Posted on 01/20/2012 8:49:22 AM PST by Jay777
One of the criticisms I make is to what I refer to as more of a Libertarianish right. They have this idea that people should be left alone, be able to do whatever they want to do, government should keep our taxes down and keep our regulations low, that we shouldn’t get involved in the bedroom, we shouldn’t get involved in cultural issues. That is not how traditional conservatives view the world. There is no such society that I’m aware of, where we’ve had radical individualism and that it succeeds as a culture.”
- Rick Santorum
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Not in this clip and not in his platform. Santorum has been the most aggressive candidate (Paul aside) calling for serious entitlement reform - cuts.
He did vote for Gingrich's prescription drug entitlement.
At least with prohibition of alcohol, they had the decency to put in an amendment.
Even with an amendment, prohibition didn’t work.
Without the amendment, federal drug prohibitions should be outside federal powers.
And legalizing drugs would thin out the herd nicely.
I don’t agree with Santorum. I think most social issues should be decided at the state level. Even gay marriage should neither be sanctioned or outlawed at the federal government...it is a state issue.
Is it an old clip? How is it taken out of context?
That's where a record comes in. Not just the record of votes, which is often a meaningless toll of positions taken for political reasons on bills that were always going to pass or were never going to pass, but a record of actions taken that actually mattered.
A record of actions taken that actually mattered. Newt is the man who fits that description to a "T".
He can identify what is most important to the country, develop a plan to overcome that challenge, articulate the the merits of overcoming the challenge and why the plan will work.
I hadn't been for Gingrich initially and spent plenty of energy excoriating him, these last several years, for any number of sins he committed against the Republican/Conservative ideals. He seemed a turncoat of sorts, particularly when he babysat Pelosi on the couch.
On reflection, Newt is an attention whore seeking relevancy for his ideas and I guess I take him at his word that he made a few mistakes in his life and he has at least some regret for those decisions. God knows I am no angel and so I have to reflect on the man's ability to get things done.
Newt gave us the Republican majority, the Contract with America and completed 2/3rds of his agenda while in office.
He now has a new plan for America and with what is likely to become a Congressional Super Majority and a Senate Majority, if not Super Majority, I believe he will absolutely accomplish his agenda.
Say goodbye to ObamaCare the single biggest scam and travesty foisted upon a free people who, by right, ought to have been given the opportunity to read the bill and debate it. Instead, a win at all cost, cheating agenda was developed and it was signed with most people never laying eyes on at least page 2 of this utopian dreck.
Executive Orders Positions:
The following are all within the executive powers to simply order and with the exception of securing the border within one year, they are all easily accomplished with the stroke of a pen and no way to challenge them in the legislature.
Keystone may be challenged in the courts but I think the Executive can order the EPA to approve, under National Security Priorities and it is a National Security issue, as well, a jobs issue.
As President, Newt, could actually have a very busy 1st week or month just on these initiative alone.
1. Eliminate the thirty-nine White House "Czar" positions created during the current administration. The president does not have the authority to appoint bureaucrats to power who are not accountable to the Congress.
2. "Mexico City Policy" of Respect for Life. Reauthorize President Ronald Reagan’s policy – also known as the "Mexico City Policy"— to stop tax payer dollars from being used to fund or promote abortions in foreign countries.
3. Restore conscience clause protections for Healthcare Workers.No American working in a medical environment should be forced to perform any procedure that he or she finds morally or ethically objectionable based on religious teaching. This protection should include, but not be limited to abortion. Existing conscience clause protections need to be strengthened.
4. Respect Each Sovereign Nation’s Choice of its Capital. Each sovereign nation, under international law and custom, may designate its own Capital. Accordingly, the U.S. State Department should be instructed to respect the choice of each sovereign nation and place the American embassy in their Capital. (Israel is the only country the United States discriminates against in this regard. The people of Israel have designated Jerusalem as their capital. Yet the United States retains its embassy in Tel Aviv.)
5. End the Attorney General's Assault on the States. Instruct the Attorney General to withdraw all immigration-related lawsuits against states immediately, including those pending in Arizona and South Carolina. The Obama Administration refuses to enforce federal immigration laws, and instead sues states who are merely trying to enforce the laws that the federal government neglects. The Gingrich Administration will secure the border by Jan. 1, 2014 by any means necessary.
Unleash American Energy by Approving the Keystone XL Pipeline. Instruct the State Department to approve a Presidential Permit immediately for the Keystone XL pipeline, a project that will send 700,000 barrels of oil a day from Great Plains and Southwestern states to Gulf Coast refineries lower staggering energy prices, and create up to 120,000 American jobs.
Now we get into the details of an inclusive agenda that brings the people(you and me), through their representatives, into process. The TEA Party and conservatives are going to have a majority in both houses.
Let’s elect an Executive who will absolutely fulfill the promise of our ideals.
Newt gave us the three most important victories of the 90’s Welfare Reform, Balanced Budget and Reduced Taxes. I hope I don’t need to describe the benefits of those victories. They ought to be obvious to everyone by now.
Lastly, there have been some reports that Newt shouldn’t get all the credit. Really? Then perhaps we marginalize the accomplishments of Washington, Roosevelt, Kennedy and ….wait for it… Reagan.
Do we really want to go down the road with that kind of adolescent sophistry and parsing of what happened?
Newt is the guy who thought of these big things, proposed them and shepherded their implementation?
Newt has once again identified what is important to us now, at this time and described how we can get there with our representative majorities. He has done it before and I declare Newt Gingrich was then and is Now a leader.
We should elect Newt Gingrich to the Presidency of the United States
“Revolutionary America” circa 1776 is not an example of radical individualism.
When Libertarians talk about “radical individualism” they are talking about a “Hey, if this fifteen year old girl wants to walk the streets to support her crack habit then that’s her choice” America.
The only example of a society one can give is frontier America. Even then fur traders and the like had to integrate themselves into a Native American dominated world.
—The idea that you can force someone to do what you think is right is inherently evil.—
What if I want someone not to hold up the 7/11? Is it inherently evil to force them not too?
All laws are an imposition of someone, or some group of people. The question is, Is the law just? And the answer varies depending on a myriad of factors.
A permissive morality is a victory for the secular humanism and postmodernism worldviews.The ultimate goal of secular humanism and postmodernism is statism and socialism.
That is why Rickey needs to get out of the way and STOP allowing himself to be used as a foil AGAINST small government Conservatives.
It’s from 2005. The year before his constituency sent him packing.
If you call enshrining the right to life and the protection of marriage in the constitution "big, intrusive government", I disagree, but yes, it is a good thing.
If you think spending should be cut significantly, reducing the size of government, I agree with you, and Santorum has the strongest platform of any candidate in the race to accomplish that goal.
I'm sure Santorum's regulatory platform is vastly better than what Obama has in place but I do not know the details of his proposals, though I suspect he would not be as conservative as me.
He did not vote for it. He was the WHIP for it.
and yes even in the debates he says a balanced budget is unrealistic. Which basically means he supports all of Obama’s spending and that we can’t go back to 2004 levels.
2004 spending levels would turn this country around in one quarter.
Right on!
Newt is “DA MAN” and has proven it over and over again!
“Newt is an attention whore”
I wouldn’t use those words but there is no doubt that if nominated Newt would try to take the light off of Obama and bathe in it. That’s not a winning strategy.
The quote is from August 4th, 2005 but the clip isn’t old. I saw on the ticker below where it said “Mitt Romney Wins Iowa Caucus by 8 votes”. so that is pretty recent.
The quote is from August 4th, 2005 but the clip isn’t old. I saw on the ticker below where it said “Mitt Romney Wins Iowa Caucus by 8 votes”. so that is pretty recent.
While I agree with some of Ron Paul's views, others are odious.
Of the other candidates, Santorum has the strongest record and platform of small government conservatism. Not ideal, of course.
I really can't imagine the defense of either Mitt or Newt as favoring small government.
I was referring to the 'clip' of the quote, so to speak. One quote absent context from 6 1/2 years ago.
The Federal government never has had any business getting involved in marriage. This is something between people and God. If a state wants to recognize it or not it should be left up to them.
Reductio ad absurdum isn’t really worth my time, but I’ll bite. Stopping someone from “holding up” a 7/11 is not forcing someone to do anything. It’s protecting yourself from having your God-given rights from being taken (precisely what Rick Santorum aims to do, btw). You do not have a God-given right to take someone’s money to give it to a cause of your choice.
There is a happy medium between anarchy and totalitarianism. It’s called a Constitutional Government. 99.9% of government spending would be eliminated overnight, if the federal government shrank to it’s Constitutional boundaries of the Founder’s intent. The remaining Federal Government functions can be carried out by usage fees (IE postage, and toll roads).
The fact that we live in a fallen world and have a limited government, inspired by God that’s purpose to protect people’s RIGHTS (NOT eliminate people from any wrong doing), doesn’t change the fact that forcing someone to do your will is evil. People CAN regulate their own behaviour, government CAN’T. And should quit trying.
You have a right to maintain your property in your 7/11 example. You don’t have a right to rob the 7/11. Your false dichotomy has now been blow out of the water. No need to try again.
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