It'd be a great pleasure for me to campaign, support and vote for someone I can really agree with on most issues, respect, appreciate and get excited about rather than holding my nose and just voting against the lesser of two weevils.
In Part 1, Newt challenges the Wake County GOP to do all it can in 2012 to make Barack Obama a 1 term president. He discusses energy policy, our debt crisis, the president's failure to lead on Libya, one nation under God, the Declaration of Independence and unalienable rights.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rpa4aCiP1Cw
In Part 2 Newt addresses the way left wing government erodes American Exceptionalism, why religious freedom is opposed by dictatorships, the work ethic, unemployment compensation, economic growth, 2+2=4, and government barriers to job creation.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y42oQgOb7OE
In Part 3, Newt discusses the importance of litigation reform, a more favorable tax code for job creation including abolishing the capital gains and death tax, and executive orders that should be signed on the first day the new president takes office. [Abolish all W/H czars, reinstate Reagan bans on taxpayer money for abortion, etc].
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GMFV5h-wi7k
In Part 4, Newt confronts the sobering fact that ten years after 9/11 we are not yet winning in our conflict with radical Islamists. He draws analogies with the Cold War about how we need to rethink our strategies. He also discusses the Libyan engagement.
er, make that voting against the WORST of two weevils.
Hate it when I do that.
Not bold enough. Yet.
If the Tea Party makes it clear to Gingrich that it demands a clear and unwavering focus on limited government, through massive tax reform and actual cuts in government spending, and Gingrich takes on that focus and doesn't get bogged down in tinkering around the edges of the tax code, we're on our way to a real solution not only for our economy, but for preserving our freedom.
It wasn't so long ago in NY that Newt demonstrated that he really had no clue what the Tea Party was all about in practical political terms, as opposed to his aerial view of it from Wonkville.
In my view, this -- an intellectual disconnect between Main Street and Wonkville -- is one of the reasons why many of the things Gingrich has done over the years are inexplicable in light of the conservative principles he expresses.
That problem is fixable, imo, if the Tea Party makes clear they know they need to ride herd on Gingrich and that they are more than willing to bump heads with him if need be, now and in the White House. This will make him, and the relationship, stronger. It will help, not hurt him in the primaries and the general.
It's the same thing, really, with any President. But it's especially important in regard to a guy who can get so inside his own head that he doesn't pick up on the conservative zeitgeist on a particular issue and, therefore, instead of working with it, he (even if unwittingly) ends up working against it. Because, as Newt himself has said about this very thing, that is when he acts dumbly and ticks off conservatives, who are his political best friends.
Again, doesn't mean one can't support Newt with gusto and pleasure. It just means, as I posted previously, he's earning the nomination, not being annointed.