Gingrich: The smart legislative strategy for Obama’s second term

Human Events ^ | 12/5/2012 | Newt Gingrich

[GVnana]

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The news media and Washington elite solution is simple: surrender, cave in, give up your principles, do what the President demands. Those are the daily suggestions and expectations of the elite media and much if the national establishment, which takes its talking points from the consensus media of the left.

It would be a triple disaster for House Republicans to follow this defeatist advice.

First, it would be a betrayal of the very principles for which they campaigned and the voters who elected them.

Second, it would deeply and bitterly split the House Republican Conference between hard core conservatives and “Obama cooperators.”

Third, it would embolden President Obama and the left to increase their demands and push for even more concessions.

House Republicans are guaranteed majority status through 2014. The odds are overwhelming that they will increase rather than decrease their numbers in the 2014.

[lentulusgracchus]

The way you ask the question am I to assume you were one of those with a more “viable” choice?

In the end, which one was "viable"? We'll never know now, but we do know that the RiNOs' pitch for Mitch was bogus bullshine of the first order.

The RiNOs deliberately screwed up the election, just to make sure their guy got the GOP nomination. Some prize.

[lentulusgracchus]

My favorite current leaders are Newt and Sarah. Others, need to step up.

Those two will do for leadership, if we are still down to the lick-log, as people in dawgy-dawg country up in Oklahoma are reputed to say.

It would be nice to see Allen West, Bobby Jindal (who's still not yet combative enough to go mano a mano with the Chicago boys IMHO), and some of the California conservatives like Tom McClintock and Darrell Issa step up a bit. The problem there was illustrated a year ago, when Issa was on Obama like white on rice, and Boehner yanked his chain.

I think Issa wants to keep his chairmanship, and Boehner uses that to drag him around by his collar like a poodle. It's time Issa and the other committee chairmen threw Boehner off and quit letting him do that petty Harry Reid stuff with them. Otherwise they'll stay under his shadow like little mushrooms. The RiNO's did it during the campaign with Ryan, too -- like they tried to do it to Sarah four years ago and got stuffed.

[duffee]

You didn’t offer your more “viable choice” was it the democrat that turned became a Republican when it became apparent he couldn’t win as a democrat anymore? or the guy that wore the 1969 peace t-shirts and campagned in front of the dope leaf backdrop? or was it the “NO VOTE” or the “stay at home” vote? I didn’t have any difficulty in recognizing that Romney was more viable than these.

I have difficulty believing that anyone would have trouble believing Romney was not more viable than these.

I’m also assuming you read and understood my post, if not I did not support Romney until he had the nomination and there would not be a Conservative Republican candidate. I then became enthusiastic about beating obama and the reality of that was sending money to Romney and working for Romney, anything else would have been counterproductive.

If the “NO VOTES” and “stay at home” votes are factored in with the 3rd party votes, obama may have been defeated despite the voter and election fraud.

I’m not happy with the RNC or the Republican elites and there is certainly no shortage of places to lay blame but I’m sick of insinuations that my supporting Romney as the nominee was wrong, especially from those who are not willing to stand up and state their position.

[Kenny Bunk]

Hey, I LIKE Newt!

But you know, Christie, here in LaLa Land, a tubby short white guy just ain't gonna take an election from a tall skinny tan guy with several trillion of my money in his pocket to give away to black people, Mexicans, lazy and stupid white people, women, and whothehellelse ever voted for this ineligible disgrace. Not to mention a very slick fraud machine.

Newt is far from the perfect candidate, but that mushy squishy Mormon Milquetoast ... please! The GOP is finally dead, and you are looking at 50 years of Democrats on the Federal Level. Maybe on the karmic level, Mushy Mitt (Guy looks like a Ken Doll) did us all a favor by getting rid of the Republicans. What's next?

Save your house. Your street. Your town. Your county. Your state if you can. The Federal government is lost to us.