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Ron Paul To Laura Ingraham: I Wouldn’t Put Newt Gingrich In The ‘Conservative’ Category

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On her show this afternoon, radio host Laura Ingraham asked GOP presidential hopeful Ron Paul an intriguing question: Is Newt Gingrich a conservative?

Paul did not beat around the bush:

I wouldn’t put him in that category. You know, he was known to be from the left-wing of the party, especially early in his years, you know he would come up with conservative viewpoints and all, but that doesn’t make him a conservative. No, I don’t put him in that category.

RELATED: Ron Paul Campaign Releases Brutal Newt Gingrich Attack Ad

When asked about the recent surge in popularity Gingrich has experienced, Paul put it all in perspective, opining it has more to do with people thinking about who will be the next to “beat Romney” and the way polling works (and, thus, the subsequent media attention candidates receive after a surge in the polls) than on any real “facts.”

“He’s not Herman Cain, though, right?” said Ingraham. “I mean he’s quite a bit different from Herman Cain or even Michele Bachmann. I mean, he’s been through the fire, has he not?”

Paul agreed, adding that Gingrich has actually benefited from people already knowing so much about his past. However Paul still believes that “the policy flip-flopping deserves to be known by the people and where he’s been on these issues.

When it comes to his chances for success in the Iowa Caucuses, Paul says he’s “not good” at switching up the campaigning strategy he’s basically gone with for the past thirty years, touting, as he phrased it, individual liberty and constitutional government.

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  • Anonymous

    Conservative in the context of US politics means agrees with Rush Limbaugh. Therefore, Newt Gingrich is very conservative.

  • Anonymous

    Love Dr. Paul. Absolutely correct.

  • Philip Petracca

    Ron Paul 2012 – The PEOPLES Choice!

  • Jay

    If you saw the “serial hypocrisy” ad, you know that Limbaugh does not agree with Gingrich; so according to your own child-like logic, Newt is not a conservative.

  • Anonymous

    He believes in rationing health care.  I dunno, is that conservative?

  • Anonymous

    While I listened to just a bit of Ol’ Rushie yesterday for the first time in years, he was hammering away about this being a country of laws, that the constitution is our supreme law of the land.  Yet, in the recent foreign policy debate, four of the GOP emperor wannabes (Romney, Bachmann, Santorum, and most vocally Gingrich,) supported Obama’s violations of both Article III Section 3 and the Fifth Amendment.  They then promised that if elected, they would do the same only with more enthusiasm.  The crowd of “rule of law except when it gets in our way” conservatives cheered them on like drunken frat boys at a wet t-shirt contest.

    Are we doomed yet?

  • Anonymous

    I can’t remember Paul going after another candidate this aggressively as he is going after Newt. Paul is feeling like he has a chance, he may be the last candidate standing who will get the “anybody but Mitt” vote.

  • Anonymous

    Newt loves illegals more than Americans. Mitt thinks corporations are people (killing his general election chances). Herman sexually harasses white women (he respects black women and married one). Ron Paul is the only candidate with a plan to end the TSA and end the endless wars for Israel, it all started a decade ago after a false flag attack.
    9/11, US and Israel:
    http://www.amazon.com/America-Deceived-II-Possession-interrogation/dp/1450257437

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_LDO6LIQBI2JQ4Q5MWLWBKGKSJY bensanity

    You’re talking about occupying foreign lands right? If so, Paul is the man to end all foreign wars. Gingrich was for invading Libya after he was against it. At least half of the Master Debaters were for invading Iran on “certain conditions.”

  • clever

    I wouldn’t put Ronald Paul in the sane category he has followers as crazy as the craziest libtard spo called journalist on this fox bashing website.If not for fox this website wouldn’t have the same 35 people on it.

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_FJ3TMPXQUUYEQQNSGYX7NNR2KQ Homechicken

    Yeah, I can understand why a man who has a thirty year track record of being honest, consistent, treated medicaid patients for free, will not participate in the Congressional pension program and has voted with the Constitution 100% of the time would strike you as crazy; sounds about right. 

  • Anonymous

    Democrats = Welfare
    Republicans = Warfare

    Ron Paul = the right Rx for what ails America

  • Anonymous

    Ron Paul believes that you should get what you pay for and so do I. What do you believe?

  • Anonymous

    I’d say the number of people Newt actually gives a crap about is probably real conservative. 

  • Anonymous

    I completely agree with you, for some reason this crazy man has been the most consistent person who is running for president, i mean this crazy guy predicted the financial mess America is in right now years ago, i think it makes no sense that he says we should get out of all other countries business and bring our military home because i guess we would be ok if China or Russia came here and put a couple bases around the U.S. The U.S military and veterans must be idiots for supporting crazy Ron Paul than any other candidate. I think Ron Paul needs to flip flop more, cheat on his wife and be a puppet like everyone else to get some media attention.

  • Anonymous

    Ron Paul is one of, if not the most, consistent, dedicated, and admirable politicians out there. If only I didn’t disagree with most of his policies.

    It’s a shame that half of his fanbase is completely nuts. Exhibit A :SpySarahPalinExposedClickHere. Go read the comments section of any Alex Jones broadcast if you want to lose faith in humanity.

  • Anonymous

    Agreed, bensanity, but I was alluding to something else.

    Article III Section 3 defines which acts are treason, one of which is “levying war against” the United States.  It then specifies exactly what must happen to a person accused of treason before they can be convicted.

    Amendment 5 says, “No person shall… be deprived of life, liberty, or property, without due process of law…” 

    Neither of these have any weight, though, when rabid statists crave votes. 

    Ron Paul 2012 – the only one who has and will uphold his oath of office.

  • Anonymous

    You act as though Rush Limbaugh isn’t a serial hypocrite.

  • Anonymous

    Conservatives LOVE the Constitution…..when they are not devising ways of changing it. Have you seen the new defense bill that passed the Senate with more than a super majority? It would basically suspend habeas corpus to American citizens ACCUSED or SUSPECTED of terrorism.

  • Jay

    Go easy on Rush.  He knows his place as the water carrier for the GOP country club Republican set.  He’ll never really be accepted by them, but his self-loathing is so deep, he allows himself to continually be used by them.

  • Rex derWunderGott

    Seriously: what this thread indicates is that not only has America given up, but we’re lovin’ this deficit-busting idea of diggin’ our own graves; it provides that real sense of investment in the process.

    The test of whether someone is or is not ‘conservative’ politically, according to actual dictionary and historical meaning of that word, does not come down to whether they sound mostly or mostly not like some Big Fat Idiot Racist drug addict hate-talk radio pig person with his own daily show and moronic worshippers.

    So forget that crap. Dr. Ron Paul is exactly right about Newt Gingrich, that he’s a big fat overfed pampered indulged Washington Insider flip flopper. But Dr. Ron Paul is exactly wrong in imagining that is not precisely what the breit bulbs in the GOP base want; those breit bulbs want their resentment stoked and Newt knows exacly where to put his hand, how hard to stroke and when to let all happen. Yes Newt Gingrich is not just the most knowledgdable, not just the most willing, but the best hand-job specialist the GOP has had in a long, long, spewy time. They’re gonna love their little time together, Newt and his GOP, like Oblio and his Arrow, off on an adventure into November 2012. It’ll be touching in a Sandusky way, but with absolute consent – Newt always makes sure his dates are ‘of age’. Then in late August the whole party gets off all at once, loses the presidential general to someone who actually cares about the country and knows how to do the job, but there’s still a happy ending, for Newt because he gets to bump his Not Lobbying lobbying fees sky high and because while everyone’s distracted by the presidential election, the Rrrs will have succeeded in stealing the Senate, keeping the House, taking every state city and local office that isn’t nailed down and we’re all done anyway.

    Then the House Rrrs will impeach Obama, impeach Biden, and Boeher will step aside in favor of King Ka-Newt,  who will immediately fly to the Jersey Shore to try to hold back the tides while maybe getting a complementary hummer from Snooki.

  • Anonymous

    The people are ‘given’ a multiple-choice choice with two possible answers and one them isn’t going to be Paul, unfortunately

  • Anonymous

    Newt Ginrich’s chequered
    history

    04/02/1987 – He cosponsored the 1987 Fairness Doctrine 

    10/22/1991 – He voted for an amendment that would
    create a National Police Corps. 

    03/—/1993 – He Voted for sending $1.6 Billion in
    foreign aid to Russia. 

    11/19/1993 – He voted for the NAFTA Implementation
    Act. 

    11/27/1994 – He supported the GATT Treaty giving
    sovereignty to the U.N. 

    08/27/1995 – He suggests that drug smuggling
    should carry a death sentence. 

    04/25/1996 – Voted for the single largest increase
    on Federal education spending ($3.5 Billion) 

    04/10/1995 – He supported Federal tax dollars
    being spent on abortions. 

    06/01/1996 – He helped a Democrat switch parties
    in an attempt to defeat constitutionalist Ron Paul in the 1996 election. 

    09/25/1996 – Introduced H.R. 4170, demanded
    life-sentence or execution for someone bringing 2 ounces of marijuana across
    the border. 

    01/22/1997 – Congress gave him a record-setting
    $300,000 fine for ethical wrongdoing. 

    11/29/2006 – He said that free speech should be
    curtailed in order to fight terrorism. Wants to stop terrorists from using the
    internet. Called for a “serious debate about the 1st Amendment.” 

     

    …but wait, there’s more! 

    1/29/2006 – He called for a “Geneva
    Convention for terrorists” so it would be clear who the Constitution need
    not apply to. 

    02/15/2007 – He supported Bush’s proposal for
    mandatory carbon caps. 

    09/28/2008 – Says if he were in office, he would
    have reluctantly voted for the $700B TARP bailout. 

    10/01/2008 – Says in an article that TARP was a
    “workout, not a bailout.” 

    12/08/2008 – He was paid $300,000 by Freddie Mac
    to halt Congress from bringing necessary reform. 

    03/31/2009 – Says we should have Singapore-style
    drug tests for Americans. 

    07/30/2010 – Says that Iraq was just step one in
    defeating the “Axis of Evil”. 

    08/03/2010 – Advocates attacks on Iran & North
    Korea. 

    08/16/2010 – Opposes property rights of the mosque
    owner in NYC. 

    11/15/2010 – He defended Romneycare 

    12/05/2010 – He said that a website owner should
    be considered an enemy combatant, hunted down and executed, for publishing
    leaked government memos. 

    01/30/2011 – He lobbied for ethanol subsidies. 

    01/30/2011 – He suggested that flex-fuel vehicles
    be mandated for Americans. 

    02/13/2011 – He criticized Obama for sending less
    U.S. taxdollars to Egypt. 

    02/15/2011 – His book said that he believes
    man-made climate-change and advocated creating “a new endowment for
    conservation and the environment.” 

    03/09/2011 – He blames his infidelity to multiple
    wives on his passion for the country. 

    03/15/2011 – Says that NAFTA worked because it
    created jobs in Mexico. 

    03/19/2011 – He has no regrets about supporting
    Medicare drug coverage. (Now $7.2T unfunded liability) 

    03/23/2011 – He completely flip-flopped on Libyan
    intervention in 16 days. 

    03/25/2011 – He plans to sign as many as 200
    executive orders on his first day as president. 

    04/25/2011 – He’s a paid lobbyist for Federal
    ethanol subsidies. 

    05/12/2011 – He was more supportive of individual
    health-care mandates than Mitt Romney. 

    06/09/2011 – His own campaign staff resigned en
    masse. 

    07/15/2011 – His poorly managed campaign is over
    $1 Million in debt. 

    08/01/2011 – He hired a company to create fake
    Twitter to appear as if he had a following. 

    10/07/2011 – He said he’d ignore the Supreme Court
    if need be. 

     

    Have you had enough yet? 

    Are you going to wake up and join the Revolution! 

     

  • Anonymous

    And there are certainly no illegals in that small group. 

  • Anonymous

    Which revolution is that?

  • http://pulse.yahoo.com/_G5RQSJCAA7TWCLGGBG4SI526TU Mike D

    By John E. Yang Washington Post Staff Writer Wednesday, January 22 1997; Page A01 The House voted overwhelmingly yesterday to reprimand House Speaker Newt Gingrich (R-Ga.) and order him to pay an unprecedented $300,000 penalty, the first time in the House’s 208-year history it has disciplined a speaker for ethical wrongdoing. The ethics case and its resolution leave Gingrich with little leeway for future personal controversies, House Republicans said. Exactly one month before yesterday’s vote, Gingrich admitted that he brought discredit to the House and broke its rules by failing to ensure that financing for two projects would not violate federal tax law and by giving the House ethics committee false information. Enough Said!!

  • Anonymous

    “Oh Snerdley..bring the car around front and take Mrs.Limbaugh to the Walgreens for some Black Walnut Ice cream and dont forget my ‘meds”

  • Anonymous

    Chinese revolution

  • Anonymous

    Ron Paul is a bitter old man who fails to realize that his repeated attempts to attain what Nature has limited him to attain will only get him scorn and ridicule.

     

  • Anonymous

    Boo-hoo-hoo!  They changed the OC formula to OP!

    Evil liberals!

  • http://www.facebook.com/people/James-R-Miller/638890459 James R Miller

    Big talk for one vote not being cast yet.  Post again Jan 4

  • Anonymous

    Gingrich is pitching snake oil.

  • http://Brianmarsh.com Brian Marsh

    You obviously know NOTHING about Rush. He’s ANYTHING but a water carrier for the GOP country club Republican set.  He consistently criticizes the GOP and country club Republicans.  His following is from main stream middle class conservatives.  It’s amazing how many people talk about Rush like their an expert on him but have never listened to him and instead rely on left wing pundents for their info.

  • Michael T.

    I find it interesting that two of the most respectful interviews of Ron Paul have both been by women – Laura Ingraham and Megyn Kelly.

    I’m not sure why. Perhaps they see him as the kindly dad (or granpa) — or perhaps it is because women tend to be more adverse to another war such as with Iran and may not be put off by what the men may see as Mr. Paul not being tough enough with Iran.

    Kudos to Laura and Megyn for showing a little class.

  • Anonymous

    Talk about the pot calling the kettle black!  Dr Paul is certainly not one to be talking about someone else not being conservative. Other than on the subject of abortion, Dr Paul is more accurately described as Libertarian than conservative.  Or even Liberal, in the classic sense of the word.  Newt, on the other hand, is too thoughtful to be a doctrinaire anything, which I consider a good thing.

  • Anonymous

    Snooki rocks!

  • Anonymous

    Really, what revolution? 

    Good stuff about Newt. Ok , he’s a crook. 

    What are you suggesting? Armed revolution? 

    If not, what’s your plan? Pooping in parks?

  • Anonymous

    …while attending country clubs.

  • http://twitter.com/PAFlagLady Diana Caldwell

    You really should try to talk without calling names and maybe people would want to read past the first six lines! Thank you!

  • Anonymous

    Snooki sucks!

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