Posted on 01/15/2012 5:09:44 AM PST by nikos1121
Thanks, Nikos, for giving this its own deserving thread!
Thanks for the ping! I’ll have to wait until tonight to really savor it — am playing hookey from work ... need to get back now!
Well, here's what Jim Thompson had to say about it on a different thread Sunday night:
"I’ve done some researching on Gingrich since November and have changed my mind. His accomplishments as congressman and speaker are very real and very conservative. His actual record of conservative accomplishments in office far outweigh some of the dumber stuff he’s said and done since leaving office, ie, the Pelosi thing for example. And he’s admitted they were dumb ideas.
I’ve studied the goals he’s laid out on his website (lower taxes for example: http://www.newt.org/news/lets-bump-plans-comparison-gingrich-and-romneys-tax-plans ) and believe he’s after the same radical cutting of government that we the tea party people are looking for.
He’s a veteran of the Reagan Revolution of the 80’s and leader of the successful Republican Revolution of the 90’s and believe he can be the successful leader of the Tea Party Revolution now. He wants to drastically reduce taxes, reduce government, privatize social security and medicare, neuter the fed and the epa and close down or return as much of the unconstitutional federal government programs to the states and people as possible. And that also includes immediately repealing ObamaCare, repealing Dodd-Frank, repealing Sarbanes-Oxley, firing of all Obama’s czars and dismantling his Marxist government also directly challenging the activist judiciary.
Romney simply wants to trim around the edges and rearrange the deck chairs and there’s no way in hell that he will fight the judiciary or the libs or for our conservative causes. RomneyCare = ObamaCare. Romney appoints liberal judges and has a record of rolling over for them.
I also like Perry. He has warts, but they all do. Unfortunately, Perry shot himself in the foot and never recovered.
Santorum is a good conservative, but I just like Gingrich’s more radical ideas for cutting government better and the fact that he’s been a successful revolutionary leader before.
Gingrich led the effort to take control of the congress after the democrats had held it for forty years and then as speaker cut taxes, cut spending, cut government, blocked Clinton’s socialized healthcare attempt, reduced unemployment, cut the deficit and balanced the federal budget four years running. We could use some of this radical talent right now!!"
Right on, Jim Robinson, and GODSPEED NEWT GINGRICH.
That would be because Newt is a teacher by profession. However, his teaching abilities do not translate to leadership abilities. (See: Lecturer Baraq Obama)
See Jim Robinson's take in my post #23 above.
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