dmm1010 wrote:
Unless another candidate appears who believes in our constitution as it was framed by the founding fathers I will only vote for Ron Paul. I don't agree that Ron Paul is "no warrior." It seems to me that he merely believes that our military should be used to defend our country and its interests, not to fight other people's wars. To be quite honest I don't want to fight a war with Iran. We don't stand to gain anything from it. It will only cost us more money and our national debt is already ridiculous. Let Israel deal with Iran.
That being said, even if Cain or Gingrich believed in the constitution as it was originally written, I don't think I could bring myself to vote for either one of them. In my opinion being a known philanderer does disqualify one from being President of the United States.
And they certainly don't believe in constitution as it was originally written. I doubt Herman Cain has ever even read it and Newt has been working against the constitution for 30+ years.
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Futurist
In 1994, Gingrich described himself as “a conservative futurist.” He said that those who were trying to define him should look no further than The Third Wave, a 1980 book written by Alvin Toffler. The book describes our society as entering a post-industrial phase in which abortion, homosexuality, promiscuity, and divorce are perfectly normal, even virtuous. Toffler penned a letter to America’s “founding parents,” in which he said: “The system of government you fashioned, including the very principles on which you based it, is increasingly obsolete, and hence increasingly, if inadvertently, oppressive and dangerous to our welfare. It must be radically changed and a new system of government invented — a democracy for the 21st century.” He went on to describe our constitutional system as one that “served us so well for so long, and that now must, in its turn, die and be replaced.”
Gingrich recommended The Third Wave as essential reading to his colleagues when he became Speaker of the House. In his forward to another Toffler book, Creating a New Civilization: The Politics of the Third Wave, he grieved at the lack of appreciation for “Toffler’s insight” in The Third Wave and blamed politicians who had not applied his model for the “frustration, negativism, cynicism and despair” of the political landscape. He went on to explain that Toffler advocated a concept called “anticipatory democracy,” and bragged that he had worked with him for 20 years “to develop a future-conscious politics and popular understanding that would make it easier for America to make the transition” to a Third Wave civilization.