The most important characteristic for the 2012 Republican nominee for President (enemies, ethic)
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Why doesn't it matter anymore that a candidate cheats on his wife? Can't REPUBS do anymore than field a candidate that is a unfaithful? Unfaithful to wife and then unfaithful to his oath.
As POTUS, how can you lower the boom on an opposition legislature?
See the Reagan reference in the OP.
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What can Obama do to Republican house members right now?
Well, my reference was to the President's ability to go on National TV and ask the American people to support him and call their Congressmen and demand that they vote for what the President wants.
Only Mr. Obama has just one leetle problem with that (as you point out here): the people themselves, don't WANT what the President wants, and won't pressure their Congressmen for it even if Obama asks them to.
Legislating against the will of the American people can be difficult if not impossible, as Obama (and Clinton before him) have found out.
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I think the key is to win the hearts and minds of the American people.
Yes, that's the bottom line. And if you START on the side the American people want, that becomes a lot easier, as Reagan found out and the next Republican nominee will also find out, IF he wants smaller government, lower spending, and less restriction with more person responsibility.
So, given that the President wants what most of the American people want, whihc candidate will be better at getting that through Congress?
Why doesn't it matter anymore that a candidate cheats on his wife? Can't REPUBS do anymore than field a candidate that is a unfaithful? Unfaithful to wife and then unfaithful to his oath.
At least Newt tries to be married, he doesn't sit in churches preaching racism. He doesn't hang out with radical terrorist for his political views and he acknowledges God more than Islam.
Obama is burying this country in every way. What was so good about his version of the oath he took when he is a boob and a socialist/communist boob at that?
I don't know which of these men may be the better leader, because Newt just lectures people and would be confused on how to persuade the others, and i fear Romney will cave into pressure from the democrats and the liberal media and not fight for what he believes in.
You have brought up a very important point, one that I left out:
Once a Republican gets elected President, he will be subject to literally the weight of the whole world, trying to get him to change his policies. At least it will seem that way to him - the media will present a 100% united front, both to him and to the rest of the world, saying that he is cruel, heartless, completely at odds with what the American people want, none of his policies will work and he is completely insane for even trying them.
Newt, at least, has had direct experience with that little tupperware party. When Republicans were voted into majorities in the House and Senate in 1994 and Newt became Speaker, that entire circus swung into action against them. And Newt's support among congressional Republicans melted away like butter on a hot stove. He was left to bear the brunt of the task of getting tax cuts passed (he managed to get the Cap Gains cut through in the face of repeated vetos from Clinton). But as he tried to keep Republicans on the smaller-govt course they had started on, more and more of his fellow Repubs stopped cooperating with him, and rapidly turned into big spenders fully as liberal as the Democrats they replaced, and the so-called "Republican Revolution" collapsed.
So another important characteristic the Republican nominee this year must have is: He must be able to stand up to the haranguing, pressure, smears, and lies of a full-court press from the media and other leftist Democrats, that will often appear as a united front against him and his agenda.
Newt has gotten a good taste of this already, though that doesn't mean he knows how to defeat it. Romney hasn't really had such a taste yet, except vicariously by watching what has happened to other Republicans.
So, who will be better able to get conservative legislation thru Congress, AND be able to stay the course in the face of the inevitable media-led eight-year gauntlet of attacks, smears, and vilification?
The most important attribute should be to be free of rigid political idealogy, dogma, and slogans.
The Repub. candidate should demonstrate that he or she is creative, flexible, and a free thinker, not subservient to the strings being pulled by interest groups or a faction of the party.
The above reasons are exactly why I envision a flamethrower attached to idealogy being the nominee------after all, executing the jingoistic vision of faction of the party is superior to using vision and strength to do what is best for the country---of course.
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The most important characteristic for the 2012 Republican nominee for President
