[glock rocks]

Ping to an excellent article.

[loveliberty2]

Now, it is time for "We, the People," not the GOP Establishment types, to call for a candidate who has enough knowledge to defend the Constitution's protections against elected representatives from both Parties. After all, pure and simply, that was what it was designed to do.

At this moment there are 3 who appear to have studied the Founders in some depth.

It will be up to "the People," however, to hold their candidate accountable, once nominated.

Gingrich seems to be intellectually, and by a lifetime of study, qualified to craft an individual liberties, ideas-based campaign capable of exposing and defeating the "I-can-do-everything-for-you" enslaving ideas of Obama.

Romney displays no such study or grounding in principles underlying our freedom.

"Spending 25 years in the private sector" working and participating in the results of America's founding ideas does not, in itself, qualify one for defending the ideas that made it possible to do so.

When asked, Romney seems unable to set his answers in anything deeper than quotations from Reagan, patriotic songs, or familiar phrases from other speakers.

That kind of surface knowledge of the vast reservoir of ideas essential to liberty will not defeat an opponent who has immersed himself in the set of government-centered, tyrannical ideas to which he is committed and for which he has been mentored and trained to defend and cloak in a garment of benevolence.

Romney's offhandedness in describing the November 2012 opponent as just "in over his head" indicates unpreparedness for a battle of opposing ideas with a person who is committed and determined to impose those ideas, despite their having failed in every society where they have been tried.

[garjog]

John McCain and Bob Dole:

Two of our Most Inspiring Leaders!

[EagleInGA]

Excellect article. I spent almost my entire adult life donating time and money to help support the GOP, but any party with the face of Mitt Romney (or the fat man from NJ) is no party of mine.

Time to take out the establishment or shoot the elephant all together and start anew. Its a long, hard slog but quite frankly Romney or Obama the country still bleeds. Its only a matter of degree.

Here’s to the rebellion!!

[EagleInGA]

Excellect article. I spent almost my entire adult life donating time and money to help support the GOP, but any party with the face of Mitt Romney (or the fat man from NJ) is no party of mine.

Time to take out the establishment or shoot the elephant all together and start anew. Its a long, hard slog but quite frankly Romney or Obama the country still bleeds. Its only a matter of degree.

Here’s to the rebellion!!

[CASchack]

No more nose-holding and voting for the anointed choice of the establishment. I will NOT vote for Romney if he is the nominee. If they want war, they’ve got it!

[Thunder90]

Next, they will tell us not to be so “hostile” to Obama during the general election. They are trying to rig it so that Obama wins, the Dems take the house, and retain the Senate. They also want to set up a Jeb Bush run in 2016.

[WILLIALAL]

Know your enemy. As is becoming evident, it is how much the Republican and Democratic parties are alike. It is about the power and the money. Always. Doesn’t matter whether there is a (R) or a (D) in front of the name, if they are in DC they all smell the same.

Thomas Jefferson was right, The tree of liberty....

[APatientMan]

Is Ebben Raves a FReeper? Good stuff.

[Christie at the beach]

Thank you for sharing. I think our country is at a crossroads. Florida is a huge battle in this fight. Newt is a brilliant person whom deeply understands the history of America. That commitment to America has been proven for very many years. His speeches are inspiring.
He doesn't see himself as above us. At one of his rallies, he seem down to earth and polite though still in a direction to beat Romney. He has been fighting the left for many years. The left are in fear of his ideas because it is totally radically different than theirs. Romney can be easily transformed to their ideology because it is very similar to theirs (Obamacare). This entire primary has been an abuse of power on display. The GOP insiders-the media and the people that we admire who say they are for conservatism have been very unprofessional. Those groups may say that the campaigns are dirty though they have succeeded in becoming unethical. I would take bold changes over the country club dividing our people into groups any day. There is No way a politician like Romney should even be in the top tier of this campaign due to socialism health care plan he set into law. Now, we have Pam Bondi letting the cat out of the bag, saying she will help Romney on a National health Task force. That is real influence peddling. He is going to be the worse person elected who will help his Wall Street friends and let the country come second. We, the people, have to stop their agenda and by not forcing Romney on us and supporting Newt we may have a chance of reforming the way Washington works. Don't they get it-we are all good people-we are tired of sitting here watching them do things that we don't do in our own lives as they change our liberties into controlled mandates. You cannot take someone freedoms away then expect the people not to react.

[gaijin]

Loved Drudge, but....I can’t take a chance of Newt not getting elected, sorry.

If it’s Romney, well....I just won’t vote at all.

Screw the freaking Republicans —Romney is McCain, is Dole, is Ford is the loyal opposition.

GO NEWT...!

If it’s for all the marbles, my choice is Newt or nothing.

—>NEWT OR NOTHING.<—

[Lancey Howard]

This is a finely written piece. Excellent.

[Qbert]

As painful and shocking (to some) as it was, I think time will show that Bloody Thursday was one of the best things that could have ever happened to us. No longer will we have to wonder who is saying what behind our backs in the closed rooms.

If somebody doesn’t like you- isn’t it much better to have them say it to your face, rather than making you wonder all the time?

[Major Matt Mason]

I would think it would have to be a new party, although that is never an easy choice. Fiscal conservatives are probably the majority in the GOP, except where it matters the most - at the top of the party. The "moderates" at this point are simply in collusion with the Democrats to hang onto whatever power they can maintain, which makes them no better than the Democrats. There is truly no difference between a Democrat and a moderate Republican these days, and Romney is the proof of this.

[COBOL2Java]

Newt led the revolution that put the Republicans in control of the house for the first time in 50 years. Unfortunately, a lot of those freshmen class members got co-opted (to use Trent Lott's term) and corrupted by the environment, and grew to love having control of the Federal Teat more than loving their country (the Bob Michel RINOs that were already there probably helped).

Some of them are still there, opposing Newt's run for the Presidency. They got behind Romney because they believe he will keep the gravy train going, whether or not he defeats Obama (the only thing that matters is getting majorities in the House and Senate).

[Resettozero]

Thanks for the article. These are my observations of this week’s events.

All Republicans except true Conservatives are pushing MR, with the daily media’s assistance. MR is no longer courting Conservatives in Florida...or anywhere else this week.

Republican Party appears to believe it has a path to elect a President and Republican Congress utilizing Independents and disenfranchised Democrats in place of Conservatives’ votes.

I wonder if the Republican Elite have concluded they can govern from a moderate/moderate-left platform (no-real-convictions either way), and can enlist disenfranchised Democrats, who now don’t want Obama either, to help elect a liberal Republican as President, with the unwilling assistance of Conservatives who, the Elites think, will vote against Obama no matter what.

The Elites seem intent to break the power of Conservatives by catering to enough Democrats and non-Conservative Independents, overpowering our candidates so they won’t have to put up with us anymore in this or coming national elections.

They’ve moved their chess pieces into position this week to show us how the game is going to go, no matter what we Conservatives may want to happen.

I pray they are wrong. They probably are. Fire away.

[lonevoice]

Ping for another great article from "American Thinker"

April 15, 1994

House Minority Whip Gingrich and 7th District congressional candidate
Brenda Fitzgerald throw mock tea crates into the Chattahoochee River
on April 15, 1994 as part of a "Taxpayer's Tea party" in Roswell, Georgia.

[maxwellsmart_agent]

Let’s be really be brave like we were with Reagan. Let’s try Santorum. He’s uniform. He never changes what he says. If anybody was in the shadow of Reagan, he is. Why don’t other people see it?

Go Santorum!!!

[Tribune7]

Newt was driven out by the ones who wanted to spend the money.

[LucianOfSamasota]

We need to find candidates of integrity who will ‘go to the mat’ to bring government under control; an stop worrying about electability. What good is it to elect a candidate who will fit in with the rest of them?