAT!

She is a pig and you are swine for endorsing her in the first place!

By Anonymous @ Monday, November 02, 2009 12:05 AM

Once again the powers in the Republican party chose party over principal & endorsed that slimeball that called herself a Republican. Thia is exactly why the volume from the Tea Parties is getting louder & the numbers growing. NO MORE RINO's & forget the "big tent"

By Anonymous @ Monday, November 02, 2009 12:04 AM

Newt, don't bother running in '12. I just don't trust you.

By Anonymous @ Sunday, November 01, 2009 11:57 PM

A real eye-opener:
"WHO IS THE REAL NEWT GINGRICH?"
http://www.newswithviews.com/Devvy/kidd450.htm

By Anonymous @ Sunday, November 01, 2009 11:53 PM

It's too late, Newt. Just admit that you're a liberal now and join the democrat party.

By Anonymous @ Sunday, November 01, 2009 11:46 PM

Newt, go sell some books. Write a memoir. Take up golf or fly-fishing. It will do you a world of good I promise. Hold hands with Nanny Pelosi and talk about man-made global warming. Get a cabin in the mountains.
Join the Democrat party openly, Like Arlen Specter. Why go on with the charade?

By Anonymous @ Sunday, November 01, 2009 11:42 PM

For all those who try to chalk this up as just one mistake, and how we still need to honor Newt for the good he has done in the past, you must not remember the budget battle of 1995-96. Newt Gingrich messed up the best chance in a generation to reign in the size and power of government.

Back then Republicans passed a continuing budget resolution and Clinton refused to sign it, so the government shut down. Fantastic news! Democrats are the ones who love big government, and their constituents were the ones being cut off at the government trough. All the pressure was on Clinton to cave in. Instead, it was the Republicans, led by Newt, who ended up caving.

Newt and the Republicans should have kept passing the same budget resolution with very minor variations and sending it back to Clinton. Force him to keep vetoing it day after day. Make him the one responsible for the impasse. And meanwhile show the public that a government shutdown wasn't the end of the world. Our country could get along quite nicely with only the most essential government services still operating.

Newt also lost the high moral ground by letting it be known that a lot of his motivation was a "snub" from President Clinton during their trip to Israel for the funeral of assassinated Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin. According to Newt, that snub was "part of why you ended up with us sending down a tougher continuing resolution". So instead of the budget battle being a matter of principle, he made it clear that it was more a matter of personal pique and wounded vanity.

Remember how well that went over with the general public?

So I am not the least bit surprised by recent events in NY-23. This was not an aberration. This was not a one-time mistake. This was the same old Newt Gingrich.

By Anonymous @ Sunday, November 01, 2009 11:38 PM

Hack!

By Anonymous @ Sunday, November 01, 2009 11:31 PM

Newt is an ol' boy politician's politician.

Newt is for... Newt.

In 1998 he refused to back Congresswoman Linda Smith in Washington State in her run for the US Senate because she was a Conservative before she was a Republican. As a result, the senate seat that she was running for - and her seat in the House - have been Democrat EVER SINCE.

Thanks, Newt!

By Anonymous @ Sunday, November 01, 2009 11:29 PM

Hey Newton;

If you are lucky you can position yourself as a Deputy Secretary of one of the thousands of posts available to washed up p;d politicians. Problem is if Palin enters the fray for 2012 as a Repub or Independent and wins your chances are -100% of doing even that. You could run for Chief of Animal Control in Altoona New York....Just a thought...

By Anonymous @ Sunday, November 01, 2009 11:17 PM

Newt,

I loved your "HOW DUMB DO THEY THINK WE ARE" speech at CPAC.

What happened?

By Anonymous @ Sunday, November 01, 2009 11:03 PM

I am ashamed of you Newt. You are just like all the other RINOs that want to be "Democrat-Lite". I will not hold my nose and vote for RINOs any more just because they are the lesser of two evils. That includes YOU if you run for Prez in 2012.

By Anonymous @ Sunday, November 01, 2009 11:02 PM

I want to give him a break, he had it right on the bailouts, one of few voices. Yet, how to explain the massive disconnect as of late? And in this case, how does 1 seat have anything to do with where this country will be in 10 years, with another 10 trillion debt? the D's will use whatever parlimentary trick anyway.

Its the flock to a man of fiscal principle that is important, and needs to be the wave leading to 2010 elections.

By Anonymous @ Sunday, November 01, 2009 10:56 PM

I remember when Newt appeared on the Jay Leno Show shortly after the 1994 elections. I was saddened by the fact that he appeared to really want to be loved by the left-wing media. He is, I suppose, McCainesque. Take a hike, Newt and step aside.

By Anonymous @ Sunday, November 01, 2009 10:55 PM

Newt,

You ceased to be a factor when you sat on that couch with San Fran Nan. Now you've completely blown what little respect any of us Conservatives had for you.

Welcome to irrelevancy.

By Anonymous @ Sunday, November 01, 2009 10:52 PM

"By Anonymous @ Sunday, November 01, 2009 10:44 PM
How do we get the rest of the RHINO out of the races around the country. The GOP has quietly gotten behind several others including Mccain putting his idiots in the race and we need them GONE. We have to elect the real people, hopefully business people that understand Americans and who are true conservatives."

You mean like George Bush 43, our MBA President? The man who left the Republican Party in shambles (like his dad did)?

By Anonymous @ Sunday, November 01, 2009 10:45 PM

Newt can join Frum, Brooks, C. Buckley, Kathleen Parker and the rest of the liberal GOPers as the liberal's favorite "conservatives."

By Anonymous @ Sunday, November 01, 2009 10:44 PM

How do we get the rest of the RHINO out of the races around the country. The GOP has quietly gotten behind several others including Mccain putting his idiots in the race and we need them GONE. We have to elect the real people, hopefully business people that understand Americans and who are true conservatives.

By Anonymous @ Sunday, November 01, 2009 10:44 PM

Wow, Dr. Gingrich, what a clusterfvck this is!

By Anonymous @ Sunday, November 01, 2009 10:44 PM

Newty, Newty, Newty,
As a long time Georgia Independent conservative, I am sincerely disappointed in your New York action.
I cannot tell you how many times I have defended you, praised you and admired you.
I retired and am now living in SC, Joe"You lie."Wilson is now my congress critter.
I understand a spontaneous outburst, I don't understand the endorsement of a person you had ample opportunity to vet.
Dede is a flaming liberal, living in a Republican district, of course she called herself Republican, she wouldn't have stood a chance as a Dim.
Support the party at all costs?
How has that turned out for you?
We see how your fav, Dede, has handled it.

By Anonymous @ Sunday, November 01, 2009 10:43 PM

In re my comment below about Sen. Voinovich being the poster child for party members who have gotten a lot of flack for not being "conservative enough". While he was Governor of Ohio, he was against tax cuts in favor replenishing the rainy-day fund. Turns out he was right. If the Republican Ohio House and Senate had not drained the rainy day fund, Ohio would not be facing the tough times it budget wise.

Score one for Voinovich.

Likewise, Voinovich got a lot of flack for not toeing the Bush line on a number of issues, including the war and the budget. Voinovich turned out to be right again.

Score two and three for Voinovich. (He was also right about Bush.)

The point is, although I agree Dede had no business running for that seat, just because someone doesn't march lock-step with the party doesn't mean they should be driven out of it. In fact, if our national leaders were more Voinovich-like and Newt-like, I think our country might be better for it.

For the record, I'm pretty close to being a 100% economic conservative. I am also a social conservative, but sick and tired of the culture wars. Keep that discussion at home or in the church.

By Anonymous @ Sunday, November 01, 2009 10:43 PM

Newt.....

Instead of hitching your wagon to this idiot Scozzafava, pissing off every Conservative in America, AND destroying your credibility forever, why didn't you and the rest of the idiot GOP go out to California 10?

There is a REAL conservative in California 10 that could have used your help.

Go away Newt, it's time for you to retire and write some more books and make some more DVDs.

By Anonymous @ Sunday, November 01, 2009 10:42 PM

Putting aside Scozzawhatver, "Real Change Requires Real Change" is the funniest self-referential parody of politico-business jargon I have ever heard. Newt, my hat's off to you for lampooning in five words an entire lost generation of psycho-babbling clowns who poll-test catchphrases to make themselves sound profound and important. I mean, it IS a parody. Right?

By Anonymous @ Sunday, November 01, 2009 10:41 PM

The over-reaction on this thread is embarrassing. The man admitted he made a mistake by rescinding his endorsement. He's been a fighter for, literally, decades on our behalf. And now, because he made a mistake regarding some small district none of us ever even heard of until two months ago, Newt should take a permanent hike? You people are going "full retard" on this one. And we all know, you never win when you go full retard.

By Anonymous @ Sunday, November 01, 2009 10:37 PM

Anonymous @ Sunday, November 01, 2009 10:33 PM

AMEN!

Some of the vitriol is just laughable.

By Anonymous @ Sunday, November 01, 2009 10:37 PM

OK - I guess Newt could claim ignorance about how radical this person he was endorsing but he is not. Why doesn't he express more than disappointment and state that he had no idea how wacked this person was?

By Anonymous @ Sunday, November 01, 2009 10:36 PM

Smooth move, Ex-Lax! I want the old Newt back.

By Anonymous @ Sunday, November 01, 2009 10:36 PM

"According to Gingrich, Hoffman DOES NOT LIVE in New York's 23rd congressional district"

And this is just another reason you should be angry at Gingrich.

1) Hoffman lived in the 23rd for years, and he never moved. The 23rd left -him- in the 2000 redistricting. Do you seriously think that, if you live in a district, and then someone changes the shape of the district to exclude your house in an effort to gerrymander the district, that you are a "carpetbagger"? Really?

2) If so, then Gingrich is the worst sort of hypocrite, because a very similar thing happened to him in 1992 (in his case, Georgia picked up an extra seat in the House as a result of the 1990 census), which changed the districts around, and he thus also ran in a district he didn't technically live in.

3) Gingrich either knew this, which makes him both disingenuous and a hypocrite, or he was easily conned by a liberal masquerading as a Republican. Since this was discovered and published all over conservative blogs a few days after he attacked Hoffman, and I never heard Newt own up to it, I'm gonna go with the former. If I just missed it and he did apologize for the smear, well, then he's just responsible for vastly expanding the reach of a Democrat smear without checking the facts.

And this is his only mistake? Please. How about carrying water for Nancy Pelosi on the entire global warming trojan horse for socialism nonsense? This is hardly the first time Gingrich has abandoned principle for power. Thankfully, he'll wind up with neither.

By Anonymous @ Sunday, November 01, 2009 10:35 PM

Newt is a traitor. I will turn Fox News off the next time his lying tongue is unleashed on the airwaves.

Newton G. Kennedy should plan on skipping the Iowa Caucuses and NH right now. And he can take Michael Steele along with him and Scozzafava, too.

By Anonymous @ Sunday, November 01, 2009 10:33 PM

I'm glad Scozzafava is out, but this Newt bashing is crazy! Take a freakin' breath, people. These is the sort of over the top reaction that makes us look idiotic. So Newt was wrong on this one. Now he should get out of the party??!!! Are you people effin' serious?!

By Anonymous @ Sunday, November 01, 2009 10:28 PM

Will the real Newt please stand up....no...never mind...just sit down and then go away. What a waste....it's about the "Principle" thing Newt...not the Party thing. You blew it....big time.

By Anonymous @ Sunday, November 01, 2009 10:26 PM

Hey Newt! CAN YOU HEAR US NOW???

Are you going to get the million dollars PLUS back from the Scozzafava campaign now that she has supported the Democrat?

By Anonymous @ Sunday, November 01, 2009 10:25 PM

Hey guys, Newt's heart was in the right place on this one. I don't think he did his research on Dede, though. Dede was a liberal, plain and simple.

That said, conservatives were all over Sen. Voinovich a few years ago because he wasn't toing the line for Bush. Sen. Voinovich is the poster child for talented publc servants who might not exactly toe the conservative line, but are "conservative enough" and should be worked with rather than driven from the party.

Like him or not, Voinovich was a common-sense governor who was known for running a frugal government. He ran into trouble when he refused to sign onto a tax cut proposed by the more dogmatic members of the Ohio House and Senate, preferring to stockpile the money in a rainy day fund. Taxes were cut, the rainy day fund was depleted and Ohio is in a mess because the Republicans chose dogma over common sense. In other words, his common sense judgment proved to be more correct than the conservative dogma which prevailed.

I think that's all Newt is trying to say. Too bad he didn't pick someone more worthy for the "big tent" than Dede.

By Anonymous @ Sunday, November 01, 2009 10:24 PM

Mr. G.

My family & I were surprised when we saw Scozzafava's positions on issues where she clearly was Liberal on several - the worst of which for me was her backing of Card Check.

Our family tends to be more moderate in our conservative positions, but just the same, can see a blatant Liberal masquerading as a Republican when we see & listen to one! So should you, Michael Steele, and the GOP. Why did you guys insist on blindly following her when the warning signs were so crystal clear?

I was astounded at your initial endorsement of her, then your "doubling down" and then even "tripling down" on endorsing her regardless of know her overtly Liberal positions right up until yesterday. She clearly was prophylactically running interference for the Dems by insuring a Liberal force if she won the ticket even before discovering her poll numbers were dropping like a rock. Look at her speeches, positions, and behaviors - including calling the police on a reporter for asking her position questions for a ridiculous example and she even lied about the incident - I listened to the tapes of the incident and she clearly was out of line.

Now after backing out of the race and especially now that she & her husband have BOTH come out backing Owens and big labor, this RINO Scozzafava just flipped her finger off to you, the GOP, conservatives, and moderates alike. She is just pissed because she got caught ahead of the vote at trying to scam the voters into thinking she really is a Republican. She is clearly a Liberal and already working the WH & Dems for something.

Her shameful excuse she issued today was disingenuous, at a minimum, and equates to thievery of trust, blatant disregard for principals & integrity, and of the GOP monetary backing that she, in fact, curried for her own gain.

Her actions today reinforce what so many of us suspected before hand and now have full confirmation of - and that is that she is a dishonest Liberal that tried to fake it as a Republican, in name only, for ulterior motives to give the Democrats a helping hand in the long run.

I fully believe that her intent from the start was to "play ball" for the unions and do whatever she could as a false Republican to play politics just like Spectre has done with the Liberals.

In a nutshell, you and the GOP have been played for fools.

Shame on you all, you could see the same speeches and postions the rest of us did on Scozzafava and she is a shameful liar and attempted to cheat the public's trust.

Because you willfully disregarded the warning signs, you have damaged yourself and your political reputation as well.

By Anonymous @ Sunday, November 01, 2009 10:23 PM

Nuke Newt

By Anonymous @ Sunday, November 01, 2009 10:23 PM

It's time ALL Republicans wake up and smell the coffee. It's a new game now, and We Will Not Put Another RINO in for any reason. God forbid we've got to put up w/BO one more day than need be ... But we do need OUR reps to listen to US! Get In Touch!

By Anonymous @ Sunday, November 01, 2009 10:22 PM

Newt out, Sarah Sunshine in.

By Anonymous @ Sunday, November 01, 2009 10:22 PM

I remember Malcolm Wallop saying that if the Democrats proposed burning down the Capitol, the Republicans would counter with an alternate plan to phase in the conflagration over three years. I never thought you were one of those Republicans, but I was apparently in error.

By Anonymous @ Sunday, November 01, 2009 10:21 PM

Apologies for repeating this message, but I want all and sundry to know who wrote it. Enough of this "anonymous" nonsense.

First it was sitting on a couch with Nancy Pelosi chatting about "Green" alternatives to our present sources of energy - in spite of the fact that she is the driving force behind a Cap & Trade Bill that will, if enacted, destroy our economy.

Then it was trashing Rush Limbaugh and Reagan Conservatives as being part of the "old way" of thinking.

Finally, it was endorsing DeDe "Benedict Arnold" Scozzafava who, after dropping out of the race yesterday as she proclaimed herself a "proud Republican," today endorsed the Democrat.

That's three strikes, Newt. You are a washed-up has-been - the merest shell of a Reaganite. You are the centerpiece of a collection of RINO relics that will soon be relegated to the dustbin of American history.

The next generation sees the wisdom of the Gipper - a wisdom you appear to have lost in your desire to aggrandize yourself at the expense of principles you once held dear.

Time to get out of the way, old man. We have no more use for you.

Col. Rash
Manly's Republic
www.manlyrash.com

By Anonymous @ Sunday, November 01, 2009 10:21 PM

Benedict Gingrich can join that traitor Scozzafava and leave the GOP too.

By Anonymous @ Sunday, November 01, 2009 10:11 PM

C'mon guys, lay off Newt!

His heart was absolutely in the right place, but his efforts were misplaced here. (They were also misplaced by breaking bread with Nancy Pelosi surreptitious attempt to find another source of revenue.) Newt should have researched Dede better before walking the plank for the party.

It's not so much that conservatives are intolerant of candidates who deviate from the conservative line, its when they deviate from hot-button issues that define conservatism. Thus, when George Bush wants to shove prescription drugs down our thoats or Olympia Snowe wants to facilitate an expansion of government or Bush 41 breaks his tax pledge, we are going to be mad.

It's very simple: Stick to the platform of low taxes, small government, pro-business and cutting government spending and we support you. If you are for expanding government, raising taxes, hurting business and increasing spending, we won't.

Who cares about abortion, gay marriage and all that other garbage? Some do, but you don't get booted like Dede did over those issues.

By Anonymous @ Sunday, November 01, 2009 10:05 PM

If you had a shred of integrity left, you might at least admit you were terribly wrong.

What happended to you?

By Anonymous @ Sunday, November 01, 2009 10:02 PM

Newt, I am only 36 years old. I believed in you back in 1994 when I was on active duty in the USMC, and you had the Contract with America, but I along with many others here have lost my faith in you, your judgment and your ability to lead the American people, specifically the Republican party. Please step admit you were wrong, and kindly step aside for good.

By Anonymous @ Sunday, November 01, 2009 10:00 PM

Newt should have opened his paragraph with..."The race has evolved into a contest between a true, red blooded conservative and 2 pro-Pelosi, tax increase, big government liberals, one of them with an R in front of her name: I really wanted her to win." You could have been a contendah, Newt!

I am JBart

By Anonymous @ Sunday, November 01, 2009 9:59 PM

Look for Dede to get a posh position at AmericanSolutions soon. She could work on their Card Check project, if Newt chooses to go leftward on that idea. Heck, guess Dede's husband could be brought along for some consulting work?

By Anonymous @ Sunday, November 01, 2009 9:59 PM

To: Anonymous @ Saturday, October 31, 2009 12:40 PM
The Dede endorsement was the only serious error of judgment I've seen Newt make. Such stupidity belongs in the Dem party. Didn't you see his love-in with Pelosi and the Global Warming scam?

By Anonymous @ Sunday, November 01, 2009 9:59 PM

Newt,

What a waste of a great mind and a great voice in the cause for conservative values. You made a horrible choice betting on this RINO Scuzzyflatulence. I believe that you have ruined your career and any chances of ever becoming the President. Your support for this liberal democrat faker has just brought you down, and it's very unfortunate. Because you stand for many causes that are important to our country.

The first time you completely lost me was when you were sitting down with that socialist Pelosi advocating for the Global Warming scam. What the hell happened to you??????

I'm very sad, Newt. I hope you can sit down and swallow your pride and admit you were wrong, deeply wrong here.

By Anonymous @ Sunday, November 01, 2009 9:59 PM

I am beyond disappointed with you Newt.

By Anonymous @ Sunday, November 01, 2009 9:58 PM

You should be ashamed, Newt.

By Anonymous @ Sunday, November 01, 2009 9:57 PM

First it was sitting on a couch with Nancy Pelosi chatting about "Green" alternatives to our present sources of energy - in spite of the fact that she is the driving force behind a Cap & Trade Bill that will, if enacted, destroy our economy.

Then it was trashing Rush Limbaugh and Reagan Conservatives as being part of the "old way" of thinking.

Finally, it was endorsing DeDe "Benedict Arnold" Scozzafava who, after dropping out of the race yesterday as she proclaimed herself a "proud Republican," today endorsed the Democrat.

That's three strikes, Newt. You are a washed-up has-been - the merest shell of a Reaganite. You are the centerpiece of a collection of RINO relics that will soon be relegated to the dustbin of American history.

The next generation sees the wisdom of the Gipper - a wisdom you appear to have lost in your desire to aggrandize yourself at the expense of principles you once held dear.

Time to get out of the way, old man. We have no more use for you.

By Anonymous @ Sunday, November 01, 2009 9:53 PM

Why is it I keep thinking of the scene in "Animal House" where D-Day leads the Faber marching band down the alley and right into a dead end?

By Anonymous @ Sunday, November 01, 2009 9:49 PM

May your political career rest in peace, Mr. Speaker.

By Anonymous @ Sunday, November 01, 2009 9:48 PM

Your time is over

By Anonymous @ Sunday, November 01, 2009 9:48 PM

Nute, you should lock yourself in a room with a revolver and a single bullet and do the honorable thing.

By Anonymous @ Sunday, November 01, 2009 9:40 PM

Sir,
Just to let you know I would have fought a liberal to the ends of the earth to defend your conservative ideas and thought process, but lately I honestly can't figure you out. You appear on a couch with Nancy Pelosi regarding the global warming hoax and then you endorse liberal Republicans? What in the hell has gone wrong with you? Have you been in Washington so long now that you can no longer tell the difference between Washington society elites (I am including Rockefeller Republicans here too) and the rest of real America? I am appalled sir, that I ever believed you were different.

By Anonymous @ Sunday, November 01, 2009 9:37 PM

The real news is in noting that the party base will no longer sit still for the tiny, elite RINO party apparatus to wag the tail of the 85% conservative dog....

By Anonymous @ Sunday, November 01, 2009 9:37 PM

Newt,

You were wrong. Dead wrong.

Everything the true Conservative Moment said about Scozzafava came to utter true fruition today with her endorsement of Owens.

It was amazingly sad to see you play GOP party apologist instead of conservative leader on this issue.

In DC, the GOP leadership is just as out of touch with conservatism as the Democrats are. Likewise the same is true with the GOP in NY23. $1MM on Scozzafava?! Give me a break. I won't be giving any of my money to the GOP for some time.

And I'm stop listening to you for an equal amount of time. You've lost a lot of credibility with me on this. I thought you'd put the Movement over the Party. Evidently and disappointingly, I thought wrong.

By Anonymous @ Sunday, November 01, 2009 9:36 PM

Apologizer: "figure out a way to get back in the game. "

NO. That path is trodden. You are thinking inside the box.

I don't want to play this game anymore. DC is messing with peoples lives. Time to hit the reset button. We need to answer this question (man=citizen):

"1 man = 1 vote" or "$1 = 1 vote" ?

By Anonymous @ Sunday, November 01, 2009 9:36 PM

The very fact that she endorsed the Democrat show how spectacularly you misjudged this whole episode. You should be embarrassed beyond description. Yes some contests will need moderates but not one that hasn't elected a Democrat inover a hundred years. Moreover, her record was liberal in every way. (bogus pledges don't count). You have learned nothing in the last 8 years.

By Anonymous @ Sunday, November 01, 2009 9:35 PM

By Anonymous @ Sunday, November 01, 2009 9:31 PM

You appear in a commercial with Al Sharpton and you deserve to be banished to the land of morons who didn't know when to stay off the television. Your latest moronic escapade is just an affirmation of you bad decision making.

By Anonymous @ Sunday, November 01, 2009 9:28 PM

Ideas have meaning. Ideas have consequences. You of all people should know this. I was disappointed in your original endorsement.

By Anonymous @ Sunday, November 01, 2009 9:27 PM

You have lost your way Mr. Newt.

I remember you from the days when you were nothing in the well of the house speaking to an empty chamber.

You are toast Mr. Newt. I have lost all respect for you. Global warming my ass. It's a hoax and I think you know it, but you have embraced it because it gives you power you have lost.

You are a huge disappointment. Conservatism used to mean something to you. Now, it seems, only power means something to you. You want to retain the power you used to have. You are drunk on it. You NEED it.

You make me sick Mr. Newt.

By Anonymous @ Sunday, November 01, 2009 9:22 PM

Dear Mr. Speaker,

I understand your position on Scozzafava, but I respectfully disagree. The Republican party is suffering from a confused brand. Like any product, it needs to identify its base customer and make its product as appealing as possible to that customer.

Branding politicians like Scozzafava as a Republican adds to further brand confusion. It is extremely counter productive to the overall campaign. A true case of losing sight of the forest for the trees.

If the Republican party is going to lead America out of its current crisis, it must do so with a clear message and clearer convictions. I believe the nature of this crisis is existential, it is no time to get "all wobbly". The stakes are the very nature of the country we both love. The Republican party is not playing this game as if it is pot commited. It's time to go "all in."

By Anonymous @ Sunday, November 01, 2009 9:18 PM

Bad Newt . . . no bisquit!

By Anonymous @ Sunday, November 01, 2009 9:16 PM

Yesterday she said she was bowing out of the race for the good of the party. She didn't say which party, although a lot of us had a pretty good hunch in retrospect, don't you think?

By Anonymous @ Sunday, November 01, 2009 9:14 PM

To all those that are saying "we shouldn't be fighting with ourselves, we should be fighting the tax and spend dems..." That's exactly what this movement is doing. We said all along that this is exactly what Scozzafava was and it was plain to see. Yet Newt and some others welcomed her with open arms. Now she's proven herself to be exactly what we claimed - the very person you say we should be fighting with this Benedict Arnold dem endorsement. And Newt not only opened the door for her, he defended her to the end. Wake up, Newt. There's no point in electing a republican who will vote for the dems on every major fiscal/economic/labor issue.

By Anonymous @ Sunday, November 01, 2009 9:12 PM

Newt,

I am glad you are now supporting Hoffman, however you actions leading up to this all but destroy any chance you may have had in the primaries had you decided to run.

I undertstand you backed Scozafava out of party loyalty, however how can you reconcile that with her announcement that she is backing the Democrat.

How many times do the "moderates" in the GOP get to sabotoge Conservative Republicans in the general elections before we get to question their loyalty?

When a moderate is the candidate we have to support them with no questions asked. However when a conservative is the candidate they are free to, and often do, try to undermine the conservative Republicans' chances of winning?

I expect nothing less than you to shower the same vitriol and slander upon Scozafava for her betrayel as you so freely did to Hoffman on behalf of Scozafava.

Signed,

A Goldwater man who is sick of being stabbed in the back by Rockafeller men.

By Anonymous @ Sunday, November 01, 2009 9:05 PM

Newt I lost all respect for you because you continue to move to the side of the RINOs like John McCain.

You had a clear choice here and you made the wrong one. You can't wait until the last moment and change your mind because the person you backed dropped out.

You chose to follow the party rather than what you KNOW the majority of Rs wanted. You should be ashamed of yourself.

By Anonymous @ Sunday, November 01, 2009 9:02 PM

Let us not be too full of vitriol. The conservatives have succeeded in getting their message out that we want real representation and won't be blindly led about.

By Anonymous @ Sunday, November 01, 2009 9:02 PM

"real change requires real change"

?

LOL.

Could you be a more inane hypocrite?

By Anonymous @ Sunday, November 01, 2009 8:59 PM

Thanks for helping Bill Owens!

I mostly hate you now. Mostly.

By Anonymous @ Sunday, November 01, 2009 8:59 PM

Is that you downthread Allahpundit ? The Eeyore of the Vichy conservative blogosphere here defending Newt?

Hey, pull up a seat between Newt and Nancy. Meghan will have horderves and cocktails out in a Jiffy.

Cigar?

By Anonymous @ Sunday, November 01, 2009 8:57 PM

You should just go away. There's no reason for you to be a person of any prominence anymore. You're just... sad.

By Anonymous @ Sunday, November 01, 2009 8:54 PM

Any word on when your gal scuzzi will give back the millions y'all gave her to get the Democrat elected?

By Anonymous @ Sunday, November 01, 2009 8:54 PM

You blew it Newt. Apologize and then get to the back of the line.

By Anonymous @ Sunday, November 01, 2009 8:50 PM

Newt has definitely been on the wrong path lately (Pelosi, Sharpton, etc.) but his basic point is valid. What good is going to come of being a 40 % minority that sticks to our sacred principles over political cost? We have to become a 51 % group. That last 11 % isn't going to come by being a hard-ass group of people who always insist on going full-bore conservative. It can only come by dragging along half of the wishy-washy middle, sad as that may be. I'm pretty sure that is what Newt's been trying to tell us. Part of the problem is in the delivery. Newt is glued to a somewhat patronizing professorial model, while we conservatives have gotten exhausted with "teachable moments", as if we are grade-school students in need of basic education. It's a bad habit Newt shares with Obama, along with the somewhat mindless prattling about "change". But delivery aside, Newt has a super-valid point, and I hope that when we're all done scapegoating and chastising him for supporting a Republican in a congressional race, people re-tune in to hear what he's got to say. We conservatives risk agreeing with each other that everything sucks while the rest of the country mocks and ignores us. A friend of mine was noting gloatingly that more people watch Glen Beck at 5 p.m. than any other cable news show. That's great. We 800,000 Beck watchers should be proud. There are 307,000,000 other people in the US, who are not watching Beck. Maybe we should stop gloating about ratings and figure out a way to get back in the game.

By Anonymous @ Sunday, November 01, 2009 8:48 PM

Some of the haters may just be Liberal Trolls trying to stir things up.

Glad you're supporting Hoffman.

By Anonymous @ Sunday, November 01, 2009 8:47 PM

Hey, apologizers. This was a NO BRAINER.

And this is called blowback. Obviously no one is burning their Newt Postor... it is however going in the drawer for the moment.

By Anonymous @ Sunday, November 01, 2009 8:47 PM

It's not enough. Sorry, Newt. You need to come out and say, "I was wrong. I made a terrible judgment which, in hindsight, I regret deeply. I didn't listen to the people, I listened to those with deals to win and self-interest in their hearts. Thank you to the conservative movement for teaching me valuable lessons; from now on your voices will be heard and acted upon."

How many other districts will we see this play out? How many other potential Arlen Specters are out there, with cushy deals and guaranteed roles from the WH once they get in? Now is the time Newt to get out the mop. Clean up the party, let true conservatism raise its head with pride, not shame.

By Anonymous @ Sunday, November 01, 2009 8:40 PM

You disappoint us, Newt. We were ready to back you in 2012. Not now.

By Anonymous @ Sunday, November 01, 2009 8:39 PM

Will you be endorsing the supreme RINO Charlie Crist when the grassroots conservatives from all over the nation are backing Rubio?

By Anonymous @ Sunday, November 01, 2009 8:36 PM

While you're at it, have the RNC donate some money to your Get A Clue Fund. Because you seriously need to put down the tankard of Gorbal Worming Kool-Aid.

By Anonymous @ Sunday, November 01, 2009 8:33 PM

Hey Newton, when did you move to Northern New York? Don't go away mad. Just go away.

By Anonymous @ Sunday, November 01, 2009 8:32 PM

Can you hear us now??? We the People, have been telling the elected and party leaders how we feel for nearly 9 months.
2 million marched on DC and we have been to every town meeting telling you all how we feel and what we want you to do. It seems you all think we work for you, a very bad mistake on your part and others.

By Anonymous @ Sunday, November 01, 2009 8:30 PM

Newt, I used to follow you and felt you spoke for me and my conservative values and principles.

I remember having this picture of you and my son when you had your book signing in Anderson Bookstore at Naperville, Il. a few years ago. I was proud of that picture and the moment when I told my son that we captured "a photo with a true conservative leader".

Honestly, the past couple years I started questioning where you stood. I know now. I hope you find your way back...