Have you all noticed? Newt Gingrich in South Carolina brought along massive gains in turnout – record turnout, in fact. The Jan. 21 South Carolina primary drew about 602,000 voters, a 35% increase over 2008. The enthusiasm was there.
In Florida the turnout was low - less than 1.65 million versus 1.95 million in 2008. In Nevada the turnout was almost 50% lower than in 2008. The caucuses turnout were catastrophic. The enthusiasm was NOT there.
Republicans have NEVER fared well when nominating a moderate-to-liberal presidential candidate, ex: Sen. Bob Dole and Sen. John McCain. If any of them, would become the nominee, Santorum (who doesn’t fare well among independents) or Romney (the Teleprompter candidate II), easily could be to the 2012 presidential race what Mr. Dole was in 1996 or Mr. McCain was in 2008.
If the Republican voters don’t defeat the GOP establishment now, it’s unlikely they will be able to do that in the future. In 2010 they fought, elected and sent a strong majority in the House. Once in Washington, WHAT exactly has that majority done? Other than giving Obama a pass, voting three times to increase the debt limit?
What’s more, even if either Santorum of Romney “win” in November, I don’t think that you can count on a Republican Congress to stop their cronyism with lobbyist sharks, and the companies bailed on American people’s money. They would accommodate the actual system, rather than profoundly changing it.
It’s enough to read their plans for the future of America.
“You know, economics is my profession, and I’ve specialized in it all my life, especially public policy economics. I feel sort of like a doctor in a hospital, choosing which surgeon is going to operate on my child. And, you’ve got a bunch of good candidates out there but Newt Gingrich has done it before. His plan is pure and simple supply-side Reaganomics all the way.” — Art Laffer, former Ronald Reagan’s economic adviser.
Ed Rollins, National Campaign Manager for President Reagan, sets the record straight about Newt’s work with Reagan:
“I’m going to straighten it out once and for all: Gingrich was a very important congressional ally. Congressmen aren’t in the White House all day long, and they’re not basically giving advice. But he and Jack Kemp and Trent Lott and others were among 10 or 12 most important players and most loyal to Ronald Reagan.”
There is a chasm between Newt and the other contenders. No one can hold him a candle as far as intelligence, knowledge and experience are concerned. He has been preparing himself for the task of reestablishing America prosperity and greatness for years. Just read his “ The 21st century Contract with America”, released in September 2011.
http://www.newt.org/news/why-we-need-21st-century-contract-america
He knows what is need to be done decisively and fast to launch the American people on the prosperity path once again. He has the knowledge, experience and dedication to do it.
Newt is the American president the country needs NOW.
Forgot to ping you to my previous post
Newt Gingrich’s credentials as Reagan Conservative over 30 years:
• 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)
• 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)
... and the list go on and on and on ...
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