Posted by
Steve on Monday, January 30, 2012 2:45:05 PM
Tomorrow is the Florida primary. According to the most recent polling, Mitt Romney is holding a double digit lead. I have not heard any reports on the amount of that lead, but I would hazard a guess that it is around the 10-12% range. If that hold up, Newt Gingrich will be severely damaged and Rick Santorum would almost certainly be eliminated. Ron Paul is in the race to the finish line regardless of the outcome because he is not in to win, but to get out his message.
I have known this for some time, but on Friday I heard some quotes from Newt Gingrich that were troubling. The first was a quote where he says he is a Progressive like Teddy Roosevelt and Robert La Follette. Robert La Follette was the Governor of Wisconsin and a Progressive. He is one of the main reasons that the University of Wisconsin is such a basket case when it comes to politics. He also is one of the main reasons that Wisconsin is a basket case when it comes to politics.
The second quote was one praising the work of Woodrow Wilson and Franklin Roosevelt. Those are two of the most liberal progressive Presidents on record. To praise those Presidents means that you either do not know history or your agenda is not the same as mine. Since Newt Gingrich is a Historian by profession, he cannot claim ignorance of history. That would mean that his agenda is different than mine.
Barack Obama is a far left liberal progressive. Newt Gingrich is a conservative progressive. What is the difference? In the long term, there is little difference. Both want the government to control everything. Big government is the solution to all problems. The difference is one of speed. Liberal progressives want the government to control everything now or very soon. Conservative progressives are willing to wait for their goal of the government to control everything.
If we had a liberal progressive President from 1900 to present, we would already have had the progressive utopia some time ago. If we had a conservative President from 1900 to present, we would still have 100-200 years before the progressive utopia would be realized. Since we have had a mixture of liberal progressive, conservative progressive and non-progressive conservative Presidents, we are on the verge of realizing the progressive utopia. Four more years of Barack Obama and the United States that has existed for over 200 years may cease to exist. It would be replaced by the progressive utopia. That is commonly referred to as communism. Communism has failed everywhere it has been tried. It would fail in the United States, if it ever gets its shot. Unfortunately, the only way to rid a country of communism is to have a revolution. That usually does not end well.
There are many things about Newt Gingrich that I really like. But, those are short term type things. Newt’s long term goal is the one I question. I cannot support Newt and Obama’s long term goal because it goes in exactly opposite direction from freedom. My goal is to return this country in the direction of more freedom like this country had in 1791. That is a long-term goal that will not be completed for some time. But if that is the goal, the country will thrive in the period between the beginning of the journey and the final destination. Newt and Obama would cause depression and ruin for nearly everyone, except for a few ultra-rich individuals.