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Newt's Solution; Fred/Newt '08
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Posted on 07/19/2007 7:50:00 AM PDT by MPforeignER
Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich's hilarious video, titled "FedEx vs. Government Bureaucracy," had attracted 421,575 separate views on YouTube by late afternoon yesterday.
It shows him telling an American Enterprise Institute audience that in the world that works, you can track UPS or FedEx packages in virtual real time. The point is that private-sector companies can employ technology and train people to track millions of packages that are on the move, but the government can't track several million illegal aliens, even not moving.
"In the world that fails, the federal government cannot find somewhere between 10 million and 20 million illegal immigrants, even if they are sitting," says the Georgia Republican. "So to me that leads to a very obvious proposal: that we send a package to every person who is here illegally. UPS and FedEx deliver them. We track them on a computer."
http://www.newt.org/backpage.asp?art=4667
TOPICS: Business/Economy; Government; Political Humor/Cartoons
KEYWORDS: gingrich; immigration; solutions; thompson
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To: edge10
Fred and Laura Ingraham. She can take on the hildabeast and slap the snot out of her with her sharp wit, negate the women vote; and Fred can be above the fray.
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posted on
07/19/2007 9:15:26 AM PDT
by
Weeedley
To: Wolverine
BINGO!!! I’ve been saying this for a long time.
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posted on
07/19/2007 9:48:20 AM PDT
by
fish hawk
(The religion of Darwinism = Monkey Intellect)
To: RKV
Agree. I love Newt. If we could imagine the modern-day equivalent of the Founding Fathers, Newt would be Ben Franklin. Brilliant, indespensible, not presidential. The real question is “who are our Washingtons, Madisons, and Jeffersons?”
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posted on
07/19/2007 10:10:09 AM PDT
by
MWF054
To: MPforeignER
That would be a dream ticket... for me. Social conservatives would vote against a ticket with Newt on it even if it meant putting Hillary in office, though.
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posted on
07/19/2007 10:17:19 AM PDT
by
gcruse
(Let's strike Iran while it's hot.)
To: RKV
BJ became president, even with girlfriends hanging from his zipper.
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posted on
07/19/2007 10:22:59 AM PDT
by
gathersnomoss
(If General Patton was alive, he would slap many faces!!)
To: Turret Gunner A20
I like Newt a lot ... he’s a good guy, smart, likeable and generally right ... would be a great President or VP. BUT - I think he has too much baggage (after the Clinton years) to put him on the ticket. There are plenty of possibilities for Thompson’s VP nominee that don’t have the negatives that Gingrich will undoubtedly have.
I’m personally pulling for Fred Thompson/ J.C. Watts ‘08 or Fred Thompson/ Duncan Hunter ‘08. Those guys are every bit as good as Newt, without the down side.
H
To: Rhetorical pi2
>> I still have a list of books he suggested all Americans should read back in 1994 after the Republican Revolution.
Would you mind posting that list? I was all of 15 years old in 1994, and apparently missed it.
H
To: MPforeignER
So we can elect two guys that aren’t running. Swell.
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posted on
07/19/2007 11:19:15 AM PDT
by
CJ Wolf
To: Paperdoll
And no Anchor babies - let’s get that fixed, SCOTUS!
To: gcruse
I’d vote for a ticket with him on it. Better him than a total rino.
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posted on
07/19/2007 11:23:33 AM PDT
by
darkangel82
(Socialism is NOT an American value.)
To: Hemorrhage
I don’t have the list but can recall that he required every Republican representative to read “The Effective Executive” prior to being sworn in for that session of Congress.
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posted on
07/19/2007 11:24:42 AM PDT
by
Buffalo Head
(Illigitimi non carborundum)
To: darkangel82
I’d vote for a Thompson/Newt ticket, but I’m afraid others are right about the samsonite factor!! Now a real ticket would be Thompson/Santorum ... yea, I know he lost the last election - but what a great conservative and articulate spokesman for anti-terrorism and conservatism!!!
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posted on
07/19/2007 1:43:45 PM PDT
by
Froggie
(S)
To: RightOnTheLeftCoast
Thompsons running-mate should have executive experience rather than a truckful of baggage, including discarded wives and the ignominous 1995 Fade. But you don't mind a bevy of ex-wives and lovers in Fred's past. Interesting
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posted on
07/19/2007 2:06:05 PM PDT
by
itsahoot
(The GOP did nothing about immigration, immigration did something about the GOP (As Predicted))
To: Hemorrhage
Fred Thompson/ Duncan Hunter 08. Interestingly enough, Mark Levin spoke favorably of Duncan yesterday, even called him charismatic.
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posted on
07/19/2007 2:10:36 PM PDT
by
itsahoot
(The GOP did nothing about immigration, immigration did something about the GOP (As Predicted))
To: itsahoot
"But you don't mind a bevy of ex-wives and lovers in Fred's past. Interesting"
One ex-wife who is not only friendly with him but supportive of his candidacy and has only nice things to say. It might be news to you, but sometimes good people break up. (Reagan divorced Jane Wyman, after all.) As to girlfriends, sure, Thompson dated between marriages, and not only did he score some real knockouts but they all, uniformly rave about what a gentleman and romantic he is.
I guess if being divorced and having dates disqualifies a person from the presidency, then along with Reagan we should bar Giuliani and McCain, allowing only single-marriage folks like Romney to run. And the Clintons. And the Gores. Regarding those last two, they illustrate that there are better reasons to vote for or against candidates, such as career-long records of socialist actions, positions and rhetoric.
Thanks for playing.
To: RightOnTheLeftCoast
Thanks for playing. Then don't apply that standard only to people you don't like.
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posted on
07/21/2007 4:08:25 PM PDT
by
itsahoot
(Gingrich: "We don't have a peace process. We have a surrender process.")
To: itsahoot
"Then don't apply that standard only to people you don't like."
I'm sitting here trying to figure out what you mean. I like Gingrich. My comment was that he has regrettable baggage, including messy divorces (dumping a wife while she's in the hospital battling cancer will hardly play well with the soccer moms) and, worse, that "ignominous fade". By that I referred to the frustrating, rudderless fizzle that followed his brilliant midterm work with the Contract With America, which in turn was followed by his resignation in the face of a trumped-up ethics kerfuffle (and, very possibly, blackmail by the Clintons-- Hillary's FBI files stopped at "G", recall). Basically, Newt had his chance and kinda blew it. He talks brilliantly, and there would be a valuable place for him in a GOP administration if we're so fortunate as to elect one. But President? I'm hesitant.
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