Posted on 09/29/2011 4:48:03 PM PDT by ¢ommon ¢ents
DES MOINES, Iowa — Hoping to revive his flagging bid for the Republican presidential nomination, former House Speaker Newt Gingrich is calling for an overhaul of the way Americans pay taxes, buy health care and contribute to the Social Security system.
Gingrich mapped out the 10-point plan, which he’s calling The 21st Century Contract with America, in a speech at a Des Moines insurance company Thursday. Key elements include repealing President Barack Obama’s health care plan, giving taxpayers the option of paying a flat tax and allowing young people to opt out of Social Security.
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All a president can really promise to do about abortion is to appoint strict contructionist judges.
Hank
Go to hell, you RINO pretender!
Gingrich’s Big Flip-Flop: Was For Insurance Mandate Before He Was Against It
Your link doesn’t work for me.
Welcome to FR.
Flagging campaign? He is up to 11% and fourth behind Romney, Perry and Cain. He has passed Bachmann and is still standing with Pawlenty and McCotter gone. Don’t be surprised if he inches his way ahead while others fall to the side.
I'm thinking Cain/Bolton. We need someone with foreign policy experience as a plus to Cain's commen sense business experience.
Cain is wrong on gun control. He supports the unconstitutional laws the states have illegally enacted. Until he corrrects his position on this, he continues WITHOUT my support.
Newt is an idea guy, I know they are dangerous I am one :-)
But even more so was a rare interview i heard with his former chief of staff Tony Blankley ( spelled correct?) and when asked about Newt running for Potus he said something to the effect, of gosh no, he has so many ideas we had trouble focusing him and he said something to the effect he probably is ADD.
Without getting into that debate ( ADD ) , think about it, is Newt better as a chief of staff or some other "Idea Guy" or as the tactician fighting the battles as POTUS and the Idea guy?
I am not sure on that one, I am afraid he would burn out, or spin with to many projects going and not enough steam for Congress to move on them all....
Ooops, it looks like it has an extra quote mark on it. Try this one. I actually clicked on it and tested it before I hit post this time.
Lady Lucky wrote:
Your link doesn’t work for me.
Welcome to FR.
Newt's new Contract With America. (PDF version)
Thanks for the welcome, but this is just a less outdated handle for an old time Freeper. I've been here since 1998, but on another handle.
Not necessarily. Plenty of bright people fall for it.
You typed -————Approved Propagand, via Washington Post ^ —————
BWAHAHAHA oh man my stomach hurts. That’s too funny.
Newt would be useful as an advisor to show a President without political experience (Cain) how things work in Washington.
I think a flat tax, while better than the current monstrosity of a revenue system, isn’t as good as a consumption based tax, like the “Fair Tax”. Of course, no new proposals will be workable nor desirable until we first have a repeal of the 16th Amendment.
Not the kind of people that I would want to vote for. It shows a twisted world view and an unwillingness to look at the evidence before making a decision. Newt has O’Reilly disease. Take the liberal position only for conservative reasons.
Not the kind of people that I would want to vote for. It shows a twisted world view and an unwillingness to look at the evidence before making a decision. Newt has O’Reilly disease. Take the liberal position only for conservative reasons.
Tragically they do.
Hopefully they have no awareness of their murder.
I have heard the same about the Fair Tax. If that is going to be your criteria you will be frozen into place on everything for fear of what might happen in the future. Not a very satisfying way to live.
The question is, would Newt settle for a VP spot?
“Gingrich mapped out the 10-point plan, which he’s calling The 21st Century Contract with America, in a speech at a Des Moines insurance company Thursday. Key elements include repealing President Barack Obama’s health care plan, giving taxpayers the option of paying a flat tax and allowing young people to opt out of Social Security.”
Well that would get my vote if he could get it passed.
ozarkgirl
What Cain said is he doesn’t care if states “try” to enact laws trying to restrict gun ownership. What he knows and you apparently missed is that it has already been established by Supreme Court decision that the 2nd amendment trumps the states. The states cannot enact laws curtailing gun ownership and anyone who challenges the ones who do will win in the Supreme Court.
So the attack on Cain for his statement is shallow and uneducated.
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