Posted on 12/28/2011 6:54:27 AM PST by TBBT
He led us to victory before. Spectacular, historic victory. The strategy and content of his 1994 Contract with America propelled the Republicans to a 54-seat gain in 1994 to win control of the House of Representatives, which had been held by the Republicans for only two out of the previous 62 years. Even the Reagan Revolution in the 1980s failed to achieve that. Then, for all the caterwauling we have heard about how he handled the budget battles with Clinton, he led the House Republicans in 1996 to their first re-election as a majority since 1928, almost 70 years. Moreover, once in power, Gingrich delivered on his promises, and maintained a solid conservative record. He carried out the Contract with America in full, holding a vote on every item as promised, most of which did pass (which was not promised). His record was unswervingly pro-life, pro-gun and Second Amendment, and anti-tax. Indeed, he worked closely with the conservative activist groups on every one of these issues. Gingrich's Balanced Budget: Succeeding Where Bush Failed Contrary to the untouched by reality liberal/left talking points about how the 1993 Clinton tax increases led to balanced budgets, when the Gingrich majority took power in 1995, it was greeted by the 1996 Clinton budget still projecting $200 billion annual budget deficits as far as the eye could see, totaling $2.7 trillion over 10 years, confirmed by CBO. The House passed a budget bill providing for $1 trillion in spending cuts over the next 10 years, and that was almost 20 years ago when $1 trillion was still real money.
(Excerpt) Read more at spectator.org ...
You say you are no Mitt fan, but you are going out of your way to not only Highlight what he has said, but you go out of your way to take down the only candidate who can beat Romney.
Most of us see through your Bull $hit, Troll. And you don’t know squat about this election.
This is all WHY I will be voting for Newt — assuming he gets onto the Virginia ballot at any time in the future. And I will be voting for him for president.
He already has THE proven record of SUCCESS ....IN OFFICE. Someting NO other candidate has at this point — plus a stunning grasp of our country’s history and political landscape.
You will NEVER have a perfect candidate. It’s time to stop the circular firing squad. Newt would reduce Obama down to holding the fetal position in any debate. Any other candidate will just be chewed up and spit out in the media/establishment machine.
People — WAKE UP. You need a fighter this time — not a principled wonk.
“Keeping clinging to second tier hopefuls. You’ll ensure that Mitt gets it.”
Yep...!
Give me a break..put the crack pipe down man. Newt working for Romney??????
TROLL!!!!
IBTZ!
My thoughts exactly!
You spam this with b/s. Read about what actually took place with his “dying wife”. Read what his own daughter has said about this. Your comments are the same crap that the MSM keeps putting out there.
Are you aware that the composition of the House and the Senate was determined by compromise? ...the Great Compromise?
To be stubbornly “purist” at this point is ignorant. The leftists and radical Democrats are definitely taking advantage of that ignorance by dividing conservatives.
From what I see of those three front runners, Newt has the most solid character and the intellectual tools for defeating Obama and for getting things done in DC.
The article, which you obviously did not read, goes into great depth about not what Newt says but what he has done in a career of accomplishments. It also examines what he has written that he will do if elected President. Real substance, no 15 second slogan or attack ad.
If you can read the article and still have the same attitude afterward there is no hope.
Look the political elites in this country know how to control the electorate in this country.They have been since the 2010 election trying to destroy the Tea Party and Palin. In politics the number one thing that influences voters is the convention speech.Seventy-five million people watch them an many first time people are expose to politics. Palin in 2008 at the convention did what is called imprinting a generation of voters and anchored them to consevatism.Reagan did it in 1976 Obama did it in Boston.If Palin had another convention speech she would win in a landslide and imprint and anchor conservative politics for generation to come.The elites will not let this happen even if they have to have Obama for 4 more years to get Jeb Bush. Get it!
Nail, meet head.
The outcome of this is as clear as the nose on your face. It’s frustrating to say the least...
Writing post here at FR does little, regrettably. FR is a small community in comparison whose reach is short. But at least it gives one a place to vent.
The articles in publications - both big and small - are many. If people actually read them would Paul even be in the game?
Unfortunately Fox News probably has some of the biggest impact - I suspect - on the folks in Iowa. And what is Fox News doing? Pushing Romney hard and trying to take Newt out. They continue to treat Ron Paul as legitimate - nary a word on his scandals (in fact CNN has done a much better job on the Paul account). They need Ron Paul still in this to play the role of spoiler, which will keep the Not Romneys from coalescing, damage Newt’s chance of momentum out of Iowa, and hand it to Mitt.
You will never hear Newt call Romney a flip-flopper or liberal. Why
Thompson had one job to do. Split the conservative vote in SC, the decider state, enabling McCain to squeak out a 33-30 win over Huck there. Bad times.
The land of the free has become the land of the "governed."
As we consider essential qualifications for a President at this critical point in America's history, we might consult an excerpted portion of the 1801 Inaugural Address of Thomas Jefferson for guidance on the seriousness of the undertaking:
(Excerpt) "Let us, then, with courage and confidence pursue our own Federal and Republican principles, our attachment to union and representative government. Kindly separated by nature and a wide ocean from the exterminating havoc of one quarter of the globe; too high-minded to endure the degradations of the others; possessing a chosen country, with room enough for our descendants to the thousandth and thousandth generation; entertaining a due sense of our equal right to the use of our own faculties, to the acquisitions of our own industry, to honor and confidence from our fellow-citizens, resulting not from birth, but from our actions and their sense of them; enlightened by a benign religion, professed, indeed, and practiced in various forms, yet all of them inculcating honesty, truth, temperance, gratitude, and the love of man; acknowledging and adoring an overruling Providence, which by all its dispensations proves that it delights in the happiness of man here and his greater happiness hereafter—with all these blessings, what more is necessary to make us a happy and a prosperous people? Still one thing more, fellow-citizens—a wise and frugal Government, which shall restrain men from injuring one another, shall leave them otherwise free to regulate their own pursuits of industry and improvement, and shall not take from the mouth of labor the bread it has earned. This is the sum of good government, and this is necessary to close the circle of our felicities.
"About to enter, fellow-citizens, on the exercise of duties which comprehend everything dear and valuable to you, it is proper you should understand what I deem the essential principles of our Government, and consequently those which ought to shape its Administration. I will compress them within the narrowest compass they will bear, stating the general principle, but not all its limitations. Equal and exact justice to all men, of whatever state or persuasion, religious or political; peace, commerce, and honest friendship with all nations, entangling alliances with none; the support of the State governments in all their rights, as the most competent administrations for our domestic concerns and the surest bulwarks against antirepublican tendencies; the preservation of the General Government in its whole constitutional vigor, as the sheet anchor of our peace at home and safety abroad; a jealous care of the right of election by the people—a mild and safe corrective of abuses which are lopped by the sword of revolution where peaceable remedies are unprovided; absolute acquiescence in the decisions of the majority, the vital principle of republics, from which is no appeal but to force, the vital principle and immediate parent of despotism; a well disciplined militia, our best reliance in peace and for the first moments of war, till regulars may relieve them; the supremacy of the civil over the military authority; economy in the public expense, that labor may be lightly burthened; the honest payment of our debts and sacred preservation of the public faith; encouragement of agriculture, and of commerce as its handmaid; the diffusion of information and arraignment of all abuses at the bar of the public reason; freedom of religion; freedom of the press, and freedom of person under the protection of the habeas corpus, and trial by juries impartially selected. These principles form the bright constellation which has gone before us and guided our steps through an age of revolution and reformation. The wisdom of our sages and blood of our heroes have been devoted to their attainment. They should be the creed of our political faith, the text of civic instruction, the touchstone by which to try the services of those we trust; and should we wander from them in moments of error or of alarm, let us hasten to retrace our steps and to regain the road which alone leads to peace, liberty, and safety."
Now, the question is: which 2012 candidate possesses the intellectual qualifications to lead us to "retrace our steps and to regain the road which alone leads to peace, liberty, and safety"?
Only a candidate who possesses an in-depth understanding of the Founders' principles can defend those principles against the counterfeit ideas of tyranny which prevail in the current Administration.
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Your exactly right. I think Palin might jump in as an independent if we end up with someone we have to hold our nose and vote for. Yes, I said it; let the verbal beatings begin.
bttt
Ironically, the best thing for conservatives is the conservatives; Perry, Michele, and Santorum to each finish in single digits and drop out in Iowa on Tuesday night.
Gingrich/Rubio '12 & '16!!
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