Straight Talk

Today's politicians usually never give you straight talk, they talk around subjects or give meaningless babble on a subject. People want straight talk, and John Bolton and Newt Gingrich are giving it to us.

John Bolton, who is no longer in Gov't service, now can tell us like it is:

As Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice meets with Mideast leaders to jumpstart the peace process, former U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. John Bolton called the attempt a waste of time.

Bolton, who also said it's time another body replace the United Nations, told the Sunday Times of London the Arab-Israeli conflict was “not a priority," adding: “I don’t see linkage to Iraq, and Hamas and Fatah are in a state of civil war.”

“I wouldn’t have engaged in negotiations with Iran in the first place,” he told the paper, in a nod to Britain, France and Germany, nations that have made contact with Tehran. “The policy has failed. Sanctions won’t stop Iran from getting nuclear weapons.”

The vocal critic of the U.N. still believes that other organizations such as NATO might be better suited to governing world affairs.

Using 'diplomacy' with Iran to stop it's lust for nuclear weapons is wasted time, along with trying to jumpstarting the 'Middle East Peace Accords' and the UN is worthless. There you have it, straight talk and the truth.

Newt Gingrich thinks straight talk is the way to win elections:

Newt Gingrich, who is considering a bid for the 2008 Republican presidential nomination, says his party's biggest mistake is thinking that the way to a lasting majority is to emphasize its conservative voter base.

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"A base-motivation party inherently, in the long run, drives away the non-base,"Mr. Gingrich said.

The better way, he says, is to define the opposition on specific issues so that the Democrats are exposed as espousing views shared by a small minority of voters.

If in 2004 Republicans had "defined John Kerry on 53 issues" that Mr. Gingrich identified, only 17 out of every 100 voters would have sided with Massachusetts Democrat on those issues, he said.

And he is right, the voters don't want flim-flam rhetoric, they want the issues defined and stated, and on the issues, the Republicans can win, unlike the Donks that lie to win. State your position, boldly and proudly, and then state your opponent's position, which they don't want made public, because the public will reject them. That is the ticket to winning. Thanks, Newt.

American's don't want to hear wishy-washy poll driven rhetoric, they want the truth, they want strong voices telling them how it is, and those that employ this tactic can and will win.


Thanks for the 'Straight Talk' guys, it's what we get so little of and what we need.


Mr Minority