Posted on 01/06/2012 5:38:48 PM PST by mitchell001
This is an appeal to all long-time conservatives. Let's start lining up behind Newt Gingrich, as Thomas Sowell, Art Laffer, JC Watts, Jim Robinson (Free Republic honcho) and others have. The hazzard of holding back an endorsement is that the media, pudits and PAC TV commercials will continue to shape negative opinion against Newt and we may lose our best conservative warrior. The result of the media, pundit and PAC TV onslaught may cause the nominee to be Romney or Santorum. Romney is a moderate and Santorum does not have the experience to Push the conservative agenda in the general election or if elected in the Washington DC - Congressional War Zone. I want to urge Sarah Palin, Herman Cain and Rush Limbaugh to endorse Gingrich now before they lose their voice to the LOUD voices of the media, pundit and PAC TV. He who hesitates is lost.
Clear as mud to me....
Thanks, I needed an identifier while supporting NEWT!
Here is my problem with all this mess.
Supposedly Mittens cannot be Obammy. Therefore we must nominate Newt because he will be relentless in his Pursuit of Obammy and the Presidency.
Then where the the he11 is his relentless pursuit of the Nomination for the Right to Challenge Obammy in the finals.
The survival of our beloved country is at stake. If Newt wants the job he damn better be ready to take on both Rominey and Obammy.
This is the kind of knee jerk stupidity that causes conservatives to lose elections.
America needs a leader whose field of study has been the history of humankind's struggle for freedom from oppression. Gingrich is the only one who, like Reagan, likely has read, studied and absorbed the ideas of the men who founded this Republic. Once their ideas of liberty penetrate a mind, then that person likely is best able to expose the counterfeit ideas of Obama.
Those who read Jefferson, Adams, Washington, Madison get a unique perspective that readers of more contemporary writers never acquire.
Just a sample from another Adams:
Samuel Adams - "The truth is, all might be free if they valued freedom, and defended it as they ought." - Essay in the Boston Gazette, October 14, 1771
"The liberties of our Country, the freedom of our civil constitution are worth defending at all hazards: And it is our duty to defend them against all attacks. We have receiv'd them as a fair Inheritance from our worthy Ancestors: They purchas'd them for us with toil and danger and expence of treasure and blood; and transmitted them to us with care and diligence. It will bring an everlasting mark of infamy on the present generation, enlightened as it is, if we should suffer them to be wrested from us by violence without a struggle; or be cheated out of them by the artifices of false and designing men. Of the latter we are in most danger at present: Let us therefore be aware of it. Let us contemplate our forefathers and posterity; and resolve to maintain the rights bequeath'd to us from the former, for the sake of the latter. - Instead of sitting down satisfied with the efforts we have already made, which is the wish of our enemies, the necessity of the times, more than ever, calls for our utmost circumspection, deliberation, fortitude, and perseverance. Let us remember that 'if we suffer tamely a lawless attack upon our liberty, we encourage it, and involve others in our doom.' It is a very serious consideration, which should deeply impress our minds, that millions yet unborn may be the miserable sharers of the event." - Essay in the Boston Gazette, October 14, 1771
"When designs are form'd to raze the very foundation of a free government, whose few who are to erect their grandeur and fortunes upon the general ruin, will employ every art to sooth the devoted people into a state of indolence, inattention and security, which is forever the fore-runner of slavery." - Article signed "Candidus," in Boston Gazette, December 9, 1771
"If the public are bound to yield obedience to laws to which they cannot give their approbation, they are slaves to those who make such laws and enforce them." - As Candidus in the Boston Gazette, January 20, 1772
"Among the natural rights of the Colonists are these: First, a right to life; Secondly, to liberty; Thirdly, to property; together with the right to support and defend them in the best manner they can. These are evident branches of, rather than deductions from, the duty of self-preservation, commonly called the first law of nature." - The Rights of the Colonists, November 20, 1772
AMEN!!
I like Newt, and I am giving him my support. I know there are those who do not forgive his personal and professional indiscretions, but I think he’s become wiser over the years. And no one, no one at all, can verbalize the strongest points of conservatism like he can. If Newt can’t do it, it just can’t be done.
Everyone else is second best.
Mitt, if he gets the nod, I will reluctantly vote for. Getting rid of Obama is that important. I just don’t see Santorum, as much as I like him, going enywhere.
I am not sure who Newt,Santorum, or Perry would make the best president but i sent Newt a donation yesterday to help him bloody Romney.
Obama will be just as nasty. He’s an evil POS. Go Newt. I don’t care how they report it. It will be effective, like Trump was when he came out against BO. We are longing for some tough talk. No more Mr. Nice Guy with what we are up against.
“Before Iowa, what horse were you riding?”
I was for Rick Perry before he proved himself unprepared for prime time. It left me undecided.
I don’t know about anybody else, but I am sure getting sick of other people telling me who I MUST vote for as if I didn’t have a brain and a mind of my own. This ain’t Oz, my name ain’t Dorothy, and I ain’t on no yellow brick road in fantasyland.
Didn’t Santorum back that liberal Republican Senator in his own state. The name escapes me right now.
See my Post 105 for additional reasons.
I liked Cain too, but c'mon man. God gave you a brain--use it to make up your own mind!
+1. Amen.
Cain, Huck, Rubio, DeMint, and Palin (and many others) are ALL being too timid and really need some skin in this race.
Endorse! Endorse! Endorse!
Newtorum!! : )
I would vote for the local village idiot before Obam. So I suppose New will do.
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