- Newt Out-Unicorn's Obama

Newt Gingrich is not going to be the next President, but don’t try telling him that. Just as you would expect from a stalwart Republican, he’s tacking hard to the left because he thinks they’ll be some advantage to him personally in going that direction. On meet the press Sunday he took the position that the best way to prevent Medicare form collapsing under its own ridiculously bloated weight (and taking the rest of the country with it) is to ‘begin a national conversation’ on the subject.

This is just the type of empty platitude that the press loves repeating when Obama says it, so I’m sure they’ll love that he and Newt are on the same page. But all that ‘national conversation’ really is, is a way for Newt to evade the same tough questions that Obama has been evading for three years now. This shameful display is really just a reminder that the people who brought you John McCain as the Republican Party candidate, are still very much alive, well, and pulling strings in Washington.

In my mind the Tea Party is the last best hope for America. And they represent the only vision for the future where America can really survive over the long term. The Democrat plan of free rainbows and unicorns for everyone has already been demonstrated as a disaster. And the classic Republican plan of subsidized Rainbows and low priced unicorns won’t work either.

They have a chance to make elections about principle again… but they had better get to it. More and more this looks to me like the same old D.C. song and dance. They say Cortez burned his boats in the new world to ensure his people fought for victory instead of focusing on retreat. Well if Newt is any indication, the Tea Party folks better get to setting a few Republican boats alight because as soon as the Republican party tacks to the left this election is lost, and America may very well be lost with it. I'm not sure we can survive another 4 years of Obama. (We might not survive anyway - but that certainly won't help.)

The Republican party will not be able to out-unicorn Obama, and if they try, they’ll lose. That’s what McCain did, and it looks like exactly what Newt is trying to do.