The Republican party will not downsize government. They believe in big government too. They just don't want to grow it as fast as the the Democrats. I'm sorry but that is the Republican party of 2011. It's why you see the rise of the Tea Party.
Our country is broke and our Economy will not survive. We will not have a country if we keep doing the same thing over n over again and expect a different result. THAT my friend is the definition of insanity. Romney and Newt are that definition. Besides Both Romney and Newt are unelectable too. Romney does not appeal to conservative voters and Newt does not appeal to Independents. Both candidates will lose to Obama in 2012.
The Republican party is a joke and NOT an opposition power. They are only interested in what the Media and Press think. They do not care about what their voters think. The are a Trojan Horse to any conservative.
I would take a gamble on Trump over Newt or Romney any day. Newt and Romney are nothing but the establishment candidates that will keep in place the Crony Capitalism our Republic has turned into.
But Trump doesn't even know what conservatism is. He will just do what he's told.
You’re right about the GOP but wrong about Trump. He’s a lifelong, big-government Manhattan liberal who has undoubtedly been put up to his new posture over the past year by David Axelrod and his Chicago crew. He’ll likely get a valuable casino concession in IL or elsewhere. It’s the exact same way he got Deval Patrick re-elected as guv in MA—running a ‘converted’ lifelong Dem in some ways to the right of the GOP candidate.
Republicans brought us the first $800 billion stimulus handout courtesy of GWB as he was leaving office.
GWB pushed until passage of the Rx drug benefit to the tune of billions.
Patriot act and defense authorization act...all of which are instrumental in the largest erosion of personal liberties in American history.
Latest debt ceiling debacle...caved as they always do.
Not to mention 10 to 12 years of war in the middle east which has cost thousands of American lives and wounded 4 times the death toll. Cost hundreds of billions to over a trillion dollars.
Now, the Iraqi barbarians revert back to their murderous ways days after we exit. What a price we've paid. Barely a drop of oil in compensation.
Our leaders are crooked as the day is long, both sides of the isle.