This really changed my head about NEWT, CINO indeed. The time for fake conservatives is over, we need real people with real values if we are going to do battle with the Obamunists.
I agree. First of all, in my heart and mind, I believe what we need is fundamental change from the ground up. There are "elders" if you will that are needed to mentor and guide in terms of what the fundamental change is needed for the Conservative Movement /Reform. Newt turns out to be disqualified. There are others though like Dick Armey, Duncan Hunter, Sr., Jim DeMint, Rick Santorum, George Allen, Tom DeLay, Alan Keyes, Michael Steele and others. These are not the "future up-and-coming young Conservatives. They will have to be the "elders" and mentors and guides. They will not be nominees nor candidates, even though they're not old, they are past office holders and won't be elected again.
Second, we need to nail down our "Conservative contract" on issues and policies as a base standard. Things such as FairTax, line-item veto amendment, term limits, immigration reform, health care policy and how properly to reform (not national) like 'high-deduct private insurance with health savings accounts', abortion, second amendment, security...and the list goes on...BUT list the contract down and hammer out what the new young guns Conservatives stand for and run on that will get them elected.
Third, find those to fill the criteria of the new contract. Like Paul's qualifications for church leader: spiritually qualified, but husband of one wife, well reputed in the church... Like that, only in the Conservative realm, so that nothing from their past can disqualify them. The left-wing media will dig Joe the Plumber and Sara Palin's past down to the moment of birth and everything said or done or who they ever met with or were friends with..
That is just the reform for the criteria of the true Conservatives needed to be set in motion to run and take office. The really big movement is fundamental government reform back to the original intent, but for the 21st century. Voter registration, voting itself, ballot types and machines, computer voting? Photo voter IDs? The need to cut down fraud is an absolute. If online trading, banking and purchasing is safe and works with minimum fraud (barring identity theft), then why not the political process? www.Thirth-Thousand.org makes a valid argument for 1 Representative per 100 thousand. That is, if there are approx 300 million Americans, then why not 30,000 Representatives? How about a repeal of the seventeenth amendment to the Constituent and revert to the state legislatures selecting and electing the Senators? www.lonlang.com That was the Founders intent. Money and outside influence (like Soros and Saudis and big money) needs to be removed from out political process. $600 million Obama has or spent? Come on. Not out Founder's intent of the people, by the people, for the people...