“For example I hoped when Cain dropped out he was going to lower the boom on Alfred,trace it back to Axlerod (if possible!) and his bimbo accusers, instead he seems to be doing the normal GOP thing of being above it. That no longer works!”
It would have worked if people backed him and saw what he was doing and why. Now we all have to live with the consequences of him backing out. He’s a good man and he was the best we had up for the race. Now, he’s out and guess what, the lineup we have isn’t going to draw Republicans out to vote in 2012. They all have serious flaws which Obama is going to exploit and already is exploiting.
Seriously. You’re a young woman or a young man like me. Never married, or married to your husband with a couple kids. Your options:
1. Romney. Supports Obamacare and is mormon.
2. Newt. Supports Obamacare and has been married three times.
3. Paul. Rejects Obamacare and Israel.
4. Obama.
Why on earth would I vote for any of these clowns?
Well the only part of that statement that is true is later part, yes Newt has been married 3 times. The first part is not true particularly as you state it and has been explained several times both by Newt during the debates and by others. And I remember the Heritage Foundation's position on this; which is what this was in reference to. Now I did find it to be a stupid counter-argument to HillaryCare, but it was one of the main stream conservative counter arguments way back 1992-1993. Given then the constant drumbeat by the media and the
“beautiful people” that we had a “health care” crisis, which we don't (And never have had if you actually look at the numbers!) my attitude was “whatever argument it takes to stop HillaryCare! Just Stop it!!”. That was then this is now!
As far as Cain backing out goes, I think “we” were there to support him if he would have launched a counter-offensive. It looked like he was when he hired that Atlanta lawyer who has expertise in defamation of character & liable law. However he inexplicably gave up, as Palin did when she got accused by that trashy author that she had sex as a single women with a black pro basketball player.(Single women having sex..whodathunk?) You are going to say well Palin wasn't running, well she was doing a good imitation of it! In both cases they showed they didn't have the “kill the enemy, scatter their flocks and enjoy the lamentations of their women (in this case the lamentations of the gay crowd!)” attitude that is needed.
If you read Newt's supposed praise of RomneyCare in a 2006-ish article its faint praise at best, its basically kudos for thinking about a “solution”. He points out all the already existing Massachusetts healthcare laws that are potentially trouble for its success. I actually disagree with Newt on this issue I am very skeptical of the whole notion of a healthcare crisis. Just like I am huge skeptic on anything environmental. Newt has a soft spot for environmental issues and in some cases a soft head regarding it. As far as Newt's marriages go, I have already acknowledged he had the Bill Clinton immaturity problem. That's why Clinton rolled him. That is all past now, and anyway Reagan was divorced, one marriage, two marriages, three, etc. What difference does it make; the non-divorced paradigm was broken by Reagan and it is not coming back. (And yes the “public” circumstances of the Reagan divorce is different from Newt's,or so we are told ! But I wasn't there. Heck I wasn't even born, so to me it is what it is. Anyway as Christians we are supposed to forgive past transgression if the person has truly reformed. I am willing to do that and adopt a let's see if he has! As far as the other candidates go, I liked Perry initially as I did Bachman. However they moved themselves downward in my calculus by their debate performances, campaign behavior, etc. and Newt moved up. This is "political war" and I want political ruthlessness my candidate and I see that in Newt. I don't see that in anybody else. If we don't win this round the next political round will be bad bad, Third World bad!