--The Gunslinger
Thursday, January 26th at 4:32PM EST (link)
"These are comments taken off today’s Drudge Report:"
'All big thinkers and shakers are grandiose in their ideas, and many don’t mind telling you about their grandiose ideas. Ronald Reagan had a grandiose idea of calling the Soviet Union an “Evil Empire.” Now the Establishment Republicans and the Democrats didn’t like this idea, but Reagan didn’t want to live with this threat, instead, he wanted to ELIMINATE IT! And so he set out to convince as many people as possible of this grandiose idea, and was able to get elected and build up our military — even through the Democrats’ nasty campaign against this idea with their name calling and frightening people into thinking Reagan was a “war monger.” But Reagan prevailed because he could communicate to the Public his ideas well enough that they accepted them.
Newt Gingrich had grandiose ideas back before the 1994 elections. He wanted to win the House of Representatives back from the Democrats, who had held it since 1952, forty years. He convinced a great deal of Republicans and voters that his ideas were better than the Democrat’s ideas. And what happened? A spectacular, historic victory! His strategy with the content of his 1994 Contract with America propelled the Republicans to a 54-seat gain in 1994 to win control of the House of Representatives. the Republicans only capturing it two out of the previous 62 years. Even the Reagan Revolution failed to achieve that!
Then Newt led the House Republicans in 1996 to their first re-election as a majority since 1928, an astounding almost 70 years!
And once in power, Newt Gingrich actually delivered on his promises, and maintained a solid conservative record. working closely with Conservative Activist Groups on every one of these issues. He carried out the Contract with America in full, holding a vote on every item as promised, with most of the items passing. Newt maintained a RECORD of unswerving loyalty to pro-life, pro-gun and Second Amendment, and anti-tax issues.
Under Newt’s leadership, the total federal spending relative to GDP declined from 1995 to 2000 by a whopping 12.5%. This equals about one-eighth of the size of the economy in just five short years!
As a result, those nasty $200 billion annual federal deficits that had prevailed for over 15 years were instead transformed into record-breaking surpluses by 1998. They peaked at $236 billion in 2000.
Mr. Gingrich also led enactment of a capital gains tax rate cut of almost 30% in 1997. It went from 28% down to 20%, the largest capital gains cut in U.S. history! And BECAUSE of that cut, capital gains revenues went up a whopping $84 billion higher for 1997 to 2000 than projected before Newt’s rate cut.
RINO Romney ran to the Left of Ted Kennedy, governed like Ted Kennedy, voted like Ted Kennedy and then ran for the 2008 GOP presidential nomination as a Conservative WITHOUT a record of conservatism! Go Newt!
Comment: #26
Posted by: 777denny
Thu Jan 26, 2012 12:02 AM
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It’s evident Drudge cherry-picked passages of Mark Shield’s past columns out of context designed to mislead readers. How about the following Romney’s dishonesty:
Romney accuses Newt of resigning as Speaker “in disgrace.” Charles Krauthammer belied it on the O’Reilly Factor when he told Bill who asked Romney’s accusation fact-checked that Newt stepped down after the GOP lost 5 House seats in the 1998 midterm elections which Newt accepted as repudiation of his leadership. He didn’t only step down as Speaker but also gave up his congressional seat he just got reelected.
Romney wittingly or unwittingly mixes up Newt’s fine of $300,000 for ethics violation in 1997 as the cause of his above resignation a year later. The ethics violation was a separate case and explicably politically motivated.
Another Romney “below the belt” attack is Gingrich’s $1.6 million consulting fee from Freddie Mac as though Newt was part of policy-making that led to this government sponsored enterprise’s (GSE) meltdown. I twice heard during the debates Romney was told by Newt the $1.6M was gross income and he got only $35,000 a year from it after paying staff salaries and office expenses. Besides, Newt was a private citizen when he worked for Freddie and what’s wrong for him to earn some money?
On the other hand, it looks that Romney at first tried to avoid releasing his tax returns, a tactical mistake in South Carolina, probably thinking the returns would be for 12 years like his father did and include his years with Bain Capital.
He decided to release 2-year returns to diffuse the issue when Obama raises in case Romney’s the GOP nominee and his years with Bain would show he made money both ways, i.e., from companies that were turned around to profitability and those Bain couldn’t save from bankruptcy.
Comment: #29
Posted by: Frank Wenceslao
Thu Jan 26, 2012 1:55 AM
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The rich Republican oligarchy fails to understand that we, the rank and file, hold them partially responsible for the destruction of our economy, and the growth and metastases of the federal government. Romney will be just more of the same-we know that.
Newt is an iconoclast and a pioneer who was the best Speaker of the House in the last century. He broke down the welfare system, gave us balanced budgets, and made life a lot better for Americans. We want to give him a chance to fix government and scale it down. I doubt that Romney is interested in smaller government, and there is a snow ball chance in hell that Southeners of any party (who are absolutely crucial for victory) would ever vote for a Yankee from Taxacusetts. Romney would NEVER lead to a Republican victory, becasue he would NEVER get the Southern votes.
Comment: #33
Posted by: naro10
Thu Jan 26, 2012 4:39 AM'
'All big thinkers and shakers are grandiose in their ideas, and many don’t mind telling you about their grandiose ideas. Ronald Reagan had a grandiose idea of calling the Soviet Union an “Evil Empire.” Now the Establishment Republicans and the Democrats didn’t like this idea, but Reagan didn’t want to live with this threat, instead, he wanted to ELIMINATE IT! And so he set out to convince as many people as possible of this grandiose idea, and was able to get elected and build up our military — even through the Democrats’ nasty campaign against this idea with their name calling and frightening people into thinking Reagan was a “war monger.” But Reagan prevailed because he could communicate to the Public his ideas well enough that they accepted them.
Newt Gingrich had grandiose ideas back before the 1994 elections. He wanted to win the House of Representatives back from the Democrats, who had held it since 1952, forty years. He convinced a great deal of Republicans and voters that his ideas were better than the Democrat’s ideas. And what happened? A spectacular, historic victory! His strategy with the content of his 1994 Contract with America propelled the Republicans to a 54-seat gain in 1994 to win control of the House of Representatives. the Republicans only capturing it two out of the previous 62 years. Even the Reagan Revolution failed to achieve that!
Then Newt led the House Republicans in 1996 to their first re-election as a majority since 1928, an astounding almost 70 years!
And once in power, Newt Gingrich actually delivered on his promises, and maintained a solid conservative record. working closely with Conservative Activist Groups on every one of these issues. He carried out the Contract with America in full, holding a vote on every item as promised, with most of the items passing. Newt maintained a RECORD of unswerving loyalty to pro-life, pro-gun and Second Amendment, and anti-tax issues.
Under Newt’s leadership, the total federal spending relative to GDP declined from 1995 to 2000 by a whopping 12.5%. This equals about one-eighth of the size of the economy in just five short years!
As a result, those nasty $200 billion annual federal deficits that had prevailed for over 15 years were instead transformed into record-breaking surpluses by 1998. They peaked at $236 billion in 2000.
Mr. Gingrich also led enactment of a capital gains tax rate cut of almost 30% in 1997. It went from 28% down to 20%, the largest capital gains cut in U.S. history! And BECAUSE of that cut, capital gains revenues went up a whopping $84 billion higher for 1997 to 2000 than projected before Newt’s rate cut.
RINO Romney ran to the Left of Ted Kennedy, governed like Ted Kennedy, voted like Ted Kennedy and then ran for the 2008 GOP presidential nomination as a Conservative WITHOUT a record of conservatism! Go Newt!
Comment: #26
Posted by: 777denny
Thu Jan 26, 2012 12:02 AM
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It’s evident Drudge cherry-picked passages of Mark Shield’s past columns out of context designed to mislead readers. How about the following Romney’s dishonesty:
Romney accuses Newt of resigning as Speaker “in disgrace.” Charles Krauthammer belied it on the O’Reilly Factor when he told Bill who asked Romney’s accusation fact-checked that Newt stepped down after the GOP lost 5 House seats in the 1998 midterm elections which Newt accepted as repudiation of his leadership. He didn’t only step down as Speaker but also gave up his congressional seat he just got reelected.
Romney wittingly or unwittingly mixes up Newt’s fine of $300,000 for ethics violation in 1997 as the cause of his above resignation a year later. The ethics violation was a separate case and explicably politically motivated.
Another Romney “below the belt” attack is Gingrich’s $1.6 million consulting fee from Freddie Mac as though Newt was part of policy-making that led to this government sponsored enterprise’s (GSE) meltdown. I twice heard during the debates Romney was told by Newt the $1.6M was gross income and he got only $35,000 a year from it after paying staff salaries and office expenses. Besides, Newt was a private citizen when he worked for Freddie and what’s wrong for him to earn some money?
On the other hand, it looks that Romney at first tried to avoid releasing his tax returns, a tactical mistake in South Carolina, probably thinking the returns would be for 12 years like his father did and include his years with Bain Capital.
He decided to release 2-year returns to diffuse the issue when Obama raises in case Romney’s the GOP nominee and his years with Bain would show he made money both ways, i.e., from companies that were turned around to profitability and those Bain couldn’t save from bankruptcy.
Comment: #29
Posted by: Frank Wenceslao
Thu Jan 26, 2012 1:55 AM
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The rich Republican oligarchy fails to understand that we, the rank and file, hold them partially responsible for the destruction of our economy, and the growth and metastases of the federal government. Romney will be just more of the same-we know that.
Newt is an iconoclast and a pioneer who was the best Speaker of the House in the last century. He broke down the welfare system, gave us balanced budgets, and made life a lot better for Americans. We want to give him a chance to fix government and scale it down. I doubt that Romney is interested in smaller government, and there is a snow ball chance in hell that Southeners of any party (who are absolutely crucial for victory) would ever vote for a Yankee from Taxacusetts. Romney would NEVER lead to a Republican victory, becasue he would NEVER get the Southern votes.
Comment: #33
Posted by: naro10
Thu Jan 26, 2012 4:39 AM'
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