Rick Perry dropping out of presidential race, Grover Norquist hardest hit

I listened to the debate between David Goldman and Robert Spencer this morning on Frontpagemag.

http://frontpagemag.com/2012/01/18/the-great-debate-david-goldman-vs-robert-spencer-on-the-jamie-glazov-show-1-1/

Goldman is no question a knowledgeable author, thinker writer. I believe his innocuous / benign view of Islam is naive and were it widely embraced, it would prove costly. The question near the end of the debate, who will the Republican nominee be and will he beat Obama?

Both: Romney.

Will he defeat Obama? Predictions?

If Romney is the Republican nominee, it remains to be seen if he can beat Obama. He seems to pull his punches when asked about Obama's radical ideology. Unlike Gingrich, Romney appears unwilling to harshly criticize President Obama and his dangerous worldview. Romney unlike Gingrich (with all his baggage, multiple marriages, etc.) is an apologist for Islam, much like Governor Rick Perry.

Perry gave a good bowing out speech and has left his attempt at becoming President by giving his endorcement to Newt Gingrich this morning.

Gingrich on Sharia
Posted on January 19, 2012 by creeping

At the current rate, this could be the last presidential cycle where frank comments like this are not a crime. via Newt’s Right on Sharia – The Corner – National Review Online.

Republican presidential candidate Newt Gingrich was asked yesterday whether he would support a Muslim for president. His answer may have been one of the most important teaching moments of the long and difficult campaign season.

Speaker Gingrich responding by saying it depends on whether the candidate was “a modern person who happens to worship Allah.” Or “a person who belonged to any kind of belief in sharia, any kind of effort to impose that on the rest of us.” He rightly concluded by saying that the former would not be a threat while the latter would be a “mortal threat.”
Newt is absolutely right in making such a distinction. The danger we currently face from the so-called Muslim world arises not from the fact that people are Muslim, but from the extent to which they adhere to the totalitarian, supremacist Islamic doctrine of sharia.

Gingrich also repeated his earlier call for federal legislation to ensure that sharia is not practiced in U.S. courts. An appellate-court ruling last week in connection with an amendment to the Oklahoma state constitution would seem to preclude such an initiative.
Full quote via The Blaze:

“I am totally opposed to sharia law,” he added.
“If they are a modern person integrated into the modern world and prepared to recognize all religions that’s one thing,” Gingrich began. “If they are the Saudis who demand that we respect them while they refuse to allow either a Jew or Christian to worship in Saudi Arabia, that’s something different.”

Gingrich also pointed out that the Islamization of Turkey — once a country that prided itself on its Western sense and sensibilities — has resulted in a 1400 percent increase in women’s murders.

He added:

“I think we need a president who stands up, tells the truth, and rejects any kind of effort to impose on us a sense of guilt because we believe in our religion and we are prepared to tell the truth and I am totally opposed to a State Department meeting a week ago with the organization of Islamic countries who are seeking to censor any comment about Islam because I think it is a fundamental violation of our right of free speech as Americans…But within that framework a truly modern person who happened to worship would not be a threat. A person who belonged any kind of belief in sharia, any kind of effort to impose that on the rest of us, would be a mortal threat.”
Listen to Gingrich’s remarks on what he believes would be required of a Muslim running for the highest office in the land.

Video courtesy of TPM:

http://creepingsharia.wordpress.com/2012/01/19/gingrich-on-sharia/

Never mind Perry, Spencer, great vid of Kool and The Gang. Much maligned, but a great band. Most people just remember their immaculately produced 80s 'party' stuff, but in the 60s and 70s, they were a cool garage-funk band. Check out 'Funky Granny' from '72. Awesome.

OT, but what the hell. You need some relief from all this islamic jihad...

You may need relief. I don't. But then maybe I am not the normal, everyday person.

I think excerpts from the following exchange bear re-posting. These are Islamic killers who both Romney and Santorum defend - these killers openly celebrated on 911 - are dedicated to Israel's destruction and who are part and parcel of the global jihad.

Excerpts from the December 10, 2011 Iowa debate:

Speaker Newt Gingrich: 22:04:50:00 Somebody oughta have the courage to tell the truth: These people are terrorists.

GEORGE STEPHANOPOULOS: 22:05:09:00 Governor Romney, (APPLAUSE) you just heard the Speaker say he was just telling the truth. Do you take any issue with that characterization of the Palestinians as an invented people?

GOVERNOR MITT ROMNEY: 22:05:22:00 I-- I happen to agree with-- with most of what the speaker said, except by going down and saying the Palestinians are an invented people. That I think was a mistake on the speaker's part. I-- I think-- you-- you-- I think the speaker would probably suggest that as well. I-- I don't think we want to--

22:05:35:00 (SPEAKER NEWT GINGRICH: UNINTELLIGIBLE)

GOVERNOR MITT ROMNEY: Maybe not. I-- (LAUGHTER) I think we're very wise to stand with our friends, Israel, and not get out ahead of them.

Romney: 22:05:51:00 They-- Israel does not want us to make it more difficult for them to sit down with the Palestinian (terrorists - wildjew).

Governor Mitt Romney: 22:06:03:00 --and the-- and the United States of America should not jump ahead of Bibi Netanyahu and say something that makes it more difficult for him to-- to do his job (i.e., negotiate with the terrorists - wj).

Romney: 22:07:30:00 If-- if-- if-- if Bibi Netanyahu wants to say what you said, let him say it. But our ally, b-- the-- the people of Israel, should be able to take their own positions and not have us negotiate (with the terrorists - wj) for them.

Romney: 22:08:29:00 And I'm president of the United States, I will exercise sobriety, care, stability. And make sure that in a setting like this, anything I say that can affect a place with-- with rockets going in, with people dying, I don't do anything that would harm that-- that ("peace"?) process.

SENATOR RICK SANTORUM: 22:11:50:00 If I can finish my s-- comment, I'll get to that, George. (LAUGHTER) That-- that we-- we have an ally here that we have to work closely with. And I think Mitt's point was-- was the correct one. We need to be working with the Israelis to find out, you know what? Is this a wise thing for us to do, to step forward and to engage this issue? Maybe it is.

22:12:10:00 My guess is, at this point in time, it's not. Not that we shouldn't tell the truth, but we should be talking to our allies. It's their fight."

It's "their fight?"

How can people like Gover Norquist sleep at night with all his traitorous activites involving the MoBros? He should read what happened to Vidkum Qusiling and Lord Haw Haw after WW2.

For all Governor Perry's faults, I've got to give him credit for endorsing Gingrich, an outspoken critic of shariah law. My guess is, Gingrich is not Grover Norquist's first choice in the Republican field. I could be wrong about that. My guess is Grover is a Mitt Romney supporter.

Newt Gingrich is the strongest anti-Jihad candidate remaining in the field. Rick Santorum has shown at least a few sporadic glimmers of recognizing a Jihad threat.

Mitt Romney is pretty milquetoast about the whole matter. And Ron Paul insanely believes that the Jihad was created by American foreign policy.

Gingrich is definitely our best hope—but he does come with a lot of baggage. I just hope he can stand against Obama if he gets the nomination. The fact that he is a strong speaker is definitely a plus.

Thanks, Robert! ..whatta fun song! ..and I'll also do a happy dance if Ron Paul drops out of the race - but I won't hold my breath, lol :)

OK, Senator Santorum supported ultra-leftist, pro-abortion, pro-Palestinian jihad-state, Senator Arlen Specter over conservative Pat Toomey.

OK maybe Santorum can redeem himself. I believe in redemption.

But when Santorum sided with Mitt Romney, who argued - that Gingrich was wrong to tell the truth about these jihadists -- that we should NOT do anything to discourage that Israelis from "negotiating" with these mass-murderers, these Islamic killers; when Santorum said "I think Mitt's point was-- was the correct one... Is this a wise thing for us to do, to step forward and to engage this issue? Maybe it is....My guess is, at this point in time, IT'S NOT (emphasis mine). Not that we shouldn't tell the truth, but we should be talking to our allies. It's their fight..." Santorum is done in my mind. He's figuratively dead to me. He's finished.

Santorum: Like Ron Paul, 'Fighting the jihad is their (Israel's) fight'. It's none of our business: Ron Paul.

Santorum: "It's NOT our fight."

It's not?

Gingrich is a progressive (although he claims to be a conservitive), like Perry, and like Romney (he is on video stating to be a progressive), and if he is misleading about what he really is, how can anyone be supprised where he will really take the country?

Do NOT take this lightly, or what I am stating, do some surfing, the truth is out there, you must look at the history of this man to get a feel of what he is about.

Santorum is about as close to a Reagan conservative that is running, and any other "vote" and you may as well keep Obama, at least there is no suprise about his direction.

And do a search for the Communist party members in congress as of right now, most are declaired progressives.

And then there were four................

I vote to deport Grover Norquist to Saudi Arabia or Iran.

Islam: where freedom ends and slavery begins.

Bye, Ricky.

Say "Hi!" to Plano and Norquist for me.

A lot of people were interested in Perry at first. That's because Texas, for whatever reasons, has for years been creating way more than its share of the jobs created in the U.S. Then I heard what Spencer had to say about Perry, and saw Perry debate. After that Perry "oops" moment in debate, I just wanted him to get lost, and every time he was about to say something at a debate I would cringe to think how he would make a fool of himself in what he was planning to say.

In recent polling in South Carolina, Gingrich and Romney are almost tied for first place, each supported by about 30% of South Carolinians who will be voting in the upcoming Republican primary. The other candidates are all under 15% each in South Carolina. Gingrich has surged greatly in the last day or so, evidently because of the home run he hit in the most recent debate, when Juan Williams, one of the moderators, threw a couple of questions at him designed to make him look as bad as possible.

I see now that the video link I posted of Gingrich in debate with Juan Williams suddenly switches to some completely different location at about 4:30 into the video. At that point it shows some guy speaking, and I have no idea who he is or what his message is, so if you watch beyond the 4:30 point, watch at your own risk. I only posted the clip for the sake of the first four and a half minutes of it, not for anything after that.

No Republican candidate for President, still in the race or already out, has demonstrated a thorough knowledge of Islam. Bachmann probably came the closest but, while she knows certain things well like tax policy, she was prone to gaffes and this is lethal for a Presidential candidate who is a Republican. Of course, if one is a Democrat, then much more leeway is granted. Obama has committed enormous gaffes, more than any other President in history, for instance that he does not know a particular term in the Austrian language (yeah, can you believe it?) or mixing up Memorial Day with Veterans Day (huge if you served and huge even for many who didn't).

And so what is to be done and what is to be decided? Here's my take: Proceed on the assumption that Romney is pretty ignorant about Islam. But he still is infinitely preferable to Obama because 1) he knows how economies work, 2) he will far more likely appoint conservative judges to the courts, 3) he won't try to transform America into a model of a failing Western European social democracy as Obama is attempting so hard to do, 4) he won't, at least literally and probably figuratively as well, bow to foreign heads of state, 5) he will definitely keep the American military in greater readiness than Obama has or will, 6) he will convey more strength and purpose to foes of America than Obama has, 7) he sees value in traditional America and Obama despises this America, 8) he will be a far, far better ally of Israel than Obama has and 9) he has the capacity to learn, including about Islam, and Obama has no capacity to learn about most anything, especially about Islam.

Those who fail to vote for Romney, assuming he gets the Republican nomination for President, because he just isn't good enough are deeply, profoundly, guilty of failing to see that the perfect is the enemy of the good.

...that song has been stuck in my head all day; not that I mind, it's a fun song! :)

Oh, boy, we so desperatelly need a new Center Party modeled after hero Geert Wilders' glorious Dutch Freedom Party, led by our own heroes Rudy Giuliani and Paul Sperry.

Ruslan Tokhchukov, EnragedSince1999.

With blatant and vicious attacks to the Jews from the Muslim world, it is inconceivable there are Jews who support Islam, some even endorse Islamism and their aggression. Why is this so? Are the Jews imploding within themselves? I have great respect for Israelis fighting to survive but what happened to their brothers - many of them are in prominent positions in the West.

I'd like to add that my wish is for Jewish people to unite. I hope the pro-Islamic Jews are in the minority. Anyone has the statistics can enlighten us.

Kool and the Gang are Nation of Islam.

Love their music, but it was not written for me.

Sorry to be a pooper; I liked them, too.

I guess we should be thankfull they weren't touting Hamas.