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Roger that!
Posted on 03/13/2012 2:32:04 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
Thankfully, former Speaker Newt Gingrich is every bit a social conservative as the former senator from Pennsylvania, and so would have that historical advantage that, along with the “It’s the economy, stupid” rule, regularly results in the election of Republican presidents and congressional majorities.
So how did the young whippersnapper who previously won our Super Tuesday endorsement by avoiding anti-Bain venture capitalism-pile-ons while also contrasting his unblemished record against individual health care mandates as opposed to Mitt Romney’s Massachusetts RomneyCare and 2009 advocacy for the individual mandates in ObamaCare? Unprompted, he essentially took the economy off the table for the fall election against President Barack Obama based upon seasonally adjusted employment fictions from the administration:
“You hear now the media starting to say, oh well, looks like the economy is getting better,” Santorum told supporters in Missouri Saturday night after winning the Kansas caucuses. “You know, the economy may be getting better and Republicans may lose their edge on that issue. Well, if that was the only issue in this race, that may or may not be the case, we don’t know.”
You heard that right. The man that pointed out the danger of a Romney candidacy that takes ObamaCare off the table against the Democrats, volunteers to take the economy off the table based upon the bogus hurrahs for a fictional economy built at the Bureau of Labor Statistics that changed decades of procedures last year by rejecting state employment statistics in favor of the federal government’s own best estimates. One wonders what the senator would say if the MSM reported that Americans are happy with ObamaCare.
When asked about Young Rick’s concessions yesterday, Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) yesterday recited economic reality:
Well, no, I don’t think he’s right at all. This is an anemic recovery as a pretty long recession, 37 months in a row over 8 percent unemployment for the people in the United States, the longest streak since the Great Depression. Last month in February, $229 billion monthly deficit, the highest deficit in the history of the nation. When you look at the stimulus package two years ago, they projected unemployment at 6.5 percent. Obamacare said that everybody’s premiums would be lowered by $2,500; they’ve gone up by $2,200. And we’re producing less oil on publicly held lands than any time in the nation.
So the economy is not — is anemic at best, and the policies of the president are going to make it impossible for this country to recover. Big things haven’t happened very well on his watch.
Doesn’t the man so well-informed about the evil details of O’RomneyCares understand that:
1. the raw numbers of Americans working last month are nearly two million less than those working when the Democrat president was elected in November of 2008;
2. the 227,000 number of “new jobs” allegedly “created” last month is a fiction based upon seasonal adjustments;
3. the U-3 unemployment rate of 8.3% produced by bureaucrats in D.C. sans data from states was flatly contradicted earlier last week even by liberal Gallup (9.1%) and the week before by the Congressional Budget Office (10%);
4. 8.3%, in any event is unacceptably high after three-plus years of between 8-11% as Obama has presided over second the longest such period of high unemployment in American history; and
5. the Gross Domestic Product over the last year has been barely above a pulse at an average of less than 1%.
Yet, somehow because ABC, NBC, CBS, CNN and even Fox News Channel report government propaganda as fact, Republicans could somehow lose “the edge” on the economy this fall? Well yes, if we concede issues for incoherent reasons, we would lose the edge, not because the voters buy it (polls show that majorities reject the rosy scenarios and Obama’s performance on the economy); but rather because too many voters would again see a cowardly Republican against a courageous Democrat and stay home.
Therefore, despite Newt’s personal and non-personal baggage (Cave-ins to Bill Clinton while betraying promises to republican colleagues, Couching Pelosi on the science fiction of man-made global warming, Bain attacks etc), we are satisfied with his mea culpas and are confident that he won’t shift campaign strategy based upon what John King insists is a booming recovery, when the numbers rely upon writing off 1.2 million people that failed to file their 5th application for work at the corner McDonald’s for four consecutive weeks.
We just hope that a Gingrich nominee would also not have to fight with some timid conservative websites that also seem to want to make Green Rooms at CNN more palatable by also faking a smile about fictitious improving economies.
We also hope that those anti-social conservatives don’t pull their support when the media reminds of Newt’s very strong, you might say religious right-strength, social conservative views as expressed in his 2009 book, “Rediscovering God in America”; positions against judicial supremacy mainly on religious freedom issues; railings against the ABC TV show, “Christian Bitches”; and boldly and accurately describing then Illinois State Senator Barack Obama’s opposition to the “Born Alive Infant Protection Act” as support for legalized infanticide.
Prior to Santorum’s weekend remarks conceding economic issues to the failed Democratic incumbent, we thought we had cast our Stone Mountain of Georgia precinct primary vote for the best candidate to evict the American economy wrecking machine, also married to Michelle, from the White House. Our trust was betrayed.
Hopefully, our present advocacy for Gingrich that we hope is heeded by Alabamians and Mississippians voting in Tuesday’s next installment of Newt’s I-85 Primary, won’t be betrayed before the sun sets on March Madness after the Kentucky Wildcats finally deliver a national championship to Coach Calipari.
But if Newt transgresses, he will be called on it by the DeVine Law Gamecock by rooster crowings before April Fool’s Day. Would tea partiers expect anything less? No, and while I think either of the top three could and would defeat Obama, we are interested in the issues and a mandate to fix what ails us. We will continue to hold our fellow conservative Republicans accountable.
From Redstate? Wow. That will leave a mark.
We should get the ‘ COST of Obamacare today”.
Santorum!?
Maybe the boy just ain’t smart enough for politics?
Newt/Perry 2012
For Mr. Santorum will not initiate anything, Mr. Gingrich should do the followings:
1. Announce that HE WILL ONLY campaign in Louisiana, NY, Arkansas, TX, New Mexico, and Montana.
2. Encourage his avid supporters like myself to vote for Santorum in Missouri, Wisconsin, Penn., West Virginia, Cali., Kentucky, South Dakota, Nebraska.
3. Tell Ron Paul’s supporters that he will make Dr. Paul the Secretary of Treasury in his administration to reign on the Fed if he get elected.
4. Tell Santorum’s supporters to see them and Mr. Santorum in the brokered convention if they work hard for him in the states he will campaign.
There is no chance both Mr. Gingrich and Mr. Santorum can force a brokered convention if they divide the conservative votes between them, in reality, divide delegates equally 3-way among them and Romney in all conservative states and yield all delegates to Romney in more liberal primaries. Please check the numbers here:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2857828/posts
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2857882/posts
They have to take turn to beat up on Romney to force a brokered convention where they can have a chance to fight another day. Otherwise, it is all over soon as Romney will have more than enough delegates to clinch the nomination.
I can’t stomach my priests having to give out Communion to lesbians or marry homosexuals in church and force my kids to sit there and watch, or to witness them kissing each others in public.
All the sexual promiscuities will take place if Romney nationalizes same-sex marriage as he did in Massachusetts.
I disagree. It is unwise to limit a campaign.
It’s clear that Rick Santorum is working for the VP pick at this point.
Look at Kansas lesson, Newt declared not to go there, Santorum collected 33 and left 7 delegates for Romney.
If either Santorum or Newt reach >50% in the state level or congressional district levels, he will collect ALL the allocated delegates leaving none for Romney.
If they both campaign for the same delegates at the same CD or state, they will never achieve >50% votes, therefore, the allocated delegates at that particular CD or state will be awarded proportionally to all three candidates plus Ron Paul.
Unfortunate! Nobody listens.
I haven’t even made it to the article—I’m still trying to understand what the h*** the headline means.
“All the sexual promiscuities will take place if Romney nationalizes same-sex marriage as he did in Massachusetts.”
We should be fighting Obammay/Mittens.
Newt is best when he is Attacking Obammay.
However the Newt and Santorum camps keep fighting each other.
Obamma & Mittens are the enemy Hammer away guys.
VP to who? Certainly not Romney. I would hope Gingrich would pick Perry over Santorum. Santorum burned his VP bridges with his cheap shot campaign while pretending to have clean hands. He even took an uncalled for shot at Bush 41 yesterday.
March Madness = college basketball playoffs.
“Newt/Perry 2012”
Do you really think Perry is a good fit? I don’t think he needs Perry for VP (I’d rather he be Homeland Security). I like Col. West.
Did you watch the speeches last night?
C-Span: Republican Candidates Campaign in Birmingham, Alabama
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Roger that!
However the Newt and Santorum supporters keep fighting each other.
When Obama/Mittens is where we should be focused.
Yeah, I gathered that, but it still doesn’t make any sense.
No, he wants to take an election season with the worst economy because of a Marxist ideologue and his Marxists administration's policies and turn it into an election about social issues. Because that's such a winning platform with our culture and a media painting him as the Church Lady from SNL.
I am watching Newt on Fox and Friends this morning. He physically looks horrible.
He needs to get his health checked out.
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