Posted on 12/18/2011 10:55:03 PM PST by neverdem
Knute Romney is not going to win one for the Gipper.
It's deja vu all over again: as in 2008, the two frontrunners are not conservatives. The recent National Review editorial, despite reading as if it were written by a committee, was nonetheless correct. Newt is not a conservative. It's easy enough to count the ways, but there is one albatross that's particularly heavy and odoriferous: his tie with Freddie Mac.
The $1.6 million is not just part of his baggage -- of which he has more than the Partridge family on tour. "It's the economy, stupid" may be a motto for the ages, but it's going to be particularly spot-on in 2012. This election should be a referendum on the four-year recession. Blaming high unemployment, anemic growth, a swooning stock market and a moribund housing market on Bush, "deregulation," and the 1% may not play with informed voters, but we're a minority and this is going to be BHO's theme song. Let's not forget that Roosevelt -- the brilliant con artist whom Newt admires -- was reelected in 1936 with an unemployment rate of about 17%.
To win on this issue, the GOP needs someone who can connect the very large dots in the mortgage and credit meltdowns of 2008. That means, to shift metaphors, someone who can point to the fingerprints of the feds and quasi-government agencies. Someone who can talk about the role of the SEC, following Basel II, in lowering leverage requirements for investment banks in April of 2004. About Clinton weaponizing the CRA and, later joined by the Bush administration, pushing banks to write...
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If Newt can rise from the dead, Michele can, too. At least in the primary elections, we should be willing to vote for someone without first having to swill Pepto-Bismol.
(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...
Your nutty.
And Obama will unpack and air every bit of it...to our shame.
A ‘right to the point’ post——all the folks seem to be doing is making sure the Obamanation gets elected again-—this will finish our USA, so keep up the infighting among ourselves-—Bachnman is not going to be President but she will ruin the chance of anyone else to take over and pull us out of this mess the Demonrats have cooked up in their first 2 years of office-—frankly, I can go to my grave in peace as I am in my 90th year and served with men and women of honor for 5+ during WW2 which gave you fools almost 67 years of freedom to waste-—go to it —keep mouthing about 3rd parties, staying home on election day and refusing to support any Repub you don’t like-—give it back to the Rats and remember this post
A ‘right to the point’ post——all the folks seem to be doing is making sure the Obamanation gets elected again-—this will finish our USA, so keep up the infighting among ourselves-—Bachnman is not going to be President but she will ruin the chance of anyone else to take over and pull us out of this mess the Demonrats have cooked up in their first 2 years of office-—frankly, I can go to my grave in peace as I am in my 90th year and served with men and women of honor for 5+ during WW2 which gave you fools almost 67 years of freedom to waste-—go to it —keep mouthing about 3rd parties, staying home on election day and refusing to support any Repub you don’t like-—give it back to the Rats and remember this post
“Your nutty.”
You are so wrong. I won’t waste my time responding to you again since you do not care what truth is. And that’s, “You’re nutty.”, not “Your nutty.”
Hey, I was here.
I had trepidation on how matters were going down.
I did not like work going to Cintra.
I figured we have Texas companys that can do the work, we can employ Texans.
We Need the roads, I dont like the tolls but we have low taxes so how do we pay for the roads?
Can we please remind everyone that Chris Dodd, Obama and Kerry were the top 3 recipients of Freddie/Fannie campaign contributions? And that the Obama administration has been bailing them out to the tunes of billions of dollars? That’s the money that got Freddie/Fannie special treatment and taxpayer money. Newt wasn’t in government, and therefore hasn’t been responsible for one dime going to Freddie/Fannie. I also don’t believe they were owned by the government until the crash of 2008, so weren’t they basically self-funded agencies like the post office and not funded by the taxpayer?
I do wish Newt had explained some of this stuff better in the debates, that he was paid over 10 years time, that it was to his firm, not just to him, and so forth. Saying how he believes in finding conservative housing solutions isn’t the answer people are looking for. The answer he gave quoted above from 2008 is the one people are looking for. And how about he point out next time that he opposes the plan Romney stated last year to accelerate foreclosures because they just aren’t happening fast enough for him and the investors he wants to buy up the properties?
I continue to find it utterly laughable that the media paid no attention to Freddie/Fannie when the only politicians connected to it were Democrats. Are they now telling us all of a sudden that Freddie/Fannie played a role in the financial crisis? You mean it wasn’t just driven by corporate greed, slimy banksters and hedge fund investors on Wall Street?
So far as blaming Perry for the mexicali highway, Newt had more to do with that.
He pushed NAFTA through.
Newt tearing apart Al Gore’s global warming testimony in 2009 is conservative:
http://townhall.com/tipsheet/greghengler/2009/04/24/newt_rips_gores_facts_to_pieces_in_testimony
Campaigning for Republicans he believes can win is conservative. Maybe he didn’t pick the winner every time but then neither did the Tea Party with Angle and O’Donnell, especially the latter.
Breaking up families which include some natural-born citizens and some illegal aliens with roots in their community going back two decades isn’t conservative.
Being right 2 times a day means Newt has been right about 2,000 times more than Obama has in the last 3 years. If you’re saying he’d be that much better a candidate than Obama, then I agree with you. As for Romney, it’s easy to be right when you look at the paper of the conservative kid you’re sitting next to and copy all his answers.
Thanks for the link.
What I have learned thus far is that the GOP does not house conservatives, it does not produce conservatives, and it does not produce leaders of any sort.
I don’t know what’s ahead in 2012, but after the election, whatever happens, I think conservatives should absolutely abandon the stinking GOP.
Free trade, especially with fellow democracies, is conservative. If you don’t like it, there’s another political party out there.
This is not the world of 2008.
The situation is far more dire now than it was then.
Romney is a RINO, certainly not the champion that we need.
Newt is definitely NOT McCain. He in fact is the champion the times call for. Warts and all.
A few weeks ago I decided I would support Newt in spite of his warts.... now I support him because of many of them.
We need a fearless warrior of consummate skill and determination...Newt is that warrior!
I finished reading his paper on the judiciary last night. It is an absolutely brilliant piece of work! I recommend it highly. If Newt follows through on what is described there we will have a revitalized republic as a result.
You don’t understand what almost happened. He [Perry] wanted to take land from owners all the way from the southern border to the northern border and sell it to a French company that would build a toll road and that company would get the toll money and there was no upper limit set on what that toll would be. OMG! I believe you! I came up with the exact same impression of Perry after watching the debate/forum that Huckabee held. And the three Attorneys General quizzed all the candidates.
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On the other hand, both of Glenn's radio sidekicks were chanting Santorum's name the other morning. Not sure what's going on over there and whether any official endorsement can ever be expected from that crowd. Anyone else have any feelings about the 'Beck bunch'?
I don’t get the argument that we might not want the executive and legislative branches to have the power to expel a judge because we wouldn’t want to see Obama and a Democratic majority do it. Why wouldn’t we? Let them go on record as standing up for whatever they’re for instead of getting their legislation passed through the backdoor by judicial fiat and then claiming there’s nothing they can do about it. We know that conservative ideas win at the ballot box most of the time and liberal ones lose. And fundamentally we want a country that is ruled by WE THE PEOPLE, not by an elite royalty.
I think Newt’s idea here, while seeming a little radical on first glance and certainly seeming to have come out of nowhere in this campaign, has the potential to gain a lot of traction, even in the general election.
This little issue lends some credence to Glenn Thrush’s recent analysis on who Obama might prefer to run against. “If Romney is a conventional enemy, Gingrich poses an asymmetrical threat: He’s simply a more dangerous, talented and unpredictable political actor than Romney.”
Oh Puhleeze she is in Mitts pocket.~
Bachman is running for VP.
Yes, since she jumped on Perry with that "innocent little girls vomitus" and chased it with a Mitt-smooch, it's clear.
This little issue lends some credence to Glenn Thrush’s recent analysis on who Obama might prefer to run against. “If Romney is a conventional enemy, Gingrich poses an asymmetrical threat: He’s simply a more dangerous, talented and unpredictable political actor than Romney.”
I consider myself to be a relatively smart guy. But I tell you honestly that if I had to face down Newt Gingrich in any contest dependent on the ability to reason and think quickly on my feet that I would be terrified. This man is possessed of a profound wit and enviably memory skills.
It is entertaining to contemplate how profoundly frightened Obama must be of Newt Gingrich. It makes me smile.
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