Re: A bipartisan call to draft Newt Gingrich
- From: Charlie <cbauwifl6@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 31 Jan 2008 10:17:37 -0800 (PST)
On Jan 31, 9:50 am, so...@xxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
A bipartisan call to draft Newt Gingrich
Posted: January 31, 2008
By Perry Atkinson and Bob Just
(c) 2008
If the primary season reveals no decisive front-runner, and if
conservative delegates head toward the GOP convention with the nagging
feeling that our best candidate wasn't in the race, we urge them to
consider acting on what so many Republicans and Reagan Democrats are
thinking. Drafting Newt Gingrich is a real solution to the current
leadership problem. Even as a vice presidential choice, Gingrich would
solidify the ranks and reinforce the GOP's position as the party of bold
ideas, but as a presidential choice he could bring about a truly needed
Second Reagan Revolution.
While the Democrats argue over campaign process but have little to
contribute other than their usual 1960s "cultural revolution" and "old
government" top-down dictates, there is one man who has not hesitated to
be genuinely forward thinking. Not only is Newt Gingrich making
impressive proposals at American Solutions.com that could unite the
country in some positive ways, his track record in Congress during the
1980s and '90s can leave little doubt that Reaganism would get new life
in a Gingrich White House.
Of course, the Reagan '80s are long gone, but as Gingrich recently told
Rush Limbaugh, Reaganism itself is "not only not over, it is timeless,
it is enduring and it is the core organizing principles for a successful
country." To that, traditional Americans emphatically say, Amen.
As we approach the 25th anniversary of President Reagan's famous
anti-Soviet "evil empire" speech, it's a good time to point out that
Reagan also cautioned us against overreaching government power here in
the United States, especially in its modern secular form. Still with us
today, federal secularism back in 1983 had even then long since rejected
what Christian Americans including Reagan called "the rule of law under
God."
"Now, I don't have to tell you," Reagan told the National Association of
Evangelicals, "that this puts us in opposition to, or at least out of
step with, a prevailing attitude of many who have turned to a modern-day
secularism, discarding the tried and time-tested values upon which our
very civilization is based. No matter how well intentioned, their value
system is radically different from that of most Americans. And while
they proclaim that they're freeing us from superstitions of the past,
they've taken upon themselves the job of superintending us by government
rule and regulation."
(Column continues below)
Sound familiar? Just listen to the Democrat candidates - listen past the
warm and fuzzy rhetoric and you'll hear the words, "government rule and
regulation." Make no mistake, Ronald Reagan's struggle continues.
There's a reason why a prominent conservative like Sean Hannity
increasingly asks his national radio and television audience to consider
a simple question - "What would Reagan do?" - and why Heritage
Foundation has joined him in that effort. There's a reason Rush Limbaugh
reinforces Reaganism at every opportunity. It's about America, and who
we really are as a people in relation to the government we created.
As speaker of the House, and for his entire political career, Newt
Gingrich has faithfully resisted what Reagan called "the cult of the
state." He shares Reagan's staunch belief in the creativity of
individual Americans and in our innate ability as a free people to come
up with solutions that secular government bureaucracy couldn't even see
much less implement. This unwavering "under God" Americanism is a key to
understanding both men.
No, Reaganism itself will never die, and Newt Gingrich is the man who
most represents those core conservative principles, not only in his
original thinking, but in his political track record, and most
importantly in his irrepressible determination to act out those "tried
and time-tested values" with real solutions for 21st century America.
Traditional Democrats and Republicans are looking for someone who "gets
it." We believe that man is Newt Gingrich of Georgia.
While I basically like and believe Newt is an exceptional thinker and
would make a *potentially* great POTUS or VPOTUS. I most want to be
sure we do not end up with either of the remaining democrats
candidates. It is my feeling that if the very conservative wing of the
Republican party could somehow swing what that is suggesting. We will
have Hussein Obama or Hitlery for our next president. Lets not get
stupid conservatives.
Charlie
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