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Gloating is so beneath you......... ummm no it's not. It feels GOOD!

LOL. I'm really not trying to gloat. I am tired though of the ridiculous over-the-top vitriol against Newt. He has said some things that I detest. He was not my 1st choice. I was all in for Sarah, but she left me at the altar. It took me awhile to get over that because I REALLY thought she was running. My bad. I'm over it and I've had to move on.

Among those in the battle I believe Newt is the best choice. He's far from perfect but I think he would be the most formidable opponent to Obama in the general election AND I believe he would be the best President of those running. Even those that loathe him don't doubt his intelligence or debating skills. Those are tools that will serve him well in a campaign against Obama and the MSM. And make no mistake about it, any GOP candidate will have to beat BOTH next year to win the election. It's always been that way, but now more so than ever. While most of the other GOP candidates have played along with debate moderators questions, Newt has often refused to even accept the premise of their questions. He gets it, while the others naively play along. Again, that will serve him well in a general election.

Are there other more conservative candidates running? I suppose you could make that argument, but every single one of them has had a RINO moment or 2 that can be pointed out. Here's where a lot of conservatives get mixed up - they automatically assume that the most conservative candidate would be the best choice. That's not always the case. My next door neighbor is more conservative than any of them...but he wouldn't be my 1st choice if he were running. POTUS is a HUGE job and I want someone QUALIFIED to be President, not just good at repeating conservative talking points. I want someone with a RECORD of consequential conservative accomplishments to look at, not just a list of promises. I want someone with a conservative vision of where they want to take us AND the ability to bring that plan to fruition. Cain's whole campaign is based on his 9-9-9 plan. I don't like the plan and he has NO CHANCE of getting it passed. His supporters actually have tried to use that as a selling point - "Don't like the 9-9-9 plan? Don't worry about, it has no chance of becoming law!" So why would I want to vote for someone who's whole campaign is based on a plan I don't like? Even if I did like it, why would I want to vote for him since it has no chance of becoming law? If he can't get the central part of his plan to help America turned around, what's next? That would leave him very weak and ineffectual.

Newt on the other hand, has a realistic plan for everything with his latest Contract. Have you noticed how his conservative detractors aren't here bashing the Contract? Why is that? Is it because it reads like a conservative manifesto? Is is because it reminds them how effective he was with the original Contract with America? Yes, and yes.

The other candidates have their plans as well, but I like Newt's the most. AND I have the most confidence in his plan getting acted on. Why? Because he has done it before in Congress. The hardest part any President faces of getting his agenda into place is getting the various parts of it passed through Congress. Which candidate has the best chance of getting their agenda passed? That is clearly Newt Gingrich. As SOH, he got things done. Meanwhile, you have Bachmann whining about Newt, but what is her legislative record? Let's assume for the moment that she is indeed more conservative than Newt. Fine. What's her vision for America? Where are all of those bills she wrote that reflect her vision? Oh, there aren't any. What important pieces of legislation did she push through that demonstrates she could get things done in DC as President? Can't think of any. Because of this and the way she has run her campaign, I have NO confidence in her as our nominee or being an effective President. Santorum might be slightly better than she, but so what? Rick Perry certainly has a better record than either of them as far as accomplishing things, but some of those things shouldn't have been accomplished, and he doesn't seem to able to articulate his plans very well. What entire government departments do you want to abolish? Oh, give me a minute and it'll come to me. That is not going to cut it.

Having said that, I would take ANY of them in a heartbeat over the disaster currently in the White House, but getting Obama OUT is only the start. We have to take quick action from the WH AND Congress with a new President. We can't waste that moment of opportunity with on-the-job training. We need someone with a conservative vision who can get that plan into action ASAP. Love him or hate him, that person is Newt Gingrich.

Newt is a politician. He's great at speaking, maybe too good. Sometimes I think he likes to hear himself speak. Maybe that is why he has said some things in the past that makes conservatives cringe. He's such a good debater he can take either side of a debate and win. ALL politicians are famous for saying what they think the people they need to vote for them want to hear. If you think that's what Newt is doing, fine. Let's ignore EVERYTHING EVERY ONE OF THEM is SAYING, and look ONLY at what they have actually DONE when they had power at some level. Then ask yourself, WHO has the most effective and conservative RECORD of accomplishments? Not talking points, plans, or statements, but actual legislative and/or governance RECORD. I believe that is Newt followed by Perry. Then, you Newt haters, ask yourself this - if Newt were President and simply did a legislative repeat of what he did as the Speaker of the House - the last time he had a great deal of power - is that something you can live with? Maybe it's not perfect, but it WAS the Republican Revolution that was VERY conservative and that FORCED a sitting democrat President to do an about face on his whole agenda. If Newt could accomplish that as SOH with a Clinton as President, imagine what could be done with Newt as POTUS, a GOP Senate, and a very conservative GOP House.

If you hated what Newt accomplished as SOH, then fine, don't vote for him. It would be silly and naive for you to expect something much different from him as POTUS. If you liked what he did (all or most) then he is probably your man, because you are very likely to see much more of the same - a man with a plan and a strategy to get it turned into action.

That was quite a volume, but a good read. Not much room left to speculate on where you stand either.

Let’s hope the rest of the Forum is up to adjusting to the trend. Newt has been the author of everything we now see in the polls. That is for sure. There was no media help, which is how Cain and Perry gained their short lived fame.

So you're the guy writing Newt's speeches? :>) Damned effective argument, but Newt's had me as an admirer since the early days of C-Span when he'd give hour-long history lessons to an empty chamber. The man knows his stuff, has a strategy for all of our big problems, loves his country and can actually argue his way out of a paper bag (actually, he could probably argue his way out of Fort Knox and past the armored division guarding it).

"President Newt Gingrich"...almost as catchy as "President Ronald Reagan," and just as sure to produce acres of Schaedenfreud for me. GO NEWT!

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Just WOW! That was the best article/post I have read to date.

I don't know how to post the above APPLAUSE pic, but let it stand as mine.

APPLAUSE, APPLAUSE, APPLAUSE

I look forward to reading further comment from you.