“Well the fact of the matter is that not that long ago we were all really pissed at Newt for supporting Scozzafava.”
And rightly so. Then Newt got back on the right side of that. There is no pure conservative in this primary. There is one pure liberal though. And on that note, I am changing my tagline.
Psalm 144 wrote:
“And rightly so. Then Newt got back on the right side of that.”
Newt, unusually for a politician, has learned how to apologize and admit wrong and stupid deeds. In my book that is not a weakness but a strength. But again, what the good folk of SC picked up on is that Newt’s first thoughts are politically conservative thoughts, even though from time to time he second guesses those thoughts and, for example, sits on a couch and makes nice with Nancy Pelosi ... for which he apologized and said it was the stupidest thing he’s ever done.
He thinks basically conservative and he is not intimidated by the likes of the left or the entrenched powers-that-be in DC. That is what got him votes in SC. And it will get him votes in a lot more states than that, South and North, West and East.
Mitt noticeably spends too much time thinking about what is supposed to say in any given setting rather than just saying plainly and convincingly what he really believes. Now, if he were back to running to be a blue state governor, senator, or congressman, yeah, maybe. You could maybe take a deep breathe, hold your nose in the voting booth, pull the right levers, jump out, and then once more gulp untainted air into your lungs. But not when it comes to the presidency. We have a chance to put a conservative in - battered and flawed perhaps, but a conservative. Newt is the only good choice left.
My apologies to the Santorum people. Rick is a good man. But this is not his time. Rick needs to think this through very carefully and do what is right and helpful for the nation.