Newt was right, there is some radical shit in that Ryan budget. The stuff about medicare will be a holocaust. Sort of bizarre seeing Newt get routed out of his campaign by Republicans. The right wing is mad with loons.
Newt gingrich is NOT a conservative. This is what many people don't understand. Enough people and the media say Newt is a conservative, so people believe it. It is absolutely not true.
He's a republican.
Simply being a partisan doesn't make him a conservative. Newt doesn't want to shrink big government, he just thinks he can run big government better than democrats.
Ryan's plan is bolder than most, but it doesn't even go far enough. Most true conservatives would admit this. Newt calling this plan radical is classic Gingrich.
Newt always takes the side of big government. He supported TARP, medicare part D, the individual healthcare mandate, thinks no child left behind should be expanded, and a slew of other big government policies. Gingrich's 2012 platforms is simply that he's not a democrat. That he's not president Obama.
"The fact is we are not going to close the deficit and move towards a balanced budget unless we follow the policies that foster the economic growth necessary to create jobs..." - Newt
Gingrich wants to balance the budget not by reducing government spending, but increasing tax revenues. In other words, Gingrich sees no problem with the current size of government.
Gingrich is nothing but a technocrat who thinks he can manage big government in a better "business-like" way than Obama and democrats. This is the exact opposite of what constitutional conservatism is.
I'm glad to see his 2012 campaign going up in flames. Gingrich is no conservative. Hopefully this latest incident will finally awaken people from this chronic delusion.
