Speaker Gingrich-led Republicans….the result: * Voting on each of the Contract with America items * Four consecutive balanced budgets * Over $500 billion of debt paid off * Major welfare reform accomplished * 11 million new jobs for America * Unemployment falling to under 4%.
Says what we already know about these yahoos:
- Santorum is trying to compensate for being a spender in the US Senate.
- Perry is OK.
- Huntsman allowed spending to run wild while he was governor - but was good on taxes.
- Romney is completely unimpressive.
- Paul has the credibility to be believed when he says he wants to hack five agencies and a trillion bucks out of the budget right off the bat.
- Newt is also compensating and is very iffy.
The GOP wonders why no one believes their “we’ll cut spending” twaddle any more. The only candidate they have who has a track record of really cutting federal spending (or voting against spending) is Paul, and the GOP elites think Paul is too whacky for the job.
Spending is the most important issue in this election, period. The next president has to be credible on cutting spending. The Republicans absolutely destroyed themselves during Lyndon Baines Bush’s presidency with their spending plans. Sure the Dems are worse, but that doesn’t mean the GOP gets a good grade for being Dem-lite. I am so sick of that. Cut spending to get the budget back down to two trillion dollars a year and leave it there for 8 years.