"The national debt still only went up under his watch as Speaker. That's NOT leadership."
You repeat this idiocy like a mantra. The national debt has gone up every single year for 150 years! So accordin to you America has hd no leader at all since the days of ... Martin Van Buren?!?
Let's see the whole context and record. You ignore the fact that 104th Congress under Newt cut the deficit by $100 billion in a single year! Then they went on to cut the deficit further by reining in total spending; they enacted tax cuts along with spending cuts; they *exceeded* their deficit reduction goals - goals the MSM and liberals said were impossible and draconian. And they fixed welfare, defended marriage (DOMA), and passed other good conservatives reforms.
And in the end they did succeed in eliminating the deficit for a while. Most importantly, they acheived the near impossible - GOVERNMENT AS A PERCENTAGE OF GNP SHRANK FOR 4 STRAIGHT YEARS.
That didnt happen since Newt left, even with a Republican President and non-Newt GOP Congress.
Newt presided over the most conservative Congresses we had in 50 years. I appreciate his leadership, which was excellent, and for 'conservatives' to ignore it is to spit in the face of historic reality.
>>"The national debt still only went up under his watch as
>>Speaker. That's NOT leadership."
>You repeat this idiocy like a mantra.
I repeated my question since I have gotten no good answer.
According to http://www.toptips.com/debt_history.htm the national debt went from $4.7 trillion to $5.5 trillion which means IT WENT UP. The fact that government spending as a percentage of GNP went down for those 4 years DOES NOT impress me, since we continued to pay interest on trillions of dollars, money we rob from our children's children.
What could he have said to stick up for the American taxpayer in 1994-1998? How about ...
"The hard-working American taxpayer is already extremely generous, and not a resource to be abused infinitely by reckless spending through your budget Mr. President. You want to steal from the pockets of our children to pay for this budget Mr. President. Surely Mr. President, you're not against children ... are you?"
I'm not even a politician, and I can do it! He's a professional, and he can't. How lame is that? He just had to hammer away like that, but he didn't even try.
>they *exceeded* their deficit reduction goals
I dare say their goals were very low. Just because you meet a goal, does not mean it was a worthy or lofty goal.
>So, name 3 conservative Republican leaders who *would* be
>acceptable to be President
>No other Republican can win.....there are no other true
>conservatives to vote for.
According to BillyBoy's posting here http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1780333/posts?page=164#164 Duncan Hunter is the leading candidate among registered FR users. I know that's only one and not three I offer, but it proves that we have at least one conservative out there that has no baggage, and doesn't have a history of running up the national debt, and has not abused our trust by not sounding the alarm on the border while in a position of prominence.
We don't need Newt.