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Please remember to vote for Rick in the primary. I can't wait to watch him go down in the general election as the weakest GOP candidate since Goldwater.
The majority of Americans do not support what he stands for or his beliefs about contraception, women in the workforce or abortion.
A man of common sense-based intelligence, of substance and conviction... Hmmm. I think Rick's our guy. Honesty and sincerity is the new sexy.
It's very nice to see Conservatives recognize the "game" of liberal LSM interviewers. And just as nice to see the candidates see it too. George Step and others think we are so stupid! So I am proud that we are seeing their absolute stupidity! Not one of the candidates is perfect. I am sure that some of them have learned their lesson from the previous mistakes they made. I am surprised that we, as Conservatives are not willing to forgive them those mistakes! Remember, Romney DOES NOT think he made a mistake with Romneycare!! Because of this, I was very disappointed in the CPAC straw poll! Understand though, I will vote for Romney IF he ends up being the nominee, holding my nose all the while! I have seen comments from so-called Conservatives that say if their candidate does not end up being the nominee, they just won't vote at all!! How Sad. This is like being a VERY bad sport!
For everyone claiming that Romney is not "electable" for various reasons, you really have to stand back and take a good hard look at Santorum. This man would never beat Obama - the election would be about his social views and not a referendum on Obama's failed policies. I weep if my party nominates Rick. He's a good man that will lose. And to describe him as THE TRUUUE CONSERVATIVE candidate is an insult to conservatism and y'all know it.
The Left wing media is absurd. It is ridiculous to attempt to paint Santorum as only a social candidate. He is the most well rounded candidate we have. Thank God, someone is standing up for the conservative cause before the liberal minority stomp it out. Santorum will be our next President. He has them running scared. It's hilarious to see him outsmart them at each and every turn.
No...on a general level we are not physically equal on the military level...there are exceptions but not many. I can shoot the eyes out of a gnat at 100 yards, run a big bad machine, knock the crap out of most men...but not most marines...there you have it.
I think Gingrich has laid out the differences in his speeches. Obama is progressive and when Gingrich compares where he stands to where Obama stands it is comparing conservative to progressive.
Gingrich's past negatives are also our past negatives. We wanted bi-partisanship. Co-operation between the parties. Gingrich like the rest of us have come to the conclusion there is no bi-partisanship or co-operation when there are no common values to compromise on. I know we're all pure as the driven snow conservatives now but it took a Democrat Congress pushing through Obama care and Obama trying to turn America into a Dictatorship to get us here. I'm not going to judge Gingrich differently than I judge myself or many of us who weren't always as conservative as we are now. We've seen the light and I believe he has to.
I filled it up because people don't seem to be making an honest comparison. I'm not demeaning Santorum by say he isn't prepared the facts speak for themselves.
I saw this interview live this morning. He did an excellent job deflecting the attacks by David Gregoy and the liberal NBC media.
They lost me on who Richie Cunningham was, a bit too young to remember, so I had to look it up, Oh Happy Days!
Thought Rick did a good job smacking back in Gregory's face that he's not the anti-woman candidate he was trying to paint him as.
Israel did a study because they had women in combat and combat training and found that women suffered more hip and other fractures than men...PLUS longterm feminine injuries and dysfunctions...loss of fertility, uterine prolapse, etc. Elevated incidence of fractures in younger women are much more significant finding than in the elderly. It is not a good idea to try to make women into men, or front-line warriors.
you ara wrong, we have pilots , (women, you know ? )
which must undergo a very difficult training ,precisely,exactly like pilots male.
the level of the training is the toughest military servise.
They view him as a social conservative because that's all he was involved in when he was in Congress.
Santorums credentials are so thin I can put them in one small paragraph.
Richard John "Rick" Santorum was a United States Senator from Pennsylvania from 1995 to 2007. Rick Santorum started his political life at Pennsylvania State University, where he earned his undergraduate degree in 1980. While working as an assistant to State Senator J. Doyle Corman, Santorum earned a graduate degree from the University of Pittsburgh (1981) and a law degree from the Dickinson School of Law (1986). After a short time practicing law, he was elected to the U.S. House of Representatives and served two terms from 1991-95. He was elected to the Senate in 1994 and reelected in 2000 but lost his 2006 bid for re-election.
That's it folks. Except for lists of committee's he served on while in office and bills he supported, writing for the Philadelphia Inquirer and commenting on Fox, there is nothing there that qualifies him to be president of the United States.
Here are Gingrich's credentials for serving as president.
Architect of “Contract with America” leading to first Republican House majority in 40 years. Under his leadership Congress passed welfare reform, passed the first balanced budget in a generation, and passed the first tax cut in sixteen years. In addition Congress restored funding to defense and intelligence capabilities actions later lauded by the bipartisan 9/11 commission.
Author:
Twenty three books fiction and nonfiction New York Times best-sellers.
Non-fiction books. A Nation like no other.
Rendezvous with Destiny about Ronald Reagan
To save America - Stopping Obama’s Secular-Socialist Machine
Rediscovering God in America
5 Principles for a Successful Life
Drill here Drill Now and Pay Less
Winning the Future: A 21st Century Contract with America
To renew America, Lessons learned the hard Way
Saving Lives and Saving Money
Window of Opportunity
The art of Transformation and Rediscovering God in America
Historical Fiction. Gettysburg Grant comes East
Never Call Retreat: Lee and Grant the Final Victory
1945 Peal Harbor
December 8, Days of Infamy
To Try Men’s Souls
Valley Forge
Documentaries. A City upon a Hill
Nine Days that Changed the World
Ronald Reagan: Rendezvous with Destiny
Rediscovering God in America I and II
Our Heritage
We have the Power
Organizations. United States Commission on National Security/21st Century
Hart/Rudman Commission to examine our national security challenges As far out as 2025 (the commission report concluded that the number one threat to the United States was A nuclear, chemical or biological weapon used against a large American city unless Our defense and intelligence structures underwent massive transformation. the report was Published six months before September 11th.
General Chairman of American Solutions for Winning the Future
Senior Fellow at the American Enterprise Institute
Distinguished Visiting Fellow at the Hoover Institution at Stanford University
Honorary Chairman of the Nanobusiness Alliance
Volunteerism. Donated time and money and raised money for Habitat for Humanity, United Cerebral Palsy, The American Cancer Society and Zoo Atlanta.
In 1995 Washington Times called him an indispensable leader while speaker and Time magazine named him man of the year.
Bachelors degree from Emory University
Master’s and Doctorate in Modern European History Tulane University
Before his election to Congress he taught History and Environmental Studies at West Georgia College for 8 years.
And this doesn't even include the extensive information on his website Newt/2012. Which includes a 52 page report on how to handle judges who legislate from the bench. His "21st Century Contract with America" lays out plans about what needs to be handled to get the country back on track. For those interested they can submit ideas to be included in presidential directives to be published in it's entirety in October. This list also doesn't include facts about his hundreds of speeches on different subjects all over the world.
Sorry but there is no comparison as to who is qualified and has the ideas and plans to be a successful president. Romney is not my choice but he also has qualifications out the roof compared to Santorum.
Santorum, Representative, Senator, Lawyer. No governorship experience, no business experience. This is not a popularity contest for president of the Senior Class this is a serious contest for who will lead this country against our enemies domestic and foreign and create the atmosphere for American superiority, financially, militarily and industrially.
Gingrich/2012
Excellent itemization, cabensg...
In addition to the "conservative" pluses that you outline, Gingrich's "progressive" tendencies, aka negatives, need to be included for a fair and balanced Gingrich history.
You probably have the Gingrich pro-progressive and pro-Woodrow "real politik" Wilson and pro-Franklin D. "the best President of the 20th century" Roosevelt (NOT conservative Ronald Reagan ???) YouTube videos already bookmarked, so I won't list the URLs here.
Now, if Santorum can't maintain the momentum of being the #1 non-Romney and finally winning the primary wreath and fades like Ron Paul has, and if Gingrich succeeds in regaining the momentum as the #1 non-Romney, I will vote for Gingrich to win the primary wreath and to defeat Romney.
However, I'm for Santorum for POTUS.
But, if Gingrich wins the primary wreath, I will also vote for "progressive conservative" (aka a conservative with progressive tendencies) Gingrich in the general election to replace "progressive socialist marxist" BHObama.
And for my vote in the general election for Gingrich, the ONLY thing that I would DEMAND of Gingrich is for Gingrich to do a variation of what Rush Limbaugh means when he says that he is "tying half my brain behind my back to be fair" with the liberals.
The ONLY thing Gingrich MUST do is to "tie his progressive tendencies behind his back"...
... and FORGET about em... and never, never, EVER, never propose "progressive" ideas again.
That's all.
The question is, is that "conservative" only doable and something Gingrich would commit to?
I don't know... time will tell.
So far, Gingrich has not mentioned the difference between "progressive" ideas and "conservative" ideas... and WHY the distinction is important.
So, we wait... time will tell.
Art
You make a good case for Gingrich but Rick Santorum isn't the main problem so I really don't see the need to make the case against Rick Santorum because both of those candidates biggest competition is Mitt Romney.
I consider Santorum a problem if people decide he is the alternative to Romney. As far as qualifications and ability to follow through are concerned this is a two man race. Gingrich and Romney are the choices if we want competence. Santorum is a side track we can't afford.
I think it's very unfair to call him a side track, he's won just as many states as Romney, yet Gingrich has only won South Carolina. Yet I still want Newt to keep going!
They truly go after him to defend what they perceive as an evil position. It's comical to watch. As a former liberal, I see what they're doing and it's condescending.
Scoop, I agree. He did very well with every question thrown at him. The question about not allowing single women w/o children was just plain stupid.
It was a lame attempt to feed to outlandish meme that religious conservatives only was women barefoot and pregnant. the left is ANTI-CHOICE on this; they have contempt for women who make the VOLUNTARY decision to be stay-at-home Moms.
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