Perry to End Bid for Presidency

53 posted on Thursday, January 19, 2012 10:15:12 AM by Houghton M.: “I’m afraid Santorum is the only not-Romney left. Whatever weaknesses he has, those who are admanantly not-Romney need to think hard about destroying Santorum in favor of Newt. Because they’ll end up with Mittens.”

I agree ... but very, very reluctantly. We're now down to only one tolerable “not-Romney” candidate and I'm not happy with Santorum.

I might have been willing to gag and vote for an economic conservative like Gingrich despite his multiple moral failings on the grounds that he's more qualified to be president than Santorum, and more electable than Perry. But this “open marriage” stuff is beyond the pale.

I continue to have serious concerns about Santorum’s electability, but I believe based on the new revelations about Gingrich, if we nominate him as our presidential candidate, we risk destroying thirty years of hard work to make the Republican Party the party of moral values.

I simply cannot accept that.

We cannot let the Republican Party turn into something comparable to conservative parties in Europe where gross immorality in the leaders of Italy and France is not just tolerated and winked at but actually considered to be no big deal, and just something powerful men do.

The stakes are too high. We're already seeing Freepers seriously argue that Gingrich's past adulteries are a private matter between him and his wife. That is not true. And it should not be something said by conservatives.

Nominating Gingrich, under current circumstances, will enable the worst segments of secular conservative politics. It will show the American electorate that the conservative wing of the Republican Party turned against three men (Romney, Perry and Santorum) who as far as anyone can tell, never cheated on their wives and were faithful to the teachings of their respective churches, and decided instead to back a serial adulterer and put him up against a Democrat whose politics are poison but who appears to have a stable marriage.

In my book, that is too much to lose.

I think I need to decide soon whether to start aggressively supporting Santorum. It's not where I wanted to be, but it appears be the only option left.

“After this move by Perry I wouldn’t trust him any more then I would Gingrich. Perry’s dirty trick for VP makes him another corrupt Washington Insider”

Why do you say some thing like that? He’s not corrupt. Governor Perry had dropped, at one point in time, to 2% of the vote in South Carolina. He should have taken that state in a landslide. What was he supposed to do. Everybody was screaming for him to get out...including FReepers. The natural base for him, the good Christians in LindseyGrahamville, turned their back on Perry. He only stayed in the race because the information he was getting before the primary was promising that he might actually win SC. He is a sitting governor. He couldn’t travel all over the country with this kind of result. He’s a governor which is a far better job than being VP to a Newt or a Romney.

Perry should have stayed. right now Gringrich is asking Santorum to drop out. I hope he doesn't.
If Gingrich goes to the White House, there goes the Lincoln bedroom again.
Gingrich is blackmailable, those hearings need to be opened to the public, and let the people know just what Newt is all about.
Gingrich will be another Clinton and I;m sure the low life he is with now will take this country for plenty.
Gingrich kept his mouth shut when Clinton was in office because he was doing the same thing.
Getting back to Perry, if he really believed in the things he was saying he would never of endorsed Gingrich. Perry should have gone after Gingrich he could have torn him apart with Freddy and Mac There are other major deals with money. I would rather see the court hearings instead of Romney tax records.

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