Posted on 01/13/2012 9:43:12 AM PST by stillafreemind
If you are a conservative and believe in their principles, you may be upset with Newt Gingrich and Rick Perry. Their vicious attacks on Mitt Romney and capitalism have been relentless, and the fallout is just beginning. Perry has lost a top supporter in Barry Wynn who hates the anti-capitalism rhetoric. Gingrich has garnered sharp criticism from Republican heavy weights like Rush Limbaugh and Rudy Giuliani.
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What an embarassment.
“If you are a conservative and believe in their principles, you may be upset with Newt Gingrich and Rick Perry. “
Let’s see how many idiots on our side actually keep up the drama queen act of pretending like they are so angry over this just so they can pretend like they have cover for supporting Romney.
Despite this unfounded doomsayer rhetoric, Gingrich and Perry appear to both be moving up in the polls.
I’m not surprised that Big Govt, Freddie Mac lobbyist Newt would go down this road.
Perry, on the other hand, has disappointed me. I thought he was better than that, given his success in Texas as a result of the free market.
Hard to believe that Obama is a sitting duck and these are our candidates. What a waste.
Republican heavy weights like...Rudy Giuliani.
How heavy is Rudy?
Barry Wynn is and environmentalist guy. Good riddance. Only the idiots and ignorant are going to Paul and Romney.
RWR, THE GREAT
In late 1979, during an economic strategy meeting, Ronald Reagan was talking about his upcoming presidential campaign. At one point, somebody expressed concern that John Connally, the former governor of Texas and another presidential candidate, was gaining support among corporate chief executive officers, with all the financial support and credibility that that entailed. Reagan said this didn’t bother him at all. “Let him have the Fortune 500,” he said. “I want our campaign to stand for Main Street, not Wall Street. I want us to stand for the worker, the shopkeeper, the entrepreneur, and the small businessman.” Reagan’s instincts were right on the mark.
You are full of ****! They are not attacking capitalism.
They are attacking Myths record on jobs.
The sooner Newt Gingrich and Rick Perry are defeated, the better off our country will be. Both men have let power, envy, hate and destruction get the better of them!!! All Conservatives & Republicans need to drop these two “Traitors” like a bad habit!!! They do no good whatsoever for our troubled nation!!!
Can you imagine a lamer cast of GOP contenders?
Too many recite what they hear Rush limpbough assert on the radio, and Rush does not have the facts straight yet he spews forth in his typical arrogant style. He is no longer even entertaining, and his drones repating his errors do not bode well for America.
Too many recite what they hear Rush limpbough assert on the radio, and Rush does not have the facts straight yet he spews forth in his typical arrogant style. He is no longer even entertaining, and his drones repeating his errors do not bode well for America.
Drop them for what? Romney? Obama?
Perry has always been a populist but he usually gets out in front of a wave rather than crash into it.
I love Rush, and I like Levin, but this assault on Perry from the pundits makes me want to PUKE!
Laura Igraham is way over the top! She is so kissing Romneys arse!
Not so. See the new ARG S.C. poll results on Drudge.
Rick Perry is a real Southern Gentleman. Perhaps these punditocracy spewings show which do not actually get it in the gentleman category and are servants of ego.
Interesting....... Romney and the GOP are pushing me to vote third party.
Yes. But it's remarkable to see these jokers make Romney look conservative by comparison. They're running against a guy who enacted socialized health care and flip flopped all over the ideological spectrum and what do they do? Set him up as the champion of economic freedom.
The following essay is excerpted from "Our Ageless Constitution," a 292-page history of the ideas of liberty in America, again available after 20 years of being out of print.
"Agriculture, manufactures, commerce, and navigation, the four pillars of our prosperity, are the most thriving when left most free to individual enterprise." - Thomas Jefferson
"The enviable condition of the people of the United States is often too much ascribed to the physical advantages of their soil & climate .... But a just estimate of the happiness of our country will never overlook what belongs to the fertile activity of a free people and the benign influence of a responsible government." - James Madison
America's Constitution did not mention freedom of enterprise per se, but it did set up a system of laws to secure individual liberty and freedom of choice in keeping with Creator-endowed natural rights. Out of these, free enterprise flourished naturally. Even though the words "free enterprise' are not in the Constitution, the concept was uppermost in the minds of the Founders, typified by the remarks of Jefferson and Madison as quoted above. Already, in 1787, Americans were enjoying the rewards of individual enterprise and free markets. Their dedication was to securing that freedom for posterity.
The learned men drafting America's Constitution understood history - mankind's struggle against poverty and government oppression. And they had studied the ideas of the great thinkers and philosophers. They were familiar with the near starvation of the early Jamestown settlers under a communal production and distribution system and Governor Bradford's diary account of how all benefited after agreement that each family could do as it wished with the fruits of its own labors. Later, in 1776, Adam Smith's INQUIRY INTO THE NATURE AND CAUSES OF THE WEALTH OF NATIONS and Say's POLITICAL ECONOMY had come at just the right time and were perfectly compatible with the Founders' own passion for individual liberty. Jefferson said these were the best books to be had for forming governments based on principles of freedom. They saw a free market economy as the natural result of their ideal of liberty. They feared concentrations of power and the coercion that planners can use in planning other peoples lives; and they valued freedom of choice and acceptance of responsibility of the consequences of such choice as being the very essence of liberty. They envisioned a large and prosperous republic of free people, unhampered by government interference.
The Founders believed the American people, possessors of deeply rooted character and values, could prosper if left free to:
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Such a free market economy was, to them, the natural result of liberty, carried out in the economic dimension of life. Their philosophy tended to enlarge individual freedom - not to restrict or diminish the individual's right to make choices and to succeed or fail based on those choices. The economic role of their Constitutional government was simply to secure rights and encourage commerce. Through the Constitution, they granted their government some very limited powers to:
Adam Smith called it "the system of natural liberty." James Madison referred to it as "the benign influence of a responsible government." Others have called it the free enterprise system. By whatever name it is called, the economic system envisioned by the Founders and encouraged by the Constitution allowed individual enterprise to flourish and triggered the greatest explosion of economic progress in all of history. Americans became the first people truly to realize the economic dimension of liberty.
Footnote: Our Ageless Constitution, W. David Stedman & La Vaughn G. Lewis, Editors (Asheboro, NC, W. David Stedman Associates, 1987) Part III: ISBN 0-937047-01-5
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