The Grinch Who Stole Conservatism
By Chuck Baldwin
August 6, 2010

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The GOP is frantically searching for the person who will lead them to the
Promised Land (translate: White House) in 2012. Barack Obama is leaving a
death stench so heavy that even most of the political allies in his own
party are asking him to stay away from their reelection campaigns. You gotta
give it to Obama: he has done in one term what most Presidents cannot
accomplish until their second (lame duck) term. The problem is, the GOP just
can't seem to find their Moses (or even their Ronald Reagan). That means, as
far fetched as it sounds now, Obama has a good chance of being reelected.
And, once again, when any Democrat candidate for President wins, the GOP
will have no one to blame but themselves. 2012 could be another example.

You see, the GOP (including their lackeys at Fox News) either really don't
know what a constitutional conservative looks like, or they do know what he
or she looks like and don't want them leading the party. I believe the
answer is the latter, but in either case, the GOP continually does nothing
to groom constitutionalist conservatives for leadership. Just the opposite:
such people are routinely ignored, shunned, besmirched, or impugned. (Can
anyone say, "Ron Paul"?) Is it any wonder that by the time the general
election comes around, the GOP candidate for President is usually nothing
more than a Democrat-lite, or a "Democrat in Drag" to borrow from Steve
Farrell.

That brings me to one of the people that the talking heads at Fox News and
other GOP propaganda centers are routinely discussing as their 2012
Presidential hopeful: former Speaker of the House, Newt Gingrich.

According to Reuters News, "Republican former House of Representatives
Speaker Newt Gingrich said on Sunday [July 25th] he will decide after
November's congressional elections whether he will make a run for the White
House in 2012."

Here's what Gingrich is looking at: he wants to see if the GOP makes
significant gains in both houses of Congress in the November elections. If
the GOP wins one house (especially if enough real conservatives win), I
predict Gingrich will enter the race. So he can ride a conservative wave
into the White House in 2012? No! So he can derail any potential
conservative momentum that the Tea Parties might be able to create in this
year's November elections. You see, Newt Gingrich is the Grinch Who Stole
Conservatism from the GOP.

Some of us are old enough to remember Newt Gingrich's "Contract with
America" that produced huge Republican victories in both houses of Congress
back in 1994. However, what did that "Conservative Revolution" (as it was
called then) actually produce? The answer: NOTHING! Newt's promise of
smaller government was immediately forgotten. Instead, Gingrich, along with
Senate Majority Leader Trent Lott, facilitated and helped orchestrate
further expansion of the federal government. The "less government" theme
that swept house freshmen such as Joe Scarborough, Steve Largent, Sonny
Bono, Bob Barr, Helen Chenoweth, John Shadegg, and J.C. Watts into Congress
quickly evaporated and this new neocon Republican Party was born.

Mark it down, if Newt Gingrich is the Republican Party's Presidential
nominee in 2012, he will do to whatever grassroots conservative momentum is
brought about by this year's congressional victories what he did to the
"Conservative Revolution" in 1994: DESTROY IT!

Newt's track record is there for anyone to see. So, why does Fox News
continue to promote him as a leader of smaller government or
constitutionalism? Does Fox News even have a clue as to what limited
government really means? Apparently not.

Remember, Newt Gingrich is a long-standing member of the Council on Foreign
Relations (CFR), which is a notorious proponent of globalism and archenemy
of national independence, State sovereignty, and limited government. Does
anyone at Fox News recall what Admiral Chester Ward said about the CFR?
(Plus, how many of the Big Shots at Fox News are themselves members of the
CFR?)

Rear Admiral Chester Ward, who was the Judge Advocate General of the Navy
from 1956 to 1960 and a former member of the CFR who pulled out after
realizing what they were all about, warned the American people about the
dangers of this and similar organizations (such as the Trilateral
Commission). He said, "The most powerful clique in these elitist groups have
one objective in common--they want to bring about the surrender of the
sovereignty and the national independence of the United States. A second
clique of international members in the CFR . . . comprises the Wall Street
international bankers and their key agents. Primarily, they want the world
banking monopoly from whatever power ends up in the control of global
government."

Admiral Ward also said, "The main purpose of the Council on Foreign
Relations is promoting the disarmament of U.S. sovereignty and national
independence and submergence into an all powerful, one world government."

Accordingly, as a loyal CFR elitist, Gingrich has supported Big Government
programs and policies all of his political life. Gingrich is also an ardent
disciple of Alvin Toffler, who is the guru of  "The Third Wave" politics.
That's why Gingrich refers to himself as a "conservative futurist."

Webster's (1992) Dictionary defines "Futurism" as: "Study of, and interest
in, forecasting or anticipating the future, or theorizing on how to IMPOSE
CONTROLS ON EVENTS." (Emphasis added.)

Steve Farrell rightly notes that "futurism is a head-in-the-clouds political
philosophy, complete with theories and forecasts, which envisions the use of
force to insure that those theories and forecasts come to pass." Farrell
summarizes "conservative futurism" as "communism with economic vision."

This is why Gingrich went along with Clinton's Big Government agenda, and
supported the unconstitutional faith-based subsidies, public-private
"partnerships," etc. Gingrich's brand of "conservatism" spawned another Big
Government neocon's (Karl Rove--another favorite son at Fox News)
"Compassionate Conservative" movement of the G.W. Bush White House, which at
the time led to the biggest expansion of the federal government since Lyndon
Johnson.

Gingrich's infatuation with "conservative futurism" also helps explain his
support for NAFTA, GATT, the WTO, and virtually every other policy promoting
globalism and interdependence. It also helps explain why Gingrich and former
Vice President Al Gore have worked so closely together in globalist
organizations such as the now-defunct Congressional Clearing House on the
Future (once chaired by Gore).

See Steve Farrell's column at:

http://tinyurl.com/gingrich-toffler-gore

Gingrich was also a major proponent of the federal Department of Education,
continually supports unconstitutional foreign aid, even to the Soviets and
other unfriendly governments, through the Export-Import Bank. In one year
(1994-1995) Gingrich voted for nearly $45 billion in foreign aid. He also
helped push through federal loan guarantees to Communist China.

Gingrich was the Grand Old Pal of President Bill Clinton. He supported
Clinton's unconstitutional wars (as he did Bush's); he supported Clinton's
welfare programs, education programs, labor programs, and environmental
programs, as well as most of his foreign affairs programs. Gingrich
supported spending $30 billion for the Violent Crime and Law Enforcement Act
of 1994 that shackled gun owners with new restrictions, federalized a number
of crimes, and handed the feds police powers that the Constitution reserves
to the states. (I guess the NRA forgot all about that, too.)

Gingrich voted to give billions of dollars to United Nations "peacekeeping"
operations; he supported the National Endowment for the Arts; he supports
giving illegal aliens amnesty; and he has continually supported increased
federal spending and higher taxes.

Campaign for Liberty has an excellent exposé on Newt Gingrich that I
encourage everyone to read. See it at:

http://www.campaignforliberty.com/blog.php?view=36799

Also, John McManus has an outstanding video exposing Newt Gingrich as a
traitor to conservatism and constitutional government that everyone should
watch. See it at:

http://vimeo.com/6445068

In spite of overwhelming evidence that Newt Gingrich is a scheming,
double-talking, duplicitous Big-Government globalist of the highest order,
many conservatives continue to listen to pro-Gingrich propaganda coming from
Fox News and other "conservative" outlets.

If true conservatism has any chance of reemerging within the sheepfold of
what is known as the national Republican Party, that fox, Newt Gingrich,
must not be allowed to be anywhere near it. Unfortunately, thanks to Fox
News (pun too easy to pass up), Gingrich is prowling around the barnyard and
doubtless licking his chops at the prospect of having another opportunity to
feast on the flesh of unsuspecting conservative sheep that foolishly believe
him to be one of them.

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