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Originally Posted by LarryBible
It's very sad to read such babble. Newts personal life is a shambles. Wouldn't give you fifteen cents for it.
Even with all this baggage, as a Pres, he would be about a hundred times better than what we're currently stuck with. And about a thousand times better than what we will be stuck with after B.O. I emboldened with a second term.
God help us all.
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Probably wise not to try to defend Newt on a personal level. That's a really tough case to make. On the policy side, LarryB, what is it that you like about Newt? Is it his support for a public option?
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...The former congressman from Georgia has been on record for nearly two decades as supporting a requirement to purchase health insurance.
During the interview, Gregory played a 1993 clip in which Gingrich said, “I am for people, individuals — exactly like automobile insurance — individuals having health insurance and being required to have health insurance.”
During a 2006 speech to the Greater Detroit Area Health Council, the Detroit Free Press reported that he advocated that “Americans over a certain income level to buy health insurance or post a bond.”
As recent as in a 2007 op-ed in The Des Moines Register, Gingrich wrote that an "Personal responsibility extends to the purchase of health insurance. Citizens should not be able to cheat their neighbors by not buying insurance, particularly when they can afford it, and expect others to pay for their care when they need it.”
He added that an “individual mandate is an acceptable option only when the larger health care system has been fundamentally changed,” since it would be “unjust” to impose the requirement in a “broken and dysfunctional system." ...
Newt Gingrich walks back health care mandate support - Kendra Marr - POLITICO.com
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Or are you persuaded by his flip-flop on that position?