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I can’t believe how otherwise staunch conservatives on this forum can have so much collective amnesia about Newt, even when the evidence about him is pretty new.

Collective amnesia? How about accepting reality. Free Republic does not choose the Republican candidate despite all of the "newt sucks", "cain sucks", "perry sucks", "bachmann sucks", "santorum sucks" threads that are posted here. Someone is going to eventually come out of this process as the nominee and right now, the country is LOVING Newt's debate performances.

And now, here is the reality. MSM blasted Bachmann. She fell in the polls. MSM blasted Perry. He sucked eggs at the first few debates he was in and fell in the polls. MSM blasted Cain with slander and MANY people began to doubt him after the fourth accusation came out. He also had major troubles answering Foreign Policy questions and fell in the polls. Rick Santorum just cannot get any momentum, Gary Johnson is too libertarian for many and Ron Paul makes absolutely no National Defense sense.

So, this is where we are. Newt vs Romney and it looks like FR is not going to support either.

My favorites were Bachmann and Cain with Santorum as the acceptable compromise. Although I prefer Bachmann I was willing to vote for Cain in the Michigan primary because he stood the greatest chance of beating Romney and had a legitimate chance against Obama in the primary. Now Michigan will go to Romney so I’m free to just vote for Bachmann.

Oddly enough, my 3 candidates and strategic support makes me unreasonable in the eyes of those who support whoever the prevailing support goes to.

As for Gingrich, if he were truly the tea party candidate, he would have rocketed to the top when he announced back in the spring. Instead his campaign nearly ended with a collapse until the media dictated that he and Romney were all that was left.