Former House Speaker Newt Gingrich has a heart for illegal immigrants, promising to enact a flimsy, nebulous amnesty.
The GOP has to have a heart, but it must keep its head, lest it make promises to loyal and possible ethnic minorities about the status of splintered families in the United States.
The greatest offense, however, is the former House Speaker's chronic and vapid refrain: "I am a Reagan Conservative."
First of all, Ronald Reagan was heavy on the rhetoric, light on the reality. The last thing that this country needs is lofty talk with a softy walk. Real cuts, limited government, and return to core constitutional rule -- this requires a lot more than a Gipper-tribute sound-bite.
Regarding Gingrich's comments about black voters, he has every right to demand an end to a coddling welfare state that has disproportionally and unjustly targeted a thrifty and able portion of the American population. Fewer food stamps, greater initiative for paid employment, all of which can be accomplished with block grants to the states instead of sloppy and arbitrary subsidies from the federal government.
Gingrich is wise to make inroads to minority voters in this country. But he is hardly the slow and steady candidate that can best challenge Mitt Romney. Congressman Ron Paul has demonstrated a considerable constancy in favoring less government, targeting wasteful programs that waste away the natural talent and young potential of all Americans, no matter what their race, creed, or color.
Free markets make oppressed people free, poor people wealthy, and incapacitated people more than capable. Congressman Paul is the real tortoise who may upset the quartiled lukewarm frontrunner in this election cycle.
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