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Newt Gingrich: www.newt.org
Education/Career: Emory University: BA; Master’s and Doctorate in Modern European History: Tulane University. Before his election to Congress in 1978, Newt taught History and Environmental Studies at West Georgia College for eight years. He represented Georgia in Congress for twenty years, including four years as Speaker of the House.
Newt and his wife, Callista, host and produce award-winning documentary films, including A City Upon a Hill, Nine Days that Changed the World, Ronald Reagan: Rendezvous with Destiny, and Rediscovering God in America. Together, Newt and Callista also author photo books and record audio books; author of twenty-three books, including thirteen New York Times bestsellers.
The Gingriches reside in McLean, Virginia. Their family includes two daughters and two grandchildren. (From his website)
- Founder, Center for Health Transformation, 2003-present
- Honorary Chairman, NanoBusiness Alliance, 2000-present
- Founder, Gingrich Group, 1999-present
- Distinguished Visiting Fellow, Hoover Institution, Stanford University, 1999-present
- News and Political Analyst, FOX News Channel, 1999-present
- Speaker, 1995-99; Member, 1979-99, U.S. House of Representatives
- Professor of History and Environmental Studies, West Georgia College, 1970-78
–member of the Terrorism Task Force for the Council on Foreign Relations, an advisory board member of the Foundation for the Defense of Democracies, an advisory board member of Common Good, a founding member of Project Vote Smart, and a member of the Committee on the Present Danger; writes a weekly newsletter for Human Events.
21st Century Contract with America:
http://www.newt.org/21st-century-contract-america
Life issues: supports a federal ban on abortion, supports defunding Planned Parenthood, favors reinstating the “Mexico City Policy;” would restore conscience clause protections for Healthcare Workers; supports parental notification before minors can have abortions; against embryonic stem cell research; http://2012.presidential-candidates.org/Gingrich/Abortion.php
Immigration: Numbers USA: Score: D-
https://www.numbersusa.com/content/action/2012-presidential-hopefuls-immigration-stances.html; favors securing the border.
Health care: favors full repeal of Obamacare; favors the purchase of insurance across state lines; favors more choices for Medicare; favors returning Medicaid to the states; favors a High Risk Pool set up by each state to cover the uninsured who have become too sick to buy health insurance; favors reinforcing laws which prohibit insurers from cancelling or charging discriminatory rate increases to those who become sick while insured; supports Health Savings Accounts; reward health and wellness by giving health plans, employers, Medicare, and Medicaid more latitude to design benefits to encourage, incentivize, and reward healthy behaviors; stop health care fraud by moving from a paper-based system to an electronic one; favors medical malpractice reform; speed medical breakthroughs to patients by reforming the Food and Drug Administration
Health care summary: “This comprehensive approach—cost, quality, competition, and coverage—can solve the problem of the uninsured with no individual mandate and no employer mandate. Everyone would be able to obtain essential health care and coverage when needed. For those who are too poor to buy health insurance, states will have more flexibility to provide them with the assistance they need to buy it. For those who nevertheless choose not to purchase coverage and then become too sick to do so, high risk pools will provide access to coverage. Once you have health insurance, you are assured you can keep it.”
http://www.newt.org/solutions/healthcare
Global warming/climate change:
The Gingrich-Pelosi Climate Change Ad: Why I Took Part:
“Many of you have written to me to ask why I recently taped an advertisement with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi for The Alliance for Climate Protection, a group founded by
former Vice President Al Gore.
I completely understand why many of you would have questions about this, so I want to take this opportunity to explain my reasons. First of all, I want to be clear: I don’t think that we have conclusive proof of global warming. And I don’t think we have conclusive proof that humans are at the center of it.
But here’s what we do know. There is an important debate going on right now over the right energy policy, the right environmental policy, and making sure we do the right things for our future and the future of our children and grandchildren. Conservatives are missing from this debate, and I think that’s a mistake. When it comes to preserving our environment for future generations, we can’t have a slogan of “Just yell no!”
I have a different view. I think it’s important to be on the stage, to engage in the debate, and to communicate our position clearly. There is a big difference between left-wing environmentalism that wants higher taxes, bigger government., more bureaucracy, more regulation, more red tape, and more litigation and a Green Conservatism that wants to use science, technology, innovation, entrepreneurs, and prizes to find a way to creatively invent the kind of environmental future we all want to live in. Unless we start making the case for the latter, we’re going to get the former. That’s why I took part in the ad.”
Currently, Gingrich is unsure what to think about Global Warming: http://www.nbcdfw.com/news/politics/Gingrich-Stumps-in-Dallas-132276418.html
Energy:
Newt’s American Energy Plan:
Remove bureaucratic and legal obstacles to responsible oil and natural gas development in the United States, offshore and on land.
End the ban on oil shale development in the American West, where we have three times the amount of oil as Saudi Arabia.
Give coastal states federal royalty revenue sharing to give them an incentive to allow offshore development.
Reduce frivolous lawsuits that hold up energy production by enacting loser pays laws to force the losers in an environmental lawsuit to pay all legal costs for the other side.
Finance cleaner energy research and projects with new oil and gas royalties.
Replace the Environmental Protection Agency, which has become a job-killing regulatory engine of higher energy prices, with an Environmental Solutions Agency that would use incentives and work cooperatively with local government and industry to achieve better environmental outcomes while considering the impact of federal environmental policies on job creation and the cost of energy. http://www.newt.org/solutions/american-energy-plan
Foreign Policy: supports free trade and a strong military; has worked for serious reform of the United Nations; speaks often of the growing threat from anti-American forces abroad; has called for stronger action on Darfur including a militarily enforced no-fly zone.
http://usforeignpolicy.about.com/od/2008presidentialrace/p/ngingrich.htm
Strongly supports sanctions against Iran in an attempt to prevent them from going nuclear: http://usforeignpolicy.about.com/gi/o.htm?zi=1/XJ&zTi=1&sdn=usforeignpolicy&cdn=newsissues&tm=544&gps=513_113_1129_594&f=10&tt=11&bt=1&bts=1&zu=http%3A//www.aei.org/scholars/filter.all%2CscholarID.20%2Ctype.1/pub_list.asp
On Mexico: control the border by Jan. 1, 2014.
On Afghanistan: opposes using a timetable for withdrawal.
On Israel: will sign an executive order on Day 1 declaring Jerusalem to be the capital of Israel. http://news.yahoo.com/newt-gingrichs-foreign-policy-focused-security-engagement-215800468.html
Gay marriage/gays in military:
–opposes domestic partnership for same-sex couples.
– wants a constitutional amendment to protect the traditional family.
– believes that same sex couples should have some sort of legal rights so that they can leave their estates to their partners or visit them in the hospital.
– believes homosexuality is a sin.
– same sex couples should not be able to adopt children.
– thinks gays and lesbians should be allowed to teach as there are many good and decent people who happen to be gay and children will encounter them in everyday life.
http://2012.presidential-candidates.org/Gingrich/Same-Sex.php
Economy/debt/job creation:
Repeal Sarbanes-Oxley Act; repeal the Community Reinvestment Act; Repeal the Dodd-Frank Law; breaking up Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, moving their smaller successors off government guarantees and into the free market; replacing the Environmental Protection Agency with an Environmental Solutions Agency that works collaboratively with local government and industry to achieve better results; modernizing the Food and Drug Administration to get lifesaving medicines and technologies to patients faster. http://www.newt.org/solutions/jobs-economy
Balance the budget; Strengthen the dollar: by returning to the Reagan-era monetary policies that stopped runaway inflation and reforming the Federal Reserve to promote transparency.
Taxes:
Stop the 2013 tax increases; make the United States the most desirable location for new business investment through a bold series of tax cuts, including: Eliminating the capital gains tax; Dramatically reducing the corporate income tax (among highest in the world) to 12.5%; Allowing for 100% expensing of new equipment to spur innovation and American manufacturing; Ending the death tax permanently.
Move toward an optional flat tax of 15% that would allow Americans the freedom to choose to file their taxes on a postcard, saving hundreds of billions in unnecessary costs each year. http://www.newt.org/solutions/jobs-economy
Education: supports school choice, as well as advocates charter schools, vouchers for families with children trapped in failing schools, and greater flexibility in rewarding good teachers and dismissing bad ones.
However:
“Finally, Congress should tie education funding to school accountability. The No Child Left Behind law is making it blaringly obvious just how many schools are crippling and destroying children. We should save the children. Congress should require school systems to institute metrics-based performance standards in order to receive federal funding to ensure that every child is getting the education that they deserve.”
http://www.clubforgrowth.org/whitepapers/?subsec=137&id=903
supports home-schooled children having access to extra-curricular educational opportunities; protect the rights of teachers to use historical examples involving religion in their classroom. Nor should they be discouraged from answering questions about religion or discussing it objectively in the classroom.
http://www.newt.org/solutions/21st-century-learning-system
Federal Reserve: Bernake (and Geithner) should be fired: http://www.realclearpolitics.com/video/2011/10/11/newt_slams_media_for_not_demanding_transparency_of_federal_reserve.html
Supports auditing the Fed: http://www.newt.org/news/audit-and-reform-the-federal-reserve
Support for the Constitution:
Executive Orders President Newt Gingrich will sign:
– Eliminate the thirty-nine White House “Czar” positions created during the current administration. http://www.newt.org/first-day
Judiciary: Nominate conservative judges who are committed to upholding Constitutional limited government and understand that the role of the judges is to interpret the law, not legislate from the bench; combat judicial activism by utilizing checks on judicial power Constitutionally available to the elected branches of government. http://www.newt.org/solutions/protecting-life-and-religious-liberty
Gun control: Gingrich is a firm advocate of a citizen’s right to bear arms.
http://2012.presidential-candidates.org/Gingrich/Gun-Control.php
Other:
Religious expression: Protect religious expression in the public square such as crosses, crèches and menorahs. http://www.newt.org/solutions/protecting-life-and-religious-liberty
Fundamental reform of entitlement programs with the advice and help of the American people.
Baggage:
Newt did not ask his wife for a divorce while she was dying from cancer:
http://www.creators.com/conservative/jackie-gingrich-cushman/setting-the-record-straight.html
Marriages:
http://marriage.about.com/od/politics/a/gingrichn.htm
http://www.esquire.com/print-this/newt-gingrich-0910?page=all
Ethics violation and $300,000 fine while Speaker. (Updated – Newt was fully cleared of these charges)
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/politics/govt/leadership/stories/011897.htm
Supports ethanol subsidies in Iowa:
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0111/48520.html
Teamed up with Al Sharpton to address Education:
“GINGRICH: Well, let’s see, first of all, I was really attracted to working with Reverend Sharpton because he took the position that education is the number one civil right of the 21st century. Without education, you can’t have a decent job, you can’t be an effective citizen. You really are crippled in your ability to be an American.
I thought he was exactly right. He showed great courage in raising questions about how we reform education. So, we decided talking with President Obama, talking with Secretary Arne Duncan, that while we disagree about some things -I, for example, I favor the right to a voucher or what I would call a Pell grant for K through 12 – but we all agree that we want accountability, we want transparency, we want parents to have the right to choose.”
http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=112779076
Endorsements:
Allen Olsen, Columbia Tea Party president
Judson Philips, founder of Tea Party Nation
GA Rep. Jack Kingston:
http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0511/55165.html
Josh Painter, top pro-Palin blogger since 2008:
http://newtgingrich360.com/profiles/blogs/another-big-sarah-palin-supporter-endorses-newt
Nov 20, 2011 @ 12:22:27
A member of the CFR, supports the NEA, ethanol subsidies in Iowa, foreign aid, amnesty for illegals, medicare prescription drugs, likes NAFTA, GATT, and the UN.
and thinks FDR should be on Mt. Rushmore.
Wow! Is Gingrich really different from Obama??
Dec 09, 2011 @ 23:02:33
Carol, in the first place, Obama is NOT a member of the CFR, so that’s one difference right off the bat. I, too, have been concerned about the role of the CFR in promoting a one-world government. However, since in the last election, McCain was the CFR member and Obama is not, I wonder if all of this conspiracy CFR stuff is a bit overblown. And, contrary to you-tube videos I have seen, Gingrich is the only R candidate running who actually IS a member. And, he has hardly been the candidate promoted by the establishment or the media. I think Romney better fits that bill.
As far as the NEA, that vote was years ago. Gingrich now favors returning power to the states.
Ethanol subsidies? That is true to the best of my knowledge.
Foreign aid? At face value, foreign aid does seem insane, but I thought that both Bachmann and Santorum presented compelling testimony in one of the recent debates about why it is necessary at times and in our best interest as a country. If you don’t support foreign aid that’s fine, but I personally do not take the position that ALL foreign aid is a definite evil.
Medicare Rx drugs– true; Newt made a good point that if medicine can prevent a condition from worsening, it’s actually cheaper for the government to pay for the meds than the later surgery or treatment.
NAFTA and GATT, yes, true he voted for them years ago. Whether he would still vote for them today is questionable.
UN? He believes it should be seriously reformed.
And FDR on Mt. Rushmore: “Elsewhere in that speech, Gingrich gave praise to Franklin Roosevelt for the style of his leadership, not his policies.
“The fact is that it was Franklin Delano Roosevelt who gave hope to a nation that was in distress and could have slid into dictatorship. Every Republican has much to learn from studying what the Democrats did right,” Gingrich told the House of Representatives in 1995.”
http://abcnews.go.com/blogs/politics/2011/12/newt-gingrich-admires-roosevelts-franklin-and-teddy/
As far as other huge differences between Obama and Newt: Newt will:
–repeal Obamacare, repeal Dodd-Frank, repeal Sarbanes-Oxley
–supports free markets, favors tax cuts, including eliminating the death tax, capital gains tax, and reducing the corporate income tax to 12.5%.
– immediately get rid of Obama’s 39 unconstitutional Czars
– appoint judges who will uphold our Constitution and not legislate from the bench
–balance the budget and pass a balanced budget amendment
–control the border by 1/1/14 and establish English as the official language of the U.S.
– enforce the 10th amendment by starting an orderly transfer of power and responsibility from the federal government back “to the states, respectively, or to the people,” as the Constitution requires.
And, a couple of other huge differences: Newt is pro-life, supports traditional marriage, and favors a strong national defense, all of which are in direct contrast to Obama.