Why are Republicans looking at those who are running for President as “milk toast”?

Maybe everyone needs to quit asking why and start thinking maybe NO ONE trusts the Republicans or their leadership any longer.
Instead all of the talking heads are banking on THE ELECTORATE to simply vote for the REPUBLICAN OBAMA LITE.

Mitch Daniels at least talks “common sense” on a couple of important issues.
He is worth a listen.

The death tole continues to rise in Afghanistan as protests rage on as twelve more people died today over burned Koran copies found in a rubbish pit at a NATO military base.

It looks as though we all need to chip in on the band-aids for Barack Obama. His knees should by now be bloody and bruised from all of the bowing and scraping he does in APOLOGY MODE.

Newt Gingrich had some fairly harsh words about the Obama behavior when he was interviewed by Greta Van Susteren last night.

Gas prices are on the rise like clockwork whenever we head into an election year.

What a shock!
It is certain to grab the attention of anyone who owns a car.

Now we will be listening to Bill O’Reilly pitching a bitch while oil company moguls try and defend their outrageous profits.

Well now Barack Obama has fulfilled at least one campaign promise.
Make everyone suffer who needs OIL PRODUCTS, coal or anything he considers NOT GREEN.
Yes we certainly need another 4 years of Barack Obama to totally destroy the American economy.

Newt Gingrich has a plan to get prices down to $2.50 per gallon.

Wait for CNN and ilk to be johnny on the spot to shoot any such plan down.

I can hear the screams now “political rhetoric” “to complicated to ever work” “can’t be done” “absurd” “oil is a global thing”.

I don’t know but common sense tells me if you are not dependent on a global market you are in a better position not to succumb to said market.

On the last debate Gingrich said, “I’ve developed a program for American energy so no future president will ever bow to a Saudi king again and so every American can look forward to $2.50 a gallon gasoline.”

It seems to me a (any plan) plan is better than no plan at all which is what Barack Obama is offering in the way of a solution.

After her rousing speech at CPAC Sarah Palin speaks to Chris Wallace about the GOP candidates.

Ron Paul claims the military is a big financial supporter of him.

Funny have you heard who appears to be in bed with Mitt Romney?
Clearly Romney has a problem with his image of “BEING AN UBER RICH GUY”.
Personally I do not care if he is the richest guy in the world unless he got that cash illegally which does not appear to be the case at all.

But who is pushing, prodding and funding him AND WHY … is of definite interest.
Looks like if this chart is accurate Mitt Romney is the WALL STREET flavor of the 2012 election scene.
Chart and full story about it HERE.

Now Donald Trump another uber rich guy jumps on the Romney bandwagon?
Don’t get me wrong. I like Trump because he is gutsy, goes relentlessly after what he wants.
But the sudden endorsement of Romney?
Something about all of this sort of raises my Antennae?

Come on everyone start to connect the dots.
WOW does it look like WallStreet is beginning to hedge its bet realizing Obama has skidded into a brick wall?
Is far to battered and bruised to come out of 2012 a winner?
Shucks Batman do ya think?

So who is the next most likely push over left in the race?
ROMNEY? Is that a mirage?

It is clear to anyone with 20/20 vision that Paul or Gingrich do not fit the “PUSH OVER BILL”.

Oh my gosh how much money are Paul and Gingrich getting from WallStreet?
How much did the other NON PUSH OVERS (Bachmann and Cain) get?
PEANUTS? … did I say peanuts? more like chicken scratch according to the above chart.

We have a large segment of society swallowing the “media crap” hook line and sinker “lemming style”.
Why? Because they are to lazy to get off their dead asses and check anything out for themselves.
We have another segment of society swallowing the progressive rhetoric hook line and sinker “lemming style”.
Why? Because they are the true “useful idiots” that the left counts on to survive.

Then we have those of us somewhere in the middle not knowing what the hell to think, do or why.

How does our country survive?
Each of us better start to think for ourselves … use your common sense.
Dig around in the FACTS. Give up the OPINIONS of others.
Form your own opinions.
Take the information you find here or on any other internet source and check it out FOR YOURSELF.

Time the mass gives up being a part of the “flat world” believers and opt for the round world REALITY.

Mitt Romney makes a gaff and finds himself being thrashed by the left.

Newt Gingrich speaks about the disadvantaged poor being stuck in the ghetto mentality of not working and gets thrashed by the left and the right.

What don’t these thick headed opposition dolts get?
Oh wait they do get it their real motive is to keep the disadvantaged in the ghetto and disadvantaged!

Now Matt Drudge is on the “we think Gingrich is not conservative”?
I was aghast the other night when I heard Ann Coulter say Mitt Romney was THE REAL CONSERVATIVE in the Presidential race for 2012.

I simply passed it off as SHE HAS SLIPPED A COG OR 2.
Maybe because SHE IS A CHRISTY GIRL supporting her guy for what?
VP to Mitt by chance?

Now Matt Drudge is falling sway for this lunacy too?
YOU HAVE GOT TO BE KIDDING ME?

Between Romney and Gingrich the WHO IS THE MOST CONSERVATIVE PRIZE clearly goes to Newt
FOR YEARS AND YEARS.
Personally I have been voting for 50 years as a Republican and conservative.
To my knowledge Gingrich HAS NEVER BEEN ANYTHING BUT CONSERVATIVE.

All of the Romney RHETORIC about how he was Governor in a Democratic run state so HE WAS FORCED to go along with their will?
Sounds like a total crock to me.
Then add to that the explanations for his apparent changes of mind (aka flip flop)?
Sorry folks that is not bipartisan cooperation or unification it is plain and simple CAVING IN … for whatever reason I don’t know or care.

How far do the excuses go before the public who already view Romney as “MILK TOAST” turn him into BURNT TOAST?

How far do the Coulters and Drudges care to go before their credibility is TOTALLY SHOT? The public is looking for THE FACTS not more BLATANT spins and lies from people that were once considered trusted media sources.

From the transparent President who IS DEFINITELY NOT TRANSPARENT to Mitt Romney and Newt Gingrich.
Now that is a contrast that even the dullest dullard should be able to observe.

On one hand we have Barack Obama who has spent well over 2 million dollars and DAILY RISING to keep HIS RECORDS SEALED. Well except for his shady little house deal with buddy jailbird Tony Rezko. You remember that same Tony Rezko sentenced to 10 1/2 years of pen duty for a $9.6 million kickback scheme? Somehow before it could be covered up the Obama/Rezko real-estate deal escaped into public view. Illegal? Any charges for either of them?

On the other hand we have both Romney and Gingrich presenting their information for public scrutiny pretty darn quick. Today and tomorrow.

To this day it escapes me why someone would spend millions to HIDE INFORMATION if there WAS NOTHING TO HIDE?
Does anyone but me find this strange?

What does that really tell us about Barack Obama?
One of 2 things to me … he is an immature spoiled brat or has something serious to hide.
Perhaps both apply?

Obama slid in under “the scrutiny” radar in 2008.
Clearly the main stream media will ignore all of the Obama glaring issues. Past and present.

It falls on the heads of “we the people” to be diligent in keeping the Obama problems at the forefront of this election cycle.

Keep in mind “we the people” and our INTERNET VOICES are the TRUE POWER MEDIA of today.

So the question is ETHICS.
Who is and who is not ethical?
Now we can all look at the transparent Presidential hopefuls and decide for ourselves.
Where their business dealings unethical?
Were they illegal?
Were they both or none of the above?

Let’s drag this information out for the public to discuss and decide now before November 2012.

Let THE BEST MAN WIN!

When will these supposed educated people FINALLY GET THE PUBLIC DRIFT?

There has been a lot of media chatter about Newt Gingrich’s answer to the opening question in the SC debate Thursday nite (1/19/2012).

It boils down to how dare he IGNORE his bad behavior in a previous marriage to to how dare the public give him a standing ovation for his answer.

Clearly the MEDIA does not have a clue what goes on at the grassroots level anylonger.

Personally I chuckled when comments were/are made.

People where not cheering Newt defending his situation with his ex-wife they were cheering for his ability to not get trapped in the BULLS*** melee expected by the question.

His ability to rise above the pit and attack the real problem … which was a hope for good old fashioned Colosseum drama.

Business as usual is dulling the mind with the Kardashian’s, Sunday Football, NASCAR and a bevvy of other seductions.

Interesting the public is beginning to walk and chew bubble gum.

They can sharpen their minds and enjoy a break with the Colosseum all at one time.

Gee Whiz we are finally becoming a thinking society again?
We can cultivate our own opinion rather than being a parrot for someone eases opinion?

I think that is a step in the right direction

Reality is people who have the ability to think for themselves are not so easily run off a cliff in the middle of the herd.

I find that hopeful

As a citizen of California immigration is an important subject here in the state.
Having grown up during the “Bracero Program” that actually worked here in the state. I know there is a better way of managing the work force needed in the agricultural complex.

This program allowed a Mexican laborer to enter the United States and work for a limited period of time. These laborers did not have to worry about sneaking across the border and when their work was done they were free to take their money and go home. California was not the only state that benefited from this program.

Since Newt Gingrich appears to be gaining favor again in the polls I thought I would post some of his views on Immigration. This collection came from On The Issues. They have a collection from of the candidates running for 2012.

Review all illegal aliens & if you have no ties, go home
Q: Back in the ’80s, you voted for legislation that had a pathway to citizenship for illegal immigrants. Some called it amnesty then; they still call it amnesty now. What would you do if you were President, with these millions of illegal immigrants, many of whom have been in this country for a long time?
GINGRICH: Let me start and just say I think that we ought to have an H-1 visa that goes with every graduate degree in math, science and engineering so that people stay here. I did vote for the Simpson-Mazzoli Act. I believe ultimately you have to find some system that reviews the people who are here. If you’ve come here recently, you have no ties to this country, you ought to go home. If you’ve been here 25 years and you got three kids and two grandkids, you’ve been paying taxes and obeying the law, you belong to a local church, I don’t think we’re going to separate you from your family, uproot you forcefully and kick you out.
Source: 2011 CNN National Security GOP primary debate , Nov 22, 2011

Illegal aliens born in the US should not be deported
BACHMANN [to Gingrich]: I don’t agree that you would give the DREAM Act on a federal level. And I don’t agree that we should make 11 million workers who are here illegally legal.
GINGRICH: First of all, in the DREAM Act, the one part that I like is the one which allows people who came here with their parents to join the US military, which they could have done if they were back home, and if they serve on it with the US military to acquire citizenship, which is something any foreigner can do. And I don’t see any reason to punish somebody who came here at three years of age, but who wants to serve the United States of America. I specifically did not say we’d make the 11 million people legal. If you find people who have been here 25 years and have two generations of family and have been paying taxes and are in a local church, as somebody who believes strongly in family, you’ll have a hard time explaining why that particular subset is being broken up and forced to leave.
Source: 2011 CNN National Security GOP primary debate , Nov 22, 2011

Sue the federal government for every cent spent on illegals
We have technology that allows you to track a package with FedEx with remarkable accuracy. One of my proposals is to send people a package to determine if they are here illegally. It’s funny but making a point about where we are. We should be able to identify everyone who gets emergency aid and every state should sue the federal government every year for every cent spent on illegals who should not be in the United States. That is the federal government’s responsibility.
Source: Head-to-head debate between Herman Cain & Newt Gingrich , Nov 5, 2011

Employers should use e-verify for all hires
Q: Should we make all businesses use E-Verify, a government database, to check whether or not new hires are illegal? Or would that turn small businessmen into immigration agents?
GINGRICH: Well, let me say, first of all, I think we would be better off to outsource E-Verify to American Express, MasterCard or Visa, because they actually know how to run a program like that without massive fraud. Second, the program should be as easy as swiping your credit card when you buy gasoline. And so I would ask of employers, what is it you would object to in helping the US in dealing with the problem involving illegal immigration?

Q: Would you support each state enforcing the immigration laws since the federal government is not?

GINGRICH: I strongly favor 100% control of the border, and I strongly favor English as the official language of government. I favor modernizing the legal visa system. We have a terribly antiquated legal system while our border is too open for people who are illegal.
Source: 2011 GOP Google debate in Orlando FL , Sep 22, 2011

Require official English plus American history
We should make English the official language of government. We should insist that first-generation immigrants who come here learn American history in order to become citizens. And then find a way to deal with folks who are already here, some of whom, frankly, have been here 25 years, are married with kids, live in our local neighborhood, go to our church. It’s got to be done in a much more humane way than thinking that to automatically deport millions of people
Source: 2011 GOP debate in Simi Valley CA at the Reagan Library , Sep 7, 2011

I voted for Reagan’s legal guest worker program
Q: Your current perception on immigration reform is a little different on your initial positions under Reagan?
GINGRICH: I think we have to find a way to get to a country in which everybody who’s here is here legally. But you referenced Pres. Reagan. In 1986, I voted for the Simpson-Mazzoli Act, which in fact did grant some amnesty in return for promises. Pres. Reagan wrote in his diary that year that he signed the act because we were going to control the border and we were going to have an employer program where it was a legal guest worker program. That’s in his diary. I’m with Pres. Reagan. We ought to control the border, we ought to have a legal guest worker program. We ought to outsource it, frankly, to American Express, Visa, and MasterCard, so there’s no counterfeiting, which there will be with the federal government. We should be very tough on employers once you have that legal program.
Source: 2011 GOP debate in Simi Valley CA at the Reagan Library , Sep 7, 2011

Citizen Boards to decide which immigrants stay and go
Q: You’re looking at the idea of having citizen boards choose which illegal immigrants can stay in the country and which would have to go. Who decides the memberships of these boards, and how would they work?
A: I think it’s very important to go back and look at how the Selective Service Commission worked in World War II, because it was local, practical decision-making, and people genuinely thought it was fair and it was reasonable.

Q: What about Pres. Obama’s joke about protecting the borders wit alligators and a moat?

A: That was the perfect symbol of his failure as a leader. He failed to get any immigration reform through when he controlled the Senate. He could ram through Obamacare, but he couldn’t deal with immigration. I would be prepared to take as many people from Homeland Security’s bureaucracy in Washington and move them to Texas, Arizona and New Mexico, as are needed, to control the border. And we should have English as the official language of government.
Source: Iowa Straw Poll 2011 GOP debate in Ames Iowa , Aug 11, 2011

Use National Guard on US-Mexican border
Q: [to Cain]: If two adults came into this country illegally, and they have a child, should that child be considered a citizen of the US?
CAIN: I don’t believe so. But let’s look at solving the real problem, OK? #1, get serious about securing our borders. #2, enforce the laws that are already there. #3, promote a path to citizenship by cleaning up the bureaucracy.

GINGRICH: Herman Cain’s essentially right, you break it down. First of all, you control the border. We can ask the National Guard to go to Iraq. We ask the National Guard to go to Afghanistan. Somehow we would have done more for American security if we had had the National Guard on the border. If you don’t want to use the National Guard, take half of the current Department of Homeland Security bureaucracy in Washington, transplant it to Texas, Arizona, and New Mexico. You’ll have more than enough people to control the border.
Source: 2011 GOP primary debate in Manchester NH , Jun 13, 2011

Deport 55,000 illegal aliens with multiple arrest records
According to a report by the Government Accountability Office, our country has 55,322 criminal illegal aliens who have been arrested at least a total of 459,614 times, averaging about eight arrests per illegal alien. Twenty-six percent (about 15,000) have had eleven or more arrests. Imagine a government bureaucracy so incompetent it can’t even remove people from the United States when they have been arrested eleven or more times.
Source: Real Change, by Newt Gingrich, p. 29 , Dec 18, 2007

Elite immigration solution incompatible with American values
There is a clear path to an effective immigration solution that is better for America and better for immigration. The challenge is to get the elites to listen to the American people.
Unfortunately, the Washington elites have agreed on a definition of success that is infuriating to the average American. The elites on the left oppose border control, oppose English as the official government language, oppose expanding legal immigration, and want to find a way to allow everyone here illegally to stay, all while prohibiting illegal immigration in the future. The country is convinced that this so-called solution is incompatible with American values and will weaken America’s future.

In trying to force their left-wing solution on a country that rejects it, the elite have resorted to describing their critics as racist, xenophobic, unrealistic, and much worse. Those attacks are merely a sign of the elites’ desperation.
Source: Real Change, by Newt Gingrich, p.127 , Dec 18, 2007

Lax border security lets in terrorists
The American people overwhelmingly want to see their borders controlled as a matter of national security. By more than 7 to 1 (86% to 12%), Americas believe terrorists are trying to enter the United States illegally.
Most Americans understand the irrationality of intense security at airports and lax security at the borders. This requires the terrorist to be dumb enough that he insists on flying into the United States when he could simply ride a truck or walk into the country unimpeded. The refusal to control the border has been one of the most infuriating aspects of modern government, and one of the most inexcusable.

The American people want reform that establishes English as the official language of government, reform that controls the borders, reform that doesn’t reward illegality, reform that enforces penalties on employers.
Source: Real Change, by Newt Gingrich, p.132 , Dec 18, 2007

Immigrants must learn key values of American history
We must establish patriotic education for our children and patriotic immigration for new Americans. To achieve this, we will renew our commitment to education about American citizenship based on American history and an understanding of the Founding Fathers and the core values of American civilization. We will insist that both our children and immigrants learn the key values and key facts of American history as the foundation of their growth as citizens.
Source: Gingrich Communications website, www.newt.org , Dec 1, 2006

Make it harder to sneak in, BUT EASIER FOR GUEST WORKERS
No serious nation in the age of terror can afford to have wide-open borders with millions of illegal aliens crossing at will. But along with making it much harder to sneak in, we need to make it easier for guest workers to enter the country legally and to work here as long as they obey the law. Millions of illegal immigrants are here because Americans are hiring them. They have jobs in your neighborhood and you know it. Keeping these hard-working people illegal makes them vulnerable to criminals and keeps them from playing responsible roles in our communities.
We need a guest worker program to ensure that guest workers pay taxes, get driver’s licenses, buy auto insurance, abide by the law, and that filters out criminals and potential terrorists. The program should not be an automatic qualification for citizenship, though eventual citizenship should be held out as an opportunity.
Source: Gingrich Communications website, www.newt.org , Dec 1, 2006

1989: Let Tiananmen students overstay visas
Gingrich’s first skirmish was over foreign policy–Bush’s veto of a bill that would have allowed Chinese students to stay in the US after their visas expired. The brutal suppression of protesters in Beijing’s Tiananmen Square in 1989 had been seen across America. Chinese students’ lives were put at risk as soon as they returned home. Supported by Gingrich, Republicans joined Democrats in attempting to override the veto, and Bush administration officials began to be wary of the gadfly from Georgia.
Source: Newt!, by Dick Williams, p.124 , Jun 1, 1995

Irish and Chinese immigrants overcame bigotry; so can blacks
It is fashionable for African-Americans to argue that forced immigration in the form of slavery hardly is comparable to immigration. Gingrich instead uses the lessons of history to argue that time and change heal wounds. The problems that so anger black Americans, he insists, came to be after 1965–the year of the Voting Rights Act.
“From 1607 until 1965 you have certain long sweeps that are more and more positive. We go from slavery to segregation to integration. We go from empowering wealthy white males to eliminating the poll tax and then giving women the vote, then making sure everybody can vote. We go from almost the very beginning to acquire property. Free blacks as early as the 1740s could acquire property.”

Gingrich goes on to enumerate America’s past hostility toward the Irish, Southern Europeans, and the Chinese. These immigrants’ ability to overcome bigotry and succeed while so many black Americans languish is the prelude to the congressman’s call for dismantling the welfare system.
Source: Newt!, by Dick Williams, p. 30 , Jun 1, 1995