The sad fact is that it is the ideas Obama represents which must be defeated, if future generations are to live in liberty.
To accomplish that task requires a candidate who can speak so passionately and authentically of America's founding ideas that a majority of individuals will be convinced of the badness of the ideas and vote against the man they may possibly like as a person.
Minorities, especially, need to know that America's founding ideas are the ideas which offer them individual liberty, opportunity, prospects for success and prosperity, and escape from an existence which is the product of "other" ideas which lead to dependency and slavery to government.
The conservative candidate in 2012 who seems most likely able to articulate the ideas of liberty to generations who've probably never heard them before is Gingrich, warts and all.
“The conservative candidate in 2012 who seems most likely able to articulate the ideas of liberty to generations who’ve probably never heard them before is Gingrich, warts and all.”
The reason is that Newt is a historian and a teacher. To defeat leftist, progressive ideas we must reform the education system. How the youth are taught shapes the future of a nation. I think we’re now paying a heavy price for the years and years of propaganda fed to our kids in K-12 and so many universities.
A president like Newt who understands (and cares about) this issue of the educational system and the problems therein, along with a right-minded Congress, could do a lot to revamp it - such as turn over a lot of it (or all?) to states and local communities, do away with NEA/DOE, teacher unions and tenure.