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The Energy Spectator
Obama Loses His First Debate
Lying is not going to rebut Newt Gingrich’s compelling understanding of America’s energy policy and huge energy reserves.
In a speech that the Gingrich campaign has begun broadcasting around the country, and which is posted at Newt.org, Gingrich presents a unique new vision for a booming American economy. I think you will find it pathbreaking. It is so compelling that it drew Obama into a transcontinental debate with the former Speaker, the first exchange that Obama has decisively lost since he appeared on the national stage.
Gingrich began the explanation of his vision like this:
What if we had a program that enabled the American people to develop so much new energy that we were, in fact, no longer reliant on Saudi Arabia, Iraq, Iran. We didn’t care what the Iranians did in the Strait of Hormuz because we were safe in national security terms.
What if that new energy program created well over a million new jobs, high-paying jobs, jobs that put Americans back to work and kept the money here at home that we had been sending overseas, giving us a dramatic improvement in our balance of payments, strengthening the dollar and giving us a chance to live much freer and more independently?
What if that very idea also meant that we’d also have dramatic increases in federal revenue… without a tax increase but that, in fact, the federal government would have literally an entire new stream of money?
And finally, what if that big new idea meant that you personally were better off because you are buying gasoline for $2.50 a gallon, not for $3.89 or $4 or what some people project by the summer could be could be $5 or more?
How is that possible, you ask? Well, that is what is exciting, and that is one of the reasons I am running for President.
Gingrich begins demonstrating the new vision by pointing to the Bakken geologic formation in North Dakota, which turns out to hold far, far more oil than the U.S. Geological Survey used to think, 25 times as much in fact, or 2,400 percent more. That Bakken breakthrough exists today “because it is on private land, and liberals weren’t able to block us from developing it,” Gingrich explains.
The result is that the official unemployment rate in North Dakota is 3.5 percent, with nearly 20,000 jobs paying $60,000 to $80,000 a year remaining unfilled for lack of sufficiently skilled applicants. Revenue from the booming growth is gushing into the North Dakota state government so fast that after seven consecutive tax cuts, the state enjoys a rainy day fund of several billion dollars, even though the entire state budget is only $2 billion.
Gingrich then projects, “If North Dakota has that much energy, how much do we think we have everywhere else? Turns out, we may have more oil in the United States today, given new science and technology, than we have actually pumped worldwide since 1870. We may, in fact, by one estimate have three times as much oil in the United States as there is in Saudi Arabia.” Or as there ever was in Saudi Arabia.
Then there is a parallel revolution in natural gas. We have long known there was a lot of natural gas in shale, but we did not know how to get it out. As recently as 2000, people thought we had seven years of natural gas supply left in the United States. Investors began committing big funds to building facilities for importation of liquefied natural gas from the Middle East.
But then entrepreneurs began applying to shale rock formations the horizontal drilling techniques that had been developed for deep water ocean drilling, where the most had to be gotten out of one hole by drilling in every direction. Combine that with the long-time technique of fracking, breaking up the shale rock with steam, water and sand (supposedly so scary to “environmentalists”), and the net result, Gingrich elaborates, is that
[W]e now have in shale tremendous amounts of natural gas that is recoverable. In one short decade, we went from 7 years of supply to over a hundred years of supply because science and technology had improved so much. Furthermore, instead of us importing liquefied natural gas from the Middle East, there is now serious talk that we’re going to build facilities in Houston… to ship liquefied natural gas to China.
But this is all just the beginning, because, as Gingrich adds, “in places like the Marcellus Shale in Western Pennsylvania, in eastern Ohio, cutting down along the Appalachians, all the way out to Dallas, Texas, there is formation after formation after formation.”
What that means is what I reported last year in my book, America’s Ticking Bankruptcy Bomb. America has the resources to be the world’s number one oil producer, number one natural gas producer, number one coal producer, number one nuclear energy producer, even the number one alternative energy producer. The reason you never heard about this before, as Gingrich explains, is that “the politicians in Washington, the old-time establishment, the elite news media, the bureaucrats, don’t have a clue what’s possible, or in some cases, they have a clue and they are opposed to it.”
About the Author
Peter Ferrara is Director of Entitlement and Budget Policy at the Heartland Institute, General Counsel of the American Civil Rights Union, Senior Fellow at the National Center for Policy Analysis, and Senior Policy Advisor on Entitlements and Budget Policy at the National Tax Limitation Foundation. He served in the White House Office of Policy Development under President Reagan, and as Associate Deputy Attorney General of the United States under President George H.W. Bush.
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Bill Hussein O'Stalin| 2.29.12 @ 6:29AM
Gingrich has some great ideas and he's a marvelous speaker. He won't be President this time.
Mimi| 2.29.12 @ 8:08AM
Now is Newt's hour...It is NOW that the nation needs him. Maybe Mitt should wait 'til "Next Time" Newt can write up the BLUE-PRINT and set the right path to saving this country...If he gets a good bean/money counter such as Paul Ryan, to initiate the means to get our FISCAL house in order, we will have the A+++ squad.
Richard| 3.1.12 @ 1:38AM
Mitt has a similar proposal for energy development and use.
Corey| 3.1.12 @ 4:44PM
Mitt Romney is the candidate Obama is giddy about running against... you must be an Obama supporter if you are suggesting we should give Obama the exact candidate he has been preparing for.
George F.| 3.3.12 @ 11:46AM
My problem with Mitt Romney is he's not as good a debater as Newt and we need a great debater who is smart enough to counter Pres. Obama's lies. That's Newt. Too bad he has so much baggage. Sigh...
Chalkdust| 2.29.12 @ 8:41AM
Balderdash! C.R.A.P! Newt is 68 years old and we need him now! Nobody on the national scene today has the grasp of issues like Newt. Only puritanical, head-in-the-sand RINO group think and liberal ink has kept Newt from running away with this race. He is without a doubt the only thoroughbred in the race. Stop being a bunch of pansies America and vote for Newt.
firebo| 3.1.12 @ 4:20PM
Newt has my vote. He is by far the best candidate running.
1972patriot| 3.1.12 @ 7:17PM
He has my vote, too. He has a sound conservative record and his vision is exactly what Washington is lacking right now.
Haddit| 2.29.12 @ 2:06PM
Watch and see..............
Nick099| 2.29.12 @ 6:35PM
Gingrich is the right guy for these times.
Larry| 3.1.12 @ 2:43AM
If Romney doesn't have it sewn up by May, I assure you, Bill, there will be an open convention. In that case, Gingrich has a real chance. Because he will destroy Barack the Usurper in the fall campaign.
Darin| 2.29.12 @ 6:47AM
Gingrich has shown that much of what Obama says is lies and half-truth (meaning half-lies). And Gingrich points out the lies. Whoever ends up being the GOP nominee needs to embrace this tactic. Call Obama out. Hammer on the lies, give Americans the truth, and explain why it is the truth. Obama was elected because McCain refused to attack the lies. The country can't afford another 4 years of this.
Carol| 2.29.12 @ 7:49AM
Don't count on Romneycare calling him out.
He won't start his hair on fire to attack Obama.
Not looking forward to McCain Part Two.
Timothy L. Pennell| 2.29.12 @ 9:48AM
Exactly. Thank You Carol. This is John McCain, all over again.
Republicans are facing the biggest danger to this Country since the Cold War, and we'd better be Goddamn good and ready to call this MFer OUT!
Or we can kiss it all goodbye.
NO ROMNEY!
Al Adab| 2.29.12 @ 12:11PM
Tim:
Romney is to the left of McCain. That is why the GOP rejected him in '08. Why should he get rewarded now. We can follow these tepid republicans to defeat year after year, but why?
Haddit| 2.29.12 @ 2:07PM
Newt for president!!!!!!
SUBVET| 2.29.12 @ 10:35AM
George Soros..........."We think either obama or romney's fine but Gingrich, he would change things".
Haddit| 2.29.12 @ 2:01PM
Obama hasn't the balls to debate Newt.
Stan Redmond| 2.29.12 @ 2:54PM
Obama didn't even debate McCain really. I can already hear Obama crying..."I'm much to busy working for the American people then to mess around with these pissants biting at my ankles."
Nemo| 2.29.12 @ 7:00AM
Obama look less and less like a monmumental incompetent and more and more like a conscious traitor.
Chalkdust| 2.29.12 @ 8:46AM
You think?
Chalkdust| 2.29.12 @ 9:02AM
What gave him away? His insipid chatter, the company he keeps, the people he hires, the policies he champions, the lies he tells, the fact he keeps apologizing for America, the taxpayer dollars he keeps giving away to concerns across the waters. Mein Gott man! It's been there all along.
Timothy L. Pennell| 2.29.12 @ 9:59AM
It's unbelievable, isn't it?
Even after everything he's accomplished in just 3 YEARS, they still call him "Incompetent".
Even as he takes the Greatest Country GOD ever gave Man, and turns it in to a Third World Basket Case, they still think he's an Empty Suit.
Even as he Crafts the Final Destruction of Israel, and the Jews, with his GIFTS of Egypt and Libya, and his Apathy toward Iran and Syria, they still think he's in way over his head.
He may be the most Trans-formative President we've ever had. He is to the United States, what NERO and CALIGULA, were to ROME.
I have no doubt that our FATES will be the same, as well.
spoofproof| 2.29.12 @ 10:24AM
It is not Obama doing much of anything but flappin his gums. The traitorous action is being carried out behind the scenes by monsters like Eric Holder and his infernal crew; plus all those so-called czars who actually do put in a full day's work destroying Constitutional government in the U.S.A. Obama is their front-man and even in that job he has lost his cute, novel quality. Now he comes across as a churlish bore who ain't real bright. The sane part of the U.S. Electorate wants to see Obama called out and destroyed. Santorum could do it. Gingrich could do it. Either of them probably would. The rest of the field (with the possible exception of Ron Paul) is Big Labor Big Government oriented. I would like to see the Republicans utterly and completely discredit Obama and the Democrat Political Party which has morphed into the 21st century version of Germany's old National Socialist Democrats. In my book, Democrat = Fascist.
squalis| 2.29.12 @ 1:34PM
The ultimate traitors are those who vote for him, and his ilk, into office.
1972patriot| 3.1.12 @ 7:29PM
Absolutely. Many of these claim citizenship and often entitlements, but do not hold allegiance to the United States of America. It would appear that natural born citizens are toast, but I'm not so sure that is how history is going to play out. We're playing on our field... we've got the home team advantage. God Bless the USA! Go Newt!
Sugartown Super| 2.29.12 @ 1:46PM
Nero and Caius [Caligula] despite their at-home "foibles" did little if any damage to the Empire or the office of the Princeps. The Empire stood for another 1,385 years after the death of Nero, so do not equate our current would-be Emperor [Obamperor?] with Nero and Caius. Obama has far more actual power to destroy our way of life that did those two.
Sugartown Super| 2.29.12 @ 1:47PM
Sorry; fat fingers - "...than did those two."
Al Adab| 2.29.12 @ 5:25PM
Super:
I get your point even though I make a distinction between Eastern and Western Imperators. Still they were at a remove from even the end of the Western Empire. This guy is much more dangerous.
Chalkdust| 2.29.12 @ 2:59PM
I almost have a postal moment when I think of America taking 25 years to dig out of the rubble that was LBJ's "Great Society.
Jimmy Carter gave us four years of financial malaise and dozens of hostages held by one of the axis of evil.
I shutter to think what Barry's hootenanny will leave as his going away present.
I have great faith that at least 4% of the American voting public will have a blinding flash of uncommon good judgement this time around.
Von Mises Jr.| 2.29.12 @ 11:34AM
Riddle me this: Russia, Saudi Arabia, Iran, Venezuela, Brazil and many other statist regimes finance their dictatorial governments with oil production. Do we have the only socialist in the world that hate Oil?
Of course not. Our socialist are just like every other socialist around the globe. They hate liberty, free markets and capitalism.
If Obama and Pelosi could nationalize oil, as all but a few countries worldwide have, we would drill like banshees!
And in fact, when Mexico, Russia or China have massive oil spills, the socialist don't even want it in the news.
Our oil and natural gas reserves being nationalized could make Clinton and Gore's $100M personal booty look like chump change for our ruling class elite.
Al Adab| 2.29.12 @ 12:25PM
We need to offer the oil companies the ability to construct several, many, new refineries in exchange for keeping domestic production in the domestic market. End the exports. Quite frnakly it is a matter of national security. Should our military be dependent on our ability to import oil?
Von Mises Jr.| 2.29.12 @ 2:00PM
That is one of the biggest reasons to get rid of Obama and Reid as leader. Then we can concentrate on the crony capitalist in the GOP.
Appleby| 2.29.12 @ 7:03AM
The Sixties are Over, and the Republicans need to make a point of pointing that out. Making fuel from algae is so ridiculous that even Sixties People laugh at it.
Lmajito| 2.29.12 @ 7:03AM
The gop primary candidates sholud use their powder on the real target instead of each other.
Newt shows his powerful communication skill and depth of understanding of issues better than any of the runners. But as with many things, like the betamax tapes, the best is not going to win.
Even though is too early, if Newt is not the nominee, sure hope he ends up in a cabinet post or vp.
Renaissance Nerd | 2.29.12 @ 10:12AM
I don't think he's got a prayer of winning the presidency, but he'd make a seriously great Secretary of Energy. And I think we could actually trust him to fold it up when he was done with it.
johnadamsxii| 2.29.12 @ 7:22AM
Estimates of natural resources like oil and gas are often revised upwards because people don't look for new sources until the price of the commodity outweighs the cost of exploration.
Carol| 2.29.12 @ 7:50AM
Gingrich has lots of flaws - including his sit down with the Wicked Witch of the West.
But his mind is full of ideas.
I blame the GOP for the next Obama term and the end of America. They are worthless cowards.
firebo| 3.1.12 @ 4:22PM
I totally agree with you. Get rid of Boehner, McConnell and Cantor too. They are all milquetoasts, spineless jellyfish.
Ken (Old Texican)| 2.29.12 @ 7:54AM
Peter,
once again, thank you.
I'm afraid it might get very bad before it can get better.
OLDRAY| 2.29.12 @ 8:29AM
Newt has more brains in his little finger than the entire Repuyblican National Committee. Romney is nothing . Obama is a liar. Newt speech is a beaut.
Gary B| 2.29.12 @ 9:20AM
The RNC is anti-American. Those guys blackmailed Reagan into accepting New-World-Order Bush as his VP.
Jim| 2.29.12 @ 8:40AM
Romney is not the answer, neither is Santorum. Even with the baggage Newt is the answer. I believe in the slogan "anybody but obama". To that end Newt would receive the votes of those who want this incompetent jerk out of our house. They may have to hold their nose but the lever must be pulled for whoever the R candidate is. Nobody can give this worthless potus a shellacking like Newt can. The above article is just the tip of the iceberg that Newt can do once he has the nomination. Can you say blistering, scorching, torrid, rapid fire, explosive dismantling of the worst potus this country has ever seen. That is what Newt can do. Do you see and more importantly, do you feel Romney doing this. I don't. There is no fire. Romney fails to ignite even when the gas valve is open. Win Newt, please.
Gary B| 2.29.12 @ 9:18AM
Jim,
Very well said!
Teaghan| 2.29.12 @ 10:57AM
I want so much and would give my eye teeth to see Newt eat obama for lunch in a debate.
Mark C| 2.29.12 @ 4:45PM
Jim, Awesome post. Thanks to Newt, Peter and you for the inspiration to throw Obama out and save our country.
TrueBlue | 2.29.12 @ 7:34PM
The thing is, Newt could give that "shellacking" even if he wasn't the nominee. He could have been giving it the last several years if he had wanted to, instead it was saved up until he was running for President. He even hit the Ryan budget plan and medicare reforms because they weren't his idea. THESE are the problems I have with Newt. He'll attack anyone's ideas, no matter how good they are, if they aren't HIS (not saying that is the case this time).
That is not how a leader should act, and is precisely why he needs to drop out and sign on with one of the other candidates. I much prefer Santorum over Romney or Paul, but him signing on with ANYONE would be a positive thing, especially with a written agreement to put him in charge of the DoE.
Tim the Enchanter| 3.1.12 @ 1:23PM
That syndrome is known colloquially as "NIH" (Not Invented Here). It's a symptom of pride.
James - Longdrycreek Ranch, TX | 2.29.12 @ 8:51AM
Newt frames the issue with data and with rhetoric appropriate to explain in simple terms what is required. Obama is a floater: he is a dreamer who still is wresting with the dreams of this absent father from Kenya Colony, a British governed country.
Newt has his feet on the ground, Obama has his feet somewhere . . .
boogalie| 2.29.12 @ 9:04AM
I am slowly being converted to Gingrich. When he says things like "we need BIG solutions", I (being a smaller government guy) am put off. But, I must admit, in that I believe there IS a place for (Constitutional) government, maybe BIG can be placed properly and be useful. In any case, please..those of you who read this, work for November, our Nation needs you to be active in defeating the POTUS/Reid/Holder/Pelosi and their ilk. Semper Fi.
Mark MacInnis| 2.29.12 @ 9:22AM
You better start moving faster, mate. Romney and the moderate wing of the party are way ahead and we are running out of time. "Slowly being converted" sounds like a recipe for "Regretting not taking action sooner."
Jill Johnson| 2.29.12 @ 11:22PM
Read a great article somewhere that ppointed out that we need a BIG government to do big things (war, for example), but it needs to be LIMITED in scope. The two are not incompatible.
irish19| 2.29.12 @ 11:57PM
Very well put, Jill
Gary B| 2.29.12 @ 9:17AM
Mr. Ferrera concluded, "Isn't this the campaign that conservatives should want? Is there any doubt how that campaign would turn out?" None whatsoever!
Newt unleashed... We need a hell of a lot more of this. He took a gun to a gun fight by calling The Muslim the liar that everyone knows he is.
Newt needs to do this on two more subjects: Obamacare and the culture war.
If ruling class Romney and inadequate Santorum won't run effective campaigns, perhaps Newt will have to drag one of them kicking and screaming across the finish line with this type of expert support.
Mark MacInnis| 2.29.12 @ 9:19AM
30 years from now, we will look back at this moment in history. At that point, this moment will be viewed in one of two ways: It will either be seen as the moment we stemmed the tide of Liberalism and stopped the country from going over the cliff, or as the moment we let the final opportunity to save the republic slip through our fingers. That, nothing more and nothing less, will be he legacy of this campaign. There is no NEXT TIME. There will be no do-over. The next mid-term election will be too late. If we don't stop this madness now, the flames will engulf the entire economy, and we will find ourselves hurtling toward an abyss which we allowed others to create. My father would tell me, "Son, there are three kinds of people in the world. Those who make things happen, those who let things happen, and those who wonder, "What happened?". "
At the moment, the conservative side has too many from the last two groups, and the liberals are taking action. We NEED, desperately, to become active or we will surely find ourselves at the bottom of the abyss, looking upward, wondering, "How did we get here?"
Obama must go. By our votes and our action. Nothing less than the future of our country depends on it.
Rightmindedmom| 2.29.12 @ 9:20AM
One thing I wish Newt would lay out: Natural gas can be liquified and put into cars/fleet vehicles at a cheaper price than gasoline. It also burns cleaner, and is ALREADY HERE at select gas stations throughout cities in the USA.
When the Republicans select their candidate (not Romney, please, because he'll LOSE), this person MUST stress that liquified natural gas is the way to go, because we have more natural gas in the ground than we know what to do with it right now.
Purp| 2.29.12 @ 6:08PM
it'll be Romney ... he's too far along now.
From the Desk of Media Matters| 2.29.12 @ 8:30PM
Brian "Purp" Cutteridge,
You are embarrassing us. We have enough legal issues currently to continue an association with you. Quite frankly, apparently our legal issues are minor compared to yours.
- MM staff
Peppermint Tea| 2.29.12 @ 9:22AM
Peter, I loved the article. I like Newt.
The problem is...just like the known oil reserves increases with drilling, so does the reservoir of ex-wives.
Stammon| 2.29.12 @ 11:28AM
Dammit, coffee out the nose again!
apnep| 2.29.12 @ 9:23AM
I LOVE how Newt calls out Body Odor's lies.
Redstateboy| 2.29.12 @ 9:41AM
I again and again and again I say.... it all makes sense.. Hussein, Nazi Pelosi, Harry-the-War-is-lost-Reid.. All of it; if you simply recognize that the Democrat Party was and Still is the Party of Slavery. Everything they do distills down to you having a Massa` lording over Slaves.
Purp| 2.29.12 @ 6:18PM
Fixed News Slaves all...
Tim the Enchanter| 3.1.12 @ 1:27PM
I fart in your general direction. Your mother was a hamster, and your father smelt of elderberries.
Mike| 2.29.12 @ 9:43AM
The biggest problem I see is that Gingrich's explanations debunking Obama are, by necessity, too lengthy for the average voter to sit through. Let's face it, the average voter wants soundbites, not a five minute explanation. And that's why the country is going off a cliff. Too many voters have, for years, been trying to evaluate potential leaders based on soundbites, and it obviously doesn't work.
Old Guy| 2.29.12 @ 11:42AM
What do you expect from a nation of people who exchange information in un-spelled, tiny bits of information called tweets???
TrueBlue | 2.29.12 @ 7:39PM
You cannot get a complete explanation in soundbites. That is a problem with the society, not with Newt. We need to stop dumbing everything down. If it takes shaming people into realizing they aren't as smart as they think they are, then so be it.
Jill Johnson| 2.29.12 @ 11:29PM
No, I think in a debate he could make bullet points out of all these. In fact, I read the article by skimming for bullet points -- and I understood perfectly.
John Halley | 2.29.12 @ 9:48AM
Both sides of the political aisle are diverting from the real issues behind the cost of fuels. I am a market researcher and consultant with years of experience working with this industry. The media either does not understand or is aiding various financial and political interests. I recently released a new report on how this industry works. Please go to my website at www.halleysamericanviews.blogspot.com.
ncatty| 2.29.12 @ 10:05AM
A great article on a much needed speech, whoever gave it.
Al Adab| 2.29.12 @ 10:12AM
After three years it is clear the man is an empty suit. All show, no substance and a clear and present danger to our constitutional system. He is no believer in Liberty and limited government, yet 42% of Americans think he is doing a wonderful job. The American republic is suicidal.
Naturalborn Texicanette| 2.29.12 @ 10:35AM
America needs NEWT!!!!
HE is the guy with a plan.
HE is the guy who has the knowledge and abilities to put America back on it's feet.
HE is the man who thinks about the whole and not just the parts!
HE is the man who can UNDO the diasaster that Obumbler has foisted, no FORCED, on America.
He is the man who has the guts, the brains, the knowledge, and the WILL to put this once great country back on the path our forefathers set for us in order to have and enjoy the blessings and the privdledges our consititution gives for all Americans.
VOTE FOR NEWT!!!!!
PolishKnight| 2.29.12 @ 10:58AM
Newt supports amnesty for illegals as did McCain. That's why I wouldn't vote for him. If he likes, he can ask LaRaza to turn out to vote for him. Good luck with that.
Stammon| 2.29.12 @ 11:31AM
Then go to H E double L and vote for Obama.
Ken (Old Texican)| 2.29.12 @ 3:53PM
Polack,
why didn't they close the borders before you got here?
We never needed more Polish Knights.
Al Adab| 2.29.12 @ 5:19PM
We can keep him as an ally. It was the Polish knights who rode to the relief of Vienna on Sept. 11, 1683 and drove off the Moslem army. Note the date. There is a reason they chose 9-11-01.
Louis Jenkins| 2.29.12 @ 10:37AM
Great article Mr. Ferrara. You showed that Newt is not outperformed by anyone in getting his message accross. I agree with every article of Newt's rebuttal, and as I suspected, after Obama's speach, that Obama was full of it. Only Obama would point to the alegae plant as our saviour. What's next? Mold?
Tim the Enchanter| 3.1.12 @ 1:30PM
Well, mold did get us penicillin. But that's beside the point.
DatsunMark| 2.29.12 @ 10:45AM
I can just see Romney debating Obama on this subject suggesting he too believes we can get power from algae and wind and solar...
Scorpio51| 2.29.12 @ 10:55AM
Who cares about ex-wives! We need NEWT NOW!
America is in dire straits and we're putting Mitt Romney in charge of it? Please, people put your thinking caps on. We don't need a manager, we need a leader. We need someone who will turn everything on its ear and change it, in a positive way.
Heck, Newt would probably bring our troops back home from Afghanistan.
Ex-wives shouldn't figure into the equasion. A person who has balanced budgets and successfully accomplished welfare reform is needed for America to survive.
Lynn Otting| 2.29.12 @ 11:27AM
The Republican Party seems to vote based on meaningless poll results and ridiculous media analysis. No one can express ideas and goals more passionately than Newt. His conviction, boldness and desire to fight for the American people comes from the heart. Unfortunately, people just don’t get that the one and only reason Newt has ever done anything is for conservatism, not individualism. More importantly, his ideas are about more than conservative values, they are about American principles. Republicans should not give this election away by voting for anyone other than Newt. It is too important, not to him, but to all Americans who will vote for him over President O'bama. Why is it so difficult for Republicans to see this?
David T| 2.29.12 @ 11:47AM
I've been saying for months that Gingrich/Jindal is the winning ticket in 2012.
davelnaf| 2.29.12 @ 12:09PM
More proof that the Obama administration is about calculated deception of the American people. Democrats and other leftists are using their Obama moment to restructure the American economy to best organize it to reelect Democrats. Economic freedom doesn’t work for dems anymore and hasn’t since Reagan was elected. Clinton did his share of spoiling during his eight years, but Obama’s three have already put him in the shade. The Bamster’s game show host speech to the auto workers suggests that he and his minions aren’t so confident that the game will play out as intended.
Yes indeed, Republicans should hammer away at Obama for his economic obfuscations and other lies. Commercials of Obama doing his street-talking Elmer Gantry should already be on the drawing boards. And remember, RNC, the Bamster is capable of a whole lot more.
PattyMor| 2.29.12 @ 12:10PM
Don't worry about Newt being able to sell complex issues to the masses. He can and he does it better than any other of the candidates. For Newt came up with the "food stamp" president. Now he's got Obama on the 9-9-9 plan; that is gasoline at $9.99. He's the best of the lot AND he can communicate. I'll take Newton's with my TEA.
Owen K| 2.29.12 @ 12:59PM
This is what the other candidates should be doing. Instead ripping each other, while giving the Obama campaign talking points, they should be ripping into Obama. Gingrich seems to be the only candidate really doing so. The other candidates could take a lesson from this.
iggy| 2.29.12 @ 1:29PM
The right-wingers had their chance. They failed. Their self-centered view of America harmed America. Obama is succeeding. Foreign policy success after success, AND a turnaround in the economy that the Republicans BROKE. And he's going to beat the Republicans like a drum. America has HAD it with these ideologically blinded morons.
George True| 2.29.12 @ 3:13PM
What parallel universe do YOU live in? Obama is succeeding, alright. Succeeding at debasing the currency that we all get paid in and pay bills with, and bankrupting the nation by destroying the private sector. His so-called foreign policy has been one horrendous blunder after another after another.
Go away, troll. Your attempt to sell the false Marxist narrative here is as pathetic as it is transparent.
Purp| 2.29.12 @ 6:30PM
Iggy is correct. Bin Laden is dead, GM is #1 again, unemployment is going down, we export more gasoline than we import, the stock market passed 13,000 for the first time since 2008, and people are beginning to notice the turnaround. The Senate will stay in D hands, with Nebraska staying D, Mass and Maine flipping D and the House is in play too, thanks to John Boner and Eric Cankersore.
Ya can't stop it, all you can do is complain and call names.
All the Republicants have to offer is Mr. 1% Richie Romney, Newt "Cheating R Us" Gingrinch, , Rick "Vaginal Probe" Santorum, and Ron "Nutbag" Paul and they will lose, and lose big. They have no solutions, no future to offer ... all they can offer is getting rid of the black man - which they won't .
MataHarley | 2.29.12 @ 6:54PM
Purp, says twice in this thread:
"...getting rid of the black man..."
Why is it when liberals get desperate because they can't defend a losing argument, it becomes all about race?
Immortal600| 2.29.12 @ 1:33PM
I don't remember gas EVER costing 2.60 a gallon during the Carter years. I remember it going from the upper 30's to near a dollar and everyone was in a panic. It never got back to to the 30's again, but it was back in the 40's (cents that is). I see adjusted in TODAYS dollars it would be around 2.60. Is that what Newt meant?
Al Adab| 2.29.12 @ 5:22PM
Pump prices and the price of gold are good indicators of inflation. Remember the twenty dollar gold piece? That was one ounce. Purchasing power same in most regards.
davelnaf| 2.29.12 @ 2:24PM
Yes, but Obama’s Elmer Gantry, game-show host speech to the auto workers suggests that he and his minions aren’t all that confident that the economy will improve enough to reelect him. Obama and other Democrats are particularly prone to gloating at the tiniest bit of what they think is good news, even when they have to manufacture it first.
Purp| 2.29.12 @ 2:27PM
Wishful thinking and "May have" and "Appears to be" don't fill a gas tank or move an ocean liner. This is all supposition and ignores the reality of dirty oil coming from the shales.
The Bush tax cuts for the rich didn't "trickle down" to the rest of us, gay marriage in 7 or is it 8 states now hasn't destroyed anyone else's marriages and the price of oil has little to do with our own production. In fact, America exports gasoline because we have too much. You get that? We have too much gasoline, so we export it. Yet the price is still high. Who's lying to you and who is getting rich off of this fraud committed on the American people?
http://www.newsobserver.com/20.....t-gas.html
Republicants are wrong on so many levels, it's really sad they have so little to offer.
tj| 2.29.12 @ 2:54PM
Don't listen to the purp's lies...we all know whats going on and will VOTE EM ALL OUT 2012, 2016, and 2020 till "OUR HOUSE" is clean..
Purp| 2.29.12 @ 5:45PM
Lies, yeah, and if you Google "America Exports Gasoline" you can find out for yourself. Don't be so lazy - you are being lied to, but I guess you don't care, as long as you get rid of the black man, huh?
Tim the Enchanter| 3.1.12 @ 1:35PM
Why are you so obsessed with "getting rid of the back man"? Do you want Zero out of office that badly? Also, do the initials "F.O.S." mean anything to you? They should.
MataHarley | 2.29.12 @ 6:43PM
Purp is wrong on so many levels. Global and domestic consumption and demand (two completely different issues), plus spare capacity, the production of non OPEC producing nations and the value of the US dollar all affect the end result - price at the pump. Read and learn.
US exports of refined fuels, all manufactured costs being subject to the price per barrel, have nothing to do with the global price per barrel. They are the results of those prices. We do not have a domestic supply problem, because historical records prove that consumption goes down when the price goes up. We do have a global demand problem, and low spare capacity. Which is the reason that Chuckie Schumer is begging Hillary to convince the Saudis to open up the taps. Ironic, eh? A liberal demanding more production as a cure to barrel prices.
Newt is correct. An aggressive energy policy of developing US sources would not only cure the price at the pump, but also cure many woes for unemployment and economic growth. Our national security is also improved because, not being subject to ME penchant for violence, we can indeed say "Frankly, we don't care what you do."
Therefore Purp has done a fine job at demonstrating that Democrat liberals are wrong on so many levels, that it's sad that all they have to offer is the future of a subservient and mediocre America.
Cynicon Implant| 2.29.12 @ 2:27PM
Turning algae into oil?
Rumplestiltskin was more real than this bozo.
Purp| 2.29.12 @ 5:47PM
Not that you care, but it isn't magic :
http://www.originoil.com/about.....asics.html
Those darn pesky facts just won't leave you alone, will they?
MataHarley | 2.29.12 @ 6:48PM
Yeah, pesky facts indeed. The amount of water... another precious resource... plus the energy it would take makes it fine as a possible supplemental fuel. If you want to wait about 30 years or so until they can figure out how to grow algae fast enough and cheap enough that it makes sense economically.
ooops....
Garfield| 2.29.12 @ 2:38PM
Does anyone here believe Romney and Santorum could have totally destroyed Obama's left wing rhetoric like Gingrich just did, cause I sure don't.
We need Newt.
David| 2.29.12 @ 3:05PM
Yes Garfield, do you not listen, actually LISTEN, to Santorum's speeches on a wide variety of issues?
He is as well-studied as Newt on the issues.
Romney is another matter.
Garfield| 2.29.12 @ 3:33PM
You may have a point on Santorum, however he's been sidetracked on other issues so easily that Obama could just keep him off message.
JamesJ| 2.29.12 @ 3:54PM
Obama responded, "Food stamps is our future!"
Stroker97| 2.29.12 @ 5:13PM
Great article! It's so refreshing to see a positive article and comments about Newt. It should be obvious to any logical thinker that Newt is exactly what the American people need right now. And I also stress that THIS IS THE MOST IMPORTANT ELECTION OF OUR LIFETIME. Please America, think about the ramifications of another Obama term. You won't recognize what's left if we let it happen. Please America, use your heads and think. Don't be swayed by the RINO establishment and the Lame Stream Media. VOTE NEWT!
Garfield| 2.29.12 @ 5:27PM
Gingrich is the one that can frame the narrative instead of letting the media do it. Santorum can't, and I don't trust Romney.
We need the nominee to be Newt.
Nite| 2.29.12 @ 7:10PM
Newt has a wonderful plan and that is why he should be elected instead of the others. Obama is totally ignorant and it shows.
Mark| 2.29.12 @ 8:52PM
Gingrich is an ignorant idiot, and all this garbage about more oil is a lie. It is too expensive to get and we will destroy the planet burning it. Global Climate Change is true and supported by MORE than 99% of all scientists worldwide.
TENN Slim| 3.1.12 @ 8:42AM
I Recc you travel to ND visit the actual drilling sites then report back.
As to Global Warming truth or not, I refer you to the UN sponsored investigations of the "Scientists" advocating Global Warming.
You seriously need to do far more research prior to posting your Opines w/o factual data.
Semper FI
Tim the Enchanter| 3.1.12 @ 1:39PM
Yes, Climate Change is real. Has been for eons. Trouble is, it's the sun and nature doing it. Take it up with them.
hinckleybuzzard| 2.29.12 @ 9:42PM
The amazing thing is that all the information Newt uses in this speech is well known and available in the public domain. In response, obama has soundbite chants, cheers and jeers.
Should Have Impeached| 2.29.12 @ 9:55PM
Someone with some serious money needs to take those statements of Newt's, juxtapose them with Obama's lies, compile them into an hour-long paid television program and run it 24/7. But I guess the Democrats must have all the money. Looks like the conservatives just can't get the message out to the masses, not even with weekly Republican debates. I like the way Santorum threatens Romney's "inevitability". But I really think Newt's the man for the task at hand. Too bad he's so far behind in the rankings. Shame.
POST American| 2.29.12 @ 10:27PM
----------------------FINAL WORD-------------------------
AS those EUGENICS enriched 'super cities'
await occupation across the Far East
---we fully expect the Bush--Clinton---Bush
---Obama CFR 'CON--tin--NEW--'IT'--he' to
remain fully intact past 2012.
Probable Averell Harriman stealth clone,
and former Kissinger aide Obama truly is
the PERFECT match of man to moment
---as far as the capstone's 'CON--SSS-earned'.
-------'Everything OLD is NEW-Remberg AGAIN'
---------------and AGAIN and AGAIN.
SO, keep a goin'
----------------------you're ALMOST there!
Brian Richard Allen | 3.1.12 @ 1:36AM
.... Conservatives need to recall after all the out of context misquotes or misunderstandings about what Gingrich has said in recent years, when he had political power, he governed as a Reaganite conservative, as someone who, in the words of Nancy Reagan, had the baton passed from Goldwater, to Reagan, to Gingrich ....
Please Dearest YHWH, from Mr Ferrara's lips, Right to your ears!
And thence to the ears of every Republican and of the wider American electorate.
That it might also get it Right!
Larry| 3.1.12 @ 2:41AM
This article, and the speech by Newt, is the reason why I will still vote for Newt in the Texas primary. Does anyone really imagine that Romney would have had a response of the intellectual and rhetorical quality that Newt had here? Does anyone really imagine that Romney will have the nerve or the moxie to expose Barack the Usurper's lies? The Usurper should be publicly called a bald-faced liar to his face in any presidential debate, and that should be repeated over and over again coupled with the obvious proof.
wodiej| 3.1.12 @ 4:13AM
I've not heard anything remotely visionary or bold from Romney or Santorum. Why Santorum is even a consideration is beyond me. Being a religious zealot doesn't make a person presidential nor does being a flawed individual make a person un-presidential.
I am certain Gingrich can beat Obama and possibly even Romney. I don't think Santorum has a snowballs chance. But Gingrich by far is the one w the ideas and solutions for our time.
TENN Slime| 3.1.12 @ 8:38AM
All well and good. And I approve every word of Newts treatise. Factual, accurate, spot on.
BUT Newt and Co must win in 2012 to make ANY of this possible. Odds are against such.
OWS, ACORN, SEIU etal will insure such chaos that a Mitt, or a Rick or even a Newt have little or no chance of success.
Chaos will reign IAW Van Jones tenets I am EXTREMELY sad to say.
Semper Fi
Plumbob| 3.1.12 @ 10:41AM
The description from Newt is spot on. I am sick of the retoric of Obummer. I'm sorry for the USA in it's thinking of this boob in the wrong seat. My energy and mindset is there but doesn't seem enough to open the hearts of some liberals I know. They are stuck on this discraced imposter. And as one of my friends says we deserve what we get---we voted for him. I did not. NOW LET'S TAKE IT BACK.
timmah| 3.1.12 @ 1:51PM
The other factor in the gasoline price run-up are the 3 rounds of Quantitative Easing (aka printing money). Seeking Alpha has charts that directly correlate the Q.E.'s and the rise in prices. Every time a particular round of Q.E. ended the prices started back down only to rise again during the next Q.E. If we produced our own oil, added refineries (almost impossible with current regs) and stopped printing money like mad, prices would plummet, and people would have to kiss our a$$e$ for oil.
Dan R Smith| 3.1.12 @ 3:52PM
I’m absolutely convinced that Newt Gingrich is the junkyard dog we need to rip Obama a new one and send him running back to his Chicago slime pit with his tail between his legs. Newt has plenty of DC experience as Speaker, executive ability from his many enterprises, and a silver tongue that’s razor sharp! He’s fast on his feet, delivers it straight up with no hemming and hawing, and is often witty. His work with American Solutions was very impressive and as we’ve seen recently, Newt is able to put into words what the vast majority of Americans really believe. His fevered brain also has plenty of ideas for making government work better for taxpayers. Is Newt pure as new driven snow? No - none of the presidential candidates are in line for sainthood. Whatever Newt’s “baggage”, it pales next to Obama’s habitual lying and outright corruption - and unlike Obama, Newt is 100% American! Newt is like Larry the Cable Guy: send him to DC and he’ll “Get ‘er done” for all of us. Newt has "Been there, done that! Junkyard dogs are not show dogs, but they’ll save your bacon!
I am damn mad at what Obama and his bootlickers have stolen from us - you should be too - and I want someone to represent me! Newt Gingrich is that man! Sic ‘im, Newt!
firebo| 3.1.12 @ 4:27PM
Excellent post. You are absolutely correct.
Gingrich/Rubio or West 2012
Energy in USA - coastal waters| 3.2.12 @ 7:59AM
Excellent article, Mr. Ferrara. Thank you.
Danny Mann| 3.2.12 @ 11:04AM
Stupendous article. The Obama election goon squad of the left will destroy anything to win this election. In Alinsky’s brand of social warfare, the end justify the means. Winning is all that matters. Alinsky also said that organizers must be entirely unpredictable and unmistakably willing to watch society descend into utter chaos and anarchy. I pray America can stop the goon squad and take America back.
Col Bat Guano| 3.2.12 @ 12:51PM
Excellent! Blast Obama with the cold hard facts. I just wish Gingrich didn't have so much personal baggage. A perfect retort to Obama/Pelosi/Reid et.al saying "We can't drill our way out of this"
"Well, we certainly can't pondscum our way out of it."
Garfield| 3.2.12 @ 7:51PM
You do realize that all the candidates have baggage.
More importantly Obama has baggage, take a look at the candidates and think, which candidate's baggage would be the hardest for Obama to go after.
Newt Gingrich's baggage would be the hardest for Obama to go after without his attacks backfiring.
tm| 3.3.12 @ 5:19PM
Garfield, I agree. While I personally do not like some of the personal chapters in Newt's background, the longer I study world history and the big names in it, I see warts in all of them.
Ronald Reagan was an out and out drunkard for awhile as a younger man in Hollywood.
People change. Newt is in his final life chapter. I believe him now when he says that he deeply wishes to come to the aid of his very troubled and in trouble country.
I like men who have a firm grasp of what has occurred in America and the world in the last 45 years. Newt is that man. I have often thought that we should only choose presidents who are in their 60's. There is no substitute for life experiences.
john dubose| 4.9.12 @ 10:00PM
the nat gas tech boom will not stop at our borders. It is only a matter of time till the price drops. That is a good thing, but most people will not be prepared when it happens.
mobielgeheimen | 6.12.12 @ 3:42AM
I think Obama is a very articulate President who has grown very