“If Romney becomes president, the RINO establishment immediately rallies to his side, and will work overtime to thwart any honest reform measures put forth by real conservatives in the fold.
The same effect will happen if Gingrich somehow wins the primary and the general, but it will be the conservative right rallying to his side, and helping to push through his reform agenda.”
I happen to agree with your assessment, quoted above, which is why I am for Gingrich rather than Romney. However, in the case of a Romney nomination and victory in the General, it will be especially critical that conservative voters do what we can to put enough conservatives in Congress in order to fight the RINO establishment who would, as you say, rally behind Romney in an attempt to marginalize the conservatives.
My whole point is that we would have a better chance fighting the RINO establishment (by a more conservative Congress) than we would with a Progressive administration. At least, that’s the way I see it.
I agree with your post. The danger we are in right now is that Obama feels no need to mess with Congress at all. He is ruling by fiat. He and his czars operate outside the system of checks and balances imposing regulations.
We need to take the WH and both houses in Congress to turn around so much of this. So far, I don’t think anybody on our side would ever do the lawless governing Obama does.
I would hope Newt would act as a conservative, but I am not convinced he would do that. For good reason, he has been known to be unreliable over the past years. It is a personality thing. Newt lacks self discipline.
I can think of people that could have run I would feel so good about. The problem isn’t with conservatives straying, they can only deal with what is offered, the problem is with the candidates failing conservatism.
It has to be very hard to gain power and cut government. The power probably makes them seek to use it. ugh