Only Gingrich Offers Bold Conservative Solutions
Posted on 02/12/2012 8:49:12 PM PST by katiedidit1
In 2008 when my wife, Gena, and I were on the campaign trail backing former Arkansas Gov. Mike Huckabee for president, former Pennsylvania Sen. Rick Santorum was fighting to get former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney elected. (Listen in this video how Santorum passionately endorsed and elevated Mitt in his bid for the Oval Office.)
Just three years ago in his interview with radio host and conservative commentator Laura Ingraham, Santorum also emphatically told millions of listening Americans: “If you’re a conservative, if you’re a Republican, there is only one place to go, and that’s Mitt Romney.”
(Excerpt) Read more at wnd.com ...
I have just one sentence for you.
Santorum:
“This whole idea of personal autonomy, well I don’t think most conservatives hold that point of view.
Conservative? Santorum? Yeah, right.
I don't think that's quite fair. Geographically where he's from in western PA would be the far, far western edge of the "northeast." But more importantly, he's a staunch social conservative on abortion, gay marriage, embryonic stem cell research, religious liberty, etc. That viewpoint simply doesn't exist in the New England/New York/New Jersey solid blue northeast turf. Pennsylvania is still a marginal swing state primarily due I think to splits on the social issues.
Haha! “Knuckle-dragging Neanderthal”
Leave it to Sarah to put little Ricky in his place!
No, Rick’s supporters here are perfectly well informed... but they simply *DON’T CARE* about jobs, the economy, a balance budget, or restoring states’ rights.
Rick’s supporters most pressing concerns, to the exclusion of anything else, are abortion, gay marriage, and government enforcement of Christian values.
And nothing else matters.
That is the essence of the split that has formed in the conservative movement. One side looks at the pocketbook and says “What can we afford to do?”. The other has a list of what they need to do, and then at the American people as the money-tree to pay for it.
And if that sounds similar to a Democrap... it is. The only difference is in what they want to do (identical, though, in *HOW* they what to go about doing it).
Which is why, as far back as 2006, I started calling them anti-liberals... for they are not conservatives, but merely a mirror image of the liberals they profess to loathe.
Add ungrateful, unctuous attention \|/#Or3 to the list...
LOL
I don’t know why my adjectives go always by three :)
Thank you for that post. While I support Newt, I could live with Santorum winning the nomination. As conservatives, our objective needs to be to defeat Romney and then ultimately Obama.
They’re GOOD adjectives!
Smarmy little pissant. Ride the wave, cocky rooster. Watch that undertow...
Santorum: “This whole idea of personal autonomy, well I don’t think most conservatives hold that point of view.”
http://www.redstate.com/erick/2012/01/06/what-a-big-government-conservative-looks-like/
“Rick Santorum is a pro-life statist. He is. You will have to deal with it. He is a big government conservative. Santorum is right on social issues, but has never let his love of social issues stand in the way of the creeping expansion of the welfare state. In fact, he has been complicit in the expansion of the welfare state.
This is not the record of a man committed to scaling back the welfare state or the nanny state.
See for yourself.
NEA
Voted for taxpayer funding of the National Endowment for the Arts.
Voted against a 10% cut in the budget for National Endowment for the Arts.
Bankruptcy
Voted for a Schumer amendment to make the debts of pro-life demonstrators not dischargeable in bankruptcy.
Defense and Foreign Policy
Voted for the Chemical Weapons Convention (CWC).
Voted against requiring the President to certify that the CWC is effectively verifiable.
Voted against requiring the President to certify that that Iran, Iraq, Syria, Libya, North Korea, China, and all other countries determined to be state sponsors of terror have joined CWC prior to submitting the instrument of ratification.
Voted for the START II Treaty
Voted to allow the sale of supercomputers to China.
Voted to ban antipersonnel landmines
Voted against increasing defense spending offset by equivalent cuts in non-defense spending.
Voted to require that Federal bureaucrats get the same payraises as uniformed military.
Voted to allow food and medicine sales to state sponsors of terror and tyranical regimes such as Libya and Cuba.
Voted to limit the President’s authority to impose sanctions on nations for reasons of national security unless the sanctions were approved by a multilateral regime.
Voted against requiring Congressional authorization for military action in Bosnia.
Voted to give $25 million in foreign aid to North Korea
Voted to weaken alien terrorist deportation provisions. If the Court determines that the evidence must be withheld for national security reasons, the Justice Department must still provide a summary of the evidence sufficient for the alien terrorist to mount a defense against deportation.
Voted against delaying the India Nuclear until the President certified that India had agreed to suspend military-to-military exchanges with Iran.
Voted against the Conventional Trident Missile Program
Nominations
Voted for Richard Paez to the 9th Curcuit (cloture)
Voted for Sonia Sotomayor, Circuit Judge
Voted for Richard Holbrooke to be Ambassador to the UN
Voted for Margaret Morrow to be District Judge
Voted twice for Marsha Berzon to the 9thg Circuit
Voted for Mary McLaughlin to be District Judge
Voted for Tim Dyk to be District Judge
Voted for James Brady to be District Judge
Labor
Voted against National Right to Work Act
Voted against Real of Davis-Bacon Prevailing union wages
Voted for Alexis Herman to be Secretary of Labor
Voted for mandatory Federal child care funding
Voted for Trade Adjustment Assistance.
Voted for Job Corps funding
Voted twice in support of Fedex Unionization
Voted against allowing a waiver of Davis-Bacon in emergency situations.
Voted for minimum wage increases six times here here here here here and here
Voted to require a union representative on an IRS oversight board.
Voted to exempt IRS union representative from criminal ethics laws.
Voted against creating independent Board of Governors to investigate IRS abuses.
Guns
Voted to require pawn shops to do background checks on people who pawn a gun.
Voted twice to make it illegal to sell a gun without a secure storage or safety device
Voted for a Federal ban on possession of “assault weapons” by those under 18.
Voted for Federal funding for anti-gun education programs in schools.
Voted for anti-gun juvenile justice bill.
Reform
Voted for funding for the legal services corporation.
Voted twice for a Congressional payraise.
Voted to impose a uniform Federal mandate on states to force them to allow convicted rapits, arsonists, drug kingpins, and all other ex-convicts to vote in Federal elections.
Voted for the Specter “backup plan” to allow campaign finance reform to survive if portions of the bill were found unconstitutional.
Voted to mandate discounted broadcast times for politicians.
Voted for a McCain amendment to require State and local campaign committees to report all campaign contributions to the FEC and to require all campaign contributions to be reported to the FEC within 24 hours within 90 days of an election.
Immigration
Voted against increasing the number of immigration investigators
Voted to allow illegal immigrants to receive the earned income credit before becoming citizens
Voted to give SSI benefits to legal aliens.
Voted to give welfare benefits to naturalized citizens without regard to to the earnings of their sponsors.
Voted against hiring an additional 1,000 border partrol agents, paid for by reductions in state grants.
Taxes
Voted against a flat tax.
Voted to increase tobacco taxes to pay for Medicare prescription drugs
Voted to increase tobacco taxes to fund health insurance subsidies for small businesses.
Voted to increase tobacco taxes to pay for an $8 billion increase in child healh insurance.
Voted to increase tobacco taxes to pay for an increase in NIH funding.
Voted twice for internet taxes.
Voted to allow gas tax revenues to be used to subsidize Amtrak.
Voted to strike marriage penalty tax relief and instead provide fines on tobacco companies.
Voted against repealing the Clinton 4.3 cent gas tax increase.
Voted to increase taxes by $2.3 billion to pay for an Amtrak trust fund.
Voted to allow welfare to a minor who had a child out of wedlock and who resided with an adult who was on welfare within the previous two years.
Voted to increase taxes by $9.4 billion to pay for a $9.4 billion increase in student loans.
Voted to say that AMT patch is more important than capital gains and dividend relief.
Welfare
Voted against food stamp reform
Voted against Medicaid reform
Voted against TANF reform
Voted to increase the Social Services Block Grant from $1 billion to $2 billion
Voted to increase the FHA loan from $170,000 to $197,000. Also opposed increasing GNMA guaranty from 6 basis points to 12.
Voted for $2 billion for low income heating assistance.
Waste
Sponsored An amendment to increase Amtrak funds by $550 million
Voted to use HUD funds for the Joslyn Art Museum (NE), the Stand Up for Animals project (RI) and the Seattle Art Museum’s Olympic Sculpture Project (WA)
Voted to increase spending on social programs by $7 billion
Voted to increase NIH funding by $1.6 billion.
Voted to increase NIHnding by $700 million
Voted to for a $2 million earmark to renovate the Vulcan Monument (AL)
Voted for a $1 billion bailout for the steel industry
Voted against requiring that highway earmarks would come out of a state’s highway allocation
Voted to allow Market Access Program funds to go to foreign companies.
Voted to allow OPIC to increase its administrative costs by 50%
Voted against transferring $20 million from Americorps to veterans.
Voted for the $140 billion asbestos compensation bill.
Voted against requiring a uniform medical criteria to ensure asbestos claims were legitimate.
Voted to increase community development programs by $2 billion.
Spending and Entitlements
Voted to make Medicare part B premium subsidies an new entitlement.
Voted against paying off the debt ($5.6 trillion at the time) within 30 years.
Voted to give $18 billion to the IMF.
Voted to raid Social Security instead of using surpluses to pay down the debt.
Health Care
Voted to allow states to impose health care mandates that are stricter than proposed new Federal mandates, but not weaker.
Voted twice for Federal mental health parity mandates in health insurance.
Voted against a allow consumers the option to purchase a plan outside the parity mandate.
Education
Voted to increase Federal funding for teacher testing
Voted to increase spending for the Department of Education by $3.1 billion.
Voted against requiring courts to consider the impact of IDEA awards on a local school district.
Energy
Voted to allow the President to designate certain sites as interim nuclear waste storage sites in the event that he determines that Yucca Mountain is not a suitable site for a permanent waste repository. Those sites are as follows: the nuclear waste site in Hanford, Washington; the Savannah River Site in South Carolina; Barnwell County, South Carolina; and the Oak Ridge Reservation in Tennessee.
Voted to make fuel price gouging a Federal crime.
A poster, liveforadrenaline, replied to the above article:
“Romney, who never built a conservative bridge. His bridges always led to the Progressives.
Paul, who has no idea on how to build a bridge, because he has been in the House for decades and hasn’t even become a Committee Chairman, which is the first step to power.
And Santorum, who has built a half a bridge consisting of one rope, that of social conservatism, while pretty much using a piece of sewing thread to construct the fiscal side of the rope.
Gingrich’s rope bridge has been completely built. Yes, it has been burned by fire on numerous occasions, but at least it was built.”
Go Newt Go!
Do ya think she remembers Rick Santorum and his snide remarks about her?
I’m certain Todd Palin does.
I’ll tell you this: Sarah Palin is a bigger person and than Santorum.
Heart of gold.
Do ya think she remembers Rick Santorum and his snide remarks about her?
I’m certain Todd Palin does.
I’ll tell you this: Sarah Palin is a bigger person than Santorum.
Heart of gold.
Whoa.....
After the CPAC - In a wide-ranging interview with Newsmax, Newt discusses the Obama administration’s hostility towards religion, his fight against the GOP Establishment, how he would beat President Obama, and more.
http://www.newsmax.com/video/viewid/1963ca9b-7317-4f8b-ad98-58adade196c3
Gingrich to Newsmax: Obama ‘Relentlessly Hostile’ to Religion
Many Catholic leaders reacted negatively to Obama’s revised policy. They pointed out that there are several Catholic insurance firms and self-insured Catholic organizations that would still be affected.
Throughout the controversy over the HHS mandate, which is part of the process of determining what procedures must be covered under the president’s healthcare reforms, pastors and ministers across the political spectrum have come to Catholics’ defense.
They frame the issue as one of religious liberty and the First Amendment, rather than a debate about what does or does not constitute abortion.
Gingrich told Newsmax on Friday that he doubts whether the new policy represents a significant concession.
“It’s a clever maneuver which may actually be worse, not better,” said Gingrich, who added he intends to carefully explore the details of the new proposal. “A number of leading Catholic intellectuals believe this is worse. It’s certainly worse as a matter of conscience.”
Gingrich said, “I don’t believe President Obama cares anything about what Catholics think,” pointing out that as an Illinois state senator Obama opposed a bill that would have banned partial-birth abortion.
“He has been relentlessly hostile to traditional religions,” charged Gingrich, who is a convert to Catholicism. “I think that his administration doesn’t share any of the values, and they proved that.
“They might temporarily maneuver for the purpose of getting through an election, but I think everybody ought to look at that and say to yourself, ‘What do you think he’ll do (if he wins) the week after the election?’” he added.
http://www.newsmax.com/Newsfront/cpac-Gingrich-Newsmax-Obama/2012/02/11/id/429142
I can continue the list of Gingrich’s conservative credentials, if you wish. I don’t recall exactly were I stopped so it may get some bis repetitas ... Brace yourself, here we go!
Obama divides us by going after people who make over $250K. (Oct 2011)
• Obama’s “balanced approach” is code for raise taxes. (Jul 2011)
• Death tax is a direct assault on civil society. (Jun 2011)
• Energy taxes are taxes on people earning under $250K. (Feb 2009)
• Match the Chinese and have zero capital gains tax. (Feb 2009)
• Voted against Reagan tax increases & Bush tax increases. (Feb 2008)
• Flat tax proposal criticized for losing popular tax breaks. (Dec 2007)
• Tax hikes retard growth and depress revenues. (Dec 2007)
• Change tax policies to make US companies competitive abroad. (Sep 2007)
• Create tax incentives that encourage R&D. (Sep 2007)
• Eliminate the capital gains tax to encourage investing. (Sep 2007)
• Opposing taxes is a key conservative value. (Jul 1998)
• Input of public judgement for any major tax reform. (Jul 1998)
• EITC is an invitation to fraud. (Jul 1998)
• Adopt a single-rate tax system. (Jul 2010)
• Repeal tax hikes in capital gains and death taxes. (Jul 2010)
• Repeal marriage tax; cut middle class taxes. (Sep 1994)
• I favor Internet freedom; SOPA favors Hollywood. (Jan 2012)
• We can’t compete with China with an inferior infrastructure. (Jan 2012)
• America should be in space, aggressively & entrepreneurially. (Dec 2011)
• Prepare more for electromagnetic pulse attack. (Nov 2011)
• Replace NASA with incentives to private sector. (Jun 2011)
• Treat WikiLeaks as enemy combatants engaged in terrorism. (Dec 2010)
• NASA bureaucrats hijacked the great space adventure. (Dec 2007)
• Establish three high-speed rail corridors; NY-MA; FL; & CA. (Dec 2007)
• Invest in scientific revolutions: energy, space, environment. (Sep 2007)
• Focus on investing in science and discovery. (Sep 2003)
• Nanotechnology combined with biotech will transform society. (Sep 2003)
• Supports federal investment in space for science & discovery. (Sep 2003)
• Statistical adjustment of census begets political adjustment. (Jul 1998)
• Television is the wasteland of cynicism. (Jun 1995)
• Televise Congress: “C-Span is more real than being there”. (Jun 1995)
• Tax credit for inner-city computers: “Let them eat laptops”. (Jun 1995)
• Co-founded Congressional Space Caucus. (Jun 1995)
• Abolish tax deferral for media sales to minorities. (Jun 1995)
• We have mismanaged region-wide crisis in Middle East. (Jan 2012)
• Sabotage Iran’s oil refinery. (Nov 2011)
• Covert operations & military, if needed, to stop Iran nukes. (Nov 2011)
• Wrong to intervene in Libya; covert action more effective. (Aug 2011)
• No US conventional forces in Libya. (Jul 2011)
• Get out of Arab region rapidly; make new strategy. (Jun 2011)
• Goal was to liberate Iraq from Saddam, not to occupy. (Dec 2007)
• The “Irreconcilable Wing of Islam” threatens our way of life. (Dec 2007)
• Deadline for Iraqi withdrawal is legislating defeat. (May 2007)
• Even if Iraq IS a civil war, people have won civil wars. (May 2007)
• Pressure Iran to cut off Iraq, including blockading Iran. (May 2007)
• Iraq & Syria are enemies—ok to talk if we understand that. (May 2007)
• French didn’t abandon colonies in 1776; even when losing. (May 2007)
• Iraqi Army risk their lives & take more casualties than US. (May 2007)
• Date for withdrawal means terrorists exalt & follow us home. (May 2007)
• War on terror is transformational, and will take many years. (Dec 2006)
• Defend America & allies from those who would destroy us. (Dec 2006)
• Critical of how Iraq war has been fought. (Nov 2006)
• Iraq policy is a mess. (Dec 2003)
• Move the US Embassy to Jerusalem. (Nov 1995)
• Obama is the Food Stamp President; teach poor to get jobs. (Jan 2012)
• FactCheck: Poverty rate has fallen under War on Poverty. (Jul 2011)
• When free welfare is provided, people choose not to work. (Jun 2011)
• 1996: One out of 184 programs block-granted back to states. (Jun 2011)
• Ten Lessons from Successfully Transforming Welfare. (Dec 2007)
• Boys Town-style orphanages better than kids on welfare. (Nov 2003)
• Reach majority by better ideas, not by handing out goodies. (Jul 1998)
• Eight steps to improve opportunity for poor. (Jul 1995)
• Welfare state has distorted beyond its original intent. (Jun 1995)
• Error at core of welfare state is its dehumanization. (Jun 1995)
• Welfare vouchers allow choice & reduce bureaucracy. (Jun 1995)
• Food stamps crowd out space shuttles. (Jun 1995)
• Replace welfare state with opportunity society. (Jan 1995)
• Limit welfare to 2 years & cut welfare spending. (Sep 1994)
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