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.
Bang!
Perry. Yep.
Oh yes, that little, "Immigration thing".
As tens of thousands of American victims and their family members, of murder, rape, robbery, fraud, burglary, those ran over, stabbed and maimed by illegal aliens, stand in angry silence.
Comments like yours are exactly what we heard from the Bush crowd, over and over. The results of that nightmare can now be seen coast to coast.
Perry, looking sharp!
Yeah, all Perry’s fault. lol
I heard that radio ad on a local Omaha station today. He did not say he "would" cut their pay or time, but said "I... "say" we cut half their pay and send them home".
"Let's see now...what was that third cabinet department I was going to eliminate?...Geez I had it a minute ago...drat."
LOL! Clever little monkeys, aren’t they! :)
lol. You just obliterated the anti-Newt article that started this thread.
He’s going to make a good president. I think he’ll be a good foil to Zero.
You make a good point except that I would add Perry's retail politics (local speeches and face to face) seem to be helping him as well. Perry is catching on out there in "general" land again, but he'll still need to have a few more great debate performances like his last couple, that Thanksgiving forum and the last foreign affairs debate (or even better than those) before he'll get that fuller acceptance again, I believe. He's back up to 11 to 12% in most national polls again which is better than that 4 and 6% (or less) he was getting. So... so long as his debates keep improving at the level they have been recently, we should have a good race coming up here soon.
Oh yes, that little, "Immigration thing".
As tens of thousands of American victims and their family members, of murder, rape, robbery, fraud, burglary, those ran over, stabbed and maimed by illegal aliens, stand in angry silence.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. I’m tired of that old mantra.
I bet you are.
Love to stand you up in a room full of victims and their families, and hear ya say that.
Not to mention the tax payers, who've been forced to spend hundreds of billions in tax dollars to support and subsidies these criminals, as they've choked off our schools, social services, jail, hospitals, welfare, as they've subverted, undermined and compromised our very electoral process.
Yeah, I bet your tired of hearing it.
Yes and there are voters in LaRaza that like this picture!
His campaign manager was wonderful in handling the aftermath of that! Loved the Letterman’s top ten. You know you are definitely a Perry basher!
Come on man!
Well, so am I. =:o)
Who I might or might not support is not the issue here.
BTW, your response to #71 reeks bad...Bush open borders crowd, redux.
Bring a change of drawers. I’ll hit ya with 70psi of H2O, thats about it. Maybe some bleach, yeah. richard.
Not everyone who commits a crime is an illegal immigrant and if you think that you are crazy. Perry wants tighter security. I don’t see what your big deal is. The Feds won’t do anything with the illegals so Perry has to do something with them. That is why he sent a bill to the federal government. Perry cannot deport them. He has to turn them over to ICE.
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