A few days ago,  the New York Times, a wholly owned subsidiary of the Democrat Party and the socialist movement, did a story on the debt levels college graduates are facing.   The story sought to place the blame for all of these students in debt.

 

There is fault here for the student loan crisis.  And it is not what the official newspaper of cat litter pans everywhere says.  Who is responsible for the student loan crisis?

 

As with most major disasters, there is more than one source of fault.  The Times of course wants to blame it on a lack of government spending.  Since that is where the Times assigns fault, you can determine right away, without any further research that those are not the causes.

 

One of the biggest causes of this crisis are the students themselves and their families.  At 18 years old, someone should have told these students the basics of economics.  If you borrow money, you have to pay it back with interest.

 

One of the students featured in the story, named Kelsey Griffith said, “I knew a private school would cost a lot of money. But when I graduate, I’m going to owe like $900 a month. No one told me that.”

 

What the hell were you thinking?   What the hell were your parents thinking?  Did you think you just won the lottery?  Did you think you the bank was just giving you the money?

 

This is someone who has graduated from high school and has almost graduated from college and cannot figure this out.

 

One of the biggest problems is the unrealistic expectation of these students and their families.  They cannot all afford to go to these nice private schools.   Some of these kids need to go to regular state universities and something, perish the though, should just start out in community college!

 

Another major cause of this student loan crisis is the fact these loans are guaranteed by the government.  Talk about crony capitalism! 

 

The banks have an incredible deal.   If the student pays their loans back, the banks will make profit off the interest.  If they do not, the government will cover the bank’s loss.

 

And there is the problem.  The banks do not care about the loans.  If you can fog a mirror, and you are in college, you can get these loans.

 

The banks do not ask the questions they would normally ask say for a business loan.  They do not ask important questions like where, is this money going and how are you going to pay it back?

 

CBS News did a blathering piece a few weeks ago on the student loan debt crisis.  It featured a man who had $80,000 in student loan debt and had graduated with a degree in women’s studies.  He had no job and no prospect of paying his loans back.

 

This is the problem with the guarantees.  What bank would loan money for someone to get a degree in something as useless as women’s studies if the government did not guarantee the loans?   Women’s studies is probably the second most useless and unemployable major right after “Peace studies.”

 

The guarantees block some reasonable questions that students themselves should be asking.  For example, why would you borrow $200,000 to get educated in a field like social work, for example, where you are only going to be paid $30,000 a year.   If you are going to borrow $200,000 to become a doctor, that is one thing as you will have the income at some point to pay those loans down.

 

Parents bear a lot of the responsibility for the student loan crisis.  First, they should know better and should warn their kids that these massive loans have to be paid back.   Part of the American dream now is to send your kids to college.  This is a good thing and higher education should be strongly encouraged.  However, not everyone is ready at 18 to go to a university. 

 

For some kids, they are better off working for a couple of years or doing a tour in the military and then coming to college when they are 21 and have a clue what they are doing.

 

We have a massive student loan debt problem.  We can thank the government for stupid policies that have created the problem.   The answer is not throwing more money at student loans. 

 

The answer is some personal responsibility.

 

Perhaps a college somewhere should start offering a degree in personal responsibility.   It would certainly be worth more than many of the degrees these schools currently offer.

 

Richard Mourdock, who is a great conservative and a favorite of almost every Tea Party and conservative group, had one of those days most politicians only dream of yesterday.   Mourdock is running to replace Richard Lugar, the crown prince of the RINOs, as one of the Senators from Indiana.

So what happened?

First, Sarah Palin endorsed Mourdock.  Her endorsement, coming just days before Indiana’s primary is huge for Mourdock. 

Palin wrote on her Facebook page: I join commonsense conservatives in endorsing Richard Mourdock to be the next Senator from Indiana. Conservatives of all stripes are uniting behind Richard Mourdock. It’s not just Indiana that benefits from sending the right Senator to serve for the right reasons; the nation as a whole benefits, and that is one reason why the eyes of so many around the nation are focused on the Indiana race.

Indiana deserves a conservative in the Senate who will fight for the Hoosier State, uphold our Constitution, and not just go along to get along with the vested interests of the permanent political class in D.C.

The other really good news came in the form of news that American Action Network was pulling out of the Indiana primary.   This news did not make headlines but it is hugely significant.

AAN has been supporting RINO Richard Lugar.  They were buying TV ads and using digital media to support Lugar.  They have pulled the plug on their efforts.

Officially the race between Mourdock and Lugar is too close to call.  AAN would not be pulling out if it were really that close.

AAN sees the race as a loss for Lugar and has decided to quit throwing good money after bad.

This is great news in the Tea Party’s battle against the RINO establishment.  John McCain and Indiana’s RINO governor Mitch Daniels have endorsed Lugar.  If John McCain endorses a candidate, you probably cannot go wrong if you oppose that candidate without doing any further research. 

Much as 2010 was the year for the Tea Party Congress, we need to make 2012 the year of the Tea Party Senate.   In the next couple of months we are going to have a lot of races and a lot of Tea Party candidates who need our support.  In Maine, Scott D’Amboise is taking on the establishment.  In Virginia, Tea Party organizer Jamie Radtke is running for the Senate.  In Missouri, Sarah Steelman is running against several establishment candidates.   In Texas, Ted Cruz is running against an establishment Lieutenant Governor and in Utah Dan Liljenquist is running against Ted Kennedy’s favorite Republican Orrin Hatch. 

Richard Mourdock’s primary is on May 8^th.  Please go to his site and see what you can do to help him push Lugar out of the way.   Donate and volunteer.  Remember Lugar is Barack Obama’s favorite Republican.   Let’s make Lugar Obama’s favorite retired Republican.

We may have a liberal Republican as the Presidential nominee, but we can still win the war of 2012.  But we must put conservatives in the Senate and the House. 

Richard Mourdock’s battle in Indiana is the first one.  It will be the first Tea Party victory of 2012.   This fight isn’t over yet.

We need everyone on deck for this fight. 

Let’s go out and win one this year for freedom, liberty and for America!

Judson Phillips is Associate Director of TheTeaparty.net and CEO of  Tea Party Nation.

Buy me out.  It is a simple idea.  I want the government to buy me out.   I am tired of the government and its foolish ideas.

What do I want to be bought out from?

Social Security.

Social Security is a joke.  Every few years we hear the alarming news that it is going bankrupt.  Of course it is.  It is a government program so by definition it is very badly run.

Obama has made a bad situation worse.  His temporary payroll tax cut of 2% is cutting into the revenues Social Security depends on for benefits.  Obama knows this.  He wants to hasten the date of Social Security’s demise so he can demand that the cap on payroll taxes be abolished and he can impose another massive tax hike. 

I have a better idea.

I want out.

I’ve been working for 37 years and paying into the system.  Assuming I do not retire until I am 70, to maximize the benefits, I would have four years before the system crashed and that is assuming things do not get worse.

Forget it.  I’m done.

One hundred years ago, most people worked until they could work no more. 

What is wrong with that?

Nothing, in my book.  In fact, that is my plan.  I want to work until I cannot work any longer.   If you do not want to, that is your business and not mine.  But this is what I want to do.

Which gets me back to the Ponzi scheme we call Social Security. 

I want my money back.  I want my money back with interest. 

I’m happy to get out of the Social Security system.  Give me my money back and I will forgo any rights to Social Security benefits.

What would happen if everyone decided they wanted to pull out?

For starters, we would all take more responsibility for our future.  

What would I do with my money?  I’d invest in a private retirement and disability account.  Something that would protect me incase something unfortunate happened to me.

Then my retirement would be my work.

Some folks scream in anguish that is horrible!

Maybe it is to you but this is what I want.

Liberty means being allowed to make your own choices.  Liberty means being able to take risks.  Liberty means I want to work until I can no longer work and I seem to remember something about my inalienable rights to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. 

A program to opt out of Social Security would be a real Hobson’s choice for Obama.  He loves to spend money and would love to spend the money it would take to pay everyone who wants out.  Unfortunately for him, it would deplete the ranks of those who would end up dependent on government.

The left wants everyone dependent.  I want everyone to be free and I want liberty.

Liberty means I get to make these decisions.

Republicans, if you believe in liberty, pass a law that gives me and millions of others that choice.

As for me, I choose liberty!

Judson Phillips is Associate Director of TheTeaparty.net and CEO of Tea Party Nation.

The Occupy Mob is at it again.  They are gearing up for their big event on May 1.  They have been out early, trying to disrupt corporate meetings and connecting the radical group ACT UP! to demand that Wall Street pays for everyone’s medical care.

What do they really want?

The drive-by media has been working overtime to portray the Occupy Mob as nothing more than the left’s version of the Tea Party.  There are some differences.  We work, we love America and we bathe on a regular basis. 

Jokes aside, the Occupy Mob is coming out on May 1.  Contrary to myth, they are not the totally chaotic and disorganized group they claim to be.  They do many of their acts with great deliberation and purpose.

May 1 is no accident.  May 1 is the socialist equivalent of the 4^th of July.  Communists and Socialists always rally around May Day. 

The people behind the Occupy Mob are Socialists.  They do not believe in freedom or liberty.  They do not want a better America.  They want an America where they control the government.  They do not want an America where dissent is patriotic.  They want an America where if you dare to disagree with them, they will crush you.

They do not want an America that is free.  They are like socialists everywhere.  Freedom and liberty are antithetical to their beliefs. 

The Occupy Mob just hooked up with the ACT UP! mob and are demanding that Wall Street pay for healthcare.  They want a new tax on the financial markets to pay for universal healthcare. 

They do not want Wall Street to pay for healthcare.   Actually they do, temporarily.  What they really want is to tax Wall Street into oblivion.

Occupy hates the free market system and wants it destroyed.

That is the ultimate goal of the Occupy Mob.  This is what they really want and this is why we must stand up to them. 

The left has done its best to bad mouth the free market and capitalism.  Here is the truth they do not like.  The free market has done more to create more wealth and more freedom for more people than any other system we have ever seen.

Is the free market perfect?  No.  It is efficient but not perfect.   Remember, perfection is the standard that the left wants us to live up to. 

Their claims are always the same.  If our system is not perfect, then we must acquiesce to their system.  The only problem is not only is their system not perfect, their system has done more to create poverty, tyranny and human suffering than any other system in the last century.

The Occupy Mob was created to cause problems.  The people behind it are radicals and are committed to the destruction of America, our free markets and our freedom.

We have not seen much violence from them yet.

The key word is yet. 

We will be looking at a long hot summer.  We must be ready.

Judson Phillips is Associate Director of TheTeaparty.net and CEO of Tea Party Nation.

Money, government and bad behavior.  Is that a recipe for a scandal involving a major government law enforcement agency and a trip to a certain South American nation?

Actually it is not.   It has to do with Obama pandering.

What is the pandering and who is the Panderer in Chief pandering to?

Obama is pandering to the youth vote.  Specifically he is going after the college crowd.

College age voters were a huge constituency for Obama in 2008. 

What is the top issue for college age students?  Student loans, debt and jobs.  Obama has done a great job of killing job opportunities for college graduates.  The class of 2007 could expect that 9 out of 10 would have jobs after graduation.  Now it is down to 1 out of 2.

Student loans and debt are spiraling out of control.  As a general rule, if you oppose what Obama favors, you will be right at least 101 out of 100 times.  Obama wants to suppress the market on student loans and make the interest rates even lower.

The problem is guaranteed student loans.

The problem in the sentence is GUARANTEED.

When the government guarantees the loans, any semblance of intelligence or even good behavior goes out the window.

Student loans are used for tuition, living expenses and other things.  Cars and pizza are not living expenses but that is what student loans are used for.

CBS News this evening pandered to Obama, I mean reported on the student loan issue.  They interviewed a man who was nearing graduation.  He is $85,000 in debt from a prestigious Washington University and he will graduate with a degree in, I kid you not, Women’s studies.

What genius decided that was a good idea.  The fact that anyone would even think about majoring in Women’s studies is prima facia evidence they were never ready to go to college and probably need a conservatorship because they are incapable of making any of life’s major decisions.

All student loans did was promote bad behavior with this student.   Is getting a degree in Women’s studies bad behavior?  No.  Is spending $85,000 to get a degree in Women’s studies bad behavior?  It is if you are borrowing the money.

It makes sense of you are majoring in business or engineering or science or getting a MBA, Law Degree or Medical Degrees.  Those investments will pay for themselves.

What is someone going to do with a degree in Women’s studies?  I don’t know with any certainly but I am willing to bet $10,000 of Mitt Romney’s money that he is not going to be getting the kind of job that will allow him to pay those loans back.

The Guaranteed part of the loan means the banks do not care what happens.  They have two options.  Either they make a profit or they make a profit.  They will loan the money and either they are paid back or the government covers the loan. 

Let’s assume for a moment, there were no student loan guarantees.  What would happen?  For one thing, no banker in his right mind would let someone borrow that kind of money for that kind of degree.  They would for a degree that has a possibility of landing post college employment that will allow the loan to be repaid.

Student loans are the single greatest factor in tuition inflation.   Colleges raise their tuition and students don’t really care.  They just get more loans.   The Guaranteed Student Loans destroy the free market. 

In any free market, when you have price increases, you have demand decreases.  If students were actually paying as they went, price would become a huge issue.  Universities would not have bloated staffs and administrations.  They would not be building these massive buildings that they do not really need. 

But because the market factors are taken out, they can do these things.

Obama now wants to pander for reelection. 

Obama does not care about the consequences of his pandering.  All he cares about is that he is reelected. 

The simple solution to student loan debt is to allow these loans to be discharged in Bankruptcy, but today’s students can thank the last Democrat President Bill Clinton for the fact they cannot do that.

Obama’s solution is more student loans.  More loans mean more debt.  All he will do is condemn today’s students to become a generation lost to debt.

Judson Phillips is a spokesman for and an associate director with TheTeaparty.net and the founder of Tea Party Nation.

A friend of mine used to say, “Never complain about incompetent opposition.  They could get better.”  Napoleon said, “When your enemy is self destructing, don’t get in their way.”

Could we be watching one Democrat really step into and self-destruct?

Joe Kennedy III is running for Barney Frank’s House Seat.  After decades of doing damage to America, Frank is finally retiring.  While that could not happen a day too soon, his potential replacement is Joe Kennedy, the son of Joseph Kennedy, Jr. and the grandson of Robert F. Kennedy.

Joe Kennedy just called for the “end of cheap oil.”

There’s a winning campaign idea.

Real Americans, those who do not depend on family wealth and inheritances to live on actually like cheap oil.  Our economy likes cheap oil.  With cheap oil, one of the costs of doing business is significantly lower, which means lower prices for consumers.  Everyone likes that, except for liberals.

Pontificating about the problem of oil, Kennedy said: “Nixon, Ford, Carter, Reagan, Bush, Clinton, Bush, Obama — they’ve all talked about the same thing: the need to wean ourselves off our debilitating dependence on foreign oil.”

Kennedy went to Stanford for his undergraduate degree and Harvard for his law degree, so you would think that he could understand some basic concepts.  Maybe he just got through on the Kennedy name.

All of those Presidents talked about getting us off of “foreign oil.”   They said nothing about cheap oil.

We could have cheap oil.

We have huge energy resources here in the United States. 

Unfortunately, those on the far left, including Joseph Kennedy, III do not want America to product its own energy.  Those on the far left want to shut our energy production down and make us dependent on Mexico or Brazil or Iran for our oil.

Of course, their ultimate goal is to drive energy prices into the stratosphere.  That way, they can remake the economy in the image they have in mind.  Of course, what they never seem to realize is the model they want to use has failed repeatedly and the free market works great.

Kennedy’s call for the end of cheap oil should play well in Massachusetts.  Not only are their gas prices hovering near $4 a gallon, but most homes in Massachusetts use heating fuel to warm the houses in the winter. 

The people in Massachusetts are going to love the idea of expensive oil to heat their houses. 

If you ask people, as Newt Gingrich did, do you want $4 a gallon gas or do you want $2.50 a gallon gas, well it is a no-brainer.

People want cheap energy.  The dumb ideas the Democrats have been pushing of “green” energy, such as solar, wind or pond scum do not work.  All they have been is an excuse to funnel money to political contributors and friends.

I think the Democrats should run on a policy of higher gas and oil prices.  Let’s have the Republicans run on the idea of opening up oil and gas exploration and production and strengthening the dollar so that we have $1 a gallon gas again.

How would most people vote?

I think I know.

Judson Phillips is a spokesman for and an associate director with TheTeaparty.net and the founder of Tea Party Nation.

We are counting the days to the coming destruction of the American economy.   Much like a ticking time bomb, we are facing this impending disaster. 

 

What is this disaster and how will the Tea Party save America?

 

The upcoming disaster is called “Taxmageddon.” 

 

Taxmageddon is the huge tax increase that is going to hit our economy on January 1, 2013.  It is Barack Obama’s revenge on America.   Taxmageddon will include the expiration of the so-called Bush tax cuts as well other tax increases.  The AMT or average minimum tax patch that has kept the AMT from raising the taxes of many average Americans will be gone.  The AMT alone could hit 34 million taxpayers. 

 

Taxmageddon is going to hit lower and middle class taxpayers the hardest.  So much for Obama’s promise that he would not impose new taxes on anyone making under $250,000.   We always need to remember that when Obama talks about going after the rich, the rich means anyone with a job.

 

This is where the Tea Party comes in.  We have the chance to change America. 

 

 

We have perhaps the most potent weapon in the fight to save America.  That is an idea.   The idea is 9-9-9. 

 

9-9-9 is a precursor to the fair tax.  It is a plan that is in place and can be enacted in time to save America from the devastation that Taxmageddon will bring to the American economy. 

 

But it is up to the Tea Party to act.  We are the only ones who can do it. 

 

We have to go and tell our Congressmen and Senators they need to act.  We must support Conservatives who will support this change.

 

With the Party of Treason running the Senate, we will not be able to act this year.  Remember, the Obama, Pelosi, Reid axis of fiscal evil wants Taxmageddon to come.   Instead of wanting every American to succeed, they want to punish Americans for being successful in America. 

 

We must elect patriots to the House and Senate this year and then on January 3, 2013, we must pressure the Republican Party, with its new Senators and Congressmen to enact 9-9-9. 

 

This one simple plan can stop Taxmageddon. 

 

We must unite and act before the Obama, Pelosi, Reid axis of fiscal evil can ensure the destruction of the American economy.

 

Last week, at a meeting with many Tea Party leaders, one leading Tea Party activist said, “we say we are saving the country.  Often we say that as a bit of a joke, but it is true.  We are working to save our country.”

 

We must work to save our nation from the Obama, Pelosi, Reid axis of fiscal evil.  TheTeaparty.net is one of the groups that stand against Obama, Pelosi and Reid and those who would see the lamp of liberty extinguished and America fall into that dark night of socialism. 

 

Stand with us and help us.  You can stand with the Tea Party and help us fight with your generous contribution to TheTeaparty.net.

 

 

Judson Phillips is a spokesman for and an associate director with TheTeaparty.net and the founder of Tea Party Nation.

 

 

Obama says that Reagan couldn’t pass muster with Republicans of today. A Hillbilly knows more about opera than Obama knows about Reagan. Obama does know a little something about Republicans though. He knows that historically Republicans fight like sissies and have no idea how to set a narrative. So in attacking Reagan, Obama believes Republicans won’t know how to react. They certainly wouldn't let just anybody take the baton from Reagan, now would they?

Further, Obama wants America to believe that he and Reagan are brothers from other mothers; that he is more like Reagan than Romney. Nice narrative, if you can sell it. Reagan might be rolling over in his grave at Republicans, but not because Republicans are not Reaganesque at their core. Reagan would be appalled at how the Left has managed to commandeer the lexicon, and make sensible people lose their ability to reason. Like with tax cuts.

The Left continually derides “The Bush Tax Cuts,” as if tax cuts are bad. Tax cuts give the people their money back. How can that possibly be bad? This is the equivalent at not liking a rebate. We all love rebates. I doubt that you’ve ever heard anybody complain about getting a rebate unless you have to send in the UPC code and a copy of the receipt.

Obama wants us to believe that we want the government to “invest” in things like Solyndra, Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the Postal Service, Medicare and Medicaid, and frankly that’s insulting. So when the government confiscates less of your money, that’s cause for celebration, not derision.

Liberals however have managed to make tax cuts something Republicans are ashamed of. Even former President George W. Bush said recently that he wished Liberals had named “The Bush Tax Cuts” something else.  Bush should be proud to have his name on tax cuts.  Would Bush rather have his name on “The Bush Tax HIKES?”

Can you imagine how Reagan would have fought on behalf of “The Reagan Tax Cuts?” Reagan would be shoving tax cuts up Obama’s “Democrat mascot,” and wear those brown-stained tax cuts like a badges of honor.

By now, we would have a civilian medal called “The Reagan Medal of Freedom for Tax Cuts”—a medal that would be second only to the Medal of Honor. Republicans lucky enough to receive the medal would proudly showcase their medals in their campaign ads. Reagan would remind the American people that the government is a beggar, at the mercy of the people; that the government has no money, because the money belongs to the people. 

Just as the Left has made giving your money back appear bad, so they attempt to set the narrative on Romney. They don’t want you to know that Romney has Reagan potential, at times appears downright Reaganesque.

There is very little difference between Reagan’s state of California and Massachusetts.  Reagan governed The People’s Republic of California at a time when the state had sanity. If he governed California now, I suspect he would have governed much like Romney.

Reagan would applaud Romney on his life, particularly Romney’s ability to amass an astounding net worth, as there is NO shame in doing well financially. Yet Liberals want America to believe Romney is bad for acquiring wealth, and Republicans continually apologize for financial success, as if people love their personal failure. How silly is this!? Some liberals people may love other people’s failures, but most Americans wish for personal success.

Presenting Romney as a success is the Left trying to convince us that successful people like Romney are losers. Romney has too much against him? He’s a wealthy family man with political experience and amazing business acumen. What a loser! Too bad Romney doesn’t have enough radical influences; he’s not a closet homosexual whose religion is in question, because that would make him even more interesting to the Left.

Nope, Romney is a pure by-the-book capitalist.  And much to the chagrin of the Left, Romney will work to repeal ObamaCare. He will also reduce corporate taxes, and do things that encourage small business. Romney will bring fiscal sanity to Obama insane Bizarro World of economics where a bankrupt nation can spend its way out of debt, where lower bond ratings are dismissed, as are welfare rolls bursting at the seam.

There certainly is no better time than now for the baton passing ceremony between the ghost of Reagan and Mitt Romney. It’s 1980 all over again, and Romney deserves the baton. Remember this:  It’s not what you think about Romney, it is what we make of Romney. Liberals will have much to fear, when we begin to see Reagan in Romney.

Kevin Jackson is the National Spokesperson for TheTeaParty.net, an Amazon best-selling author and blogger.

Can we call the writer of this report “Captain Obvious?”

Let’s see.  There are a couple of things everyone agrees on.  First our public education system is broken beyond belief and second it is an economic threat to America, a financial threat to America and a national security threat to America.

From Fox News:

A new report finds that the United States' education system is putting the country's national security at risk.

The independent study, sponsored by The Council on Foreign Relations, finds K-12 school systems across the country are failing to adequately prepare kids to grow up and protect the U.S.

"For starters, we don't have nearly enough people who are capable in the STEM fields: science, technology, engineering and math," said former Secretary of Education Margaret Spellings, a member of the council's task force that wrote the report, titled "U.S. Education Reform and National Security."

"When we think about the modern world of defense," Spellings said, "the fact that we don't have people who are capable to do this work is scary."

In addition to skills needed to defend ourselves in war, the study found American schools fail to teach students skills needed to avoid conflicts.

"We don't have people who know and understand foreign languages and other cultures," said Spelling, pointing out that U.S. children are ranked No. 17 in the world for language skills. "On any given day, there are hundreds of (job) vacancies for people who speak Pashtu and Arabic, and Mandarin and on and on."

Perhaps this report is akin to the famous words, “Houston we have a problem.”

No kidding.

We know what the problem is.  Few are willing to say what the causes of the problem are or what the solution is.

The causes are the educational establishment that has built up in the last few years.  Yes, you can read that as the Education Unions.   They are more interested in protecting teachers and politics than education.

The schools continue to get worse and worse, and union dues go to make sure we elect politicians who will protect the educational mafia. 

The education model is broken and the federal government continues to spend billions to keep the model in place and keep kids in failing schools.

You want to fix the schools and make our schools the best in the world?

Institute competition.

Let the free market into the school system.  Use vouchers that will allow parents to send their kids to the best schools around.  Poor schools will fail and go out of business.  Break the teacher’s union and make it possible to fire bad and even mediocre teachers. 

That will fix this problem.

 But you have the Party of Treason and the Teacher’s Unions standing in the way.  And if you see the way they have fought in Wisconsin, this would be the mother of all political battles.

Unfortunately, it seems like the Republicans have no stomach for a fight. 

Judson Phillips is the Associate Director for TheTeaParty.Net and is the Founder of Tea Party Nation.

 

Yesterday, though he was not getting much news coverage, Newt nailed it again.

 

Speaking to a group of Tea Party leaders in Delaware, Newt unloaded on the Republican Party.

 

Newt said:

 

“The Republican Party is a managerial party that doesn’t like to fight, doesn’t like to read books,” he said. “This is why the Tea Party was so horrifying. Tea Partiers were actually learning about the Declaration of Independence. They wanted to talk about the Federalist Papers. It was weird. They could be golfing.”

 

Watching Newt work is sort of like watching a summer evening baseball game.  Newt swings and the ball sails over the fence. 

 

In 1976, at the Republican Convention, Ronald Reagan gave his speech in support of Gerald Ford after he lost the nomination.  After that speech, many at the Republican looked at each other and said, ‘we have nominated the wrong guy.’  Four years later Reagan proved them right. 

 

Newt is right about the Republican Party.  Mitt Romney is the quintessential manager type and that is not what we need, though it is what we are going to get.   Romney does not want to fight and he thinks he can manage his way to the Oval Office.   While his strategy of outspending his opponents worked in the primaries, it is not going to work in the general election because his best case scenario is that he has parity with Obama’s spending and the more realistic scenario is that he will be outspend.

 

Romney does not like to get his hands dirty and he is going to fight one of the dirtiest campaigners in the history of America. 

 

Newt continues to fight on even though he probably knows he cannot win. 

 

Good for Newt. 

 

Technically Romney has not locked up the nomination.  He does not have the 1144 delegates that he needs.   Newt’s odds of winning the nomination right now are probably only slightly lower than his chances of winning the lottery. 

 

That does not mean Newt should not fight.  Newt should fight.  People should contribute to Newt and vote for Newt.

 

Why fight for a guy who has no chance of winning?

 

We need to send the Republicans a message.

 

Romney is the anti-Reagan.  Not only are his positions almost the polar opposite of what Reagan stood for but in 1980, when Reagan ran, he was the sole conservative against a field of moderates.  They divided the vote.  Reagan won.

 

This year, Romney was the liberal running against a field of good conservatives.  The conservatives split the base and Romney was able to be the last man standing. 

 

The establishment wing of the Republican Party has been trying to destroy the Reagan wing of the party since 1988.   We cannot let the Republican Party become the Party of Romney instead of the Party of Reagan. 

 

Newt gives us the chance to send the GOP a message.  I hope Newt wins a number of the remaining primaries.   I wish this one on one fight had developed while Newt still had a chance at the nomination. 

 

Had this fight developed in January, we would be looking at Newt cruising to the nomination and we could expect “morning in America.”

 

Newt is the guy who could have been the next Reagan. 

 

And later this year, as we watch this campaign evolve and Republicans compare Gingrich to Romney, many of them are going to be saying, ‘we have nominated the wrong guy.’

Judson Phillips is an associate director of TheTeaParty.Net and the Founder of Tea Party Nation.