Newt: What it Takes to Win

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Newt: Obama's Plans for a Command and Control Economy

So Much For Transparency

"I'm going to have all the negotiations around a big table. We'll have the negotiations televised on C-SPAN, so that people can see who is making arguments on behalf of their constituents and who are making arguments on behalf of the drug companies or the insurance companies.” --Barack Obama, August, 2008

So much for Obama's promises. Then again, Afghanistan was a war of necessity back in March when Obama chose his general (McChrystal), announced his strategy, and took ownership of the war. Now, he's revising again and still blaming Bush. How pathetic.

On health, Obama has made a deal with 'Big Pharma' to get them onside. And, why wouldn't they, now the government will pay for drugs for millions of people just like they do now for seniors thanks to Bush's idiotic Prescription Drug Plan.

America needs a new entitlement program like it needs a hole in the head. The fact is, America is spending it's way towards implosion and the destruction of its democratic institutions by straying far from the wisdom of the Founding Fathers who set up a system for limited government to prevent tyranny. Remove the foundation and the house will eventually collapse.

Newt Gingrich: "President Obama has failed to deliver on his repeated promises of transparency and openness.
But that doesn’t mean that we have to silently accept a government health care bill that was negotiated in secret and paid for with deals cut with special interests using our tax dollars.
Please sign the Center for Health Transformation’s (CHT) petition here, to tell Washington that We The People demand that all bills be publicly available, including legislative language and accurate budget analysis, at least 72 hours prior to any vote by Congress or committees in Congress."

Thomas Jefferson said: "The two enemies of the people are criminals and government, so let us tie the second down with the chains of the Constitution so the second will not become the legalized version of the first."

Newt Presents Health Care Solutions

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The Democrats' Quandary

Republicans may be bad politicians, but it seems that the Democrats are even worse. I was livid at the GOP House leadership during the first six years of the Bush administration for the way in which it handled the nation's finances. It spent money like it was growing on trees, which is not abnormal for government bureaucrats, but the GOP was initially swept to power in 1994 because of it's promise to cut spending and shrink the size of the federal government. And for 6 years during the Clinton Administration, Newt Gingrich did a masterful job of keeping spending under control and reforming bloated social programs like welfare. It took an impasse that forced the shut down of the government at one point, but things changed and American voters rewarded the GOP for it with Bush being elected in 2000 along with Republican majorities in the House and Senate.

Only when the GOP lost its way on spending did voters turn back to the Democrats. Ann Coulter recently commented that every few years Americans go crazy and elect Democrats again; judging by the fact that Bill Clinton is the only two term Democrat President since Harry Truman, she has a point.

Now, back to my original point. It seemed almost inevitable that the Democrats would snatch the White House from the GOP come November, but that scenario is becoming far less of an inevitability with each passing day. It's not that John McCain, George W. Bush, or any other Republican has been masterful, it's been that the Democrats have sought to destroy each other that has changed the political landscape. I'm fine with the Democrats engaging in civil war, but it is almost laughable that they could manage to doom themselves yet again by electing another elitist, northeastern educated, far left wing senator for their nominee.

The way events have turned, you cannot blame Hillary Clinton for staying in the race. Obama has not won a primary since February and has received a bombardment of bad press after months of nauseous swooning from the mainstream media (which still continues at MSNBC, the NY Times, and elsewhere). Obama is in a tailspin, even if he wins North Carolina, it seems almost unthinkable that he could win in November with Rev. Jeremiah Wright strapped to his side.

Obama cannot divorce himself from Wright; after all, it was Obama who said that he could no more disown Wright than he could his own "white grandmother" or the black community. Okay Barry, if you say so, 'cause you're stuck with him now.

Obama didn't just become aware of Wright's views, he's known about them for years. Obama wants the distance from Wright now because it's hurting his chances of winning, not because Obama's views have changed or that Rev. Wright's have. Wright merely defended and reinforced what he said before, and at least Wright has the courage and consistency to stand by his words. Obama, clearly does not. The candidate that was supposed "transcend" race, party lines, and the typical political tag lines. In two weeks Obama went from defending his relationship with Wright as akin to his relationship with his grandmother, to divorcing himself from Wright and denouncing the Chicago pastor's views. Does this mean that Obama would do the same to his grandmother and the black community, or to America?

Obama has come out of the Wright episode bloodied and battered, and the scandal has not gone away. And it won't go away. Whether or not McCain speaks out against TV ads repeating Wright's words after the Democratic Convention is irrelevant, because some 527 group will be repeating the phrase again and again until every single voter knows exactly what Wright said, when he said, and that Obama has called him his "spiritual mentor", was married by him, had his children baptized by him, and was a close confidant of Wright for over a decade. Wright is the same man that he was 20 years ago, the person who has changed is Barack Obama, and it is not even that he has changed, but his circumstances and opportunities have changed. The new circumstances and opportunities have now made Wright inconvenient and dangerous to Obama's future as a politician.

Christopher Hitchens has recently raised an important and unanswered question: "All right, then, how is it that the loathsome Wright married him, baptized his children, and received donations from him? Could it possibly have anything, I wonder, to do with Mrs. Obama?"

Little is known about Michelle Obama, and what is known is troubling. She seems to think that despite her Princeton and Harvard education, her family's income of over $500,000 per year, and having to take her kids to piano lessons makes her just as disadvantaged as a family making $30-40,000 per year. She has commented that she found no reason to be proud of her nation until her husband started winning primaries (Michelle, think Cold War, Kosovo, Yugoslavia, feeding the world's poor and hungry, rebuilding Europe and Japan after WWII, etc).

So if the Democrats end up with Obama as their nominee, they will have an incredibly vulnerable candidate who faces an experienced and seasoned GOP opponent. Obama will have plenty of baggage (Wright, flag pins, etc.), while McCain has his record as a POW and a war hero.

But if the Democrats select Hillary as their nominee, they will undoubtedly face turmoil within their party like they have never before experienced. It could threaten to divide the party permanently. Rev. Wright will be able to claim that his comments about “racist” America are correct while the black community may feel it is without a party. Even if Obama was to be selected as the VP for Hillary, it is inevitable that he and his supporters will feel ripped off and harbour plenty of resentment towards Hillary and Co.

Perhaps most amusing is that the Democrats cried and carried on for years that Bush was “selected” rather than elected because of the Florida 2000 mess (incidentally caused by a Democrat elected as supervisor of elections in south Florida) which led to the Supreme Court battle and decision between the Gore and Bush camps. But the super-delegates will undoubtedly “select” their nominee for 2008 rather than have their grass roots elect the party’s nominee. How ironic.

The American people know Hillary and we know Bill, perhaps more than they wish. It may be that Democrats and voters prefer the devil they know to the one they're just learning about. So despite the dismal performances of Republicans since 2000 in Congress and the White House, McCain's chances are looking to be fair to good come November. I'm not huge fan of McCain, but I'll certainly take him over Billary or Obama/Wright. Whether or not Obama's mistakes have been made because of inexperience or poor judgment, either answer makes him unfit for the Oval Office.

Since Newt Is Out, I'm Backing Rudy

Because Newt Gingrich is not seeking the GOP nomination, I have decided to support Rudy Giuliani as the Republican Party's nominee. Although he is not the ideal conservative candidate, he is, in my humble opinion, best poised to win in 2008 and be the kind of commander in chief that America needs in the coming years.

Giuliani's record as a crime fighter, leader, and agent of change are undeniable. While I differ with him on the issues of abortion, gay marriage, and the second amendment, I nevertheless support his candidacy.

Although he has yet to win any primaries, his strategy has focused on Florida, NY, California, and NJ, all places he is running very strongly. He has also secured the support of Gov. Rick Perry of Texas and other high profile GOP leaders.

Most importantly, I think Rudy has a better shot of beating Hillary or Obama than any other candidate. Ideally, a Giuliani-Huckabee ticket would solidify the fiscal and social conservative Republican base and unite the grassroots with independents and many hawkish Democrats.

Rudy 2008!

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