352 posted on Tuesday, March 13, 2012 9:09:29 PM by napscoordinator: “One thing I can say for you is that you have a flair for dramatics. I wonder if your profession is acting. If not, you should go to Hollywood. You would be good at it.”
Maybe she's acting, but if so, it's a very good act.
I've been watching katiedidit1 and a group of other Gingrich supporters for some time because I've been trying to understand what motivates the more militant of Rick Santorum’s opponents. I think katiedidit1 is sincere and on the level, and is not acting.
One reason why I've been paying attention to Katiedidit is that she and I both live in the Missouri Ozarks and that means there aren't the regional complications of people who may hate Santorum for things I wouldn't understand without understanding their local political dynamics.
Bottom line is I think she's telling us her honest opinions and is really upset about Rick Santorum winning over conservatives. I'm still not sure I fully understand why, but she's one of the people to whom I'm paying attention in an effort to try to understand what makes the anti-Santorum people tick.
As a conservative and as a Republican, I need to understand my fellow conservative Republicans even when we disagree — perhaps **ESPECIALLY** when we disagree.
There is a new dynamic in this year's presidential race. I've written about it here: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2859059/posts?page=25#25
I'm very unhappy with that dynamic. I believe it is destructive to the moral foundation of the Republican Party and if successful will steer the Republican Party into a European-style secular conservatism where the definition of conservative switches from classic Judeo-Christian values focusing on personal morality, strong families, private property, and national defense into a libertarianism that values private property and nationalism but has forgotten the biblical basis of private property, capitalism and national defense.
I'm certainly not saying katiedidit shares that dynamic. I do think that dynamic is out there, it is dangerous, and to the extent that the Gingrich campaign has attracted secularists who are passionately opposed to a role for religion in public life, we need to remind such people that Gingrich himself doesn't agree with that viewpoint.
Some of the most rabid Gingrich supporters have hated every candidate but Gingrich. Just go back over the months of their posting histories and you’ll see them attacking each candidate to rise to the top.
I live in MO now but my home is Virginia. I worked as precinct chair, district delegate, hosted fundraisers..last one being for Jim Miller (Reagan's former asst budget dir) I worked for George Allen when he ran for governor and for Ollie North. Since I have been in MO..have met many of the republicans candidates and former reps from Ashcroft, Kit Bond to Roy Blunt.
My mother worked for Goldwater and later Nixon. She was a delegate to the gop convention in KC for Reagan but my father died that summer...she was invited to the inaugural ball at the Whitehouse when Nixon won. I have worked the polls in Va and worked at headquarters for various candidates..btw..Ollie North lost Va but carried my county:) I even went to see McCain and fought for him because Obama scared the hell out of me. No more...I am tired of watered down candidates that cave on their convictions and yes, I believe in Newt..it is no act.