Posted on 05/06/2008 1:07:42 PM PDT by The_Republican
If Newt is an example of the changes the Republican Party wants to make, don’t bother. Liberalism is a loser, especially when it comes to the global warming sell out.
I will not cast vote for that man under any circumstances.
Newt makes some good points. He ought to be changing his coziness, though, with the Liars spewing out Global Warming.
Newt talks up a game here—but then it seems he doesn’t get in the game himself, at least not anymore. Nevertheless his words ought to be heard.
So...for whom are you voting?
No one gives a rip about the census, or GPS air traffic control.
He’s trying to be clever, but it isn’t going anywhere.
There are a very short list of issues that will get people’s attention this season.
IRS is one. Forget the census, what about the IRS?
Immigration is another.
And the war is the third.
Gingrich is fiddling with the knobs when what people want is to shift gears and turn the car at the next intersection, for good or for bad.
In the end, we have to face the fact that any Republican candidate is just shouting from the bottom of a well. No one can hear him. We do, because we’re news-geaks, and we surf the net looking for these kinds of stories. Normal people get their news from CNN. They get their views from Oprah and Olbermann. They get their history from public school textbooks and leftist professors. They get their entertainment from Hollywood people who think Republicans are war criminals.
Solve that problem, and we’ll have a chance of selling our message to the electorate. Fail to solve that problem and we have elected our last Republican. You can’t persuade them if they can’t even hear you.
I got three comebacks on my post. Why is it that yours was the only one offensive. People like you that have to get nasty and resort to name calling, usually are the ones with the problems.
The problem is people aren't buying it. Newt wrote that for the 2006 elections... so, how did that play out? The Democrats won a majority of Governorships the Senate, gained a majority in the House, and, "for the first time in the history of the United States, no Republican captured any House, Senate, or Gubernatorial seat previously held by a Democrat."
See: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_general_elections%2C_2006
An intellectual campaign on major, shades of grey issues that really matter is going to lose to mob rule chanting soundbites they can understand every time. The Dems know it. Karl Rove knows it. Newt knows it.
I agree that that is how the game has been played, but Karl Rove is no longer in a position of power, and neither is Newt. Wonder why?
Right now, if my own friends, family, and neighbors are any indication, people are very concerned about gas and grocery prices, plus the cost of medical care. I have yet to hear a single person make a single comment about whether or not the Pledge needs to include "Under God". Not a single one.
But if I had a nickel for every time I've heard that eggs are too expensive, I've have enough money to... well, buy a dozen eggs, which have almost doubled in price in the last year or so.
That's the game, it's disgusting, but if we don't play we've already lost.
Then perhaps we've already lost.
We need to win more than only the presidency to put forth a conservative agenda in the United States. I think that anyone who puts forth patriotic platitudes and offers nothing of value is going to find themselves sidelined in 2008.
Newt was right about one thing, though. He wrote, "The Republican loss in the special election for Louisiana's Sixth Congressional District last Saturday should be a sharp wake up call for Republicans: Either Congressional Republicans are going to chart a bold course of real change or they are going to suffer decisive losses this November."
"http://www.humanevents.com/article.php?id=26376#continueA
I just think he is misreading what needs to be done, easy to do if you are disconnected from the electorate.
“According to the United States Bureau of Economic Analysis, federal employees earn an average annual compensation of $106,871, including pay and benefits, compared to just $53,288 in the private sector,” says Dennis Damp, author of “The Book of U.S. Government Jobs,” citing statistics gathered in late 2005 and early 2006.
I thought that Newt's Contract On With America was supposed to help fix that sort of thing.
Yes, redistribution of income is wildly popular when it is from a few to the many. But it is much less popular, as you described, when the many are giving to the few.
Same goes for Hannity, your chief ballwasher.
Maybe so, but so is the Republican Party, officially made up of RINO's at the top
Once the carnage is over, there will be somewhere between 200-220 GOP Congressmen and Senators.
The GOP will not return to health until at least half of these cowardly mush-minded Republican incumbents are ousted in the primaries and replaced by real conservatives.
It didn't play in the first place. Newt wrote it as a personal interest op-ed, it wasn't the official gameplan. I'm not sure what the official gameplan was, something along the lines of 'let the Dems attack us on Iraq while we shoot ourselves in the foot repeatedly about amnesty." You can't blame Newt for that.
Right now, if my own friends, family, and neighbors are any indication, people are very concerned about gas and grocery prices, plus the cost of medical care. I have yet to hear a single person make a single comment about whether or not the Pledge needs to include "Under God". Not a single one.
A solution to a trivial public relations issue like the pledge is one equally trivial and relatively painless law away. Making concrete progress on a real issue like the price of groceries - and the related costs of transportation and weakening dollar and the biofuels industry etc. - is difficult and slow if it can be done at all and many toes will be trampled in the process.
Politicians will always talk about the trivial problem they can solve today rather than appear ineffectual over the real problem they can't.
Then perhaps we've already lost.
I can't disagree with you.
Exactly, but most of the people on this forum are either Libertarian, or RINO's, and anti-Christian anymore.
Most of the posts are good for a few laughs, but this is a place where I used to read entire threads, now....... about 15 minutes a whack is all I can stand.
A good deal of the posters here have no clue what this site was created for.
I guess I have to wait until a decent third party candidate or an approprite write-in pops up. If the field is still goofy, I'll just vote for the congresscritters and the local offices, leaving the Presidential space blank.
How about smaller, less intrusive government? That might be a good plan for Republicans.
Hey Gingrich, how about ‘Global Warm’ THIS.
There is a bunch of truth in what you said.
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