What can we, as a community, do so support Newt?

[Raebie]

What can we do in an organized fashion?

Fundraisers, social media, volunteerism? I know we can sign up as individuals on his site, but what can we do as a community? There is strength in numbers and together we are a powerful voice.

Thoughts?

[Vendome]

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. 

6. The Keystone Pipeline

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.

LEGISLATIVE PROPOSALS

 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.

Executive Summary

1. Repeal Obamacare and pass a replacement that saves lives and money by empowering patients and doctors, not bureaucrats and politicians.
2. Return to robust job creation with a bold set of tax cuts and regulatory reforms that will free American entrepreneurs to invest and hire, as well as by reforming the Federal Reserve and creating a training requirement for extended federal unemployment benefits to encourage work and improve the quality of our workforce.
3. Unleash America’s full energy production potential in oil, natural gas, coal, biofuels, wind, nuclear oil shale and more, creating jobs,  stimulating a sustainable manufacturing boom, lowering gasoline and other energy prices, increasing government revenues, and bolstering national security.
4. Save Medicare and Social Security by giving Americans more choices and tools to live longer, healthier lives with greater financial independence.
5. Balance the federal budget by freeing job-creators to grow the economy, reforming entitlements, and implementing waste cutting and productivity improvement systems such as Lean Six Sigma to eliminate waste and fraud. Pass a balanced budget amendment to keep it balanced.
6. Control the border by January 1, 2014 and establish English as the official language of government; reform the legal visa system, and make it much easier to deport criminals and gang members while making it easier for law abiding visitors to come to the US.
7. Revitalize our national security system to meet 21st century threats by restructuring and adequately funding our security agencies to function within a grand strategy for victory over those who seek to kill us or limit American power.
8. Maximize the speed and impact of medical breakthroughs by removing unnecessary obstacles that block new treatments from reaching patients and emphasizing research spending towards urgent national priorities, like brain science with its impact on Alzheimer’s, autism, Parkinson's, mental health and other conditions knowledge of the brain will help solve. 
9. Restore the proper role of the judicial branch by using the clearly delineated powers available to the president and Congress to correct, limit, or replace judges who violate the Constitution.
10. Enforce the Tenth Amendment by starting an orderly transfer of power and responsibility from the federal government back “to the states, respectively, or to the people,” as the Constitution requires. Over the next year, state and local officials and citizens will be asked to identify the areas which can be transferred back home.    

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

[rob777]

"You're making a giant unwarranted assumption that Neut is who we want to support. Some of us support Santorum. Some Support Ron Paul. I suppose a few even support Mittens. I personally despise both Neut and Mittens equally. Both are to the left of McCain and I thought he was a poor choice the last time around. I would have supported Perry despite his record of Hispandering, but he took his ball and went home."


Good point. I do not see Newt as any improvement over Romney either. I could live with either Paul or Santorum, but at this point I am more interested in getting solid candidates elected to the U.S. House and Senate, as well as state and local races.

[from occupied ga]

I could live with either Paul or Santorum, but at this point I am more interested in getting solid candidates elected to the U.S. House and Senate, as well as state and local races.

I agree. Either of them would be a better choice than Mittens or Neut in my opinion, but I can't get excited about anyone left in the field.

[rob777]

"Jim runs the site. He doesn't make everyone's mind up for them, and he doesn't speak for everyone who posts here."


Another good point, unless this is some sort of Borg collective.

[true believer forever]

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[douginthearmy]

I don't recall McLame sitting down with Pelosi to get on the AlGore globull warming bandwagon.

"I will clean up the planet," McCain said. "I will make global warming a priority." - Jan 2008.

[sissyjane]

Jim Robinson supports Newt. He posted it yesterday,

[true believer forever]

Maybe the first step could be to start an ACTIVE NEWT SUPPORTERS Ping list... And then start talking back and forth between them. But I don’t know how you could advertise it wisely enough to make sure everybody knows it exists... and once you get a look at your talent pool, which, like you said, is deep on FR, then you could ask for specific volunteers to do specific stuff... Just a thought, don’t know if it has any value, but I am anxious to get started...

[Raebie]

TitansAFN has a pretty large Newt list. I’ve pinged him to this thread.

[true believer forever]

okay, so what’s next?

[TitansAFC]

PinG!

[rogue yam]

If you want you can sign up through Newt’s website to make calls to people in SC (today) and FL (starting next week), asking them to vote for Newt.

[from occupied ga]

"I will clean up the planet," McCain said. "I will make global warming a priority." - Jan 2008.

Interesting - I didn't know that.

[true believer forever]

I have been doing that for awhile now, but if anybody hasn’t I would encourage them to do so especially today in case anyone in SC is wavering because of the ABC trash... people from south carolina are sooo easy to talk to, they are so nice, and they really listen and engage... I can’t really call till later today, but it is very easy and fun...

National phone banks for Newt:

http://newtsnetwork.com/activism/pb/default.aspx

[rogue yam]

If Newt doesn’t win SC this thing is over.

Not necessarily. Newt can be a close second to Mitt and the race will continue so long as Santorum is way behind Newt. Romney only has momentum if he is up above 30% and Newt and Santorum are fairly even. If Newt pulls away from Santorum then Newt becomes the leading non-Romney candidate, and if there is one non-Romney and 70% of voters are choosing someone other than Romney then Newt still has a path forward to the nomination. Santorum needs to either match or beat Newt in SC (and FL if he's still in) or get out.

[campaignPete R-CT]

goin’ to Maine. bumb to self.

[maine-iac7]

Everyone in Virginia that isn’t a Mitt supporter will be supporting Newt if they vote in the VA primary

Virginia needs to go on a massive "write in" campaign.

It would likely be highly successful since this is a case of state level skulduggery to shut candidates out.

I have an idea Virginians may take umbrage at that...

[ebshumidors]

Photoshop Newt as the honey badger and let it go viral.

[stuartcr]

Write-in is not an option in the primary. I don’t think it was skullduggery, as 2 candidates were able to do it and they aren’t even from Virginia.

[TheOldLady]

Boop Her Nose!

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