Interesting that evangelicals are big supporters. He’s flawed. But who else do we have?
Interesting? Or humiliating? This is the end of the evangelical credibility IMO. The homo/lesbians are watching this with awe as the evangelicals declare morals, values, the Word, none of those matter anymore. Evil has won. I am ashamed I once called myself an evangelical or conservative.
Interesting that evangelicals are big supporters. He’s flawed. But who else do we have?
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Hint: He’s the governor of Texas. And when the Southern Primaries are over... He’ll be the GOP contender.
Interesting that evangelicals are big supporters. He’s flawed. But who else do we have?
On his very best day he is “flawed.” On his worst...
Well, but, um, who else do we have?
This Evangelical visited http://www.newt.org/ and Newt seems pretty solid to me. He’s on target on everything I looked at.
He has some negatives and the press is probably looking forward to trashing him hard once he’s nominated.
Find the youtubes of Newt speaking at the Iowa faith and family meeting recently (the main speech & the question and answer session).
The other candidate's speeches amounted to a combination of a personal story and promises to appoint conservative judges. Newt was the only one that presented a plan beyond that. As he put it, he looked at ways to reign in liberal/activist judges and "appointing conservatives" was like 4th of his list of things to do.
He proposed that judges could be removed with a simple majority vote in the house and senate. How? You eliminate the court, and the judge goes with it. This is not theory. Jefferson and Hamilton did this early in our history. Their actions were appealed to the Supreme Court and held up. The consitutionality of doing this is not even in question. The Legislative branch has the constitutional power to eliminate any federal court other than the Supreme Court itself.
He also emphasized that the Supreme Court is only supreme over the Judicial branch, not the other two branches. The Judicial branch has no more authority over the Legislative branch than the Executive branch has over the Judicial branch. He cited several examples from our history where the Executive or Legislative branches disagreed with the Judicial branch over a constitutionality question, and the Judicial branch lost when it came to how the constitution was to be interpreted.
A lot of our social problems can be traced back to a combination of the Judicial branch overstepping its constitutional bounds, and the other two branches cowering in fear instead of asserting their constitutional rights. Newt is the only one in the race now talking about reversing that trend.