I am still supporting Santorum. But Newt is my second favorite.
I still feel sold out by the class that promised me a Contract With America. I didn’t see the staying power - an issue that might be relevant in a lot of other areas for this particular pick as well.
I could consider Gingrich, baggage and all, but only if Santorum, baggage and all, were not in the picture.
We’ll see.
I’m with you. Still supporting Santorum, but would get behind Newt when the dust settles.
That’s the way I feel about it too.
I am not sure someone who is against contraception can win. Rick Santorum is against contraception.
You will find very few people who want married people to have little control of their birthing decisions.
Still plugging for Mitt I see. (a vote for the candidate that has no delegates is a vote for mitt)
I will take both and wouldn’t care how they are on the ticket...they both can drill Omoron/Biden in a debate...Romney would be left holding his ....crotch.
15 posted on Friday, January 20, 2012 10:08:11 AM by impimp: “I am still supporting Santorum. But Newt is my second favorite.”
Agreed, given the remaining four candidates.
99 posted on Friday, January 20, 2012 10:42:55 AM by SpringtoLiberty: “I disagree with JimRob on this but I have to say... The fact that some random dude (JimRob) took it upon himself to advance a cause he felt passionate about and is now a leading voice able to mobilize and inspire hundreds of thousands of like minded persons is incredible. His story is a testament to why this country is so great and deserves our efforts to save it. Any man, with passion, hard work, and faith, can accomplish the impossible in America. This is the New World still, it is still the land of opportunity.”
I totally agree with this.
The power of Free Republic, which is basically the brainchild of an individual entrepreneur and a small group of friends who “went viral” and now reach millions of people, is incredible.
Until the early- to mid-1900s, it was a realistic (if difficult) possibility for someone to start a newspaper, and if they worked hard at it, could be in charge of a voice calling elected officials to account. If they were saying things that made sense and had a history of breaking news on corrupt or incompetent elected officials, they got readers and with readers came influence.
That hasn’t been realistic since shortly after the end of World War II. The cost to start a newspaper has been prohibitive and the media has turned into a monopoly in most communities.
That’s been bad for the media, bad for political discourse, and bad for America.
What Jim Robinson did by creating Free Republic and taking down Dan Rather is something right out of the playbook of Pulitzer or Hearst a century and a half ago — or, for that matter, John Peter Zenger whose crusade against a corrupt New York colonial governor gave us the court precedent that eventually led to the First Amendment after American independence. What Robinson is doing is the sort of thing the First Amendment was designed to protect and promote.