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Newt frames the current struggle fairly well.
1 posted on 05/19/2017 6:03:23 AM PDT by Shark24
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I have lost faith in Republicans.

It may be regained if they managed to find some testosterone and start growing pairs.


2 posted on 05/19/2017 6:05:04 AM PDT by Da Coyote
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And it is way past time that the squishes in DC get over themselves and get on board the Trump Train


3 posted on 05/19/2017 6:07:59 AM PDT by Nifster (I see puppy dogs in the cloudsi)
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Can the media be charged with obstruction of justice, tampering with evidence, etc?


6 posted on 05/19/2017 6:12:34 AM PDT by Republicanprofessor
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If political thinking was a horse race, Newt would be the “smartest horse at the trough.”


8 posted on 05/19/2017 6:14:52 AM PDT by YepYep (Build the America you want at your house and keep looking up.)
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Sounds like a “Check It” from the powerful inmates.

Pubbies can “Fight, F**k, or Pay”.

Either Fight like ya got a pair.
Become the oppositions bee-yotch.
Or pay Fealty in blood & treasure.


9 posted on 05/19/2017 6:17:20 AM PDT by Macoozie (Handcuffs and Orange Jumpsuits)
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I posted this question over at FR Farcebook: "Is there a Republican politician anywhere who will fight?"

At this time the answer is: No.

10 posted on 05/19/2017 6:19:01 AM PDT by TTFlyer
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This is consistent with PT’s current FIGHT! challenge. I sense aa new and more engaged battle in the wind. We need to study Lincoln to understand what is happening.


12 posted on 05/19/2017 6:19:09 AM PDT by Louis Foxwell (Progressivism is 2 year olds in a poop fight.)
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Time to breakup the media monopolies.


13 posted on 05/19/2017 6:22:40 AM PDT by Petrosius
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I wish Newt was Trump’s main advisor. He gets it and he’s a fighter.


18 posted on 05/19/2017 6:26:15 AM PDT by aquila48
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Do You Want To Be Short Gold And Long Stocks When 10 Million March On DC? (Impeach Trump)
19 posted on 05/19/2017 6:27:22 AM PDT by blam
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Establishment Republicans are totally useless. They, like their Democrat counterparts, favor big government, government control, higher taxes, more interference in our lives, and the big political contributions in exchange for favors. I, like all of you, are sick and tired of them.


24 posted on 05/19/2017 6:34:37 AM PDT by From The Deer Stand
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Newt has his faults, no doubt, but Trump would have been so much better pulling in the Newts and Rudys from his campaign rather than Jivanka, Priebus, and all the traitors they brought into the administration.


25 posted on 05/19/2017 6:35:06 AM PDT by 9YearLurker
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I will simply say this:

The divisiveness, violence and extremist politics of the Democrat Party of the late 60's through the 70's set them up for defeat by Ronald Wilson Reagan in 1980. Reagan then won by a historic 49 state landslide in 1984 as the Democrats failed to learn their lesson after 1980.

Have courage my Freeper friends. Have courage.

26 posted on 05/19/2017 6:35:27 AM PDT by usconservative (When The Ballot Box No Longer Counts, The Ammunition Box Does. (What's In Your Ammo Box?))
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Yes, this is a brilliant analysis by Newt.

He has always been a strategic thinker. This is Newt at his best.


29 posted on 05/19/2017 6:50:14 AM PDT by marktwain (President Trump and his supporters are the Resistance. His opponents are the Reactionaries.)
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Amazing words from Newt. This prez ain’t no quitter. It’s why he won. He will fight and fight. He will not give in. He may change his mind at times, but I see that as a strength. He needs to pick his battles very carefully. 1st battle,IMO, even before the current battle to come on healthcare, is a huge tax cut. Get it done first. It will put a fire under the senate’s ass and to help pay for the tax cut, they will then have to work on getting the 2 healthcare bills reconciled in conference.


30 posted on 05/19/2017 6:51:16 AM PDT by Chuzzlewit
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So the IRS was, and may still be, weaponized against Conservatives and nothing happens. No outrage.

Lois Lerner skates and the head of the IRS is still employed.

It is likely Obama spied on Trump, political opponents, and likely the Supreme Court. Frankly, we don’t yet know how deep Obama’s spying goes. We do know James Rosen and Sheryl Atkinson were spied on. Ask yourself this, how did Obama have the White House lit up in the sodomy colors so soon after the SC ruling? My guess is that, as Scalia surmised, Obama spied on the SC as well as many others. Yet, no outrage and no Republican demanding concrete answers.

Hillary sells Russians our Uranium, sets up a private server, and leaks all sorts of classified information. Nothing, except “investigations”.

Hillary clearly illegally extorted money from private and international political players into the Clinton foundation in a pay-to-play scheme ...and nothing.

Bill Clinton secretly meets with the Attorney General on the tarmac during on open investigation. No outrage at this clear and illegal effort to subvert justice.

And what do we have to show for all this? Republicans keep telling us they are investigating. They keep saying this. Is there ever any finality? Any closure? Any updates? Anyone go to jail? Any justice? Ever? Nope, just keep telling the rubes back home that we’re investigating.

All we ever hear about is how Republicans agree we need to look into the Russian connection.

I have long been duped. I have been scammed. Republicans don’t want change. They say what they have to keep the rubes on the hook and then always side with the establishment and their Democrat love interests. Then comes election season and like the whoring wife they plead with the electorate to give them one more chance because they really love Conservatism.

They love the swamp.


32 posted on 05/19/2017 6:55:46 AM PDT by Obadiah (Global warming caused Hillary to lose the election.)
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Newt is spot on. I am hesitant to have him as Chief of Staff due to his huge ego but it’s clear Rinse and Spicier have to go. The GOPe have proven they have ZERO interest in supporting POTUS and it’s time to cut off their back door access to the White House.


35 posted on 05/19/2017 6:58:57 AM PDT by lodi90
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It’s the corrupt media, stupid. Conservative billionaires need to launch a new news outlet and distribute it via internet, traditional cable, etc.


37 posted on 05/19/2017 7:00:59 AM PDT by 1Old Pro
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I will fight. I just don’t know how. What can a I do as an average American to be an effective warrior in this cold civil war we are in?


45 posted on 05/19/2017 7:15:16 AM PDT by Avalon Memories (Compromise is NOT a dirty word. It's how human society functions every day.)
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I like Newt and deeply respect his intellect, insight and sense of history, but looking at this struggle in partisan terms is a fatal mistake. Republicans took control of the House in 2010 and what did Boehner or Ryan do to thwart any of Obama’s policies from 2010 to January 2017? Answer, virtually nothing. After Ryan became speaker, one of his very first acts was to hand Obama a blank check for everything on his agenda. The same can be said of the Senate since republicans took control in 2014.

The Republican Party, as it is currently configured and led, can’t be counted on for anything other than to capitulate to, or attempt to mollify, Democrats, who continue to lose seats at every level throughout the country. Name one Republican “leader” that you honestly believe represents the majority of your positions on anything. Hell, the RNC actively campaigns against people who, like us, know the country is going/has gone to hell, our constitutional rights are diminishing on an almost daily basis, our government is too damned big and oppressive and exists only for the perpetuation and growth of government.

Republicans could hold an airtight, two-thirds majority in both houses of Congress and still WOULDN’T implement and fund the policies that we voted for. If I may paraphrase, “If the Republican party’s the answer, it’s a pretty stupid question.”


49 posted on 05/19/2017 7:59:15 AM PDT by ManHunter (You can run, but you'll only die tired... Army snipers: Reach out and touch someone)
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