He's brilliant. I would look forward to his debates with all presidential contenders.
Posted on 02/04/2007 10:33:24 PM PST by Jim Robinson
Lots of good points in his outline.
B U M P !
Sounds great to me!
I want the GOP to have a clear message and platform. All the RINO's have done is watered the party down. The GOP cannot have a clear voice until it gets rid of the RINO's either.
I think there are a few blue dogs that might sign the contract as well.
I really like the sounds of this:
I. To keep Americans safe both home and abroad, we will defend America and her allies from those who would destroy us. To achieve this, we will develop the intelligence, diplomatic, information, defense, and homeland security systems and resources necessary to defeat our enemies and defend our shores.
II. Consistent with our founding document – the Declaration of Independence, we will seek to re-center America on the Creator from Whom all our liberties come. We will insist on a judiciary that understands the centrality of God in American history and reasserts the legitimacy of recognizing the Creator in public life.
III. To strengthen our American culture, we will establish patriotic education for our children and patriotic immigration for new Americans. To achieve this, we will renew our commitment to education about American citizenship based on American history and an understanding of the Founding Fathers and the core values of American civilization. We will insist that both our children and immigrants learn the key values and key facts of American history as the foundation of their growth as citizens. And we will make English the official language of government to ensure a unified American culture.
IV. To meet the triple economic challenges of an explosion in scientific and technological knowledge, an increasingly competitive world market, and the rise of China and India we will implement:
1. A dramatically simplified tax code that favors savings, entrepreneurship, investment, and constant modernization of equipment and technology.
V. To ensure that no American retires into poverty, we will transform the Social Security system starting with younger workers who should have the right to choose a personal Social Security Savings Retirement Accounts that will enable them to accumulate the wealth needed for a prosperous retirement while preserving Social Security for today’s retirees and near-retirees.
VIII. To balance the federal budget, we will insist on the economic policies that foster a lean government, low taxes, and a low interest rate economy to maximize growth in a competitive world.
IX. To create a citizen-centered government, we will insist on congressional reform including the repeal of the McCain-Feingold campaign finance censorship law to make the legislative branch responsive to its voters and not Washington’s entrenched special interests.
...excellent, Jim! We'll see if he's willing to jump into the fray and run in September. If we lend enough support, he can go all the way, IMO.
Mega bump!
Bump for great justice
Imagine Hillary attempting to debate with him. I doubt that she would be willing to try that, but we could really push it. We could fold her campaign up with ensuing ridicule. Hillary would be about as well off in accepting a professional wrestling challenge from Newt.
Thanks Jim, this is a great article.
He's brilliant. I would look forward to his debates with all presidential contenders.
I hestiate on II because I just am not comfortable with trying to legislate religion in any way, shape, or form.
Sounds good. How about in their mother's womb, Newt?
You're against Newt also?
Yep.
Newt is an historian, and a reasoned logical, articulate man who is loyal to his country. It's too bad more folks don't realize that.
Mostly the only press Newt gets around here is that he has "too much baggage." It's a shame the man is not given credit for his accomplishments.
IMOHO
America was founded on certain self-evident truths, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed...
When the vast majority of Americans deny these truths and shun the founding principles, America will cease to exist.
I'm very aware of that; I'm just saying there is more than one religion in this country and I am hesitant about making laws about religion.
I don't think you can legislate that anyway.
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