It’s true - this is no longer a contest. Newt can see what is going on from a historical point of view - ideology is dead.
He’s not the first to realize it either. Jerry Brown did an outstanding job running Oakland before he’d decided he’d had enough. Now its a sewer again.
The next two decades is going to be about fixing it. Nobody cares what is conservative or liberal anymore - the only thing that counts is whether our hippie grandpas are going to get their medicare, and it is going to trump environmentalism, the labor movement, hell, even capitalism.
Wall Street has done a bang up job wrecking good companies over the years for nothing more than raiding their overfunded pension funds. That’s not capitalism, its the exploitation of accounting rules, which are largely set by government policy.
The entire Enron mess was touched off by ‘the mark to market rule’. The nationalization of the banks was caused by the repeal of Glass-Steagal.
Ideology, on both sides of the aisle, is killing us, because no matter what the ideology seems to be in the last 30 years, it always results in more control by government at every level (municipal, county, state, and federal).
I’m beginning to think we need to move to a parliamentary system at this point. Even the Founders conceded that the system they came up with would only govern a ‘moral’ people.
That’s not us anymore.
Oh, and the Iranians are closing the Strait of Hormuz today.
Time to get a chess player in the chair as soon as possible. Everyone else in the race seems to be middling checker players.
So how do we deal with the fact that Newt wants amnesty for illegals?
How do we deal with the fact that Newt supports the government forcing individuals to buy health insurance?
Will he force the illegals to buy health insurance?
How do we get him turned around on these issues?