I didn’t support Newt, I voted for Santorum in the primary. But whoever was the Pubbie nominee would have been demonized. If we had run Mother Theresa, the Dems would have dug up stuff on her. The problem is the nominee has to be an educator and an attacker. No nice guys or gals wanted.
We are all missing the point in forming a circular firing squad against each other now. The hard truth is that Reagan himself could not win with today’s voters. With all the the external factors not present this go around, this election result showed us the true character of the American people, circa 2012. There is as John Edwards said, two Americas. One that we inhabit is hard working and self reliant. The other we never saw coming. The other wants nothing to do with hard work, they just want their Obamaphones, free birth control with their part time job at Starbucks, bottomless EBT cards, unemployment benefits for a lifetime. These people are too lazy to pack a bologna sandwich to send their kid to school with. This election, a hard slap in the face, just showed us how big the underclass has become, tipping into a permanent majority. How we change this, I do not have a clue yet, but we better all think hard or a new Dark Age will surely begin.