Lets face it Romney is completely unacceptable, but lets look at Newt...
Newt Gingrich is a political chameleon that has inexplicably managed to fool conservatives for 30 years. He is a globalist to the bone and supports every opportunity to erode American sovereignty and the constitution. He disguises his statist positions with an abundance of flip-flopping and pandering as needed. He has a long history of expanding the Federal Government and deficit spending. He is the very definition of an Establishment Insider.
- Card-Carrying member of the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR), a globalist think tank
- Distinguished member of the Foundation for Defense of Democracies (neocon, pro-interventionism group)
- Member of Bohemian Grove
- Member of the World Future Society
- Voted for NAFTA, a blatant circumvention of Congress exclusive power to regulate commerce with foreign nations. Took power from American people and put it into the hands of unelected Binational panels, made mostly of foreigners.
- Supported GATT
- Supported WTO
- Continually supported increased federal spending.
- Supported the National Endowment for the Arts;
- Voted for the creation of the Federal Dept. of Education in 1979 under Jimmy Carter.
- Big supporter of Foreign Aid even to Soviets through the Export-Import Bank.
- In one year (1994-1995) Gingrich voted for nearly $45 billion in foreign aid.
- He helped push through Federally-funded loan guarantees to Communist China.
- Urged the House to repeal the War Powers Act and give the Presidency more power.
- Urged Clinton to expand military presence in Bosnia.
- Supports Afghan War
- Supports Iraq War
- Calls for Iran War
- Supported Clintons welfare programs, education programs, labor programs, and environmental programs, as well as most of his foreign affairs programs.
- Supported spending $30B for the Violent Crime Control and Law Enforcement Act of 1994 that shackled gun owners with new restrictions, federalized a number of crimes, and handed the feds police powers that the Constitution reserves to the states.
- Voted to give billions of dollars to United Nations peacekeeping operations;
- Pushed for a School Prayer Amendment
- Mentored by Henry Kissinger
- Bailed out savings and loan institutions in 1991. $40B Bank bailout
- He was a draft-dodger during the Vietnam War, yet pushed aggressive foreign interventionism his entire political career, and did say that Vietnam was the right battlefield at the right time.
- He cheated on one of his wives while she was suffering from cancer, delivered divorce papers to her in the hospital.
- Worked on the Rockefeller presidential campaign in 1968.
04/02/1987 He cosponsored the 1987 Fairness Doctrine (anti 1st Amendment legislation)
10/22/1991 He voted for an amendment that would create a National Police Corps.
03//1993 He was passionately in favor of sending $1.6 Billion in foreign aid to Russia.
11/19/1993 He voted for the NAFTA Implementation Act.
11/27/1994 He supported the GATT Treaty giving sovereignty to the U.N.
08/27/1995 He suggests that drug smuggling should carry a death sentence.
01/06/1996 He himself conceived a secret CIA mission to topple the Iranian leadership.
04/25/1996 Voted for the single largest increase on Federal education spending ($3.5 Billion)
04/10/1995 He supported Federal tax dollars being spent on abortions.
06//1995 He wrote the foreword to a book about tearing down the U.S. Constitution and implementing a Fascist World Government.
06/01/1996 He helped a Democrat switch parties in an attempt to defeat constitutionalist Ron Paul in the 1996 election.
09/25/1996 Introduced H.R. 4170, demanded life-sentence or execution for someone bringing 2 ounces of marijuana across the border.
01/22/1997 Congress gave him a record-setting $300,000 fine for ethical wrongdoing.
11/29/2006 He said that free speech should be curtailed in order to fight terrorism. Wants to stop terrorists from using the internet. Called for a serious debate about the 1st Amendment.
11/29/2006 He called for a Geneva Convention for terrorists so it would be clear who the Constitution need not apply to.
02/15/2007 He supported Bushs proposal for mandatory carbon caps.
04/04/2007 He says that there should be a clear distinction about what weapons should be reserved for only for the military.
04/17/2008 Made a commercial with Nancy Pelosi on Climate Change.
09/28/2008 Says if he were in office, he would have reluctantly voted for the $700B TARP bailout.
10/01/2008 Says in an article that TARP was a workout, not a bailout.
12/08/2008 He was paid $300,000 by Freddie Mac to halt Congress from bringing necessary reform.
03/31/2009 Says we should have Singapore-style drug tests for Americans.
10/16/2009 He angered conservatives by endorsing super liberal Dede Scozzafava.
07/30/2010 Says that Iraq was just step one in defeating the Axis of Evil.
08/03/2010 Advocates attacks on Iran & North Korea.
08/16/2010 Opposes property rights of the mosque owner in NYC.
08/16/2010 Compares mosque supporters to Nazis
11/15/2010 He defended Romneycare; blamed liberals
12/02/2010 He advocates a pathway to citizenship for illegal aliens.
12/05/2010 He said that a website owner should be considered an enemy combatant, hunted down and executed, for publishing leaked government memos.
01/30/2011 He lobbied for ethanol subsidies.
01/30/2011 He suggested that flex-fuel vehicles be mandated for Americans.
02/02/2011 He says we are losing the War on Terror; the conflict will be as long as the Cold War
02/10/2011 He wants to replace the EPA instead of abolishing it.
02/13/2011 He criticized Obama for sending less U.S. taxdollars to Egypt.
02/15/2011 His book said that he believes man-made climate-change and advocated creating a new endowment for conservation and the environment.
03/09/2011 He blames his infidelity to multiple wives on his passion for the country.
03/15/2011 Says that NAFTA worked because it created jobs in Mexico.
03/19/2011 He has no regrets about supporting Medicare drug coverage. (Now $7.2T unfunded liability)
03/23/2011 He completely flip-flopped on Libyan intervention in 16 days.
03/25/2011 He plans to sign as many as 200 executive orders on his first day as president.
03/27/2011 He says that America is under attack by atheist Islamists.
04/25/2011 Hes a paid lobbyist for Federal ethanol subsidies.
05/11/2011 His campaign video said that he wants to find solutions together, and insist on imposing those solutions on those who do not want to change.
05/12/2011 He was more supportive of individual health-care mandates than Mitt Romney.
05/15/2011 Said GOPs plan to cut back Medicare was too big a jump.
05/15/2011 He backed Obamas individual mandate; All of us have a responsibility to help pay for health care.
05/16/2011 He also endorsed individual mandates in 1993 when Clinton pushed Universal Health Care.
05/17/2011 He has an outstanding debt to Tiffanys Jewelry of between $250K $500K.
06/09/2011 His own campaign staff resigned en masse.
07/15/2011 His poorly managed campaign is over $1 Million in debt.
08/01/2011 He hired a company to create fake Twitter to appear as if he had a following.
08/11/2011 His recent criticism of the United Nations is undermined Nations by a long, long history of supporting it.
09/27/2011 He says that he helped develop the model for Homeland Security
10/07/2011 He said hed ignore the Supreme Court if need be.
11/12/2011 He advocates assassinating Iranian scientists and covert war with Iran.
hmm... now lets compare that with Cain....
annonomous accusations from mostly annonomous people
selective editing of an interview to make it look bad
hm..
Hard choice!
I think I’ll stick with Cain.
I think what you just proved is that we don’t have any good candidates.
ZZZZZ.....
I fell asleep after the first two sentences...
I’m leaning hard toward Cain. Newt’s starting to make Perry look good.
Need anyone look any further for proof of Rinoism?
hmmmm looks like you sharpened your axe before you ground it. I was 100 percent for Cain, even through the allegations (I happen to think they are bogus)....UNTIL he offhandedly mentioned that he would not attack Iran at this time. Wrong answer Mr. Cain.
Mr. Cain would be a foreign policy disaster for the US as well as for Israel. Newt would not. That for me is the difference.
...who is so politically clueless he wouldn't understand more than half the issues on your list.
No thanks. Ignorance does not make one an authentic conservative. Cain doesn't possess enough knowledge about the issues to be President. He struggles to even remember what his Libya policy is. "I've got all this stuff twirling around in my head" is not a sufficient answer to policy questions - nor is "we need a leader, not a reader". Herman will not be the nominee.
That’s quite a list.