Well, Newt Gingrich, true to his form finds himself surging once again to the top of the polls, after many declared him dead. Make no mistake about it, the establishment of both major political parties hate the thought of a Newt Gingrich Administration. For all of the talk about which Republican Candidate is actually a conservative, and which one’s are not really conservative enough, I will remind everyone of this actual fact. Newt Gingrich, for all of his warts, and yes he has plenty, remains the only one running currently that has actually succeeded in balancing a federal budget. He remains the only political figure in modern American History who engineered and succeeded at reducing the size and scope of our federal government. He did so as Speaker of the House. As those who wield power are never fond of having it taken away from them, a get Newt movement was born, and for his sins, Speaker Gingrich was run out of Washington, on what have been proven to be trumped up and false ethics complaints.
The thought that Mitt Romney is the true conservative in this race is laughable on its face. Yes, it is true that the conservatives were pulling for Mitt in 2008, but that is only because the race at that point was down to Mitt Romney and John McCain. So, comparatively speaking, Mitt Romney when looked at through the prism of some, can be made to look like a conservative. That does not mean that he will restore our limited, accountable, government to us, and allow the free markets to be free once again, only that he will slow the growth of the behemoth. Newt on the other hand will roll back a good portion of the damage, including repeal of Obamacare, Sarbanes Oxley, Dodd Frank, Department of Education, Energy, EPA, Labor, and will reign in the ridiculous NLRB, and hopefully end that as well. He’ll rebuild our military.
Notice how, even at their worst, none of the attacks upon Speaker Gingrich are about any of his positions. There is a good reason why we need to dredge up Newt’s Sexual Proclivities from his ex-wife, and not what his Presidency would mean for our nation. That reason is that the direction that Newt wishes to take us is the direction most of us want to go. In speech after speech, and pundit after pundit, I keep hearing how Mitt would be a better nominee based on his electability, and not on anything he would actually do. I am sure Mitt has some ideas that are his own, but I’ll be damned if I know what any of them are. Sure, he has adopted some talking points from others, but no real pledges to the American People.
Electability is a joke issue anyhow. How can Romney make Obamacare a seminal campaign issue when Obama used his blueprint for the thing? Newt at his core is a conservative who is guilty of pandering to liberals on their core issues for political reasons. Mitt is a liberal at his core who panders to conservatives on their core issues for political reasons. In a perfect world, I would rather have Reagan, but he isn’t running. In fact, he isn’t even here. I am uncomfortable with Newt’s statements that he supports ethanol subsidies, as I feel all subsidies should be a thing of the past, but Newt says far fewer of those foolish things than our man Mitt. The trouble is also, Mitt Romney really means them, while Newt is only saying them.
It has been since mid December when I asked the world to attack a single Gingrich Position, and that has yet to happen. Keep the national debate in the gutter, that’s the only place where Democrats can win. I say we nominate Newt Gingrich and take our chances on substance. That is what we need right now, as a nation.
