“I think young Santorum would take THAT for his first try at the nomination.
Don’t you? ; > )”
Um...no. I wont take ANYTHING but a candidate that can BEAT Romney, then go on to BEAT Obama. There’s too much at stake in this election to toy around with a guy who’s trying to make a “nice first try” at running for POTUS. Santorum doesn’t have anywhere near the organization and money needed to compete with Romney, and his momentum out of Iowa will do nothing in NH and perhaps not even much in SC, where Newt & Perry will likely still be around to split the anti-Romney vote 3 ways.
Santorum’s a nice enough guy and right on most issues, but if the Obama incompetence has taught us nothing else, it’s that it’ much better to elect a governor who has chief executive experience, rather than a legislator. Newt’s a bit different cause he was House Speaker, so he actually did run the House for 4 years, but still, I think he’s got too much baggage and not enough organization to really go toe to toe with Romney.
And since Huntsman has no prayer, that leaves only one candidate with a solid conservative record and the right kind of experience with the funds and organization to win-Rick Perry.
Perry is also making a “first try” at running for POTUS, and a pretty inept one at that.
“And since Huntsman has no prayer, that leaves only one candidate with a solid conservative record and the right kind of experience with the funds and organization to win-Rick Perry.”
Seriously ? Perry’s polling is higher than Huntsman ? Those of you who are still sitting here pining away for Gov. Perry are wasting valuable time. This kind of blind foolishness is going to sink us all. Huntsman is the only anti-Romney candidate that can beat Obama. No negatives, an extremely strong conservative record and the president is immune from making foreign policy criticism or the kind of personal attacks he favors against someone he vouched for by appointing him to an extremely important and sensitive post.