If you take a piece of paper out, make headings for each candidate then the issues you care about on the side, I think you’ll find that Perry, Bachman, or Santorum are the only ones who meet conservative requirements.
Yes. If you make a list that does not include “currently doing well in the polls”, Newt is NOT going to be in the top 3.
It’s time to stop letting polls pick our nominee. We need to step back, get off the merry-go-round, and make a serious evaluation of ALL the candidates again, with the same standard.
Right now, we’ve rejected Bachmann with a standard of July, when we had all the time in the world and Sarah Palin was going to save us. We rejected Perry based on his early bad debate performances driven by his recent back surgery, and again knowing we had plenty of time and Sarah Palin was going to save us.
We didn’t so much reject Cain as he folded up his tent and went home, because of unfair attacks, and his response to them, and maybe because his wife wasn’t as excited about him being President as he seemed to be.
And now we are supposed to accept Gingrich, who isn’t on the conservative radar in the past decade, over three solid conservatives, simply because for a brief moment the Cain supporters got so used to blindly attacking everybody who was a threat momentarily lost their minds and all decided Gingrich was the one they would support?