Well maybe you're right. Let's all get behind the "real conservative."
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 ...
Well maybe you're right. Let's all get behind the "real conservative."
Oh him was just an itty bitty Congressperson, him no understand how earmarks worked. Give me a break.
As far as writing Obama’s second inaugural address. I imagine he would give thanks to the GOP, for nominating someone with bizarre big government ideas that helped make Obama’s own bizarre big government ideas look not so strange, or for nominating that obscure congressman with such consistently high negative ratings that he is now finishing behind Ru Paul in primaries. Time for Newt to do the right thing and get behind Rick. Santorum isn’t my first choice, but he’s clearly the most conservative of what’s left. But Newt shouldn’t worry, he can always get a job with ACORN, they worked so well together in getting a Democrat elected in NY 23.
I’m NOT over yet - continued:
Newt ...
• Stop forcing pro-choice morality on religious organizations. (Jun 2011)
• Immediately cease public funding for abortion providers. (Jun 2011)
• Impeach judges who don’t abide by Constitution as written. (Oct 2005)
• Most Americans are pro-choice and anti-abortion. (Jun 1995)
• Don’t bail out Freddie Mac & Fannie Mae; break them up. (Dec 2011)
• Dodd-Frank kills small business & small banks. (Nov 2011)
• Only leadership can balance the budget. (Sep 2011)
• Modernizing government would save $500B per year in waste. (Sep 2011)
• No sequel to failed stimulus & job-killing policies. (Sep 2011)
• The Fed’s secrecy & power are antithetical to a free society. (Sep 2011)
• Put people back to work to raise revenues without taxes. (Sep 2011)
• The Super-committee is as dumb an idea as I’ve ever heard. (Aug 2011)
• It’s a scandal that the Federal Reserve is secret. (Aug 2011)
• Federal government pays at least $150B a year to crooks. (Jul 2011)
• Insure banks rather than pass out checks. (Apr 2010)
• 1995-97: Pushed for (and got) capital gains tax cut. (Apr 2010)
• Bailout combines bad policy with worst of Detroit’s decay. (Jul 2009)
• 1995 budget: cut taxes, regulations, & spending. (Aug 2008)
• Negotiated 1998 budget: first one balanced since 1969. (Jun 2004)
• Achieve balanced budget by 2002. (Jan 1995)
• Demand a Balanced Budget amendment. (Jul 2010)
• Limit federal spending growth to per-capita inflation rate. (Jul 2010)
• Supports balanced budget amendment & line item veto. (Sep 1994)
• Loyalty test for everyone, not just for Muslims. (Aug 2011)
• Stop forcing same-sex marriage on religious organizations. (Jun 2011)
• Helped oust Iowa justices who approved same-sex marriage. (May 2011)
• ACLU lawsuits designed to drain resources of Boy Scouts. (Feb 2008)
• Five justices banned school prayer against American majority. (Dec 2006)
• Foreign opinion has no relevance to US same-sex marriage. (Oct 2005)
• Discontinue affirmative action programs. (Nov 1998)
• ACLU has become eccentric and destructive. (Jul 1998)
• NEA includes most bizarre & extreme misuse of tax funds. (Jul 1998)
• America is multi-ethnic but not multi-cultural. (Jun 1995)
• Affirmative action OK individually, but not by group. (Jun 1995)
• 2002 Sarbanes-Oxley Act drives IPOs out of the US. (Dec 2007)
• Bureaucracy & litigation are enemies of entrepreneurship. (Jun 1995)
• Supports Prison Fellowship InnerChange Freedom Initiative. (Dec 2007)
• 3-strike laws are constitutional; enforce courts compliance. (Oct 2005)
• Convert decommissioned military bases into prisons. (Jun 1995)
• Voted NO on replacing death penalty with life imprisonment. (Apr 1994)
• Marijuana legalization would tear America apart. (Apr 2011)
• International drug traders use network for terrorist traffic. (Nov 2006)
• Increase penalties for illegal drugs. (Nov 1998)
• Drug-free society focuses on both drug supply & demand. (Jul 1998)
• More prisons, more enforcement, effective death penalty. (Sep 1994)
• College students should work and graduate with no debt. (Nov 2011)
• Dramatically shrink the federal Department of Education. (Sep 2011)
• I liked charter school programs in Obama’s Race to the Top. (Sep 2011)
• Let parents choose public, private, parochial, or homeschool. (Jun 2011)
• More learning options: community college-run charter schools. (Dec 2007)
• Offer coupons to send kids to schools that work best. (Dec 2007)
• America’s high schools are obsolete. (Sep 2007)
• Pay kids as incentive to learn math and science. (Sep 2007)
• Removing God from Pledge of Allegiance assaults our identity. (Dec 2006)
• Replace multiculturalism with patriotic education. (Dec 2006)
• Reference to God in Pledge of Allegiance is not ceremonial. (Dec 2006)
• Introduce competition among schools and teachers. (Dec 2006)
• Encourage private sector in math and science education. (Dec 2006)
• Waive interest on student loans for math & science grads. (Sep 2003)
• Support charters; insist on change for failing schools. (Jul 1998)
• Private scholarships for students at hopeless schools. (Jul 1998)
• 1984: All-night Congressional vigil on school prayer vote. (Jun 1995)
• Voucherize inner-city programs from schools to groceries. (Jun 1995)
• Voluntary school prayer creates bond between you and Creator. (Jun 1995)
• 1963 Supreme Court school prayer ban was just wrong. (Jun 1995)
• Voted YES on giving federal aid only to schools allowing voluntary prayer. (Mar 1994)
• Make employee educational assistance tax-deductible. (Jan 1993)
• Supports a Constitutional Amendment for school prayer. (May 1997)
• Put nuclear waste in deep storage for 10,000 years. (Oct 2011)
• Every green tax credit is a tax loophole. (Sep 2011)
• 2008 petition drive: Drill here, Drill now, Pay less. (Feb 2011)
• New nuclear plants would reduce 2 billion tons of CO2 a year. (Feb 2011)
• Billion-dollar prize for first mass-produced hydrogen car. (Dec 2007)
• Kyoto treaty is bad for the environment and bad for America. (Dec 2006)
• Focus on incentives for conservation & renewable resources. (Dec 2006)
• Stop scare tactics about drilling in Alaska. (Dec 2006)
• Gas tax sounds OK in DC, but not outside Beltway. (Jul 1998)
• Cap-and-trade has no impact on global temperatures. (Jul 2010)
• Explore proven energy reserves & keep energy prices low. (Jul 2010)
• EPA should not regulate dust storms in Iowa. (Jan 2012)
• Critical Katrina recovery by energetic church volunteers. (Jun 2011)
• Replace EPA with new Environmental Solutions Agency. (Feb 2011)
• Katrina’s collapse of New Orleans was avoidable. (Dec 2007)
• Boston’s Big Dig was a classic pork barrel project. (Dec 2007)
• Reject apocalyptic warnings; they only lead to higher taxes. (Dec 2007)
• Greatest enviro dangers are poverty & command bureaucracy. (Sep 2007)
• Combine healthy environment and a healthy economy. (Dec 2006)
• Early 1980s: co-sponsored Endangered Species Act. (Jun 1995)
• Regulating 15 more contaminants under Clean Water Act. (Oct 1993)
• Let poor kids work so they learn like middle class. (Dec 2011)
• Responsibility for child’s education resides with parents. (Jun 2011)
• Aging baby boomers need more independent & assisted living. (Sep 2007)
• Marriage penalty costs low-income couples $4,600 per year. (Jun 1995)
• 1979: his marriage collapsed because “all humans sin”. (Jun 1995)
• Use tax code to reinforce families. (Sep 1994)
• Tell the truth: Palestinians are an “invented people”. (Dec 2011)
• Corruption from our bureaucrats giving bureaucrats money. (Sep 2011)
• We have failed for a decade to deal with North Korea & Iran. (Sep 2011)
• We need a dramatically expanded use of statecraft. (May 2007)
• Lead the world into Third Wave Information Age. (Jul 1995)
• American Exceptionalism: uniquely far-reaching individualism. (Jun 1995)
• Protectionism helps China & India challenge US supremacy. (Dec 2006)
• Mutual trade: neither free trade nor protectionism. (Jun 1995)
• Historically ignorant leaders make suicidally stupid policy. (Oct 2011)
• Press corps focuses on campaign minutia & not basic ideas. (Aug 2011)
• The era of big government is over, and I mean it. (Jul 2011)
• Abolish all White House Czars. (Jul 2011)
• Constitution begins “we the people” not “we the government”. (Nov 2010)
• Democrats say they oppose earmarks, but proposed 8,000. (Feb 2009)
• GOP wins election and then loses the government. (Feb 2008)
• End judicial supremacy; preserve our Godly heritage. (Dec 2007)
• Replace bureaucratic mindset with Entrepreneurial Management. (Sep 2007)
• Insist on judges who understand our rights come from God. (Dec 2006)
• Supreme Court has become permanent Constitutional Convention. (Dec 2006)
• Insist on judges who understand our rights come from God. (Dec 2006)
• Our rights come from God, not from government. (Dec 2006)
• Contract With America: deep cuts in Medicare/Medicaid/taxes. (Nov 2003)
• Increase federal limits on individual campaign contributions. (Nov 1998)
• Established systems are inherently hostile to change. (Jul 1998)
• 1995 government shutdown from GOP underestimating Clinton. (Jul 1998)
• 1994 GOP victory destroyed bipartisanship. (Jul 1998)
• Elected on anti-corruption platform in 1978. (Jul 1998)
• Government should take management lesson from private sector. (Jul 1998)
• Rethink every aspect of bureaucracy. (Jul 1998)
• Class mobility is key part of America’s genius. (Jul 1995)
• Wrote “Contract with America” as conservative platform. (Jun 1995)
• Identify constitutionality in every new congressional bill. (Jul 2010)
• Audit federal agencies, to reform or eliminate them. (Jul 2010)
• Moratorium on all earmarks until budget is balanced. (Jul 2010)
• Limit punitive damages; term limits on Congress. (Sep 1994)
• Government is too big, too intrusive, too easy with money. (Sep 1994)
• Don’t redefine Constitution with no individual right to arms. (Oct 2005)
• HillaryCare mandate ok; ObamaCare mandate unconstitutional. (Dec 2011)
• No mandatory premium support model; give people choices. (Nov 2011)
• Medicare pays crooks; contract it out to private companies. (Nov 2011)
• Block grant Medicaid; create individual incentives & bonuses. (Nov 2011)
• Rampant Medicaid/Medicare fraud: stop paying the crooks. (Jul 2011)
• If you mandate healthcare, you mandate everything in life. (Jun 2011)
• House GOP Medicare plan was right-wing social engineering. (Jun 2011)
• Repeal ObamaCare; sign tort reform instead. (Feb 2011)
• 21st-century personalized intelligent health system. (Dec 2007)
• Focus on health as a moral issue. (Dec 2007)
• Medicare opt-in to private health savings accounts. (Dec 2006)
• Focus 21st Century Intelligent Health System on individuals. (Dec 2006)
• Market competition yields more health choice at lower prices. (Dec 2006)
• 1994: Declined gov’t insurance but gov’t paid 75% anyway. (Nov 2003)
• Save dollars and save lives—so transform urgently. (Sep 2003)
• System broken due to “perfect storm” of converging problems. (Sep 2003)
• Tax credits for developing technology for disabilities. (Sep 2003)
• Re-focus Medicare on preventive health instead of sickness. (Sep 2003)
• Market dynamics can save healthcare, not government control. (Sep 2003)
• Focus on prevention; would save $14B with diabetes. (Jul 1998)
• Ongoing battle against liberals nationalizing healthcare. (Jul 1998)
• Too much reform puts 1/7 of US economy at risk. (Jun 1995)
• Defund, repeal, & replace federal care with free market. (Jul 2010)
• All of us will be in danger for the rest of our lives. (Nov 2011)
• Every tool possible against terrorists, incluing PATRIOT Act. (Nov 2011)
• It’s nonsense to disarm America to balance the budget. (Oct 2011)
• Real danger of Iran getting nukes from Pakistan. (Sep 2011)
• We have enemies that want disasters on an enormous scale. (Sep 2011)
• Defense as percentage of GDP is lowest since WWII. (Jul 2011)
• Post-9/11, it’s terrorism vs. civilization. (Sep 2009)
• Be prepared in a very militant and aggressive way. (Feb 2009)
• Gingrich-plus-up: $1B increase in 1990s Pentagon funding. (Dec 2007)
• Contain nuclear threats:China, Russia, Pakistan, North Korea. (Sep 2007)
• 1980s: Supported squadron of 132 B-2 stealth bombers. (May 2007)
• Military tribunals to lock people up the way Lincoln did. (May 2007)
• Defend America & allies with information policies. (Dec 2006)
• Biological threat bigger than nuclear threat. (Sep 2003)
• Wishes he volunteered for Vietnam; exempt due to young kids. (Jun 1995)
• Create transitional program for returning vets, like in WWII. (Jan 2012)
• Go to college instead of 99 weeks of unemployment. (Nov 2011)
• Fundamentally wrong to give unemployment pay for 99 weeks. (Sep 2011)
• The American people create jobs; not government. (Sep 2011)
• Jobs & Prosperity Plan: cut business taxes & regulations. (Jul 2011)
• Defund National Labor Relations Board; favor right-to-work. (Jun 2011)
• Number one job today is to create jobs. (Feb 2011)
• Unions want to take away right to secret-ballot elections. (Dec 2007)
• Union leaders prefer protection over competition. (Sep 2007)
• Unions focus on politics; corporations on doing business. (Jul 1998)
• Incentives to businesses create jobs & raise wages. (Sep 1994)
• Is Obama a socialist? “Sure, of course he is”. (Sep 2011)
• Tea Party prevents mistake of electing conservative Dems. (Jul 2011)
• If you’re not loyal to U.S., you can’t serve in my Cabinet. (Jun 2011)
• Start speaking out in favor of American Exceptionalism. (Jun 2011)
• American Exceptionalism is central to our nation’s survival. (Jun 2011)
• Declaration assumes God created man. (Jun 2011)
• Five habits of liberty sustain American Exceptionalism. (Jun 2011)
• Red-blue split in America is 85% Americans and 15% fringe. (Dec 2007)
• Red-vs.-Blue fails: propose Red-White-and-Blue solutions. (Dec 2007)
• Creator as source of liberty is literally written in stone. (Dec 2006)
• Media-academic-legal elite imposes radical secularist vision. (Dec 2006)
• Constitution says freedom OF religion, not FROM religion. (Dec 2006)
• Supreme Court hostile to religion, but building based on it. (Dec 2006)
• Reform traditional instruments of gov’t for 21st century. (Dec 2006)
• Focus on 5 major challenges for the 21st century. (Dec 2006)
• Politics is war without blood. (Feb 2003)
• Polls are biased left; GOP wins on the issues. (Jul 1998)
• GOP represents people, but Dems communicate better. (Jul 1998)
• Baby Boomers becoming Republicans while Dems become outdated. (Jul 1998)
• Liberals exploit weakness; conservatives offer strength. (Jul 1998)
• Culture of irresponsibility began in 1965. (Jul 1995)
• Our civilization is a shared opportunity to pursue happiness. (Jul 1995)
• Search for progress in successful lessons of the past. (Jun 1995)
• Many newspaper editorial boards contain socialists. (Jun 1995)
• If you’re afraid or broke or uneducated, you’re not free. (Jan 1995)
• Establish Social Security savings accounts, like Chile. (Jan 2012)
• Take Social Security off federal budget; give young a choice. (Nov 2011)
• Get social security out of budget; make personal accounts. (Nov 2011)
• Take away politicians’ power & control over our retirement. (Sep 2011)
They are quite close, ideologically.
Those lists of Gingrich’s conservative positions boggles the mind. It’s almost too much to digest. Unreal....
Did you get governmental authorization for your post, comrade?
After all, personal autonomy is frowned upon in conservative circles. Only government control can create good conservative action.
Obey the state...
“Those lists of Gingrich’s conservative positions boggles the mind. It’s almost too much to digest.”
It boggles the mind, indeed. Don’t forget that he’d get involved in politics first at 19, so ...
But what is most astonishing for me, is why the deuce doesn’t he have 100% of Republican voters WITH him (not for him, as he said)?
A great country having such a great presidential candidate, to be ignored, hated or despised by many of the people who share his values, THIS is mind boggling.
As Time Magazine wrote in 1995, when Newt was elected ‘Man of the Year’: “LEADERS MAKE THINGS POSSIBLE. EXCEPTIONAL LEADERS make them inevitable. Newt Gingrich belongs in the category of the exceptional.”
http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,983876,00.html#ixzz1mJq8tFH4
As Time Magazine wrote in 1995, when Newt was elected ‘Man of the Year’:
“LEADERS MAKE THINGS POSSIBLE. EXCEPTIONAL LEADERS make them inevitable. Newt Gingrich belongs in the category of the exceptional.
All year—ruthlessly, brilliantly, obnoxiously—he worked at hammering together inevitabilities: a balanced federal budget, for one. Not so long ago, the idea of a balanced budget was a marginal, we’ll-get-to-it-someday priority. Other urgent work needed doing: the Clintons’ health-care program, for example, which would have installed elaborate new bureaucratic machinery. Today, because of Newt Gingrich, the question is not whether a balanced-budget plan will come to pass but when.
Gingrich has changed the center of gravity. From Franklin Roosevelt onward, Americans came to accept the Federal Government as the solution to problems, a vast parental presence. Ronald Reagan preached that government was the problem, but his Administration focused mostly on the Evil Empire; it did not overturn the grand centralizing legacy of New Deal and Great Society. Newt Gingrich wants to reverse the physics, make American government truly centrifugal, with power flowing out of Washington, devolving to the states.
Having organized an insurrectionist crew in the House, Gingrich seized the initiative from a temporarily passive President and steered the country onto a heading that the Speaker accurately proclaimed to be revolutionary. His venture is in a stormy mid-passage now. It may ultimately be forced back, or even sunk. Yet Gingrich did the work—crude, forceful, effective—that compelled the voyage in the first place. It is for that reason he is Time’s Man of the Year.
Gingrich envisions a promised land—an America that may lie just over the horizon, in his cherished Third Wave Information Age, where traditional values connect to the future. He hopes to get to a place beyond poverty and violence and moral decay by leaving behind the welfare state and the deadening, blockheaded bureaucratic mind of Washington: a renewed civilization, says Newt—Norman Rockwell in the 21st century, a wholesome Utopia. Newt’s destination has the refulgence of a never-never land—that is, an ideal. But in America, ideals have always been a necessary and efficient form of national energy. Which came first—Newt’s vision of the future? Or his fierce personal ambition? Which one drives the other? The nearest answer may be found in W.B. Yeats’ line (in language prettier than Gingrich might use): “How can we know the dancer from the dance?”
IF GINGRICH WERE TO RUN for president, of course, he might be applying for a job inferior to the one he has created for himself as Speaker of the House. Whatever his fortunes in the polls and in the hands of a special counsel to the House ethics committee, Gingrich has the American genius for reinventing himself. The Gingrich Republicans, however, may be in danger of exercising their party’s perverse talent for throwing away its advantages with both hands.
Justice Holmes judged that Franklin Roosevelt had a “second-class intelligence but a first-class temperament.” Newt Gingrich has a first-class intelligence that fires through a strangely refracted temperament that is not exactly second-class but agitated and sometimes grandiose enough to make Americans nervous. He has proved himself an impresario of leverage in using Congress to change America, a sort of hothouse genius. Americans may discover in 1996 whether Gingrich can evolve outward—as a truly popular leader in the open air.”
— LANCE MORROW, ‘NEWT GINGRICH’S WORLD’, Dec. 25, 1995
I just heard it again by a democrat talking head on Hannity. Obammunism wants to define a church as only the worship event.
They want to amputate church ministries from the church body and pretend it is a separate entity. They want to view the hospitals, schools, centers, colleges, etc. as something other than the Church.
Jesus is his own man when He’s at synagogue preaching, but not when he heals or teaches.
It is grossly, willfully ignorant about the totality of what constitutes Christianity.
nominate Newt as Republican candidate for the national election and he will take care of Beurkrack.
No one else can stop Obama, no light-weight Mitt, Rick, Jeb or Sarah. You need an intellectual bulldozer to crush him, and the name, already famous, is - NEWTON.
Gov.Rick Perry:
“I think Newt by any measure, from the standpoint of fiscal conservatism, being able to actually operate in that shark tank in Washington, is the most capable individual. He’s balanced a number of budgets before.
I know for a fact that Newt knows how to work there. He is committed to blowing the place up, from a figurative standpoint, and to really put policies into place tax-wise, regulatory-wise.
You don’t see any of the other candidates out there talking about the Tenth Amendment and empowering the states and devolving power out of Washington, except Newt Gingrich.
We have gone so far left with this president, with his attack on the states, Obamacare, the war on religion.
When I talked about this administration being in a war against religion, there were a lot of people who were taken aback about that. But I was right then, and I’m right now.
I think Newt is the right person to go in and draw this bright contrast, on budgetary issues, on foreign policy, obviously on values, of all the candidates. I think he is the purest one.
I feel comfortable today that Newt is the most conservative and the individual who will go to Washington D.C., and make it as inconsequential in our lives as he can.”
http://www.newsmax.com/video/viewid/aa3ab06f-95fb-4126-bcac-991e6fb792d4
“You call Santorum boring, you’re calling conservatism boring.”
Santorum is conservative only in relation to other east coast Republicans. Take away his social agenda and most would call him an east cost moderate.....not that far from Romney.
Newt has lived and breathed Conservatism for most of his political life. Is he perfect???? No, neither are you or I.
While I’ll take Santorum if forced to choose between him and Romney or him and Obama, IMHO no on brings Conservatism to the table like Newt.
Newt is my first second and third candidate of choice, Santorm runs a distant fourth. The rest fall behind in wide intervals........
Indeed it is. Makes one want to hoist the Gadsden and commence to relieving traitors and Commies of their heads.
Amen. God bless Rick Perry for the true and humble patriot he is. The other day I took the time to read some (didn't have time to read it all) of Newt Gingrich's extremely detailed, specific plans on what he will do in the White House. Reading it gave me goosebumps not only becuase it was so RIGHT, such a beautiful wish-list to make any patriot's heart swell with longing, but because if half the folks who oppose Gingrich actually knew the truth about his political platform, they'd stand up and cheer right next to me! Gingrich's step by step, hard-core proposal on what he'd do to restore the 10th Amendment ALONE is enough to crawl over broken glass to get him elected to the White House.
God bless Rick Perry for a true patriot, and GODSPEED NEWT GINGRICH.
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