Newt’s Inconvenient Alliance
As you may have heard, former Speaker of the U.S. House Newt Gingrich will be coming to Charlotte on Oct. 27 to headline a fundraiser for the North Carolina Republican Party. The funds raised will be used to support Get Out the Vote efforts in Mecklenburg County for Republican candidates. The Charlotte Observer reported on the event, which you can read about here.
As everyone by now surely knows, this November’s elections will be the most important in recent memory, and will very likely see a Republican wave, similar to or possibly in excess of that which brought Gingrich to the Speakership back in 1994. That election came to be called a Revolution, although the long-term effects were mixed, to say the least. To many, the election of ’94 was an opportunity to roll back the tide of big government that was eventually squandered.
This year, we hope to take advantage of another opportunity to stem the tide of runaway government control of our lives. We hope to recover our lost liberties and repair our broken economy by rejecting the collectivist call to central planning, and return to the traditional American system of unleashing human ingenuity through freedom, competition, and unfettered innovation.
In order to do that, though, I believe that we must keep firmly in mind the principles that guide us to the polls. For far too long, candidates have gotten into office on big talk, with little delivery. Democrats fight to expand government everywhere and always, and far too many Republicans end up embracing socialism lite in the name of “bipartisanship.” Many see this last failing as the reason the Revolution of ’94 ultimately failed. In many ways, the surging Tea Party movement is a rejection of this kind of compromise on principle.
While it’s laudable that Mr. Gingrich wants to come to Charlotte to help us take back our government, it behooves us to keep in mind that, like any politician, he probably has a long list of wants. After all, his name has been bandied about in pundit circles as a possible presidential candidate for 2012.
Unfortunately, while he may want to help us win in November, he also wants us to help Nancy Pelosi fight global warming.
Or Climate Change.
Or whatever it’s called this week.
Two years ago, Mr. Gingrich got comfy with Nancy on a couch in front of the Capitol Building to do a commercial for We Can Solve It, a video project for celebrities and politicians who recorded messages about the urgency of stopping global warming. While that’s disturbing enough, a little digging reveals that We Can Solve it is actually a project of The Alliance for Climate Protection. You can confirm the link between the two here. The We Can Solve It campaign is the third project on the list of the Alliance’s “Our Work” page.
The Alliance for Climate Protection was founded in 2006 with the mission to “close the gap between the 77% of people who believe that there is solid evidence that the Earth is warming and the 47% who believe that warming is linked to human activity.”
The founder and chairman of the Alliance for Climate Protection is Al Gore.
Now, I’m sure that Mr. Gingrich will not be discussing any of this at the NCGOP’s fundraiser on the 27th. I’m sure he’ll be rallying the conservative faithful to get out there, work a polling location, walk their precincts, make phone calls, and do all the other necessary work to win on November 2nd. That is all well and good, and I’m all for that.
Nevertheless, I have to take with a grain of salt the words of anyone who thinks it’s important to help Nancy Pelosi and Al Gore save the planet from…well, us. And I certainly don’t think I can bring myself to spend good money to hear him that I could give directly to conservative candidates who don’t want to help Nancy and her gang with anything other than finding the exit…as quickly as possible.
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