Posted on 03/03/2012 3:42:36 AM PST by Cincinatus' Wife
Let’s be clear about this from the start: On Tuesday, I’ll vote for Newt Gingrich to be the GOP’s presidential nominee.
Now for the explanation.
In recent days, I mentally drafted one piece endorsing him, one backing Mitt Romney, and a third picking Rick Santorum. (Sorry, Ron Paul fans.) In other words, like millions of other Americans, I’ve had a hard time reaching a decision.
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Gingrich has a record of changing Washington. Completely? No. But then, completely changing Washington is a big job. And Gingrich led Congress to each success to which Santorum can also lay a claim: balanced budgets and welfare reform, to name two. Just as important, unlike Santorum, he was not there for the excesses of the GOP-run Congress during the 2000s.
Gingrich also matches Santorum’s ability to convey his beliefs — conservative beliefs — unapologetically. But his way is more happy warrior than disappointed dad. That matters.
Of the remaining candidates, he has the best tax plans and is the most specific about addressing runaway regulation and bureaucracy and developing our energy resources. Is $2.50-a-gallon gas realistic? Maybe not. But it is aspirational in a way that demonstrates his commitment to the issue. Again, that matters.
Is he flawed? Yes, as are his rivals. But the most flawed candidate is the one now taking the country in the wrong direction, Obama. And the candidate who is clearest and most effective at offering a different direction is Newt Gingrich. He gets my vote.
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>> Nixon was somewhat conservative, but he also established federal affirmative action, the EPA, and wage and price controls. Newt seems like a similar opportunist
You did a good job of pointing out Nixon’s flaws, but Nixon isn’t running. In fact, Nixon isn’t even breathing.
You did no such thing with Gingrich. Just a despicable loose connection with Nixon, and a broad tarring with the same brush.
Exactly WHAT ACTIONS — in DETAIL — makes Gingrich like Nixon?
Put up or STFU.
Besides his skill with gotcha questions, here’s another thing...
A FReeper tagline...sorry, can’t recall the name...says Newt will “deconstruct” Obama in debate.
I think I understand that, and it’s CRITICAL to helping Americans decide.
Without getting too personal, first the nominee MUST make people see WHO Obama is and what his background, goals and actions have been toward America.
In order to accomplish that, Obama’s self created image and the media’s false image of Obama must be deconstructed...taken apart piece by piece until it collapses the rest of the way.
Only then will Americans fully comprehend what is at stake in this election.
Only then can they be sold the alternative to the REAL...not the fake...Obama.
In an account of one of Christ’s miracles, the bible says “the scales fell from his eyes, and he could see” in reference to a blind man’s sight being restored.
In the OT bible there are stories referencing false gods, idols, however you wish to characterize. In the story of Samson the strong man, his strength is used to collapse the temple of worship to a false god.
The prophet Elijah is used to miraculously demonstrate that the false god in that story is UTTERLY powerless.
Moses was used to call down plagues on Pharoah of Egypt in order to prove the true God is able and capable, not Egypt’s Pharoah, so that enslaved Israel could escape.
First the false has to be exposed by the truth, then the alternative...the solution...can be offered and accepted.
Newt can do this.
The others are pretenders.
Hitler’s only attempt at organizing anything was the abortive “Beer Hall Putsch’’ and that was a disaster. Hitler didn’t even create the Nazi Party, the Strasser brothers Gregor and Otto did with the help of Josef Goebells so I find these comparisons between pre-Nazi Germany and the current situation in America to be a stretch. The German people had no tradition of thinking for themselves or representative democracy and had for centuries submitted themselves to monarchs, princes and kaisers who spoke to them more or less as children. Hitler was a outsider with a talent for oratory who appealed to their basest instincts and was much like an older boy encouraging a younger one to take his fathers gun from the drawer and do something with it. I don’t like Rommney, he’s a RINO. I will be voting for Newt also.
>> do I want the orneryest, meanest SOB in the valley leading the way?
Yeah, that’s the idea!
... And not only is he mean and ornery, he has a brain and he knows how to use it.
By comparison, Romney is a panful of used motor oil, and Santorum is a sack of wet sawdust.
And that sentiment has been put out there by some who should be speaking up louder now for Newt.
Newt debates Barack! (pass it around)
Smart untrustworthy weasel? Like that’s a bad thing. Especially considering it’s a race of and for smart untrustworthy weasels. Like it or not, it is what it is. The best racehorse in the world wouldn’t make the field at Le Mans. You have to play the game you’re in. Nixon had his enemies list and if Newt has one I bet The One and everything he’s done is at the top of it. Conservatives are excited, Libs aren’t. Newt can excite a crowd even more and Mittens can’t. Wouldn’t you love to see Newt and The One face off in an open debate? I would.
Thanks for the heads up.
I have some difficulty to follow the intricate republican cuisine concerning delegates. Every time I have to get into it, gives me a headache :)
LLS
Lucky him ... he has choices. By May ... *snooze* ... Ron Paul, or Bill the Cat?
It is a puzzle. The rules for delegates at the convention are different state by state and vote round by vote round. I hope Newt is counting and planning.
...or climate change
Not tough for me
Texas can do this, too...meaning drill here, drill now, produce lots more of our own oil.
Which Newt will know how to use against Obama, along with the other arrows in his quiver...
Eagle Ford Shale production surpasses analysts’ forecasts [South Texas]
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2853928/posts
Calling all Georgia republicans. Lets put Newt over the 50% mark on Tues so he gets all 76 delegates. No other candiate has a plan to hit the ground running on day one to restore the constitutional republic.
Conservatives need to push hard on the energy issue. It is the BRIGHT LINE difference between the Right and the Left. Obama’s “green” socialist ideology bleeds into every aspect of our lives and our politics.
That would be sweet!
You must have left your brain on the shelf with your teeth!
NEA
Voted for taxpayer funding of the National Endowment for the Arts.
Voted against a 10% cut in the budget for National Endowment for the Arts.
Bankruptcy
Voted for a Schumer amendment to make the debts of pro-life demonstrators not dischargeable in bankruptcy.
Defense and Foreign Policy
Voted for the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC).
Voted against requiring the President to certify that the CWC is effectively verifiable.
Voted against requiring the President to certify that that Iran, Iraq, Syria, Libya, North Korea, China, and all other countries determined to be state sponsors of terror have joined CWC prior to submitting the instrument of ratification.
Voted for the START II Treaty
Voted to allow the sale of supercomputers to China.
Voted to ban antipersonnel landmines
Voted against increasing defense spending offset by equivalent cuts in non-defense spending.
Voted to require that Federal bureaucrats get the same payraises as uniformed military.
Voted to allow food and medicine sales to state sponsors of terror and tyranical regimes such as Libya and Cuba.
Voted to limit the President’s authority to impose sanctions on nations for reasons of national security unless the sanctions were approved by a multilateral regime.
Voted against requiring Congressional authorization for military action in Bosnia.
Voted to give $25 million in foreign aid to North Korea
Voted to weaken alien terrorist deportation provisions. If the Court determines that the evidence must be withheld for national security reasons, the Justice Department must still provide a summary of the evidence sufficient for the alien terrorist to mount a defense against deportation.
Voted against delaying the India Nuclear until the President certified that India had agreed to suspend military-to-military exchanges with Iran.
Voted against the Conventional Trident Missile Program
Nominations
Voted for Richard Paez to the 9th Curcuit (cloture)
Voted for Sonia Sotomayor, Circuit Judge
Voted for Richard Holbrooke to be Ambassador to the UN
Voted for Margaret Morrow to be District Judge
Voted twice for Marsha Berzon to the 9thg Circuit
Voted for Mary McLaughlin to be District Judge
Voted for Tim Dyk to be District Judge
Voted for James Brady to be District Judge
Labor
Voted against National Right to Work Act
Voted against Real of Davis-Bacon Prevailing union wages
Voted for Alexis Herman to be Secretary of Labor
Voted for mandatory Federal child care funding
Voted for Trade Adjustment Assistance.
Voted for Job Corps funding
Voted twice in support of Fedex Unionization
Voted against allowing a waiver of Davis-Bacon in emergency situations.
Voted for minimum wage increases six times here here here here here and here
Voted to require a union representative on an IRS oversight board.
Voted to exempt IRS union representative from criminal ethics laws.
Voted against creating independent Board of Governors to investigate IRS abuses.
Guns
Voted to require pawn shops to do background checks on people who pawn a gun.
Voted twice to make it illegal to sell a gun without a secure storage or safety device
Voted for a Federal ban on possession of “assault weapons” by those under 18.
Voted for Federal funding for anti-gun education programs in schools.
Voted for anti-gun juvenile justice bill.
Reform
Voted for funding for the legal services corporation.
Voted twice for a Congressional payraise.
Voted to impose a uniform Federal mandate on states to force them to allow convicted rapits, arsonists, drug kingpins, and all other ex-convicts to vote in Federal elections.
Voted for the Specter “backup plan” to allow campaign finance reform to survive if portions of the bill were found unconstitutional.
Voted to mandate discounted broadcast times for politicians.
Voted for a McCain amendment to require State and local campaign committees to report all campaign contributions to the FEC and to require all campaign contributions to be reported to the FEC within 24 hours within 90 days of an election.
Immigration
Voted against increasing the number of immigration investigators
Voted to allow illegal immigrants to receive the earned income credit before becoming citizens
Voted to give SSI benefits to legal aliens.
Voted to give welfare benefits to naturalized citizens without regard to to the earnings of their sponsors.
Voted against hiring an additional 1,000 border partrol agents, paid for by reductions in state grants.
Taxes
Voted against a flat tax.
Voted to increase tobacco taxes to pay for Medicare prescription drugs
Voted to increase tobacco taxes to fund health insurance subsidies for small businesses.
Voted to increase tobacco taxes to pay for an $8 billion increase in child healh insurance.
Voted to increase tobacco taxes to pay for an increase in NIH funding.
Voted twice for internet taxes.
Voted to allow gas tax revenues to be used to subsidize Amtrak.
Voted to strike marriage penalty tax relief and instead provide fines on tobacco companies.
Voted against repealing the Clinton 4.3 cent gas tax increase.
Voted to increase taxes by $2.3 billion to pay for an Amtrak trust fund.
Voted to allow welfare to a minor who had a child out of wedlock and who resided with an adult who was on welfare within the previous two years.
Voted to increase taxes by $9.4 billion to pay for a $9.4 billion increase in student loans.
Voted to say that AMT patch is more important than capital gains and dividend relief.
Welfare
Voted against food stamp reform
Voted against Medicaid reform
Voted against TANF reform
Voted to increase the Social Services Block Grant from $1 billion to $2 billion
Voted to increase the FHA loan from $170,000 to $197,000. Also opposed increasing GNMA guaranty from 6 basis points to 12.
Voted for $2 billion for low income heating assistance.
Waste
Sponsored An amendment to increase Amtrak funds by $550 million
Voted to use HUD funds for the Joslyn Art Museum (NE), the Stand Up for Animals project (RI) and the Seattle Art Museum’s Olympic Sculpture Project (WA)
Voted to increase spending on social programs by $7 billion
Voted to increase NIH funding by $1.6 billion.
Voted to increase NIHnding by $700 million
Voted to for a $2 million earmark to renovate the Vulcan Monument (AL)
Voted for a $1 billion bailout for the steel industry
Voted against requiring that highway earmarks would come out of a state’s highway allocation
Voted to allow Market Access Program funds to go to foreign companies.
Voted to allow OPIC to increase its administrative costs by 50%
Voted against transferring $20 million from Americorps to veterans.
Voted for the $140 billion asbestos compensation bill.
Voted against requiring a uniform medical criteria to ensure asbestos claims were legitimate.
Voted to increase community development programs by $2 billion.
Spending and Entitlements
Voted to make Medicare part B premium subsidies an new entitlement.
Voted against paying off the debt ($5.6 trillion at the time) within 30 years.
Voted to give $18 billion to the IMF.
Voted to raid Social Security instead of using surpluses to pay down the debt.
Health Care
Voted to allow states to impose health care mandates that are stricter than proposed new Federal mandates, but not weaker.
Voted twice for Federal mental health parity mandates in health insurance.
Voted against a allow consumers the option to purchase a plan outside the parity mandate.
Education
Voted to increase Federal funding for teacher testing
Voted to increase spending for the Department of Education by $3.1 billion.
Voted against requiring courts to consider the impact of IDEA awards on a local school district.
Energy
Voted to allow the President to designate certain sites as interim nuclear waste storage sites in the event that he determines that Yucca Mountain is not a suitable site for a permanent waste repository. Those sites are as follows: the nuclear waste site in Hanford, Washington; the Savannah River Site in South Carolina; Barnwell County, South Carolina; and the Oak Ridge Reservation in Tennessee.
Voted to make fuel price gouging a Federal crime.
“Newt can sell conservatism “
I agree. I was a Rick Perry fan cause he was a bulldog type.
that’s what i love about Newt...he doesn’t whine and he will take it to the GOP...no matter what he doesn’t accomplish, what he WILL get done is sell conservatism.
No other candidate has done this yet, even the oh-so polished Romney with his years of campaigning. If you can’t defend your success personally, why would anyone want capitalism??
We need that overall plan for the economy, energy and foreign affairs...and Newt has the ideas of that over arching view..kinda like Reagen, though styles are different.
Exactly!!
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