Posted on 05/03/2016 8:00:40 PM PDT by KentTrappedInLiberalSeattle
Newt Gingrich went on with Sean Hannity tonight after the Donald Trump’s Indiana blowout and after Ted Cruz suspended his campaign.
Newt argued that Donald Trump could be the “the most effective anti-left leader in our lifetime.”
Newt added that anyone who does not support Trump is supporting Hillary.
First of all, Donald Trump may turn out to be the most effective anti-left leader in our lifetime. He is against political correctness. He is against bureaucracy. He places American nationalism first which I think we desperately need. I’m tired of being told we have to phony agreements and phony efforts and I watch John Kerry rush from five-star hotel to five-star hotel trying to get a phony peace agreement that is an absurdity… I think Trump could be a return to a more of an Eisenhower kind of realism that none-the-less is conservatism. And he may do more to dismantle the left than anybody in our lifetime… The other side is, if you’re not for Donald Trump, you’re effectively for Hillary Clinton.
You done good, at least you didn’t fling some sort of cockamamie opusatus. (That’s a rare species of octopus)
Though I would have preferred the word dismembered.
“Long before the left took control of the media and fedgov, they took control of the language, and have consequently owned the battlefield on which the philosophical battles of the culture war have been fought. If Trump does nothing more with his presidency than shatter the stranglehold of political correctness he will have made a major contribution towards any hope of ever restoring this nation to what our founders intended it to be.”
Well said, Joe 6-pack!
I have long been a big Newt fan. Would love to see him have a role in a Trump administration.
If he was Chief of Staff say, then Trump would be free to pick a VP without a lot of legislative experience if it helped him win the election.
One key step in dismantling the left is not letting men compete in women’s beauty pageants and use women’s restrooms. Trump is on the politically correct side on that issue. I hope he’ll leave it to the states, but in his personal business dealings, he agrees with the left on this issue, so that makes him potentially wobbly on the issue.
All the left’s major successes in the last decade has been around social issue policy. That’s the area where we need to fight them the hardest but the area where Trump is least willing to do so.
The left hasn’t been winning on higher taxes and new socialist programs very much. Taxes is the one thing Obama caved on to the Republicans in his presidency. They passed Obamacare and immediately lost the Congress for six years. Government spending is a problem but Trump is arguing for the same or more spending on the military, Medicare and Social Security. He’s arguing that economic growth will make up for the deficit. Economic growth should not be an excuse to allow people to remain dependent on government programs.
The public still believes Republicans are far better at fighting wars than Democrats and will vote them in any time that war is an issue.
That makes a lot of sense. The office of VP is, well, the euphemism is pitcher of warm spit. Plus, I don’t know what votes Newt could pull in other than what Trump already has.
“Newt Gingrich has been a voice of reason
Hope there will be a role for him
WH Chief of Staff?”
Yes he has. I guarantee their will be a spot for Newt in the Trump administration.
True.
I think that the original poster was mentioning that most neverTrumpers were claiming to be evangelical, not that most evangelicals were neverTrumpers.
Then again, I’m not a mindreader.
“Self-described evangelicals often went overwhelmingly for Trump. That’s probably not a fair stereotype.”
Same in Indiana tonight. Evangelicals went for Trump.
Republicans are far better at fighting wars than Democrats and will vote them in any time that war is an issue.
Such as marco rubio?
How do you write an executive order that stops “political correctness?”
Passing same-sex marriage was the ultimate victory for political correctness. Unless that’s overturned by a future court, political correctness will continue unabated. When you say the law cannot distinguish between men and women under any circumstances, political correctness becomes the law.
I would hope Trump would’ve appointed justices who would not have passed it. But the cat’s out of the bag now. I have no concept of what “stopping political correctness” looks like and how any President can achieve it. Trump’s been supportive of affirmative action as well, another huge form of political correctness.
With Trump as the presumptive nominee, the job of conservatives must be to push him to the right, like Bush had to be pushed on his Supreme Court nominees and some other issues.
Too ancient history now. The perception and reality of the parties has changed dramatically since then. Everyone agrees if there’s a terrorist attack before the election, the Republican will get a big bump in the polls.
Newt argued hard for some form of amnesty in the last primary and since then. Doesn’t seem to be a good fit with Trump’s message.
http://www.gingrichproductions.com/2013/02/an-immigration-debate-based-on-reality/
I'll answer your question when you point out what executive order established/enacted political correctness in the first place. The "bully pulpit," of the POTUS can set the tone for much of what happens at lower levels of government and in society in general.
Long before Trump won his first primary, he already had people in the general populace speaking about immigration in terms they previously would have shied away from for fear of being labeled racist. Trump was not afraid to take the arrows, and came out stronger for having done so. A lot of people saw that, and took heart.
You are either for the rule of law or for the rule of criminals.
Trump won with evangelicals. He mentioned them in his speech.
I do agree with you. Please let it be.
Kiss my evangelical ballots! You are as bad as the left— let’s blame the Christians; they will never fight back.
There are a hell of a lot of us who have worked our holy assets off in every campaign since 84 and voted each time. Trump has won many primaries with those same evangelicals you are smearing. Get off your high horse and fight the Democrats rather than allies!
BTTT
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