Posted on 10/01/2010 8:27:49 PM PDT by pissant
Washington (CNN) – Aides to Indiana GOP Rep. Mike Pence haven't been shy about stirring up presidential buzz about their boss, especially after his victory last month in the Values Voters Summit 2012 straw poll.
Now Pence is heading to Des Moines on Saturday to address the Iowa Faith and Freedom Coalition - his second trip to the first-in-the-nation caucus state this cycle - and his office has released excerpts of his speech, an overture to both fiscal and social conservatives.
"These are serious times," Pence will say, according to the prepared remarks. "A nation conceived in liberty has come of age in bondage to big government. We've lost respect to the world. We are going broke. And our social and cultural fabric is unraveling. People are scared."
Read excerpts from Pence's prepared remarks after the jump:
Iowa Christian Alliance president Steve Scheffler told CNN Friday that Pence earned high marks from conservative activists during the Bush adminstration for "not playing the same old go-along-to-get-along game" that turned off the GOP base in 2006 and 2008.
(Excerpt) Read more at politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com ...
Pense is a great conservative, not given to delusions of grandeur which the left can use tio inflate his personality. Thiat is Boehner’s weakness.
Boehner’s weakness is his ‘Rotary Club’ personae.
Hyperbole hurts my head.... It is like an illegal alien and Gloria Allred screaming at me.
Since I heard Tom Wolfe say that we lost this country when the Ten Commandments were removed from the public square, I have been trying to prove him wrong.
Boehner needs to step down in January and let someone else become Speaker.
I agree. Pence is one of few good people in Congress.
We all know that. the question is...what are you going to do about it????
Powerful speech from Mike Pence on the presidency:
http://vimeo.com/15202566
Exerpts:
“The president is not our teacher, our tutor, our guide or ruler. He does not command us, we command him. We serve neither him nor his vision.
It is not his job or his prerogative to redefine custom, law and beliefs; to appropriate industries; to seize the country, as it were, by the shoulders or by the throat so as to impose by force of theatrical charisma his justice upon 300 million others.
It is neither his job nor his prerogative to shift the power of decision away from them, and to him and the acolytes of his choosing.”
“The President of the United States of America bows to no man.
You do not bow to kings.
When in foreign lands, you do not criticize your own country.
You do not argue the case against the United States, but, rather, the case for it.
You do not apologize to the enemies of the United States.
Should you be confused, a country, people, or region that harbors, shelters, supports, encourages, or cheers attacks upon our country, the slaughter of our children, our mothers, our fathers, our sisters, and brothers… are enemies of the United States. And, to repeat, you do not apologize to them.”
Some are, many aren't.
You would have to pry the gavel out of Boehner’s cold dead hands. He is already picking out an office and measuring the drapes.
Sorry, no chance.
I feel the first litmus test our new House will face will be retaining or pushing out Boehner as Speaker. If our new House has enough commitment to the conservative cause and ousts “Dean Martin” Boehner we will know that we will have a very good two years. If they accept middle of the road leadership and spotty conservatism then we on FR are going to have a lot of pulling to do from their keyboards. God help the Republic.
But it is made more difficult to do so when we now have as
President a man who has divided the Country over #1 his eligibility —I am not convinced he is a “natural born citizen” and #2 his religious faith. His daddy and his adopted
daddy were Muslim, He acts more like a Muslim—or an atheist than he acts like a Christian.He even talks like an unbeliever.There is No credible historic support for the current separation of the church from the State and the school
from the church debate as currently framed by the left.
Pence is right in what he says. He is a good man who has earned support.
We cannot afford to have weakness in this path of taking back our nation. Failure means that we will have to resort to force majeur to effect the re-instatement of the constitution. Every compromise Boehner will make means a future gallon of patriot blood.If he had this view , he might be suitable, but he will never have it.
..hopefully very soon we can call him Mr. Speaker...
Well said!
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