In the November 22, 2011 debate Ron Paul said the Patriot act is unpatriotic because it undermines our liberty; terrorism is a crime and we should deal with it – we dealt with it rather successfully with Timothy McVey. Gingrich responded with: McVey succeeded, I don’t want a national law that says after we’ve lost a major American city we’re sure going to come and find you; I want a law that says if you try to take out an American city we’re going to stop you. I agree with Newt. The New Hampshire Union Leader newspaper announced its endorsement of Newt Gingrich. Romney picked up the endorsement of North Dakota’s Senator. An Iowa poll showed that although they have serious doubts about Romney they would vote for him over Obama but they cannot agree on a Republican candidate to throw all their support to. On November 28 there was talk about the music played on Jimmy Fallon’s show when Bachmann was introduced and Rush (the drug addict) came to her defense. Herman Cain said blacks are brainwashed and a Georgia business woman came forward saying she had a 13 year affair with Herman Cain. After all the allegations of sexual harassment and affairs, Cain still had supporters that believed him over the alleged victims but this leads to a nosedive in the polls and Cain suspends (not terminates) his campaign on December 4 and endorses Newt who’s now ahead in the Iowa polls. Mitt Romney got a key Florida endorsement.
The View on November 30 talked about New Jersey Governor Chris Christie blaming President Obama for the failure of the Super Committee; he’s saying he’s just a bystander in the oval office and asking “what the hell are we paying you for”. I guess he didn’t understand the purpose and power given to the committee if he’s making such asinine statements. Joy Behar quoted some of the things the President has done: He gave us health care, even though it’s flawed and needs improvement people with preexisting problems can now get health care – it’s been tried since Truman; he ended the unfair bigoted military policy of ‘Don’t ask, don’t tell’ – put in place by Clinton, enacted the biggest financial reform since the depression (Dodd-Frank Act), saved the American auto industry with the stimulus package, and he took out Bin Laden. On December 4 we hear that Donald Trump is scheduled to moderate a GOP debate on December 27, Ron Paul and Jon Huntsman say they’re not going; it’s beneath the office of the presidency. Trump called them losers, said he was glad they weren’t attending and wasting the viewers’ time; he pulled as moderator since only Gingrich and Santorum were attending and on December 24, I heard he dropped his Republican registration; has no affiliation and can run as an Independent.
On December 5 we hear that Gingrich said to Jake Tapper at ABC News - Some of the things they (young poor kids) can do is work in the library, work in the front office, some of them could frankly be janitorial - what if they cleaned out the bathrooms, what if they mopped the floors, what if the summer they repainted the school, what if in the process they were actually learning to work, learning to earn money, they had their own money and didn’t have to become a pimp or prostitute or drug dealer, they had the dignity of work and learned to be around adults who actually wanted to mentor them and help them; this is not a casual comment it grows out of a lot of thinking over many years of trying to figure out how do we break out people trapped in poverty who have no work habits. Newt said he talked to Trump about a child apprentice program and has also mentioned changing the child labor laws. Donald Trump was on with Matt Lauer on the Today show and he agrees with Newt’s characterization about what’s going on in poor communities; he said – it wasn’t maybe politically correct but it happens to be the truth. When Trump was pressed on whether he believed the poor had no role models he said – I think they have a role model, President Obama, let him be their role model, unfortunately he hasn’t turned out to be much of a role model, no they don’t in many cases have a role model, it’s very sad, I know it’s not a very popular statement but it happens to be true. Newt’s statement has a lot of assumptions about what poor kids are learning and doing. He also forgets that years ago child labor was used and it created sweat shops that Americans objected to. I think it would be better to put money into the educating the children in poor districts than to use children to take away jobs from the almost 9% of American adults that are unemployed. Dealing drugs is not just a poor person’s profession, look at Sam Hurd (ex-Chicago Bears Wide Receiver said to be a devote Christian and family man) who in mid-December was accused of dealing drugs to the tone of $700,000 a week (more than his million dollar contract) by undercover government agents. Although Newt’s statement is ridiculous, he takes a big lead over Romney.
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