Posted on 11/28/2011 5:31:01 PM PST by smoothsailing
November 28, 2011
By Bryan Fischer
Newt is the current flavor of the month in the GOP race for the presidential nomination, and grabbed a coup in New Hampshire with the endorsement of the Union-Leader.
However, Newt has enough baggage with enough rocks in it to drag him below surface again. His amnesty stance on immigration puts him to the left of Perry on that issue, and we now know he took $1.8 million from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac right when they were dragging the housing industry to the bottom of the sea. Newt’s at the bottom of the pile on that one.
We know one of his think tanks took in $37 million from the health care industry so he could hack and flack for the individual mandate, a concept that represents the grossest violation of limited government powers in our history.
He’s flip-flopped as much if not more than Mitt Romney, who, inspired by the musings of James Carville, I have affectionately nicknamed Governor Windsock. Newt’s been horrible on embryonic stem cell research and horrible on man-caused global warming, an exorbitantly costly scam whose credibility is rapidly disintegrating before our very eyes.
In other words, Newt is a consummate Washington insider, a big government Republican, and appears to be almost as much of a panderer as Romney. He’s hardly a genuine conservative; he’s just glib enough to make some people think he is one.
But the truth will out, and that spells trouble for Newt. This is even before renewed conversations about his multiple divorces and admitted affairs while married to his first two wives. His affair with his current wife took place at about the same time Herman Cain was supposed to be harassing members of the opposite sex. If the media attacked Herman hammer and tongs over things that never happened in that time frame, just imagine the scalping Newt will take once they turn the knives on him.
And turn on him they will, as each candidate who has risen to the surface has been shredded by the Ministers of Propaganda eager to do their part to buttress the dimming re-election prospects of Barack Obama.
All this means that Newt will soon start to sink under the weight of his crony capitalism, his abrupt policy changes, and his troubled personal past.
This will create another vacuum, only this time there is no one new to fill it. When Michele Bachmann zoomed into the stratosphere, and then fell back to earth, Rick Perry was there to replace her. When Perry’s star fell over his debate performances and his “heartless” comment on immigration, Herman Cain’s star rose. When the air went out of Cain’s balloon over the false allegations of harassment and the more substantial problem of his lack of depth on foreign policy, the air went into Newt’s tires.
So the question becomes: where does the air go when it leaks out of Newt’s tires? Politics as well as nature abhors a vacuum, and somebody is going to benefit from Newt’s descent. Like an elevator on its way to the basement, a countervailing weight must rise.
Gov. Perry’s star will rise once again. Joe Arpaio’s endorsement and campaign appearances will help repair some of the damage he has done to himself on immigration. And in point of fact, even Michelle Bachmann has staked out a position very similar to Newt’s on rewarding those who have broken our immigration laws the longest. All of which means there is no perfect candidate in the hunt on the immigration issue.
But Perry does well in one-on-one interviews with major media outlets, is very effective on the stump, relates very well to people in the business of retail politics, and has the money to outlast many of his rivals.
An under-appreciated fact about this election season, compared to 2008, is that Republican party rules mandate that delegates in primaries be awarded proportionately rather than on a winner-take-all basis. This will make it virtually impossible for a candidate to sew up the nomination by Florida, as John McCain did in ‘08.
This GOP primary campaign will be marathon, not a sprint, and the advantage will go to the candidate with enough gas in the tank to go the distance, a candidate who has the resources to keep getting his message out and who wears well in personal campaign appearances. That means the smart money ought to be on Rick Perry.
Toll Roads? Is that the best you can be angry about?
As a Dallas-area resident, I can promise you I was very much against them when I first moved here, but let me ask you a question:
What could be more capitalistic than letting the people who actually use the roads being the ones who pay for them?
Are you some kind of socialist who likes to see your tax money fund some road you will likely never drive in another part of the state?
As for me, I will gladly pay my tolls so my roads get built much quicker. Other states figured this out long ago.
That's a ridiculous criticism! That's NOT what he's saying. And I suspect you know what he 's really saying and exactly what he intends to do.
Which border did you go to? Was it a checkpoint or in the middle of nowhere? What did you see there? Was it even in Texas? Did you spot illegal activity? Did you report it?
Just saying you have been to the border doesnt make Perry soft on the border. It is not the job of a state governor to shut down the border. It is the job of the Federal Government. But in your necessity to take shots at Perry, you claim it to be his fault.
After that, you seem to have gotten off message.
Will I vote for him over O-bozo? Certainly, without hesitation.
Will I vote for him over the current slate of GoP-r’s, I've not decided on my candidate.
Stop playing political games with all this blame Warshington poppy-cock.
And yes on the border. I've been from McCallen to Jaurez and all points between. Yes, I've seen illegal activity. In fact, I've seen’em swimming across in broad damn daylight as I took pictures from the international bridge.
I watched them walk up behind a broken down automobile and begin pushing it across the bridge until they crossed over into America, all the while pretending to be occupants of the car. On and on and on.
I respectfully disagree with your opinion. However, I know that Rick Perry is no more perfect than any of the other candidates. My opinion is that he’s the best choice of those contending to be our next president.
You’re an idiot.
You’re an idiot.
LOL!
Mine did too SS, I never learned those ugly ways. But I’m not a hateful person, thank goodness.
Well said!
Sad if true, I feel sorry for his wife.
What the hell does that even mean? You dont even know what you want him to do, but you are mad at him for not doing it.
And what did you do when you saw this happen? Did you stop it it or report it, or are you just part of the problem?
But the point is, it is Washington’s fault. You just dont like Perry.
[Well said!]
Thank you pgkdan, I appreciate that!
“All a President can do is STAND FOR SOMETHING and use the bully pulpit to encourage the American people to force Congress to do what they want them to do. So shut up and grow up!”
Wow, Presidents can only stand for something? I guess Presidents have no power at all. Go figure. We were wanting to get the right candidate in because of the power the President has, yet, we only needed to ask you to find out the President has no power at all.
Richardo “La Raza” Perry is a nitwit and would be every bit as bad as Obama. Perry is a Democrat disguised as a RINO. He was a Democrat, campaigned for Al Gore, and only turned coat once he needed to be a Republican to win. Proof that Republicans vote straight ticket every bit as much as Democrats. I want a conservative to win, not necessarily a Republican!
“He’s saying these nutty things he can’t do, to get attention back on him. That’s a poor way to do it.”
And they call Ron Paul nutty.
VERY NICE!!!
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