IMHO, you have not disproved either of my 'assertions'. We agree, whoever the GOP candidate is will get a MSM bombardment of historic proportions. They've not used ANY against Romney in the hopes that he'll be the nominee and then they can roll the tapes they're saving. Gingrich will handle the onslaught much better than Perry as has already been proven (compare and contrast Rick Perry poll numbers in August versus October and explain why).
No matter who is President, the House and Senate (hopefully both in GOP hands), will control the agenda of either Administration. Newt's historical proclivity to wander will be held in check.
Ergo, pick the candidate who can win an election in this media age. That's Newt.
>>No matter who is President, the House and Senate (hopefully both in GOP hands), will control the agenda of either Administration.<<
Yet another assertion. You’re right, I’m not “disproving” your assertions; just pointing out that that is all they are, and that there are valid reasons why you could be wrong.
Obama let Congress set the agenda, but neither Gingrich nor Perry are likely to do so. If the President wants the reins (Obama clearly didn’t, preferring to do his work behind the scenes using his many “czars”), then the President will have the reins. The veto power, willingly used, is immense.
That’s my biggest concern, among many, about Romney. No matter how much the House and Senate want to repeal Obamacare, if Romney decides to tweak it instead, it will most likely end up just being tweaked, and we’ll be stuck with nationalized medicine forever. And I’m not all that confident that Gingrich wouldn’t try to do the same.
My tagline is “Defund the Left-Completely” because I firmly believe that is the only hope for turning this country around and getting back to first principles of the Constitution. Perry, backed by a Tea-Party heavy Congress, is the only hope I see of that happening, and even then I’m not all that optimistic of it happening. But Gingrich and Romney would never do it, in my opinion.
>>Ergo, pick the candidate who can win an election in this media age. That’s Newt.<<
Another assertion, and a strange one given that Perry is the one candidate running that, I believe, has never lost an election.