Newt’s answer here is revealing: when does human life begin. Newt, who clearly believes we are his intellectual inferiors, shot out the answer “at implantation.”

In an interview with ABC News on Friday, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich said he believes that human life does not begin at conception but at “implantation and successful implantation” because if you say life begins at conception “you’re going to open up an extraordinary range of very difficult questions.”

Gingrich also said that his “friends” who take “ideological positions” that human life does begin at conception “don’t then follow through on the logic of” that position.

Gingrich and the beginning of human life

Why is this such a big deal? Why did this statement cause pro-lifers to run screaming down the street with their hair on fire? Simple. Newt’s position left the door wide open for embryonic stem cell research. It left the door open to all kinds of experimentation on human embryos. Since most lab research is done on lab created embrios that were never “implanted” it would be perfectly legal. Big bio-tech firms could turn human embryo production into a lucrative commodity under the Gingrich definition. A fertility clinic could make a handsome profit selling unused frozen embryos to colleges and research labs. And why not? If they’re not “implanted” they’re not human. Right?

Gingrich quickly retreated from this statement after being hit on it by Michele Bachmann. This raises the question: has Gingrich been influenced by lobbyists from the bio-tech industry? Was this really a Freudian slip?

to his debate performance/statements last night.

I hate it when politicians play the semantics game. He is pulling a Clinton.

Here’s why: 75% of conceived eggs never implant in the uterine lining.

If life begins at conception, then unprotected sex during ovulation would be homicide 75% of the time.

redux by Marianne Gingrich and the Left’s pitiful attempt to smear Newt with something that has been public knowledge for years, I think that Newt’s skeletons have escaped the closet. He has claimed repentance and asked for forgiveness. He has released his tax returns. He has said he took some stupid positions that were mistakes.
Mitt, on the other hand, has done none of those things. He has not disavowed Romneycare, he has put off releasing his tax returns and even though he claims a pro-life position, I agree with RMJ that Mitt views it as politically expedient for him to stake that claim. After all, doing the kind of work he did at Bain, and so successfully I might add, points to him being a bottom line kind of guy. While It might be painful to shut down a mill or other business and cause people to lose their jobs…bottom line, it has to be done. I think he looks at his “positions” in the same way. He does not have my vote tomorrow.
I think also that The Communist and his handlers have a lot in common with Mitt and so welcome a run against him. It will be like shooting fish in a barrel for them.

Does that mean, if Romney gets the GOP nomination, you would be willing to vote for the Devil’s candidate in order to get rid of Obama? Or would you vote for Obama instead of the candidate that made a deal with the Devil? Or if you believe, Romney and Obama are both of the Devil, will you sit this out or vote third party?

Look, I have not problem with people arguing about who to vote for in the primary. Some of these anti-candidate screeds just seem ridiculous, however, especially because we all know you will vote for Romney over Obama.

Really? We’re talking about Abortion? With all the problems that are in DC, do you really think the next President and Congress are going to tackle Roe v. Wade? I think abortion is murder and of course we should pick presidents who will appoint Judges to the SCOTUS and I think Romney will do this. Any discussion outside of that topic is a waste of time.

So can we get off the social issues that only dilute our message? What next? Gay Marriage? This is why Santorum can’t be our candidate.

I’ll vote for Romney on Saturday because he has the best chance to beat Obama. Gingrich’s hand is always “6 inches from the self destruct button” and he will turn off those in the political middle of this country. Obama has to go and I see Mitt as the ONLY remaining candidate who can beat him.

And I can’t believe how many times I’ve had to defend Romney – I would’ve never guessed I’d be the one defending this guy and much less voting for him in the Primary. I wrote down my reasons for voting Romney a few weeks ago and for the most part those are still valid for me.

http://cosmoscon.com/2012/01/04/calm-down-conservatives/

Comparing the two is silly. It’s like arguing over which barnyard animal has the most odiferous excrement. Neither Romney nor Gingrich is minimally acceptable and Gingrich has no chance whatever of winning the nomination. Romney will be the nominee so it doesn’t matter how well or badly he compares with any other Republican. Maybe Gingrich is more pro-life than Romney. Maybe he isn’t. Maybe an infinite number of angels can dance on the head of a pin. What difference does it make?

The only conversation worth having now is how to do better in 2016 when we will have another chance to pick a suitable, post-progressive President to succeed Obama. The 2012 game is over and it’s time to start preparing for next time.

This election comes down to whether to vote for someone who fights for our rights or one who will surrrender our rights to the Progressives.

The choice is clear.

Newt will fight to save our rights and save America.

Romney won’t. Willard is a bought and paid for capitulator’agent of the Progressive Left.

The powerful TBTF/ Nanny State Hegemon wants to obliterate any opposition and rule with impunity. Any Conservative who dares to fight this hegemony will come under a withering attack, as have both Sarah Palin and Newt. Loads of dirty laundry, truthful or not ,will be thrown at any candidate that is a serious threat to curtail the Ruling Elite’s power.

Both Obama and Romney serve this aristocratic elite monster and will do it’s bidding. There isn’t in the end much difference between the two. Both support the Progressive Left position consistently. Romney just comes wrapped in more presentable faux ‘ Capitalist/ Republican” package.

Romney’s support for Planned Parenthood should come as no surprise. When has Romney not sold out Conservatives and our rights?

Newt doesn’t have perfect character. Yes, he has had affairs and can be arrogant, but he has always tried to find solutions to America’s problems. Fighters like Newt usually are a little rough around the edges and rarely come squeaky clean. Yet, Newt is one of the few who has fought the Establishment in the past and won when few Republicans even dared. He is a tough so and so and can take a punch. Newt is so tough that he is probably the only one of the contenders who could take the unbelievable amount of crap they will throw at him or any other serious Conservative nominee in this coming election. That may be why he is the man for this moment.

The choice is clear.

If you are comfortable with this Depression, have no qualms about the 25 million or so out of work, and don’t care about our rights that will be lost to the Progressive Left, vote for Willard.

If you want to save America and save our rights, vote for Newt.

then you have already made a Faustian bargain by not supporting Rick Santorum who is and has always been an unequivocal pro life candidate. You can pick apart any candidate on the basis of one or two issues such as electability, grandiosity or conservatism. In the end you have to judge the candidates on their overall package warts and all and determine who you believe will can win in the fall when its important. I get to vote tomorrow and I have already decided it will not be Gingrich. I think what plays well in front of a partisan crowd during the primary debates will not play in the Presidential debates. The optics of a sitting President versus a former Speaker of the House forced out by his own membership will be much different. Gingrich will not get his Lincoln Douglas style debate. More likely the result will be similar to when Gingrich complained about sitting in the back of Air Force One, he will look small and petty.

if this keeps up, I won’t vote for anyone in the general election. Romney talked states rights last night, he won me over some, Newt us a beast, still thing he would harm the party down ballot. But if Romney is as bad as many say; please tell me how we should even care if he beats Obama. it looks like Romney is going to be the nominee, but if he is this, why should conservatives even bother, we will only have Obama with an R by his name, or Newt, which I still think cannot beat Obama, and probably not Romney.

Why, oh, why.

I have supported Perry from the time he ran for AG Com. So I have been sad since he dropped out, I just cannot vote for Romney. I believe that Newt has been forgiven and as a Christian I should also forgive him and I will vote for him. He is a very smart man and has a lot of good ideas and will fight for this country. I trust Perry on this.

on Romney. I just do not know what the man stands for. What are his principles? Does he have any? Or is it all about political expediency.

On the other hand we have Newt. I loved what I heard him say on Hannity today, for the most part. But I was disappointed at his absence of an apology towards his ex-wife, even when Hannity gave him a clear opening to do so. No matter how tasteless I think the timing of this is, the man owes her an apology at least. Then in turn, maybe she will apologize to his first wife for her behavior. What a soap opera!

Now that Perry is out, place me in the undecided camp (in the primary). In the general, it is ABO.

because with Rick Santorum, who he is is pro-life. He walks the pro-life walk.

If 90pct of people were pro-choice, would Mitt Romney be pro-life? Would you bet your life on Mitt Romney being pro-life? I wouldn’t.