I could support any combination of Palin/ Gingrich.
I really wish I could understand the nature of the trouble newt has run into.
he wasn’t my first choice, and I do have problems with things he’s done in the past, but the man is cleary intelligent and articulate. This is a really tough primary to figure out ><.
Newt Gingrich LOOKS OLD. That’s why he’s having trouble. His hair is white. He looks like he won’t last long in office.
he wasn’t my first choice, and I do have problems with things he’s done in the past, but the man is cleary intelligent and articulate. This is a really tough primary to figure out
We're in a Catch-22 situation. The main problem, IMHO, is that thanks to John McCain, GW Bush, and Sandra Day O'Connor McCain-Feingold is the "law" of the land (I put "law" in scare quotes because McCain-Feingold is IMHO not anywhere near compatible with the First Amendment). At the time it was enacted, critics more knowledgable than I said that if in force in 1980 Ronald Reagan couldn't have run for the presidency. So I have to think that Gov. Palin and possibly others have been dissuaded from entering the lists because of "campaign finance reform."All CFR laws are unconstitutional, IMHO, and McCain-Feingold differs from the others only in being added on top of the others and in being more explicitly unfair. At root, all CFR is predicated on the unconstitutional assumption that the money spent by The New York Times, Inc. to print its newspapers is superior at law to your money or mine, or your money and mine. The distinction between them and us is only that we have not bought a printing press yet. We are entirely within our rights to buy, and operate, one - at our convenience. And to editorialize for or against candidates.
In fact, FR is actually just that. The Constitution stipulates the promotion "of science and the useful arts" as a legitimate objective of the federal government, and stipulatesAmendment 9 - The enumeration in the Constitution, of certain rights, shall not be construed to deny or disparage others retained by the peoplethat the Bill of Rights is a floor under, rather than a ceiling above, the rights of the people. So the fact that FR uses no ink or paper, and no trucks to transport physical newspapers, but does use computers and various electronic communications technology, is quite beside the point.