Posted on 12/15/2011 5:54:32 AM PST by floridarunner01
For the fifth straight survey, the GOP field has a new frontrunner in Iowa.
You got that right! Fox and enemies of the conservatives are doing their number on Newt.
I was having a discussion with someone yesterday about the phenomenon of "momentum" in a race, and I questioned why momentum would influence a deeply personal decision as important as selecting your future (hoped-for) president. I was told a sizable percentage of people, when it comes to really "pulling the lever" simply want to vote for who they think will win independent of their politics or ideology.
It's incomprehensible. Anyway, when you ponder the prospect of manipulated polling you have to realize its insidiousness .
Gingrich on Energy
• Gingrich thinks that the Kyoto treaty is bad for the nation and the environment.
• He would give incentives for renewable resources and conservation.
• He would end the 'scare tactics' and drill in Alaska.
• He supports eliminating the gas tax.
Gingrich on the Environment
• Gingrich supports lowering carbon emissions but is skeptical of the climate change theories.
• He favors tax breaks over cap and trade.
• He supports conservative-based conservation efforts.
• He wrote a book on his views of the environment called 'A Contract with the Earth'.
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Gingrich on Health Care
• He thinks that health care should be competitive and allowed to cross state lines. Competition would lower prices and provide more choices.
• He would give tax credits for developing the technology to help and prevent disabilities.
• Gingrich thinks Medicare should focus on preventative health instead of illness and that we’d save $14 billion on diabetes treatments alone.
• He thinks the government does not belong in health care. Nationalizing health care hurts everyone.
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Gingrich on Immigration
Contrary to his gung-ho and partisan approach, Gingrich is clearly divided on the issue of immigration. We’ve rarely seen him struggling to convey his message, so it is a rare treat to see a contemplative, thoughtful and hesitant Gingrich. He may be alienating a large segment of the GOP grassroots with his stance, and in the process, open himself to accusations of pandering to the Hispanic community, but one can clearly sense that this is Gingrich being earnest.
Immigration: Yea or Nae
Yea.
“There's nothing complicated about what's going on. The richest society in the planet is within geographic reach now, in the age of modern transportation, of much poorer societies. So relatively smart people wake up in the morning and say, Gee, I could earn $1 an hour here or $14 an hour in Kansas City. I wonder where I'd like to be next week. This isn't complicated. It's not indecent and it’s not wrong. But a society which fails to control its own borders is asking for the level of trouble we now have.”
Declared 2012 Republican Presidential Candidate Former Speaker of the House Newt Gingrich
On Amnesty
"Because I think we are going to want to find some way to deal with the people who are here to distinguish between those who have no ties to the United States, and therefore you can deport them at minimum human cost, and those who, in fact, may have earned the right to become legal, but not citizens"
May 19, 2011, Iowa
“No serious citizen who’s concerned about solving this problem should get trapped into a yes/no answer in which you’re either for totally selling out protecting America or you’re for totally kicking out 20 million people in a heartless way. There are — there are humane, practical steps to solve this problem, if we can get the politicians and the news media to just deal with it honestly.”
June 13, 2011, Gingrich speaking on the GOP New Hampshire Presidential Debate
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