Newt Gingrich as President in 2012 will be business as usual, and usher in a new epoch of economic decline. The USA will be the policeman of the world and the standard of living of the middle class will go down. I do not know if he is out of touch with reality. I do not know if he really knows how hard some Americans have it, or he does not care. However, at the latest Republican debate to suggest war, an American-Iranian war is nuts. It cancels out all his fiscal conservatism. I have been a life long Republican until this year, and I have to say, his rise in the polls concerns me.
I can not get excited about Newt Gingrich because he is the most Hawkish GOP candidates. He is the Uber war monger for the GOP and not a leader, his character is weak. George Will calls him anti conservative, he pocketed millions as a lobbies connected to housing, what is he on his fourth wife? I would not vote for him and I do not think he will be the Republican nominee.
It seems that if we want strong leaders, we should have leaders with enough self-confidence and strength of character to defy conventional wisdom and the chants of false patriotism and pride. – Ron Paul
This is why I think Newt Gingrich is as poor a Presidential candidate as Obama in the 2012 election for President.
- New Gingrich on the issues – If you look at his ‘solutions’ page on the surface he does not look that bad. A lot of free market, ‘contract with America’ and talk and charity and religion. However, the bottom line, he will do this:
Aid to the middle class- Increase the war machine
War and economics. It is a trade-off, guns or butter, it was true for the Soviet Empire and the American Empire
I do not know why people can not make the connection between the drain on our resources and the military? I do not know why people do not understand that economics determines the outcome of war. If you aggregate all world-wide war military expenditures, the USA accounts for 46.5%. For me, that is not fiscal conservatism, but a recipe for decline of this great nation. Anything that comes out of Gingrich’s mouth is a lie, if he cuts aid for Americans and ‘helps’ other countries by firing missiles.
Local business at a team meeting. They were talking about costs, price, sensitivity, efficiency and customer service. This is what Americans need to focus on not following old blow hards like Newt into another war which takes money out of your pocket. Gingrich is not what America needs now.
Many vocal people in the Tea Party, with all its positive momentum about shirking government, on the other hand, champions the dreadnought diplomacy like a group of cold warriors.
I am not against veterans that have severed, nor am I a peace and love flower child hippie. I am one who is deeply concerned with the way the USA is going. It is not going up, it is going down.
The reason it is going down is too much government. A large chunk of this is the special interest of war, which Newt Gingrich supports. It is not just the money going out the door, but the lives of veterans that come back with head injuries or displaced in the work force as they have spent so much creative energy in the desert rather than using it to be entrepreneurs. The Republicans would rather cut assistance to Americans and not weapons for the Middle Eastern empire. As much as I have been positive about the GOP, an predicting they will win, they will lose this election if they are that stupid.
- Foreign policy and economics in 2012 elections are closely connected, why do not people see this?
Newt Gingrich could derail this election for the Republicans generally. He is ignorant about economics. If he reads this I will debate him on this.
Where is the greater threat, the economy and home security or on the other side of the world?
Gingrich claims the threat of terror is the reason for being a neo-con hold out. However, I consider the 14,000 homicides in the USA a year is a greater threat. 40,000 people die on the American roads, I think there is room for safety and infrastructure to be improved would you not agree? What about childhood illness? If more money was pushed to the above concerns the American public would be better off, than causing resentment on the other side of the world with America sticking our noses in everyone’s business.
The GOP can lose the election in 2012
Why can the GOP not understand Americans do not cheer and get into war as much as they get into just living their lives? I like everyone else worry more about paying my bills, staying heal thing than an invasion of the American coastline of Iranian soldiers and terrorists.
It is not Christian to go to war like we have; without a consensus about it being a ‘just war’ manifest by a vote in congress for a declaration. Newt Gingrich blasphemed the name of John Paul II and tried to manipulate the Catholic vote when he in the same breath mentioned John Paul II and the future prospect of the Iranian-American war. He is politically manipulative, Machiavelli would have been proud of him. But the bottom line is America does not want a warrior President to usurper power from the congress and engage in another undeclared war.
His economic plan is little different from Obama’s other than he focuses on cuts in medical care rather than bombs. Newt Gingrich’s economic plan cuts the rate of increase of the debt but does not change the baseline.
For me this election could be a slam dunk for the GOP if their economic plan for the poor and middle class is coupled with peace, which so many people want in this new generation.
I do not want Obama to get re-elected as he has destroyed the USA with debt for the next 50 years and he has continued to expand the wars. However, Newt Gingrich is not the man for the GOP. If he is the Republican 2012 nominee, I might do a protest vote to Libertarian, as he is another John McCain, just someone who will spoil election hopes for the Republicans.
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2 responses to Newt Gingrich the Republican nominee?
“Can not get excited about Newt Gingrich.”
He should retire to Las Vegas.
If he really was the GOP nominee the media would tear him apart. The multi million dollar ‘Historian’ gig he has with the government Real Estate agencies will come back to him. He is silent on this because he has something to hide. Me I would be straight and honest.
The issue is the country does not want a neocon. NeoConism worked when the USA did not have to compete with China and India etc. We now do. Given that there are two basic models. The Euro-social model, which is not working well as you can see, Or the free market job engine.
If the Republicans do not choose someone with a message of hope to the middle class people will just choose the social option as it is safe, thinking at least Obama will give me something like free medical care.
But saber-rattling about Iranian weapons of mass destruction sounds too close to Iraq. Anther Iraq instead of medical benefits is not a message of hope and the GOP will lose in 2012.
Newt Gingrich would not send his three daughters to the next war. Nor will be he open about is ‘consulting’ role. He needs to retire in the desert with his millions far from harm to this election.
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