According to this author, a Speaker who oversaw major tax reform and reduction, a balanced budget, and served while the economy was flying is a joke, but Obama’s poverty express is worthy of four more years. Enough of this stuff. Newt has his clear weaknesses, but we saw great results and strong economic growth during the four years when Gingrich was Speaker.
Finally, there are the men not in the field: Mitch Daniels, Paul Ryan, Chris Christie, Jeb Bush, Haley Barbour. This was the GOP A-Team
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Says who?
These guys haven’t faced months of scrutiny and attacks by the MSM like the candidates we have, had to. Who knows what the MSM would have dug up on them.
Christie is no Conservative
Jeb Bush—is a Bush. haven’t we seen enough of them?
Haley Barbour just pardoned Murderers.
Daniels and Ryan excercised their right not to get into this mess.
We have to go with what we have and Newt IMO is the cream of that crop.
What Republicans deserve is a level playing field.
That is exactly what they will not get.
The Media is owned and operated by the Democrats.
There will be no investigations of Obama’s alledged bi-sexuality, no investigations of his college records, No investigations of his illegal campaign funds or his traveling around campaigning on Air Foce One for free. No investigations ,no investigations of his allegiances to Rezco,or Bill Ayres, or to SEIU and his sellouts to Unions.
Meanwhile the MSM will be crucifying whoever is the front runner in the GOP.
I think the essential problem with American presidential politics is the assumed advantage the incumbent brings to his re-election campaign. The party that doesn’t control the Whitehouse is pulled in 2 different directions — capturing the Whitehouse, or control of Congress.
Right now you’d have to say that A-list Republican presidential contenders would rather wait another 4 years and that Congressional leaders are fixated on capturing the senate. The assumption underpining both strategies is that the incumbent usually gets re-elected.
Romney is the “place-holder” nominee for the Republican leadership more concerned with winning seats in Congress. Perhaps they think that Obama will be a lame-duck the moment he gets re-elected? I suggest that Obama’s playing footsie with the OWS movement suggests his willingness to put mobs in the streets. Therefore, the priority needs to shift to defeating Obama himself.
Bravo Sierra of the highest order.
"The usual rap on Mr. Romney is that he's robotic, but the real reason he can't gain traction with voters is that they suspect he's concealing some unnameable private doubt. Al Gore and George Bush Sr. were like that, too, and not just because they were all to the proverbial manor born. It's that they were basically hollow men."
“All they need is to be reasonably sure that the alternative won’t be another fiasco. But they can’t be reasonably sure, so it’s going to be four more years of the disappointment you already know.”
This doesn’t make any sense. they can’t be “reasonably” sure that it won’t be another fiasco, so will stick with the fiasco we have.
Sooo... if one was on the RMS Titanic, they need not jump into a lifeboat. Because one couldn’t be reasonably sure that one would be rescued and would ultimately suffer the same fate had one stayed on board. Right?
This guy clearly is spoon fed his opinions by his peers and basically regurgitated them in this useless waste of bandwidth.
This is Horse Hockeys.
Who does he want us to run, Harold Stassen?
Stephens is a friggin moron. We can run Mickey Mouse and MM is more worthy of the WH than Obama.
When Jeb Bush,Chris Christie, and Haley Barbour are the GOP's A team, then it explains why Newt appears to be the frontrunner.
Bret Stevens is not right in this matter. But the rino GOP is worthless however.
The states need to destroy the worthless fed and replace it with a small fed whose main duty to watch over the military, all other powers are to be in the states as the Constitution stipulates.
Just go roll into the fetal position somewhere Mr Stephens. In the fight against creeping socialism guys like you are absolutely NO help at all.
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Well, bully for you.
Mr Gingrich nailed it when he said,
“I think the destructive, vicious, negative nature of much of the news media makes it harder to govern this country, harder to attract decent people to run for public office.”
The calculating sychophantic media’s savage attacks, as well as the coordinated effots to overwhelm her with ethics charges on(as they did with Mr Gingrich) Mrs Palin quite possibly been the President.
I haven't given up and none of the candidates are anywhere near the number of delegates to get the nomination. I just hope that there is someone out in GOP land who can ride in on a white horse and save the day or our Republic will have to endure another four years of Obama and may never in my lifetime recover its greatness or worse still becone a Marxist state.
I read this last night and woke up thinking about it. I err worried that this is exactly what all the elitist neo - cons are thinking, the Republican establishment types, who have bought into the progressive big government mentality because they have no respect for average social conservative. They think that we need them more than they need us. They pretty much hate us.
Think about the fact that Romney turned to McCain’s debate coach for help last night. Then think about what the McCain staff said about Sarah Palindrome and you will know what direction Mitt is moving - It’s not to the right.
Possibly, but then we take the stance "The Country Be Damned"? and believe me, after another four years of the kenyan, it will be!
Newt-- he may be a narcissistic egomaniac and unable to control his schlong. But, at age 68, I think it quite possible that his schlong doesn't rule him the way it used to. And, wow, he does pump out great ideas! Even if he can only get a small fraction of them implemented, the country can move forward.
Mitt-- he may be a RINO. But even RINOs understand a healthy private sector is absolutely necessary to provide the revenues necessary to fund the nanny state. Giuliani, for all his faults, did a respectable job as mayor of New York. Romney is of the same mold.
Santorum-- he may be a long shot. But he voted with conservatives 88% of the time during his 14 years in congress. I find his occasional excursions into populist economic theory far less damaging than ObaMao's infatuation with social justice. Plus some of them are actually sensible-- such as increasing the tax deduction for a legitimate child so that it is at least on par with the government revenues flowing to an illegitimate child. Further, his blue collar roots and compassion are more likely to win votes in swing states like Ohio and Pennsylvania than an intellectual geek like Newt or a blue blood like Romney.
Ron Paul-- Yeah, he is as crazy as a sh*thouse rat when it comes to foreign policy. Isolationism is not a good long-term strategy. But if his domestic policy plans of reducing government drastically reach fruition, then we will get economic growth and be much more able to rebuild and rearm once isolationism has run its course.
ObaMao will do none of the above and, in fact, actively anything positive each of the four remaining contenders could actually bring to the office. That's the bottom line.
The GOP, the party of GHW Bush, Dole, McCain - all LOSERS. The Establishment doesn’t want to win the While House, all they care about is retaking the Senate, so they can get rich on more Govt pork. IMHO