Callista Ginigrich visits Hudson Monday afternoon
March 26, 2012 at 12:06 pm in Hudson Star-Observer
Callista Gingrich, wife of Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich, was in Hudson Monday afternoon to read from her book “Sweet Land of Liberty” at Trinity Academy. The appearance caused a bit of controversy when it was first announced that she would be reading at Rock Elementary in Hudson. Continue Reading
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You are right Alice, we all love Moochelle Obama. She tells us what to eat and not eat, when and how much to exercise, and so graciously travels around the world and entertains extravagantly and excessively at taxpayer expense-far more than any other first lady in history. She is a far better example of a first lady we can all get behind….you know what I mean.
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Alice, she came to read a book to children. Have you read the book? I’m no fan of Gingrich, but you have deemed the event illegitimate because you dislike her husband. I dislike Obama and his wife, and yet I would not begrudge Michelle from reading a book she wrote to children unless I knew the book contained objectionable material.
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No – she came to represent her husband, in his absence. Do you think that this is how Callista typically spends her days when her husband is not laughably trying once again to become POTUS? And when this election is over, do you think she will have a reason to come back to charming little Hudson, WI to read to the kiddies? Gimmee a break!
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Alice, I assume you direct just as much venom towards the current POTUS since he’s ripe for ridicule on a weekly basis, and am sure you give equal time ripping people who have a history of illicit relationships whether sexual or political. Or would you rather not go there?
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Thank you Alice. You have proven my point.
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The mass media and some commentators would like to present Santorum as a candidate whose strength is only in social issues. They deliberately do this in order to have BHO reelected. Santorum is not only the leader in social issues but in national security and foreign policy. Please read the two acts that he authored in 2004: The Iran Freedom Act and the Syrian Accountability Act. Santorum strongly opposes a government intrusion in private sectors. Base on principle, He opposed all bailouts. He condemns the current administration’s infringement on freedom of religion and conscience. The government should not force religious individuals and religious organizations such as catholic schools, charities etc. to provide its employees with contraceptives, morning-after pills (Plan B) and sterilization. This is an infringement on religious freedom and an attack on people of faith.
Let us take some common factors for all the candidates and
evaluate them in order to hire one of them as POTUS:
1. Character and integrity -Santorum wins hands down; No flip-flops in cap & trade, climate change, bailouts, abortion , gay marriage, individual health mandates etc.; Compared to others he has very less or no personal, professional and political issues. He could make Barack Obama and his policies an issue of the general campaign. We cannot afford a candidate who will be an issue in the general campaign.
2. Humble Beginnings – Santorum wins (lived in public housings and stated his career as a shoe shiner; and from a coal miner grandfather); has less money than Obama and the remaining candidates. There is nothing wrong in having more money. Having less money discourages the left from using class warfare. They cannot say Santorum is part of the 1% who represents the interest of the Wall Street.
3. Consistency in conservative leadership in sanctity of life & family, consistently supports marriage between a man & a woman, fought for tort reform; fought for welfare reform, Defense of Marriage Act( DOMA), late term abortion and had legislative victories etc.: Santorum has a matchless record in social issues. Romney has started saying he lived having core conservative values. Romney’s father was Rockefeller republican and his mother was pro-choice. He even called himself severely conservative. Is there anyone who could tell us what Romney’s consistent values have been for his life time? Santorum got 75% of the votes by leaders of Evangelicals, Catholics, and Protestants who met early this year in Houston Texas (all candidates sent their surrogates to the two day conference who heard all of them speak for their respective candidates before the votes). He has 88% rating by ACU. He has 98% ratings by NRA while Ron Paul has 50%.
4. Sound national security and foreign policy: Santorum even won in some of the CNN debates when asked about US foreign policy for Latin America etc. and various issues including issues related to individual mandates and Romney care. No other candidate has an experience in national security & foreign policy like Santorum. Please read online the Iran Freedom & Support Act & the Syrian Accountability act which were authored by Santorum in 2004. Why do we look to a novice (such as Romney and others) in national security and foreign policy when we have already a well experienced candidate (Santorum)? As a person who worked for 8 years as a member of the Senate Armed Services Committee, he knows better about our national security and international interests.
5. Likability: It is widely believed that Santorum is the most likable candidate with less or almost no personal and professional issues. He is a faithful husband, father of 7 children. He is the best role model for a family.
6. Economic Policy: Santorum is the only candidate who has a family friendly and manufacturing centered economic policy that helps US to grow our economy and jobs. Through this policy he can win back Reagan democrats, blue collar workers in the swing states. The Wall Street Journal called Santorum’s economic policy bold and supply side economics for the working person.
7. Negative Campaign; Insider or/and Outsider issue: Romney has already spent more than $50 Million to attack his fellow republicans. He has continued to distort Santorum’s records. Romney is the worst in negative campaign followed by Ron Paul and Gingrich. Romney requested earmarks for Utah Olympics and for Massachusetts. He accuses Santorum as earmarker, insider and big government spender. ABC News recent video exposed Romney’s attitude about receiving earmarks (government money). Getting earmarks and bringing the bacon home gladly was one of the reasons representatives were sent to Washington DC, according to former Senator from Wyoming, Allen Simpson on CSPAN recently. The debt ceiling while Santorum was in US Senate was very much smaller than what it is now. It is better to say that Romney is the current ultimate insider (most elite and Republican establishment still support Romney) because he is for the status quo. Being an insider gives you a better insight and understanding of the problems in the federal government (the three coequal branches of our government). Santorum left the Senate five years ago and has been in private sector since then. Earmark is less than 1% of the US yearly budget and is legal. Resorting to such insignificant issue and an attack by Romney shows his desperation to simply get a vote at any cost.
8. Debating skills: Although he does not promote himself as the best debater like Newt, Santorum won some of the CNN debates before the one we saw in Arizona (almost all media outlets agreed to the fact that Santorum won based on substance). There are three presidential debates in the fall. The idea that a candidate will have a Douglas – Lincoln debate type is just an illusion and a stunt to get votes. Nobody can force any one to a debate outside of he officially agreed upon three debates to which he may not agree.
Rupert Murdoch (Owner of the Fox News) said Santorum has a big idea when compared to others.
Ron Paul is a libertarian. He ran on Libertarian ticket in 1988. He has not ruled out a possibility of running as a third party candidate in 2012. He has not adequately addressed about his racist newsletters published under his name and for which he was the editor. His isolationist foreign policy and his belief that America is responsible for all the attacks against it including 911 and his objection to America’s entry into WWII, which stopped Nazis and communists world domination won’t be acceptable to the majority of Americans. Romney is unreliable and Newt is unpredictable, according to those who closely know them. Romney is not credible to stand against Obama on Obamacre, bailouts, tax increases (had big net tax increases and fees as Governor), supported No Child Left Behind Program and still supports it (although he accuses Santorum of the same). Newt married three times and changed church three times. Newt was for bailouts, TARP, the bogus man made climate change, cap & trade, individual health mandate, member of the Council On Foreign Relations (globalist) since 1990s. Newt divorced twice due to infidelity. Newt thinks that he may set a gas price at $2.50 per gallon. He is not telling us the truth. Gas price is set by OPEC and the free market. Nobody has control on it. This is a stunt to just get our votes. Romney promoted Romney care to BHO to be used as a model for our country in 2009 and denies doing so at irregular intervals. How can Romney & Newt credibly challenge BHO on individual health mandate; Cap & Trade; bailouts; TARP (on all these they have the same position with BHO).The only consistent and genuine conservative who is the man of his words is Rick Santorum. Not only have his supporters’ best opinion of him, some of his critics say he is authentic.
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I would like to challenge those who do not like my previous comment to sate if my statements are not factual correct. That way we can leatrn from each other and make an inormed deciison.
What most voters may not know is the fact that be it at a local or national level there are big governments Republicans who are not different from Democrats. The RINos support Mitt Romney who opposed the 2003 Bush Tax Cuts; who supported the Bradley Bill (who wrote into law a permanent assault weapons ban); who in the past said “labor unions play an important role in our society”. Without the court order, Romney unilaterally ordered his state agencies to implement homosexual marriage. In 2002, Romney declared that “his only connection to the Republican Party in the state is “I am registered as a Republican”.
Romney is currently supported by more than 390 lobbyist; the liberal wing of the Republican Party; the hired guns and consultants who want jobs in case he wins. The unexcited grass roots of the Republican Party and the TEA party are the most sincere patriots who would like to see a limited government; less government expenditure and fewer debts. In 1994, Romney lost big to Ted Kennedy due to his record in Bain’s capital and some unconventional practices of the Mormon faith – which Ted Kennedy used to ruin Romney’s candidacy.
To know more about Mitt Romney, please go to this website:
7 Reasons Why Mitt Romney’s Electability Is A Myth
RightWingNews.com ^ | 27 Dec 2011 | John Hawkins
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We need another revolution- the government needs to get out of my life, and do what it was designed to do
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there is a govrenment agency working on this for you.
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By having an authentic conseravtive in the White House and a vetor proof US Congress, then & only then we can limit the power of governent. Inorder to do that vote for santorum on A[pril 3, 2012.
What most voters may not know is the fact that be it at a local or national level there are big governments Republicans who are not different from Democrats. The RINos support Mitt Romney who opposed the 2003 Bush Tax Cuts; who supported the Bradley Bill (who wrote into law a permanent assault weapons ban); who in the past said “labor unions play an important role in our society”. Without the court order, Romney unilaterally ordered his state agencies to implement homosexual marriage. In 2002, Romney declared that “his only connection to the Republican Party in the state is “I am registered as a Republican”.
Romney is currently supported by more than 390 lobbyist; the liberal wing of the Republican Party; the hired guns and consultants who want jobs in case he wins. The unexcited grass roots of the Republican Party and the TEA party are the most sincere patriots who would like to see a limited government; less government expenditure and fewer debts. In 1994, Romney lost big to Ted Kennedy due to his record in Bain’s capital and some unconventional practices of the Mormon faith – which Ted Kennedy used to ruin Romney’s candidacy.
To know more about Mitt Romney, please go to this website:
7 Reasons Why Mitt Romney’s Electability Is A Myth
RightWingNews.com ^ | 27 Dec 2011 | John Hawkins
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How many times have we been told that Romney is a “presumptive and inevitable nominee?” The Establishment and other Romney supporters are trying to get rid of the other candidates whom they have been opposing from the beginning of the campaign. Rick Santorum is a cause candidate. If they don’t handle this issue wisely, there will be many voters who may even refuse to vote in the general. Romney is ignoring about 63%+ of the Republican base who do not trust him. No candidate can win without an excited base. John McCain lost the election in 2008, because Conservatives refused to vote for him. It is a very risky proposition to think that conservatives will vote for any candidate that won’t represent their values because of hatred for BHO policies.
It is expected from all of us to tell each other the truth and try to have our country come out of its out of control debts, deficits and the gridlock we see in Washington D.C. Most people do not know that there is difference between being a conservative and a republican. There is a big difference. There are liberal/moderate big government republicans in the Republican Party who are simply different from Progressives in name only. There are conservative democrats, republicans, and independents. Instead of concentrating on petty issues such as wearing sweater or defending oneself against a misbehaving reporter, let us concentrate on major issues such as the candidates’ character & integrity and the relevance of their experiences to be a POTUS. Unlike Romney, Rick Santorum has a national security & foreign affairs experiences. Please read online the two acts he authored in 2004: The Iran Freedom & Support Act & the Syrian Accountability Act. Had someone implemented his plan, the current crisis what Iran would have been resolved a long time ago. He is the only one who can challenge BHO when it comes to national security and international affairs. In this volatile world, can we afford to have another novice (Romney) in the oval office? A POTUS is not only a Commander-in-chief of the US Armed Forces but a Chief Legislature. As Commander in Chief & the Chief Legislature, Rick Santorum can start working from day one unlike Mitt Romney. The President of USA has the following main functions: 1)He is the Chief Diplomat – he establishes policies towards other countries and speaks for our country; 2) As Commander-in-Chief of the Armed Forces, he has the power to declare war with the consent of the US Congress; 3) He takes care of the national security of our country through the national security staff and other government agencies; 4) He suggests new laws to Congress; 5) A POTUS is expected to do what is in the best interest of all Americans. It is important to notice that a public office requires special skills different from private sector skills. A POTUS cannot & will not grow an economy and jobs. The mass media and Romney supporters & Romney tell us that private sector business skills are the most important tools to “turn” our economy around. Nothing is further from the truth. The history of past presidents with a private sector experiences show that most of them are not above average and some of them are at the bottom of presidential rankings. The mass media like controversies for their ratings. They would like to have candidates who have similarities so that the outcome of the election could be too close to call. That way, they make sure that so many people would be glued to their TV in order to have more viewers for their ratings. We need a candidate who is not similar to BHO to have a vital debate in fall. We have been told a lie that Romney “can turn our economy around.” NO POTUS has ever done & will ever be able to fix the American economy. Don’t simply take my words for it. Please let us start thinking for ourselves and save America from the brink of a looming disaster. So many people who voted for Mitt Romney believed the lie that he could fix our economy. This is a lie of greatest proportion and so many have not paid attention to it. The government affects a private sector by passing bad or good laws. Those who have been misled believing that a POTUS can turn around our economy and voted for Mitt Romney & the rest of the American people deserve an apology.
The political leadership of the Republican Party presented Romney as an “incumbent president” saying he is a ‘presumptive and inevitable” nominee even before the IOWA Caucus. In order to discourage the remaining states from voting for Santorum, they have increased endorsements for Romney by the so called prominent figures of the Establishment and increase calls for the only conservative candidate who have excited the base and were able to win about 11 states against all odds. They have never been for him up until now. It is hypocritical on their part to ask someone whom they have never supported to stop campaigning. Along with some mass media they want to project Romney as already a “winner “based on a non-scientific delegate counts. Santorum has hired an expert in delegate counts and is expected to get more delegates from Florida, Arizona and other states. As getting delegates don’t follow a popular vote; and there are many uncommitted and super delegates, let us for now leave delegate counts to the Republican Party and focus on upcoming primaries. I urge voters not be misled by what they hear from the Establishment about a fictitious delegate count and ‘inevitability”. About 70% of the bases do not trust Romney.
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1. Ron Paul wants prostitution and harmful drugs to be legalized at a state level
As a libertarian there is no question that he supports legalization of prostitution and harmful drugs at a state level. I do not think the majority of Americans would any way support Ron Paul’s position on this. Prostitution and harmful drugs shouldn’t be supported at the federal and state level. Many marriages, personal lives have been affected by both prostitution and harmful drugs. Before of addictions there are many who couldn’t live a normal life. In the name of liberty, RP and others should not encourage a legalization of anything that destroys our fellow human beings
2. He is anti-Semitic
Your own comments and the comments made by Ron Paul and his supporters are a clearly testimony that RP is anti-Semitic. USA does not have any other democratic ally who shares our values like Israel in the Middle East. It is widely believed that we are the top beneficiary of Israeli’s research & development; intelligence etc. It is estimated by some that about 70% of the aids marked for Israel is spent in USA. I think you have misinformation about Israel’s history. Israel has been fighting a defensive war for its very existence since its inception in 1948 and then in 1956, 1967, 1973, intifada since the year 2000. How do you expect Israel to deal with the Palestinian Authority, which still maintains the destruction of Israel in its Charter? And Hamas wants all of Israel and the destruction of Jews all over the world. They teach in their schools that Jews are the descendants of pigs & apes. Thousands of rockets are fired at irregular intervals to Israeli population areas at irregular intervals. It is reported that RP supported aids to Palestinians. It is ridiculous that you try to compare liberals’ erroneous thinking as to what is racist or not to Israelis situation – under which nobody could live a normal & peaceful life. RP’s foreign policy is dangerous for US interests. He wants to threat a “nuclear Iran under theMADD (Mutual Assured Destruction Deterrent) nuclear policy, which worked well with the former Soviet Union (USSR). He is naïve to think that Iran, which strongly desires to bring back the Twelfth imam (Mahdi or Messiah (savior)) back by creating worldwide chaos through martyrdom to form a world-wide –caliphate. How can you deter one who believes to get more rewards through death?
3. And a 911 Truther
Bin Laden and others would like to tell us things they believe could be accepted in the west with a hope to weaken us from within. Please read about the goals of the Muslim Brotherhood from which Alqaeda originated. They want to form a world-wide-caliphate by forcing others (infidels) to believe in Allah thereby establishing Sharia Law. Without understanding the Muslims militant ideology, it is very easy to blame the USA as RP and his supporters do. Do not forget that there could many secularists in CIA who may not know about fundamentalist Muslim’s ideology. Because of our tolerance of diversified views due to our Judeo-Christian values in our country, there are many who assume that others are like us. Nothing is further from the truth. I appreciate if RP disassociate himself from those who blame America first for all of the attacks made against us. Beside this, why hasn’t Ron Paul come clean about his racist newsletters from which he benefitted financially and for which he was the author. Do you think Romney’sconsistent on various issues than Santorum? If not why do RP and his supporters continuously attack Santorum and not Romney? RP run on a libertarian ticket in 1988. His supporters openly say “If Ron Paul is not nominated; we will write-in his name or most probably vote for Gary Johnson”. RP has not ruled out to run as a third party candidate. Doesn’t this show RP’s dishonesty in pretending to be a republican in order to get a legitimacy to run a movement which in any way does not want to show its loyalty to Republican Party? If he runs on a third party ticket,he could take more votes from the democrats. Isn’t he hypocritical when he accuses Santorum for earmarks when he himself is a prolific ear marker (which he admitted during the last night CNN debate?).
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In case ya haven’t heard, tworeti, bin laden’s been dead for about a year or so…
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Just reminding people that the republicans had total control for 6 years and pretty much ruined the country. Obama has spent his entire presidency trying to fix their mess and has pretty much failed. Time for a new direction. Both democrats and republicans stink.
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According to an article by John Hawkins posted on March 30, 2012 on free republic website:
Mitt Romney left office as governor of MA with approval ratings of 30%. Romney care was a Hurricane Katrina style disaster for the state. He cannot carry his own state (MA) in the general. Republican voters still look for anti-Romney candidate. Voters do not gravitate to the “most moderate” candidate. He left office as the 48th most popular governor in America. He failed to capture GOP nomination in 2008. His money, organization advantage and inside the beltway mass media advantages’ will disappear in the general. For now, he is allowed to skate through without much scrutiny. Bain Capital got federal bailout of $10 million. Romney & others made $4 million in this deal. Mitt Romney excites no one except Mormons, political consultants & Jennifer Rubin. “More than 40 percent of Americans would be uncomfortable with a Mormon as president, according to a new survey that also suggests that as more white evangelical voters have learned White House hopeful Mitt Romney is Mormon, the less they like him”. “There will be Protestants who will have deep reservations about voting a Mormon into the White House because they’ll be afraid it will help promote what they believe to be a false religion. There have also been a number of polls that show that significant numbers of Americans won’t vote for a Mormon as President”. He is a flip-flopper. “There are a lot of issues with trying to run a candidate who doesn’t seem to have any core principles. It makes it impossible for his supporters to get excited about him because you can’t fall in love with a weathervane. Even worse, since politicians tend to be such liars anyway and you know Romney has no firm beliefs, it’s very easy for everyone to assume the worst. Democrats will feel that Romney will be a right wing death-beast. Republicans will think that Romney will screw them over. Independents won’t know what to believe, which will make the hundreds of millions that Obama will spend on attack ads particularly effective. Ronald Reagan famously said the GOP needed “a banner of no pale pastels, but bold colors.” That’s particularly relevant when it comes to Mitt Romney who has proven to be a pasty grey pile of formless mush”.
Please vote for the only genuine and authentic conservative candidate, Rick Santorum.
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Santorum is as much of a quack as Bachmann.
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