Posted on 12/17/2011 7:49:49 AM PST by TBBT
America's most incendiary political force is not the 99% but the 75%, that large unfading fraction of Republicans who want a candidate more conservative than Mitt Romney to run against Obama. With less than a month to go before the first primary votes are cast in Iowa, Newt Gingrich is emerging as that candidate. Many of us who have fiercely criticized Gingrich before did so recognizing his talent but wishing he were a more dependable ideologue in the mold of Ronald Reagan, rather than the inconsistent intellectual who lectures us to distraction and often ends up alienating other conservatives. When Gingrich described Paul Ryan's attempt to declaw our Medicare entitlement monster as "right-wing social engineering" all the poor congressman could say was "with friends like these, who needs the left."But then again we had some serious beefs with Reagan too, and wish he had eliminated the Departments of Education and Energy, refused to raise taxes after 1981 with the promise that spending cuts would be commensurate and that he never granted amnesty to illegal immigrants in 1986.
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Compared to the used car salesman, and the questionable kenyan, Newt would be the best current choice.
Compared to the used car salesman, and the questionable kenyan, Newt would be the best current choice.
People change and evolve, but Newt has, in the last 5 years, joined every trendy liberal cause. Amnesty, global warming, cap-and-trade, individual mandate, ethanol subsidies, bashing conservatives (huffman in ny23, “radical rightwingers”) etc.
His amnesty plan is the most dangerous. In practise it would be blanket amnesty, just like 1986 amnesty. Amnesty is permanent. Citizen boards in liberal areas would be allowed to grant amnesty to everybody. Document proof would be massive. No illegal left behind.
Excellent article that neatly sums up the situation.
We have one over-arching goal, and that is to put an end to the nightmare of the last four years. There is NO perfect candidate, NONE.
Gingrich, for all his supposed flaws, is the best candidate, the one who has the brains and the skill sets to defeat a smooth operator (liar) like Obama.
And that, folks, is Job One.
Yes......and once Newt gets in and we see either status quo or increase in government then we’ll be beating our chest saying ‘how we wish we had someone a little bit more conservative than this’ - we all are in a lose-lose scenerio for the next 4 years
Offer Newt SECDEF... offer to 1099 him time and materials...
Newt is like the man parked in the intersection trying to warn his neighbors that the bridge they travel every day has just fallen in the river.
After the chaos there are the usual excuses.
“I saw his flasher signals - that’s for flat tires”
“I didn’t have battery cables”
“He should have blocked the road with barricades”
“He didn’t make sense so I drove around him”
“He looked drunk - so I didn’t stop”
“I’ve driven this road a million times - how would I know”
“I thought he was trying to collect money”
“I just followed the guy with the biggest truck”
“My mother doesn’t like him”
You actually think in the next four years conservativism will be the issue? I don't think so. Our country needs a fighter, Newt's plans address the most crucial issues we face, .....getting Obama out and his programs stopped. That's going to require moogoo time...all of four years. Newt IS a conservative, history attests to that...so what's the problem?
America’s economy and security have become one big junkyard. It will take a “junkyard dawg” to clear the place up. I’ll give Newt a 4 year shot at it. He knows his way around the yard and is not afraid to bite. He knows he has only one shot left to go down in history as the President who saved America from the Marxists/Socialists/Communists. Its Newt’s time.
Apparently Newt is a long term planner. Dick Cheney said that in 1978 as a freshman congressman, Newt said the Republicans can take the house. Eventually it happened, and Newt had a lot to do with it.
Maybe some of the more liberal stuff he has said and done was for the purpose of appeal to those squishy independents and moderates that help win the elections.
I have always preferred to look at someone’s record rather than what they have said. Newt's overall record when he was in Congress was okay by me when I lived through it, and looks even better compared to what the last decade has brought forward.
He has the knowledge and oratorical skills to win. None of the others are as qualified in those 2 areas. Should he win the nomination, I will vote for him. Course I would vote for a can of orange juice over Obama. Newt is better than orange juice. Do I trust him? No. Will watch him and Congress like a hawk.
Exactly DAve,......conservativism matters to the extent there’s plenty enough in Newt to get the job done needing done...and he surely has the skills to get congress to go along with him.
“Scattershot conservatism” is a good assessment of the guy. You’d know he’d beat on Obama like a red-headed stepchild, but could you trust him when he got into office?
Look at their accomplishments. Newt allied himself with Ronald Reagan to build the Reagan Coalition, the Religious Right, and the Republican majority (together the Reagan Revolution) which directly led the downfall of the Soviet Union, the Contract with America, government reforms, less government, tax cuts, a balanced budget, and the great, long-standing Reagan economy.
Romney, on the other hand, vehemently denied Ronald Reagan and aligned himself with Ted Kennedy and the left. Romney accomplished installing liberal big government programs, defended and promoted Roe v Wade and legalized abortion as “settled law,” advocated and implemented RomneyCare with its liberty killing government mandates against formerly free citizens and its taxpayer funded or subsidized and mandated abortion procedures. He ran and governed to the left of Ted Kennedy on the “gay agenda” resulting in gay marriage in Massachusetts. He appointed liberal judges and liberal appointees throughout his government. Under his “leadership” conservatism and the Republican party was all but destroyed in Massachusetts.
Romney is one evil liberal progressive. No way in hell will MittBots be allowed to support this abortionist, big government, socialist scumbag on FR!
Guess my message isn’t clear enough. I have to keep repeating it and zotting would be MittBots.
79 posted on Sat Dec 03 2011 19:59:37 GMT-0800 (Pacific Standard Time) by Jim Robinson
That is Newt.
See my post #11. No I wouldn't “trust” Newt, or any other politician for that matter. Watch them all like hawks or at least, “Trust but verify”.
“...but could you trust him when he got into office?”
Look at their accomplishments. Newt allied himself with Ronald Reagan to build the Reagan Ceoalition, the Religious Right, and the Republican majority (together the Reagan Revolution) which directly led the downfall of the Soviet Union, the Contract with America, government reforms, less government, tax cuts, a balanced budget, and the great, long-standing Reagan economy.
Romney, on the other hand, vehemently denied Ronald Reagan and aligned himself with Ted Kennedy and the left. Romney accomplished installing liberal big government programs, defended and promoted Roe v Wade and legalized abortion as “settled law,” advocated and implemented RomneyCare with its liberty killing government mandates against formerly free citizens and its taxpayer funded or subsidized and mandated abortion procedures. He ran and governed to the left of Ted Kennedy on the “gay agenda” resulting in gay marriage in Massachusetts. He appointed liberal judges and liberal appointees throughout his government. Under his “leadership” conservatism and the Republican party was all but destroyed in Massachusetts.
Romney is one evil liberal progressive. No way in hell will MittBots be allowed to support this abortionist, big government, socialist scumbag on FR!
Guess my message isn’t clear enough. I have to keep repeating it and zotting would be MittBots.
79 posted on Sat Dec 03 2011 19:59:37 GMT-0800 (Pacific Standard Time) by Jim Robinson
I don't know who you support, but I see this from Santorum supporters often.
They use it to try to question Newt's conservatism, while forgetting Santorum's crawling into bed with Snarlin' Arlen.
Leroy? You kiddin’ me?
Support a conservative: Bachmann, Santorum, brokered convention, whatever.
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