Posted on 12/04/2011 2:07:57 PM PST by rabscuttle385
Six GOP hopefuls joined a policy forum on Fox News Saturday night to push their conservative credentials, with Newt Gingrich seeking to reassure voters and vowing that he would reject "big government approaches" if elected president.
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Gingrich who has risen to the top of many GOP polls after a series of strong debate performances and stumbles by his rivals faced questions about his past support for government policies addressing climate change and in favor of a healthcare insurance mandate.
Gingrich pledged that conservative voters could "trust that a President Gingrich will not advance these sorts of big government approaches."
The former House speaker said his past support for a mandate had been consistent with what other conservatives had believed at the time. "Every conservative has in fact left that kind of a model," said Gingrich.
Gingrich also faced tough questioning from the panel on immigration policy and stood by his recent proposals to allow some families of undocumented workers to remain in the country.
Im suggesting that this only apply to people whove been here a very long time, who have a real tie to the local community, and were exploring the idea that theyd actually have a family sponsoring them, he said.
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Gingrich is much preferable over Romney. Or Ron Paul.
I think our question is whether you are willing to take a chainsaw to government, not whether you support larger government.
How many candidates we got that have done this?
They arent talking about the weather
We must draft, nominate and elect Sarah Palin president in the most crushing tidal wave of enthusiastic good judgment ever seen in the history of this nation. With that one bold move we will accomplish the dual goals of seeing America led by the greatest natural born leader in our generation, even as we witness the final implosion and last agonized shrieks of our endlessly lying extreme left loonies. Their entire movement, from the fabricated attacks on Bush beginning with Blood For Oil to the crammed-down-our-gullets lies of Obamacare and the Shovel Ready Stimulus, have been nothing but one vile deceit heaped upon another. Such an absolute inability to deal in the truth or to face the facts of our situation and its solutions only proves that there is simply no place at the grown-ups table for these diseased sputa. Good riddance to rubes and bad rubbish. Time to usher in the American Renaissance, carried in on the invigoratingly freshening breeze of President Sarah Palin.
We must draft, nominate and elect Sarah Palin president in the most crushing tidal wave of enthusiastic good judgment ever seen in the history of this nation. With that one bold move we will accomplish the dual goals of seeing America led by the greatest natural born leader in our generation, even as we witness the final implosion and last agonized shrieks of our endlessly lying extreme left loonies. Their entire movement, from the fabricated attacks on Bush beginning with Blood For Oil to the crammed-down-our-gullets lies of Obamacare and the Shovel Ready Stimulus, have been nothing but one vile deceit heaped upon another. Such an absolute inability to deal in the truth or to face the facts of our situation and its solutions only proves that there is simply no place at the grown-ups table for these diseased sputa. Good riddance to rubes and bad rubbish. Time to usher in the American Renaissance, carried in on the invigoratingly freshening breeze of President Sarah Palin.
“his past support for a mandate had been consistent with what other conservatives had believed at the time”
The man has his own definition of what conservatism is.
In 1983, he founded the Conservative Opportunity Society (COS), a group that included young conservative House Republicans. Early COS members included Robert Smith Walker, Judd Gregg, Dan Coats and Connie Mack III. The group expanded over time to comprise several dozen representatives who met each week to exchange and develop ideas. Gingrich’s analysis of polls and public opinion identified the group’s initial focus.
Ronald Reagan adopted the “opportunity society” ideas for his 1984 re-election campaign, supporting the group’s conservative goals on economic growth, education, crime, space exploration and social issues, which he had not emphasized during his first term.Reagan also referenced an “opportunity” society in the first State of the Union address of his second term.
I took a second look at Gingrich and I could support him but not my first choice. It seems he’s only ahead because he’s articulate. But if his oratory skills are his biggest asset, he’d probably be better off as press secretary for one of the other candidates. Obama was an eloquent speaker but look what that got us.
I think Perry, Huntsman, Bachmann, and Santorum all have better records and less baggage. Paul is just a moonbat.
>>We must draft, nominate and elect Sarah Palin president in the most crushing tidal wave of enthusiastic good judgment ever seen in the history of this nation. <<
It sounds nice but it would be a losing strategy in many, many ways. Not only would it brand Republicans and the few Conservatives left in that party as complete nut jobs, it would marginalize Conservatism for many years to come.
It is our version of unicorns farting rainbows.
I agree one hundred percent, but time is getting short. Bachmann, Santorum, et al, had better step it up in a hurry or find some miraculous way to gain some traction.
In March 1989, Gingrich became the House Minority Whip in a close election against Edward Rell Madigan. This was Gingrich’s first formal position of power within the Republican party. He stated his intention to “build a much more aggressive, activist party.”
Lib columnist Dana Milbank thinks Newt is just fine and dandy:
“It seems hes only ahead because hes articulate. “
Of course he’s articulate, but he has also been or been involved in;
Speaker of the House
Welfare reform
Balancing the federal budget
Taxpayer Relief Act of 1997
Other legislation;
Among the first pieces of legislation passed by the new Congress under Gingrich was the Congressional Accountability Act of 1995, which subjected members of Congress to the same laws that apply to businesses and their employees, including the Civil Rights Act of 1964 and the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990. As a provision of the Contract with America, the law was symbolic of the new Republican majority’s goal to remove some of the entitlements enjoyed by Congress. The bill received near universal acceptance from the House and Senate and was signed into law on January 23, 1995.
Yep, baggage too, but it can be worked on. We have a year to do it in. And why would we want to let that kind of talent go, because the MSM is going to shred him? Who aren’t they going to shred.
We’ve got no better qulifed person and neither do the Dems.
Look at their accomplishments. Newt allied himself with Ronald Reagan to build the Reagan Coalition, the Religious Right, and the Republican majority (together the Reagan Revolution) which directly led the downfall of the Soviet Union, the Contract with America, government reforms, less government, tax cuts, a balanced budget, and the great, long-standing Reagan economy.
Romney, on the other hand, vehemently denied Ronald Reagan and aligned himself with Ted Kennedy and the left. Romney accomplished installing liberal big government programs, defended and promoted Roe v Wade and legalized abortion as settled law, advocated and implemented RomneyCare with its liberty killing government mandates against formerly free citizens and its taxpayer funded or subsidized and mandated abortion procedures. He ran and governed to the left of Ted Kennedy on the gay agenda resulting in gay marriage in Massachusetts. He appointed liberal judges and liberal appointees throughout his government. Under his leadership conservatism and the Republican party was all but destroyed in Massachusetts.
Romney is one evil liberal progressive. No way in hell will MittBots be allowed to support this abortionist, big government, socialist scumbag on FR!
Guess my message isnt clear enough. I have to keep repeating it and zotting would be MittBots.
79 posted on Sat Dec 03 2011 19:59:37 GMT-0800 (Pacific Standard Time) by Jim Robinson
Not good enough. Even Reagan only reduced the rate of growth of the federal government. Today it is 1/3rd to 1/2 too large, so must be drastically reduced, both in size and in scope.
Reduction in size can only be accomplished if the congress agrees to take away job protection from government service workers, when firing an entire department at a time.
This means that layoffs can only be done a department at a time, to insure that future presidents won’t use it for anti-patronage purposes, eliminating members of the political opposition that have government jobs.
Reduction in scope is a different affair. The POTUS can issue a directive to end an enormous number of regulations, in a very systematic way.
But reduction in scope also means a grand reduction in the US tax code. Not easy. But with public input from accountants across the US, a vast amount of onerous tax regulation can be pitched.
Even a popular POTUS with a friendly congress will have to do this almost immediately on taking office, because otherwise the forces of big government will short circuit the process.
However, the stimulus to the economy of slashing federal expenses will be enormous, and could very well wrench us out of the slow motion economic collapse the western world is enjoying right now.
It's not easy with the poll driven news. The polls are creating momentum for one candidate after another.
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