Read any leftist blog, and they are ecstatic over the internecine war going on in the G.O.P. Whether it’s Perry losers, who may be living with the delusion that if Gingrich loses Florida, maybe Perry will have a come-back, or the usual Country Club Republicans and RINOS who are scared to death of Newt, because they know what a threat he will be for them and their control of the party.

Thank you, Thank you, Thank you, Eric for your defense of Newt. I read the Drudge Report, and what b.s. when so-called conservatives quote from the likes of Mark Sheilds. I have lost all respect for Drudge. Eric is right. There is no way in hell that Romney will defeat Obama. He is another one of the RINO’s sacrificial lambs, because the corporations already have everything they want under Obama.

Where is the Tea Party? Are they already extinct? Who hears anything from them anymore? Who can give us an update of U.S. Senate and House races where the Tea Party is taking on R.I.N.O. incumbents? Why have we heard nothing of the Tea Party publicly taking the battle to the Republican House leadership over House members not being allowed to vote directly on so many bills as I believe it was Eric who addressed this problem in one of today’s posts.

How quickly new members can be silenced and made to play the game. What happen to the so-called conservatives elected in 2010 like Chris Christie, Nikki Haley, and Mark Rubio–all of whom already have become part of the establishment. What does Rubio owe the Bushes that has made him a sell-out? If the Tea Party was alive and well in these three states, there is no way in hell any of these candidates would have endorsed Romney. They would at a minimum keep their mouths shut, and stay non-committed.

Gingrich will take the battle to Obama. He ran well among women in South Carolina of all places, where the Evangelical vote is strong. People keep talking about Gingrich’s baggage. Much of which has been misrepresented. No one other than Newt will more fully exploit Obama’s baggage, which is limitless: total mishandling of the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, and how his Interior Secretary has been in the pocket of Big Oil from the beginning; Fast and Furious, Solyndra, Democratic patronage of the Stimulous money, Obamacare, the abuse of Czars and efforts to shut down dissent in this country, the large number of communists and socialists placed in public positions, the support for an Arab Spring that has strengthened the radical Muslims across the Middle East. General Electric and Al Gore standing to make billions off the “man-made global climate scare” with Cap and Trade and Green Technology that can’t produce without continuous government subsidies; Goldman-Sachs, Jimmy Diamond, etc, who all own Obama. I’ve barely skimmed the surface of what this administration has done to destroy this country.

Newt is first and foremost a conservative. He is not a libertarian. He will if elected bring transformational change to the government, if he has a Republican Congress to support him. It will mean the days of crony capitalism and casino capitalism will come to an end. If Newt fails in this endeavor, then the American people will bring it about through violent revolution and probably civil war, which ultimately will end in some kind of totalitarian system.

Newt will not be a congenial Ronald Reagan. He will be more of a Margaret Thatcher type of personality and leader. I also appreciate that Newt didn’t always see eye to eye with Reagan. Reagan made his mistakes. Even if Newt thought Reagan’s attempt at approachment with the Soviet Union was wrong, Reagan did walk out of the meeting. Many conservatives forget that at the time, it was conservatives (and I was among them), who thought Reagan’s diplomatic attempts with Gorbachev were examples of Reagan going soft on communism.

All politicians lie. If their lips are moving they are lying. They nuance their positions for different audiences, and they often change positions when the political winds of public opinion are blowing in new directions. One can only hope that Newt will remain more faithful to what he says than someone like Obama, who lies every time he opens his mouth.

Get behind Newt and revitalize the Tea Party to get a conservative Congress in control. If the presidential race is reduced to Romney and Obama, it won’t matter who wins. The American consciousness will just simply come to realize that the Republic is “Gone with the WInd”.

These are comments taken off today’s Drudge Report:

All big thinkers and shakers are grandiose in their ideas, and many don’t mind telling you about their grandiose ideas. Ronald Reagan had a grandiose idea of calling the Soviet Union an ?Evil Empire.? Now the Establishment Republicans and the Democrats didn’t like this idea, but Reagan didn’t want to live with this threat, instead, he wanted to ELIMINATE IT! And so he set out to convince as many people as possible of this grandiose idea, and was able to get elected and build up our military ? even through the Democrats’ nasty campaign against this idea with their name calling and frightening people into thinking Reagan was a ?war monger.? But Reagan prevailed because he could communicate to the Public his ideas well enough that they accepted them.

Newt Gingrich had grandiose ideas back before the 1994 elections. He wanted to win the House of Representatives back from the Democrats, who had held it since 1952, forty years. He convinced a great deal of Republicans and voters that his ideas were better than the Democrat’s ideas. And what happened? A spectacular, historic victory! His strategy with the content of his 1994 Contract with America propelled the Republicans to a 54-seat gain in 1994 to win control of the House of Representatives. the Republicans only capturing it two out of the previous 62 years. Even the Reagan Revolution failed to achieve that!

Then Newt led the House Republicans in 1996 to their first re-election as a majority since 1928, an astounding almost 70 years!
And once in power, Newt Gingrich actually delivered on his promises, and maintained a solid conservative record. working closely with Conservative Activist Groups on every one of these issues. He carried out the Contract with America in full, holding a vote on every item as promised, with most of the items passing. Newt maintained a RECORD of unswerving loyalty to pro-life, pro-gun and Second Amendment, and anti-tax issues.

Under Newt’s leadership, the total federal spending relative to GDP declined from 1995 to 2000 by a whopping 12.5%. This equals about one-eighth of the size of the economy in just five short years!
As a result, those nasty $200 billion annual federal deficits that had prevailed for over 15 years were instead transformed into record-breaking surpluses by 1998. They peaked at $236 billion in 2000.
Mr. Gingrich also led enactment of a capital gains tax rate cut of almost 30% in 1997. It went from 28% down to 20%, the largest capital gains cut in U.S. history! And BECAUSE of that cut, capital gains revenues went up a whopping $84 billion higher for 1997 to 2000 than projected before Newt’s rate cut.

RINO Romney ran to the Left of Ted Kennedy, governed like Ted Kennedy, voted like Ted Kennedy and then ran for the 2008 GOP presidential nomination as a Conservative WITHOUT a record of conservatism! Go Newt!
Comment: #26
Posted by: 777denny
Thu Jan 26, 2012 12:02 AM

It’s evident Drudge cherry-picked passages of Mark Shield’s past columns out of context designed to mislead readers. How about the following Romney’s dishonesty:

Romney accuses Newt of resigning as Speaker “in disgrace.” Charles Krauthammer belied it on the O’Reilly Factor when he told Bill who asked Romney’s accusation fact-checked that Newt stepped down after the GOP lost 5 House seats in the 1998 midterm elections which Newt accepted as repudiation of his leadership. He didn’t only step down as Speaker but also gave up his congressional seat he just got reelected.

Romney wittingly or unwittingly mixes up Newt’s fine of $300,000 for ethics violation in 1997 as the cause of his above resignation a year later. The ethics violation was a separate case and explicably politically motivated.

Another Romney “below the belt” attack is Gingrich’s $1.6 million consulting fee from Freddie Mac as though Newt was part of policy-making that led to this government sponsored enterprise’s (GSE) meltdown. I twice heard during the debates Romney was told by Newt the $1.6M was gross income and he got only $35,000 a year from it after paying staff salaries and office expenses. Besides, Newt was a private citizen when he worked for Freddie and what’s wrong for him to earn some money?

On the other hand, it looks that Romney at first tried to avoid releasing his tax returns, a tactical mistake in South Carolina, probably thinking the returns would be for 12 years like his father did and include his years with Bain Capital.

He decided to release 2-year returns to diffuse the issue when Obama raises in case Romney’s the GOP nominee and his years with Bain would show he made money both ways, i.e., from companies that were turned around to profitability and those Bain couldn’t save from bankruptcy.
Comment: #29
Posted by: Frank Wenceslao
Thu Jan 26, 2012 1:55 AM

The rich Republican oligarchy fails to understand that we, the rank and file, hold them partially responsible for the destruction of our economy, and the growth and metastases of the federal government. Romney will be just more of the same-we know that.
Newt is an iconoclast and a pioneer who was the best Speaker of the House in the last century. He broke down the welfare system, gave us balanced budgets, and made life a lot better for Americans. We want to give him a chance to fix government and scale it down. I doubt that Romney is interested in smaller government, and there is a snow ball chance in hell that Southeners of any party (who are absolutely crucial for victory) would ever vote for a Yankee from Taxacusetts. Romney would NEVER lead to a Republican victory, becasue he would NEVER get the Southern votes.
Comment: #33
Posted by: naro10
Thu Jan 26, 2012 4:39 AM