Newt Gingrich is no conservative

Washington Examiner ^ | 111411 | Gene Healy

[Huck]

We haven’t looked at Rick Santorum closely enough...

...And Gary Johnson

It's starting to happen, Lazlo. My boy Gary Johnson is making his move! I promise to play nice against your guy Santorum! lol

[logician2u]

Bring back Gary Johnson at least he will let me grow POT for a living...just may be the only way I will be able to make one if things do not get better.

LOL.

Since we're presumably discussing Newt's "conservative" credentials, or lack thereof, might as well throw this into the pot and watch it simmer.

Gingrich Suggests Tough Drug Measure

The headline is typical NYT weasel-wording. You'll have to read the story for a full psychotropic experience.

If Newt has recanted his position from when he was Speaker, it's not been mentioned on this forum.

Small-government conservative? Don't think so.

[Buckeye Battle Cry]

He also is not Mitt Romney, so that makes him a-okay in my book.

[Steve Schulin]

I learned enough about Newt right here on FreeRepublic during Clinton impeachment to conclude that he's amply demonstrated himself to be unfit to serve the public trust.

The Republican Party has been working hand in hand with the Democrats for many years. They look like they're fighting, but they're actually dancing together away from the principles that I hold dearest. None of the GOP candidates at the presidential debate podiums are even minimally acceptable to me.

While I agree that Obama is a disaster for our nation, I disagree that the Republicans have presented a better choice, however. My industry, nuclear power, is big on root cause analysis as a tool for preventing recurrence of problems. I see the root cause of our current sorry state of affairs as being our rebellion against God.

The best indicator I've found for whether a candidate is minimally acceptable is his or her position on abortion. For years, our nation has been depriving, under color of law, a whole group of individual human beings of their lives without due process. If a candidate won't stand up for the principle that we're all endowed by our Creator with unalienable rights, why would you possibly imagine that he or she will stand up in defense of any other American Principle.

I wrote-in Alan Keyes for president in 2008. Votes for him were counted in enough states that he could have won Electoral College, had enough voters voted for him. I don't know if there will be a similar option in 2012. The party that nominated Allen Keyes was America's Independent Party. It has changed its name to America's Party.

[hosepipe]

I have always been for Bachmann..

[hosepipe]

[ Check out Ron Paul’s record, too. Like him or not, he’d be real change, and not the kind the global elites want. ]

I like some of Pauls issues.. laugh at others..
He don’t want to be President and knows exactly how to make that happen..

If he did he would simply often shut up about a few things..
He is not stupid.. He just wants to shape a few issues.. you know bring them “forward”..
Pretty smart actually.. brilliant even..

Paul knows how to become President and how to NOT become one..
Who would want that job?.. A thankless job.. good retirement though..
I think Ron Paul sees America DE-GENERATING.. morally and spiritually.. and can play dominos!!..

[unkus]

You’re exactly right.

[federal__reserve]

When 22 million people can’t find jobs, when China & India & Brazil & S. Africa economies are expanding at 5 to 10% annually while ours is dawdling along at 1.5%, when manufacturing jobs are going from USA to Asia, I could’nt care less about what is happening in Libya or Egypt.

Wake up and smell the coffee, the real security issue is our ability to afford a strong military. Our national debt and annual deficits are a disgrace. We are heading straight into the PIIGS camp.

[Marine_Uncle]

The estimates from the clock site where accurate... my eyes where going cross eyed for sleep. And it gets worst if you where to click on the future say, one clicks on the CBO 2015 estimates at current revenue and spending conditions.
Fred I did not mean to beat on you. I just wanted to see where you where getting the numbers from.
Bottom line is we all know what a heap of trouble we are in, and that it would take the right mix of conservative POTUS and a conservative Senate and House to perhaps take the really tough steps to stop this country from sinking down the tube to the point where no form of recovery would be possible, where "recovery" means balance Federal Budgets and a slow pay down of the GND. Enough said from this end, it is all so frustrating to watch come to past.

[TigersEye]

And it gets worst if you where to click on the future say, one clicks on the CBO 2015 estimates at current revenue and spending conditions.

I didn't notice that function. It's quite a piece of software they have there. I did see that they added a pop-up explanation of each category since the last time I looked at it.

Something else interesting that I noticed was that personal debt is falling in all categories. That may not bode well for the economy but it does suggest that people are cleaning up their own debt problems. But that may not be an entirely voluntary thing. I don't know what factors are behind that.

[Marine_Uncle]

RE: "Something else interesting that I noticed was that personal debt is falling in all categories."
That is an area I simply am not prepared to address. As for the usefulness of the spread sheet, I have shared it with a lot of people over the past view years. The forward and way back machine feature is really nice as you indicated.