Please Watch Newt Gingrich

[gurneyhalleck1]

To be fair, the Contract with America was a success and along with Clinton’s moving to the center and playing ball with the GOP congress, we had a balanced budget, lower taxes, welfare reform, a huge economy, and peace. It was when the neo-con agenda under Bush fully came to fruition that our country started to tank…along with the left wing idea of deregulating the mortgage industry with that idiotic idea that “everyone deserves to own a home…”

Fox News has begun touting Newt’s virtues as a conservative candidate. This is an old article, but completely on the mark, and will help remind everyone that his Contract with America was a dismal failure (conservatively speaking that is,) and actually provided for an expansion of government.

enterstageright.com/archive/articles/0801/0801thirdwayp6.htm

 

[Tigg]

This country was reeling from the effects of the Clinton administration and the most scandalous effrontery ever brought to the office of POTUS. The Contract sounded conservative because it promised to limit government and hold it accountable. You would have to define “success” in terms of what the Contract promised and did not fulfill. Which of the ten planks actually accomplished what it promised? I’ve given a link and analysis which shows how each fell short and was actually antithetical to the principles of a free and sovereign republic. I agree with that article and in no way think Newt would now defend our Constitution.

All in all what disturbs me the most is that we are blind. The Republican party can no longer be called the party of conservatives after the frightening left turn of the Bush/Rove neo-con era. Conservatives are clutching at straws with Newt and (puhleez, no Sarah either.) Sad because we do have a few good potential conservative leaders, but they aren’t backed by the big money machines, or they don’t score well enough in the polls (who cares?) or the media kills their chances. So many of us are forced to vote for third party candidates because we can’t find it in our hearts to support the alternatives. And the two major parties seem to meld closer and closer together with each election.

 

[mary_bobo]

You nailed it, brother. Gingrich will largely get accolades in CAFbecause he converted to Catholicism. Never mind the marital disasters and betrayals, getting censured for corrupt moves and not living the Christian lifestyle, etc. This drives me nuts.

On the other side of the coin of your argument, Sarah Palin and Glen Beck are so revered in these forums and YET they are both former Catholics who dumped their faith for Pentecostalism and Mormonism (!!) respectively. Sheesh…go figure…

What you say is true, HOWEVER, Sarah Palin was a child. It was her parents who left the Church. I don’t really think you can blame her for this. Beck is another matter.