Talk is CHEAP. Newt’s a good talker but he does NOT walk the walk! (Not JUST on the 2nd Amendment either)! – J.L.
Janet,
I know I don’t have to tell you, but politicians often say one thing but do the complete opposite – especially if they think no one is looking.
Newt Gingrich is the poster child for these sort of “flexible” principles.
I’ve been around the block a few times (I’m about to start my 20th year as a gun rights lobbyist) and dealt with literally thousands of candidates and politicians, but no Republican politician has managed to support and vote for anti-gun legislation and still proclaim that he is “pro-gun” more effectively than Newt Gingrich.
Don’t be fooled by his rise in the polls; Newt Gingrich has a long history of supporting gun control …
… and he has blatantly refused to return his National Association for Gun Rights Presidential Survey.
With more than three decades as a public figure, Newt is the quintessential political chameleon, shifting his views to reflect whatever is popular with the Washington, D.C. chattering class.
Make no mistake, while Newt may talk a solid conservative game, his record is that of a typical Inside-the-Beltway politician who will cut ANY compromise or make ANY deal with anyone for his own political or personal gain.
While Newt used the institutional gun lobby as a mouthpiece to convince millions of gun owners nationwide that “as long as he is Speaker, no gun-control legislation is going to move in committee or on the House floor,” he was working behind the scenes to pass gun control.
In 1996, Newt Gingrich turned his back on gun owners and voted for the anti-gun Brady Campaign’s Lautenberg Gun Ban, which strips the Second Amendment rights of citizens involved in misdemeanor domestic violence charges or temporary protection orders –- in some cases for actions as minor as spanking a child or grabbing a spouse’s wrist.(1)
Gingrich even called the anti-gun measure “reasonable,” and predicted that it would sail through his Republican-controlled House of Representatives with little trouble.(2)
The Lautenberg Gun Ban is one of the Congressional Republicans’ worst betrayals of gun owners, and those complicit in its passage deserve nothing but contempt from gun owners.
This gun control measure ranks right up there with the Brady Registration Act as the most aggressive gun control in America, denying hundreds of thousands of would-be gun owners the right to self defense.
Gingrich also stood shoulder to shoulder with Nancy Pelosi to pass the “Criminal Safezones Act” which prevents armed citizens from defending themselves in certain arbitrary locations. You and I both know that Criminal Safezones don’t protect law-abiding citizens, but actually protect the criminals who ignore them.(3)
As you can see, Newt Gingrich is no friend of gun owners, or small government conservatives. He simply can’t be trusted, and his record reflects his contempt not only for the truth, but his own integrity and the integrity of the very people he’s asking to vote for him to be the most powerful man in the modern world.
This is the same man who railed against the Obama bailouts of Fannie and Freddie Mac while receiving more than $1.5 million from Fannie Mae as a “consultant”(4) while his firm also raised $37 million to pass healthcare insurance mandates.(5)
He’s also the same man who sat next to Nancy Pelosi and insisted global warming was a man-made problem in need of a government-mandated solution. Now that he’s running for the Republican nomination, he doesn’t believe in global warming and calls the TV ad he did with Pelosi “inexplicable.” Please click here to watch the video.(6)
I’m concerned, though, that Newt’s snake-oil act is catching on.
It’s time for gun owners and liberty-minded, small government activists to hold Newt’s feet to the fire.
That’s why I need you to call the Gingrich campaign headquarters right now at (678) 973-2306. Demand that Newt Gingrich apologize for his past support of gun control, and make a dramatic turnaround statement of support to repeal the gun controls he’s supported.
Tell his campaign that you expect Newt to not only apologize for his past support of anti-gun measures but also to reveal where he stands on international gun grabs like the UN “Small Arms Treaty” and domestic anti-gun schemes like the banning of .50 caliber rifles.
Demand he quit stonewalling gun owners and return his National Association for Gun Rights Presidential Survey – at once. You and I both know that election season, when they’re begging for the votes of gun owners, is one of the best times to lobby candidates and politicians.
With Republican presidential primaries in Iowa, New Hampshire, and South Carolina mere weeks away, it’s vital that gun owners know where the Republican candidates for President stand on important Second Amendment issues.
Newt’s record is as crooked as a dog’s hind leg. With a horrible voting record on Second Amendment issues, gun owners just don’t know which side Newt’s on.
Please call the Gingrich campaign headquarters right now at (678) 973-2306. Demand that Newt Gingrich apologize for his past support of gun control.
For Freedom,
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P.S. Newt Gingrich’s anti-gun record is too important — and dangerous — to ignore. That’s why I felt compelled to inform you.
His support for numerous gun controls is in direct contradiction to his current campaign statements.
Dear ‘Underground Email… writing to Janet’,
Is it too late in our decaying civilization to point out that there is something dreadfully wrong with this picture?… in fact with half of your email?
We already know, along with most of the nation and world by now, that this perfidious traitor, serial adulterer, pathological liar, Toffler supporting globalist, seeks to trade in our constitutional republic for a global hegemony and tyrannical, politically connected corporate fascism! He has countenanced favorably, and participated in, stealing, through FED counterfeiting, the people’s wealth to his corporate friend’s gain! We already know that he has more American destructive tendencies than most the world’s 20th century tyrants, and that he smiles to the children as he lies about their future, their future as it will play out under the future of his dreams!
What some may not have known, and which you point out in the first half of your article, is that he has been and still is, a pathological liar about gun control… which comes as no surprise to many of your readers!
What I find highly disconcerting is, following your admirable expose’ detailing Gingrich’s liar proclivities, you then spend the second half of your precious time and space encouraging your readers to now ignore the fact that he cannot be trusted in anything he says and writes, and now waste their precious time soliciting from this same pathological liar, his new found promises and propaganda, that he indeed now proclaims his love of guns, his sorrow for past sins, and swears that, ‘if you vote for me, I will promise the world… more guns in every pot’.
It would have been far better had you deleted the second half of your email, and instead, placed in the forefront of the precious limited time and resources left patriots to fight for the restoration of freedom, their solemn duty to politically castrate such immoral and perfidious traitors. This is most effectively done by leaping into the trenches of this battle to restore the republic, and fight to elect the only person who can neuter enemies such as the Grinch.
Pirates such as Gingrich can only be dealt with and neutered, by electing the only person capable of that task… the “modern day Thomas Jefferson”, Congressman Dr. Ron Paul. There are few other patriots, founder-statesman, commanders-in-chief, capable of such a task.
Dr. Paul is not only capable, he has proven his honesty, his integrity, and his humility, so sufficiently, as to be at the same moment, both commander as well as a humble public servant without the least design upon our liberty!.
It is time to eliminate your call to prostrate before a lying tyrant and destroyer of both ‘wives’ and nations!
It is time to call out encouragement to the grassroots, to lay down their gauntlets for liberty, climb into the trenches of the party caucus, and silence the lying tyrant by winning the nomination and the day!
There is no other task it’s equal in magnitude today! Not even close!