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May 17, 2011 07:48 PM UTC

Newt Gingrich Messing Everything Up

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  • by: Colorado Pols

As the Los Angeles Times reports:

Rep. Paul Ryan spent Monday defending his plan to radically rework Medicare after it came under fire in surprising fashion from a fellow Republican, Newt Gingrich.

Gingrich became the first GOP presidential candidate to openly rip the plan, which would convert Medicare into a private insurance program, after the proposal — part of a House budget blueprint to tame federal spending — drew heavy criticism from some voters, and polls showed it to be unpopular.

“The budget passed by the House last month takes credible steps to controlling healthcare costs,” Ryan, chairman of the House Budget Committee, said in a speech to the Economic Club of Chicago. “It aims to do two things: to put our budget on a path to balance, and to put our economy on a path to prosperity.”

Gingrich had called Ryan’s proposal “right-wing social engineering.” He said the effort imposed “radical change.”

And while Ryan didn’t mention the critique in his speech, earlier in the day, while on a radio show, he fired back. “With allies like that, who needs the left?” Ryan said on Laura Ingraham’s program…

Of course, it’s not just Rep. Paul Ryan, who announced today that he will not run for the Senate seat being vacated by Wisconsin Sen. Herb Kohl, that Newt Gingrich endangers by going off reservation on the controversial House GOP 2012 budget plan. Gingrich’s attack on the “Ryan Plan” could easily find its way into ads targeting Rep. Scott Tipton, or Rep. Cory Gardner, or any of dozens of hot congressional races that will play out next year. To be clear, we don’t consider Gingrich to be a viable presidential candidate–the question will be, assuming he stays in the race long enough to affect the debate, whether he proves an uncomfortably frank one.

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  1. The only people wringing their hands about the eventual GOP Nominee are people like Gingrich and Trump, who never had a chance, and Dem concern trolls.

    We’re not going to put up a worse candidate than McCain – it’s not possible.

    That is all.

        1. And I was kind of hoping for some squirrel dinners in the WH should Huckleberry have gotten in, but watching your ‘intellectual heavy weight’ implode is entertaining.  

    1. Ah come on ellbee, there are plenty of Dan Maes in the Republican Party just itching to fuck up the next election for Republicans.

      Republicans don’t do compromise or consensus or cooperation.  You’re stuck with loony tune assholes who can only preach fear about tomorrow.  Fear fear fear of tomorrow.  What a pathetic product.  Republicans are going to be totally fucked until they can find a positive vision of tomorrow.  Reagan, Clinton and Obama were all positive people who talked about a better America not a more fearful one.

  2. It is not the Newt’s fault that he put his foot in his mouth.  David Gregory MADE the Newt put his foot in his mouth by asking him a question!  Like many conservatives, Newt is a victim.  It is clearly the fault of the lame-stream media, which has a tendency to ask questions of candidates.  

    The media moguls of the Washington Establishment are clearly biased, toward asking questions.  It’s unfair and everyone should just lay off the Newt.  He is after all only running to be the CiC of the world’s largest and strongest military.

    The Newt loves his country and works too hard, which is why he can’t keep his pants zipped up.  He is a victim of pure patriotism.  And God has said its OK now.  

    http://www.latimes.com/news/po…  

    1. That video’s been gleefully making the rounds on the righty blogs.

      Newt never had a chance anyway, and going after Ryan was the final straw.

        1. Newt and Romney as the ‘RINOs.’  Bachmann as the loon. Paul as the crazy uncle who says what he really thinks, and who none of the establishment can tolerate.  Rick Santorum as well, Santorum, a self-proclaimed ‘moralist’ now caught up with trying to help his buddy escape being popped for cheating and adultery.  

          I guess that leaves Mr. ‘Who the Hell is That?’ Cain.

          1. too much fun, CT.

            I am not sure that it matters who the GOP nominee is at this point. The GOP brand is spiraling toward oblivion as the public gets more and more hip to the truth.

            Lawrence O’Donnell did a piece today about the American Legislative Exchange Council and their “model legislation” program. The repubs can’t sell the “trickle down” bullshit to anyone but the 20 percenters anymore. Good on Newtie for calling the Ryan budget what it is…radical social engineering.

            Even though he flip-flopped later.  

  3. More evidence Daniels will run.

    (And, according to Hannity, win in a landslide)

    Frank Luntz was on Hannity tonight, extolling the virtues of the Indiana Governor and the “certainty” Mitch Daniels will run.

    Looks like faux will do a slow rollout, tantalizing the one issuers with tales of the stallwart christian conservative Daniels gutting Planned Parenthood, “embellishing” Daniels’ “good work” as a top Bush economics wonk, and holding him up as the “real anti-Obama”.

    My guess is that Daniels will pull the old “I really don’t want to run, but will for God and country” about a week from now.

    Caplis and Hannity in one day.

    Ich!

    Gotta go shower off

     

    1. Obama planned on running early and he had a proposals to help the American people.  

      He was the underdog from the outset and was hit with every conceivable piece of mud and prejudice that was slung at him even from rivals in his own party.

      He spoke and he listened and people started seeing that he was a person with enormous talent and integrity.

      He won the presidency in convincing fashion and has retained the core of his campaign organization.

      He has already announced his intentions to run again and is stock piling cash and contacts for the next campaign right now.

      The Republicans are hoping a low profile 3rd tier candidate who hasn’t even decided to enter the race can boot strap a presidential campaign in a hurry and take out a seasoned incumbent.  Plus Daniels is wedded to Bush at the hip as a financial cabinet member who presided over one of the biggest recessions in recent memory and who knows what unknowns lurk in his personal past.  Good luck selling that pig at the market.

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