Newt Gingrich In 2008: ‘I Think You Gotta Require That Everybody Have Insurance Or Post A Bond’

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by James Crugnale | 1:14 pm, December 27th, 2011

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On the heels of the Wall Street Journal uncovering a newsletter sent out by a Newt Gingrich consulting firm championing Mitt Romney‘s health care plan, archival video whiz Andrew Kaczynski has unearthed a video from 2008 of the former Speaker of the House saying during a speech to the Alegent Health Clinic, “I think you gotta require that everybody have insurance or post a bond.”

According to Kaczynski, the video of Gingrich making such a bold statement is “a reminder of the degree to which a mandate was conservative orthodoxy a decade ago, and of the degree to which it’s now a target of convenience, not principle.”

Watch Gingrich’s comments on healthcare below via BuzzFeed

(h/t BuzzFeed)

Andrew Kaczynski, Buzzfeed, individual mandate, newt gingrich, RomneyCare

Anonymous

Flip-floppedly-flop goes the newt!

Republiclowns
Mo Fokker

“a reminder of the degree to which a mandate was conservative orthodoxy a decade ago”

Yes, but 2008 was four years ago. So are we to believe that his position evolved in a quick four years? Or is more likely he is now pandering to teabaggers?
Anonymous

Well remember just 4 short years ago we didn’t have a half-negro, Muslim-Socialist in the White House. Kind of like deficit-spending, debt-levels and growing the state….all perfectly legitimate things unless the “other guy” is controlling the purse strings.
Henry Wood

Newt Gingrich is a muslim kenyan anti-colonialist maoist marxist trotskyist stalinist statist socialist.
http://twitter.com/gadfly666 gadfly666

The low IQ Conservatives/Tea Baggers/Republicans are usually not able to process the lies and hypocrisy of GOP leaders.
Anonymous

This fat bastard would say anything to suck off the corporate tit.
John Sheehan

In the Newt-centered universe, none of these issues have ever been addressed, it seems. The entire year of congressional debate in 2009 never happened, I guess. Newt imagines himself inventing the wheel on health reform.
John Sheehan

In the Newt-centered universe, none of these issues have ever been addressed, it seems. The entire year of congressional debate in 2009 never happened, I guess. Newt imagines himself inventing the wheel on health reform.
Anonymous

Republican down! Republican down!
Anonymous

I agree, dankenton,
And I sincerely hope we never have another half-Negro (or full Negro or quarter-Negro), Muslim or Socialist in the White House again!

Let’s get America back on top!
Anonymous

Explain to me (and all of the readers) how being black (or half-negro, as you so-eloquently put it) is relevant to job performance? This should be good…
Anonymous

Pardon me, didn’t mean to interrupt your Ku Klux Klan rally. But uh, the chairman of the Republican party? Yeah he’s black. You can now go back to fantasizing about lynching black people. Ta ta!
Anonymous

Where are the hundreds of comments? CONS don’t like their hypocrisy exposed?

LOL
huffnnoccupyn

Like flies in the misty clouds of Raid.
huffnnoccupyn

I believe that I (again) hear the sound of conservative crickets …
shonangreg

I think they’re both liberals trolling to make conservatives look bad. Very few people can be that publicly stupid and racist.
Anonymous

obama–the best conservative we have had since IKE…
obama is the only true conservative in this 2012 election…
and the NEW conservatives cannot stand that..
funny..
Anonymous

Actually, Gingrich has advocated this policy of “get insurance or post a bond” as recently as May 2011; see this clip from Meet the Press:

http://video.msnbc.msn.com/meet-the-press/43038193
Anonymous

In case you can’t see the video on the MSNBC website, here’s a youtube link to the same video, posted by the right-wing CNS News:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ThwVp0cwOMA
Anonymous

Sarcasm meet IAlwaysDrinkBeer. Perhaps if you moderate your favorite activity a bit more you’ll be able to recognize Mr. Sarcasm if ever you cross paths in the future.
Henry Wood

Serenity NOW! Insanity later…
Anonymous

well considering most true conservatives dont consider Newt or Romney a conservative how would this be hypocrisy. Newt has been a progressive forever, This is nothing new.