REPUBLICANS LIVID After Newt Blindsides Paul Ryan and GOP House Members on MTP (Video)
Posted by Jim Hoft on Monday, May 16, 2011, 6:16 AM
Yesterday Newt Gingrich ripped Paul Ryan’s “radical” budget plan on on “Meet The Press.”
Today Joe Scarborough accused Newt of being in “the mushy middle.” Pat Buchanan said Gingrich is “out on the left wing of the Republican party.”
Byron York has more reaction to Gingrich’s “blindsided” attack attack on Paul Ryan and Republicans.
The Examiner reported:
This morning Republicans are just beginning to assess the damage that former House Speaker and current presidential candidate Newt Gingrich has done to the GOP budget plan currently before Congress. On “Meet the Press” Sunday, Gingrich denounced House Budget Committee chairman Paul Ryan’s plan to restructure Medicare, saying, “I don’t think right-wing social engineering is any more desirable than left-wing social engineering. I don’t think imposing radical change from the right or the left is a very good way for a free society to operate.”
On his radio program Monday morning, former Education Secretary Bill Bennett, who knows Gingrich well but is also close to Ryan, reacted angrily to Gingrich’s remarks. Referring to Ryan’s Medicare plan as “right-wing social engineering” is, Bennett said, “an unforgivable mistake, in my judgment.” Bennett went on to say that Gingrich “has taken himself out of serious consideration for the [2012] race.” [Full disclosure: I appear on, and sometimes serve as guest host of, the Bennett program.]
Gingrich’s remarks rankled for three reasons. One, they hurt the Republican plan. Two, they were particularly disdainful; Gingrich didn’t just said that he disagreed with Ryan, he referred to Ryan’s plan as “right-wing social engineering.” And three, they contradicted what Gingrich himself has said about Ryan’s budget.
To make that last point, Bennett played a clip of an interview he conducted with Gingrich on April 5, barely more than a month ago. At that time, Gingrich was full of praise for the Ryan budget. “Paul Ryan has stepped up to the plate,” Gingrich said. “This is a very, very serious budget and I think rivals with [what] John Kasich did as budget chairman in getting to a balanced budget in the 1990s, just for the scale and courage involved…”
“Paul Ryan is going to define modern conservatism at a serious level,” Gingrich continued on April 5. “You can quibble over details but the general shape of what he’s doing will define 2012 for Republicans.”
Well, not for Gingrich, at least not for now. On the air, Bennett said he has talked to Ryan about Gingrich’s remarks and that Ryan felt, in Bennett’s words, “blindsided” by the attack.
Don’t be surprised if you see Newt’s attack on Ryan and the GOP in the next DNC ad.
Thanks Newt.
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Noislamocommie commented:
One world order trash…also supports guest worker schemes. We need this guy about like a hole in the head.
jakev commented:
“This morning Republicans are just beginning to assess the damage that former House Speaker and current presidential candidate Newt Gingrich has done to the GOP budget plan currently before Congress.”
Gingrich hasn’t hurt the GOP plan, he’s hurt himself. I was giving him a second look due to his speaking and debating abilities, but that second look has been stopped in its tracks. I thank Mr. Gingrich for showing his stupidity so early in his campaign so that I can move on to assessing someone else.
BurmaShave commented:
Newt is [well] over 65 and has fallen victim to the Democrats MediScare tactics.
If he thinks he is running for President, he running the wrong way.
kato commented:
Memo to Newt: Keep saying “I love this country” and talk about your friends across the aisle. That’s the ticket for a candidate from the Clueless Party.
kato commented:
Memo to all Clueless-Party candidates: Keep talking about the Founding Fathers so that we can realize how far away you losers are from them.
postturtledoctor commented:
So are we to interpret Newt’s turncoat behavior (which, while not surprising, is a 180 from what he said a month ago on Ryan’s proposal) as an indication that Newt had to obtain the financial backing from some highly anti-teaparty elites, in order to fund his campaign?
It sure seems like he’s been given a script to read, much like his cousin Barry…
Lee commented:
As I said on another blog, I was willing to hear what Newt had to say, but after that the only way he gets my vote is in the highly unlikely event that he becomes the GOP nominee. No way will I vote for him in the primary.
If he is the only alternative to another 4 years of Obama, I’ll hold my nose and vote for him. But I suspect that after that performance I won’t have to worry.
tarpon commented:
Newt, the go along to get along candidate since the 2006 couch act with Nanny.
phhhtttt …
C-Christian Soldier commented:
newt did NOT do “damage’ to the true CONSTITUTIONAL conservatives-
he actually told us that he is NOT to be supported
and those of us who want freedom to return to the US…had better NOT support him!!
C-CS
jim m commented:
Newt knows that he will never get TEA Party support. So he is staking out the non TEA Party vote in the primary. Too bad for him that’s going to be a very small minority. In the mean time he is willing to drag down every GOP candidate in order to further his own ambition.
mamagriz68 commented:
How many of us would have really considered voting for this man in a primary? I have had to unsubscribe from several e-mailings from that man. He is just another out of touch elitist, and he showed his true colors once again on Sunday. Don’t let the door hit you on the way out Newt.
lol commented:
Newt is also a board member of General Electrics Health care board. RINO yes!
Tired Okie commented:
Newt the Toot! Give him the boot!!!
Pezro commented:
Newt is a neut… and a huge RINO. If he’s the nomination, Obama will win in a landslide.
olm commented:
Thanks Newt. I didn’t want to pay any attention to you and now I don’t have to. Not even for a minute.
I really think he did conservatives a favor.
Meg commented:
Newt is a good historian, but who wants him for President? No one! No vote from me.
Paul in NJ commented:
Methinks the party doth protest too much.
Gingrich can read the political winds better’n others; he’s only had, oh, forever to perfect that skill. Ryan’s budget proposal is DOA, and if you’re honest, you’ll concede as much.
Mikey commented:
Gingrich just shows his true colors is all he has done. I USED to believe he was a conservative. I don’t any longer. Now that the GOP field seems to be shaping up, it seems Newt is now out, Romney is out, and Huckabee is not running. To me, the only other viable candidate is Herman Cain. I have to say Gingrich REALLY disappointed me when I read his comments this morning. Seems to me, is just trying to up his speaking fees and sell more books. The only way I will vote for him is if he is the nominee, highly unlikely now. Herman Cain 2012. Please look him up, it will be worth your time investment.
martha commented:
Newt was polling far behind everyone else in the polls to start with. This is just the final nail in his Presidential aspirations coffin. His Contract with America days are obviously long long behind him.
He might as well save his money and drop out now.
StrangernFiction commented:
“I melt when I’m around [Bill Clinton].”
This was the giveaway.
StrangernFiction commented:
Methinks the party doth protest too much.Gingrich can read the political winds better’n others; he’s only had, oh, forever to perfect that skill. Ryan’s budget proposal is DOA, and if you’re honest, you’ll concede as much. America is boned!
FIFY
MustComment commented:
#18 I agree!
This article did it for me. NO on Newt!
http://www.newsmax.com/Headline/gingrich-health-care-insurance/2011/05/15/id/396426?s=al&promo_code=C446-1
Scott commented:
Newt is pandering to the flakey independents, which would be a good strategy if here were the Rpublican nominee. But he had a slim chance of winning the GOP primaries to begin with, and he’s torpedoed those chances now by going after the Ryan plan.
Now he’s just playing the game to get another book deal and raise his speaking fees.
As a candidate, stick a fork in Newt. He’s done.
donh commented:
Maybe Newt is just in it to peel votes away from Romney so a real conservative can emerge from the pack…. However, I doubt Newt has that level of character. Just another evil republican who poses as an opponent to big bully government while siezing upon every opportunity to take a dive in the fight to cut this monster down to size.
Reaganite Republican commented:
Gingrich-Scozzafava 2012!
VaGal commented:
Wait, Joe Scarborough called Newt “mushy in the middle”? LOL!! Newt, you are done if a fellow RINO is going to call you out. Enough of the re-treads. Bring on the fresh new faces of Conservatism!
olm commented:
I’m starting to think Newt’s target is liberals.
coldeadhands commented:
…The most vile kind of “conservative”. I guess his philandering is not the only indicator of his perfidy.
listingstarboard commented:
Sorry but no effing way should the President of the United States be named “Newt”. Off Topic–why is the press protecting Gabby Giffords? Did anyone see any photos of her at the shuttle launch-she apparently was there, it is a public place, why no pictures of her? They couldn’t show enough about her in the begining, it makes me wonder.
BackwardsBoy commented:
It’s a good thing Nancy Pelosi is keeping the couch seat warm for him.
Bye, Neut. You just disqualified yourself from consideration. Thanks for letting us know where you stand.
Jack commented:
Don’t worry “Big ideas” Newt will be on Hannity tonight to set the record straight. So long Newt, we hardly new ye.
Sasja commented:
Want a winner? Herman Cain’s your man.
whatif commented:
Was he trying to pander to the DC crowd, the MSM, the liberal fringe kooks who want single payer or is he showing his true RINO colors?
Either way he does not represent the values most Americans are seeking. Newt would not reform or change DC, he would not open all land to drilling, he would not go after the federal reserve and their wall street policies. Newt overall would be about business as usual. Newt would be like Mc Cain becoming president, it would be big government crap with him trying to spice it up with talking about how the founding fathers wanted to take care of it’s citizens.
Remember people; in years past the MSM would suggest who the Republican front runners are in order to strengthen their Democrat candidate’s chances of winning. Do not allow the MSM to do it this election cycle. Newt belongs on the lecture circuit and nothing more.
Capn Angus commented:
I got this off Hot Air (Sorry Jim)
Newt Flip Flopped on Ryan’s plan. He told Time magazine a different story a few weeks ago…
–”So, I asked if he (Newt Gingrich) would advocate replacing it with Paul Ryan’s plan.
The former speaker sang Ryan’s praises for being a “brave” “man of ideas,” like Gingrich himself.
“But would you have voted for Ryan’s plan?” I pressed.
“Sure,” Gingrich replied.”–
http://swampland.time.com/2011/05/15/gingrich-was-for-ryans-budget-before-he-was-against-it/
Good G-d Newt just go away already
wtd commented:
Back in the day when Newt came up with the “Drill here, drill now” campaign, I signed up and sent him money. I enjoyed some of his speeches in which he appeared to be closing in on target with his understanding of Islam. I would have continued to support him had he stayed on that track. Since then, I’ve learned about his daliances with Pelosi and witnessed his interference in the ’10 NY election with Scozzofava and have read further his ties to the NWO and global warming nonsense.
He lost my vote before his backstabbing Ryan’s plan. Never will I take another look at his campaign. Stick a fork in it . . .Newt’s done.
Robert commented:
Gingrich was questionable from the start, this shows that he can not be trusted.
Hardly any of them can, we hit the national debt limit today.
theBuckWheat commented:
To call Ryan’s plan “radical” is to invert the economic truth. The existing trajectory that the proponents of big and Bigger government have set us on is a “radical” denial of what is financially sustainable (a concept the they love to scold us about). Ryan’s plan moves us a significant distance towards being financially rational and sustainable, but maybe not even enough. We have to get to where we are spending less than the country can afford to pay in taxes and spending that can be paid for without having to inflate (theft by dilution) or borrow (theft by deception for there is no intent to pay the debt off).
Oldpuppymax commented:
That’s fine and Newt is indeed a super-RINO pandering to the New York and DC libs who run the Republican party, but how many of those LIVID Republicans have demanded Hussein answer questions about his past? His grades, medical records, how he got his scholarships, how he got into Harvard Law with an unacceptable GPA from Columbia, why he has dozens of SS numbers and WHY HE IS IN THE WHITE HOUSE when he is NOT a natural born American citizen. His father was born in KENYA, not the US!!! East to be tough on members of your own party, isn’t it you spineless, Republican sell-outs!
cal rifkin commented:
Never did like that sob…Good at blab, but otherwise he’s just another media suck up. CAIN!!
Nanna1 commented:
At one time I thought Newt was just great. Like someone else mentioned, “Drill here drill now” was great. Then came his love seat video with Polosi on climate change. I turned against him. But recently, he was making sense again, and I was paying attention, but never again Newt. You have messed in your nest, and lost me, and several voters in this household. And I am positive that you have lost most Republicans, and Independents, and for sure ALL conservatives. So hang it up now and don’t embarrass youself any further!!
Sparky commented:
Newt is an out of touch elitist RINO who is past his prime. He is another John McCain.
Don’t forget how hard Newt pushed for Democrat DeDe Scozzafava to be the Republican nominee in New York instead of the true Conservative candidate Hoffman.
Ipso Facto commented:
What he is showing us is the classical, elite, DC, top down approach to governing.
WE DON’T WANT THAT ANYMORE!
Newt is so self-absorbed and focused on himself that he is out of touch with the electorate. I’m not one for making predictions, however, with his latest statement, I’ll bet 5 will get you 10 that he immediately becomes the most irrelevant candidate on the Republican side.
Bobman commented:
buh-bye Newt!
Radegunda commented:
As I’ve said before, we should trust Newt Gingrich as much as his first two wives should have. Maybe he’s envious because he knows that Paul Ryan is a much better man than he is.
Moreover, the comment about “right-wing social engineering” is nonsensical. He’s talking about a non-sustainable government program that’s going to crash and burn unless it’s restructured. That crash-and-burn would certainly be a “radical change” — something that Newtie claims to oppose.
Next, Newtie will be saying it would be “right-wing social engineering” to repeal ObamaCare.
Marta commented:
I wish people would shut up about Herman Cain. Not one of you would be giving him a second look if he were not black. “White people desperate to prove they are not racist” are what got us into this mess in the first place.
Cain is a Fed guy who talks a good game to pathetic white people who lap it up.
Marta commented:
P.S. to Cain supporters — If you care more about being called a racist than you do our frickin country, then you deserve this world you’re helping to create.
exceller commented:
the way I look at it, this is the ruling class in action, making sure that no “radical” ideas about moving away from socialism get very far. The ruling class are the Washington elite powerbrokers of both parties (think Rinos like McCain and Graham), status quo type people who don’t want to rock the boat. They went after Sarah Palin, and now they’re going after Ryan and others. Newt is not a Republican, he’s an elitist who will do his part for the team, even if that means inflicting friendly fire on Republicans. Who do they support? Pawlenty, Daniels, Romney or Huntsman. You won’t hear a discouraging word about any of those four. But a Ryan, a Bachmann, a Trump, a Palin, a Cain, those people will be ripped to shreds and take fire from all sides, because they are a threat to the status quo.
Mama Lion commented:
Ignore Newt Gingrich….he is shameful and not presidential material…especially from the patriot side of the spectrum.
YoBaby commented:
Newt is all about Newt.
Nothing that he didn’t say or do will ever pass muster for him.
Haven’t we had enough of this already?
We need someone who can listen as well as they can talk – and Newt can’t do that.
Blacque Jacques Shellacque commented:
Today Joe Scarborough accused Newt of being in “the mushy middle.”
Bwaaahahahahahahahahaaaaa!!!!
Sorry Joe, but you ain’t exactly a conservative yourself.
AuntieMadder commented:
“This morning Republicans are just beginning to assess the damage that former House Speaker and current presidential candidate Newt Gingrich has done to the GOP budget plan currently before Congress.”
Bullsh!t. Newt didn’t damage anything except for his chance to ever sit at the big desk in the Oval Office.
Badnewzbearz commented:
Paul in NJ commented:
“Methinks the party doth protest too much.
Gingrich can read the political winds better’n others; he’s only had, oh, forever to perfect that skill. Ryan’s budget proposal is DOA, and if you’re honest, you’ll concede as much.”
I think you’re missing the point. The Ryan budget is a blueprint for the type of reform the country needs, and we can have, IF we can win the Senate and presidency in 2012. It will be a major election issue and we need to support it. Otherwise, as stated recently by the trustee of Medicare, the whole system is going to collapse.