Posted on 04/14/2012 2:38:02 PM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
Friday’s Celebration of American Values Leadership forum featured speeches by Mitt Romney, recent contender Rick Santorum, plus conservative stars like former U.N. Ambassador John Bolton, Wisconsin Gov. Scott Walker, and House Majority Leader Eric Cantor. But members of the influential gun lobby today reserved their greatest enthusiasms not for their presumptive nominee Romney, but for Newt Gingrich, a candidate who perseveres to the wonderment of many and the joy of some.
Romney spoke before Gingrich and focused mainly on general-election themes and descriptions of President Obama’s governing philosophies. “Our founders created a system of government that is limited. Barack Obama is leading us away from that vision,” Romney said. “President Obama is leading toward a government of limited freedom and limited opportunity.”
The stump speech painted the election in broad brush strokes, contrasting the bright hope of freedom, a word Romney used nearly two-dozen times,against the dark threats of a massive, sun-blocking bureaucracy that he said flourishes under Obama.
Romney cannot claim a life of gun enthusiasm. The director of the NRA’s lobbying branch, Chris Cox, introduced the former Massachusetts governor as a “life member of the NRA,” but Romney signed up for his lifetime membership just six years ago, when he first explored running for president as a Republican.
Nor can the NRA claim a long courtship of Romney. In 2002, the lobby did not endorse his run for governor, despite his Meet the Press claim to the contrary. In that race, the NRA gave Romney a B grade, but gave his Democratic opponent, Shannon O’Brien, a sterling A.
Today in St. Louis, Romney repeated his support for Second Amendment rights as elemental, and he focused on the power of the judiciary to protect that right. Romney warned that a second Obama term would “remake” the Supreme Court and imperil the future of gun rights. “Our freedoms,” he said, would be in hands of an Obama court “not just for four years, but for 40,” he said.
The crowd was appreciative of the man who will likely court their votes this fall, but the NRA faithful became far more animated for Gingrich. With his characteristic flourish for sweeping and historical ideas, the former House speaker laid out a guideline for an international gun-rights movement that the NRA’s Cox called “the Gingrich Doctrine.”
Today in St. Louis, Romney repeated his support for Second Amendment rights as elemental, and he focused on the power of the judiciary to protect that right. Romney warned that a second Obama term would “remake” the Supreme Court and imperil the future of gun rights. “Our freedoms,” he said, would be in hands of an Obama court “not just for four years, but for 40,” he said.
The crowd was appreciative of the man who will likely court their votes this fall, but the NRA faithful became far more animated for Gingrich. With his characteristic flourish for sweeping and historical ideas, the former House speaker laid out a guideline for an international gun-rights movement that the NRA’s Cox called “the Gingrich Doctrine.”
“The right to bear arms comes from our creator, not our government,” Gingrich said. The NRA “has been too timid” in promoting its agenda beyond American borders. The Bill of Rights was not written only for Americans, he said. “It is a universal document.”
“A Gingrich presidency will submit to the UN a treaty that extends the right to bear arms as a human right to every person on the planet.” Every world citizen, he said, “deserves the right to defend themselves from those who exploit, imprison, or kill them.” For his latest big idea, Gingrich earned a standing ovation from the crowd of roughly 5,000.
“We don’t need to go across the planet trying to impose American values, but we do need to go across the planet spreading human values,” Gingrich said. “The Second Amendment is a right for all mankind.”
Many establishment Republicans have openly called for Gingrich to give up his quest. His refusal to submit has been described as egomaniacal and destructive. But in St. Louis on Friday, the man who handily won the South Carolina primary but whose campaign is running on financial fumes, seemed as confident as ever.
“This is still a more open nomination process than anyone in the elite media believes,” Gingrich said.
SO he thinks the UN has the authority to give these rights to every “world citizen”??
What the hell is a world citizen?
Newt’s speech is here:
If only he had a fighting chance.... Damn. He just doesn't though.
He's saying all the right things but nobody's buying it and we're going to get stuck with Romney.
God, I'd love to be dead-wrong on this! But I'd bet my next paycheck that I'm not.
9 days before the next primary. 20 states to go with over 1,000 delegates, 45% of the total. Romney currently has 656 out of 1,144 needed to win the nomination. Romney is going to have a good day on April 24th most likely, but May is extremely favorable to conservative candidates almost all the way through. If Newt starts winning primaries in May, that could seriously build momentum and help this thing end up in a convention fight.
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2012/president/republican_delegate_count.html
He sure is, and still in the RACE to win. It ain’t over by a long shot. Go Newt, win this one for all of us.
If in a country of 360 million people, we could find one million conservative Republicans to donate $10 each to Newt’s campaign, then he will have all the resources needed to go all the way to Tampa.
Please, good people, talk to your family members, friends, neighbors and co-workers and convince them to donate at least $10 at
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“Romney currently has 656”
Romney currently has only 573 bound delegates (committed to vote for him at the convention). He needs 571 more to get to 1144.
So far he got 40% of the total votes only. He would need to get 62% in order to get the missing delegates. If Newt has a real shot at stopping Mitt from getting to 1,144 then it will go to convention. THIS is doable. I’ve just read that North Carolina lawmakers are on the point of endorsing Newt.
Whatever a mind of a man can see and believe, he can achieve! The idea and the stated goal comes before the achieving. I, too, love people who think “outside the box”.
No. Newt is saying that these rights are God given and no nation has the right to deprive its citizens of their God given rights.
Smart Move on Newt’s part....it is getting him the press and it’s early yet for the rest to catch on.... Let’s see where this goes...if it sets a fire or not. It might.
Newt’s playing hard ball don’t forget...and with limited resources and a blackout from the media...so whatever he says has to be strong enough to get attention...this is pretty heavtey stuff...and could very well get him face time the press refuses to give him....in a sense he spoke to the world so they’ll certainly be responding...even if the media here clamps down on him.
I’ve just read that North Carolina lawmakers are on the point of endorsing Newt. “Romney currently has 656”
Romney currently has only 573 bound delegates (committed to vote for him at the convention). He needs 571 more to get to 1144.
So far he got 40% of the total votes only. He would need to get 62% in order to get the missing delegates. If Newt has a real shot at stopping Mitt from getting to 1,144 then it will go to convention.
Thanks for the info and news...passing it on.
Sorry you can’t understand.
He said, plain English, these rights COME FROM OUR CREATOR.
He’s proposing they be recognized as in existance already, from God.
Moving on to others who CAN understand...
Thank God our Founding Fathers thought outside the box.
Thank God our Founding Fathers thought outside the box.
B-U-M-P!
The meeting is set for 4 p.m. at Pappasito's Cantina, 723 Central Expressway. Space is limited and the audience will be part of a 30-mintue question and answer period.”……..
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