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April 10, 2012 | Jim Robinson
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2870368/posts
As for me, now that Rick Santorum has dropped out, I am going to put my efforts into trying to convince conservative Christians and other Republicans who I personally know that a vote for Newt Gingrich is the best choice left.
It's a long shot, but I see no remaining alternatives to stop President Obama from winning re-election.
I'm not going to get into what I'll do if Romney wins the nomination. I'll cross that bridge if and when I come to it. Right now, I want to focus on helping Gingrich as the last chance left to stop Romney.
A vote for Romney is, at best, a vote for more Supreme Court justices like David Souter and Sandra Day O'Connor. More realistically, a vote for Romney is a vote to re-elect Obama since I do not believe Romney can win, especially if large numbers of conservatives stay home or vote third-party.
I hope that prospect succeeds in scaring evangelical Protestants and conservative Roman Catholics into voting for Gingrich who, whatever else we can say about him, has an unquestioned record of being opposed to baby killing and Islamofascism.
Darrell, my plan at this point is to support conservatives.
If Newt continues to run, I’ll support him until he drops out.
If my congressional candidate is a conservative, I’ll support him. If he isn’t, I’ll support any conservative opponent.
The Constitution Party would do well each year to become “the alternative party”. They should wait for their convention until after the candidates are clear and they should run opposition candidates where there isn’t a conservative, and they should endorse conservatives from other parties when there is a conservative alternative.
They are not large enough at this point to have the money to run extended campaigns, anyway. Also, not naming their candidates until late prevents huge-moneyed opposition from defining those people.