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FRONT PAGE William F. Jaspe

Speaking for Whom?Can a New Age, CFR functionary lead the Conservative Advance?

Gingrich's voting record has conservatives worried.

,'F ire breather," "bomb thrower,""the man mo st Democratsconsider the devil incarnate,""the guerill a leader of Congress' Republican insurgent s," "McCarthyite,""bulldog extremist." These aresome of the nicer epithets thathave been hurled at Representative Newton Leroy Gingrich,the Republican minority whipfrom Georgia's 6th Congressional District who is expec tedto be replacing Tom Foley as

Speaker of the Hou se in the104th Congress.To judge from the furious invec tive he inspires from sputtering Democrat pols andmedia liberals, this man mustbe far indeed "to the right ofAttila the Hun ." Barely a dayafter the seismic shift of November 8th that swept the GOPto power in Congress and instate hou se s across the land ,Mr. Gingrich had liberal pundi tdom frothing in high dud geon for referr ing to Bill andHillary Clinton as "counterculture McGoverniks" and to theirWhite House staff as a bunch of"left-wing elitists." Even worse,he charged that Clinton Democrats are the "enemy of normalAmericans" and the party of"total bizarreness, total weirdness.""The Vision Thing"To millions of Americans, of course,Gingrich ' s words were merely accentuating verbally what they had already sopowerfully expressed with their votes.And the media reaction was not onlydelicious icing on the cake , but proofthat thei r new champ ion had hit themark . An arrogant, imperial Presidentand an equally contemptuous Congressintent on imposing homosexuals on themilitary , pushing condoms to gradeschoolers, di sposing of the SecondAmendment, taxing families into ex-THE NEW AMERICAN / DECEMBER 12, 1994

tinction, gutting national defense, regulating businesses to death, spending thenation int o obl ivion, and entanglingAmerica in one UN military operationafter another had been resoundingly re-

pudiated in one of the most severe political massacres of modern times. Andthe victors, who had been scorned andexcoriated as nut s, malcontents, and"religious extremists," had earned theright to crow - something Gingrichdoes with unmatched flair.But Newt Gingrich is also a capableexponent of "the vision thing." In apoli cy address on Novemb er 11th atWashington' s Will ard Hotel, Gingrichdelivered the conservative/populistmessage that many Americans wantedto hear, declaring that he was going topursue the goal of "disciplined, smaller,more frugal government" - with a ven-

geance. "One of the reasons the Amercan people are so fed up with the curent political structure," he charged, "that they think they send a strong signon election day and they watch it gradually dribble away in Washinton, with all the peopleWa shington finding excusenot to do what they've [beenasked to do." Amen.And the signal the Americapeople were sending, he saiwas "based on a pretty clear drection of less government, le

regulation, less interferencand lower taxes, not ju st at thfederal level, but at virtualevery level across the countin virtually every state...."Liberal columnist DavidBroder was suitably impresseby the address, calling it "policy speech that was confdent , coherent, and in eveway impressi ve . The wordwere strong, the thoughts weclear, and no one who heahim was in any doubt that thHouse Republicans he lead-a will attempt to enac t the co

:Q servative governing agendadescribed."Q) Whoaaaa there, Mr. Brodespeak for yourself. For thowho were listening close lthere was more than one agendescribed. And for those familiar whistory, with politicians in general, awith Newt Gingrich in particular, thewas plenty of cause for doubt - aconcern .

The GATT ManChi ef and most immediate amonthose doubts and concerns is Gingrichzea lous commitment to helpin g Predent Clinton secure congressional aproval of the General AgreementTariffs and Tradel World Trade Organzation (GATT /WTO) accord. Whasked at his November 11 th press briing, "Will yo u ra lly the troops f


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GATT and the World Trade Organization7" he replied : "Yes. In the firstplace , the Administration has acceptedamendments of Senator Dole and myself giving Congress dramatically moreoversight of the World Trade Organization, including the right to bring up avote on withdrawal every five years inperpetuity, so at any point that we thinkit is out of control or inappropriate, wecan simply withdraw."The impression given by his answerwas that he and Dole recently had comeup with some amendments that wouldallay all concerns about loss of U.S .sovereignty to, and interference in domestic U.S. concerns by, the proposedsupra-national WTO . What he actuallywas referring to was Section 125 of theagreement, entitled "Review of Participation in the WTO," which hardly provides the security against WTO tyrannyhe pretends to find . One of the mostmanifest weaknesses of the Section 125"protection" is the five-year cycle of opportunity for withdrawing ; the WTOmega-bureaucracy could do a lot ofdamage to American interests in fiveyears.Moreover, as far as "congressionaloversight" goes, one need only considerhow little that has been worth in protecting U.S. interests at the United Nations ,the World Bank, IMF, UNESCO, or anyof the other internationalist ventureswith which we have become entangled.Earlier this year Gingrich hesitated tosupport GATT and expressed concernthat the WTO smacked of world government. "That is a bizarre turnabout fora man who almost single-handedlybailed out the Clinton Presidency byrounding up Republican votes for asimi lar accord - the North AmericanFree Trade Agreement - over the opposition of House Democrats," theNew York Times chided in a May 8theditorial. The Times had a point aboutGingrich 's NAFTA role, even thoughits arguments in favor of GATTIWTOwere phony. "The W.T.O. would bemore pussycat than tiger - and wouldprotect U.S. interests better than the exist ing General Agreement on Tar iffsand Trade," purred the Times. That isabout as convincing as the claims ofClinton , Gingrich, and company thatGATT would , after ten years, "add anaverage of $1,700 to the annual incomeof every American family."The WTO does indeed present a

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threat of world government; it is a multinational body with legislative, executive, and judicial branches wieldingformidable powers. The myriad of ministries, councils, committees, commissions, panels, and boards to be establishedunder the WTO would make it a globalleviathan. It would be far worse than thedozens of international commissions,committees, and secretariats created tooversee and regulate trade betweenCanada, Mexico, and the U.S. under the1,700-page NAFTA treaty - whichNewt Gingrich gave to Bill Clinton on as ilver platter. So much for promisesabout kinder, simpler, and less intrusivegovernment.Fast Track to DisasterHowever, the dangers of the GATTIWTO agreement itself are, at this point,of less immediate concern than the immoral and illegal process by which it isbeing rammed down our throats. Andthis from Mr. Gingrich, who in the samebreath promises a new "openness" and"honesty" in governing and who callsfor greater "participation" and "engagement" by the people. It is the rankesthypocrisy to talk about the new "mandate" and "listening to the people" andthen to continue with the same sleazymanner of doing "business as usual" inWashington.Forcing a "fast track" vote onGATTIWTO - what some have called "themost important vote of the decade, if notthe last 50 years" - in the "lame duck"Congress is an unconscionable act thatcannot be justified on any count. It intentionally ignores what is obvious: As Gingrich himself has noted , "thepeople have spoken," and have electeda new Congress; and that new Congressshould have the right (and responsibility) to vote on something as importantas GATT. It should not be passed by abody that has been repudiated by thevoters. The GATT system and negotiationshave been going on since 1947. It is absurd to suggest that after nearly 50 yearswe must now rush this new agreementthrough, that it cannot wait a couplemore months for the new Congress toconsider. The GAIT accord runs some 26,000pages . No member of Congress has readall of this monstrosity. Gingrich promised to make all bills and documents accessible to the American people , but we

certainly have not had full access to alof this document. If the Clinton health care programdeserved to be knocked of f the "fastrack" because it was a costly , bureaucratic, socialistic nightmare, GATTWTO deserves the same. The matters with which the GATTWTO accord deal clearly qualify it astreaty and therefore require ratificationby a two-thirds vote in the SenateGingrich 's repeated veneration of theConstitution (not to mention his oathwill be proven false if he does not demand compliance with this constitutional requirement.However, the new Speaker of theHouse appears to be taking his directionfrom the New York Times and from theCouncil on Foreign Relations (CFR)the driving organizational force behindGATT (Gingr ich is a member of theCFR) , rather than from the Constitution

or "the people" he claims to honor andrepresent.Rhetoric and RealitySince so many other conserva tiveshave been gulled into embracing GATTunder the false banner of "free trade ,Newt Gingrich' s role in promotinNAFTA and GATT is seen by many ainsufficient in and of itself to call intoquestion his "conservative" bona fidesAfter all, his rhetoric is as fiercely conservative as anyone 's . He once denounced Senator Robert Dole , thRepublican chairman of the Senate Finance Committee, as "the tax collectofor the welfare state." He labeled all oofficial Washington "a large, open conspiracy to take away the money anfreedom of the citizen s of this country.In 1985, he called President Reagan'rapprochement with Sovie t l eadeMikhail Gorbachev potentially " thmost dangerous summit for the Wessince Adolf Hitler met with Chamberlain in 1938 at Munich." Over and oveagain, he has denounced big government, socialism, high taxes, deficitswelfare, bureaucracy , and the "counterculture. "True enough, but in polit ics deedspeak louder than words. And NewGingrich ' s deeds all too often do nomatch his words. Since entering Congress, Gingrich has repeatedly voted fobig government, deficit spending, wefare, foreign aid , regulatory intervention, and socialism. He has repeatedl

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Since entering Congress, Gingrich hasrepeatedly voted for big government,deficit spending, welfare, foreign aid,regulatory intervention, and socialism.

voted to send U.S. taxpayer dollars tocommunist countries and to grant communist tyrannies such as Red China andthe Soviet Union most favored nation(MFN) trade status, while demandingtrade sanctions against South Africa.He has given support to Nelson Mandela and the terrorist African NationalCongress. He repeatedly has voted forextremist environmentalist measuresthat are costing Americans billions ofdollars. He repeatedly has catered to the"counterculture" and the militant homosexual lobby.Newt Gingrich 's rating on the Conservative Index (CI) of THENEW AMERI-CAN, while better than many othermembers of Congress, is far from thestel lar rating you would expect fromone heralded as "the theoretician inchief' of the conserva-tives in Congress. His CIratings for his eight termsin office have fluctuatedbetween fair ly good tomediocre to abysmal:96th Congress: 8497th Congress: 7798th Congress: 7499th Congress: 80100th Congress: 80IOlst Congress: 57102nd Congress: 60103rd Congress: 78The following sample of votes showsonly some of the many decidedlyunconservative votes Gingrich has cast:Welfare Madness . During his 16yea rs in Congress, Gingrich has inveighed vociferously against the evils ofthe New Deal/Great Society welfarestate - while voting for every kind ofwelfare program imaginable: for theelderly, children, the "homeless," businessmen, farmers, bankers, leftwingbroadcasters , etc . Those votes include:March 21, 1991 - $30 billion to beginthe unconstitutional bailout of failedsavings and loan institutions; June 26,1991 - $52.6 billion for agricultureprograms, subsidies, and food stamps;October 5, 1992 - $66.5 billion forhousing and community development;September 22, 1994 - $250 .6 billion inappropriations for the Departments ofLabor, HHS, and Education.Budget-Busting Profligacy. A Balanced Budget Amendment form s thecore of the first plank of Gingrich 's"Contract with America." He has been

calling for such a measure and con-THENEWAMERICAN/ DECEMBER 12. 1994

demning deficit spending ever sincecoming to Congress. In an early 1982speech he called on Congress to rejectfurther increases in the National DebtLimit. "Only by using the debt limit asa leverage point" he bravely declared,"can we force the changes which clearlythe liberal leadership of this body wantsto avoid ." Trouble is, a few months earlier, on February 5, 1981, he had votedwith those same "liberals" to raise theNational Debt ceiling by another $49.1billion to $985 billion. He has gone thissame route many times since .Of course, raising the debt cei lingwould not have been necessary had hepracticed what he preached. His votesagainst "more frugal government" include: December 21, 1987 - $603 .9billion for 13 regular appropriation bills

larded with many wasteful, extravagant,and unconstitutional items (it passed bya vote of 209 to 208); May 4, 1989 outlays of $1.165 trillion and a deficit of$99 bill ion for a dishonest and spendthrift 1990 budget designed to barelyskim in under the Gramm-Rudman$100 billion deficit limit; March 10,1994 - a vote against a responsibleamendment offered by RepresentativeGerald Solomon (R-NY) to balance thebudget by 1999 through $698 billion inspending cuts (a mere 3.5 percent cut)over five years.

Considering these and other votesagainst sound fiscal policy, it is not surprising that Gingrich 's spendthrift wayshave carried over into his personal finances . The 1992 House banking scandal revealed that he had run 22overdrafts on his checking account, andthis in spite of having voted himself ahuge pay raise and having a taxpayerprovided, chauffeur-driven car. Nor is itsurprising that his rating from the National Taxpayers Union during the latest session of Congress (the 103rd) wasa meager 75 percent. His tax-and-spendrecord over the years on votes tabulatedby Tax Reform IMmediately (TRIM)

has so often contradic ted his rhetorthat National Director of TRIM JamToft was prompted to remark: "Profesor Gingrich hopeful ly will nevercalled upon to teach a course in tproper role of our federal governmenHis rare votes against bloated big goernment usually have been prompted bthe partisan wrangling of the momennot by any great respect for, or undestanding of, the Constitution."Foreign Aid . If there is anythinmore unpopular,unconstitutional, counteproductive, fiscally irresponsible, animmoral than welfare for domestic freloaders, it is welfare for foreign freel oaders . But the "tight-fisted" MGingrich consistently votes to send U.Stax dol lars to kleptocrats and tyranabroad: June 27, 1990 - $15.7 billioin foreign aid for fisca1991; June 20 1991 $12.4 billion for fisca

1992 and $13 billion fofiscal 1993; June 251992 - $13.8 bil liofor fiscal 1993; Augu6, 1992 - $12 .3 billiofor the InternationaMonetary Fund and $1.bil lion for the "republics" of the former Soviet Union; Jun17, 1993 - $13 billion for fiscal 1994September 29, 1993 - $12.9 billionincluding $2.5 billion to Russia; Augu4, 1994 - $13.8 billion for foreign ai

for fiscal 1995.Eco-Lunacy. Gingrich, a longtimmember of the Georgia Conservanc("an aggressive environmental groucomprised largely of upper-middle clasurbanites" - Newt's own words) cofounded by Jimmy Carter, organizeone of the early environmental studieprograms back in 1970 while a profesor at West Georgia State College. Acording to Current Biography, thsuccess of his early congressional campaigns was due in large part "to the support of environmentalists. " Besidebeing blatantly unconstitutional, virtually all federal environmental legislatioinvolves gross violations of staterights and the property rights of privaindividuals, both of which Gingricclaims to champion. Newt 's "greenvotes include: May 16, 1979 - thAlaska Lands Bill, locking up 68 milion acres as untouchable "wildernessDecember 17, 1987 - $307 million focontinuation of the fraudulent and un


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constitutional Endangered Species Act,putting the "rights" of owls, bugs, rats,snakes, and newts above those ofpeople; March 28, 1990- elevating theunconstitutional Environmental Protection Agency to Cabinet-level status;May 23, 1990 - the badly misnamedClean Air bill, requiring radical cuts inindustry and automobile emissions, adding tens of billions of dollars annuallyin new costs to our already stringent andcostly air standards.Federalizing Education. The Com-munist Manifesto calls for nationalizingeducation, while the U.S. Constitution,to the contrary, prohibi ts federal involvement in educational matters. Thesevotes cause one to wonder which document's philosophy is guiding NewtGingrich' s education policy decisions:May 10, 1979 - for creation of the newCabinet- level Department of Educationdemanded by President Carter and the

radical National Education Association;May 9, 1989 - $1.4 billion in federalaid for "applied techno logy education,"the new federalese for vocational education; May 16, 1990 - $2.9 billion forHead Start and Follow Through programs for fiscal 1991, rising to $7.7 billion in 1994; July 20, 1990 - $1.1billion for a variety of education programs , none of which the federal government has authority to fund; May 12,1994 - "such sums as may be necessary" for the $3.3 billion -per-year HeadStart program and $2.6 billion for fiscal1995 for three low-income and childabuse prevention programs.Counterculture Values. Despiteplaying to the "religious right ," Ging rich has racked up a surprisingly "moderate" record on homosexual "rights."His troubling votes incl ude: May 22,1990 - the Americans with DisabilitiesAct, permitting massive new federal in-

tervention into the private workp lace inorder to stop "discrimination" in hiringon the basis of disability, includi ngAIDS; June 13, 1990 - $2.76 billionfor various AIDS programs demandedby the militant homosexual lobby; July12, 1990 - the final version of theAmericans With Disabilities Act.On July 26, 1990 Gingrich voted withthe majority in refusing to support aresolution by Representative WilliamDannemeyer (R-CA) to expel Representative Barney Frank (D-MA) for felonycriminal offenses related to his homosexual activities. He actively supportedthe re-election of Representative SteveGunder son (R-WI), an open homosexual, and praises Gunderson's "courage" for being "gay" and Republican .Nationalizing Law Enforcement.On October 22, 1991, Gingrich votedfor an amendment to the federa l crimebill offered by Representative David

New Age Newt: A Futurist "C

Newt has hobnobbed with NewAge luminaries since the 1970s.

I n a post-election address to the Washington Research Groupon November 1I , 1994 , Representative Newt Gingrichchided the Washington press corps ' propensity for stereotyping politicians and offered this description of himself:The best description of me is that I'm a

con servative futurist. Marianne [Gingrich 's second wife] and I have for a longt ime been friends of Alvin and HeidiToffler, the authors of Future Shock andThe Third Wave. We really believe it'suseful to think about the 21st century ....Moreover, Gingrich recommended "to allcongressional staffs" that they read "the newProgres s and Freedoms Foundation reporton Alvin Toffler's works."The tight Gingrich-Toffler connectionspanning three decades has received little at

tention in the major media, but consideration of it is essential to an understanding ofMr. Gingrich 's strange new brand of "conservatism." In April 1975, Gingrich andToffler joined with some 50 other liberalleft activists of the Ad Hoc Committee onAnticipatory Democracy in signing a letterto Congress urging more congressional interest in planning forthe future and implementing a "futurist" agenda. Fellow signatories included Betty Friedan , Lester Brown, Margaret Mead, JonasSalk, Elise Boulding, R. Buckminster Fuller, Willis Harman,Robert Theobald, and Amitai Etzioni (Bill Clinton 's guru of

"Comrnunitarianism").In 1978, Toffler wrote the introduction for Anticipatory Democracy, a collaborative effort by 20 New Left and New Age authors, including Newt Gingrich, whose chapter, "The Goals foGeorgia Program," was a glowing endorsement of Governor Jimmy Carter's socialis

"planning" agenda! Among the radical lefoccult, globalist, enviro-extremist, humanist, and New Age organizations the boopromoted as "citizen groups on the cuttinedge of alternative futures" were ACORNCenter for Science in the Public InteresEarthrise, Environmental Action, FindhorCommunity, Lindisfarne Association,Worldwatch Institute, Public Citizen, Spark, Unioof Concerned Scientists, and the Conferencon Alternative State and Local Public Polcies. The book throughout extolled the virtuof "participatory democracy," a revolutionarslogan dear to the likes of Tom HaydenDerek Shearer, and Bill Clinton, and ondrawn directly from the eighth plank of thHumanistManifestoII (1973).One of Gingrich' s Anticipatory Demoracy co-authors was Representative CharlRose, ultra-liberal Democrat from NorCarolina, who has a cumulative rating of seven percent on THNEWAMERICAN'S Conservative Index, lower even than admitteSocialist Congressman Bernie Sanders (16 percent) . Rose's chapter is entitled "Building a Futures Network inCongress ." In 197together with a bevy of leftwing Democratic members of Co

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McCurdy (D-OK) to establish a National Police Corps. Although he didn'tvote for the $30-billion Clinton crimebill of 1994, he resurrected it and helpedmake passage possible. As Representative Susan Molinari (R-NY), one ofNewt's cheerleaders , explained toMichael Kinsley on CNN's Crossfire ,"If it wasn't for Newt Gingrich, youwouldn't have a crime bill."Indeed . The Gingrich-led opposition"threw" the game, failing to challengethe bill's fundamental flaw - that thefederal government has no const itutional authority to take over state andlocal crime-fighting duties - and focused instead on "pork" in the bill."That crime bill stank to high heaven,"charged Pat Buchanan. "[I]t federalizescrimes such as spousal abuse, giving thefeds police power the Constitution reserves to the states ." And the crime

package in Newt's "Contract With

America" would speed us further downthe road toward a national police state.Newt's RootsLlewellyn Rockwell, president of theLudwig von Mises Insti tute and publisher of The Free Market, observesthat, rhetoric notwithstanding, "NewtGingrich is a Rockefeller Republican, abig-government 'Conservative' whotalks a good line, but like Ronald Reagan will give us higher taxes, moregovernment, and more spending. His'Contract With America' is a fraud; itshould be called a 'Press Conferencewith America.'" Or, perhaps , a "Contract On America." Newt's "Contract,"with its calls for amendments to balancethe budget and impose term limits,seems to imply that our original contract, the U.S. Constitution, is gravelydeficient. This could give new impetusto the dangerous movement for a con-

stitutional convention.*The problems with Newt Gingrich"conservatism" go back to his "rootsCurrent Biography Yearbook for 198gives this snapshot of his early career:After graduat ing from Emory[Universi ty in Atlan ta] in 1965,Gingrich received a master's degree from Tulane University in

1968 and a Ph.D. degree in modemEuropean history in 1971. His behavior at Tulane appeared to beliehis future conservatism and hawkish foreign-policy views. He accepted student deferments ratherthan face the draft during the Vietnam War, experimented with marijuana, led a campus demonstrationdefending the school paper's right*Mr. Ja sper will examine the "Contract WitAmerica" in our January 9, 1995issue.

for the 21 st Centurygress, Rose formed the Congressional Clearinghouse on the Future, which Gingrich joined upon his election to Congress. In fact,Newt became a member of the executive committee, providingthe critical Republican and "conservative" cover the group neededto camouflage its obvious leftist agenda. One of Newt's Clearinghouse comrades was Senator Al Gore, whose pathetic eco-diatribe,Earth in the Balance, although the butt of conservative jokes,closely fits the Toffler-Gingrich "futurist" world view. LeadingEdge, an influential New Age newsletter, reported on October 17,1983 that Congressmen Gingrich and Gore introduced a bill toadvise the President on "critical trends and alternative futures."The February 27,1984 issue ofNew Options, a publication edited by leading New Age "philosopher" Mark Satin, identifiedGingrich as a top "decentralist/globally responsible" congressman, a revealing kudo.Mark Satin is also the author of New Age Politics (1978 ), aguide to New Age political thought. In that guide Satin calls forplanetary governance, "a system of world taxation (on resourceuse)," "an increased transfer of wealth from rich to poor countries," and "complete military disarmament." What's more, hehas it in for the nuclear family, traditional marriage, and heterosexual society: "The nuclear family can be devastating to parentsand children alike," and "it tends to embody the first four sidesof the Prison in almost pure form"; "Compulsive heterosexualitycuts us off from half the world as love partners"; "Compulsivemonogamy may have served some essential purpose two or threemillion years ago," but today it tends toward "a more or less monotonous day-to-day living together."In all these radical positions Satin is in tune with Toffler ,whose books he admiringly quotes and recommends. Toffler, theintellectual darling of the "counter culture" and the "liberal me-

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dia" that Gingrich loves to attack, has for three decades been theleading "prophet" of social revolution and "transformation."Even more than for his socialistlredistributionist political andeconomic views, Toffler has been the bane of all true conservatives committed to preserving Judeo-Christian culture for his avidchampioning of group marriage, polygamy, serial marriage, homosexual marriage, the "liberating" effect of divorce, and childrearing by "professional parents ."On October 3, 1990, Gingrich and Representative EdwardMarkey (D-MA) sent a "Dear Colleague" letter inviting all members of Congress and staff members "to join us at a reception honoring best-selling author Alvin Toffler on the eve of publicationof his new Bantam book Powershift: Knowledge, Wealth andViolence at the Edge of the 2Jst Century.""Alvin Toffler's seminal works , Future Shock (1970) and TheThird Wave (1980), each helped to define its decade, add newwords to the language, and significantly alter the way we thinkabout change," Markey and Gingr ich wrote . "His new bookpromises to shake up our vision of the future once again," theyenthused, stating further that "Toffler's ideas will likely becomean important resource in focusing national debate on the chal lenges facing our nation in the post-Cold War era."Like Charlie Rose, Markey is an odd ally for "conservat ive"Gingrich. Markey has a cumulat ive five percent rating on ourConservative Index. But those are the kinds of folks Newt runswith at the Congressional Clearinghouse on the Future, where hehelps move our lawmakers leftward by bringing them speakerssuch as Toffler, Mikhail Gorbachev, Carl Sagan, Marian WrightEdelman, Lou Harris , Ellen Goodman, Daniel Yankelovich, andJohn Jacob . - W.F.J .


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to print a nude photograph of a faculty member, and campaigned forGovernor Nelson A. Rockefeller ofNew York in 1968 because of thegovernor's support of civil rights.Nelson Rockefeller, of course, wasthe bane of all conservatives, the epit

ome of effete internationalism, and amember of the CFR (run by his brotherDavid) and the ruling elite of the Eastern Establishment. In his unsuccessfulruns for Congress in 1974 and 1976Gingrich showed no deep conservativeleanings. He was, and remains, a member of the NAACP, the World FuturistSociety, and the New Age-orientedCongressional Clearinghouse on the Future. In 1978 Congressional Quarterlygave this bio of the freshman congressman: "In his previous campaigns Gingrich was considered unusually liberalfor a Georgia Republican. But this yearhe relied on the tax cut issue, using anempty shopping cart to emphasize hisconcern about inflation." He also capital ized on the widespread anger overPresident Carter's Panama policy andheaded up "Georgians Against the Panama Canal Treaty." He has been usingconservative issues to advance his ca-

reer ever since.In 1981 this writer asked GeorgiaCongressman Larry McDonald for anevaluation of the rising Republican starfrom his neighboring 6th District. His reply was surprising, at the time . NewtGingrich, he said, was a devious andambitious politician masquerading as aconservative and not one to be trusted .Gingrich had gone out of his way, Dr.

McDonald said, to obstruct and to undermine support of conservative membersof Congress for some of McDonald'slegislative efforts. This was particularlydisturbing since Representative McDonald was the most conservative member ofCongress - by virtually all ratings systems - and would have been a naturalally of Gingrich if Gingrich were trulyconservative. In July 1983, the Conserva-tive Digest compared the voting scores ofthe leading conservatives in Congressbased on ratings from the AmericanConservative Union, the Committee forthe Survival of a Free Congress, the National Conservative Political ActionCommittee, and THE NEW AMERICAN'Sown Conservative Index. CongressmanMcDonald topped the list at a combined98.3 percent. Congressman Gingrichweighed in at an anemic 77.5 percent.

CFRCrafted ConservativeHowever, by beat ing his chest moreloudly, trumpeting his message morestridently, and pursuing power moreruthlessly than all others , Gingrich haswon the title of Maximum Leader of the"Conservative Revolution." Not that iwas all his own doing, by any means;the CFR-dominated "liberal" mediahave been only too accommodating incrafting conservative bona fides for oneof their own. It is a sickeningly familiarredux .In 1976, CFR front man JimmyCarter was presented to us by the sameCFR media elites as a "conservative"Southern Baptist from Georg ia whowould give us the "change" Americaneeded. In 1992 it was CFR memberBill Clinton, another "conservative"Sou thern Baptist from Arkansas whowas sold to the country as the ticket topositive "change," the "New Democrat"with "traditional values" and a "NewCovenant." Now comes "conservative"Southern Baptist and CFR memberNewt Gingrich, with promises of drastic "change" and a new "contract." tryou 'r e beginning to sense another imminent betrayal, congratulations: you 'r ecatching on.

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