Michael, I encourage you to go to YouTube and do a search for: "Newt Gingrich and FDR". There's a number of them out there, and it is true that Gingrich praises FDR as an astute President who was effective, in Gingrich's terms, probably the most effective President of the 20th Century. Like Gingrich, Ronald Reagan was also a great admirer of FDR's effectiveness.
Gingrich is highly critical of FDR's "New Deal"; (as was FDR himself before he died...He realized that he had created a quagmire) and Gingrich openly criticizes FDR for literally delaying and stalling recovery in the mid-1930s after the Great Depression. Obviously Gutzman didn't touch upon this aspect of Gingrich's view of FDR, so that's "False Narrative Number 1"; I cannot find anything that substantiates Gingrich supporting Rockefeller in 1964; but Gingrich would have been 19-20 years of age, and I don't see how this can somehow be construed by Gutzman as Gingrich: "Always been a lefty". False Narrative Number 2. During the 1976 Republican National Convention, Gerald Ford was the current sitting President! Ronald Reagan was the contender. Moreover, Gingrich strongly supported Ronald Reagan in 1980 and was Reagan's Chief Political Campaign Advisor in 1980 for Georgia! Again, Gutzman's assertion that this somehow makes Gingrich a lefty is misplaced, and "False Narrative Number 3!" Gingrich has never supported Cap & Trade! During a 15 February 2007 interview with NPR, Gingrich said that he would suppport tax incentives to encourage energy companies to innovate: http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/hotpolitics/interviews/gingrich.html?utm_medium=Email&utm_source=ExactTarget&utm_campaign=pressRelease Gingrich has been vehement on this issue, and has frequently stated that he vigorously opposes "cap and trade" as well as any system of taxing carbon emissions. On global warming, Gingrich has noted there is "No settled scientific conclusion." http://www.ontheissues.org/Celeb/Newt_Gingrich_Environment.htm >From Club For Growth: *He fought President Obama’s cap-and-trade42 scheme and wants to abolish the Environmental Protection Agency.43 He also opposes the Obama EPA’s controversial plan to regulate carbon emissions via the Clean Air Act, and has urged Congress to prevent its implementation.44 But previously, in 2008, he starred in a television ad with Nancy Pelosi urging a bipartisan solution to climate change. In a debate with Senator John Kerry in 2007, Gingrich said, “the evidence is sufficient that we should move towards the most effective possible steps to reduce carbon loading in the atmosphere." While he insisted that government regulation wasn’t the answer, he said, “I would agree you would get more change more rapidly with an incentivized market rather than a laissez-faire approach.” That’s Gingrich-speak for government involvement.45 * http://www.clubforgrowth.org/assets/files/FINAL-Gingrich-White-Paper.pdf That Gingrich supported "Cap & Trade" is False Narrative Number 4. That Gingrich supported a huge expansion of NASA? Gingrich did in fact advocate that NASA attempt to develop a colony on the Moon back in 2011-2012. I agreed with that and think it's in our National Interests to do so. Hardly a "Lefty Perspective".....False Narrative Number 5; I don't know what Gutzman is talking about when he says that Gingrich supported an "Individual Mandate" but seeing how far fetched and misplaced Gutzman has been on these other claims, I highly doubt that Gutzman is believable on this issue either. On Sat, Jul 16, 2016 at 12:29 PM, MJ <[email protected]> wrote: > *Michael I suggest you read my initial response a little closer; I pointed > out at least three or four examples of where Gutzman was misplaced.* "Gingrich > backed Rockefeller over Goldwater in 1964, backed Ford over Reagan in 1976, > voted to create the Department of Education in 1979, wrote a book > advocating a gigantic expansion of NASA, backed cap and trade, backed the > individual mandate, long trumpeted FDR as the greatest president of the > 20th century, and in general has always been a lefty." -- Kevin Gutzman > > > <sigh> Kevin Gutzman's facts are completely wrong and off base. I've read > several of Gingrich's books, and his praise for FDR is somewhat truthful, > but so is his criticisms Gutzman claimed Gingrich "trumpeted FDR as > greatest president of the 20th century". > Nothing above disproves that. > Most liberty minded persons recognize FDR as the third WORST president > America has endured. > > .....Gingrich would have been all of 20 years of age during the Goldwater > run for the Presidency; so I don't necessarily think he could be faulted > for supporting Rockefeller; especially today when Gingrich uses the > "Rockefellerian/North-East Corridor/Blue-Bloods" synonymously with the > "Pseudo-Intellectual Georgetown Bar Crowd"; and neither term is flattering > or endearing. Gutzman noted that "Gingrich backed Rockefeller over > Goldwater in 1964, backed Ford over Reagan in 1976" > Nothing above contrary to that. > > Gingrich is a Tea Party conservative, has been and still continues to be a > "Washington Outsider". Gingrich has supported the flat tax; and was a > Reagan conservative. Gutzman made no claims about flat taxes or > TeaParties or whether he was a Reagan conservative. > > Again we see that Tampa Keith's RECOLLECTION is not rooted in REALITY. > NOWHERE did he demonstrate that Gutzman was "misplaced". > > Regard$, > --MJ > > "Gingrich has never been a conservative," according to an appraisal in May > 2011 by The American Conservative magazine. "Gingrich has rarely, if ever, > been for smaller government. He simply believes Republicans can preside > over big government more effectively." > “The intellectual level of debate in the Senate and the House is very low, > and it’s in that context that Gingrich comes off as more profound than he > really is,” Siegel said. “He is the tallest building in Wichita.” > "Some years ago, I was invited to speak at a National Review conference in > the government capital. In my talk, I praised our predecessors in the Old > Right, who came together in opposition to FDR's domestic fascism and drive > to war. Afterwards, in the question period, up pops a furious Newt Gingrich > to say, at length, that conservatives must love Roosevelt -- he was > Reagan's hero, after all -- and to criticize Franklin or his policies was > to risk being written out of the conservative movement. I responded that > this is what's wrong with contemporary conservatism: its corporatism and > militarism. I never saw Newt again, and I was not invited back. > "Newt is a neocon, i.e., a champion of the corporate state and perpetual > war, and a corrupt DC lobbyist of the worst sort. He may talk a good game, > once in a while, with Obama in power, but it is all just a partisan trick." > -- LHR, Jr. > > -- > -- > Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. > For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum > > * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ > * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. > * Read the latest breaking news, and more. > > --- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "PoliticalForum" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- -- Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. 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