Newt and the '10 PM Question'

American Thinker ^ | January 18, 2012 | C. Edmund Wright

[neverdem]

It's 10 pm.  It's Martin Luther King Day.  You're in the South.  A packed auditorium is deathly quiet.  A large national TV audience is watching.  The electoral stakes are sky-high.  You are sweating on behalf of your favorite candidate.  Then an African-American journalist calls your guy's name -- and asks a racially tinged "gotcha" question. 

OH NO!  Hit the mute button.  Take a beer break.  I can't bear to watch!  Why do we let liberals moderate our debates?!

So it's not exactly "the 3 am phone call" from the 2008 race.  No, it's scarier than that.  It's the "10 pm question."  And you can bet your bottom dollar it's coming to a general election debate near you.  You have to know it is.  So the question the Republicans need to ask themselves is this: whom do you trust to handle "the 10 pm question"?

And let's be honest.  We absolutely cringe at the thought of most of our candidates -- past and present -- having to face such a scenario.   We wouldn't want to hear George W...nbsp;

The exchange, of course, is famous now.  YouTube, Rush, and Sean Hannity made sure of that.  If you missed it, it's worth the watch here; it's as delicious as Tebow's game-winner a week ago.

[Servant of the Cross]

NEWT NOW (more than ever)

[Old Teufel Hunden]

"Are you so blind that you cannot see that Ron Paul is a certified lunatic?"

He's nuts when it comes to foreign policy and his inferences that we should go back to the gold standard is way off base. But he's right on talking about the terrible policies of the fed and how they are sucking our wealth silently away by inflating the dollar to make it easier to pay of public debt. Yes, I want to see him making monetary policy in this country and reforming the fed. He'd be the one that's crazy enough to do it.

[liberalh8ter]

I agree. I was never a Newt fan and have written negatively about him on FR. But this election is tantamount to a ground war and we need the Newt tank.

[P-Marlowe]

There are 300 million people in this world and there are thousands upon thousands of people who are right as rain about the fed policies who are not toxic raving lunatics to choose from and you think Newt should pick someone as mentally unstable as Ron Paul to run the Treasury Department?

He’d probably fire all the Jews so his fans wouldn’t think he was part of the Bilderburg/Rothchild Zionist Banking Conspiracy.

Ron Paul is toxic. Newt isn’t that stupid. Wake up!

[Principled]

Well that’s what voting is for. I hope that whoever we end up with we can unite behind.I hope. No perfect candidate.

[xzins]

Ron Paul to run the Treasury

I know there's an entire segment of folks who keep repeating that Paul is nutso on foreign policy, but that he's really sane when it comes to the economy.

That is a trough of hogwash if I ever heard it. It operates under the principle that if something is repeated often enough that it will be bought by the masses.

Ron Paul said the other night that he wants zero taxes. He has said that he wants a trillion dollar spending cut the first year of his presidency.

Sitting here at this keyboard and you all at yours, we all know that that is a pie-in-the-sky, irrational pipe dream.

There is no way congress is going to even propose zero taxes and a one year trillion dollar cut in spending.

And, since taxes are included in the US Constitution -- even the original one before all the amending began -- the Founders did not believe in ZERO taxes.

That is a totally irrational response. Absolutely, completely, irrevocably nutso economic proposal.

And this is the so-called "economic policy" expert? Puh...leeese!

[HamiltonJay]

Newt is the Best Candidate of this bunch, PERIOD, no one else is even in the same ballpark. He’s the only one who can actually articulate the conservative philosophy, and not be intimidated by those who are going to attack him over it.

He can and will make the general election an ideological debate, he won’t allow Teleprompter and his minions paint him with petty attacks and gotcha crap, he’ll keep it focused on the fundamental difference between this failed administration, its flawed world view and the American Ideal.

The only risk Newt has had was keeping his temper and hyperbole in check, something he was not able to do well back in the 90s, but 20 years certainly appear to have tempered him greatly, I think that risk is very very low at this point.

[narses]

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

[TexasFreeper2009]

There is a time in every generation that calls for a special sort of leader, a visionary. I believe this is that time, and that Newt is that leader.

Please for the sake of the country, for the sake of western civilization and Christendom itself, please vote for Gingrich.

[Old Teufel Hunden]

"there are thousands upon thousands of people who are right as rain about the fed policies who are not toxic raving lunatics to choose from"

I don't agree that he's a raving lunatic. Crazy in some parts of his policy, but he's not a raving lunatic. As for those thousands and thousands of people, the difference between them and Ron Paul is they are not pulling a consistent 20% of the primary electorate. Now, out of this 20% there is certainly a percentage of people that are most likely Dems that will vote for Obama. However, we deceive ourselves if we don't realize that there is a segment there that we need to bring into the Republican party. Sarah Palin realizes this and I doubt you would call her a raving lunatic. This is the target segment I'm looking at and we will need every vote to beat Obama. We need to unite this party after this election season.

[Georgia Girl 2]

Somehow Newt has got to hold it together and come back to defeat Willard. Maybe Palin’s lukewarm endorsement will do him some good this week.

[wmfights]

And this is the so-called "economic policy" expert? Puh...leeese!

The income tax has only existed since 1913. I believe he is of the mind that the Fed. Govt. should collect it's revenue from tariffs and fees.

I know there's an entire segment of folks who keep repeating that Paul is nutso on foreign policy, but that he's really sane when it comes to the economy.

I'm taking a 2nd look at him. I think he's wrong on foreign policy, but he's always been good on Life and he is absolutely right about the need to go on the gold standard and the corruption of the federal reserve. He is a free enterprise capitalist, which I am as well.

[C. Edmund Wright]

Thanks, and I liked that analogy myself. I found myself watching every Tebow replay I could last week, and since Monday night, I keep going back to the video of Newt and Juan over and over. I can’t get enough of either.

[Old Teufel Hunden]

" I believe he is of the mind that the Fed. Govt. should collect it's revenue from tariffs and fees."

That again is 19th century thinking. I don't want to get in any trade wars. I want to open up foreign markets and the best way to do that is by negotiating trade deals. That involves lowering tarriffs. I agree that the income tax (especially as it's presently set up) is wrong. I would rather see a consumption tax or if we have to have an income tax, let it be a relatively flat tax.

"he is absolutely right about the need to go on the gold standard"

More 19th century thinking. As Newt himself said, I don't want the U.S. economy to be held hostage to a gold miner in South Africa. You do realize that if the U.S. government did not hold the requisite supplies of gold to back up the currency under a gold standard, when the economy was able to expand, we could not print more money to sustain the expansion. It is right to print more currency when our economy becomes more valuable. It's only wrong to print money when our economy is stagnant or shrinking. That's when inflation creeps in and steals our wealth.

"corruption of the federal reserve"

He is right about the politicization of the federal reserve and how they are stealing our wealth. Hence why I want to see him as Treasury Sec to crack down on that.

[ridesthemiles]

There are 300 million people in this world “””

I think you mean ‘in this country’.

[P-Marlowe]

Americans are the only people in the world who count. :-)

[b9]

it's as delicious as Tebow's game-winner a week ago.

YUMMIER!!! ";^)

[phillyfanatic]

I pray you are correct but, tonight, the Ex blasting and ABC’s going full bore to smash Newt is on schedule. If Newt could overcome this one, he will be strong till the Convention. Most Pubs quit as Cain did. People forgave Clinton, Jesse Jackson, the Kennedys, LBJ, MLK but never never a Pub. What hypocrisy!@ I am an Evang. and I forgive Newt since he says, he has repented and found God. OK, then it is up to voters and to God not the MSM.

[jdsteel]

The bashing will happen NO MATTER WHO the republican is. That is a constant. Who will stand up to the attack and not whither? I believe Newt would fare the best, as he has already been tested and has more years and wisdom under his belt. I truly think that at his age he has the desire to be a positive force for history and the sake of the US of A. That said, If chosen,I will vote for Santorum or Romney if they are selected as Barry's opponent. In a heartbeat.