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by: Les Carpenter Rational Nation USA Liberty -vs- Tyranny Sarah and Newt... The Odd Couple or a Perfect Team? It has been a tough week. Of course they are all challenging, to one degree or another. However, for me this one has been grueling, having with it the requirement to change shifts early in the week and then back to my "normal" shift later in the week. So, you may ask, what's the header of this post have to do with work? Well, absolutely nothing. Actually I am so GD tired I had planned on going to bed after I ate the fine dinner my wife had made before sending off to work. Told you it's been a tough week. Anyway, I made the mistake of turning on my computer while I was waiting for my dinner to warm up. While browsing the highlights and the low lights of the news I just happened to come across the article in POLITICO about Sarah Palin being Newtie's secret weapon. It was just enough to wake me up. Of course everyone who has visited this site ...

by: Les Carpenter Rational Nation USA Liberty -vs- Tyranny NJ Governor Chris Christie Governor Christie has it right. There is little doubt but what Newt Gingrich is an embarrassment to his party. Given his past ethical violations and that he was essentially run out of his speaker ship by his own party it is reasonable to question his judgement. Past errors in judgement of the magnitude of Mr. Gingrich's should give every concerned citizen pause. Why, you may ask, given he has said he has changed. The reason is because past errors in judgement often predict future mistaken judgement. Or put another way, a leopard cannot change it's spots as my former, and very wise boss used to say. Now for what Governor Christie had to say. From The Hill . Romney surrogate and New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie called Newt Gingrich an embarrassment to the Republican Party on Sunday, one day after the former House Speaker rode a late surge to victory in the South Carolina primary. ...

by: Les Carpenter Rational Nation USA Liberty -vs- Tyranny Simply awe inspiring. Imagine, the candidate perhaps least likely to safe guard individual liberties and the cornerstones of constitutional law succeeded in duping South Carolina republican primary voters into handing him victory. Congratulations Mr. Gingrich, as a matter of courtesy are in order. Beyond such courtesies Rational Nation USA , as well as the majority of Americans see though your superficial veneer to the real anti constitutional conservative you really are. Moving on to Florida (and beyond) perhaps primary voters will be more educated on the Gingrich propensity for half truth and outright false representations . Gingrich's personal marital situation aside the man is certainly one that deserves very close scrutiny. While representing a political ideology different than President Obama's he does not represent the America that our founding fathers envisioned. The socialist statist label that c...

by: Les Carpenter Rational Nation USA Liberty -v s- Tyranny Fascist ? Newt Gingrich has always been a scary dude. Narcissistic, divisive, out of touch with democratic republican principles, and he is one power hungry dude. Read his latest and be fearful of this lunatic ever sitting in a position of power again in America. ( THE HILL )- GOP presidential frontrunner Newt Gingrich said Congress has the power to dispatch the Capitol Police or U.S. Marshals to apprehend a federal judge who renders a decision lawmakers broadly oppose. Gingrich says if there is broad opposition to a court decision, Congress should subpoena the ruling judge to defend his or her action in a hearing room. When asked if Congress could enforce the subpoena by sending the Capitol Police to arrest a judge, Gingrich assented. “If you had to,” Gingrich said. “Or you’d instruct the Justice Department to send the U.S. Marshall.” Gingrich made his remarks during a Sunday appearance on CBS’s “Face the ...

Hat Tip: The Blaze . What say you?

by: Les Carpenter Rational Nation USA Liberty -v s- Tyranny Rational Nation USA , as regular readers of this humble site likely realize, is no advocate for the divisive, hypocritical, and disingenuous politics of one Newt Gingrich. Micheal Savage has just put up one million dollars which will be paid to the Newt {or so Savage's ad claims} if Newtie pulls out of the race. Savage of course realizes, correctly so, that if Newt is the republican {neocon} nominee Obama waltzes into his second term and not much will change. The Savage ad: SAVAGE OFFERS GINGRICH $1 MILLION TO DROP OUT OF THE RACE -- WILL ANNOUNCE ON SHOW TODAY (SUBJECT TO ALL THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS TO BE EXPRESSLY STATED BY DR. SAVAGE, INCLUDING GINGRICH DROPPING OUT WITHIN 72 HOURS OF TODAY) THE REPUBLICAN PRESIDENTIAL FIELD HAS COME DOWN TO TWO CANDIDATES WHO HAVE A REAL CHANCE OF GETTING THE NOMINATION: NEWT GINGRICH AND MITT ROMNEY. WHILE IT’S TRUE THAT ROMNEY IS NOT AS STRONG A CONSERVATIVE AS MAN...

by: Les Carpenter Rational Nation USA Liberty -v s- Tyranny Newt Gingrich is, to put it bluntly not the presidential candidate the republican party needs. Aside from carrying to much baggage like his three marriages, extramarital affairs, his well paid "historian" role consulting with Freddie Mac, his flip flops on healthcare mandates and climate change, and his delusions of grandeur, he is not a leader than individuals like to follow. In fact he is a rather divisive figure. When he was Speaker of the House, before his colleagues replaced him for his ineptitude, his lack of principles brought his integrity into question. Newt, as well as his supporters will tell us he has changed, that his time out of Washington and the national political scene has changed him. That he has matured and is a more reflective and deliberate individual. A person who weighs both sides of an issue carefully and thoroughly before acting. Perhaps, but their certainly is no guarantee, or certain...

by: Les Carpenter Rational Nation USA Liberty - v s- Tyranny Republican Presidential hopeful Newt Gingrich is in a statistical tie with Mitt Romney in New Hampshire. Polling data shows Romney with 30% and Gingrich with 27% support among likely primary voters. The poll has a 3.57% margin of error. The full scoop from the New Hampshire Journal . ...The latest NH Journal poll of likely Republican primary voters conducted by Magellan Strategies shows Romney and Gingrich in a statistical dead heat for the January 10th primary. If the election were held today, Romney would earn 29% of the vote and Gingrich would earn 27%. Texas Congressman Ron Paul continues to show resolve by earning 16%. Herman Cain gets 10%. No other candidate is in double digits. This is the first time any of NH Journal’s polls have shown anyone candidate even close to Romney. It also shows tremendous movement for Gingrich since NH Journal’s October survey, in which Gingrich was in third place, but at only 10%...

by: Les Carpenter Rational Nation USA Birthplace of Independent Conservatism Maybe this guy will just go away? Probably not. We in the real conservative/Libertarian movement couldn't be so lucky. The Newt will likely stick around awhile to stir up the ultra conservative religious right into a frenzy. I'm thinking this guy never really understood the founding fathers position with respect to religion mixing with politics. Sure, I have done my share of offering rational warnings with respect to the dangers "Extreme Islam" presents our country. I stand by them and will continue to do my best to keep the issue open for rational discussion. Having said this I also clearly see the dangers in any irrational or extremist positions in any religion. And that includes Christianity. So yes, I am beginning to see danger points within the ultra conservative religious based Christian political movement. Something our founding fathers fully understood, and in fact took great ef...

By: Les Carpenter III Rational Nation USA While I have issues with some of former congressman Gingrich's positions, one would have to be totally out of touch to not understand the concerns he expresses in the above video. Here is an example of what the extreme left has to say on the issue: What Gingrich is doing is slyly trying to defend the CEO fat cats and his chummy Wall Street elites who screwed up the economy and their companies while they raked in millions of dollars, but he doesn't come right out and say it. Movement conservatives like Newt are very adept at talking around their far-out beliefs in a way that almost makes them seem reasonable. They know how to manage the language and play it like an instrument. His tone is muted, never going off pitch and always in control. That's their edge. Karl Rove does it as well. Gingrich, who has changed his religion almost as much as his wives then uses God to justify his odious...