I’m desperate alright. Desperate to get rid of Obama and desperate not to replace him with Obama-lite, ie, Romney.
As I’ve explained in prior posts, my preferred conservative candidate didn’t run, my second choice couldn’t get it out of the starting blocks, my third choice dropped out, and so now my pragmatic alternative choice via process of elimination is the generic candidate I believe at this time to be the most likely candidate to defeat both Romney and Obama. And at the moment, that candidate appears to be Newt Gingrich. Will know better after New Hampshire, Iowa, South Carolina and Florida. Then I’ll lock in on someone for the duration. If Bachmann or Santorum or even Perry overtakes Gingrich and is a real threat to Romney and Obama, I’ll be more than thrilled.
Until then, GO NEWT!! Damn the torpedoes, full steam ahead!!
Some of his later admittedly dumb statements and doings aside, Gingrich’s actual congressional record and actual conservative accomplishments are conservative enough for me in this age of Obama. Especially when compared to Obama and Romney’s liberal progressive records and their purely evil accomplishments.
Obama’s a Marxist abortionist. Romney’s a liberal progressive abortionist.
Gingrich is a budget balancing, pro-life Reaganite!!
On the other hand, if Romney somehow ends up as the best the GOP has to offer, then it proves the Republican party is no longer a conservative party and therefore I’ll no longer be a Republican. It won’t be that I’m leaving the Republican party, it’ll be that the Republican party is leaving me.
And in that case, will be looking for a tea party alternative.
GO NEWT!! FUBO!! FUMR!!
Rebellion is brewing!!
I recall someone else expressing sentiments like that once, but he started out a Democrat.
Hear hear, we both share the same frustration.
I hope we're not a dying breed, what we have to overcome seems insurmountable...50 years of indcrinisation and woosification of men, it almost seems impossible....it will not be changed over night, progressivism works both ways though, therefore I will support a step in the right direction.
As I recall, your preferences (in order) were:
1). Sarah Palin
2). Michele Bachmann
3). Herman Cain
Did I get that right or was that an error on my part?
Gingrich is a budget balancing, pro-life Reaganite!!
I have great respect for your service to America and for all you've done in advancing Conservatism and providing this forum for pro-God, pro-life, pro-gun, pro-liberty activism. Your experience has got me convinced that Newt Gingrich is the man to bring defeat (and utterly humiliate) the Marxist now (temporarily) occupying 1600 Pennsylvania Avenue! I think we can all get aboard!
Thank you, Boss, for explaining things so clearly.
As far as I know, Gingrich has never been a gun grabber.
Works for me.
From what I’m reading, Sunday, August 19, 1984, along with Trent Lott, Gingrich did push the conservative agenda, outfoxing Reagan’s platform. Reagan achieved only “damage limitation.” The White House was able only to remove language that made iron-clad promises to do things the White House strongly opposed. It was Tom Loeffler, as a member of the economic subcommittee, who formally proposed the insertion of a single comma in the platform draft that slammed the door that Reagan wanted left opened.
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GINGRICH DIVIDED GOP, CONQUERED THE AGENDA - REVOLT GAVE PARTY A GLIMPSE OF ITS FUTURE
Washington Post - Wednesday, December 21, 1994
Author: Dan Balz ; Serge F. Kovaleski , Washington Post Staff Writers
In early October 1990, Newt Gingrich and his wife, Marianne, attended a Washington fund-raiser for House Republicans. At the time, he was leading a revolt against then-President George Bush ‘s budget deal with the Democrats in Congress
“One of the organizers thought it would be great to get a picture of the three of us,” Gingrich told The Washington Post two years later. Gingrich and his wife were hustled over to where the president was standing.
“We went over and I said, ‘I’m really sorry that this is happening,’ and he said with as much pain as I’ve heard from a politician, ‘You are killing us, you are just killing us.’ Even today it brings tremendous emotion to me. I mean I just want to cry.”
But if it was an emotional moment, it was even more a symbolic one, as Gingrich well understood. The chance encounter for the photographer symbolized the decline of the old Republican order and the rise of a new one — with Gingrich as its eventual leader.
It was a final, wrenching step in Gingrich ‘s emergence, a breach in the Republican family trust engineered by Gingrich and his rebellious followers. However painful it may seem to Gingrich in retrospect, he helped engineer the rupture with Bush in 1990 with the same certitude he had long displayed that he knew best for the future of the party.
His decision to fight the budget deal helped to highlight Bush ‘s pledge not to raise taxes, which contributed to Bush ‘s defeat in 1992. As Gingrich recently said, it is a “grand irony of history” that if Bush had been reelected, the Republicans probably would not have won control of the House this year and Gingrich would not be the first Republican speaker in 40 years.
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Atlanta Journal-Constitution, The (GA) - Tuesday, August 31, 2004
Author: GAYLE WHITE ; Staff
New York — Former U.S. House Speaker Newt Gingrich , a man often described as a “firebrand conservative,” appeared with two leading Republican moderates Monday at New York’s Loew’s Theater. But anyone who expected theatrics went away disappointed.
On the opening day of the Republican National Convention, Gingrich was there with former New Jersey Gov. Christie Whitman and Michigan Rep. Fred Upton to talk about how much conservatives and moderates need each other.
“It’s impossible to create a right-only majority in America,” Gingrich told several dozen people at a forum sponsored by the Republican Main Street Partnership, formed in the late 1990s to voice “centrist” party views. “The key to electing Republicans to more offices and have a bigger majority is to be more inclusive,” he said.
Gingrich ‘s public embrace of moderates was an open demonstration of the kind of party-first politics that Republican insiders say he has long practiced behind the scenes.
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Gingrich , as architect of the ‘’contract,’’ is credited with ending 40 years of Democratic domination of the House of Representatives. The legislative package, promoted by Republican candidates for Congress in the 1994 midterm elections, included a balanced budget, welfare reform and stiffer penalties for crime.
Gingrich started out as a liberal Rockefeller Republican in the 1960s before working his way across the political spectrum. Along the way, as speaker of the House, he invited the outspokenly moderate Whitman to give the Republican television response to President Bill Clinton’s annual State of the Union address, relented and worked with Clinton after a budget standoff shut down the government in 1995, and won the support of moderates in Congress when he was challenged from the right.
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A POWERHOUSE OF POWER POLITICS HARD WORK, SAVVY AID REP. BOEHNER WITH ROLE IN GINGRICH ‘S INNER CIRCLE
Plain Dealer, The (Cleveland, OH) - Sunday, January 15, 1995
Author: SABRINA EATON PLAIN DEALER BUREAU
John Boehner would probably emerge unmussed from a tornado.
After a whirlwind day of devising party strategy with Newt Gingrich , chairing House Republican Conference meetings, and greeting constituents, not a hair is out of place as he wolfs down a tuna sandwich between appointments.
After just four years in Congress, the dapper conservative congressman from Cincinnati’s northern suburbs has become the number four man on the House Republican totem pole through a combination of hard work, political savvy and being in the right place at the right time.
He’s in the eye of the Republican storm, honing his party’s political strategy with the new House leaders, coordinating its external and internal communications, and reaching out to citizens groups that share its vision.
“It’s a much better job than when I had it because we’re in the majority,” said his predecessor as chairman of the House Republican Conference, House Majority Leader Richard Armey of Texas. “John is a very thorough, able and professional person who puts out a good quality product and keeps his nose to the grindstone. I’m very excited about the job he’s doing.”
“John has a huge role in Newt ‘s inner circle,” said Republican Rep. David Hobson of Springfield, who serves in the party’s whip organization.
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Don’t worry, Romney will not get the nomination. His support is weakening, not growing.
Still hoping for Perry !!