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Newt Gingrich didn't create the 1994 midterm conservative triumph in a vacuum.
Ronald Reagan, having won the Cold War and reversed the Carter malaise was abandoned like Churchill.
George Herbert Walker Pluperfect Read My Lips Voodoo Economics Bush soared to ninety percent after the First Gulf War and crashed and burned on caving to the Democrats.
Clinton went pedal to the metal with the biggest tax hike in history and socialist health care, bringing widespread oprobium.
Enter the bold and the brave Newt and the New Conservatives, fighting for fiscal responsibility and welfare reform.
In the days before the internet and any help at all from a Fox or coterie of conservative hosts beyond the all-knowing, all-caring, all-seeing Maharushie, Newt did it.
But the Democrats trapped and taped and went viral with his "wither on the vine" remark. The Gingrich Who Stole Christmas. AP has four thousand outlets; all the shrieking fairies and carping harpies attacked him night and day.
According to Rush the dramatic divorce of the dying cancer-ridden wife is one of the top things people know that isn't so.
And compared to Clinton's treason with Loral and Bernie Schwartz and our missile secrets, and Barry Hussein's nonstop attacks on our security financial and defense, Newt's a shining character.
The larger point is that he can make the case for what we must do and why we must not keep doing things the Barry Hussein way.
Case in point his dynamite truthtelling vis-a-vis the "peace process"--imaginary people.
Author Wright suggests that Newt Gingrich can persuade, that this is what Ronald Reagan did.
It's harder for our team than for Barry Hussein.
He just says Hope and Change and if we disagree we're racist.
Newt can handle the sales talk.
I just find it unacceptable that half the country is on the dole, pays no income tax, yet can vote more money from those who aren't on the dole and do pay the tax.
I think Newt can sell it the best of our candidates.

Much to agree with here.

I just find it unacceptable that half the country is on the dole, pays no income tax, yet can vote more money from those who aren't on the dole and do pay the tax.

I think Newt can sell it the best of our candidates.

Just a few short weeks ago, conservatives and even the LSM were consumed with heated debate about various proposals for MASSIVE TAX REFORM (which is key to entitlement reform and cuts in government spending).

This debate was one that I had all but given up on ever hearing in my lifetime. Yet, there it was and the ideas for TRUE tax reform were being seriously discussed, with incredible mojo on all sides, as if, yes, there was every reason to think we were going to "go there" in some way, shape or form in the next administration.

Now. Nothing. Old Mo has left the building.

Does Gingrich have a tax plan? Yes, he does. Is it bold enough to get anyone even talking about it? Apparently not.

Not yet.

At some point, this is going to have to be the focus on Newt's campaign and his administration. As I've said from the beginning, any candidate/President who is not focused on MASSIVE TAX REFORM, not just on "flattening rates" or tinkering around the edges, is not serious about actual solutions, not only for our economy, but for preserving our freedom.

Every day we get closer and closer to that tipping point where more than 50% of the population is feeding at the government trough -- where takers outnumber producers. Once that happens, and it WILL happen without massive tax reform, it's GAME OVER.

“I just find it unacceptable that half the country is on the dole, pays no income tax, yet can vote more money from those who aren’t on the dole and do pay the tax.”

I hope Newt is willing to put his mind to this moral argument, but I won’t hold my breath.

His tax plan is loaded with deductions and exemptions that preserve tax freeloading. If EVERYBODY paid federal income tax, it would only need to be 10%. Instead, with the $12K per person deduction, child tax credits, and EITC all preserved in Newt’s 15% Max (and no minimum) plan, there will be even more tax freeloaders than today.

Fixing Newt’s plan would be easy — just add the proviso that none of the deductions or credits can reduce your tax below a minimum 10% of AGI. That one change would eliminate tax freeloading and ensure everyone paid between 10% and 15% overall effective rate. The personal income tax would raise enough additional revenue to eliminate the corporate tax entirely and all the tax overhead and lobbying by corporations. America would be the best tax environment in the world.

Wipe the regulatory slate clean and the combination would have new businesses flocking to relocate in the USA.