Thread: GOP Prospect Could Steal Palin's Thunder

Wow. I think I actually found someone I could support for President. I even like his stand on immigration. Mike Pence

GOP prospect could steal Palin's thunder
December 02. 2010 1:00AM .Nolan Finley
detnews.com



If Mike Pence keeps talking, the left will soon have to stop talking about Sarah Palin.

Pence is the Indiana congressman who is weighing a run for the presidency in 2012. He stopped by Birmingham last week to speak to the Detroit Economic Club. It wasn't all that far into his speech before you realized that this guy has a message that could catch on, particularly if voters remain in their current mood.

"To restore American exceptionalism, we must end all this Keynesian spending and get back to the practice of free market economics," Pence told the audience. "The freedom to succeed must include the freedom to fail. The free market is what made America's economy the greatest in the world, and we cannot falter in our willingness to defend it."

For most of the rest of the speech, Pence laid out a blueprint for restoring the economy that focused on simplifying the tax code; adopting sound monetary policy, perhaps even a return to the gold standard; developing homegrown energy sources; reforming regulations to make them friendlier to job creators; and committing fully to free trade.

It's a message tailor made for the tea party movement, particularly on tax policy. Pence would replace all federal taxes with a single, flat income tax in the range of 17 percent, and get the government away from using taxes to manipulate behavior.

"You should someday be able to file a tax return of 140 characters or less," Pence joked. "You could Twitter your taxes."

But Pence is not a tea party maverick. He has worked within the system very effectively since first being elected to Congress in 2000.

He's thoughtful, respected by his colleagues for his intelligence and depth, and affable. "I'm a conservative, but I'm not angry about it," he once told an interviewer.

A speech he gave to Hillsdale College that was reprinted in the school's Imprimus magazine on how the office of the presidency has been distorted from the Founders' vision is burning up the Internet.

Liberal mouthpieces are desperate for Palin to emerge as the leading GOP presidential candidate, and try to pretend that the former Alaskan governor and vice presidential hopeful is the way-out-front candidate.

Pence and other rising GOP stars — including his fellow Hoosier, Gov. Mitch Daniels — are forcing them to take notice. His speech at the Townsend Hotel was covered by CNN, Fox and other national outlets.

Pence makes the pitch for returning America to its founding principles seem entirely reasonable, and quite doable. Nothing about him appears out of the mainstream.

He channels Ronald Reagan as well as anyone in the GOP stable, deftly comparing the "new normal" ideology of 2010 to the national malaise of the Jimmy Carter years. Like Reagan, he rejects the notion of lost American greatness.

Here's how he closed his speech:"I choose a boundless American future built on the timeless ideals of the American people. I believe the American people are ready for this choice and await men and women who will lead us back to that future, back to the West, back to American exceptionalism."

Mike Pence is no Sarah Palin. And that should worry the daylights out of the left.

I pray that Palin wont run. I like Pence and Pawlenty.

quote(committing fully to free trade)quote

We've been committed to free trade and it's failed because "free trade" is simply one way, we buy they sell.

1-rebuild our manufacturing base/control outsourcing.
2-control immigration with a yearly quota.
3-dismantle our public school system and retrain teachers.
4-stop nation building:
5-term limits.

This is a short list and I'm sure many here can add more but we are failing due to greed and corruption, the values and love of country our leaders display is sad to say the least, capitalism is a great process but without standards,morals and love of country it will fail.

I have yet to hear one GOP candidate talk of manufacturing because most believe in the Global economy/consumer based as the answer and certainly it is for those at the top of the ladder but for the working class building a better product for the world is America.

It's a message tailor made for the tea party movement, particularly on tax policy. Pence would replace all federal taxes with a single, flat income tax in the range of 17 percent, and get the government away from using taxes to manipulate behavior.

They got it wrong ... Mike Pence is a co-sponsor of the FairTax, a flat single rate national retail sales tax on new products and services, not an income tax, and the rate is 23%, with 14.91% earmarked for general revenue and 8.09% earmarked to fund Social Security and MediCare.

H.R.25

Title: Fair Tax Act of 2009

Sponsor: Rep Linder, John [GA-7] (introduced 1/6/2009) Cosponsors (65)

Related Bills: S.296

Latest Major Action: 1/6/2009 Referred to House committee. Status: Referred to the House Committee on Ways and Means. COSPONSORS(65), ALPHABETICAL [followed by Cosponsors withdrawn]: (Sort: by date)


Rep Akin, W. Todd [MO-2] - 1/6/2009
Rep Alexander, Rodney [LA-5] - 1/6/2009
Rep Bachus, Spencer [AL-6] - 1/6/2009
Rep Barrett, J. Gresham [SC-3] - 6/8/2009
Rep Bartlett, Roscoe G. [MD-6] - 1/6/2009
Rep Bilbray, Brian P. [CA-50] - 1/6/2009
Rep Bilirakis, Gus M. [FL-9] - 5/21/2009
Rep Bishop, Rob [UT-1] - 3/12/2009
Rep Bonner, Jo [AL-1] - 9/9/2009
Rep Boozman, John [AR-3] - 1/19/2010
Rep Boren, Dan [OK-2] - 5/14/2009
Rep Brady, Kevin [TX-8] - 1/6/2009
Rep Broun, Paul C. [GA-10] - 2/24/2009
Rep Brown, Henry E., Jr. [SC-1] - 1/6/2009
Rep Brown-Waite, Ginny [FL-5] - 1/6/2009
Rep Burton, Dan [IN-5] - 1/6/2009
Rep Carter, John R. [TX-31] - 1/6/2009
Rep Conaway, K. Michael [TX-11] - 1/6/2009
Rep Crenshaw, Ander [FL-4] - 1/23/2009
Rep Culberson, John Abney [TX-7] - 1/6/2009
Rep Deal, Nathan [GA-9] - 1/6/2009
Rep Duncan, John J., Jr. [TN-2] - 1/6/2009
Rep Fallin, Mary [OK-5] - 1/6/2009
Rep Flake, Jeff [AZ-6] - 7/27/2010
Rep Fleming, John [LA-4] - 3/12/2009
Rep Foxx, Virginia [NC-5] - 9/14/2010
Rep Franks, Trent [AZ-2] - 1/6/2009
Rep Gingrey, Phil [GA-11] - 1/6/2009
Rep Granger, Kay [TX-12] - 10/6/2009
Rep Graves, Sam [MO-6] - 2/25/2009
Rep Graves, Tom [GA-9] - 6/16/2010
Rep Griffith, Parker [AL-5] - 2/24/2010
Rep Hall, Ralph M. [TX-4] - 10/6/2009
Rep Hensarling, Jeb [TX-5] - 1/6/2009
Rep Hoekstra, Peter [MI-2] - 9/22/2010
Rep Issa, Darrell E. [CA-49] - 1/9/2009
Rep Jenkins, Lynn [KS-2] - 2/24/2009
Rep King, Steve [IA-5] - 1/6/2009
Rep Kingston, Jack [GA-1] - 1/6/2009
Rep Kline, John [MN-2] - 3/12/2009
Rep Lamborn, Doug [CO-5] - 1/6/2009
Rep Lucas, Frank D. [OK-3] - 1/6/2009
Rep McCaul, Michael T. [TX-10] - 1/6/2009
Rep Mica, John L. [FL-7] - 1/9/2009
Rep Miller, Gary G. [CA-42] - 1/14/2009
Rep Miller, Jeff [FL-1] - 1/27/2009
Rep Moran, Jerry [KS-1] - 1/13/2009
Rep Myrick, Sue Wilkins [NC-9] - 1/8/2009
Rep Neugebauer, Randy [TX-19] - 1/6/2009
Rep Olson, Pete [TX-22] - 1/26/2009
Rep Pence, Mike [IN-6] - 1/6/2009
Rep Poe, Ted [TX-2] - 1/6/2009
Rep Posey, Bill [FL-15] - 1/27/2009
Rep Price, Tom [GA-6] - 1/6/2009
Rep Roe, David P. [TN-1] - 4/21/2009
Rep Souder, Mark E. [IN-3] - 12/9/2009
Rep Stearns, Cliff [FL-6] - 1/6/2009
Rep Sullivan, John [OK-1] - 1/6/2009
Rep Thornberry, Mac [TX-13] - 1/6/2009
Rep Tiahrt, Todd [KS-4] - 1/6/2009
Rep Wamp, Zach [TN-3] - 3/12/2009
Rep Westmoreland, Lynn A. [GA-3] - 1/6/2009
Rep Whitfield, Ed [KY-1] - 2/3/2009
Rep Wittman, Robert J. [VA-1] - 1/6/2009
Rep Young, Don [AK] - 1/6/2009

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I love the FairTax and anyone who supports, sponsors or will vote for it.

www.fairtax.org

The rest you can put in the Loser Hopper as far as I'm concerned. Taking back our country starts with taking back our citizen control over taxes and the only tax proposal that achieves that is the FairTax.

Pence sounds good, but there is a pic of him standing behind a Freedomworks podium - isn't that amnesty supporter's Dick Armey's?


Pence Beats Huckabee, Romney, Gingrich and Palin in Presidential Straw Poll
Monday, September 20, 2010
By Susan Jones


Rep. Mike Pence, R-Ind., speaks to people gathered at the U.S. Capitol in Washington on Sunday, Sept. 12, 2010 for a "Remember in November" rally to express opposition to government spending. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite)

(CNSNews.com) - U.S. Rep. Mike Pence (R-Ind.) won a presidential straw poll at the Values Voters Summit in Washington on Saturday.

Around 700 conservatives gave Pence 24 percent of the vote.

Former Republican presidential hopeful Mike Huckabee was a close second with 22 percent of the vote, followed by Mitt Romney (13 percent), Newt Gingrich (10 percent), Sarah Palin (7 percent) and Rick Santorum and Jim DeMint (5 percent each). See full list below.

"The results of the presidential straw poll reflect the outcome of recent elections," said Tony Perkins, president of Family Research Council Action, the group that sponsored the Values Voters Summit. "Those who are truly conservative, fiscally and socially, are enthusiastically supported by voters."

On Monday morning, Pence told Fox News he was “humbled and encouragedâ€

Flat tax won't sell, free-trade means more job loss. Dems can run on both and win maginal races.