I would love Perry to have a comeback. By the time we vote here in Colorado, it will be more clear whether that’s going to happen. In the meantime, I’m planning to vote Santorum. Though I think Perry’s chances are much better in a general election, it remains to be seen if he can win the nomination.
People here are so fickle and shallow it scares me.
We’ve had zero primaries. We had one caucus - the results of which almost never name the eventual candidate. I understand Rick S. spent a year having Sunday dinner with everyone in Iowa.
One Santorum supporter admitted to me that his support was more based on not liking anyone else than it was on liking Santorum
The support for various candidates here on Free Republic has been schizophrenic. And wild.
First it was Palin (guilty here on that). She didn’t run. In looking for comfort people here glommed onto an unlikely and eventually futile semi-worship of Mr. Cain.
He was forced to drop out. Immediately, the Cain people rushed to Newt Gingrich, a man who was reviled by conservatives as little as a year ago. I like Newt and he was fun in the debates, but he lost it over negative advertising and when he finally responded, he acted like a madman.
Now, after one rather inconsequential victory in a caucus, the lemmings have landed on Santorum, who wasn’t even a blip on the radar a week ago.
And suddenly if we want someone besides those two flawed and vulnerable candidates (Newt and Santorum) we’re taking votes away from worthy conservatives and handing them to Mitt?
Please give me a break. Perry is a better candidate and would have a much better chance against Obama.