Yes, this was last year but it is talk like this that will win Newt the votes of true conservatives. It also makes liberals wet their panties:

Of course, the MSM will mount a full-scale attack if he gets the GOP nomination because of talk like this.

Debate moderator Scott Pelley (from liberal MSM — CBS Evening News to be exact) smuggly tried to instruct Newt Gingrich on the rule of law. Newt makes Pelley look foolish:

HT to Shannen Coffin writing on The Corner, who observes:

There are very few moments in presidential debates that make a confirmed political cynic like me want to get off the couch and cheer like a hockey fan at the sight of blood.

Exactly.

Peter Wehner writing for Commentary critiques Pelley’s performance:

Unlike his able and informed co-moderator, National Journal’s Major Garrett, Pelley came across as schoolmarmish, smug, arrogant, unlikeable, clumsy (he tried to cut off Mitt Romney when Romney still had plenty of time left to answer his question) and at times ignorant. His worst moment was when he made the mistake of trying to correct Newt Gingrich on the “rules of law” as they apply to killing terrorists, the result being Pelley was smacked down and taken to the woodshed by Gingrich. (See Ed Morrissey’s take on this exchange, complete with a video clip, here . This moment was a signal to us that Pelley doesn’t understand — as, say, Jim Lehrer does — the role of the moderator is to take a back seat in debates, to move the discussion along as seamlessly as possible, to illuminate rather than hector, and not to become a focal point or advocate for a particular point of view.

On the other hand, Newt’s handling of the situation was spot on: informed, decisive, and — dare I say it? — presidential.

The NRO notes that Nevada’s State Treasurer and Democrat candidate for Congress, Kate Marshall, makes an incredibly foot-in-mouth moment that provides the National Republican Congressional Committee “with fish, a barrel, and a shotgun.”

Such are the statements that ruin a political career. Just ask Clayton Williams.

Root is the current front runner to be the Libertarian’s candidate in 2012. I have heard him speak and fully support him and the vast majority of his policies. An interview with Root reveals just how Libertarian he is:

Over the years, Root has built up a rather diverse resume as an author, TV personality and producer. In fact, he’s one of the producers of the popular Travel Channel series "Ghost Adventures," and also produced and hosted King of Vegas for Spike TV. He is also the author of 7 books- including his latest, "The Conscience of a Libertarian: Empowering the Citizen Revolution with God, Guns, Gold & Tax Cuts." …

Root believes that the key to getting the economy back on track is lower taxes on income and capital gains. In fact, he would go one step further.

"I think we could have stimulated the economy without government getting involved at all," he said. "We should have just suspended the income tax for a year. That would have saved taxpayers $1 trillion, the cost of the stimulus. Then I’d phase in a flat tax."

Root also believes that cutting down on spending — including defense — would be a must in his administration.

"Wars bankrupt this country," he said. "Afghanistan could not have been avoided, but Iraq could have been avoided. On top of that, we need to cut down on foreign aid. Rather than the government sending money to Haiti, we should ask our citizens to donate privately.

"Also, the money we sent in foreign aid to Japan, South Korea and Germany allowed them to prop up their economy while we paid to defend them."

Click through for more, including a video of Root on Fox Business calling for the abolition of the Federal Reserve.

Right on!

If you measure Obama according to the hyperbole spun by 2004 Democrat candidates, he would take Dubya’s place as the “worst president in history.”

During the 2004 election, Democrats constantly reminded voters that George W. Bush was the first president in decades to oversee a net loss of jobs. …

Whether the measurement is job creation, unemployment or growth of gross domestic product, the economy has been worse under Obama than it was under Bush.

First, job creation. According to data from the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics, the U.S. shed 2.3 million jobs since February 2009, Obama’s first full month in office. Going back to World War II, that is by far the worst record for any president in his first 17 months, outpacing the job destruction experienced in the early Bush years by more than 800,000 jobs.

November 2008, the month he was elected, until now, the economy has shed an astonishing 4.4 million jobs. That’s worse than Hoover.

The two-percentage-point increase in unemployment rate during his presidency, to 9.7 percent from 7.7 percent, is the third-worst since World War II. Dwight Eisenhower and Gerald Ford saw bigger increases.

GDP growth under Obama, an abysmal 3 percentage points so far, is the fourth-worst in the postwar period. Eisenhower, Ford and Ronald Reagan all began their terms with worse GDP growth.

But hey, it was Kerry and the Democrats who made job creation the be-all and end-all measurement of a presidency, and by that standard, Obama is dredging a new low. It’s probably a good bet that Democrats who became so enamored of Hoover’s name in 2004 won’t be mentioning it much this year.

It’s amazing how often hyperbole can be thrown back in the face of politicians. If only they would get things right, we wouldn’t have to.

From RememberNovember.com.

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 Former Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice on Tuesday endorsed former Hewlett-Packard CEO Carly Fiorina for the Republican nomination for the U.S. Senate.

The announcement follows closely on the heels of former Rep. Tom Campbell snagging a key endorsement — that of businessman Bill Simon, the 2002 Republican nominee for governor.

The Rice endorsement reinforces Fiorina’s status as the candidate of the Republican establishment to take on three-term Democrat Barbara Boxer while Simon’s backing of Campbell — the most moderate candidate in the Republican field — could send an important message to conservatives.

Read it all.

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Says WSJ Online:

A string of electoral defeats and the great unpopularity of ObamaCare can’t stop Democrats from their self-appointed rendezvous with liberal destiny—ramming a bill through Congress on a narrow partisan vote. What we are about to witness is an extraordinary abuse of traditional Senate rules to pass a bill merely because they think it’s good for the rest of us, and because they fear their chance to build a European welfare state may never come again.

Exactly. Read it all.

Remember that we never recovered from Roosevelts socialist New Deals (which arguably added years onto the Great Depression). We never recovered from Johnson’s Great Society. We will never recover from the Great Entitlement Expansions of the Bush/Obama era.

Health care reform, yes. Making us into the image of France, no.

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According to a Gallup poll, if the presidential election were to be held today Obama would be in a statistical tie with an unknown “Republican candidate”.

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