Gingrich ’06 Memo: “Agree Entirely With Gov. Romney” on Health Care

Plenty of Newt-bashing. Plenty of Ron Paul expose’s. I keep looking for articles that focus on Romney’s past, his stupid comments, and such… I keep coming up empty. I guess Romney must be perfect?

Romney’s top contributors are Goldman Sachs, Credit Suisse, and Morgan Stanley (same as Obama). He still defends TARP and the banker bailouts and refuses to release his tax statements. Plus, the Obama administration admits he was the architect for ObamaCare. No need to dig through his personal past, examine his record that he runs on.

So now they would throw it out to save their political rear ends. The GOP has no choice but to destroy the health care bill because IF it is the fabulously popular success that it can be, once properly corrected and fully implemented, then the GOP will be go into political exile for the next 40 years like happened after FDR. That is why you see the irrationality and inconsistency on the part of the GOP candidates. It’s political life and death, even if health care is good for people.

ATTENTION LEFT WING MEDIA!!!!!!!!!!!!!
We know who Newt is and no amount of your negative reporting of past issues will deter or change american thought on this man.You have been smearing him as you have every other republican candidate while you sit back and continue to defend and heap praise on this vile disgusting neophyte in the Peoples White house.You abc news and the rest are as vile and disgusting as he and his (marie antionette) wife.

Neither Romney, nor Gingrich at the time, ever had an inkling as to how much Americans hate being “mandated” to do anything. Both seem to have “changed their minds.”

“Being critical…isn’t endorsing it,” Hammond said, while going on to say that Gingrich didn’t write the published essay.”

I cannot wait for the voting to start and get rid of most of these pretenders. Gingrich did not even make the ballot in his home state because his real motive was to sell books. He knows he has 0 chance of beating Obummer. Barry now Barrak HUSSIEN who went to crazy wright’s church will not be elected. WE have seen what his change is and we hate it. Romney will have a 50 state sweep. First time in history.

Romney was vetted in 2008 and he is CLEAN……….

Time for Mitt Romney to be America’s 45th President of the United States…….

Here is what voters will be voting on in 2012……..

Who can best move the American economy forward, Mitt Romney or Barack Obama

. Romney will have a 50 state sweep. First time in history. POSTED BY: MIKE OUT WEST |
*******************Keep on dreaming ‘MIKE OUT WEST IN SPACE’. Romney can’t even carry HIS
state of Massachusetts! LOL

What a disgraceful libel against Gingrich by ABC. He was almost totally against Romneycare but the partisan hack reporter trying to shoot down Newt and insulate Romneybama totally perverted Newt’s Memo entirely. How many people are going to take the time to read Newt’s actual eords rather than the false headline? This is a super dirty trick.

That should be goal of all Americans, that everyone has a means of paying their health care bills. States are free to have state mandates if their state Constitutions allow. There is night and day difference between state run health care and payment systems vs. federal government systems. Mitt and Newt are right on the merits of the issue, but one can disagree with their state helping doctors and hospitals get paid and sick people getting medical attention if they want.

By the way, the breach has occurred, with Medicare and Medicaid. None of the candidates are running on eliminating Medicare, Medicaid, or Social Security. Even Ron Paul said the entitlements would be affordable if we stopped our national defense activities, implying he wants to keep them and fund them with our money formerly allocated to national defense.

“Democracy is the theory that the common man knows what he wants…

and deserves to get it, GOOD & HARD”.

HL Mencken

The headline is inaccurate and misleading. Newt said they agreed with the goal of Romney’s health plan, not the entire plan. In the memo he said the plan would open a debate on how to solve the nation’s health care problems. He did not say it was the final, perfect plan everyone should have.

Newt’s exploration of the individual mandate already came up in the debates. He said he no longer supports it because it would lead to too much government control. Just go to Newt’s campaign site where he outlines his health plan. He specifically says it does not include an individual mandate nor an employer mandate.

Obamacare is a 2,000-page monstrosity that regulates health care to death. It goes way beyond just having an individual mandate where everyone has to buy insurance. The bill is a government takeover of health care.

Newt and Romney are both uninspiring to conservatives. Once again it is down to who sucks the least. The good news is both can soundly defeat our current anti-american administration.
Posted by: John Galt | December 27, 2011, 9:39 am
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The polls don’t show that either of them can soundly defeat the current President. According to the latest from Rasmussen*, Obama beats Romney 44 to 41 percent. Obama beats Gingrich 48 to 37 percent.

*Rasmussen Reports, darling pollster of conservatives

@ ObamaIsGodAwful… “There is night and day difference between state run health care and payment systems vs. federal government systems.” Really!! What’s the difference? States implement and/or mandate healthcare for the entire state and its citizens from states capital regardless if counties or cities agree and/or oppose, similar to the healthcare system being mandated at the federal level then implemented to the individual states … I’ll ask again What’s the difference!?!?

Nothing has changed: Obama sucks.

Newt has said about 300 pages of the 2,000-page Obamacare plan are good. Newt is not a bomb-thrower or an ideologue, he is a pragmatic, thoughtful analyst of the nation’s problems. He has his own health care proposal on his campaign web site. It mostly involves giving power to the states to craft their own solutions. It allows for selling insurance across state lines. It has no individual or employer mandates. Check out his proposal and don’t play the media gotcha games.

Newt has explored and examined the health care and climate change issues with an open mind rather than forming a knee-jerk ideological opinion on them. They were new issues that came up in the last 20 years. It took a while for a conservative opinion to be formed around them. Romney has flip-flopped on just about every issue under the sun, including fundamental conservative core principles like abortion, gun control, Reaganomics, etc. Newt has been a consistent conservative who risked his whole political career trying to keep Bush Sr. and the Republicans from adopting the liberal Democrat tax-and-spend agenda.

Obama is on yet another undeserved vacation. More tax dollars down the drain.
Just sayin’, lol.

And…. so Newt states that he agreed with Romney that the goal should be to have 100% of Americans be covered with health insurance, what’s wrong with having such a goal. It’s really about how the media spins this, Newt did not say he would enforce Americans to have health insurance he said he thinks its a good idea for those who can afford it to have it, instead of thinking its okay to get treated for free or letting other tax payers fit the bill. Many Americans don’t get it, they will buy Ipads, Ipods, nooks and kindles, spend a lot on vacations, etc before they even consider purchasing health ins. why is it okay to think other people should pay for your health care bills? I don’t agree with mandating people to buy anything but I do believe all people should have health insurance. Also, if the government would get out of the business of health care and leave it up to the private industry to take it over we wouldn’t have such high cost in the health care industry. And lastly, I have never been called for any poll so I do not believe any polls at all. -Deb RN and true conservative

So where are all the bright, young Republican fanatics who spend their every waking hour perusing internet detritus looking for that perfect moment when a politician uttered something that he or she has since taken back. Oh, I know all too well. The bright, young Republican fanatics are busy studying law, medicine, engineering, architecture, history, anthropology, chemistry, physics, mathematics, biology, zoology, psychology, and so forth, preparing to go out into the world and make a contribution to humanity. Then there is Mr. Kaczynski who appears to be on a trajectory to become a first class “journalist” on the payroll of the National Enquirer or its sibling, in spirit at least, Politico. Keep up the good work, Mr. Kaczynski there’s room in this world for all types, as these web pages singing your praise provide testament.

I just finished reading Nwet’s memo of 2006. I pity both Romney and Nwet. After heavily criticizing Obama’s health plan, new evidence proves that both candidates endorsed the same basic concepts as recently as 2006. Sad to say but this proves that both men will say and do anything, true or not, to gain the GOP Presidential nomination. Both men heavily discounted the intelligence of the American public.

Also, today (12/27/2011), Nwet will be interviewed by Wolf on CNN. I very much hope that Wolf airs out this memo in full.

Once again, corrupt democrat reporters like Johnny here can find a memo from 2006 and take it out of context – it was a state program, not the Obama disaster. …but those same reporters are so in love with obama that they were docile and confused when the unqualified community organizer ran for office. There were no memos, hate churches or domestic terrorist neighbors in Johnny’s writing in 2006 but suddenly Republicans are running and they can once again selectively investigate.

This is much like what we expect in the old Soviet Union, a kind of systemic corruption forced on the people that openly attempt to make poor leadership choices. In that context, the corrupt democrat reporters working for abc “news” and others are writing word these loafs to help get obama, the worst president in a hundred years, re-elected.

In that context, their opinions are worthless and not to be trusted beyond their entertainment value.

mticervin’

Our US Constitution gives limited power to the federal government (incidentally, not the power to create and fund a national health care system or to mandate purchasing of insurance or to penalize those clinging to their freedom and liberty to not seek health care or declining the program) and all other powers, innumerable and diverse, to the states and people. Therefore, if a state and its people want state run and funded health care, that’s their business. If the states and people want a national health care system and funding, then a Constituional amendment delegating this additional enumerated power to the federal government is called for.

Newt is right about the courts overstepping their bounds and perverting the Constitution and acting as the final arbiter of America’s system of government. The “Supreme” in Supreme Court does not mean they are above the other branches of government, only that it is above the other courts. Supreme Court Justices flagrantly violating the Constitution with perverted, 4-dimensional interpretations and insertions are unfit for the job and should be removed from office. Justices upholding the Constitution deserve to be defended with the same intensity patriots have defended America itself.

Not confident we have a person in the country that could fix the mess were in but the only one I see in the race that does not look dysfunctional is Santorum it appears Americans will gladly settle for a Broken product.

LexingtonLady (10:35 AM); I find a lame duck Obama extremely disturbing. I also have my fingers crossed.

@newcountryman
“LexingtonLady (10:35 AM); I find a lame duck Obama extremely disturbing. I also have my fingers crossed.”

For some reason I don’t believe that was posted by the real LexingtonLady. Here’s another which would be out of character for her:

“I just hope that Obama can make a comeback and win despite his extrmely dismal record so far. Kepping my fingers crossed.”

The question to be asked and answered now is; Are you Right-Less people SOOOO scared that you have now resorted to assuming popular identies (cheating) of certain readers and commentators of this site? In a sense, it should be a compliment to these posters since obviously you believe they have such a following that their positions can be persuasive to others.

“Newt and Romney are both playing political games. ”
Posted by: tmferretti
Right. And that is ALL that Obama does, ALL of the time, versus actually governing in any effective or sensible manner whatsoever. Oh, and by the way, Hillary’s clunky and heavy-handed health care fiasco nearly destroyed her credibility entirely.

MyTakeonThis61; Apparently, there is someone on here playing games then. They’re also assuming SeaRamblers identity. Whoever he is, he’s not one of us.

NEWCOUNTRYMAN

Yes, someone is doing it to my posts also.

President Obama will win re-election by a wide margin. None of the republican candidates can get or hold more than 25% of their fellow republicans let alone independents or conservative democrats.

This President will go down in history as one of the best, considering the republican mess he inherited which the republicans insist on doing again.

“They’re also assuming SeaRamblers identity. Whoever he is, he’s not one of us….”

LOL!!!! LORD knows he SURELY isn’t!!!! LOL!!!!

Just for the record…. I’m not an anti-Obama person either. Without question I could have been moved to vote for another had a better qualified candidate made themselves known. However, that has not happened and although I have not agreed with everything this President has done, he is doing okay in my personal opinion. Definitely a supporter ESPECIALLY given this Republican slate. I do like Jon Huntsman though but the poor man isn’t even on the map.

“MyTakeOnThis61, lol. You are way overthinking these comments and taking them far too seriously….”

Maybe you are right but I have indeed read and learned many interesting things from those who have legitimately posted something thought provoking–that includes those who I call the Right-Less too!

The Adam Smith one is my post. Whoever is stealing posts must not have any ideas or thoughts of their own. Must be tea partiers. I’m really flattered they view me as a threat to ther idiotic ideas.

Everybody agrees on the goal: coverage for everyone.

What we dont agree on is how to achieve that goal.

Threats of jail and massive fines are not the way to achieve it, Mr Obama.

Obamacare should be repealed. Let’s start over.

JOE WHITE

The Affordable Health Care Bill will at least begin a process of health care coverage for everyone. No one will go to jail if they can’t pay at least something. No death committees will decide whether grandma lives or dies.

The republicans had their chance to participate when the bill was drafted; instead they took the side of the health care industry and just griped, whined and spread disinformation.

Now they say they are against it, but I haven’t heard one specific idea on how they would make it better, have you?

The only groups responsible for the state of health care costs today are those in the medical field for charging obscene prices for some equipment and procedures, lawyers for creating obscene settlements, and politicians for requiring that hospitals accept all patients with life threatening problems.

People without health insurance would not be a burden if hospitals were able to refuse them. It’s called personal responsibility. If the government wants to help those that can’t afford basic medical care, let those folks into Medicaid. If some 25 year old decides they don’t want to spend $200/month on cataclysmic coverage, then screw-em if they get cancer. It was their choice.

I’m sick and tired of the government creating systems that end up punishing those that do the right thing because a small percentage do not. It’s time to create systems that punish only those that choose to not do the right thing.

Why don’t the republicans write their own health care bill, put it up against the Affordable Health Care Bill and let the American public decide. All they’ve done is slam and misrepresent the current bill without being specific on anything. What don’t they like and what would they do to make it better?

It’s obvious they have no solution and would continue with the mess the health care industry presides over today.

There is only one party with two sides in this country. They’re all the same. Obama = Gingrich, Romney = Obama, Bush = Obama. The only exception is Ron Paul.

Willard Mitt Romney = Newton Leroy Gingrich

We do not need any more Puppet Presidents.

“We do not need any more Puppet Presidents.”
[NadePaulKuciGravMcKi]
So I surely do assume you won’t be voting for Obama. I’m also tired of corrupt special interests from the left, and slugs feeding at the public trough. No to Obama.

There is nothing wrong with providing insurance coverage for everyone. It should be available to all to purchase if they choose. I have no problem with Gingrich expressing positive support for the concept. HOWEVER, the difference now is that GIngrich calls it what it is now, a failure, while Romney embraces it under the guise of the Tenth Amendment. I prefer someone who admits a failed policy than someone who doggedly clings to failure, as Romney does. And Romney-Care, the template for Obama-Care, is a failure!

Tmferretti, you’re either spreading lies or grossly misinformed. The Republicans had lots of ideas on health care, the Democrats said my way or the highway and wouldn’t let them participate in amending the bill. There most certainly will be panels deciding what procedures are covered and which ones aren’t. Obama put a guy in charge of implementing Obamacare who has praised the British system, a system geared to denying care to old people in order to cut costs and make them die sooner. That is the major driving theory behind socialized medicine.

Try looking at the campaign web site of Newt or the other candidates to see their health care proposals. All the details are there to see and you can compare them to Obamacare. Of course that’s already been mentioned in these comments and you chose to ignore it because you’re an Obama groupie. Newt is keeping some stuff from Obamacare, like preventing insurers from cancelling your plan when you get sick. He is also proposing the important medical malpractice reform, which the Democrats would not do because they are bought off by lawyers as their major campaign contributors. I believe Obama said “we’ll get to that part later” and then never did. Newt is modeling his plan off of his successful 1996 welfare reform by letting the states have more control over how they run things.

Romney= TOAST
Gingrich= TOAST

Don’t waste a vote for the interchangeable Obama.

I think what people are forgetting is this– Newt and Romney wanted health insurance as mandated and designed BY THE STATE, NOT THE FEDERAL GOVERNMENT. Both are BIG believers in the 10th Amendment… Obama is not. Obama doesn’t believe in the constitution. He believes its a relic from the past and means nothing at all anymore.

And if the Dems continue to be in charge (I dare not say “lead”) then that is exactly what the constitution will be.. an old relic.

Romney is the only candidate that we have that can beat Obama…. He also has a very good record and has the resume that is needed to fix this economy…. Obama does not have the experience and the know how and it has been painfully obvious for three years.

It’s getting to be about that time when we need to start supporting the guy and circling the wagons to protect him.

Just a note for the uninformed: SAMEAGAIN = Searambler. he or she feels the need to have several posting names. Somewhat funny, and definitely pathetic.

There’s NO need to Bash Gingrich—He always manages to do that to himself.