Tweedle Dum and Tweedle Dee say you must vote for Mitt Rom Nee
Posted on 12/15/2011 6:26:45 AM PST by Reaganite Republican
Like many FReepers, I wanted Sarah Palin to run but the left scared her off. I wanted Cain and the left drove him away with fake scandals. I tried to want Gingrich but his history of progressive rhetoric and big-government solutions just won't compute with my conservative political values. I can't understand how Tea Party folks can be enthusiastic about a career politician (Gingrich) who doesn't share their political philosophy. Wanting Obama out is perfectly understandable but wanting to replace him with another Republican Progressive with a well-know mercurial disposition and outsized ego (Gingrich) seems perverse. I'm not willing to trade everything I believe in just to defeat Obama. I firmly believe that the polls showing Obama 'neck-and-neck' with GOP challengers are skewed and unreliable. Obama can be defeated by any of the Republican contenders, including Michelle Bachmann or Rick Santorum, the only real conservatives left in the race. I can't support Newt Gingrich so my support, as inconsequential as it may be (but all I have) is going to one of those good people.
Just to be safe, we better get as many Tea Partiers elected to Congress as possible as a hedge against a Gingrich or Romney Presidency.
I have learned to defer to Mark Levin and Rush Limbaugh in the midst of confusion. Not someone (Beck) who implies the tea party may be racist for voting for Newt, Newt equates to Obama, and maybe we should vote for Ron Paul 3rd party. Ron Paul who blames the U.S. for 9-11 and thinks Iran should have nukes. Coulter thinks Romney is conservative so her opinion is worthless. Krauthammer can be very smart sometimes but others he is dead wrong.
Tweedle Dum and Tweedle Dee say you must vote for Mitt Rom Nee
Levin defends Newt!!!!
Levin needs to tell us what Palin’s “Princess Pelosi PSA” or “the era of Reagan is over” moments were if he’s going to claim Newt is a victim in the same way Palin was....
I read one “H” of a lot primarily here at FR, and other than the repititious RINO sourced crap about “he can beat Obama” has any one of these Romneybots Krauthammer, Coulter, Will, Rubin, etc. made an argument as to why Romney should be President?
All I’ve seen really is blatherings against anyone running against Romney, and that statement of him being the only one able to beat Obama. It’s of course all BS.
I have yet to change my thinking on Romney as having bought, and paid for the nomination with the RINO leadership of the GOP. It sucks that can even be possible.
What’s going on is apparent to any unbiased observer... an unholy alliance to throw water on Gingrich’s rise
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2819475/posts?page=75#75
Yup. And Newt wants to streamline and cut government spending as well. Cut budgets, cut unnecessary and wasteful programs, even entitlements. Use the tenth amendment to return functions like medicare to the states and the people. Privatize social security for the younger generations. Return education to the states and localities. Reduce healthcare costs by making insurance portable across state lines, tort reform, returning the functions to the states and people where they can control costs for covering the poor locally. Make health insurance tax deductible and privatize and encourage private health accounts, etc.He has a recorded history of successfully cutting taxes, cutting welfare programs, cutting spending, cutting deficits and balancing the budget.
75posted on Monday, December 12, 2011 8:47:40 PMby Jim Robinson
Chris Plante on WMAL in the Washington DC area is doing the same thing....bashing the DC GOP insider elitists.
He comes on just before Rush.
A caller making a great point - there is ‘book smart’ and ‘street smart’ and NEWT HAS BOTH!!!!!!!!
*In my best Red Buttons immitation* She nevah got a dinnah. Maybe she needs a cookie?
I fear it’s working.
My wife isn’t sold on Newt, and even I waver, some days I really support him, other days, lukewarmly if at all. Like Levin, I too would vote for an orange juice can against Obama.
Here’s the thing, and I hope the Iowa (and future) voters realize this, and then the general electorate:
Its way past the point where “looking Presidential” is the key qualifier to being President.
If voters really just want a guy with a picture-perfect family, a nice smile, a good radio voice, and someone who looks good in a suit...but doesn’t know his ass from a hole in the ground, and couldn’t come up with a coherent economic recovery plan if it came wrapped in a copy of The Communist Manifesto, then Barack Obama is their guy.
However, if they realize that this is the time for a mean bastard who takes no prisoners, knows his sh*t, is the only one on the stage who has actually balanced a budget and cut spending, and while me might be fat and old, there’s no doubt in anyone’s mind that he’s a patriot, then Newt is their guy.
If choice #1 is the winner, I fear for our nation’s future, and, in fact, I think the whole world is FUBAR and I’ll probably start buying up real estate on Mars.
Excellent post! Thanks.
“Ultimately, a civilized society must disarm its citizenry if it is to have a modicum of domestic tranquility of the kind enjoyed by sister democracies such as Canada and Britain. Given the frontier history and individualist ideology of the United States, however, this will not come easily. It certainly cannot be done radically. It will probably take one, maybe two generations. It might be 50 years before the United States gets to where Britain is today. Passing a law like the assault weapons ban is a symbolic - purely symbolic - move in that direction. Its only real justification is not to reduce crime but to desensitize the public to the regulation of weapons in preparation for their ultimate confiscation.” - Charles Krauthammer (from: ‘Disarm the Citizenry’, The Washington Post, Friday, April 5, 1996, page A19) Do you really need to know anything else about Krauthammer?
posted on Saturday, April 23, 2011 10:11:41 PM by Lancey Howard
Same here. And I agree with Mark Levin regarding voting in the general eletion then I would head straight for the nearest bar after voting. We simply cannot take another 4 years of Obama.
My pleasure, sir
We HAVE to vote for Romney in the general... and convince everyone else we possibly can to do so too.
But I can’t stand Mittens... and will be fighting tooth-and-nail every day of the primary season to avoid having to do that
But 3rd party candidates are to be frowned upon, as the country cannot take another 4 years of this- if he lets go after that, which isn’t all that certain to me
Unfortunately, they’re not the only ones...
http://www.weeklystandard.com/blogs/funniest-video-campaign-so-far_613289.html
Take a deep breath then exhale slowly. That's better.
I stated quite clearly that I don't have a 'chosen candidate' but that Bachmann and Santorum look like the only solid conservatives left and I could support either one, should they emerge from the Iowa caucuses with some success and the kind of 'conservative momentum' you admire when it's attributed to Newt Gingrich.
My issue with Gingrich is his relatively recent history of taking leftist positions e.g.global warming, his ridiculous slam at Romney - whom I absolutely do not support - that made the typical leftist claim that organizations such as Romney's (Bain Capital) routinely put businesses into bankruptcy and cost workers their jobs - a lie - and I don't trust the mercurial Newt veering from one 'big idea' to another with most requiring some form of government involvement.
Apparently you, Jim Robinson and many others are convinced of the notion that Newt Gingrich is an authentic conservative that will really show up Obama in a debate and soundly defeat him in the presidential election. Let's pretend that some or even all that is true. O.K. But what happens when 'President Gingrich' decides that now, he really does know that global warming, excuse me, 'climate change' is definitely real and absolutely must be addressed immediately (with U.S. tax dollars, of course)? When he decides that cutting taxes and spending would be more 'Right-Wing social engineering'? I can use many of Gingrich's recent statements to show that his 'conservatism' is far more apparent than real and that Newt only appears 'conservative' when compared to the Democrat-in Republican-clothing, Mitt 'mandate' Romney.
Newt definitely has attributes but I'm afraid that being an authentic conservative is not one of them. You and others sneering at anyone who questions Gingrich's conservatism based, not on what he did in congress in the 1990's (his true claim to conservative fame) but what he has said and done recently will not change reality. I regret that Jim Robinson now supports Gingrich and believes him to be just the guy conservatives need in the White House but that is his prerogative, as is my decision to not hop on the FR Gingrich bandwagon to oblivion.
For what it's worth, should the 2012 election choices come down to Obama and Gingrich, I'll vote for Gingrich, but with very low expectations and knowing that he will not govern as the conservative he now purports to be but never really was. However, even a 'progressive' Republican won't do as much harm to our country as will another four years of the Kenyan Marxist, Barack 'hate America' Obama. Still, voting for another allegedly 'conservative' 'best-we-can-do' Republican candidate that inevitably drifts left once in office is hardly an appealing proposition. Frankly, I wish Sarah Palin would jump in so I could watch heads explode all over FR, the MSM and Washington, D.C. Since that is not likely to happen, I'll withhold my support for another candidate until we see how the Iowa caucuses shake out. The results should be interesting and probably, unexpected.
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