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Virginia Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli came away from this weekend’s Huckabee presidential forum, mentioned by Aaron, unimpressed with Newt Gingrich and Mitt Romney.
Of Gingrich, Cuccinelli, one of three attorney generals to lob questions at the forum, said after the event: “My benchmark was I want to leave with comfort that each of these six candidates is going to be a limited government conservative president. And despite pressing Newt Gingrich several times, I didn’t get that. I did not get that. We could have another compassionate conservative on our hands. I did not get that commitment.”
And of Romney: “I don’t see a lot of distance there between him and the president.”
Cuccinelli repeated those criticisms in subsequent interviews, calling Romneycare “Obamacare light” and saying that “elements” of Gingrich’s congressional record are “anything but conservative.” The Virginia attorney general is a leader in the legal fight against Obamacare and recently announced he will be running for governor. Cuccinelli was widely praised for his role in the Huckabee forum.
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Clint| 12.5.11 @ 3:05PM
" With the intense search for a conservative alternative to Mitt Romney producing popularity “bubbles” for Rick Perry and Herman Cain, “Who’s next?” has been the recurring question. In an ironic twist, the consensus answer seems to be: Newt Gingrich.
I say “ironic” because the opposition to Romney has been led by conservative grassroots writers and activists, as well as groups like FreedomWorks. Gingrich isn’t much more popular among that contingent than Romney. In May, when Gingrich sharply criticized Paul Ryan’s Medicare reform plan, FreedomWorks Chairman Dick Armey reminded National Review that Gingrich had been a serial offender:
Citing Gingrich’s support of Dede Scozzafava in the 2009 congressional election in New York’s 23rd district, his backing of Medicare Part D and TARP, and his commercial with Nancy Pelosi about climate change, Armey observes that “Newt entered the race with serious ground to make up with these 2 million Tea Party activists.”…
Brendan Steinhauser, director of Federal and State Campaigns for FreedomWorks, reports that the Tea Partiers he’s talked to are “irate” at Gingrich… “I never met a single Tea Party activist that supported Newt Gingrich for president,” he adds."
The Tea Party Rebellion Is Here And In Iowa.
Narf!| 12.5.11 @ 3:22PM
Your quote from Steinhauser is very old. And it's contradicted by your first paragraph. Is someone paying you to make it look like Ron Paul supporters are idiots?
Clint| 12.5.11 @ 4:28PM
Your Support Of Neutered Gingrich Contradicts Real Conservatism
"While Gingrich may not have technically lobbied members of Congress, “Lobbying is not just meeting with people on the Hill,” Abramoff said. “Lobbying is a package, and part of the package is strategic advice — companies need to know what to do and which direction to go in.”
“And I think that those who come off the Hill and take advantage of the revolving door and cash in to give strategic advice is the same sort of area that I’ve talked about,” he said. “It’s a problem.”
Abramoff dismissed Gingrich’s explanation that he was offering Freddie Mac “history lessons” when he collected nearly $2 million from the mortgage giant.
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“Apparently it was also for a history lesson — a very expensive history lesson,” he said. “Nevertheless, it’s cashing in on public service and it’s the kind of thing that I write about and think has got to be addressed.”
The Tea Party Is Here And In Iowa.
Narf!| 12.5.11 @ 4:44PM
You either have no idea who Abramoff is, or you really are just trying to make Ron Paul supporters look like idiots.
Clint| 12.5.11 @ 5:30PM
I know who he is, Pseudo-intellect Elitist Wannabe RINO-CINO.
Keep Pretending You And Your Elitist RINO-CINO Girlfriend Neutered Gingrich Are Superior To We,The Great Unwashed.
The Tea Party Rebellion Is Here And In Iowa.
Narf!| 12.5.11 @ 5:56PM
You call yourself "The Great Unwashed"? Got to give you credit for being honest.
Clint| 12.5.11 @ 6:05PM
Keep Messin' With Us, Pseudo-intellect Wannabe RINO-CINO, Narf.
" Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) is going after former House Speaker Newt Gingrich in a new web ad running on conservative sites in Iowa and across the country. The hard-hitting spot highlights Gingrich’s profits from Freddie Mac and the health-care industry, his support for an individual health-care mandate, and his general shifts in positions over the years."
The Tea Party Rebellion Is Here And In Iowa.
Quartermaster| 12.5.11 @ 7:38PM
Narf! is a troll.
WB | 12.5.11 @ 3:21PM
Too bad Cuccinelli doesn't run -- he'd likely make the best candidate out of all of them ...
rd| 12.5.11 @ 6:09PM
Well, WB, you'll have plenty of opportunity to get to him in the coming year of 2012. For one, Ken Cucinelli will be a voice as we near the Supreme Court decision on Government Mandated Health Care. Two, he is now running for the Virginia governor's seat, the seat that Bob McDonnell now occupies in Richmond. (In Virginia a governor can only sit for 4 years and CANNOT run for a successive 4 years)
Expect the ASO writers who live in Notherne Virginia to be giving Ken Cucinelli a fair amount of "air time" on these pages.
Jane| 12.5.11 @ 3:48PM
I watched Huntsman this morning on Fox News and became putty putty. I would love to dance with him and when he kisses me I would disintegrate. Huntsman is the man for the job. President John Huntsman, that has a beautiful ring to it. Love, Jane.
Trinacria| 12.5.11 @ 4:04PM
This, my friends, is why we should have never granted 'em the right to vote...
rd| 12.5.11 @ 6:12PM
Trinacria, so when exactly did you first figure this out? Okay, ok. A long time ago. Like the rest of us.
Seriously, does anyone for one solid second think that we wouldn't have a far more conservative set of states and whole country if we'd have kept the franchise male only?
The 14 - 20% of women that will ALWAYS vote liberal amounts to 10's of thousands in your state elections; it amounts to millions in national contests.
Quartermaster| 12.5.11 @ 7:40PM
Women's suffrage is a very serious problem for the country. Women's voting patterns track with the slow turn to the left we have seen in the country.
Pinin'| 12.5.11 @ 8:53PM
Bah. Give me the days when you had to own a piece of land in order to vote.
rd| 12.5.11 @ 10:59PM
Pinin', I have to agree. A man really does not have a stake in this life, this earth, this nation, and his state until he owns property. Because with that comes property taxes that never go away. And a stability. Most people live, work, recreate, volunteer, go to church, help neighbors WHERE THEY LIVE.
A transient in a come-and-go apartment building does not build ties to the community.
The person who really lives on the land and has a stake in things (impact in the wallet/family budget) will vote much more responsibly.
This is why college kids are still too young to be voting. Eliminate women voters. You must own property (a car does not count) and aged 23 or older.
Yes, I'd dearly love to throw in a reading comprehension test. But I can hear the cries of 'discrimination!' (No, anybody can read if one invests the learning effort to do so)
Pinin'| 12.6.11 @ 12:21AM
Land ownership needs to mean OWNERSHIP too. Not the bank owning it while someone pays interest at lower rates thanks to government supported loans and gets a tax break for making those interest payments. That's not ownership. It needs to be substantial hard-earned equity.
And not a condo. Owning a condo is owning a box that happens to be on someone else's land.
And not inherited land. Have you ever met a trust fund kid? I have. You'll miss those apartment dwellers after you meet someone who has never really earned a dollar in his life because he's never needed to. At least a lot of those apartment dwellers know what it means to have to work hard to put food on the table.
Yes, limit voting to those men who have, by the sweat of their own brow, earned a substantial ownership stake in the town in which they live, and a lot of nonsense would be gone overnight.
I disagree about the age. Kids who go to college to study liberal arts or whatever are just extending their childhood. But bring back the age of apprenticeships, and if a young lad apprentices himself to a plumber or electrician or what have you and learns a trade and earns enough to buy some land and start a family at eighteen, then I say he's earned the right to vote. I'm assuming an end to unionization and burdensome regulations in this fantasy about returning to simpler times, of course.
By the way I'll see your reading comprehension test, and raise you a test on basic civics. How can a man expect to have a right to vote if he doesn't understand what he's voting on?
Hey| 12.6.11 @ 1:35AM
Wouldn't that discriminate against the soldiers serving this nation?
Your lower ranking military members, who deploy to Afghanistan, Iraq, Kuwait or any other place that our nation requires them may not be able to afford land. And since it is possible for them to move approximately every 3 years but decide to rent or stay in barracks wouldn't be allowed to vote simply because they don't own a piece of land?
I believe that is anything but fair.
Peppermint Tea| 12.5.11 @ 5:54PM
Huntsman, or Jon-Jon to those of us who were ruled by him as governor, is a pretty boy and global warming advocate, who is not even certain where he stands on most issues, including his own religion. Yes, he may make the ladies swoon. I saw his 3 daughters on TV yesterday and I would chose any one of them over Jon.
Quartermaster| 12.5.11 @ 7:42PM
Bluntly, The only man I see that is talking about what needs to happen to FedGov to turn things around is Ron Paul. Sad to say the rest are just Neocons and "me too" Democrat Lite.
Jack | 12.7.11 @ 8:09PM
If are being deceitful in your use of a partial quote.
Cuccinelli said he didn't see a lot of difference between Romney and Obama on the health care issue. He also criticized Perry and Bachmann as well.