Latest Poll: For the 1st time in SC: Newt's favorability (53%) now higher than Mitt's (51%)

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[wrrock]

Latest news from PPP: For the 1st time in our SC tracking Newt's favorability (53%) now higher than Mitt's (51%).

Gingrich maintains 6 point lead:
http://www.publicpolicypolling.com/main/2012/01/gingrich-maintains-6-point-lead.html

[SkyDancer]

Newt won the debate hands down. He doesn’t stutter around like the other three did. Santorum is the next one to be voted off the stage.

[TheZMan]

At which point it’ll be all over ‘cept the crying.

[Integrityrocks]

I’ve watched every debate. Been in for Newt since day 1, but gotta be fair and disagree w lots of Freepers tonight by saying I don’t think Rick was all that bad tonight. More aggressive than normal but not a liar or pompous. IMHO. Still for Newt though.

[SkyDancer]

I will send weasels to do strange things to your body!

[swampfox101]

I like Rick too, I thought he was trying too hard. The debate was over the minute Newt “jap slapped” King.

[Hoodat]

I don’t see much difference between Newt and Mitt except that Mitt isn’t for amnesty, and doesn’t support a federal healthcare bill. Mitt also has won statewide election. But other than that, their positions are identical.

[CainConservative]

What is wrong with you?

[gswilder]

New Reuter/Ipsos poll has Romney +12. Just released tonite.

[luvbach1]

To me, Mitt says almost all of the right things if he can be believed.

[haircutter]

REUTER/IPSOS POLL...said enough for me
MEDIA BIAS..

The current Media preaches bull sh!t and lies...just like B.Hussein Obama...
enough said.

[Vendome]

That's where a record comes in. Not just the record of votes, which is often a meaningless toll of positions taken for political reasons on bills that were always going to pass or were never going to pass, but a record of actions taken that actually mattered.

A record of actions taken that actually mattered.  Newt is the man who fits that description to a "T".

He can identify what is most important to the country, develop a plan to overcome that challenge, articulate the the merits of overcoming the challenge and why the plan will work.

I hadn't been for Gingrich initially and spent plenty of energy excoriating him, these last several years, for any number of sins he committed against the Republican/Conservative ideals.  He seemed a turncoat of sorts, particularly when he babysat Pelosi on the couch.

On reflection, Newt is an attention whore seeking relevancy for his ideas and I guess I take him at his word that he made a few mistakes in his life and he has at least some regret for those decisions.  God knows I am no angel and so I have to reflect on the man's ability to get things done.

Newt gave us the Republican majority, the Contract with America and completed 2/3rds of his agenda while in office.

He now has a new plan for America and with what is likely to become a Congressional Super Majority and a Senate Majority, if not Super Majority, I believe he will absolutely accomplish his agenda.

Say goodbye to ObamaCare the single biggest scam and travesty foisted upon a free people who, by right, ought to have been given the opportunity to read the bill and debate it.  Instead, a win at all cost, cheating agenda was developed and it was signed with most people never laying eyes on at least page 2 of this utopian dreck.

Executive Orders Positions:

The following are all within the executive powers to simply order and with the exception of securing the border within one year, they are all easily accomplished with the stroke of a pen and no way to challenge them in the legislature.

Keystone may be challenged in the courts but I think the Executive can order the EPA to approve, under National Security Priorities and it is a National Security issue, as well, a jobs issue.

As President, Newt, could actually have a very busy 1st week or month just on these initiative alone.

1. Eliminate the thirty-nine White House "Czar" positions created during the current administration. The president does not have the authority to appoint bureaucrats to power who are not accountable to the Congress.

2. "Mexico City Policy" of Respect for Life. Reauthorize President Ronald Reagan’s policy – also known as the "Mexico City Policy"— to stop tax payer dollars from being used to fund or promote abortions in foreign countries.

3. Restore conscience clause protections for Healthcare Workers.No American working in a medical environment should be forced to perform any procedure that he or she finds morally or ethically objectionable based on religious teaching. This protection should include, but not be limited to abortion. Existing conscience clause protections need to be strengthened.

4. Respect Each Sovereign Nation’s Choice of its Capital. Each sovereign nation, under international law and custom, may designate its own Capital. Accordingly, the U.S. State Department should be instructed to respect the choice of each sovereign nation and place the American embassy in their Capital.  (Israel is the only country the United States discriminates against in this regard. The people of Israel have designated Jerusalem as their capital. Yet the United States retains its embassy in Tel Aviv.) 

5. End the Attorney General's Assault on the States. Instruct the Attorney General to withdraw all immigration-related lawsuits against states immediately, including those pending in Arizona and South Carolina. The Obama Administration refuses to enforce federal immigration laws, and instead sues states who are merely trying to enforce the laws that the federal government neglects. The Gingrich Administration will secure the border by Jan. 1, 2014 by any means necessary. 

6. The Keystone Pipeline

Unleash American Energy by Approving the Keystone XL Pipeline. Instruct the State Department to approve a Presidential Permit immediately for the Keystone XL pipeline, a project that will send 700,000 barrels of oil a day from Great Plains and Southwestern states to Gulf Coast refineries lower staggering energy prices, and create up to 120,000 American jobs.

LEGISLATIVE PROPOSALS

 Now we get into the details of an inclusive agenda that brings the people(you and me), through their representatives, into process.  The TEA Party and conservatives are going to have a majority in both houses.

Let’s elect an Executive who will absolutely fulfill the promise of our ideals.

Executive Summary

1. Repeal Obamacare and pass a replacement that saves lives and money by empowering patients and doctors, not bureaucrats and politicians.
2. Return to robust job creation with a bold set of tax cuts and regulatory reforms that will free American entrepreneurs to invest and hire, as well as by reforming the Federal Reserve and creating a training requirement for extended federal unemployment benefits to encourage work and improve the quality of our workforce.
3. Unleash America’s full energy production potential in oil, natural gas, coal, biofuels, wind, nuclear oil shale and more, creating jobs,  stimulating a sustainable manufacturing boom, lowering gasoline and other energy prices, increasing government revenues, and bolstering national security.
4. Save Medicare and Social Security by giving Americans more choices and tools to live longer, healthier lives with greater financial independence.
5. Balance the federal budget by freeing job-creators to grow the economy, reforming entitlements, and implementing waste cutting and productivity improvement systems such as Lean Six Sigma to eliminate waste and fraud. Pass a balanced budget amendment to keep it balanced.
6. Control the border by January 1, 2014 and establish English as the official language of government; reform the legal visa system, and make it much easier to deport criminals and gang members while making it easier for law abiding visitors to come to the US.
7. Revitalize our national security system to meet 21st century threats by restructuring and adequately funding our security agencies to function within a grand strategy for victory over those who seek to kill us or limit American power.
8. Maximize the speed and impact of medical breakthroughs by removing unnecessary obstacles that block new treatments from reaching patients and emphasizing research spending towards urgent national priorities, like brain science with its impact on Alzheimer’s, autism, Parkinson's, mental health and other conditions knowledge of the brain will help solve. 
9. Restore the proper role of the judicial branch by using the clearly delineated powers available to the president and Congress to correct, limit, or replace judges who violate the Constitution.
10. Enforce the Tenth Amendment by starting an orderly transfer of power and responsibility from the federal government back “to the states, respectively, or to the people,” as the Constitution requires. Over the next year, state and local officials and citizens will be asked to identify the areas which can be transferred back home.    

Newt gave us the three most important victories of the 90’s Welfare Reform, Balanced Budget and Reduced Taxes.  I hope I don’t need to describe the benefits of those victories.  They ought to be obvious to everyone by now.

Lastly, there have been some reports that Newt shouldn’t get all the credit.  Really?  Then perhaps we marginalize the accomplishments of Washington, Roosevelt, Kennedy and ….wait for it… Reagan.

Do we really want to go down the road with that kind of adolescent sophistry and parsing of what happened?

Newt is the guy who thought of these big things, proposed them and shepherded their implementation?

Newt has once again identified what is important to us now, at this time and described how we can get there with our representative majorities. He has done it before and I declare Newt Gingrich was then and is Now a leader.

We should elect Newt Gingrich to the Presidency of the United States

[Hoodat]

Did you not listen to the debate tonight? Newt said that he would replace Obamacare with his own version of a government healthcare plan. He said it with his own mouth. Contrast that with Romney who said it should be left up to the states.

Now as you think about how much you hate Mitt Romney, consider that Newt Gingrich's position on federal healthcare is actually worse than Mitt's. Go back and read the transcript yourself.

So, instead of asking what's wrong with me, you should be asking, "What's wrong with Newt."

Newt to incorporate 300 pages of Obamacare into his own healthcare plan (in his own words)

[Hoodat]

To me, Mitt says almost all of the right things if he can be believed.

That's just it. He can't. Mitt Romney lacks sincerity. He is a technocrat existing in whatever societal rule structure is in place at the time. With a Democrat Congress, he will become the best Democrat President he could be, and with a Republican Congress, he will become the best Republican President he could be. Mitt does have a lot of positive leadership qualities working for him. But he simply cannot be trusted.

[gswilder]

And everyone here thinks the PPP poll is unbiased? LOL. Heads out of sands ostriches

[Graybeard58]

I will send weasels to do strange things to your body!

Weasel jokes aren't funny to me. My Tio José was killed by one.

He was sitting on the rail road tracks and didn't hear the weasel.

[Hoodat]

Why do we need a replacement at all for Obamacare? Wouldn’t the conservative position be to get the federal government the hell out of the way entirely instead of offering a ‘smarter’ version of the current plan?

[CainConservative]

Newtered – The List Grows

newter: verb; The act of figuratively destroying, decimating or completely blowing out of the water; esp. pertaining to journalists exhibiting blatant left-wing bias via the implementation of “gotcha questions”; named for the tactical oratorical skills of Newt Gingrich.

Photos: http://themorningspew.com/2012/01/19/newtered-the-list-grows/

[gswilder]

Hmm.... a guy who cheated on his first two wives is to be believed, but not Mitt.... Interesting logic.

Mitt and Newt are both better than Obama. Mitt and Newt have both changed their positions. Both are saying the right things during the campaign.

Vote for the republican nominee whoever that may be. That is what I am doing. Can’t afford 4 more of Obama. We don’t have a clue how much damage Obama has actually done. So much is buried in the executives offices of 35 czars and dozens of federal agencies. It will take decades to undo his damge.