UPDATE: Newt was on with CBS This Morning to discuss his article below. One point he made in the video that I especially liked with regard to Rove and his nominee-picking Super PAC is that it’s really about destroying the candidates that you don’t like and that’s what he finds to be very dangerous.

Watch:

Newt Gingrich takes on Karl Rove for his recent assertions about the reasons why his Super PAC is wanting in on the candidate-picking business. After pointing out how we need to get away from the consultant-centric campaigns and get back to the candidate-centric campaigns where the candidate makes the decisions and consultants are only advisers, he then rips into Rove:

HUMAN EVENTS – I am unalterably opposed to a bunch of billionaires financing a boss to pick candidates in 50 states. This is the opposite of the Republican tradition of freedom and grassroots small town conservatism.

No one person is smart enough nor do they have the moral right to buy nominations across the country.

That is the system of Tammany Hall and the Chicago machine. It should be repugnant to every conservative and every Republican.

There is a second practical thing wrong with Rove’s proposal.

He was simply wrong last year. He was wrong about the Presidential race (watch a video of his blow up on Fox election night about Fox News calling Ohio for President Obama). He was also wrong about Senate races.

While Rove would like to argue his “national nomination machine” will protect Republicans from candidates like those who failed in Missouri and Indiana, that isn’t the bigger story.

Republicans lost winnable senate races in Montana, North Dakota, Ohio, Wisconsin, Pennsylvania, Virginia, and Florida. So in seven of the nine losing races, the Rove model has no candidate-based explanation for failure. Our problems are deeper and more complex than candidates.

Handing millions to Washington based consultants to destroy the candidates they dislike and nominate the candidates they do like is an invitation to cronyism, favoritism and corruption.

Stuart Stevens represents a very different problem…

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allen
allen

Newt was instrumental in the "Contract for America", what I can't understand is WHY are we having this difficulty distinguishing RINO's from conservatives?? Can we not put a new contract together and have all republicans sign it. The ones that don't sign get thrown out and let's get RID of the RINO's. It is TIME to fix this or we end up with more Paul Ryans out there. ENOUGH ALREADY.

Isabel Matos
Isabel Matos

For over a year and a half, I have focused on our GOP -- its key players who are indeed our enemies, the endless steering and manipulation of the election process, and the corruption of Tea Party candidates. Rove's shenanigans are being exposed, and Marco Rubio's association with him should attract our attention, because it is marking his departure from "the people". It is important to note that he defended Rove and the American Crossroads group's project to find the most "conservative" electable candidates. In a one-on-one interview with The Brody File recently, Rubio said: "They both have a place in politics", referring to Rove and the Tea Party. As we know, Rove has an abysmal track record of finding conservatives and has complete disdain (for whatever reason) for the Tea Party, thus the outrage.

http://thespeechatimeforchoosing.wordpress.com/2013/02/21/why-marco-rubio-is-important/

TeaPartyReaganConservative
TeaPartyReaganConservative

Mark Levin: If I believed a third party would be viable, I’d go third party. I’m just tired of Republicans!

If we do not, or cannot remove these RINOs from power and position of leadership, then it would be better if we completely abandon the Republican GOP, and start a new major 3rd political party-the Conservative Party, and let the RINOs wallow in their new Whig Party into non-existence.

The only problem I see with this scenario is, like the liberal MSMedia that has joined forces with the enemies of America, against the American People, against America-the GOP and it's RINO leadership, left to their own devices, corruption, and elitist self-centered arrogant delusion, would politically partner and ally themselves- ie; cement their relationship with Obama and his Obama-rats against Conservatives even moe than it currently is, against the new Conservative Party.

As always, it's "the People" who have to stand alone and fight against insidious seditious corruption, betrayal, treason, and tyranny, which decays a nation's very core of existence.

"A nation can survive its fools and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and he carries his banners openly against the city. But the traitor moves among those within the gates freely, his sly whispers rustling through all alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears no traitor; he speaks in the accents familiar to his victim, and he wears their face and their garments and he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation; he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of a city; he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to be feared. The traitor is the plague."

Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman Orator - 106-43 B.C.

Terry
Terry

This man should be sitting in the White House.

agas84363
agas84363

gingrich should be president now

FreeManWalking
FreeManWalking

The MSM can't interview a conservative without taking a cheap shot at trying to discredit them.

This female dog is a prime example of blaming the gridlock that shut down the government in slick willy's days on Newt, and like it was a bad thing.

What was the negative effect of the shutdown, some sleigh ride in jellystone didn't get to open for a few days?

NJK
NJK

I wanted people to read this. You have to join Dr. Jack Wheeler's website to read the entire article. It's $8.95 a mo., but it's worth it. In case there are those who can't afford it, I'll post it here. Hope the moderator won't mind.

THE TRAITOR IN THE WHITE HOUSE

Written by Dr. Jack Wheeler

Wednesday, 20 February 2013

This past weekend I had a private dinner with three Congressmen. I can't tell you who they are, other than one is the chairman of a powerful committee, the second the chairman of another major committee, the third a freshman. I can't tell you where the dinner took place either.

Ostensibly, we gathered to discuss threats to national security such as Islamic terrorism, Iran, Pakistan support for the Afghan Taliban, and the Chicoms. After we got into this for a while, I decided to see what would happen if I said what I really wanted to say:

"Fellas, what about the single greatest threat to America's national security, far greater than anything else? That's the traitor in the White House."

I expected them to recoil in shock and dismay, but they didn't blink an eye. All three nodded grimly in agreement.

"This is so off the record, Jack," said one, "but that's what we know is true. How dare we even hint this publicly without being destroyed by a tsunami of smears and hate by the media? That's the question."

"There might have been grounds during his first term for cutting him some slack," said another, "...maybe... but now it's clear as Boodles gin that his goal really is to destroy our country and its preeminence in the world." He was a decorated Vietnam Vet, so he focused on the military. "That's why a major priority of his is to damage our military. That's why he wants that p**** Hagel, whose job will be to maximize the damage."

"Being from Texas," spoke up the third, "I can tell you the only thing he hates more than Texas and the Second Amendment is fracking. Fracking and cheaper energy are what's preventing our economy from sinking into the pit he wants it in. That's why he keeps up the ‘climate change' claptrap, the attacks on the basis of life -carbon - calls for carbon taxes, blocking fracking on federal lands, blocking Keystone, on and on. In fact, everything he does is designed to crush our economy."

Wow. I frankly did not expect such an unabashed outpouring of disgust and contempt by Congressmen towards the President of the United States - but they were just getting started.

"And to pay off his cronies. Obama is the greatest crook who's ever occupied the Oval Office. No president in US history comes remotely close. Fracking will kill off all his crooked subsidies for his buddies' ‘renewable energy' scams, which will then kill off his buddies' payoffs to the Democrat Party. Another reason he hates fracking."

"But it's not just an assault on our economy. He's making a frontal assault on our culture, our moral foundations, our very existence as a cohesive society. Everything he does is to divide us against each other, by race, by class, or any other division he can get a wedge into. He wants amnesty and citizenship for tens of millions of illegal aliens not just to get an insuperable number of Democrat votes, but to create a culturally divided society, divided by hate and envy."

"His assault on guns and the demonization of the Second Amendment is a key part of his agenda. As we here all know, the constitutional purpose of an armed citizenry is not hunting for food or defense against criminals, it's protection against government tyranny. Anybody in government, any politician or bureaucrat, needs to be afraid of the citizenry, which is why the citizenry needs to be armed. Obama wants to take people's guns away not so there will be less violence but that there will be more violence - not criminal violence but government violence upon now defenseless people."

I asked, "What's his end-game, then? What does he want to ultimately accomplish?" The answers:

"There are three kinds of traitors - people betray their country for money, or fear - blackmail or threat, say their family will be killed - or the worst, hate. Obama's the third kind. He was raised in hate by that Commie Frank Marshall Davis, whom many think was his real father, his mother devoted her life to drowning in white liberal guilt. He's devoured by envious hate of all that America stands for and has accomplished, and is dedicated to tearing it down in revenge."

"Well, let's face it. He's one of these narcissistic, charismatic sociopaths history has been bedeviled with for millennia. These folks are pathological liars, they care nothing for ‘the people' whom they pretend to love, their lives are devoted to ruling over others and controlling their lives, they bring misery to those they rule yet are worshipped nonetheless. Obama-worship is like some kind of religious cult, whose high priests are the media elite. Obama feeds off it, so his desire for more power and creating more misery increases. The human capacity to worship such sociopaths is one of life's mysteries."

"I'm convinced he is increasing our debt to astronomically unsustainable levels not just to have the money to make more people dependent on government programs who will then vote Democrat. It's to destroy the dollar on purpose. That will cause such an economic collapse it will enable him to surrender most or all of US sovereignty to global institutions or some form of global government. His end-game is for America to cease to exist as a sovereign nation. That's why I agree that he's that third kind of traitor, it's all for hate and revenge."

All I could think of in response was to talk about Nietzsche (1844-1900). He wrote Twilight of the Idols in 1888, which contains one of most famous and least understood aphorisms:

That which does not kill me makes me stronger

In other words, taking and overcoming risks is what life is all about. If we don't, we vegetate and stagnate. If we don't put sufficient stress on our muscles, they will atrophy. If we put sufficiently acute (not chronic) stress on them, they will overcompensate and grow bigger and stronger. The same with our businesses, our careers, our lives.

After quoting Nietzsche, I said, "You guys have a choice. You can remain silent and express your convictions only privately. Make sure you say nothing that will put your reelection in dire jeopardy, never push the envelope of controversy too far. You may then accomplish something on the political margins by staying in office, but mostly you'll end up on the side of the status quo.

"Or you can stand up to this traitor and denounce him for what he is. Millions will hate you and the media will demonize you. But millions more will stand up with you and cheer. I know you're well aware that the very existence of our country is at stake. You're standing up and telling the truth about Zero could be the start of saving it."

"Jack, let me tell you a story," came a reply. "Not long ago, I held a townhall meeting in my district at the request of my Tea Party constituents. I'm a big supporter of the Tea Parties as you know. They were fired up, full of demands to cut spending for real, railing against this and that program which they thought should be eliminated (and so do I). So I asked them a question: The biggest problem by far in federal spending is the entitlement programs such as Social Security. In the interest of really cutting spending, how many of you would be willing to temporarily forego your Social Security check for a short time, say three months?

"There were well over 100 people there, many of them 50+. Guess how many hands went up? Realize that these were hard core Tea Party firebreathers. Not one. Not one single person raised their hand. It's easy to target us in office. And sure, we ought to be targeted. That's fair.

"And we can blame the moochers and the takers. But when even Tea Partyers are so addicted to government they can't imagine going without it even for a short while, we've got a far deeper problem than the moochers, the media, Hollywood, our colleagues on the other side of the aisle and the wimps on our side, or a traitor in the White House."

He looked at his two fellow Members. "Here's what really keeps us up at night, Jack. We're afraid - afraid that Zero, as you appropriately call him, is an effect, a consequence not a cause of what's happening to our country. We're afraid there is a rot in the American soul. Not all Americans, obviously - but enough to cause a national sickness, a cultural loss of confidence. So many people, including many Tea Partyers, believe in government more than in themselves."

There was the silence of agreement, then a glass of wine was raised. "I want to offer a toast," the speaker said, "to the American spirit and the President who most believed in it - Ronald Reagan. Americans had lost faith in themselves under Jimmy Carter, and Ronald Reagan restored it. That's what he would do today were he with us, so it is up to us to act as Ronald Reagan. To the Gipper. Let's live up to him and the best of America."

I came away from the evening with hope - that with men such as these three in Congress and others like them on Capitol Hill, Red State statehouses, plus millions of American patriots who feel as they do, we can triumph over the tragedy of the traitor in the White House. That America can someday be as Ronald Reagan envisioned it, a shining city on a hill.

TeaPartyReaganConservative
TeaPartyReaganConservative

"A nation can survive its fools and even the ambitious. But it cannot survive treason from within. An enemy at the gates is less formidable, for he is known and he carries his banners openly against the city. But the traitor moves among those within the gates freely, his sly whispers rustling through all alleys, heard in the very halls of government itself. For the traitor appears no traitor; he speaks in the accents familiar to his victim, and he wears their face and their garments and he appeals to the baseness that lies deep in the hearts of all men. He rots the soul of a nation; he works secretly and unknown in the night to undermine the pillars of a city; he infects the body politic so that it can no longer resist. A murderer is less to be feared. The traitor is the plague."

Marcus Tullius Cicero, Roman Orator - 106-43 B.C.

lanahi
lanahi

So they talk about Social Security as the thing to cut when there are billions and billions of waste and pork from the government? A common trick of those who don't want cuts...pick out the one considered most necessary and tell them they will start cuts there. This is on ALL levels...local, state, and federal. They go after the police, fire departments, Social Security, etc., etc. and threaten to cut them...and the people are once again emotionally blackmailed into silence.

Threaten their very survival...three months of no SS checks for those already at poverty level and who paid into it all their lives...and leave the welfare programs for illegals in place, leave the environmental laws in place that cost private companies billions a year, leave the subsidies in green energy in place for their friends, let congressmen take home millions in pork projects, give everyone in the federal government who are already making more than the private sector more pay raises, keep the dozens of useless federal departments that do nothing but make more senseless laws...you get the idea.

Any lawmakers who make an argument like that is off my support list for good. They are not serious about cutting anything, so they scare the voters back in line with that stupid argument, and it works.

stage9
stage9

"We're afraid there is a rot in the American soul."

"Unless the LORD builds the house, its builders labor in vain. Unless the LORD watches over the city, the watchmen stand guard in vain." Pslam 127:1

We've forgotten God.

crosshr
crosshr

Since it seems like the LORD got released from America for quite sometime now, I wonder if America the individual and country would seek to invite HIM for a rehire.

Thanks for the warning stage9. The scripture Psalm 129:1 is a perfect Completion Insurance so affordable and so guaranteed.

PVG
PVG

Chilling! Thank you for sharing.

semby
semby

We need to unite as a party and defeat the Democrats.

This squabbling is only hurting the Repubicans.

57thunderbird
57thunderbird

If the Koch brothers didn't exist,these fool statists would be left speechless.Newt fed them their lunch as usual.Go Newt!

3seven77
3seven77

Newt ATE their lunch. And then made them clean up.

Stehekin912
Stehekin912

The Koch Brothers...I am so tired of hearing that. What about George Soros and his tentacles all through the liberal, socialist, Progressive, Globalist, elitist Democrat party?

FreeManWalking
FreeManWalking

What does George Soros's testicles have to do with this?

edit: Opps my bad, I'm going to have to start wearing my glasses before I post...

Actually I would like to see him strung up a flag pole by them.

PVG
PVG

Newt and other GOP's need to start bringing up soros in response to the Koch bros. I am sick and tired of this defense position!

Amjean
Amjean

Well, Newt should know; they did it to him.

nibblesyble
nibblesyble

I totally have the flu, but even watching Newt makes me feel better.

crosshr
crosshr

get well soon dear, you're remembered in prayer as always. My daughter told me to drink some tea for my cold, I told her I'm not English !!(aye, no offense folks )

imagine what would have took place in our land had Newt is our current POTUS, I'll keep the faith.sorry for being a sore looser, Please get well, I'll let you rest !

3seven77
3seven77

Feel better soon, Nibblesyble!

nibblesyble
nibblesyble

You got chicky! Thanks for thinking of me!

mike3e4r7
mike3e4r7

Nice to hear from you again! Hope you feel better soon.

nibblesyble
nibblesyble

you guys are so sweet...thanks mike!

Joengima
Joengima

This is the reason why I've said Newt, Levin, Palin, and West should go meet up somewhere and plan a coup of the GOP Establishment. I mean imagine how much better we'll feel about that party if Mark Levin, Gingrich, Palin and Alan West was considered the "Establishment"

mike3e4r7
mike3e4r7

Love how they saved the 'gotcha' question till the very end. But Gingrich handled it masterfully.

c4pfan
c4pfan

What was the question? Can't see it yet. Thanks.

mike3e4r7
mike3e4r7

With about 30 seconds left the lady, I don't know her name, asked him whether his approach as speaker in the 90's was responsible for 'the culture of gridlock' that now dominates government. He pretty much handed her ass to her, but then Charlie Rose chimes in with "well, we'll have to leave that for another time".

mike3e4r7
mike3e4r7

Oh yeah, I remember her. A typical liberal.

cabensg
cabensg

It was Gail King. Remember she and Oprah were life long friends. Oprah even got Gail her own show for awhile. She's just another liberal hack.

Laurel
Laurel

Karl Rove is going to learn that no one will show up to vote so his money machine will be moot.

Apparently he learned nothing from the 3 million that stayed home.

cabensg
cabensg

I consider this a very important excerpt from the article:

As Reagan biographer Craig Shirley told me, “Commercial radio was a new technology in the early 1930′s and Reagan adapted to it. Talking movies were a new technology in the late 30′s and Reagan adapted to it. Network television was a new technology in the early 1950′s and Reagan adapted to it. If Reagan were alive today, he’d be tweeting.”

Our “Lessons to be Learned” project at Gingrich Productions will begin releasing reports on the scale of change we need in the next few weeks.

We will continue to report throughout the spring and summer.

By this fall we will have online courses on 21st century self government and politics.

The debate over Rove-Stevens versus the new 21st century model may be the most important intra-Republican debate since the emergence of Reagan and Kemp to challenge the old order in the 1970s.

Also, this Friday at 2pm I will teach a live online course from Mount Vernon on George Washington, in honor of his 281st birthday. You can register here to watch.

sjmom
sjmom

People who have money think they are smarter than everyone else and the past election just proved the fallacy in this mindset. If the GOP depends on Rove and his people they will become even more irrelevant than they already are. Conservatives either must take over or get out and this decision should be made quickly.

On The Mark
On The Mark

I'm glad to see Newt repudiate Rove. But, I'd like to also hear him say decisively that principle is more important than party and that we should always support Conservatives rather than Statists who happen to be registered as Republicans like he did when he endorsed Statist Republican Dede Scozzafava in 2009. Statist Republicans who win elections do more harm than good.

c4pfan
c4pfan

Thank you. Another example is working with Al Sharpton. That man is corrupt and I'm over so called Conseratives working with him.

cabensg
cabensg

What many don't realize is when Newt says he wants to work with Democrats he means use them and if they oppose what's right, beat them. Newt was always and still is interested in education and knowing how blacks love their Al he was using him to try and implement educational programs. No white guy's gonna go it alone in the black community. As for Dede that was just stupid. you can throw in globull warming to but who was it took high gas prices and drilling here to such a high level in the campaign in opposition to globull warming crap, he also testified in Congress right after Gore in opposition. As long as his stupids are as mundane as Dede and his smarts still number 500 to 1 he's still my favorite politician and wise man.

proudhispanicconservative
proudhispanicconservative

I am afraid that the real issue facing the republican party is not being addressed here in this article and on any other circles, I am afraid we are not going to win any national races until we take on this problem head on, the evidence is pretty clear that there is a machine at work, and all the necessary steps have been taken by the demoncrats to not allow another big win by republicans. To what am I referring to? Voter fraud- Voter fraud- Voter fraud-Voter Fraud-Voter Fraud-Voter Fraud-Voter Fraud-Voter Fraud-Voter Fraud-Voter Fraud-Voter Fraud-Voter Fraud-Voter Fraud-Voter Fraud-Voter Fraud-Voter Fraud-Voter Fraud-Voter Fraud-Voter Fraud-Voter Fraud-

80s_kid_wants_rainbow_back
80s_kid_wants_rainbow_back

Not to mention ACORN secretly funding the successful effort to prevent Allen West from maintaining his seat.

factsobill
factsobill

So who besides me is writing letters and waging the new campaign for fair elections!

Amjean
Amjean

I agree. However, I think it is the republican governors and other state

elected officials who are going to have to lead the charge. The leftie

rino repub party will not lift a finger and we all know why.

aposematic
aposematic

The D's own the vote in the NE, West Coast, and all major Cities across America. The fix is in--its the vote counters that determine the National elections.

Sheer Politics
Sheer Politics

And yet we heard NOTHING after the election. There were key states were some districts tallied 106% of those of eligible age. That's not registered voters, but the number of people in the precincts that were eligible to vote!!! It was barely reported and no one thought to contest the election of dear leader. Now with computerized voter machines it's even easier to commit fraud. There were reports of voters who voted for Romney, but when they came to cast the ballot, it said they were voting for Obama. It takes only the manipulation of a few machines...perhaps 1 per precinct to make enough of a difference in key states.

proudhispanicconservative
proudhispanicconservative

Over here in St Lucie county Florida, more then 100k plus over the amount of registered voters, which cost one my heroes Allen West the election, and not a bleep from any republican, it just goes to show you how spineless these republicans are.

cabensg
cabensg

I don't dispute what your saying but we can't over look the people who didn't vote. If they had voted for Romney it would have overcome the voter fraud. I'm not to sure that isn't what we've been doing for a long time. The last two successful elections of Bush were by a hair. We ignored it because he won.

1endtimes2020
1endtimes2020

How many votes 'disappeared' after being counted? Someone wrote in to this site saying Romney didn't have even ONE vote is a State---I don't remember which State---Philadelphia? Anyway, that is 100% impossible, in my view.

1endtimes2020
1endtimes2020

It's extremely important that vote counting is accurate. I suspect there is some manipulation that has gone on in the last election. I also see electronic voting is being considered. With all the hackers out there, even from China, it would be easy to tamper with voting results and change them.

If any politician opposes this, let that politician show proof that manipulation and hacking can't happen. In the meantime, paper voting at the polls is still the best way to start. Then making certain there are party representatives scrutinizing the votes, and lastly, following where the voting boxes go to count the votes. All should be scrutinized. Oh yes, who are the voters? Identification with photo and SS number, and physical checks at random at homes.

Leave no stone unturned to be as certain as possible that fraud can be kept to zero, or at least an insignifcant minimum.

When we have a president in office who can say that believing in God has a low shelf life, (except his 'god') then scrutinizing voting depots is in high priority.

factsobill
factsobill

Fact: 12,000,000 voters less this election. Approximately 3,000,000 GOPers and 9,000,000 Demos! I think the numbers belie your point!