READER'S VIEWS: Why you should support Gingrich for president

This letter supports the Presidential candidacy of Newt Gingrich.  Newt has done some bad things, and some stupid things.  I will be the first to stipulate that.  Newt also accomplished some things that few people contemplate and fewer dare!

First, he was a leader from the middle as a junior congressman under Reagan.  Nancy and Michael Reagan have both said that. I think they would know. If you do some research, Ronald Reagan “inherited” an economy on a steeper down slope than our present leader.  By his third year, things had unquestionably turned around!

Reagan did that through constructive capitalism, although with so much in such disrepair, it was easier to find work to do. 

Romney was a real life “Richard Gere” in Pretty Woman in his “private industry” days. 

There is money to be made there, and we have a Staples in town because of Mitt.  But it isn’t like he came up with an idea and produced anything that someone else hadn’t thought of first.  Mitt’s real issues are with companies like 3Com, and Damon Corp.  Bain tried to sell 3Com, now owned by HP; a company that made computer products that make techies heads spin; to the Chinese.  Damon Corp was fined $119 Million for Medicare fraud for activities that occurred while Mitt was “supervising.” At the time, it was the largest fine paid to the Commonwealth of Massachusetts for Medicare Fraud!  It isn’t his money you should be concerned with, it is his scruples.

Gingrich’s firm had a contract with Fannie Mae.  That firm collected far less than the fine paid for actions under Romney at Damon.  Also, there is evidence that Fannie ignored his advice! 

Newt’s 1994 Contract for America is still largely credited with changing the controlling party in congress for the first time since WWII.  In the lifetime of most readers, Newt was the Speaker of the House that scheduled and passed the only balanced budgets you have seen. 

In the lifetime of all readers, Newt scheduled and passed the only real entitlement reform, ever!  All this while pouting lawyers were cooking up 85 ethics charges, none of which stuck!  Did he pay the biggest fine of any congressman to date? Yes!  Was he ultimately exonerated by the Clinton Administration?  Yes!

Since then, no one has dared stick his neck out in Washington D.C.  Newt is truly the poster boy for “No Good Deed Goes Unpunished.” That phrase is a principle in the federal civil service’s unwritten career guide.

The war in Iraq is not “ended.” The Iraqis’ are back to in fighting, their country is still in doubt, and with it, the lives we spent!  We still have a net loss of jobs under the Obama administration, and the Reagan (and W) performance to compare it to.  Americans are promised the right to Pursue Happiness, not the right to happiness.  When everyone is guaranteed equal outcomes, no one is free to excel. 

The dysfunctional universe is not Newt’s.  A thank you is wrong?  Generational accomplishments are not leadership?  A man who has been married for over a decade, and joined one of the most standards driven churches in the world, cannot have had an epiphany?  There may be an arrogant, hypocritical, scornful front-runner in this Presidential Race, but Newt does not hold those banners as high as others.   The obstruction has come from the party that controls the chamber that has not passed a budget in a thousand-plus days. 

Electing Newt is one chance we all have to tell Washington that Good Deeds are rewarded. 

Newt has put forward a list of specific actions to get us moving toward prosperity and national health from day one.

 Those actions are well within the scope of a U.S. President.  That plan establishes Mr. Gingrich as the one with the character and knowledge to Preside!

 The message that would send to all levels of government is that the time for fiefdoms and backstabbing is over. Newt has grandiose ideas to be sure. 

The question the readers need to ask is if they want a country that let’s its citizens reach for the stars, or squabble over food stamps. 

In the end, we get the leaders we deserve!  Virginians who support Newt are in a pickle.  We were caught flat. 

We are going to have to hold our noses in the upcoming primary, but we should not stay home.  In the general, all of us, if our candidate doesn´t win, we need to hold our nose and vote. 

If you fail to vote for the lesser of two evils, you are voting for the worst of those evils.  I, for one, hope we deserve Newt!