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.
nicely said.
ahem. It’s Perry. Thank the LordGodAllmighty.
I’m with you.
The only thing these people here have against Rick is an immigration thing.
Maybe a couple other minor crappos.
Perry may not be perfect but he’s a lot less perfect then the others.
PERRY IT IS!
Amateurs should not be trying this at home.
You like caps so,
ANYBODY THAT CAN DESTROY THAT POS obami.
SORRY, BUT NEWT DESTROYS ROMNEY. CAIN IS FINISHED.
NOW CALL THE TROLL PATROL TO COME HELP YOU.
You forgot one:
Rick Perry, empty suit.
Jukeman is correct. Many posters simply want to be proven right. Any candidate who is not THEIR chosen candidate must be denigrated and belittled.
Grow up, people. Tell me why you think your guy should be president; don’t tell me why mine shouldn’t.
Oh yes, that little, "Immigration thing".
As tens of thousands of American victims and their family members, of murder, rape, robbery, fraud, burglary, those ran over, stabbed and maimed by illegal aliens, stand in angry silence.
LOL. Perry makes Herman Cain look like James Madison.
Yes Shield. It’s time to get behind him. I’ve voted for Perry every time and I haven’t been disappointed yet. At least he knows what he wants to do to help this country and he won’t be bought, no matter what some say.
We have to get the vermin out of the WH, then start the clean up and Perry is the one with the will to do that.
I can see it now. Buchanan. Wonder how his supporters feel now?
The keyword spambots learned to spell “credibility!” Good for them!
There aren’t many votes for Michelle anymore and Cain continues to lose votes, so you are saying it’s Newt, Perry and Romney?
I think I'll go down tomorrow and change my name to "None Of The Above," and then file for president. Looking at the current field, I should win in a landslide.
Just kidding, mostly...
We don't give a crap about defeating Obama.
We care about defeating socialism, and adhering to the constitution. If a socialist - even a lessor one than Obama can win on the Republican ticket then socialism would control both parties.
I see war as a possibility if there is another Obama term, but plunging into civil war is far better than that even if we all die in it.
I do not care if that is not what you want, we will not compromise at this juncture.
If you read my post early in the Giuliani bugzapper thread you will see that some of us have been steering this course for a long time and we are gathering steam.
We don't give a crap about defeating Obama.
We care about defeating socialism, and adhering to the constitution. If a socialist - even a lessor one than Obama can win on the Republican ticket then socialism would control both parties.
I see war as a possibility if there is another Obama term, but plunging into civil war is far better than that even if we all die in it.
I do not care if that is not what you want, we will not compromise at this juncture.
If you read my post early in the Giuliani bugzapper thread you will see that some of us have been steering this course for a long time and we are gathering steam.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. I’m tired of that old mantra. There’s not one candidate running that has said in truthfulness, they would control the border.
They will be dealt with in time. Perry has already asked for help from the government on border control and didn’t get it. When he’s president he’ll have more control, I hope.
Btw I notice in the blog and with you and your like, the emphasis is always on how much money Perry has, never on the quality of his proposals. You cheezeballs planning on buying something? Hmm?
There is only one narrow group of illegal aliens that Governor Perry could remotely be said to support.
That is the very limited that qualify to pay for in state tuition because they were brought here as children, went their last 3 years to a Texas high school, graduated from a Texas high school and who get accepted to a Texas State college or university.
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