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The sad truth that we all must face is that the majority of our representatives in Congress no longer represent the best interests of the American people. Like the Senate in ancient Rome, their loyalty and votes have been purchased by foreign interests or lobbyists for foreign interests. They care only about getting re-elected, achieved through donations by those foreign interests, so as to not lose their seat on their gravy-train of perks. Do not confuse their lack of opposing immigration, especially Muslim immigration, with a lack of common sense, naivete, or simply a wish to be progressive. No one can be that dumb. They have simply been bought off. Trump is the only politician in the last 25 years with the courage and fortitude to state the obvious about Muslim immigration, and immigration in general, and he is harshly condemned by both sides for having the fortitude to say it. Trump 2016

I really like and agree with Kurt Russell's response to the liberal reporter who asked Kurt,"Don't you agree we should ban all guns"? Kurt responded something to the effect that the reporter was asinine, that then only the jihadis would have guns, and that Kurt would much rather that the jihadis worry about what WE were going to do to them, rather than have us sitting around worrying about what the jihadis were going to do to us. And that, my friends, like it or not, is what stops violent people from doing as they would like to you. Only when they worry MORE about what you will do to them in retaliation, are the violently disposed controlled. It applies to nations as well as individuals. Let's all adopt a little more of that mindset, please.

It would be difficult to state my own conversion to a Trump supporter from a Cruz supporter more succinctly. Trump is leading a movement that encompasses the entire political spectrum. Of American voters of all stripes, fed up with the lies, the economy, the lack of return on hard-earned savings, and the erosion of purchasing power yet to come from the massive money printing of the Fed.

Trump may not be a true-blue conservative, but he’s conservative enough for most of us, and we BELIEVE he will build the wall and stop the anchor baby magnet.

Nothing else really matters for conservatives, because without the accomplishment of those two things, this country will NEVER elect a constitutional conservative as President again. We simply will not have the votes.

Trump is very unconventional, and very direct. Just like he's grabbed the lead in the polls by voicing the concerns of the American people over massive illegal (and legal) immigration, he just might grab the next bull by the horns, and demand impeachment of the 9 members of the SCOTUS when they disobey clear constitutional boundaries, such as re-writing legislation. I wouldn't worry about a NAFTA “meltdown”. The Chinese economy implosion, coupled with the pumping actions of our own FED over the last 6 years, will crash the economy well before Trump could be elected and has time to implement his immigration policy. I'm starting to think seriously about Trump.

That would be physically impossible...he is a donkey..or, rather the backside of a donkey..

Unfortunatley, Mark Twain’s popularized categorization of lies (lies, damned lies, and statistics”), needs updating.

2012 version should be “lies, damned lies, and MSM propaganda”.

Saw the Newtster on “Morning Joe” this morning. He had just educated Joe and Mishka on the unbelievable increase in the estimated amounts of recoverable hydrocarbon resources discovered in the USA recently, by fracking and new technology. Ohio’s estimated reserves were increased by 42 times (4200%) in just the last week, proving once again the stupidity of the current administration’s (non) energy policies.

Newt was asked (paraphrasing), “What do you think is the greatest danger to Romney’s election?”

Newt’s answer: “Liberals are better at lying than conservatives are at telling the truth.”

Newt is without a peer in pointing out the fallacy of MSM premises when interviewed.

I hope he’s giving Mitt a few lessons.

I suppose this November is when we find out how many Americans still value freedom.

Do not doubt that the next thing they will come for is your savings, if you have any.

They are already bankrupt.

Since they can now tax ANYTHING, your 401Ks, IRAs, etc. will be the next target. They need the money to pay for the welfare state, and buy votes.

You will be told that not only are you too stupid to decide what kind or type of medical insurance you need, you are also too stupid to invest your own savings. The government will force you to convert your savings to a government annuity, for your own financial “safety”, of course. Or, if you don’t, you will be charged a “penalty” or a “tax” for not complying.

And your principle will be put into a “lock box” just like your social security payments were (LOL,,r-i-g-h-t), to be rolled into the general fund to pay for Obamacare, and other vote buying schemes.

They’ve already had comittees recommend doing this. SCOTUS just green-lighted the effort for the progressives.

The coming election may well be one of our last chances to stem the progressive tide.

Vote like your future depends on it, because it truly does.

Great question.

Newt does this better than anyone I’ve heard, but alas, he was not to be. Seems we prefer those who will not propose anything too “radical”, such as our constitutional founding principles.

I believe there is a lot of truth to the fact that we are no longer simply conservatives versus liberal/progressives, but now have a battle between the “ruling class” and the “country party” as explained by Angelo M. Codevilla in his most excellent American Spectator article in the July 2010 - August 2010 issue, “America’s Ruling Class — And the Perils of Revolution”. You can find it on-line, and it’s well worth your time to read it.

Waay too many of our RHINOs imagine themselves to be part of the “ruling class”, and really have no desire to return to limited government. They actively work to prevent election of Tea Party types, and immediatley “explain” their go-along-to-get-along style of governance to any newly elected Tea Party fire-brands.

All we can do is to keep throwing out the libs/progressives/RHINOs, and voting in the conservatives.

Heck, we ought to bite the bullet and run ourselves, but that is a sacrifice too many of us are not willing to make.

What an economically obtuse illiterate we have for POTUS.

He doesn’t realize the private sector is the goose that lays the golden eggs required to support the government parasites.

He believes government is like a tick, and that even by swelling the size of government handouts and employees to unbelievable proportions, will not kill the private sector host.

Wrong. When the tick is taking in more than the host is capable of supplying, the host will lay down and die. Our federal, state, and local government’s take of our income has become a tick as large as its host. Think of your dog with a tick the size of itself. The dog is not going to make it....

He’s incapable of recognizing the host is on life support, and refuses to quit sucking out the host’s life blood, or he simply desires the whole system to crash, thinking that average Americans will beg for the government to take care of them, and he will forever change the USA into another socialist utopia where we are all equally miserable.

I think he’s wrong. We will not stand for it. The tick must be removed and killed, so our private sector can recover.

I only hope we elect enough true conservatives to do the job that must be done before we go over the cliff.

But, regardless, the end is near for the tick, because as a wise man once said, “Things that can not continue, won’t.”

We are truly living in interesting times, and are at a historical inflection point. We will either self-correct, and return to a more constitutionally limited government; or we will turn to government socialism to provide a miserable standard of living for us all.

I’m betting on the American spirit to prevail, and to once again throw off the yoke of government.

Tea Party!

Unfortunately, the sad fact is that we no longer have a republic, but are funcitoning under a judicial oligarchy.

We will continue to do so until we elect enough conservatives, or one conservative with great leadership skills, to force the Supreme Court and Federal Judiciary to comply with the originalist intent of the Constitution.

That’s the reason the appointments to the SCOTUS positions are fought over so radically by the lib/progressives.

Why the conservatives do not fight just as hard, is proof that the conservatives do not get it, or simply are not as effective in defending our liberties as the libs/progressives are effective in usurping those liberties through judiciary rulings.

The respect given to past judiciary rulings that become etched in stone through “stare decisis”, regardless of the originalist intent of the constitution, is apalling to all thinking conservatives.

This needs to be another plank in the campaign themes of our conservative candidates, and a talking point of all conservative politicians.

Like my bumper sticker says, below a picture of Washington, Adams, Madison,and Jefferson: “The Original Right Wing Radicals”.

If those founders were alive today, they would be excoriated by the lib/progressives and the MSM as being right wing extremists.

The sad fact is that we have so few conservatives running for public office that are capable of a common sense political campaign that points out the facts in this article in a cheerful, engaging manner, and does so over and over again.

This is a very, very potent campaign theme, and we conservatives let it lie like an unused weapon.

Meanwhile the MSM and the lib/progressives spew their bizzaro world theme that it’s the private sector’s producers and achievers, who, but for the restraints of all the government public employees, rules and regulations, would rob us all and keep us from having a roaring economy and brighter future.

The libs/progressives completely ignore the voluntary nature of our every day transactions with these producers and achievers, while turning around and MANDATING our compliance with government rules, regulations, procedures.

Much to infrequently do we point out the great products/results of the private sector, or the complete lack of good products and dismal results of the government sector.

Lib/progressives completely miss or ignore the irony of voluntary, free market choices by individuals that enrich the producers/achievers vs. forced compliance/purchases of government fees/licenses/Obama-care-like products. This is another rich vein of political campaign material that is just waiting to be mined by conservatives.

We wait in vain for our conservative politicians and candidates, to use the truth reflected in this article to ridicule and skewer those liberal/progressive themes and the twits that repeat them, so that we can roar our approval.

We need conservative candidates and politicians that fight back much more effectively, damn it.

Newt’s right. There are more of us than there are of them, at least for some small amount of time.

There are many of us with that strain of English/Scottish/Irish stubborness, and truly everyone that has adopted this country’s founding principles will NOT go quietly into the yawning socialist nightmare.

We will prevail, as Winston stated, in God’s good time, and restore our republic to the founding principles.

Heard Walter Williams this morning on a local talk radio show. He was asked what he thought was the cause of so many Americans believing things like health care, welfare, etc. was a now a right to be expected, in direct conflict with our country’s founding principles.

His answer was one of the most succinct explanations I’ve heard.

Walter Williams believes 95% of our current problems are due to a failure of morals in the American citizenery.

He said (paraphrasing) “If I pass a woman sleeping on a grate on the side of the street in the dead of winter, and I go around the corner, pull a gun, and rob someone of $200, turn around, go give the $200 dollars to the homeless woman so she can get a meal and a room, I would be thrown in jail for theft. Our Christian ideals make it incumbent upon me to help the needy, and provide charity FROM MY OWN POCKET. This is an admirable trait in an individual. Theft is not an admirable trait. When GOD gave Moses the ten commandments, I’m pretty sure he didn’t say THOU SHALT NOT STEAL UNLESS YOU CAN GET A MAJORITY VOTE IN CONGRESS. Stealing is stealing, and we shouldn’t accept the premise that it’s ok for the government to steal from one person and give to another, just as we do not accept the premise that it’s ok for an individual to steal from one person to give to another. If we simply obeyed the moral imperative that stealing is wrong, we would solve most of our problems.”

Exactly.

You remind me of Churchill, as does Newt:

“We shall go on to the end, we shall fight in France,
we shall fight on the seas and oceans,
we shall fight with growing confidence and growing strength in the air, we shall defend our Island, whatever the cost may be,
we shall fight on the beaches,
we shall fight on the landing grounds,
we shall fight in the fields and in the streets,
we shall fight in the hills;
we shall never surrender, and even if, which I do not for a moment believe, this Island or a large part of it were subjugated and starving, then our Empire beyond the seas, armed and guarded by the British Fleet, would carry on the struggle, until, in God’s good time, the New World, with all its power and might, steps forth to the rescue and the liberation of the old.”

Source:
http://www.presentationmagazine.com/winston-churchill-speech-we-shall-fight-them-on-the-beaches-8003.htm

I will “Root for Newt” until someone officially has the republican nod. After that, tough decisions ahead on whom to support.

It really, really irks me that more voters can’t look past Newt’s personal history, see through the absolute lies that have been spread about him by the MSM, lib/progressives, and yes, Mitt Romney and the GOP-E. I fear it is a sign of the lack of seriousness of today’s voters to study the issues.

To me, Newt is the ONLY candidate that states the obvious problems we face today, unashamedly promotes common-sense conservative solutions, while the other candidates simply ignore these pressing problems or propose band-aid solutions.

A prime example is in the huge media coverage this week of the SCOTUS arguments for & against Obamacare. The obvious question arising from this huge decision, and one that is NEVER asked by the MSM, is “How did we allow ourselves to morph from a republic of free people into a judical oligarchy?”

The answer is “judical activism” that simply allows the judiciary to “amend” the constitution without the lib/progressives having to argue their positions, convince a majority of the voters, and go through the arduous constitutional amendment process. Liberal/progressive judges have effictively made the amendment process superflous.

Newt is the ONLY candidate to address this problem, and propose a detailed, historical, constitutional, common-sense solution. His reward was to receive nothing but guffaws and put-downs from the liberal/progressive/media cabal, as well as from the squishes that inhabit the GOP-E and Romney (but I repeat myself).

God bless Newt, and I pray he will find some way to win this nomination.

You would hope it would never come to such an out-of-control a situation.

However, this is North FL, close to the Panhandle, and pretty conservative country.

Coupled with FL’s concealed carry/stand your ground laws, I don’t think many truck drivers will be pulled from their trucks, ‘cause the people doing the pulling would get shot by the truck drivers.

Armed citizens tend to make for a more polite society for a good reason.

Unfortunately, based on the eyewitness accounts, this is wisdom Treyvon’s parents seemed to have failed to impart to their son.

I am struggling with how to cast my vote if Romney gets the nomination, while praying Newt finds a way through Divine Providence to pull out a victory in a brokered convention.

As several have eloquently stated, it’s waaay past time for the GOP-E to reap the rewards of their actions in perpetually skewing the primary process toward the moderate squish candidate that is “next-in-line” (Dole, McCain, now Romney).

The nation is at a critical junction. Without drastic spending cuts, departmental eliminations (Energy, Education, EPA, NLRB, etc.), wholesale cleaning out of career lib/progressives in State, Defense, etc.), reigning in of the Federal Reserve and Federal Judiciary, our economy is toast, our new job production remains anemic, and our freedoms will continue to erode.

Newt is the ONLY candidate I see willing to make “big” ideas like the above part of his policies, which he has reams of documentation on implementing at his web site.

Romney & Santorum will just take us off the cliff at a slower speed than the dems.

I seriously may go third party or write-in if Romney gets the Republican nod. His record as a conservative is simply abhorent, especially in the promotion of the homosexual agenda. His refusal to debate on conservatie issues/ideals/vision in the various primaries, instead opting to smear his opponents with lies and half-truths, simply should not be rewarded. If these tactics succeed, then there is truly no remaining discernable difference between the dem/progressive party and the GOP-E.

W. Bush set back the conservative cause a couple of decades simply because he refused to draw a bright line between conservative and lib/progressive policies, with the exception of FINALLY taking it to the terrorists, but then he mucked that up with his “nation-building” proclivities.

Obama has done more to energize the conservative, patriotic, constitutional base than any moderate candidates the GOP-E has proferred in the last 15 years.

Perhaps another 4 years of Obama is what is required to get the entire voting public energized and behind a true conservative, constitutional alternative.

God help us all if this is true, but I can’t see a moderate making enough of a difference in our national trajectory to justify holding my nose and voting for them. Especially as it will fuel the MSM/progressive/dem meme that the conservatives are the cause of the coming misery.

Let the dems/MSM/progressives and GOP-E own the coming financial disaster lock, stock, and barrel.

I am struggling with how to cast my vote if Romney gets the nomination, while praying Newt finds a way through Divine Providence to pull out a victory in a brokered convention.

As several have eloquently stated, it’s waaay past time for the GOP-E to reap the rewards of their actions in perpetually skewing the primary process toward the moderate squish candidate that is “next-in-line” (Dole, McCain, now Romney).

The nation is at a critical junction. Without drastic spending cuts, departmental eliminations (Energy, Education, EPA, NLRB, etc.), wholesale cleaning out of career lib/progressives in State, Defense, etc.), reigning in of the Federal Reserve and Federal Judiciary, our economy is toast, our new job production remains anemic, and our freedoms will continue to erode.

Newt is the ONLY candidate I see willing to make “big” ideas like the above part of his policies, which he has reams of documentation on implementing at his web site.

Romney & Santorum will just take us off the cliff at a slower speed than the dems.

I seriously may go third party or write-in if Romney gets the Republican nod.

W. Bush set back the conservative cause a couple of decades simply because he refused to draw a bright line between conservative and lib/progressive policies, with the exception of FINALLY taking it to the terrorists, but then he mucked that up with his “nation-building” proclivities.

Obama has done more to energize the conservative, patriotic, constitutional base than any moderate candidates the GOP-E has proferred in the last 15 years.

Perhaps another 4 years of Obama is what is required to get the entire voting public behind a true conservative alternative.

God help us all if this is true, but I can’t see a moderate making enough of a difference in our national trajectory to justify holding my nose and voting for them. Especially as it will fuel the MSM/progressive/dem meme that the conservatives are the cause of the coming misery.

Let the dems/MSM/progressives and GOP-E own it lock, stock, and barrel.

You took one line from my post out of context and have created a straw man argument. I clearly said that Newt Gingrich deserved a great deal of credit, but he’s claiming more than he deserves.

Welfare reform had huge popular support. If I remember correctly, welfare reform had about 80% popular support. While this legislation was good, pushing through a bill with 80% support should not be that hard to do
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My point was not a straw man argument. My point was that Newt’s attraction is that he is capable of identifying those common sense issues with that range of support, “nationalizing” those issues, and getting them implemented.

Do you think developing our own national energy resources does not have a similar level of support?

Who’s pushing for implementing them? Newt & Sarah.

What about reigning in the liberal judiciary? Is that not at a 70-80% level of support?

Lots of common sense issues have that level of support, but relatively few are acted upon in D.C., and even fewer are implemented.

You need a DRIVER that will not let go of the issue in face of the dem/progressive/media onslaught to get even an 80% support issue implemented.

I don’t see Romney as that guy.

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As governor of Massachusetts, Mitt Romney looked at student performance as a function of class size and found that the popular idea of smaller classes producing better performance is false. The teachers’ unions wanted to tie all education improvements to more government spending and spending on initiatives that would lead to more teaching jobs and union dues instead of better student performance. That kind of focus on finding the real issues and working on them to reduce spending or get better benefit per dollar spent is what I consider a conservative step forward.

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Thanks for making my point.

Do you think these sorts of small potatoes issue will put our nation back on the path of fiscal sanity?

Or put us back on the path to constitutionally limited government?

The biggest problem Mitt has in the nomination process is exactly his dearth of elucidating ANY big conservative idea he would push for if elected. He simply promises to manage the government more efficiently. We need the government pulled out by its roots in many areas, not managed.

It’s all about Romney’s resume. His resume is impressive, but most of us are not convinced he has core conservative prinicples for which he would fight.

Romneycare takes a huge personal liberty issue off the table in any debate he would have with Obama.

Romneycare is bankrupting Massachusetts as Obamacare will do to an ALREADY bankrupt USA.

Herbert Hoover was an accomplished private sector executive, and I don’t think you can say his administration turned out to have handled the great depression so well.

So, give us some ideas Romney will support, get behind, and not mush out when the media comes down on him for supporting those issues.

He certainly ridiculed Newt’s suggestion that the judiciary has to be brought back into constitutional compliance. If you don’t believe, with Newt, THAT is a problem worth addressing, you are no conservative, and are not paying attention. This is a price example of where Newt is out front leading on a 70-80% level of support issue, and is basically alone taking the slings & arrows of the liberal/progressive/media/GOP-E mushes for pushing it, and where’s Mitt? On the wrong side.

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When I referred to Newt Gingrich being forced from leadership by his own bad character, I was not referring to the ethics charges. His own affair with Callista became public in the run-up to the 1998 election. That affair in light of the steps taken against Bill Clinton gave the Democrats another talking point and another chance to distract people from the issues. That distraction is part of why the GOP lost seats that year. His problems were not just with Democrats. Many Republican House members wanted him to step aside as Speaker because he made too many issues about him and created more distractions. Newt Gingrich has never shown that he has the right stuff to be in charge of anything.

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I will concede there is some validity to your point.

However, again, if you look at what he did accomplish, Romney & Santorum are distant runners-up in accomplishments.

Plus Newt, I believe, has learned from those past mistakes.

I do not think you are giving enough credence to the media onslaught against him at the time, equating his marital infidelities to Bill Clinton’s perjury, and the scalp-hunting he was undergoing at at the hands from the liberal/progressive/medial cabal at the time (remember the Time magazine cover of the Grinch that Stole Christmas? 80 something ethics charges that were later dismissed? the “starving welfare children” because of the welfare reforms?).

At least Newt has proven he will fight the media mischaracterizations, and get the job done. I see no evidence Mitt will take the media on and stick to his guns.

I would like to believe Mitt or Rick would lead a conservative revolution.

I KNOW Newt will, because he has led one since he first came on the national scene. Newt has never stopped identifying those 80-90% issues that would bring the general voters over to our side, trying to get those ideas on center stage, using them to win “nationalized” elections, so that we can get them implemented.

I wish we had a candidate with a spotless conservative AND personal record. We do not.

I’ll take the pitt bull, if I can get him, please.

Newt was apologizing for not being more specific, which allowed the liberal/progressive media to take his words completely out of context, and run with the lie that he was criticizing both Ryan and Ryan’s plan.

Surely most of us are now familiar with the template the liberal/progressive/media uses to smear conservatives.

Wise up, please.

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-57343676-503544/newt-gingrich-new-ryan-wyden-medicare-plan-a-breakthrough/

Come on...

If we can’t have an honest debate on FR, we are in bad shape.

The response Newt made about “right wing social engineering” was not a critique of Ryan’s plan. He had previously complimented Ryan on his plan on not one, but two national MSM appearances. On a third (or fourth) appearance, he was asked how a mandate by Republicans was different from a mandate by the libs/progressives. Ryan’s plan, as I understand it was NOT a mandate. Gingrich’s response was that “right wing social engineering is just as bad as left wing social engineering” (think Romney care).

As usual, the lib/progressive media cabal took his comment out of context, and claimed it was a direct critique of Ryan’s plan. It wasn’t. Same “Palinization” template the media has consistently applied to Newt throughout his career.

Proving once again that “a lie can go ‘round the world before the truth can get it’s pants on.”

Get a accurate argument, please.