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Dear Iowa, You Don’t Have To Settle For Newt

December 12, 2011

Santorum and Bachmann offer the Reagan style of leadership America is looking for

Dear Iowa, what are you thinking? What have Christian conservatives been rallying for, praying for, during these last two and a half years?

A genuine Reagan conservative to lead the country back from the edge of economic collapse, to end the spending, hold the line on taxes, stand firm against China and Iran, unleash our massive untapped sources of oil and natural gas, end Obamacare, uphold the inalienable right to life, and defend the sanctity of marriage and the traditional family.

It’s in our grasp – if America is offered the right candidate. Conservatism prevails when it’s genuine. Ronald Reagan won two terms because Ronald Reagan was the genuine article as both a conservative and man of obvious character. And voters responded to it.

Newt Gingrich, for all his intellect and debating skills, brings a lot distracting baggage and some unsettling questions to table. A brilliant man, but too slick by a half for the taste of many Americans.

Rick Santorum and Michele Bachman have everything we could ask for as candidates. There is no reason, as Bachmann herself warns, to settle for less.

As we detailed in Romney & Perry Talk. Santorum & Bachmann Walk The Walk, Michele Bachmann founded the Tea Party Caucus in Congress, and the Washington Post has labeled Santorum “a tea party kind of guy before there was a tea party.”

Meanwhile, Newt Gingrich spent his exile from the Beltway working on a political makeover. Apparently buying into the RINO philosophy that America longed for “bipartisanship”, the former conservative street brawler began showing up in commercials making nice with Nancy Pelosi on “global warming” and race card dealer Al Sharpton on “education reform”.

Newt now dismisses these video get togethers as his “worst mistake”. As in “it didn’t work”. In May Newt decried Paul Ryan’s plan to reform Medicare as “right wing social engineering”. The statement promptly backfired and it was time for another apology. Pro-life Newt now says that life does not begin at conception – “per se”.

Throw in the two tawdry divorces and previous ethics problems, and Newt Gingrich is everything the democrats are hoping for. Someone with plenty of flip flopping and side issues that the media can use to distract attention from Barack Obama’s nation imploding policies.

Ronald Reagan was a winner because there was never a doubt about who he was or what he stood for. And that is what Rick Santorum and Michele Bachman will offer vs Barack Obama. No makeovers, no surprises and no baggage to explain. Either would be able to keep the spotlight on the Obama record.

And where the Tea Party lacks vision is on the “social issues” – Faith, Life & Family – the soul, lifeblood and fabric of any successful society. Bachmann and Santorum have shown that they understand that we will never solve our economic and societal problems if we allow the state to restrict freedom of religion, continue to decimate future generations through abortion, and undermine the traditional family by redefining marriage.

    

    

Newt Gingrich would be an outstanding choice for any cabinet position in a republican administration, but he is a fallback position as Iowa’s choice for a presidential candidate. Supporters come lately cite Newt’s formidable strength in debate, but media moderators will throw plenty of Newt’s negatives into the questioning, and there will always be reasonable doubt about his character and integrity.

Why then, Iowa, would you settle for Newt? Either Rick Santorum or Michele Bachmann would shine in contrast to Barack Obama in a debate. The American people will have no problem differentiating between the genuine article and a Chicago machine manufactured phony.

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