Very confusing days at FR. Breaks my heart to see so many so called principled conservatives “sell out” just because they think this guy or that guy can win. it makes us the same as the moral compass less liberals of the world.
Watching some here gyrate themselves on Bain and on multiple affairs sitting on the Pelosi couch etc is almost comical if it wasn’t so sad. Instead of saying these guys -and I mean the whole GOP lot- offer nothing to FR so therefore we cannot support any of them, we have to have tortured logic in supporting newt. We are told on one hand he has asked for forgiveness and he is a different person now, but the only thing that is cited was his work when he was ....drum roll please....the person who everyone says he is not now. So what is it ? Is he different now ? or all we can go on is what he was in the 80’s ? Which is it ?
Count me out of this Newt campaign, watching him crash and burn and some on this site with him will be sad but predictable.
“or all we can go on is what he was in the 80’s ?”
90’s. It was the 90’s, sweetheart, as in 1994. He did a job no other Republican has ever done and that was take back the House of Representatives in the United States Congress which had been dominated by the Democrats for 40 years. He did that. When we knew the House had to be ours and no hope was there to get it, Newt took it. The Democrats had a solid lock on it but Newt broke that lock.
He implemented the Contract with America:
On the first day of their majority in the House, the Republicans promised to pass eight major reforms:
1.require all laws that apply to the rest of the country also apply to Congress;
2.select a major, independent auditing firm to conduct a comprehensive audit of Congress for waste, fraud or abuse;
3.cut the number of House committees, and cut committee staff by one-third;
4.limit the terms of all committee chairs;
5.ban the casting of proxy votes in committee;
6.require committee meetings to be open to the public;
7.require a three-fifths majority vote to pass a tax increase;
8.guarantee an honest accounting of the Federal Budget by implementing zero base-line budgeting.
Under his leadership a variety of real conservative laws were passed, something even now the Republican house refuses to do.
What conservative do you support? Did one even run?