Newt Off the Rails

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byron
byron
2 months ago

Who does he think the confederates were?? It wasn’t about where you came from but where you were going. Maybe the South will rise again.

mike fink
mike fink
2 months ago
Reply to  byron

Exactly. The South in 1860 was a stronghold of remaining Anti-Federalist sentiment. This is the faction of the Founders who regarded the 1787 Constitution as too weak and likely to be ineffective over time as a brake on federal power. They were right, it is the AF we have to thank for the Bill of Rights being added in 1791. Where would we be today if the AF had not insisted on this compromise? The Confederates left the Union because they felt that the protections of the Constitution were being twisted into weapons against them by the more populus northern states.
So here we have Gingrich casting the destruction of the Confederate People at the hands of “their” own government and the direct hands of 1000’s of imported foreign soldiers as a positive. ” We had to kill them in order to keep them American.”

Jeffery in Alabama
Jeffery in Alabama
2 months ago
Reply to  mike fink

Good points. The southern colonies would have never ratified the Constitution without the Bill of Rights. It is shocking that Gingrich, who is a huge historian, would make such a broad half-truth statement about emigrants while admitting the Union would more than likely have lost the war without the “mercenary” recruits practically Shanghaied at the docks as they got of ships from Europe. These me were offered clothing, shoes, food, steady army pay, and a bonus if they survived their term of enlistment. There was a time when I believed Newt was one of the “Good Guys”.
Deo Vindice

mike fink
mike fink
2 months ago

I should correct my quote to:
“We had to import foreigners to kill them in order to keep them American.”
The WEF upgrade to that for modern times is:
“We had to import 3rd world savages to kill and replace them in order to make a profit and destroy America.”

Chris Mallory
Chris Mallory
2 months ago
Reply to  byron

Newt is a PA carpetbagger.

Matt x
Matt x
2 months ago

When phrased like that it was more of a foreign takeover of the U.S.
The Great Rebellion certainly started this countries legal downfall. There was a phrase in Dixie “Prisons are a Yankee problem”.
We are so deep into an ‘Arminius’ situation, the People have become residence of Stockholm (the syndrome).

Chris Mallory
Chris Mallory
2 months ago
Reply to  Matt x

Allowing those Germans and Irish to enter the country in the 1830s and 1840s is what started our downfall. They changed the country from being overwhelmingly British Protestant to the diverse hellhole we live in now.

David Bovender
David Bovender
2 months ago

Most people don’t realize it was the Russian Navy that helped enforce the Southern blokcade. Russia had the second largest Navy behind England the largest. Never forget what the Dam Yankees did.

Rick1234
Rick1234
2 months ago
Reply to  David Bovender

The Great Powers of that era were UK, France, Russia. In the decade prior, UK helped the Ottomans. UK has a long history of messing up the world.

MrLiberty
MrLiberty
2 months ago

Now let’s discuss the draft riots that happened when the new immigrants found out that the price for staying in their new country was to go and fight and die to defend the interests of the northern manufacturers over the citizens of the south who were simply exercising the Constitutional right to separate.

Randolph Scott
Randolph Scott
2 months ago

Newt needs to go suck a fat. With that in his mouth he will STFU.

Phil1350
Phil1350
2 months ago

Always a neocon shit head, and still is a JackAss neocon shit head!!!

The Southern Nationalist
The Southern Nationalist
2 months ago

Newt has disgraced the great state of Georgia once again.

Chris Mallory
Chris Mallory
2 months ago

Newt was born and raised in the North. A carpetbagger.

Chris Mallory
Chris Mallory
2 months ago

Both of them are.

Mikey
Mikey
2 months ago

I remember an article in “The New American” that exposed Newt as soon as he came to prominence. It’s funny how the John Birch Society has been accurate about so many things, and is Ignored by the Main Stream Media

DWEEZIL THE WEASEL
DWEEZIL THE WEASEL
2 months ago
Reply to  Mikey

Mikey: The JBS is an anachronism. Yes, they have been correct in their analyses of the leftist takeover of the Republic. When Robert Welch was at the helm, he called them as he saw them. However, their original mission has always been to “educate” Americans about the dangers of Communism. Their words fell on deaf ears. Americans were too busy chasing the fast buck and living La Vida Loca.
I was a Bircher in the 1980’s when, as a young Peace Officer, I watched society exhibit the first symptoms of moral and cultural deterioration. I let my membership lapse. Long after I retired, I ran across them at a gun show here in North ID. I rejoined but was quickly disillusioned by their archaic approaches and their absolutely paranoid perception that they are anti-Jew.
That label was hung on them in the early 60’s to neutralize their message. When I told these tired, frightened old men their greatest enemies were the B’nai B’rith and the ADL, they refunded my dues and threw me out of the JBS. I will not shoot the messenger. They still speak the truth. But I would tell anyone here not to waste their time and money with these tired, frightened, out-of-touch old White men.

Doc B
Doc B
2 months ago

I can’t believe that old geezer is still alive. By this point I can imagine that he stinks of depends and dried piss. Why doesn’t he wheel his ass beck into whatever nursing home he came out of. What an asshole.

DWEEZIL THE WEASEL
DWEEZIL THE WEASEL
2 months ago

Another Illuminati, draft-dodging, RINO snake-in-the-grass. He may be an educated historian, but his ability to put two-and-two together shows his stupidity. How about those New York Draft Riots, Newt? When your “immigrants” turned on their own? Crickets.

Martha
Martha
1 month ago

What does Newt’s argument have anything to do with immigration? That was a time of war – they didn’t come with intent to stay and live off public assistance!