Posted on 01/19/2012 7:23:39 PM PST by tcrlaf
Great analysis! Very true!
Newt comes across as an old history professor with an alternate version of reality who is hopelessly stuck in the past. I really don't give a damn what he did in 1974. I am more interested in why today he thinks we still need a federal government healthcare plan, which 300 pages of Obamacare he plans to include in it, and how many illegals he plans on granting amnesty to. None of these are conservative positions, yet so-called 'conservatives' are supporting exactly that.
ROTFLMFAO!
Polls seem to be all over the place right now. I do think Newt is gaining ground. RCP average has Mitt +1.2.
However, that doesn’t include the new Rueters/Ipsos poll tonite of 675 LV showing Mitt +12 over Gingrich. And if it was just head to head in SC between Mitt and Newt, they have Mitt +21 over Newt.
I know everyone selectively picks the polls they like. But this is wild with some polls showing Newt +6 to Romney +12. 18 point swing is pretty wild. Guess we will know late Saturday (unless they can;t count like in Iowa). LOL
“vote for Rick Santorum. Your conscience will remain clear.”
And your wallet will remain empty while Obama celebrates another 4 years.
Uh... well pretty much the whole thing. Shoot, even Ron Paul bitchslapped him on Abortion... and that was unexpected. Paul is against Abortion like Rick, but is NOT for Federal control of it, he believes it is a state issue and votes that way. Santorum barked up the wrong tree on that one for sure.
Best moments were here: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZcYF5aNwUeI&feature=youtube_gdata_player EPIC smackdown.
I like Santorum, but I don’t think he has the stones to take it to 0bama and the media. Rick is a nice guy. But it’s nice guy GOP candidates that get steamrolled by the MSM and the Democrat-Alinsky machine. I just don’t see Rick standing tough in the wake of the nastiness to come from both sides.
Newt, I think, is the right man at the right time. He is a flawed man and filled with imperfections, both personally and politically. But we need a guy who is going to get in the gutter with 0bama and the MSM and take it to them. Newt has shown he is the only guy willing to do it.
If we play nice with MSM and 0bama once again, a second Marxist term is inevitable.
I believe God put 0bama in power to wake this country up from the Godless course we have been on for a long time. He put 0bama there to drive us to the edge of the cliff. This election will decide if God lets him drive us over the cliff, or if we elect the guy to turn us around from it.
Santorum is a good Christian man. Newt is a sinner who says he was repented and found a new faith in God. But Newt also understands politics is nasty and dirty and he has a clear perspective of what is coming his way should he be the nominee. He is ready for the fight and I think he can win. Santorum, I get the feeling, thinks he can win with his strong values alone. He will get steamrolled if he thinks that.
Considering Newt got TWO standing ovations inside the first two questions. Not too shabby.... (impressed) There is already a backlash.
If Newt Gingrich’s lead holds up, it will partly be caused by a backlash against the liberal media trying to influence the outcome of the South Carolina primary. I have qualms about Newt, but if he helps stop the Romney jaggernaut, more power to him.
“I am more interested in why today he thinks we still need a federal government healthcare plan, which 300 pages of Obamacare he plans to include in it”
One thing that was in it that needs to be retained (I would rather see it retained through separate legislation) Is permitting health insurance sales across state lines... Another is disallowing insurance companies from dropping coverage if you become ill.
Both of these changes are needed and are in obamacare.
Obamacare does not permit insurance sales across state lines. The GOP legislators, to their credit, tried to get this included, but the Dems wouldn't even allow a vote on it. In any event, allowing the sale across state lines represents an example of getting the federal government the hell out of the way, which is exactly what Rick Santorum proposes. The only thing preventing interstate sales from occurring right now is federal law. We don't need a new law. We need to trash existing law.
If we play nice with MSM and 0bama once again, a second Marxist term is inevitable.
Well said, as was the rest of your spot on post # 47.
Paul is right, however, that the Congress can declare that the Federal Courts have no jurisdiction over the matter. Until that happens? Deal with reality and use Congress to achieve our goals!
It’s “all in” time for Newt.
Romney = dog farts.
My EYES! Yikes!! (Paragraphs are DEFINITELY not our enemies)....
The White House will be NEWT'S scheduler. Can't beat that.
GO NEWT.
Oh, there will be a backlash, all right. As for myself, before this little ex-wife stunt, i was having reservations about having "The Other Woman" as our First Lady and her impulsive husband as our President.
But now? After watching the dems and the GOP-E try to control yet another election by pulling these types of stunts? I would crawl over broken glass to vote for him even if i knew ahead of time there would be wild orgies in the White House.
“but if he helps stop the Romney jaggernaut, more power to him. “
Also, it would be great to send the lib media a message, that the people are sick of their dirty, biased tactics.
Having said that, though, Santorum would make the best POTUS, imo.
Reuters/Ipsos is a stupid online poll. Not worth mentioning.
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IF you live in SC consider that Santorum voted to allow a nuclear waste site to be built there. Also, it may be lengthy but please read and consider Santorums record on illegals, labor, supporting a liberal judge and more..as this is a very important election.
Rick Santorum's voting record…What A Big Government Conservative Looks Like
NEA:
Voted for taxpayer funding of the National Endowment for the Arts. Voted against a 10% cut in the budget for National Endowment for the Arts.
Bankruptcy :
Voted for a Schumer amendment to make the debts of pro-life demonstrators not dischargeable in bankruptcy.
Defense and Foreign Policy:
Voted for the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC). Voted against requiring the President to certify that the CWC is effectively verifiable. Voted against requiring the President to certify that that Iran, Iraq, Syria, Libya, North Korea, China, and all other countries determined to be state sponsors of terror have joined CWC prior to submitting the instrument of ratification.Voted for the START II Treaty. Voted to allow the sale of supercomputers to China. Voted to ban anti-personnel landmines Voted against increasing defense spending offset by equivalent cuts in non-defense spending. Voted to require that Federal bureaucrats get the same pay raises as uniformed military. Voted to allow food and medicine sales to state sponsors of terror and tyrannical regimes such as Libya and Cuba. Voted to limit the President’s authority to impose sanctions on nations for reasons of national security unless the sanctions were approved by a multilateral regime. Voted against requiring Congressional authorization for military action in Bosnia. Voted to give $25 million in foreign aid to North Korea. Voted to weaken alien terrorist deportation provisions. If the Court determines that the evidence must be withheld for national security reasons, the Justice Department must still provide a summary of the evidence sufficient for the alien terrorist to mount a defense against deportation. Voted against delaying the India Nuclear until the President certified that India had agreed to suspend military-to-military exchanges with Iran. Voted against the Conventional Trident Missile Program.
Nominations:
Voted for Richard Paez to the 9th Curcuit (cloture). Voted for Sonia Sotomayor, Circuit Judge. Voted for Richard Holbrooke to be Ambassador to the UN. Voted for Margaret Morrow to be District Judge. Voted twice for Marsha Berzon to the 9thg Circuit. Voted for Mary McLaughlin to be District Judge. Voted for Tim Dyk to be District Judge. Voted for James Brady to be District Judge.
Labor:
Voted against National Right to Work Act. Voted against repeal of Davis-Bacon Prevailing union wages. Voted for Alexis Herman to be Secretary of Labor. Voted for mandatory Federal child care funding. Voted for Trade Adjustment Assistance. Voted for Job Corps funding. Voted twice in support of Fedex Unionization. Voted against allowing a waiver of Davis-Bacon in emergency situations. Voted for minimum wage increases six times here here here here here and here. Voted to require a union representative on an IRS oversight board. Voted to exempt IRS union representatives from criminal ethics laws. Voted against creating independent Board of Governors to investigate IRS abuses.
Guns:
Voted to require pawn shops to do background checks on people who pawn a gun. Voted twice to make it illegal to sell a gun without a secure storage or safety device. Voted for a Federal ban on possession of “assault weapons” by those under 18. Voted for Federal funding for anti-gun education programs in schools. Voted for anti-gun juvenile justice bill.
Reform:
Voted for funding for the legal services corporation. Voted twice for a Congressional pay raise. Voted to impose a uniform Federal mandate on states to force them to allow convicted rapists, arsonists, drug kingpins, and all other ex-convicts to vote in Federal elections. Voted for the Specter “backup plan” to allow campaign finance reform to survive if portions of the bill were found unconstitutional. Voted to mandate discounted broadcast times for politicians. Voted for a McCain amendment to require state and local campaign committees to report all campaign contributions to the FEC and to require all campaign contributions to be reported to the FEC within 24 hours within 90 days of an election.
Immigration:
Voted against increasing the number of immigration investigators. Voted to allow illegal immigrants to receive the earned income credit before becoming citizens. Voted to give SSI benefits to legal aliens. Voted to give welfare benefits to naturalized citizens without regard to the earnings of their sponsors. Voted against hiring an additional 1,000 border partrol agents, paid for by reductions in state grants. Taxes: Voted against a flat tax. Voted to increase tobacco taxes to pay for Medicare prescription drugs. Voted to increase tobacco taxes to fund health insurance subsidies for small businesses. Voted to increase tobacco taxes to pay for an $8 billion increase in child healh insurance. Voted to increase tobacco taxes to pay for an increase in NIH funding. Voted twice for internet taxes. Voted to allow gas tax revenues to be used to subsidize Amtrak. Voted to strike marriage penalty tax relief and instead provide fines on tobacco companies. Voted against repealing the Clinton 4.3 cent gas tax increase. Voted to increase taxes by $2.3 billion to pay for an Amtrak trust fund. Voted to allow welfare to a minor who had a child out of wedlock and who resided with an adult who was on welfare within the previous two years. Voted to increase taxes by $9.4 billion to pay for a $9.4 billion increase in student loans. Voted to say that AMT patch is more important than capital gains and dividend relief.
Welfare:
Voted against food stamp reform. Voted against Medicaid reform. Voted against TANF reform. Voted to increase the Social Services Block Grant from $1 billion to $2 billion. Voted to increase the FHA loan from $170,000 to $197,000. Also opposed increasing GNMA guaranty from 6 basis points to 12. Voted for $2 billion for low income heating assistance.
Waste :
Sponsored an amendment to increase Amtrak funds by $550 million. Voted to use HUD funds for the Joslyn Art Museum (NE), the Stand Up for Animals project (RI) and the Seattle Art Museum’s Olympic Sculpture Project (WA). Voted to increase spending on social programs by $7 billion. Voted to increase NIH funding by $1.6 billion. Voted to increase NIHnding by $700 million. Voted to for a $2 million earmark to renovate the Vulcan Monument (AL). Voted for a $1 billion bailout for the steel industry. Voted against requiring that highway earmarks would come out of a state’s highway allocation. Voted to allow Market Access Program funds to go to foreign companies. Voted to allow OPIC to increase its administrative costs by 50%. Voted against transferring $20 million from AmeriCorps to veterans. Voted for the $140 billion asbestos compensation bill. Voted against requiring a uniform medical criteria to ensure asbestos claims were legitimate. Voted to increase community development programs by $2 billion.
Spending and Entitlements :
Voted to make Medicare part B premium subsidies a new entitlement. Voted against paying off the debt ($5.6 trillion at the time) within 30 years. Voted to give $18 billion to the IMF. Voted to raid Social Security instead of using surpluses to pay down the debt.
Health Care:
Voted to allow states to impose health care mandates that are stricter than proposed new Federal mandates, but not weaker. Voted twice for Federal mental health parity mandates in health insurance. Voted against allowing consumers the option to purchase a plan outside the parity mandate.
Education:
Voted to increase Federal funding for teacher testing. Voted to increase spending for the Department of Education by $3.1 billion. Voted against requiring courts to consider the impact of IDEA awards on a local school district.
Energy :
Voted to allow the President to designate certain sites as interim nuclear waste storage sites in the event that he determines that Yucca Mountain is not a suitable site for a permanent waste repository. Those sites are as follows: the nuclear waste site in Hanford, Washington; the Savannah River Site in South Carolina; Barnwell County, South Carolina; and the Oak Ridge Reservation in Tennessee.
GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO NEWT!!!!!! WOOT! WOOT!!!!
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