Posted on 11/28/2011 5:31:01 PM PST by smoothsailing
November 28, 2011
By Bryan Fischer
Newt is the current flavor of the month in the GOP race for the presidential nomination, and grabbed a coup in New Hampshire with the endorsement of the Union-Leader.
However, Newt has enough baggage with enough rocks in it to drag him below surface again. His amnesty stance on immigration puts him to the left of Perry on that issue, and we now know he took $1.8 million from Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac right when they were dragging the housing industry to the bottom of the sea. Newt’s at the bottom of the pile on that one.
We know one of his think tanks took in $37 million from the health care industry so he could hack and flack for the individual mandate, a concept that represents the grossest violation of limited government powers in our history.
He’s flip-flopped as much if not more than Mitt Romney, who, inspired by the musings of James Carville, I have affectionately nicknamed Governor Windsock. Newt’s been horrible on embryonic stem cell research and horrible on man-caused global warming, an exorbitantly costly scam whose credibility is rapidly disintegrating before our very eyes.
In other words, Newt is a consummate Washington insider, a big government Republican, and appears to be almost as much of a panderer as Romney. He’s hardly a genuine conservative; he’s just glib enough to make some people think he is one.
But the truth will out, and that spells trouble for Newt. This is even before renewed conversations about his multiple divorces and admitted affairs while married to his first two wives. His affair with his current wife took place at about the same time Herman Cain was supposed to be harassing members of the opposite sex. If the media attacked Herman hammer and tongs over things that never happened in that time frame, just imagine the scalping Newt will take once they turn the knives on him.
And turn on him they will, as each candidate who has risen to the surface has been shredded by the Ministers of Propaganda eager to do their part to buttress the dimming re-election prospects of Barack Obama.
All this means that Newt will soon start to sink under the weight of his crony capitalism, his abrupt policy changes, and his troubled personal past.
This will create another vacuum, only this time there is no one new to fill it. When Michele Bachmann zoomed into the stratosphere, and then fell back to earth, Rick Perry was there to replace her. When Perry’s star fell over his debate performances and his “heartless” comment on immigration, Herman Cain’s star rose. When the air went out of Cain’s balloon over the false allegations of harassment and the more substantial problem of his lack of depth on foreign policy, the air went into Newt’s tires.
So the question becomes: where does the air go when it leaks out of Newt’s tires? Politics as well as nature abhors a vacuum, and somebody is going to benefit from Newt’s descent. Like an elevator on its way to the basement, a countervailing weight must rise.
Gov. Perry’s star will rise once again. Joe Arpaio’s endorsement and campaign appearances will help repair some of the damage he has done to himself on immigration. And in point of fact, even Michelle Bachmann has staked out a position very similar to Newt’s on rewarding those who have broken our immigration laws the longest. All of which means there is no perfect candidate in the hunt on the immigration issue.
But Perry does well in one-on-one interviews with major media outlets, is very effective on the stump, relates very well to people in the business of retail politics, and has the money to outlast many of his rivals.
An under-appreciated fact about this election season, compared to 2008, is that Republican party rules mandate that delegates in primaries be awarded proportionately rather than on a winner-take-all basis. This will make it virtually impossible for a candidate to sew up the nomination by Florida, as John McCain did in ‘08.
This GOP primary campaign will be marathon, not a sprint, and the advantage will go to the candidate with enough gas in the tank to go the distance, a candidate who has the resources to keep getting his message out and who wears well in personal campaign appearances. That means the smart money ought to be on Rick Perry.
>>I love the I-45 toll road out of the Roundrock<<
That’s great if one can afford $3 to $15 bucks a day added to the cost of a commute.
That's great if one can afford $3 to $15 bucks a day added to the cost of a commute.
As far as nitpicking silly things, I believe I've provided several not so nitpicky reasons Rick Perry is not a true conservative.
I don't expect everyone to be swayed, I just hope enough are persuaded to keep Perry in Texas...where he vowed to serve.
That is until he broke his vow. Kinda sounds like another political animal we all know and love...from (not from) New York. The big carpet bagger Clinton.
His 'comebacks' are harder to keep up with than all the newest versions of Windows©
THanks, I love light comedy in the morning!
You can bet demolishing the US govt is being applauded by Perry's Mexican and Islamic pals who abohor the US.......and are hellbent on getting Perry elected president. As long as Perry spouts the anti-American line, he'll get as much money as he wants.
Ice cream suit! Creamsickles for all!
I agree. With enough backing, I believe he could do it.
He has to do some things he doesn’t like but when he is president
he can work on those.
You’re welcome!
Here’s another chuckle for you...
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2813545/posts
:o)
You are out of your mind and likely an anarchist. A civil war would destroy this nation for decades to come and if you are inciting revolution you should be brought to trial. By the way who do you support for president? If it is Palin, what are you going to say when she endorses Gingrich? As for gathering steam, it is the hot air you are full of spewing out like a punctured balloon. Sounds to me like you are a skinhead or a knucklehead.
Looks like Cain is finished because Cain and his attorney have both as much as admitted Cain had a 13 year affair. I am truly sorry it turned out this way for Cain but he should have never entered the race with all of this hanging over his head. He needs to pull out of the race and I expect he will.
Perry-kristnas and Newticles having a slapping match over who can pander the most to these "defacto American kids with diffrent last names". Who will get the highly coveted illegal alien vote in the GOP primary? The suspense is killing me!
LOL, in his last “comeback” he moved away from “margin of error” and just past “None of the above.”
......in his last “comeback” Perry moved away from “margin of error” and just past “None of the above”.......
LOL——from has-been to Perry who?.....in no time flat.
I’ve seen a couple of people push this idea of civil war, but when pressed, they never seem to come up with just which states would secede or how it would play out or whether or not they’d be willing to kill their fellow Americans with a (D) next to their name. Sorry, just not seeing it. Some people claimed a civil war would happen if Obama was elected in 2008, didn’t happen. Not believing it now.
I see a currency collapse, and an attempt to disarm the citizenry.
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