Posted on 12/07/2011 2:50:42 PM PST by Halfmanhalfamazing
If there are no pure candidates, then there are no purists.
-—————That’s my point: Who will fill the bill after Newt is discarded?-——————
I’m not so much trying to join one person’s camp as much as I am trying to avoid a big government republican.
I’d gladly vote for Santorum or Bachmann. I’d even take Perry. I have a lot of reservations about Paul, but I don’t think he would grow government and that is by far the number one issue.
Gingrich, Romney, and Huntsman are big government republicans.
I don’t expect anybody can explain to me why I should reject big government to accept big government. Can you?
When was the last time the congress actually cut the deficit and balanced the budget?
Yes, he is. I think he may get a second look from a lot of people.
Gingrich will work tirelessly to solve the singularly most important issue of our time. We just don’t know what he thinks it will be.
But Romney is even to the Left of Newt, which is saying something!
When was the last time the congress actually cut the deficit and balanced the budget?
When the 94 Congress took over to clean up Clinton’s mess using the Contract With America. Newt has been on a long, crooked road since then. That doesn’t mean I won’t support him should he pull this off. He is better than Romney. How much better is the question.
HANG IN THERE, RICK!
Well, that’s a nice positive attitude./s
With people like you - 2012 will be ushering in an Obama second term.
And how exactly does Gingrich deserve my confidence, my vote?
Romney and Gingrich are career politicians who needed Big Government to be elected.
The Tea Party conservatism is about Limited Government.
Gingrich is politicking as a Limited ‘BIG’ Government politician.
That is a big difference between Limited Government and Big Government.
Gingrich wants conservative voters to COMPROMISE. That is what RINOS do. AND WE ALL DO NOT LIKE RINOS.
Are you still willing to compromise on a Limited Big Government politician?
If you do, then you aren’t Tea Party.
I keep hearing people say...anyone but Obama...
How about vote for anyone but a PROGRESSIVE????
It is the Progressives that are destroying our country. Remember the progressives were started by the GOP (Teddy Roosevelt) - they believe the government is the answer.
The Progressives in the right and the left believe in varying forms of nationalism leading all the way up to the New World Order...
Every president since Carter (except Reagan) was and is a progressive.
It is no wonder why we are in the state we are in. This is all part of their plan.
There is a good chance that everything will collapse during the next term.
So who do you want to be responsible for rebuilding America and our economy?
A Progressive or a true small government founderesque person?
Let’s tell the GOP we will NOT support progressive candidates anymore. Because that is our ONLY choice a progressive from the right or a progressive from the left.
The progressives from the right always lead to more and more radical progressives from the left.
This may be our last chance. I hear from a lot of people that our system is designed to force long periods of massive change and for the most part I agree except Obama in 3 years has done more damage to our free country than all the progressives have done in 100 years.
This is it, the end game. We have to make our stand and make our choice.
We need people like Bachmann or Santorum on the ticket against Obama - not right-winged progressives like Romney or Gingrich!!!
BTW where is the tea party on all this? They are massively supporting Gingrich...is the tea party really about smaller government, less spending, etc...I am beginning to wonder.
Name one candidate a paranoid kook like McManus would support. He and JBS even thought Ronald Reagan had sold out to the NWO and was a globalist puppet.
If you wouldn't vote for him over Obama, you're the enemy.
The second amendment won't exist as we know it if Obama gets to pick a couple more Supreme Court justices. Gay marriage will be forced on the nation. Religious freedom will be severely curtailed. And, Obamacare will be permanent entrenched as part of the healthcare system.
But, you took the principled stand and helped Obama win. What a guy!
He is a socialist that balanced the budget and pushed through welfare reform as speaker!
Newt's record in congress is actually quite conservative. We can use his deficit reducing, tax cutting, budget balancing talents right now. And he's an aggressive fighter. We're going to need that.
Romney saddled Massachusetts with budget busting RomneyCare, taxpayer funded "safe and legal" abortion, gay marriage, leftist judges and a completely destroyed Republican label. And RomneyCare did become the model and impetus for ObamaCare.
Not to mention the fact that Newt has the support of the Republican conservative base and the grassroots tea party supporters:
READ, Wake UP and Repeat.
Realize that we are going to be under attack from the Establishment republicans just a voracious and nasty as from the left. And we are seeing it here in FB.
Newt's election and his appointments will the death knell for the Ivy League Establishment Elitist Republican Club that has been deciding, for decades, who our nominees will be. The last time they lost on that was Ronald Reagan...with whom Newt worked closely.
Newt has a REAL record when he was in office, when House Speaker. a solidly CONSERVATIVE one. WE don't have to just take his word for what he'd do.
Romney also has a record in office. Emphatically not a Conservative one.
"By their fruits shall ye know them."
Newt has an ACU rating of 90%.
Newt has experience in Washington but is not the 'insider' - not the anointed one of the Establishment Cabal - Romney is. Romney is one of their Ivy League Club members - from the Harvard/Yale trained golden boys.
Newt went to a college in - gasp - Georgia. Who was the last president that wasn't from the Ivy League Establishment Club? Ronald Reagan.
Why do you think the hate (fear) and attack Palin? She's not from The Club either.
By these Argumentum ad Hominem attacks on Newt, the attackers expose themselves. Expect more. They're fighting for their empire of control.
As for SCOTUS picks, in the long run, our liberty will depend on ourselves. As long as we're dependent on the SCOTUS, we're screwed.
All that video does is expose the limited Big Government that Gingrich is for. McManus didn’t make up Gingrich’s own words or actions. Gingrich should be held responsible for his political ideology.
Like ‘Surfer’ stated above your comment, the conservatives still have Bachmann and Santorum to choose.
CHOOSE ONE OF THEM!
Heck, 99% of all the comments here on Free Republic are about advocating Tea Party principles for about 3 years before a general election, but then that conservative passion disappears down the home stretch. And in it’s place are EXCUSES as to why these Tea Party principles need to be abandoned, typically for electability concerns.
If you are going to fight for conservatism, then you will have to vote for conservatism.
All I know is that if you give up on the Tea Party, then it will fade away... And right now, Obama’s Occupy movement is raging strong against conservatism. By being a Tea Party Patriot, there will be strengths in numbers, to help defend America against this Big Government evil. We had Obama on the ropes in November of 2010, but now he’s fighting back. ONLY THE TEA PARTY HAS THE MEANS TO STOP IT!
Why give up the fight now when we are unified as a Tea Party force?
It’s now or never.
Your choice.
Obama won when Herman Cain received that death threat on his family member (s) on his way to the announcement last Saturday!! How base! How evil! I don’t think Ronney is above doing such a horrible thing anymmore than this administration is. Whoever did it deserves the ultimate punishment!
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