Welcome guest writer, Larry Welsh, of the Twitter account @NewtGrassroots
This
Time It Must be Different
By Larry Welsh
To understand why
I support Newt Gingrich for President, it’s useful to look at the
other side of the coin; to remember the words of what the far left
thought once upon time, to remember the words of Hunter S. Thompson
in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas:
And
that, I think, was the handle - that sense of inevitable victory over
the forces of old and evil. Not in any mean or military sense; we
didn't need that. Our energy would simply prevail. We had all the
momentum; we were riding the crest of a high and beautiful wave. So
now, less than five years later, you can go up on a steep hill in Las
Vegas and look west, and with the right kind of eyes you can almost
see the high-water mark - that place where the wave finally broke and
rolled back.
I don’t want to look back 5 years
from now and feel like we missed our shot. I don’t want the
Republican Establishment aided by the Liberal media to convince us
yet again that we can’t win unless we nominate someone who doesn’t
ruffle feathers, who “appeals to moderates,” who can attract
“swing voters.” How many scare-tactic buzzwords have we heard
before? Why do conservatives pine for Reagan? Because Ronald Reagan
wasn’t the safe pick, because he didn’t “tone down” his
conservative rhetoric, because he didn’t appease the liberal media.
Most importantly, he did it the conservative way and he won.
