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Originally Posted by spence
Bingo. Newt's problem is that he's not nearly as smart as he thinks he is...
That's not to say he's not a very smart guy, rather, he actually suffers from a sharp intellect and quick wit...he doesn't think a lot of his ideas out first, he just blurts them out.
People are looking for policy that makes sense, not an edgy partisan attack artificially bolstered by a few historical factoids.
For the brightest guy out there he seems to be spending a lot of time backtracking and clarifying his positions.
-spence
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"People are looking for policy that makes sense"
Once again, your statements don't even have a passing relationship with reality.
Let's see what makes sense. Obama wants to tax and spend. Gingrich wants to shrink government spending and give more $$ to they free market. There's no better way to decide which makes more sense, than to see what happened when each of those ideas was put in place.
In Clinton's second term, Gingrich's GOP legislature cut taxes, cut spending, balanced the budget, got millions of us off welfare and back to work. After he did that, the economy grew like crazy, and unemployment shrunk.
Liberal policies of tax and spend? Ain't working in Europe, and it ain't working here.
Spence, I'm not a conservative because someone tells me I should be. I'm a conservative because all of the actual, epirical evidence, CLEARLY TELLS US that liberal Keynesian economics do not work. My conclusions are based on historical facts, not blind ideology. If the government could simply print enough money to give all of us a billion dollars, no one would be opposed to that. But despite how great it sounds, it cannot work.