Who are the three Conservatives? I automatically discount the two anti Free enterprise candidates in Newt and Perry.
You equate being against bad ethics and near-illegality with capitalism.
Gingrich and Perry are no more anti-capitalist because they oppose unscrupulous slime balls than they are anti-medicine because they oppose abortionists.
“Buyout baron” Mitt Romney’s strategy of taking out loans in the name of a subsidiary, transferring the money to your shell corporation, and then letting the subsidiary go bankrupt and default on the loans while you keep all of the borrowed money is not “free enterprise,” it’s classic Wall Street market manipulation.
Yeah, I am with you on the anti-free disposal of property guys. To me each of the so called conservative candidates really have problems and are not very conservative:
1. Newt, sat on the couch with Pelosi showing he has no principles, has been in DC too long thus adopts the language of the DC left like “swiftboating” and of course has never won outside a GA congressional district and then he reveals himself to be anti-capitalism in attacking Romney. Really it amounts to Newt having no firm core.
2. Perry is an ex-Dim and has Dim instincts as the whole forced vaccine of young girls issue showed. And once again his Dim instincts crop up in his anti-capitalist attacks on Romney. How badly do these two guys understand the GOP electorate to think such attacks would work.
3. Santorum is a legislator and the American electorate does not often elect legislators President. One reason is they have also of bad votes like for giving prisoners voting rights.
4. Bachmann who seemed to be a real conservative, but again no experience running anywhere outside on congressional district in Minnesota and a legislator.
So I always look for what governors or ex-govenors are running, ie the people with executive experience. That Pawlenty dropped out so quickly was a mistake and narrowed our choices. That Palin never got in meant we would not likely get a conservative this time around. After Palin did not get in our governors and ex-govenors choices were two moderates in Romney and Huntsman and an ex-Dim in Perry.