“I think there’s a general belief that this thing could move fast and late,” says Bob vander Plaats, a leading Iowa social conservative and political insider, discussing the Republican presidential caucus race. “Dramatically fast and dramatically late.”
But the fact is, with the caucuses three and a half weeks away, late is now. So the question is whether Newt Gingrich’s surge in Iowa is the fast and late movement everyone has been predicting — or whether some other candidate could emerge before January 3.
If the race works anything like it did the last time around, Gingrich will be the winner. Back in 2007, Mitt Romney led in every poll from June to November. Mike Huckabee began to move up in October and took the lead for the first time in a Rasmussen survey released November 27. A Des Moines Register poll shortly afterward confirmed Huckabee’s lead, and, with the exception of a few stray polls, the former Baptist minister was ahead of the pack from the first of December 2007 until the caucuses on January 3, 2008. Huckabee won with 34 percent of the vote to Romney’s 25 percent.
This time around, Gingrich first took the lead in Iowa in a Rasmussen survey on November 15. He’s led every one of the seven polls released since then, and now leads Romney by 12 points in the RealClearPolitics average of polls. No one else is gaining significant ground against Gingrich.
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Of course Joseph Farah, founder of both the Western "Journalism" Center and WorldNutsDaily, is doing his best to bring down Newt: http://www.ronpaulforums.com/showthread.php?29373…
Des Moines Register – "Republicans would take a giant step backward by choosing Gingrich": http://www.desmoinesregister.com/article/20111209…
National Review – "A Choice of Two Temperaments": http://www.nationalreview.com/corner/285083/choic…
WHO'S NEWT? http://giveusliberty1776.blogspot.com/2011/12/who…
… and, most recently, he has proposed giving 30 MILLION Illegal aliens amnesty as long as they pay a small fine and can "speak English" — thus opening the door to ANOTHER 100 MIILLION, or more, family members! Good Bye America.
“If a nation expects to be ignorant and free, in a state of civilization, it expects what never was and never will be.” – Thomas Jefferson
Whether it's flip-flopping on TARP, supporting the individual mandate that served as a model for "ObamaCare," joining with Nancy Pelosi in support of the global-warming crowd's radical agenda, or making millions off of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac as they helped destroy our economy, Newt Gingrich is trying to pull the wool over our eyes.
He's what is called a "counterfeit conservative." Here's an ad so you can hear Newt in his own words explaining his record of supporting liberal policies: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1Jzi3HBCS2M
Another Big Surprise About Gingrich on Gun Rights & The Second Amendment:
http://gunowners.org/gingrich-mixed-record.htm
http://www.nationalgunrights.org/the-inconvenient…
Gingrich Explains His Support for Individual Health Mandate – From the Glenn Beck program 12/6/11:
GINGRICH: I am for people, individuals, exactly like automobile insurance, individuals having health insurance and being required to have health insurance, and I am prepared to vote for a voucher system which will give individuals on a sliding scale a government subsidy so it will ensure that everyone as individuals have health insurance.
President Obama on the individual healthcare mandate, August 2011: “(Obamacare) should not be controversial… the individual mandate’s important… It’s just like your car insurance…”
While in Congress, Gingrich co-sponsored 418 bills with Pelosi: http://dailycaller.com/2011/12/06/while-in-congre…
Gingrich Supported Rockefeller Over Goldwater: Barry Goldwater’s 1964 presidential campaign was arguably the most important in the history of the American conservative movement, leading to the “Reagan Revolution” in 1980 and it continued to have a significant influence on the Right well beyond that particular election. Where was Newt Gingrich in this fight? Supporting Nelson Rockefeller:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embed…
The “Principled Leadership” of Newt Gingrich
“I am not inclined to be a supporter of Newt Gingrich’s having served under him for four years and experienced his leadership. Because I found it lacking often times. There’s all kind of leaders, leaders that instill confidence and leaders that are somewhat abrupt, leaders that have one standard for the people that they are leading and a different standard for themselves. I will have difficulty supporting him for president of the United States.” — Senator Tom Coburn (R-Okla.)
“We had to push Newt because he wanted to cave in… Those of us who told Newt, ‘If you don’t fight for a balanced budget and don’t fight for these tax cuts and don’t fight for the cuts in committee chairmanships, etc., etc., that we promised we were going to do, we are going to kick you out’ — those 10 or 15 or so, every one of them — Tom Coburn, Matt Salmon running again in Arizona, all of them. They may not be saying it publicly, but privately they’re sending me e-mails every day going, … ‘How many times does Newt have to teach these people he’s bad for the conservative movement?’–MSNBC host and former U.S. Rep. Joe Scarborough, part of the “Republican Revolution” of 1994
Via the The American Spectator’s Quin Hillyer:
Former American Conservative Union Chairman Mickey Edwards was even blunter:
“I’ve known Newt now for thirty years almost,” says former congressman Mickey Edwards. “But I wouldn’t be able to describe what his real principles are. I never felt that he had any sort of a real compass about what he believed except for the pursuit of power.”
It all boils down to the following: Obama = communist = Gingrich = Obama = communists. Read the following well-researched articles on Newtie. If you still love him, oh well …
http://newswithviews.com/Nelson/kelleigh121.htm – Newt Gingrich history http://newswithviews.com/Nelson/kelleigh122.htm – Newt Gingrich's communist Third Wave beliefs