Posted on 03/15/2012 10:51:49 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
GOP presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich courted Christian voters in Elgin Wednesday as he resumed his tour of Chicago’s northwest suburbs. He started at Barrington High School and is moving to the Christian Judson University on the banks of the Fox River in Elgin.
At what was billed as a “Hispanic Town Hall Meeting with Newt and Calista,” about 300 mostly white Christian college students jammed a campus chapel and applauded when Gingrich slammed President Barack Obama for what Gingrich called “Obama’s attack on the Catholic Church and other right-to-life institutions.”
...Contrasting that with Obama’s apology to Muslims after reports that copies of the Quran were burned, Gingrich said, “Appeasing radical Islam whole while crushing Christianity and Judaism strikes me as exactly what’s wrong in America today.”
The chapel erupted in applause.....
Standing against a backdrop of organ pipes and an American Flag, Gingrich did briefly mention why Hispanics should vote Republican.
“How can we find the common ground between Latino-Americans and the Republican Party?” Gingrich asked. “Family, jobs, take-home pay…”
Gingrich said Latinos had plenty of reasons to become Republicans and to support him, including because they would benefit from lower gas prices he says his policies would bring.
...“I’m staying in the race because I think Proverbs was right when it said that ‘Without vision people will parish,’ ” Gingrich said. “This is also part of the reason I’ve decided to stay in the race: I think we need a visionary leader.”
Eligio Marin, 64, a Vietnam vet laid off from his job at the State Treasurer’s office, said after Gingrich’ speech that he hopes Gingrich stays in the race.
“They want him to get out. This is nonsense. He is the most experienced. I hope we have a brokered convention,” Marin said.
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There is a disconnect...something just doesn't add up.
I think Newt has the clearest understanding of exactly where this country is at and who its enemies really are.
I couldn't agree with you more. Newt is the Statesman America needs now, and the electorate is falling on their faces voting for shallow flim-flam artists.
Fox News and talk radio discount him, ridicule him and are blatantly and unashamedly annoyed with him on air. They've hung the crepe on the doors and windows of his campaign and yet Newt marches on.
And he keeps saying the politicians in D.C. will not voluntarily change.
He knows it. They know it. We know it.
The power elites don't want smaller government. Look how they treated the Tea Party Class of 2010.
The Brits rejected Churchill as well, didn’t they, until it was almost too late for them.
A Churchillian-like figure rarely comes along.
A lot of people can’t deal with one when he or she does appear. They would rather not have powerful figures telling them the way it really is and offer to lead them to a better place.
They instead nibble around the edges and go off on tangents with people who couldn’t think or articulate or lead their way out of a paper bag, but have some little hook that they hook the people with.
Jimmy Carter was one.
Barack Obama is another.
I could go on, but why needlessly insult people who can’t see what’s in front of their faces.
I read on another thread that Newt claimed that people don’t understand him. It was a headline from the national journal, no love lost for Newt there, but is being used to bash him here.
All he said was, the Republicans need to return to big ideas for America, and that he feels frustration that that’s no longer what the Republican party stands for and what he is trying to bring back.
It wasn’t woe is me, it wasn’t about him, it was about our country and what he can do to bring it back, but he is being constrained by almost every force there is out there to use, which we know is the truth.
....“The thing I find most disheartening of this campaign is the difficulty of talking about large ideas on a large scale, because the news media can’t cover it and, candidly, my opponents can’t comprehend it,” Gingrich said, while also vowing to continue his campaign to the convention in Tampa this summer.
He called himself the only candidate of the four still in the contest “focused on ideas and … solutions and not just the usual politics,” and the only one advocating wholesale change to a political system that is “methodically and deliberately stupid.”
Other parts of his speech covered topics ranging from President Lincoln promoting the transcontinental railroad to the antifraud system of the American Express company. Gingrich spoke of the need for a “technological revolution” in government, but he lamented that no one but him seemed to understand that.
“Let me just talk for a second about technology and grand opportunities,” he said. “Other than Ronald Reagan, I know of no Republican in my lifetime who’s been able to talk about this. That’s why I’m still running.”
The former House speaker from Georgia has recently focused his campaign on high gas prices, promising as president to restore them to no more than $2.50 a gallon. But he often also speaks at length on a wide range of topics, covering everything from brain science to space exploration to the need to utilize modern management practices to reform entire sectors of the government.
“I want to be the candidate of science and technology,” he said. “Whether it’s on energy, it’s on stopping crooks in Medicare and Medicaid, it’s on getting into space, which I was ridiculed [for], or it is on helping you make sure that your family doesn’t suffer from something that could be avoided.”
And he chided fellow Republicans for failing to see the need for a party makeover. The GOP, he said, has been governing like the Democratic Party since 2006, when it lost control of the Congress.
“We cannot be a normal party,” he told the suburban Republican crowd. “If we run a normal campaign, trying to govern within the framework of the current system, we have no future, because people would rather have Democrats do it. They at least enjoy it.”
http://news.yahoo.com/gingrich-no-one-understands-235621781.html
I hope our home State of Texas can deliver the goods for Newt.
One would hope so.
If it were Newt vs Romney with Paul thrown in, there is no question we would deliver.
The church ladies are for the one the religious leaders chose, however, and we know who that was.
And that bites, because I am a “church lady”.
That doesn’t rule my brain when it comes to picking Presidents, however.
I fail to see that God has annointed someone because they want to claim that mantle, and because a group of religious figures stand in a circle around them and lay on hands.
I’m sure of this...if the same figures had offered this to Newt, he would have declined.
He knows that it’s not about an individual being holier than everyone else and therefore worthy of the nomination and presidency, but rather it is about our Founding under God and under freedom of religion.
I HOPE THAT SINKS IN to voters txrangerette!!
Slight derail:
I am going to say something unpopular. Churchill couldn’t have succeeded without Chamberlain.
When he did that foolish “Peace in our time” thing, he pretty much had to. Our army was ridculously understaffed and under equipped, our airforce was a joke - heck they were still using biplanes! - and our navy was at it’s lowest level since before the Spanish armada.
Everyone remembers the speech. No one remembers that his first act on returning was to throw military production into high gear and start uprating regiments in both personnel and equipment. Something that was only possible thanks to Chamberlain’s insistance on aggressively expanding the British manufacturing base despite the depression.
As a war time PM, Churchill was without peer, and thank God we had him! But the war preps, especially the upgrading of the RAF that was so important to our very survival, was mostly Chamberlain.
Sorry, I seen these two mentioned a couple of times in this thread, and Chamberlain ALWAYS gets no credit.
Yep, that’s the one.
It’s heading up a thread here, so people can turn on Newt who aren’t already against him, and to turn off people who might see the truth and support him.
And who, here, would want that??
Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm...
Can’t have an intelligent conservative!
What would the MSM have to say?
Oh yeah, he’s arrogant, has a big ego, it’s all about him, he has “hairbrained ideas” (Rick Santorum’s comment).
It sounds like the rap given kids in the inner city who want to learn and are turned on by their peers.
I can’t compete with an Englishman on knowledge of your history.
All I can offer is common sense.
Even a broken clock is right twice a day. Chamberlain was right about something.
The most historically lauded figures were not always right in every detail, nor could they have “done it alone”...others had to help as well.
Churchill led the Brits in their darkest hours. Churchill was until that point not the Churchill that lives in history as a giant among men. When he finally became such, it was almost too late.
That was my only point.
Because that is what parallels what we were discussing about people’s reaction to the choices we have for President, with the class of the lot clearly being Newt.
Yeah.
An undergrad from Emory University.
Two grad degrees from Tulane.
Books out the wazoo and accomplishments in real world politic to boot.
Can’t have that.
Might show up a few other people who can’t stand the comparison.
And they might have to change their cushy life setups.
Never mind America.
Never mind the little people.
Imagine the comparisons in the years ahead!?
The rank and file political class can't stand comparisons to Reagan. They certainly don't want to be held up for scrutiny and measured against real real leaders. Better to dumb the whole thing down.
No worries. Seems to me that we have been supporting the same candidates all the way through this primary - first Perry, then Newt.
I just get sad sometimes that all Chamberlain is remembered for is appeasement, and not for his incredible work behind the scenes in creating and modernising the military that let us survive the first two years of the war. Not gonna say you guys were a little slow getting here, but .... ;)
As far as your equating Newt and Churchill goes - I am with you 100%. Both in terms of their abilities, and the fact that they are 11th hour picks.
May America get some sense and, for the second time in my life go for the most qualified, not the least contentious.
“There is a disconnect...something just doesn’t add up.”
I know why: it’s because Newt hypocritically preaches “conservative values,” and “family values,” even though he runs around with the final product of two marital affairs. He cheated on his first two wives.
The Democrats and some Republicans rightfully bring up this point. How can he be preaching family and conservative values when he can’t keep them himself? Newt also has a long list of anti-conservative things he has done, such as advocating going after global warming while sitting on a couch with Nancy Pelosi, being for individual health care mandates, fanatically supporting Dede Scozzafava in NY-23, being an ethanol lobbyist, among lots of other things.
I’m not impressed with any of our GOP candidates. I wish Sarah Palin had run, or someone like Rick Perry or Michele Bachmann had not dropped out and were the frontrunner.
For now, I support Rick Santorum, but I have no respect for someone like Newt Gingrich who preaches one thing and does another.
Newt was seduced by his teacher when he was just sixteen years old and married her when he was eighteen. That woman would have been prosecuted today. His second wife and he had a rocky marriage, were separated for four years and eventually divorced while she was under investigation by the FBI for illegal arms trading.
There are some stories about Santorum that would indicate that he was not exactly an altar boy during his years as a lawyer for Pro Wrestling. I’m glad that he and Karen both settled down eventually, but it does not negate the fact that she shacked up with an abortion doctor for 7 years.
Rick was also pro choice before he entered politics.
God has forgiven Newt. God, the only Righteous Judge, chose flawed men like King David to lead His people. He did not choose self righteous Pharisees.
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