Newt In His Own Words Bashing Reagan

Delivered to you unspun and in Newt's own words. H/T Drudge Report.



"If George Bush runs as a continuation of Reaganism I think he'll lose"

Go to the 0:45 mark to watch Newt.

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It Is Not Only His Wives That Newt Cheats On

This has already made the rounds in the chat box and comments of other threads, but I think it is worth making a blog out of this issue so that it doesn't just disappear.

Newt is a tax cheat. The code is complex and Forbes breaks it down clearly. I won't recreate their work here, just quote the conclusion.

...in 2010, the Gingrich corporations paid out $444, 327 as salary to Newt and Callista while reporting some $2.4 million as profit or dividends – thus allowing the Gingrichs to avoid paying the 2.9 percent Medicare tax on the bulk of their earnings.

Of course, now that Gingrich is running for president, it is unlikely the IRS will come after him as he would simply call it an attack by the Obama administration.

Boy did the right wing talking heads bang on about the tax cheating ways of Daschle and Geithner, but we can expect them to carry water for Gingrich on this issue as well. Apparently the True Conservatives (c) only get upset when it is a democrat who cheats on his wife or his taxes.

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Republican Civil War

I have thought for some time now that regardless of who the nominee is and whether the GOP nominee wins the presidency this year, the party is headed for a civil war. There have already been skirmishes in the forms of NY-23, the 2010 senate races for Nevada, Alaska, Delaware, Colorado, Arizona and many House races. I'm quite sure that if Romney won the nomination and presidency that there would be a solid 10-15% of the party who would never shut their mouths during his presidency and would do everything they could to undermine his presidency. But with the polls coming out of Florida today it appears that we don't have to worry about the long, drawn out scenario. Newt is ahead in the Florida polls by anywhere from a few points to as much as 9.

The shot that started this Civil War was fired in South Carolina when the so called social conservatives abandoned all their values to vote for the man who least stands for social values. South Carolina started THE Civil War 151 years ago to protect an evil way of life, slavery, and to reject a president who was not one of them, Lincoln. South Carolina has started a GOP Civil War to protect a big government, serial adulterer, dead beat father because he is one of them, a Southerner.

The tea party doesn't want moderate republicans in the party. Southern Evangelicals may be willing to tolerate Mormons in the party, as long as we sit in the back of the bus, but they won't stand for one driving the bus. Libertarians have received similar treatment as well. Gingrich will work wonders to drive out all three groups. His nomination will galvanize large numbers of republicans to permanently leave the party. The GOP continues to shrink with smaller voter ID numbers than democrats. Voters have been leaving the GOP in droves for some years now.

Well then, maybe it's time to cut loose from the teavangelicals. Perhaps it is time for the 20% of us who are hated by the tea party and the South to leave as well. It is past time for a center right party to form. That is what I would like to see. But the reality is that we will just fracture and gaurantee the democrats control all three branches of government for decades to come. But this is what the country deserves at this point.

Whatever happens this year, the lights are going to be turned off soon for the GOP, and good riddance.

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Seven Deadly Sins

I'm not a Catholic and don't know that much about Catholic theology, but these are the seven deadly sins as taught in Catholicism, the religion that Gingrich recently converted to: wrath, greed, gluttony, sloth, pride, lust, envy. Gingrich is wallowing in all of those.

If you want a more Old Testament version you can look to Solomon's Proverbs 6:16-19:

16. These six things doth the Lord hate: yea, seven are an abomination unto him:
17. A proud look, a lying tongue, and hands that shed innocent blood,
18. An heart that deviseth wicked imaginations, feet that be swift in running to mischief,
19. A false witness that speaketh lies, and he that soweth discord among brethren.

Gingrich has six of those sewn up.

Or for a New Testament listing you can read what Paul wrote in Galatians 5:19-21:

19. Now the works of the fles are manifest, which are these; Adultery, fornication, uncleanness, lasciviousness,
20. Idolatry, witchcraft, hatred, variance, emulations, wrath, strife, seditions, hereies,
21. Envyings, murders, drunkenness, revellings, and such like: of the which I tell you before, as I have also told you in time past, that they which do such things shall not inherit the kingdom of God.

Newt has several of those locked up tight as well.

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Watchman Tell Us Of The Night

A significant portion of the South Carolina republican base is set to nominate the incarnation of evil, choosing Newt Gingrich over three other good and decent men.

Paul foresaw and prophesied of this day today. From 2 Timothy 3:1-7 KJT we read an eerily accurate description of Gingrich and his supporters:

1. This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come.
2. For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy,
3. Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good,
4. Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God;
5. Having a form of godliness; but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.
6. For of this sort are they which creep into houses, and lead captive silly women laden with sins, led away with diverse lusts,
7. Ever learning, and never able to come to the knowledge of the truth.

Left and Right Media Are Most Highly Negative In Their Romney Coverage

From a study conducted by the Center for Media and Public Affairs at George Mason University.

Any emphasis in the following quotes was added by me.

-Frontrunner Mitt Romney is getting by far the most negative press of the GOP field

-Mitt Romney was the only major candidate to receive a majority of negative evaluations by sources and reporters, on both the broadcast network nightly news and FOX “Special Report.”

-On the broadcast networks, evaluative comments of Romney were 78% negative vs. only 22% positive. By contrast, on-air judgments of Ron Paul were 73% positive vs. 27% negative, evaluations of Jon Huntsman were 71% positive vs. 29% negative, Rick Santorum’s evaluations were 56% positive vs. 44% negative, and comments about Newt Gingrich were 52% positive vs. 48% negative.

Two Degrees of Separation

Lest we forget. In the case of Ohio Joe that is no worry, he can never forget NY-23. But for the rest of us who have moved on with our lives let us refresh the details of that race.

In 2009 Scozzafava, a liberal republican, was chosen in back room deals by republican elites to be the nominee in a special election for the NY-23 seat, bypassing a primary process. Talk radio and Tea Partiers, especially Palin and her drones, were irate and got Hoffman to enter the race, splitting the republican vote and helping the democrat, Owens, to win the seat.

What was Newt's role in this race? He endorsed Scozzafava. Newt was pilloried by the True Conservatives (c) . He defended his endorsement with this statement.

My number one interest is to build a Republican majority. If your interest is taking power back from the Left, and your interest is winning the necessary elections, then there are times when you have to put together a coalition that has disagreement within it. We have to decide which business we are in. If we are in the business about feeling good about ourselves while our country gets crushed then I probably made the wrong decision.

Now, in 2012, the Palins have endorsed, either explicitly or implicitly, Newt Gingrich. Two degrees of separation between Palin and Scozzafava. Rich in irony, impoverished in integrity.

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Chalk Palin Up As Another Occupy Wall Street RINO

From CBS News:

Fox news analyst Sarah Palin said criticism of Mitt Romney's record as the head of Bain Capital by fellow Republicans is fair and the front-runner should provide proof to his clams that his tenure there helped created 100,000 jobs.

"Sometimes it gets rough and tumble as you try to hold these candidates accountable for what they are claiming," Palin said in an interview with Sean Hannity on Fox News Channel Wednesday.

Asked about attacks from Texas Gov. Rick Perry that Romney is a "vulture capitalist," the former Alaska governor said Perry is just holding his rival accountable.

"This isn't about a politician making huge profits in the private sector," Palin said, adding "I think what Governor Perry is getting at is that Governor Romney has claimed to have created 100,000 jobs at Bain and people are wanting to know is there proof of that claim?"

And in typical Romnot fashion Palin tells us that the OWS RINOs are really helping Romney by vetting him on this issue before Obama can.

Steve Deace Endorses Newt Gingrich

Influential talk radio host Steve Deace has endorsed Newt Gingrich for 2012.

Sadly, there are only two candidates offering a real means by which to actually undo that which the Left has done to this country for the past 50 years, and not just conservative platitudes. One of those candidates is Ron Paul, but his foreign policy is naive at best and reckless at worst. The other is Newt Gingrich, who has campaigned on what I believe is the most important issue facing us as a people—the loss of the rule of law.

The Left has used unelected judges and judicial oligarchy to reinvent the American way of life, from secularism to the loss of the sanctity of life, to the redefining of marriage, the confiscation of private property, and the granting of imaginary rights. There is an entire chapter of my new book devoted to the need for conservatives and Christians to confront judicial oligarchy once and for all. I have spent the past two years of my radio program educating my audience on this issue, and was a vocal proponent of Iowa’s historic judicial retention election last year, and Newt’s assistance with that effort was vital.

Embrace the Paulcolypse

We are on the brink of something momentous, wonderful, and even sublime, something that would remake politics in America. An event that is terrifying to many, but electrifying to many others. In just eight days Iowa voters will caucus, and if recent polls can be trusted, likely give Ron Paul the win. Count me in the group that would be electrified by a Paul win in Iowa.

Let me state that I very much prefer Romney to be our nominee. And I would be happy with a Romney win in Iowa. But I would be ecstatic with a Paul win in Iowa even though I am not keen on a Paul nomination.

There are three groups of republican voters who should be thrilled at the prospect of a Paul win Iowa. First is the obvious group of die hard Paul lovers. Nothing needs to be said about them.

Second are the Romney supporters. A Paul win in Iowa would Newter the Gingrich and Perry campaigns. Paul is polling in the top three in NH as well and if he pulled a second in NH after first in Iowa then it would be lights out for everyone not named Romney or Paul. In a long drawn out race Romney will galvanize the mainstream republicans and win by a significant margin.

The third group of GOP voters who should be thrilled at the prospect of a Paul win in Iowa are those who are repulsed by Iowa politics: repulsed by the unethical, undemocratic pay to play process of the Ames straw poll and endorsements from guys like Bob Vander Plaats; repulsed by the ravings of uneducated bigots like the very influential radio talk show host Steve Deace (who happened to vote for Obama in 2008); repulsed by the hypocrisy of the far right in Iowa who would overlook the political corruption of Perry and Gingrich, the serial adultery of Gingrich, the enormous mountain of flip flops by Gingrich, and the inability of Perry to articulate any policy position that doesn't fall back on drilling for oil while rejecting a smart, capable, and uncorrupt candidate, Romney; repulsed by a state that guzzles down ethanol subsidies faster than an oceanic tanker guzzles down diesel; repulsed by a state that keeps voting for the democratic presidential candidate by ever widening margins. Should we really be letting these people have such a big say in picking our nominee? No way! A Paul win in Iowa should be the sounding of a death knell for Iowa's importance in national politics.

To all my Romney friends, I implore you to say only positive things about Paul over the next week. Flood the comments sections of blogs with comments about how great Paul is. He is your best friend right now.

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Merry Christmas Everyone!

Merry Christmas and a Happy Holiday Season Everyone!

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What Constitutes Support of Obama?

What constitutes support of Obama? This is a question that has been weighing on my mind for the last several weeks. There is the obvious proactive types of support: donations, votes, bumper stickers, yard signs, campaigning for, blogging for.

What about a person who isn't actively promoting Obama, but who also isn't actively promoting any republican candidate? If that was the sum of it then I would conclude that such a person is not supporting Obama. But what if this person, in addition to not supporting any republican candidate, and is not offering anything positive to further the republican agenda or candidates, only attacks the candidates and has said time after time that s/he will not vote in the general? I would argue that such activity constitutes tacit support of Obama and is not appropriate for a website dedicated to electing a republican next year.

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The Flip of All Flops: Cain Hated a National Sales Tax Just 11 Months Ago

H/T leighrow

Herman Cain penned an Op-Ed called "Don't Be VAT Stupid" in November of 2010. It was picked up by several outlets including The Daily Caller.

Herman lists some reasons why a national sales tax is terrible.

First, we have a spending problem in Washington, D.C., not a revenue problem. The Commission claims their goal is to reduce the deficits by $4 trillion over the next decade. The task force says its plan would save $6 trillion by 2020. It’s sort of like dueling promises that would never happen, because when has a proposed cut in Washington D.C. ever produced the intended savings over 10 years? Never!

Even worse is reason number two: In every country that has established a VAT with the promise of reducing its national debt, the VAT has eventually gone up or expanded on top of the existing tax structure. After discovering many of the tax grenades in the recently passed health care deform bill, which is already driving costs up and access down, it would be real easy for an overzealous bureaucrat to insert the language in the legislation “national retail and wholesale” tax.

For the liberal naysayers who say that would not happen, you lose! Just look at the Social Security system, Medicare and Medicaid. Over the years since their inception, taxes have gone up, benefits have gone down and they are still on a path of insolvency.

A national retail sales tax on top of all the confusing and unfair taxes we have today is insane! it gives the out-of-control bureaucrats and politicians in denial one more tool to lie, deceive, manipulate and destroy this country.

Is this guy for real? Now he totally discounts these very arguments as to why a national sales tax is bad.

9-9-9: By and For the Wealthy

Who wrote the 9-9-9 proposal that Cain is pushing? One Rich Lowrie who sat on AFP's (American's for Prosperity) board of advisers from 2005-2008. Well, then we have to ask who are American's for Prosperity? They are a political front group founded by billionaire activist David Koch. They are one of the primary financial forces behind the Tea Party. AFP receives large financial donations from the Koch brothers. Cain has deep ties with AFP.

"Cain's campaign manager and a number of aides have worked for Americans for Prosperity... AFP tapped Cain as the public face of its "Prosperity Expansion Project," and he traveled the country in 2005 and 2006 speaking to activists who were starting state-based AFP chapters from Wisconsin to Virginia."

" Cain's spokeswoman Ellen Carmichael, who recently left the campaign, was an AFP coordinator in Louisiana."(same source as above).

Who is helped by the proposed 999 tax code? Not the lower and middle income. Cain is opposed to a prebate for the 9% sales tax. Recently Cain had this to say about the idea of a prebate, "The last thing we need is to establish another federal entitlement, which the proposed pre-bate would quickly become." So much for the line we keep hearing from his supporters that the poor and middle income consumers would get relief from the sales tax. That won't happen, they can expect to pay their full share of 9% on sales tax.

But the wealthy would get a giant windfall from this tax scheme.

If the "9-9-9" tax plan promoted by Herman Cain, a leading Republican presidential candidate, had been the law of the land last year, Warren Buffett would very likely have paid no income taxes, according to an analysis prepared for Yahoo News and The Lookout by the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants. At most, Buffett would have paid taxes on just 1 percent of his income.

The article goes on to say that Buffett earns most of his income from capital gains, which would be exempted from taxation. It carefully analyzes Buffetts income from 2010 and how much of it would be taxable under the 999 scheme.

9-9-9 Would Kill Manufacturing

The arguments have already been made in the past that a national sales tax would hurt retailers and manufacturers because of the dramatic increase of the cost of goods with a new, large sales tax. The rebuttal from supporters of a national sales tax respond that the cost of manufacturing will go down due to reduced corporate taxes and that those saving would be passed on to the consumer by reducing the prices on goods. I respond with the words of Charlie Brown, "I don't mind your dishonesty, half as much as I mind your opinion of me."

If we randomly assembled 10,000 economists we would have 10,000 different economic theories. Economic theory looks great in an academic setting, but in real practice it rarely matches the academic predictions. When gas prices go through their periodic spikes in prices we are told that it is a supply issue, but when demand later drops the prices fall much more slowly than they rose and they never drop to anywhere close to what they had been. Retailers and manufacturers are in business for one thing, to make as much money as they can and pass those profits on to their stock and bond holders, not the consumer.

However, this argument has been beat to death already and I want to interject a different argument into this debate. My new argument is that demand for durable goods will drop through the floor if a new, massive, national sales tax is implemented.

Currently 47% of American households do not pay federal income taxes. That means that 47% of US households would have a large income tax increase under 9-9-9. To offset this onerous and draconian increase there would be an enormous shift in consumer spending away from new goods, which are subject to a national sales tax, and to used goods, which are supposedly going to be exempt from the national sales tax.

Additionally, 9-9-9 provides no means to police or enforce collections of the new sales tax. Will we double the IRS so that there will be enough agents to audit and enforce the collection of these taxes from retailers? And there will be a huge rise in grey market sales where distributors who are on the verge of bankruptcy will try to move excess inventory to try to stave off insolvency.

There is a further problem here, used goods won't last forever. When half of the country turn away from new goods to used goods, and thereby drive manufacturers out of business, where will they turn a few years later when their used goods finally expire? Who will be producing the new goods that need to infused into the economy?

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Future Congresses Could change 9-9-9 to 20-20-20 Via Reconciliation

Cain has claimed that his 999 bill would only be subject to amendment with a 2/3 vote of Congress. That just isn't true. The Senate could use reconciliation, which only requires a vote of 51, to pass changes to 999.

A reconciliation instruction (Budget Reconciliation) is a provision in a budget resolution directing one or more committees to submit legislation changing existing law in order to bring spending, revenues, or the debt-limit into conformity with the budget resolution. The instructions specify the committees to which they apply, indicate the appropriate dollar changes to be achieved, and usually provide a deadline by which the legislation is to be reported or submitted.

999 falls under a revenue bill and therefore would be subject to a reconciliation vote. The only way to prevent changes to 999 via reconciliation is to pass 999 as a constitutional amendment with wording that requires a specific number of votes, such as 2/3.

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I'll See Your Income Tax and Raise You a Sales Tax

To raise revenue to fund the Civil War, Congress introduced the income tax through the Revenue Act of 1861.^[3] It levied a flat tax of 3% on annual income above $800, which was equivalent to $19,490 in today's money.^[4] This act was replaced the following year with the Revenue Act of 1862, which levied a graduated tax of 3–5% on income above $600 (worth $13,156 today^[4]) and specified a termination of income taxation in 1866.

On June 16, 1909, President William Howard Taft, in an address to Congress, proposed a 2% federal income tax on corporations by way of an excise tax and a constitutional amendment to allow the previously enacted income tax.

There were several other laws passed in between the Revenue act of 1862 and the passage of the 16th Amendment. Each new law increased the tax burden and further complicated the tax code. The 16th Amendment was meant to reduce taxes and to simplify the tax code.

Forward to today when everyone is decrying the tax code as too complicated and the income tax as to burdensome. The 16th Amendment is one of the most popular targets of Tea Party rage, with many millions calling for it to be repealed and replaced with a simpler tax code. These calls are not new to this election cycle. The flat tax idea has been around for several years and the fair tax made the rounds in 2008. Now the darling reform plan is Cain's 999 plan.

So much of the anger over the 16th Amendment is the mistaken notion that it instituted the income tax, when in fact that tax already existed. Cain's 999 would not get rid of this hated income tax, it would only change it to a lower rate and a supposedly simpler code, just as the 16th Amendment did in its day. If it was so terrible to codify an income tax, thereby giving Congress a tool for raising revenues through a "new" tax, how much worse is it that Cain wants to give Congress an additional tool for raising taxes through a national sales tax, while not doing away with the income tax. If the 16th Amendment was damning to America for institutionalizing an income tax (which, as I have already stated is erroneous because the income tax already existed), then 999 is doubly damning for maintaining an income tax and introducing a new, second tax.

To use poker terms: Cain will see your income tax and raise you a sales tax.

Income tax code under the 16th Amendment was simpler than it had previously been. But look at how successive Congresses have tinkered with the tax code and made it more complicated. The exact same thing will happen with 999, only now we will have an additional tax to contend with.

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9-9-9 Would Legitamize A National Mandate on Anything

If 999 is passed it would place sales tax on all goods sold, and probably most services. Currently the Commerce Clause of the constitution is read by the courts as giving Congress power to enact laws regulating commerce on any goods or services that are sold or transported across state lines. 999 will tax all goods, including those that are sold only in the same state as they are manufactured in. Even if those goods are forbidden by law to be transported to other states they will still be within the jurisdiction of the federal sales tax implemented by 999. So if Congress can now levy a sales tax on a good or service that is made, sold, and consumed within a single state, then the Commerce Clause will be empowered to regulate any good or service that is made, sold, and consumed within a single state.

A further implication of this is that if the federal government has the authority to tax a good or service, even if it does not travel across state lines, like health insurance, then the government has the right to regulate that good or service in the form of a mandate.

If in the next session of the Supreme Court the court decides that the mandate in Obamacare is unconstitutional, and then if Cain is elected and gets 999 passed, this opens the door for a democrat president in the future to challenge the Supreme Courts ruling against a mandate.

Also, 999 would effectively kill what little power the courts still give to the 10th Amendment.

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Romney Cementing His Elitist, Tone Deaf Image

Mitt Romney has filed for a permit to bulldoze his 3009 square foot house in La Jolla, California to make room for an 11,062 square foot mansion. I am not arguing against him building this house. It is his money that he earned and he can do with it as he pleases. And yes, this project will put some people to work. Those arguments are superficial.

Romney already suffers from an image of being an elite, rich CEO who is completely out of touch with the common man. Anecdotes of Mitt shopping at WalMart, driving an old, beat up pickup truck, buying his own shirts, etc, will not dispel this image. The most damaging line of attack against Romney in 2008 was leveled by Huckabee when he said that Romney reminds you more of the guy who fired you than the guy you work with. This really resonated with voters, not only in Iowa, but in all working class communities.

And then there was this insipid moment.



During the 2008 general election McCain was hurt badly by the number of homes he owned. In 1992 George HW Bush was damaged significantly with the spurious account of him being amazed at seeing a scanner for the first time in a supermarket. The Bush moment was a complete myth, but it developed long legs in that election cycle and really helped to sink his reelection.

I am a Romney supporter, and as such, I would beg Romney, for the love of sanity, put a hold on your home expansion until AFTER the election is over.

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Huntsman: There is No Right or Wrong on Civil Unions

In the debate last night Huntsman said about civil unions, "I think this nation can do a better job when it comes to equality.” But when pressed if his opponents were wrong on civil unions he responded “They are not wrong.” But the flip side of that coin is that Huntsman is not right.

Not a surprising response from the man who can't decide if he is Mormon or if he isn't.

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