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Today's Poll!Gingrich says 2012 election biggest since 1860
Sunday, May 15, 2011
MACON, Ga. (AP) — Republican Newt Gingrich is casting the 2012 presidential election as the most consequential since the 1860 race that elected Abraham Lincoln to the White House and was followed by the Civil War.
The former House speaker told the Georgia Republican Party’s convention on Friday night that the nation is at a crossroads. He said President Barack Obama’s re-election would lead to four more years of “radical left-wing values” that would drive the nation to ruin.
Gingrich also blasted Obama as “the most successful food stamp president in modern American history.”
The author, former college professor and ex-Georgia congressman formally announced this week that he was seeking the GOP presidential nomination.
The 67-year-old Gingrich also outlined a jobs plan that would eliminate the estate and capital gains taxes and lower the corporate tax rate.
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tonto 2 years ago
Newt must have taken off his tinfoil hat and lost what little contact he had with reality.
tonto 2 years ago
Gingrich? He could be considered thoughful but never reasonable.
tonto 2 years ago
He is a brilliant man and a great original thinker but he built and then lost a political kingdom over the course of a few years. Here is a chronology that shows the beginning of the end right before his biggest successes. Too much of his time and talent was wasted on political games that a better man would not have chosen to play.
1991-1992 House banking scandal. Newt has bounced checks, too, but he decides to push the issue hard to bring down the Democrats. The Federal Elections Commision initiates action against GOPAC for failing to register as a federal political committee during the 1990 election.
1993 Newt begins 20-hour satellite TV course, "Renewing American Civilization" at Kennesaw State College, Georgia. It is financed by tax-deductible contributions from corporations and many GOPAC contributors. Controversy causes the course to be moved from a state college to a small private university.
1994 Newt leads Republican opposition against Clinton Administration and orchestrates "The Contract With America." He gathers over 300 Republican candidates on Capitol grounds for its signing in September.
November 1994 Republicans gain 54 seats to take control of House for the first time since 1952. Historic victory.
December 1994 Agrees to give up $4.5 million advance on a book contract from HarperCollins, after media attention to the deal and to Newt's meeting with Rupert Murdoch, owner of book publisher. GOPAC agrees to disclose future contributors.
Jan 4, 1995 Newt fulfills dream: becomes Speaker of the House.
1995 The first 100 days. Newt sets the national political agenda. Nine of the ten "Contract" items pass the House. Newt's opponents press ethics complaints against him for GOPAC and "Newt, Inc." conflicts of interest.
November 1995 Documents filed by the Federal Elections Commission in its suit against GOPAC allege GOPAC funds were illegally used to help Newt in his 1990 election. House Ethics Committee clears Newt on most charges, reprimands Newt for Murdoch book deal and hires special counsel to investigate funding of Newt's college course.
December 1995 Newt is named Time Magazine's 1995 "Man of the Year."
January 16, 1997 Newt is fined $300,000 by the ethics committee for violating House rules barring use of tax-exempt foundations for political purposes.
November 6, 1998 Gingrich announces he will not seek re-election for the position of Speaker of the House. Newt also announces he will retire from his seat at the end of 1998.
wcywing 2 years ago
go Ron Paul! 2012 might be the most important election this century. no Newt or Obama for 2012, if they were on the ballot, i would vote none of the above.
kenaida 2 years ago
Newt is a dangerous man, with dangerous intentions, now is not the time to be playing with fire.
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