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.
My relative told me to let everyone know all Texas Highway Patrol have to spend two weeks from their families away from their normal patrol areas to secure the US/Mexico border, patrolling by themselves.
That is called putting your money where your mouth is. Not "joking" about electric fences.
Uh...No one ever suggested that. However, every illegal has committed a crime, and many multiple brutal, violent crimes.
The Perry fan club seems to have an inordinate amount of very ignorant people in it. Like you for instance.
I say we cut their pay in half too!
Name calling is not the way to go.
I said you, based on your own cockeyed comments, were ignorant.
Why waste everyone's time with these red herrings?
These are PROPOSALS that Perry is making. I happen to think that they are pretty good ideas. But NOWHERE have I seen him propose that the President become a dictator.
Of course, President Perry will have to lobby and cajole Congress to enact his ideas, and maybe they won't go along.
But by your reasoning (if you want to glorify it with such a word) no candidate should even make such suggestions.
Take a hike, lady.
Yeah, I really am.
I’m ready for Perry to do something about it, instead of talking about it.
We have tens of thousands of American victims and their family members, of murder, rape, robbery, fraud, burglary, those ran over, stabbed and maimed by other ‘people’ every day.
Based on the posts I have read with your name under them, there is at least one VERY ignorant person outside the Perry Fan Club.
By RNC standards, it will be his turn then anyway.
You can type your asterisks all day but he did defund PP. The Texas government doesn’t pay for it. I don’t care what size building they put up.
Was his United States Air Force suit empty too neocon1984? What about his highest honor Eagle Scout suit, or the jeans and T-shirt suit he wore to help his dad farm cotton. Empty?
What about the suit he wore to stand on the tarmac of an airport, waiting to confront, face to face, a President who had refused all of his phone calls for help on border issues? Perry has worn many ‘suits’, and worn them well.
I know fences of the right sort in the right places can help a lot however. I spent ten years on the Arizona border myself(not as a leo mind you) and know something of the terrain and the distance between outposts of civilization, and the congestion at the crossing points.
Gingrich is the amnesty man.
Damn near confiscated by force of eminent domain thousands of acres of private farm and ranch land, some of which has been in families since the birth of Texas.
Allowed sanctuary city bill die in regular, then special session.
Trans Texas corridor was to be foreign built, foreign operated for the transfer of foreign goods. Circumventing American truckers, dock workers and all satellite operations dealing with transportation of goods. Yep, real pro-American that Perry turned out to be.
In state tuition's for illegals...sorry, that must hurt.
Rick Perry chaired Al Gore's campaign and supported Hillary Care...guess that doesn't matter much.
Facilitated the Mexican trucker pilot program and now Mexican trucker program. Mexican trucks on the foreign built/operated Trans Texas corridor.
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