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email response to Newt Supporter

2012-03-23T09:16:00.001-05:00

Newt sat down on a couch with Nancy Pelosi and dared to tell me I'm the cause of (hoax) global warming. Newt said we have to get over Ronald Reagan. When Newt drops out and supports Romney will you change your mind or go along with the rest of weakkneed conservatives believing Romney is the only one who can beat Obama? Remember, Newt supported individual mandate for insurance just a couple of years ago. Newt's campaign was a joke when it started and there was a good reason people thought that. His entire staff up and quit. His funding has been coming from a few big contributers.

This race is going to be won or lost on conservative Christians and Newt doesn't inspire them to show up to vote for him. Newt has no chance of winning primary. He's finishing 4th now behind Paul. He is nothing but a spoiler now. He's won TWO states and you delusionally think he can win a brokered convention? He is out of money and is going to drop out. You say Santorum can't win one on one with Romney? Why don't we see? I know the polls used to show he would. Of course now after having millions and millions spent on negative advertising against him they don't look as good. Go figure.

Romney has damaged himself with constant attacks. Newt has no chance. Santorum has kept from ripping Newt because he needs Newt supporters to show up. Pay attention. If this goes to convention Santorum has chance to win it if he continues to gain momentum.

Newt has already started to make comments suggesting his support for Romney. Watch now as Romney makes nice with Newt.

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From: Winning Our Future ;
To: ;
Subject: Personal Memo: The Road to the Convention
Sent: Wed, Mar 21, 2012 8:51:34 PM

Hello,

Can Newt still win the Republican nomination?

Yes.

Is he still the only candidate who can beat Barack Obama?

Most definitely.

I am writing to you today because I know you to be among those who have closely followed Newt Gingrich. I have known Newt for many years. It was a great privilege to have served as his spokesman for over a decade.

Since late last year I have been working with a small team that makes up the Winning Our Future Super PAC, a team solely dedicated to helping Newt secure the Republican nomination for President of the United States. Working with such a loyal group of supporters has been a great and tremendously challenging experience.

Recently, many in the mainstream media have essentially dismissed Newt's campaign. You may have been tempted to do the same. But let me tell you why I believe that this race is far from over.

First, a short history lesson. For decades prior to Newt's election to Congress from the Sixth District of Georgia, the Republican Party was a regional party and not a national party. But Newt believed that our nation is conservative and that the GOP could once again become a governing party if it adhered to conservative principles. But first we needed to recruit and train candidates that could run as conservatives. To do that, Newt developed courses for GOPAC to teach Republican candidates to win elected offices throughout the country. But he did not stop there. Newt understood that helping our candidates to get to Congress would require a strong network of local grassroots support. Newt spent a great deal of time helping local, county and state parties organize, recruit the right candidates and raise money. Then in 1994, he successfully nationalized the Congressional races with a set of bold ideas contained within the 'Contract with America'. The result was a stunning victory for Republicans creating the first majority in both the House and the Senate in forty years.

The reason the election of 1994 was so successful was the power of ideas that inspired a nation. Nine-million MORE voters turned out for Republicans than did in the last off-year elections in 1990 while at the same time, one-million FEWER voters showed up to vote for Democrats. That was a ten-million vote swing in favor of the GOP.

When elected, Speaker Gingrich:

Formed the Conservative Opportunity Society in the Congress, which still meets today to shape public policy based upon conservative principles.
Took on President Bill Clinton and the Democratic Party directly.
Led the charge to balance the Federal Budget cutting both taxes and spending.
Strengthened the military and reformed Welfare.
Helped the private sector create 11 million jobs with pro-growth economic policies. During his speakership, the Dow Jones rose over 130% and the NASDAQ rose over 180%.

Compare this success to what is going on in the race for the Republican nomination today.

The front-runner Mitt Romney has steadfastly refused to run an issues-based campaign. Instead, he has engaged in a scorched-earth strategy outspending his competitors by tens of millions of dollars running false ads against his Republican opponents. These negative ads have had a devastating effect on voter enthusiasm and turnout. Remember, the key to winning majorities in 1994 is directly related to inspiring voters to turn out for a positive set of ideas. Mitt Romney has eviscerated the enthusiasm the Republicans had just a few short months ago. We simply cannot beat Barack Obama with depressed turn-outs.

Romney has offered nothing to inspire voters. His strategy is rooted in the fact that he does not have a conservative record to run on.

As a US Senate candidate in 1994, Romney ran against the Contract with America and the conservative agenda.

He ran to the left of Senator Ted Kennedy and lost badly. In fact, he was the only Republican Senate challenger to lose that year. As a candidate for governor of Massachusetts, Romney said that it was a burden to run with an R attached to your name.

He called his views "progressive".

As governor, he enforced the nation's strictest and unconstitutional gun-control laws. He supported pro-abortion laws including the radical position of giving a judge authority to overrule the parents of a minor daughter seeking an abortion. He appointed pro-abortion judges. His state was 47th in job growth. He passed "Romneycare" which included a health insurance mandate, the forerunner to "Obamacare". He supported the radical environmentalists' job-killing cap and trade policy. Romney left the governor's office in disgrace. More than half the voters believed he did a poor or very poor job.

But more recently and perhaps most disturbingly, Romney revealed his true colors as a nanny-state politician when he condemned the poor to a cycle of government dependency and hopelessness declaring on CNN that he did not worry about the poor, the government takes care of them.

No wonder he only runs ads tearing down his competitors. Romney does not want you to know his record.

All in all, Romney is not us.

He has never been with us because he simply does not believe in the America we believe in. That's why he sounds so disingenuous; it's because he is. He does not believe what he says most of the time. Romney has failed to wrap up the nomination because the conservative base will not support him - the same base WE will need to beat Obama.

Then there is Rick Santorum.

He initially looked like a candidate Conservatives could like. But a look at his record shows he was often at odds with conservative ideas. When Santorum first ran in 1990, he said he "danced around" the issue of abortion because he was for most of his adult life up until that point, pro-choice. He modified his position when he found out that more voters in his district were pro-life.

He described himself as a "progressive conservative" which is, not only an oxymoron, but completely ignorant and irreconcilable.

Any conservative with any sense of history and judgment could not possibly describe himself as a progressive. Just to make the point, it was the progressive movement that promoted eugenics which, when repudiated, morphed into the pro-abortion movement.

The progressives also gave us Prohibition. That is the same thinking of the people who are now telling us today what we can and cannot eat.

Santorum supported Arlan Spector for President.

Spector was one of the most ardent pro-abortion members of the US Senate yet Santorum endorsed him for President in 1996. Santorum also endorsed Spector for his reelection over conservative Pat Toomy. Santorum said that Spector could be counted on for the votes where we needed him to be with us. But Spector was the deciding vote for Obamacare. So while Romney invented it, Rick Santorum, it can be said, gave it to us by supporting Spector's reelection. Spector, as you know, went on to switch to the Democratic Party.

So much for us counting on him.

Santorum, like Romney, is a big-government Republican.

He once claimed credit for saving the Food Stamp program. He voted for Medicare Part D, a program bigger than Obamacare. He voted to raise the debt ceiling five times. He voted twice to force FedEx to unionize. He voted against "Right to Work" and anything else the union bosses told him to vote for or against. He voted for Planned Parenthood funding even when he said he didn't support it. He voted for the "bridge to nowhere". His success in getting earmarks is legendary, a legacy he says he's proud of.

In fact, when Santorum was in the Senate leadership, government spending continued to explode and yet he provided no leadership to stop it. His mantra was and is " go along to get along" because he's a team player. He may be that, but he is no leader. And let's not forget, in 2006, he ran to the left of Bob Casey. Like Romney, he thought the key to getting reelected was to run as a moderate. He lost his Senate seat in Pennsylvania, the same state Romney is currently beating him in, by 18 percentage points -- a modern-day record defeat.

Here is why I am writing to you and why I don't want you to give up on Newt.

I am not going to attempt to persuade you that the challenge is not great. It is. But Newt can still win.

But, let's look at the current reality.

Newt is far behind in the delegate count according to the mainstream media.

But many of those delegates that they are counting have not even been selected yet.

Romney's challenge remains getting the required number of delegates needed to secure the nomination. Today, that looks increasingly unlikely if Newt stays in the race.

Despite what the pundits are saying, Romney needs Newt to exit this race as soon as possible so he can eliminate Rick Santorum. If that happens he will likely get enough delegates to win and wrap it up.

Santorum simply cannot beat Romney in a one-on-one contest. Santorum needs Newt to stay in the race to deny Romney as many delegates as possible to keep him from getting the required number of delegates before the Republican National Convention in Tampa. If that happens then Romney would fail to get enough votes on the first ballot to secure the nomination. After losing the first ballot, all the delegates are released and can vote for any candidate they choose.

In that scenario, Newt has a very good chance of winning the nomination.

Remember, the delegates at the convention are not casual observers. They know the history of all the candidates. They know Romney is not a conservative. He did not govern as one and would not. They know Rick Santorum did nothing to stop the spending spree in Washington and was absent without leadership when conservatives needed him.

They also know that it was Newt Gingrich who led the way in shaping our party to go toe to toe against liberal Democrats, not by accommodating them but by beating them with conservative policies.

They know that Newt has a proven track record of increasing voter enthusiasm and turnout. They know he would beat Barack Obama in a debate and on election day in November.

Given that choice, I believe the delegates will do the right thing and nominate Newt Gingrich.

Today, our Party has tried to recapture the conservative spirit it had when Newt was Speaker by forming the Tea Party, a direct challenge to the establishment. It was the Tea Party after all that led the way to recapturing the majority in the US House in 2010. It was not the GOP establishment. They are still active today and will be a force at the convention.

If the Republican delegates in 1976 picked Ronald Reagan over the establishment's candidate, Gerald Ford, we would not have suffered through four years of Carter. In August, if the delegates pick Newt, we will not have to suffer four more years of Barack Obama.

It can happen. In fact, it is likely to happen.

But to ensure it does, I need you to continue to believe in Newt and his ideas of energy independence, job growth, free enterprise and prosperity. While the other candidates and the media focus on trivia, Newt will continue to focus on the issues that matter to our future.

For Newt's entire career, which you already know, he has taken on what for virtually every other politician goes into the "too hard" file.

He led the GOP to being a governing majority when no one thought it could happen.

He led the fight for tax cuts, spending cuts, Welfare Reform and a balanced budget when the establishment said it was too hard.

Washington cannot intimidate Newt.

He is the only candidate with a record of standing up to Washington, which is why the establishment is working so hard to defeat him.

He is the only candidate who knows how to energize voters to turn out.

And most importantly, he is the only candidate capable of defeating Barack Obama in the fall.

These are serious times and require an experienced and serious leader.

If you are in a state that has not voted, please vote for Newt and help get others to do the same. We need as many delegates in Tampa as possible to win a brokered convention.

Consider running for delegate yourself.

Some say a brokered convention is bad for the Party, but what is bad for the Party is to give it over to the moderate establishment who, as in years past, will lead us to defeat.

Newt showed us how we can win and be a governing majority and he did it by running and governing on conservative values.

If you can financially help it would be a big help to Newt, we would be grateful. You can do so by clicking the donate button below.

And while I am asking for money, it is not my main objective in writing to you.

I am writing to you personally to ask you again to believe in Newt and our conservative movement. We can beat Barack Obama in the fall but it will take the right candidate with a solid conservative record - someone who has worked tirelessly for decades to make the Republican Party competitive by representing conservative values.

It's time to choose Newt Gingrich to be our nominee. Please go toTimetoChoose.com and join us.

Sincerely,

Rick Tyler
Winning Our Future

Video - Baptist Pope

2012-03-20T20:32:00.001-05:00

Video - Baptist Pope:

You've been RickRolled!

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Youth contest: Third place is 2 hand grenades and $400

2011-09-20T13:38:00.000-05:00

BBC News - Al-Shabab radio gives weapons prize to Somali children: "Youths should use one hand for education and the other for a gun to defend Islam"

Chuck Woolery On Taxing The Rich - YouTube

2011-09-16T14:59:00.000-05:00

Chuck Woolery On Taxing The Rich - YouTube

Bill Maher: Obama Is "The Wrong Color" For GOP | RealClearPolitics

2011-09-12T11:28:00.000-05:00

Bill Maher: Obama Is "The Wrong Color" For GOP | RealClearPolitics

The Left is playing the race card, and playing it hard. Must be really worried.

I guess the idiot forgot about Clarence Thomas, Condoleeza Rice, and Allen West, among countless others. So why has liberals thrown them under the bus? Hey Bill Maher, it's not about the color of their skin, it's about their political ideology. Time to Move On!

Lonely Monica Lewinsky is still trying to play down the Bill Clinton affair | Mail Online

2011-09-08T12:58:00.000-05:00

Lonely Monica Lewinsky is still trying to play down the Bill Clinton affair | Mail Online: "[S]he could not resist speaking out two years ago, saying Clinton lied under oath when he described their relationship during an impeachment trial." - Can't help feeling bad for her. She wasn't just abused by president Clinton, but abandoned by the feminists that claim to protect women from predators like Clinton.

Sarah Palin runs unannounced in Iowa half-marathon | Iowa Caucuses

2011-09-08T12:52:00.000-05:00

Sarah Palin runs unannounced in Iowa half-marathon | Iowa Caucuses She got second place in her age group. 12 miles in under 2 hours. She ran incognito using her maiden name. I guess when people shouted "Run, Sarah, Run!" she decided it was a good idea.

Blacks and Iowans

2011-09-08T12:42:00.000-05:00

Maxine Waters to Obama on unemployment: Treat blacks like Iowans - Jonathan Allen - POLITICO.com

Jimmy Hoffa Threatens GOP At Obama Event: "Let's Take These Son Of *****es Out" | RealClearPolitics

2011-09-06T09:06:00.000-05:00

Jimmy Hoffa Threatens GOP At Obama Event: "Let's Take These Son Of *****es Out" | RealClearPolitics

Nissan Leaf outsells Chevy Volt by over 4 to 1 in August

2011-09-03T21:37:00.000-05:00

Nissan Leaf outsells Chevy Volt by over 4 to 1 in August: In August 2011, Nissan sold 1,362 Leaf electric vehicles for an improvement of 431 units over July and although Chevrolet more than doubled their Volt sales from July, with just 302 new Chevy electric vehicles sold last month, Nissan easily claimed the battle of the US electric car segment.

Knew it and said it below. Doesn't look good for Government Motors. Wouldn't it be funny if they have to go bankrupt again? No, not really.

New body 'liquefaction' unit unveiled in Florida funeral home

2011-08-30T09:52:00.000-05:00

BBC News - New body 'liquefaction' unit unveiled in Florida funeral home: The system works by submerging the body in a solution...

Things you really don't want to read about.

Google Cuts Churches Out Of Nonprofit Program | Christianity Today | A Magazine of Evangelical Conviction

2011-08-29T09:53:00.000-05:00

Google Cuts Churches Out Of Nonprofit Program | Christianity Today | A Magazine of Evangelical Conviction: All of that changed in mid-March when the company launched "Google for Nonprofits." The new initiative united a robust set of Google's tools into one program, but it also came with new guidelines that excluded numerous entities, including schools, political thinktanks, churches, proselytizing groups, and any organization that considers religion or sexual orientation in hiring decisions.

Say goodbye to cavities: New gel could help your teeth fix themselves | Technology News Blog - Yahoo! News

2011-08-24T14:02:00.000-05:00

Say goodbye to cavities: New gel could help your teeth fix themselves | Technology News Blog - Yahoo! News: "This may sound too good to be true, but we are essentially helping acid-damaged teeth to regenerate themselves. It is a totally natural non-surgical repair process and is entirely pain-free too."

Right Direction or Wrong Track - Rasmussen Reports™

2011-08-18T10:31:00.000-05:00

Right Direction or Wrong Track - Rasmussen Reports™

"...15% of Likely U.S. Voters now say the country is heading in the right direction"

Maybe the headline should be "15% really hate this country."

Regulators close 64th U.S. bank this year - Yahoo! News

2011-08-15T12:34:00.000-05:00

Regulators close 64th U.S. bank this year - Yahoo! News

Did you know this? How is it in a "recovery" (even an anemic one) that banks are still being closed? Answer: they wouldn't be closed; we are not in any kind of recovery and due to the normal economic cycle, we are now in the beginnings of the greatest depression we will ever see.

Arne Duncan: Teacher pay should start at $60K | Iowa Independent

2011-08-03T08:34:00.000-05:00

Arne Duncan: Teacher pay should start at $60K | Iowa Independent: "In Iowa, according to the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the average beginning teacher salary is $31,753. The average teacher salary in Iowa is more than $10,000 below what Duncan recommended as starting wages."

Why stop at $60K? Doesn't everybody agree that teachers are far more important than say, pro athletes? Teachers should start at at least twice the starting salary of a pro baseball, football, or basketball player. That would be about $1 million/year.

Fortunately we can afford this since the debt ceiling was just raised.

GM Confirms Slow Chevy Volt Sales | National Legal and Policy Center

2011-08-02T16:57:00.000-05:00

GM Confirms Slow Chevy Volt Sales | National Legal and Policy Center: "Only 125 Volts were sold during the month of July. Recent reports attributed the slump to supply constraints as GM spokeswoman, Michelle Bunker, was quoted as saying that the Volt was 'virtually sold out' and only a 'few' were available nationwide. I have confirmed that this statement is not entirely truthful and have gotten clarification from GM through Director of Communications, Greg Martin."

Our priorities are upside down

2011-08-02T16:52:00.000-05:00

Coralville dad sour over temporary ordinance | Iowa City Press Citizen | press-citizen.com: "Dustin Krutsinger, a 28-year-old medical student at the University of Iowa, said his daughter, Abigail, set up a lemonade stand Friday near their 20th Avenue home. Within 30 minutes, a Coralville officer came to shut it down."

Nobody's happy. But how great both sides coming together to make it happen!

2011-08-01T12:55:00.000-05:00

Debt and spending deal picks up momentum in Senate - Yahoo! News: "Reid opened the day's session in the Senate by declaring the deal shows that the often-dysfunctional Senate can come together when it counts. 'People on the right are upset, people on the left are upset, people in the middle are upset,' he said. 'It was a compromise.'"

5 arrested in drug bust | Iowa City Press Citizen | press-citizen.com

2011-07-19T07:55:00.000-05:00

5 arrested in drug bust | Iowa City Press Citizen | press-citizen.com: "He faces an additional count of distribution of a taxable substance without a tax stamp."

In Iowa you have to buy a "tax stamp" for your illegal drugs. I will fall out of my chair the day I read a drug bust story in which the perpetrator actually has a tax stamp. Supposedly you can buy one (from where I do not know because they don't advertise it) and you won't be targeted by law enforcement. If these guys where smart, they'd buy one and then if busted, they could claim they were targeted because they had one.

Woman Gropes TSA Agent's Breast at Security Checkpoint

2011-07-16T10:36:00.000-05:00

Woman Gropes TSA Agent's Breast at Security Checkpoint: "Police say she squeezed and twisted the agent's breast with both hands. Officers say Mihamae admitted to the crime. There's no word why she touched the agent."

Nissan Leaf sales soar in June | MNN - Mother Nature Network

2011-07-11T12:53:00.000-05:00

Nissan Leaf sales soar in June | MNN - Mother Nature Network: "At the end of May 2011 there was only a 17-vehicle margin between year-to-date Leaf and Volt sales but now that has jumped to 1,130."

Can Electric Cars Put A Jolt In The Job Market? : NPR

2011-06-15T09:35:00.000-05:00

Can Electric Cars Put A Jolt In The Job Market? : NPR:

"Electric cars now enjoy a white-hot market"

That's how this story starts, which pretty much discredits anything that follows. But read the last line from the "objective" NPR.

"Electric and hybrid vehicles make up less than 2 percent of the auto market. For now, analysts say it's still a "niche vehicle," relegated to the greenest corner of the marketplace."

Nissan LEAF Sales Zoom Ahead of Chevy Volt | PluginCars.com

2011-06-03T16:27:00.000-05:00

Nissan LEAF Sales Zoom Ahead of Chevy Volt | PluginCars.com: "The sales race between the Nissan LEAF and Chevy Volt for leading electric car has been neck-and-neck for most of this year. But in May, Nissan pulled way ahead of G.M. tallying 1,142 sales of the LEAF, while Volt sales remained flat at 481 units."

BBC News - US Pentagon to treat cyber-attacks as 'acts of war'

2011-06-01T09:46:00.000-05:00

BBC News - US Pentagon to treat cyber-attacks as 'acts of war': "The US defence department estimates that more than 100 foreign intelligence organizations have attempted to break into American networks."