Did Newt Dis the Gipper?

Today the big news attack against Newt is coming directly from the GOP establishment. An impatient, young Congressman Newt obviously felt that the Reagan admin was being too over cautious and moving way too slow in its battle against communism in 3rd world countries like Nicaragua. Mr Abrams does admit, though, that Newt "voted with the President regularly". And I have to believe that Reagan must have had some fondness for Newt in a grandfatherly way.

I do believe this account by Mr Abrams. Newt continues to have that "impatience" although its now tempered with age. More mature and controlled. But its still there and millions of middle Americans share that frustration and impatience with Newt. If we are an exceptional nation, why don't we start conducting ourselves as such? Why do we continue to kowtow to world opinion and world governing bodies?

It'd be fun to get some discussion going about this. Please feel free to comment.
( read Elliot Abrams NRO article in its entirety here )

Is Romney Electable? Not So Fast. . .

Whoever the GOP nominee is, they're going to get my enthusiastic support. Even if its Mitt Romney. That doesn't necessarily make Mitt electable. Fitsnews.com makes a fairly good argument here that he will not be all that electable . . .

There’s a generally-accepted notion that former Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney is the most “electable” Republican running for president in 2012.
In fact, that underlying notion pretty much defines his support.
Ask most Romney backers why they’re voting for him and they’ll tell you “we need someone who can beat Barack Obama.”
These people don’t particularly like or trust Romney, mind you, they’ve just been led to believe that his nomination is the key to getting rid of Obama and undoing things like Obamacare – which is especially ironic (and especially ignorant) in light of Romney’s prior support for socialized medicine.

( read article in its entirety at Fitsnews.com here )