Union Leader endorses Gingrich
By Norman Leahy | Sunday, November 27th, 2011 | Catch-All, PoliticsNew Hampshire’s largest newspaper, the Manchester Union Leader, has endorsed Newt Gingrich in the state’s Republican presidential primary:
Readers of the Union Leader and Sunday News know that we don’t back candidates based on popularity polls or big-shot backers. We look for conservatives of courage and conviction who are independent-minded, grounded in their core beliefs about this nation and its people, and best equipped for the job.
We don’t have to agree with them on every issue. We would rather back someone with whom we may sometimes disagree than one who tells us what he thinks we want to hear.
Newt Gingrich is by no means the perfect candidate. But Republican primary voters too often make the mistake of preferring an unattainable ideal to the best candidate who is actually running. In this incredibly important election, that candidate is Newt Gingrich. He has the experience, the leadership qualities and the vision to lead this country in these trying times. He is worthy of your support on January 10.
Getting this endorsement is important, though it’s not necessarily a guarantee of victory.
But he seems to be gaining momentum (for now) as the voting draws closer.
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Norm Leahy has written about Virginia and national politics online since 2002, beginning with One Man's Trash (OMT), and continuing through Bacon's Rebellion (both the blog and the e-zine), Sic Semper Tyrannis, NBC12's Decision Virginia, Richmond.com and Tertium Quids. He is the chief blogger at "The Score" and a producer of "The Score" radio show as well as being a Washington Post contributor.
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6 Responses to "Union Leader endorses Gingrich"
“But Republican primary voters too often make the mistake of preferring an unattainable ideal to the best candidate who is actually running.”
Seems that the numbers that Ron Paul is attaining in both Iowa and New Hampshire seems to be shaking up the cookie jar. The aforementioned statement is directed at the principled Constitutional (unattainable ideal) concerns that have become the major concern in this election.
As for Newt himself, he has too much personal and hypocritical baggage to carry himself to a win in the general election. Lest we forget, he departed Congress as an embarrassment.
Although Newt professes conservationism, the follow is noted:
March 21, 1991 – $40 billion to begin the unconstitutional bailout of failed savings and loan institutions
June 26, 1991 – $52.6 billion for agriculture program subsidies, and food stamps
October 5, 1992 – $66.5 billion for housing and community development
September 22, 1994 – $250.6 billion in appropriations for the Departments of Labor, HHS, and Education.
February 5, 1981, he voted with liberals to raise the National Debt ceiling by another $49.1 billion to $985 billion. He has gone this same route many times since.
December 21, 1987 – $603.9 billion for 13 regular appropriation bills larded with many wasteful, extravagant, and unconstitutional items
May 4, 1989 – outlays of $1.165 trillion and a deficit of $99 billion for a dishonest and spendthrift 1990 budget designed to barely skim in under Gramm-Rudman $100 billion deficit limit
March 10, 1994 – a vote against a responsible amendment offered by Rep. Gerald Solomon (R-NY) to balance the budget by 1999 through $698 billion in spending cuts (a mere 3.5% cut) over five years.
The 1992 House banking scandal revealed that Gingrich has run 22 overdrafts on his checking account.
Ron Paul is the nationalized embodiment of the failed Tea Party movement. Sometimes I have to wonder if he is using them or they are using him. I suspect that it is a classic case of co-dependency. Either way, he is another unrealistic crackpot who will never garner support in the double digits. He is simply the Dennis Kucinich of the extreme right wing, but without the hot redhead wife.
1994. Contract With America. Repubs take over the House for the first time in 40 years. Budget gets balanced.
1998 – Republicans lost five seats in the House in the midterm elections—the worst performance in 64 years for a party that didn’t hold the presidency. Clinton was President and credited with balancing the budget.
Interesting that Rocky would label someone who is a strict constitutionalist a “crack-pot”. As far as I can tell, Paul is the only candidate that isn’t hypocritical, genuine, and honest. Furthermore, he is the only candidate who identifies the missteps of Congress, irrespective of party, rather than solely pointing to the White House. Please identify which of Ron Paul’s platform is not supported by the Constitution and considered “crack-pot” so I can label your responses either socialist, fascist, imperialistic or opposes freedom, liberty, self-determination, self-government, and self-rule.
RP looks better by the day but I wish his demeanor was cooler, calmer and more appealing to peoples modest predisposed preferences.
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