We all heard Newt's "illegal aliens" position last night. Believe me, there's this sort of thing against him and a lot more, including his "historical" lobbying for Freddie Mac. It too wasn't illegal, but let's be nice and simply say it wasn't nice what he probably did. We know what he's done, because he's the devil we know, who's been investigated more than anyone. Ron Paul is clean, I grant you that; but that's the best thing I can say about him, because he's scared of everybody and everything. Can't you see him as a little kid telling his little friends, "Don't go down that block to school, because there's a bully there; and don't go that way either, because there's mud in the road; and don't go that direction, because there has to be a reason why you shouldn't." He's obviously paralyzed in his decision-making. His answer for everything is "Don't do anything. Let them do what they want." I can't have that pipsqueak for a president.


If you don't want Obama, then, of course, I endorse Huntsman who is a better human being, possibly as clean as Ron Paul, and as intelligent as any of our good past presidents, which excludes Bush II. Huntsman would have made America great in the 20th century, just like a Kennedy. But, he's certainly not the thinker that Gingrich is. He thinks within the box, and that box is what he considers the American standard of excellence, which suggests we have unparallelled virtues. Maybe once we did, but I doubt it. Just like the 20th century, that time has past. I like him, but the situation in America is too grave for a president only as good as any of our previous presidents. (Remember Carter who believed more in virtue than pragmatism.)

For his part, Ron Paul is an isolationist, and the last time the US chose isolation, we wound up in the midst of WWII which Roosevelt (whose claim to fame up to that point had been that "He kept us out of the War") engineered getting us into the war to save us from a unified Nazi Europe and a Japanese imperial Asia, complete with China and India. We'd have been stuck in the middle of two crush-heavy powers and eventually caved. Likewise, Ron Paul would have us create a global vacuum by pulling our troops out of 135 countries. That vacuum would be filled by China foremost, which would dominate all of Southeast Asia (Phillipines, Indonesia, Malaysia, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia, etc), as well as Japan, Taiwan and South Korea. You might even include Australia in that. They've already said they control the South China Sea and are already challenging our hegemony in the Malacca Straits. According to military intelligence, they're building a blue-water navy far larger than our own. Why do you suppose they need a navy larger than ours?


Add to that scenario the fact that Russia, two days ago, threatened us with an attack on our missile bases in Europe, which shows they've re-surged enough to feel comfortable in threatening the US and, in the process, their former Soviet satellites, like Poland and the Ukraine. If we retreated to our shores, Russia would swallow these countries back and, with a NATO that no longer has American might, add the rest of Europe to their new empire. Then, without us around, Pakistan, a great regional power in their own right (economic, demographic and military strength within the second tier) would simply march into Afghanistan and a bunch of other -stans in the region so that terrorists would now be mass-produced under the protection of their nuclear umbrella. Iran, meanwhile, with its Shia Islamists would march into Iraq, which it virtually controls already through the vast Shia population and Shia government we installed there under that idiot Bush, thereby imperiling our oil interests in the Arabian Gulf. While most of our oil comes from our own hemisphere, the European economy relies on Mideastern oil and Russian oil and gas. And on and on and on. Ron Paul scares the **** out of me with his naive solution of withdrawing our troops to our shores...just because the world is such a scarey place. He's an isolationist, a gadfly in the hell on stage, as ridiculous as Cain at the other end of the spectrum.


Yeah, Gingrich has baggage. You'll probably find more suitcases with skeletons in the closet. But, there's no one else out there, not Santorum, Romney, Bachman, Cain or Perry. Gingrich is not only the smartest and most experienced candidate, but he knows how to lead and he has such radically interesting ideas to solve the massive number of problems we're facing. Yeah, the world will look different under Gingrich; but America won't be impoverished (because the Bakken oil fields from the Dakotas down through Colorado have more oil than Saudi Arabia and will allow us cheap energy for our factories so that we can have high wages and still compete with Chinese factories which have cheap labor but use expensive imported oil, which we'll also be exporting to them to whittle down our balance sheet with them) and we also won't be isolated behind a deteriorating defense shield at our borders while quaking in our boots, as Ron Paul would have us.


There's an old adage: better the devil you know. We know Newt from when he took all those welfare cheats and put them to work. Yeah, that's my boy.


Wulfe N. Straat

I think Ron Paul is honestly the only candidate who could stand a chance of beating Obama, he is the only Republican that represents any kind of change whatsoever and that is what everyone wants, that is what everyone wanted with Obama and he failed to deliver it!!

I love listening to Newt speak, but I wouldn't vote him garbage scow captain!

Be careful what you pray for!
You might get it,and it won't be as shiny as you thought it was!

Gingrich is like the Ice Queen of Narnia!

He'll say he is on your side while shaking hands and closing deals with the devil!

Better read deeper into THAT history before you vote on a future with him as a leader!