Be careful playing 'what if' Newt.
If John Kerry had won in 2004, it's extremely unlikely Obama would have run or won in 2008.
So is Newt saying we have him to thank for Obama?
Newt is full of it.
The prescription drug benefit did not gain Bush a single vote (see what happens when ya listen to Rove?), and until Obama took office, was the single biggest factor in the exploding deficit.
OMG that is a stupid comment.
Here, let me see if I can top it.
Newt is related to Eve. Eve ate the apple and women were cursed with periods. Therefore, through association, all periods are Newt’s fault.
Obviously, Newt is responsible for cramps, headaches, suspension of sex, bloating and on and on.
I say we hang him!!
[ If John Kerry had won in 2004, it’s extremely unlikely Obama would have run or won in 2008.
So is Newt saying we have him to thank for Obama? ]
I always have a nagging feeling that if Gore had Won in 2000 that after he bungled the response to 9/11 we would have been able to get in a true rock ribbed conservative...
No, we have Rush to thank for that - else we'd have Hillary in the WH now.
There is a particular professorial arrogance about Newt. What if’s and such are academic exercises of the academic and political elite. They accomplish nothing because they can never be proven conclusively.
Newt is this way because of his academic background and because he’s never held a real job beyond being a young husband to his former teacher. Since then he’s been nothing but a political figure who has had his share of ups and downs - and the political fate and largesse that comes with.
Politicians always fall back on the bullshit they know best. When they are faced with a logical and probing questioner, they delve further into the bullshit. The questions I’d like to ask Newt are:
1. You likely will give the illegals in this country ‘legal’ status; how can you guarantee the courts won’t fully legalize them and allow them to vote. Will you further guarantee that NONE of these people will drink from the public trough?
2. You have been shown to pander to anti-gun factions; will you swear to GOD that you will not impede or alter ANY provisions, rules, regulations, etc. to change the intended meaning of the Second Amendment.
3. What is your plan to abolish all agencies in the Federal Government not specifically cited in the US Constitution and Bill of Rights? What is your plan to get around the liberal court interpretations of the Commerce Clause?
These are just three; there are dozens more. He wouldn’t answer one of them truthfully.
It has been dishonestly tagged by the Left (and stupid conservatives) as a budget-budget government power grab, but its actually hugely successful and comes in under budget. The Dems control of the press will destroy this country.
If that Medicare Drug Benefit hadn’t been passed my family would have had to file bankruptcy just to pay for grandpa’s prescriptions.
Yet it is not our part to master all the tides of the world, but to do what is in us for the succour of those years wherein we are set, uprooting the evil in the fields that we know, so that those who live after may have clean earth to till. What weather they shall have is not ours to rule.