The Candidacy of Newton Leroy Gingrich

Newton Gingrich was Speaker of the House from 1996 to 1999. He is a very resourceful man. He has been voicing his ideas at many places. He is also a practical man who understands the consequences of Ryan's radical budget cuts. He obviously understands it better than all the other Republicans who abandoned him because they did not have the courage to stand up to the Tea Party.

After publicly stating his opposition to Paul Ryan's budget cuts, he apologized stating he made a mistake. But he never publicly embraced Paul Ryan's plan. I didn't find a word about Paul Ryan's plan on Gingrich's web site. Which means that beyond making peace with Paul Ryan, Newt Gingrich is not backing down.

I admire senators and representatives who are willing to reach across party lines in order to find common ground. These include Senator John McCain, Speaker of the House John Boehner, Senator Reid, and Vice President Biden. Recently President Obama reached across party lines in order to avoid a international financial crisis due to defaulting on our interest payment on our debt.

I do not admire those like Senator McConnell who is willing to let the US default on the national debt interest payment in order to achieve his ideological goals. The sole intent of all the actions of Senator McConnell was and is as he stated after the 2010 election: Defeat Obama in 2012.

With regard to jobs, Speaker of the House John Boehner spoke for the Tea Party when he said, "If jobs are lost, so be it." Those words characterize the efforts of the Republican House of Representative since Jan 2011.

Paul Ryan has been a Representative in the House of Representatives since 1998. His budget plan is not in the best interest of the United States. It's sole objective appears to be to drive unemployment rates up via radical budget cuts that further the Republican ideology. He is uncompromising and is a favorite member of the Tea Party.

If we don't have a robust economy in the next ten years, the 4 trillion dollars of tax cuts will increase the national debt to 18.5 trillion dollars. And that doesn't include the additional national debt created by all the tax cuts in the past half century during all recessions since then.

Businesses don't hire people to gain tax breaks. The tax breaks do nothing to improve the economy because corporations hire for their overseas branches rather than for their branches in the US. The trickle down theory has been proven totally false by the huge corporate profits and high unemployment over the past several years.

In essence, I'm rooting for the most practical resourceful man in the Republican Party, namely Newt Gingrich to either win the Republican nomination for President or run on an independent ticket. And I'm rooting for Obama to win the 2012 Presidential elections thereby saving our entitlement programs from the totally unnecessary destructive efforts of Paul Ryan.