Newt and Callista will be screening A City Upon a Hill in California Wednesday

Here is the link to the Gingrich Productions event page.

The movie explores American Exceptionalism.

What have people been Googling to find this blog?

Here are the top searches those who wind up on this site have punched into their search engine of choice were punching in Thursday going into Friday:

-- gingrich lean six sigma
-- newt gingrich lean six sigma
-- newt gingrich six sigma
-- lean six sigma gingrich
-- teamgingrich2012
-- gingrich debate 6 sigma
-- gingrich six sigma.

One of these things is not like the other.

For some background on Lean Six Sigma, here is a post I wrote about a month ago.

"What They’re Saying about Newt's Debate Performance"

The campaign put together this list of some of the praise Newt got for Thursday night's debate performance.

I will post a couple.

From Kevin Hall of IowaRepublican.com:

The former House speaker was fired up and had a terrific debate. Substance on the issues has always been his forte and Newt showed that. He was also combative with the moderators, demanding they ask substantive questions. The audience responded very strongly to that. Gingrich showed a fire and passion that conservatives are longing for. He would utterly dismantle Barack Obama in a one-on-one debate. It was a terrific performance.

Craig Robinson of the same website:

...his grasp of history and his ability to reference it in some of his answers is incredible…The best moment of the debate came when Gingrich took Fox News Anchor Chris Wallace to task. Doing so was risky, but Gingrich came off as the most serious candidate on the stage last night.

Iowa Radio Talk Show Host Steve Deace:

[Newt Gingrich] was forceful without looking undistinguished, aggressive without losing his self-dignity, informed, informative, and put leadership ahead of policy. This was the Gingrich of the 1994 Republican Revolution.

Craig Shirley:

Gingrich was simply head and shoulders above the rest. This is the Newt people have been waiting for; an articulate and forceful conservative who knows the world he lives in.

Go onto Newt.org and read the rest. Lots of great quotes.

Pictures of Newt's day at the Iowa State Fair

From the campaign:

From Don McDowell, who works for Iowa State Senate Leader Paul McKinley:

From Dave Weigel:

POLITICO writer Ben Smith tweeted: "Great crowd for Newt at the state fair."

Jim Shinn, who blogged about his prior experiences volunteering at the Newt 2012 Headquarters in Atlanta, tweeted today about making phone calls to Iowans.

Here are two of them:

Link.

Just spoke with a person in IA that was at the debate, he states Newt whipped them all, was not a Newt fan but is now.

Link.

Ending my calls for the day, what a difference, after the debate people are really fired up about Newt!

His blog is here.

Video of Newt's interview with Sean Hannity after the Ames Debate

Link to video of Newt's after-debate interview with Sean Hannity:

Keep the Newt 2012 Momentum Going: An Action Plan

Wow.

Tonight was Newt at his best, and it is reflected in him being the winner of the debate according to most observers. (See my earlier post here for more reaction to the debate.)

But we, as Newt supporters, need to help the momentum going. Here is a little bit of how you can support -- remember: be with Newt, not for him -- Newt 2012:

First, if you have not already, go to Newt.org and sign up. Give money if you can.

If you are on Facebook:

-- "Like" Newt's page if you, unlike 144,054 people as of this moment, do not already.

-- Sign up on Newt Volunteer's page, Create Jobs Now: Repeal Dodd-Frank, and Team 10: Small Government, Big Citizens.

-- I help run a Newt supporter group on Facebook as well.

If you are on Twitter:

-- Follow Newt's personal account, Newt2012HQ, Newt2012IA, Newt2012NH, Newt2012SC, Newt2012FL, Newt2012NV, and Newt2012GA.

-- Here is a list I have created of Newt 2012 staffers. You can follow it by clicking here.

-- When tweeting about Newt, please try to include the hashtag #withNewt.

-- My own personal account: JoshGosser1776.

Of course, spread the word about Newt to your friends and family.

Also, and not to distract from official Newt 2012 business, but you can sign up for e-mail updates from this site. (The e-mail will come in the morning and contains all posts from the previous day. The e-mail subscription box will not show up when viewing this on a mobile device but otherwise will be on the right side of the screen.)

If you are not in one of the early primary states, you can also sign up on your state's page on Newt50States.com, which I run.

Tonight (well, last night) was great for the campaign. We need to keep it going.

#withNewt.

Reaction to Newt's Ames Debate Performance

First, during the day, Katrina Trinko from National Review posted this picture:



Then, two Newt supporters in Iowa posted pictures of their views of the debate.

Jeremy Danilson:



Ashley Ervin:

Now onto the actual debate reaction. And what a positive reaction it was for Newt.

Among those saying Newt won: Craig Robinson of IowaRepublican.com, Iowa talk radio host Steve Deace, David Yepsen, pollster Frank Luntz, Pat Anderson, Rod D. Martin, Noel Sheppard, and Brent Bozell (who said Newt was "not just winning debate; he's crushing).

(For the full Newt2012HQ Twitter feed, in which many more calls of a Gingrich victory are included, click here.)

Some of my favorite tweets:

GregoryTapis:

You are killing everybody tonight...I cannot wait to caucus

JoNBCNews:

Audience coming out of debate overwhelmingly say Gingrich came away winner.

Strong_America (Strong America Now):

@newtgingrich just mentioned Lean Six Sigma in the Fox News debate! We need more talk on real solutions!

doesntmakecents:

@newtgingrich is right. Our country should be about efficiency, not waste. Lean six sigma. @Newt2012HQ

Kensley_Stewart:

The BEST idea out of the debate: Newt- implement Lean Sigma-Six in all areas of government.

Newt's campaign also proved its adeptness on social media by posting Newt's record on Facebook, then putting the link on Twitter, within minutes in response to moderator Chris Wallace.

Here is a video clip of Newt from the debate, in which he rips the "Super Congress" idea.

I will post another video clip, though not from the debate, of Newt discussing the fight to recall three Iowa judges last year who usurped power and voted to legalize gay marriage. (All three were defeated.) During the debate, former Senator Rick Santorum said he was the only candidate there who helped in the recall effort.

In the following video (starting at about the 2:16 mark), Bryan Fischer says Newt was "very involved, very supportive" in the effort.

Link.

Two videos of Newt on Fox News today

Link to Fox News Live interview.



Link for Fox & Friends interview.

Repeal Dodd-Frank -- now

There were two articles tweeted by the Newt 2012 Twitter account -- which you can follow it by clicking here -- about the damage Dodd-Frank is doing.

The first, posted on NationalReview.com, is titled: "Dodd-Frank: Wrong, Wrong, Wrong." With a subtitle of: How not to fix a problem.

The article reads:

[Dodd-Frank] doesn’t address at all the main discernible causes of the economic crisis of 2008, which have not gone away. The housing bubble and imprudent lending into it were the principal problem, and the principal culprit is the United States government, for legislating a substantial percentage of private-sector commercial mortgages to be on a non-commercial basis; for issuing executive orders to the giant, pseudo-private-sector Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac to make the majority of their mortgage loans on that basis; and for keeping interest rates and mortgage equity requirements so low for so long.

Here is the link again.

The other article, by Jeffrey Carter of the blog Points and Figures, explains how the legislation will increase food prices.

Carter writes:

Not only is it proving to restrict access to money by poor people, it is imposing crushing costs on smaller banks-effectively putting them out of business. This makes access to capital even tougher, because instead of going to a small bank where you can develop a relationship, a businessman now needs to go to a large monolith bank where they are a number.

Oh wait, there’s more.

Because of how the bill changes the way futures and options are regulated; along with how grain elevators and Futures Commission Merchants are regulated, your food costs are going up.

After quoting from the Federal Register, Carter continues:

Assume that you wanted to stay in business and not simply fold up your shop. What’s that verbiage going to cost you? The CFTC estimates that it will be somewhere between $16,750-$61,750 initially, and $12,600 annually once every member has a recording system. That means a farmer in a tractor that is talking to their broker monitoring the market all the way up the food chain to the hot shot trader on a trading desk.

No doubt that the costs will be significantly higher than that. Purely altering your operations will cost you more than that.

What’s that mean to the market?

These extra layers of regulation mean that producers will have to charge a higher price for food. The price will be passed down from the field through the elevator, through the trading pits, through the food producers, and greet you at the checkout counter at the grocery.

He concludes:

Repeal Dodd-Frank. Now. I appreciate the sentiment of the bill and think we need to do something with regard to banking, but this was obviously the wrong approach. It is as damaging as Obamacare. It is an economy destroyer.

Hint: Markets price in the future....

(elipsis in the original)

When Dodd-Frank is driving up costs for everyone, discouraging investment, drowning small banks in paperwork while making big banks even bigger, and increasing food prices, why is Newt the only candidate seriously talking of repealing the bill?

Why is he the one candidate who is being called "the community banking candidate?"

Video of a Newt 2012 campaign stop in Iowa from May

I obviously missed this video when it came online, but thought it was interesting, so I wanted to pass it along.

From the Daily Times Herald in Carroll, Iowa: