Happy Memorial Day Weekend to everyone and to all the American soldiers who served, and who have served, and those who gave the ultimate sacrifice for the freedom of this fine nation, we honor and salute you.
It is because of your sacrifice that our freedom to live a life far from war, a life of peace and the pursuit of happiness, is a reality. We honor the service that many brave men and woman still make even in this day and age of uber partisan bickering and wide gulfs between parties. Even so, the brave soldier does as he is ordered, and makes sacrifices everyday, putting themselves in harms way, that we civilians cannot even comprehend.
To those still serving in warzones like Iraq and Afghanistan, we pray for your safety, that you may return home and hold your head up high; proud in the silent duty you’ve displayed, knowing that you’re life experience is unmatched by most who will pass through this realm, and that you have given all you had to a cause greater than your own self interests.
I hope everyone has a fantastic Memorial Day weekend! Take a minute or two to bow your head, and say prayer for our active duty American soldiers, men and women abroad and at home, as well as for all who serve, including Policemen, Firemen, Coast Guard, pilots, bus drivers, and all those who put themselves in compromising or dangerous situations on a daily basis, for the service of others and the betterment of their community. Without them, our society would cease to function, and that is something often taken for granted.
Newt Gingrich ends 2012 Republican Presidential Candidacy in this speech.
As many of you already know, Republican Presidential Candidate and “Last Conservative Standing” Newt Gingrich has officially bowed out of the tumultuous Republican race for the Republican Presidential Nomination of 2012.
Along with his departing of the race, he officially endorsed Mitt Romney for the Republican Nomination, and pledged to continue working hard and fighting hard for the Conservative and Christian ideals that made this country the great “shining city on a hill” that it is. As well as doing everything he can to elect Mitt Romney as President and secure Republican and Conservative members at all levels of government.
On the Romney issue, he talked about how he is often asked if “Mitt Romney is Conservative enough?” He went on to explain, “Compared to President Obama?!” and stated that the Conservativeness of Romney compared to Obama is WIDER than the gulf between Ronald Reagen and Jimmy Carter during the 1980s before Reagen was elected President in a landslide defeat for the religious Democrat.
As an active citizen, Newt will continue to work on the intellectually sound and challenging ideas that attracted me to his Presidency in the first place. To this day, I still believe that Newt Gringich was the right man we needed for the job… and I believe his losing of the race is a lose for the American people as a whole. For all of his flaws, the man had the big ideas and willingness to challenge and force REAL CHANGE that we needed in today’s stalled political system.
My only hope is that Newt Gingrich will be given a second chance and a real chance to affect real and sustainable change in a Romney Presidential cabinet, assuming Mitt Romney can defeat President Barack Obama in the November 2012 elections this year (which I am confident he will).
If so, I hope that Romney will consider Newt for a high and powerful position in his new cabinet. Can you imagine how much change we’d see if we had a Secretary of State Newt? Or if Newt was installed to lead this country to full production of domestic energy resources?
Here is Newt Gingrich’s final speech as a 2012 Republican for the Presidential Nomination.
If you have never listened to Newt before or even given the man the slightest of chances, I urge you to watch this video all the way through (just be warned that he gives tons and tons of thank you’s before diving into the substance of his speech). I hope that you will see the brilliance that this man brings and the ideas that we need to act on NOW if we are to save America. And I am confident that Mitt Romney will make the smart choice and adopt many of Newt’s ideas. As well as ones that were abandoned by President Obama, like the President’s own Debt Commission and its recommendations.
Among the many great ideas include a return to prominence in outer space exploration and research (his “moon colony” remark got him in trouble, but as he says, the point was real. And Google founders and billionaires are already drawing up plans to literally mine an asteroid…), fundamentally changing Social Security and economic reform to generate wealth (and give people new-found freedom), he speaks on the importance of regenerative medicine and brain research, the importance of hightech technology and accelerating research and development, reforming unemployment benefits to tie them to learning a trade, reforming how our schools work and how kids are educated and taught work ethics, reforming the way colleges work in America and fundamentally restoring the stalled government bureaucracy that saturates us, and a whole range of other issues.
Now the real work begins…
…… Some MAJOR players endorsed Newt Gingrich, people I respect a whole lot. Including Chuck Norris, Hermain Cain, Rick Perry, Fred Thompson, Michael Reagen, and J.C. Watts among others.
