Is Newt Gingrich a Socialist?

[t0rnado]

I hate how Newt Gingrich calls Obama and other Democrats socialists. That piece of crap even released a book called "To Save America: Stopping Obama's Secular-Socialist Machine". I found this article to be pretty funny. It classifies Newt Gingrich as a socialist:

Neoconservative political pundits on FoxNews often make the claim that President Barack Obama is a socialist or even a communist. They never seem to focus on the “socialist” policies, views, and actions of their Republican buddies. Every week we will shed light upon socialists and communists who often take the false labels of “liberal” or “conservative”.

Let’s disregard any biases for a moment and refocus the neocons own claims of socialism upon one of their own: Newton Leroy Gingrich, who is more commonly known as Newt Gingrich. Why am I targeting the socialist positions of a former Congressman and Speaker of the House, who was driven to resignation over dozens of ethics charges and incompetence? Because he has emerged in the political realm once more and is considering running for the Presidency in 2012. That’s right, the man who broke his own “Contract with America” is attempting to fool the masses once more. Here is a collection of his views, votes, and actions, which are by definition socialist or communist...

http://www.unelected.org/2010/07/21/socialist-of-the-week-newt-gingrich/

[FBaggins]

1. Looks like you found a site well to the right of Gingrich

The question is why you would post it here?

[t0rnado]

3. Funny

Because I thought it was funny how political perspective works. You have people like Newt Gingrich calling Obama a socialist, while one to the right of Newt could make the case that he himself is a socialist.

[rfranklin]

2. I think it's pretty funny as well...

Newt gets teabagged!

[sofa king]

4. Yes. He's a National Socialist.

http://tpmcafe.talkingpointsmemo.com/2009/08/11/dont_know_much_about_history_1/

"Just as the "socialism" part of Hitler's platform just was so much demagoguery, so too was the "compassionate" part of Bush's conservatism, which makes for yet another comparison which can be drawn between the GOP and the Nazi Party, to go along with everything else from their affinity for lapel pins, preference for big business over the little guy, use of the yellow press to catapult propaganda, political intimidation, armed mobs, racism, extracting free air travel during political campaigns, starting wars of aggression on false pretenses, unusually high numbers of closeted homosexual leaders, and their choice of business partners--namely Prescott Bush."