Gingrich Site Seeks to Allay Conservatives’ Fears

Source: NYT

Surging in polls and seeking to avoid the plight of those in the Republican race for president who have risen before him — only to plummet under scrutiny — Newt Gingrich has released a message for the party activists who will be crucial to his hopes of winning his party’s nomination: Those positions I once held that are now out of step with current-day conservative orthodoxy? I’ve changed.

A new Gingrich campaign Web page titled “Answering the Attacks,” has 16 chapters addressing potential lightning rods for his candidacy. Seven of them address issues in which, the site says, he now admits he was simply wrong, had taken a position that he mistakenly believed would have a different outcome, or, in the case of his personal life, behaved in ways he now regrets.

On his support in the 1990s for a plan to mandate that all Americans purchase health insurance, the Web site says Mr. Gingrich has “come to the principled conclusion that a mandate to purchase health insurance was unconstitutional, unworkable and counterproductive to lowering the cost of health care.”

The site said that Mr. Gingrich, the former House speaker, had initially backed the idea of a mandate along with the conservative Heritage Foundation as an alternative to the plan being pushed at the time by former President Bill Clinton. But, the site asserts, he changed his position after observing a mandate in action in the health care overhaul enacted in Massachusetts by former Gov. Mitt Romney and after concluding that a national mandate would be unconstitutional.

Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2011/11/20/us/politics/newt-gingrich-site-seeks-to-allay-conservatives-fears.html

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The website: Newt.org/answers

And guess what was the NY Times' accompanying photo? Seems like Newt's Bachmann Newsweek cover moment:

:rofl:

...getting his ass tickled by a feather.

PEACE!

Dear GOP voter.

I understand that you may not like the fact that I (insert whatever you don't like about me here.) I just want you to know that, since that time, I have come to the principled realization that I was wrong. Today, I promise that I will (insert whatever you would like me to do or say here.) To so anything else would, frankly, be (unconstitutional/marxist/socialist/Kenyan or other assorted dog whistles.) You see, I'm just like you !!1!1!!

I'm counting on your vote.

Love (no, not in that way, honest!)

- Newt

what principles?

Anything reasonable he ever believed will be tossed out the window to satisfy the masters.

in order to be Teabagger-worthy.

Their one principle can be stated in five words, namely "I want to be President."

I think I recognize some faces there. Blech!