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A lot of us knew who Newt was. He is a whore and has been for many years. Anyone who believed differently was doing so out of desperation.

Many Newt supporters in the recent primary knew that. However, given a choice of the phenomenally weak Massachusetts liberal describing himself as "severely conservative" (the only person alive who would use those words about himself; I'm "responsibly conservative", for example), or a known sleaze who could at least be trusted to act conservative most of the time, many of us were willing to settle for Newt. Palin, DeMint, Bachmann, Cain, Perry, Santorum, and many others ranked above Newt, but as those candidates dropped out or failed to announce, we tried to find any possible option. As happens in at least two-thirds of elections, the GOP leadership won the primaries, and America lost, we couldn't even get Newt as the nominee, not when it was Romney's turn.

>> Many Newt supporters in the recent primary knew that. However, given a choice of the phenomenally weak Massachusetts liberal describing himself as "severely conservative" (the only person alive who would use those words about himself; I'm "responsibly conservative", for example), or a known sleaze who could at least be trusted to act conservative most of the time, many of us were willing to settle for Newt. Palin, DeMint, Bachmann, Cain, Perry, Santorum, and many others ranked above Newt, but as those candidates dropped out or failed to announce, we tried to find any possible option. <<

Santorum was still running through the vast majority of the primary states, and far ahead of Newt in delegates. The Newt supporters certainly did not "try to find any possible option" or "rank Santorum ahead of Newt", otherwise they would be have been "Santorum supporters" like myself. Most of the "ANYONE but Romney" crowd quickly morphed into "NOBODY but Newt"

>> Many Newt supporters in the recent primary knew that. However, given a choice of the phenomenally weak Massachusetts liberal describing himself as "severely conservative" (the only person alive who would use those words about himself; I'm "responsibly conservative", for example), or a known sleaze who could at least be trusted to act conservative most of the time, many of us were willing to settle for Newt. Palin, DeMint, Bachmann, Cain, Perry, Santorum, and many others ranked above Newt, but as those candidates dropped out or failed to announce, we tried to find any possible option. <<

Santorum was still running through the vast majority of the primary states, and far ahead of Newt in delegates. The Newt supporters certainly did not "try to find any possible option" or "rank Santorum ahead of Newt", otherwise they would have been "Santorum supporters" like myself. Most of the "ANYONE but Romney" crowd quickly morphed into "NOBODY but Newt"

Most Newts on here were inexplicably still supporting him (and bashing Santorum as a “stalking horse for Romney”) after he was no longer viable coming in 4th in most primaries. Santorum lost several key primaries thanks to Newt voters. Epic fail. Newt was done after attacking Romney from the left as an evil millionaire and getting spanked in Florida. If he hadn’t done that he may have even won. The single dumbest move of the 2012 campaign and that’s saying a lot.

Not that Santorum was great (he wasn’t, he had numerous serious flaws) but he was better than Newt and the one that was actually in second place, the only one that could have stopped Glove from getting the nomination, period. Anyone who thought otherwise failed 2nd grade math.

When I pointed this out at the time I was called a Romney plant by the Newtbots.