Top reasons why Newt Gingrich would be a terrible President...

- Card-Carrying member of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), a globalist think tank

- "Distinguished member" of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (neocon, pro-interventionism group)

- Member of Bohemian Grove- Member of the World Future Society

- Voted for NAFTA, a blatant circumvention of Congress’ exclusive power to regulate commerce with foreign nations. Took power from American people and put it into the hands of unelected Binational panels, made mostly of foreigners.

- Supported GATT- Supported WTO

- Continually supported increased federal spending.

- Supported the National Endowment for the Arts;

- Voted for the creation of the Federal Dept. of Education in 1979 under Jimmy Carter

.- Big supporter of Foreign Aid -- even to Soviets through the Export-Import Bank.

- In one year (1994-1995) Gingrich voted for nearly $45 billion in foreign aid.

- He helped push through Federally-funded loan guarantees to Communist China.
- Urged the House to repeal the War Powers Act and give the Presidency more power.

- Urged Clinton to expand military presence in Bosnia.

- Supports Afghan War

- Supports Iraq War

- Calls for Iran War

- Supported Clinton's welfare programs, education programs, labor programs, and environmental programs, as well as most of his foreign affairs programs.

- Supported spending $30B for the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994 that shackled gun owners with new restrictions, federalized a number of crimes, and handed the feds police powers that the Constitution reserves to the states.

- Voted to give billions of dollars to United Nations "peacekeeping" operations;
- Pushed for a School Prayer Amendment
- Mentored by Henry Kissinger
- Bailed out savings and loan institutions in 1991. $40B Bank bailout

- He was a draft-dodger during the Vietnam War, yet pushed aggressive foreign interventionism his entire political career, and did say that Vietnam was the "right battlefield at the right time."

- He cheated on one of his wives while she was suffering from cancer, delivered divorce papers to her in the hospital.

- Worked on the Rockefeller presidential campaign in 1968. 04/02/1987

- He cosponsored the 1987 Fairness Doctrine (anti 1st Amendment legislation)10/22/1991

- He voted for an amendment that would create a National Police Corps.11/19/1993

- He voted for the NAFTA Implementation Act.11/27/1994

- He supported the GATT Treaty giving sovereignty to the U.N.08/27/1995

- He suggests that drug smuggling should carry a death sentence.01/06/1996 - He himself conceived a secret CIA mission to topple the Iranian leadership.04/25/1996

- Voted for the single largest increase on Federal education spending ($3.5 Billion)06/--/1995

- He wrote the foreword to a book about tearing down the U.S. Constitution and implementing a Fascist World Government. 06/01/1996

- He helped a Democrat switch parties in an attempt to defeat constitutionalist Ron Paul in the 1996 election.09/25/1996

- Introduced H.R. 4170, demanded life-sentence or execution for someone bringing 2 ounces of marijuana across the border.01/22/1997

-Congress gave him a record-setting $300,000 fine for ethical wrongdoing.11/29/2006

- He said that free speech should be curtailed in order to fight terrorism. Wants to stop terrorists from using the internet. Called for a "serious debate about the 1st Amendment." 11/29/2006

- He called for a "Geneva Convention for terrorists" so it would be clear who the Constitution need not apply to. 02/15/2007

- He supported Bush's proposal for mandatory carbon caps.04/04/2007

- He says that there should be a clear distinction about what weapons should be reserved for only for the military.04/17/2008

- Made a commercial with Nancy Pelosi on Climate Change.09/28/2008

- Says if he were in office, he would have reluctantly voted for the $700B TARP bailout. 10/01/2008

- Says in an article that TARP was a "workout, not a bailout."12/08/2008

- He was paid $300,000 by Freddie Mac to halt Congress from bringing necessary reform.03/31/2009

- Says we should have Singapore-style drug tests for Americans.07/30/2010

- Says that Iraq was just step one in defeating the "Axis of Evil".08/03/2010

- Advocates attacks on Iran & North Korea.08/16/2010

- Opposes property rights of the mosque owner in NYC.08/16/2010

- Compares mosque supporters to Nazis11/15/2010

- He defended Romneycare; blamed liberals12/02/2010

- He advocates a pathway to citizenship for illegal aliens.12/05/2010

- He said that a website owner should be considered an enemy combatant, hunted down and executed, for publishing leaked government memos. 01/30/2011

- He lobbied for ethanol subsidies.01/30/2011

- He suggested that flex-fuel vehicles be mandated for Americans.02/10/2011

- He wants to replace the EPA instead of abolishing it.02/02/2011

- He says we are "losing the War on Terror"; the conflict will be as long as the Cold War02/15/2011

- His book said that he believes man-made climate-change and advocated creating "a new endowment for conservation and the environment."03/09/2011

- He blames his infidelity to multiple wives on his passion for the country.03/15/2011

- Says that NAFTA worked because it created jobs in Mexico.03/19/2011

- He has no regrets about supporting Medicare drug coverage. (Now $7.2T unfunded liability)03/23/2011

- He completely flip-flopped on Libyan intervention in 16 days.03/25/2011

- He plans to sign as many as 200 executive orders on his first day as president.03/27/2011

- He says that America is under attack by atheist Islamists.04/25/2011 - He's a paid lobbyist for Federal ethanol subsidies.05/11/2011

- His campaign video said that he wants to "find solutions together, and insist on imposing those solutions on those who do not want to change." 05/12/2011

- He was more supportive of individual health-care mandates than Mitt Romney.05/15/2011

- Said GOP's plan to cut back Medicare was "too big a jump." 05/15/2011 - He backed Obama's individual mandate; "All of us have a responsibility to help pay for health care." 05/16/2011

- He also endorsed individual mandates in 1993 when Clinton pushed Universal Health Care.05/17/2011

- He has an outstanding debt to Tiffany's Jewelry of between $250K - $500K. 06/09/2011

- His own campaign staff resigned en masse. 07/15/2011

- His poorly managed campaign is over $1 Million in debt.08/01/2011

- He hired a company to create fake Twitter to appear as if he had a following. 08/11/2011

- His recent criticism of the United Nations is United Nations by a long, long history of supporting it. 09/27/2011

- He says that he "helped develop the model for Homeland Security"10/07/2011

- He said he'd ignore the Supreme Court if need be.

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QUOTES

"The idea that a congressman would be tainted by accepting money from private industry or private sources is essentially a socialist argument."
--Newt Gingrich

-"[O]ur government, at all levels, must be modernized to successfully partner, let alone compete, with the private sector." -- Newt Gingrich, A Contract with the Earth (p.196)

"The U.S. government operates endowments for the humanities and the arts…Perhaps, it is time we consider a new endowment for conservation and the environment." -- Newt Gingrich, A Contract with the Earth (pp. 115-116)

"We agree that there is plenty of evidence that global climate change is occurring…While humanity is certainly causing its fair share of the change, scientists are still not able to precisely pinpoint the extent of the change, or the margin of error in their estimates." -- Newt Gingrich, A Contract with the Earth (p. 200)

"In spite of the demonstrated liberal leanings in academia, we have nothing but respect for the nation’s scientists. They represent America’s best hope to protect the environment. We support a dramatic increase in science and technology research and development because we desperately need to understand global climate change and other environmental phenomena." -- Newt Gingrich, A Contract with the Earth (p. 201)

"If you import a commercial quantity of illegal drugs, it is because you have made the personal decision that you are prepared to get rich by destroying our children. I have made the decision that I love our children enough that we will kill you if you do this." -- Newt Gingrich (source)

"What we're being told is that free trade with Mexico would devastate the U.S. economy. With its low wages, Mexico would unleash a flood of cheap imports into our markets. There would be a mass exodus of U.S. factory jobs, as hordes of American companies fled across the border.... All this is scare talk." -- Newt Gingrich, on the House floor 9/22/1993. (source)Q:

"Will you rally the troops for GATT and the World Trade Organization?"A: "Yes. In the first place, the Administration has accepted amendments of Senator Dole and myself giving Congress dramatically more oversight of the WTO, including the right to bring up a vote on withdrawal every five years in perpetuity, so at any point that we think it is out of control or inappropriate, we can simply withdraw." -- Newt Gingrich, 11/11/1994 (source)

"The American challenge in leading the world is compounded by our Constitution. Under our [constitutional system] - either we're going to have to rethink our Constitution, or we're going to have to rethink our process of decision-making." He went on to profess an oxymoronic belief in "very strong but limited federal government," and pledged, "I am for the United Nations." -- Newt Gingrich, July 1995, speech at the Center for Strategic & International Affairs (source)

"Professor Gingrich hopefully will never be called upon to teach a course in the proper role of our federal government. His rare votes against bloated big government usually have been prompted by the partisan wrangling of the moment, not by any great respect for, or understanding of, the Constitution." --James Toft of “Tax Reform Immediately” (TRIM)
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Also, he voted for Federal funding of abortion. No one has a right to an abortion at a taxpayer expense.
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I can't believe so many people actually think that he wanted to balance the budget. The list above makes it obvious that he had no intentions of balancing the budget.