I’ve come to the conclusion that Gingrich is the only candidate who could beat Obama. Romney won’t quit, he has to be overcome. The only way to guarantee this outcome is for Rick Santorum to fold up his tent, no shame in it whatsoever, for the greater good. And Ron Paul should do likewise. There’s nothing to stop Gingrich from giving these two a role in his potential administration, and as some have said, Ron Paul is more right than wrong on economic issues — he is by no stretch of the imagination a mainstream conservative on foreign policy but he makes a reasonable point about the near-bankruptcy of modern America precluding yet another series of expensive Middle East misadventures. So commit to that and a reasonable fraction of the economic platform, and get the man and his supporters onside. An endorsement from Sarah Palin would be helpful.
It’s either that or roll the dice that America could survive four more years of Obama, and nobody wants to see that experiment.
I don’t think Mitt Romney is a terrible person but for whatever reason, he would be almost sure to lose to Obama and if he happened to win, he would cave in to Wall Street. Newt Gingrich may be flawed but not fatally so, and in fact his future is very much aligned with America’s future — as he overcomes, America has the chance to overcome.
I hope the Santorum and Paul supporters out there can read the tea leaves and see this inevitability — and get something rather than nothing. Because with Romney or Obama, that’s what they are likely to get — nothing or at least nothing much.
A lot of us see your same view and agree with you, but Santorum is much too full of himself and too selfish to “fold up his tent” in order to stop Romney, while he still thinks he’s in the race to stop both Romney and Gingrich.
THAT fanciful thinking alone should give serious pause to his supporters.