Plus, I don’t want to lose. I certainly don’t want to lose to Obama, and we can’t afford to lose.
I wish I felt better about Newt’s chances. There are a lot of people I respect who don’t think he has a chance of winning. They could all be wrong, but they could also be right.
The surprising thing to me is the Florida polls. Frankly, I was beginning to think Newt was inevitable, and now it doesn’t look that way. This has been a weird race.
If Newt keeps dropping in the polls, we’ll need to try to save Santorum I think; Newt certainly isn’t dropping for want of support at FR after all.
Of course, if conservatives decide they want to trash Santorum like he’s been trashed here, how would he fare any differently.
And since Romney is believed to be unelectable, if Newt crashes and Santorum is unacceptable, will conservatives allow for a new entrant like Mitch Daniels, simply because we need SOMEONE to stop Romney?
I understand why people are “all-in” for Newt — we reached the end of the road, he looked like he was going to do the job, and was all we had left. But we have been far to rejecting of all the other candidates up until this point. A lot of people kept acting like we had an infinite number of choices, and so they could reject out of hand people like Perry and Santorum and Bachmann, because they weren’t “perfect”.
I still fear that in a few weeks, we’ll all be sorry conservatives had a hissy fit over being called “heartless”.
romney cannot win. I will never vote for him... I mean I couldn't even if someone talked me into it... I cannot do it and I have serious and committed reasons as to why. Not one of those reasons is religion. I am not alone.
All that we have are newt and Santorum. Santorum is a pitiful excuse for a conservative. I am being honest here... he is a solid family values man... but the man is weak on the Second Amendment... gun locks and closing down gun shows... and that is what closing the “gun show loophole” is all about. He lied about the NRA backing his votes for both of those bills.
He and Michael Steele both subbed for Bill Bennett's “Morning in America” radio show and in February of 2009, they both were the first republicans to state that “The era of Reagan is over” and that “the electorate has moved further to the left... we as a party must become more diverse and move in the direction of the electorate”.
newt gingrich said the exact same thing to Rush on February 20th 2009. Rush crushed newt and newt babbled about “what he really meant”. They both wanted to redefine “Conservatism”.
So we have a choice... two men who are neither liberal nor truly conservative... both with plenty of evidence to cause concern. One of them has no spark... no charisma and one is breathing fire and throwing hell, fire and brimstone at obama and fighting a second front with romney. It is a piss poor choice but I am afraid we have to go with a fighter. As bad as newt is... and I am under no illusion as to who and what he is... he seems best equipped to destroy obama and he is far better than obama. Let's say we get 50% conservative newt and 50% progressive newt... that is 50% more of our ideology being put into place than today and the economy will improve with supply side economics and free domestic markets.
It is what it is... and those that will be honest with themselves have to see this too. Can newt beat obama? Yes he can. Will the press ever admit to it? No they will not.
The media were telling us that Reagan was losing... all day long... just as they had predicted a president kerry. More than one network anchor was heard that night to say, “I do not know how Reagan won... I do not know anyone that voted for him”.
newt is not Reagan... that is not what I am saying. If we did have a Reagan... they chose not to run. We have newt and we have Santorum... Daniels is a good man but he is never going to be president. His speech was not bad... Rush was highly complimentary... but even Rush said he was not an inspiring guy. So we have newt and Santorum.
I want a guy that can take a punch and fight as dirty as a sewer rat... because that is what obama is and that is how a rat fights. Reverend James Manning even endorsed newt... and he stated pretty much what I have stated here... and obama can't play the race card on newt... Manning even said so... he will not bite and he will not buy into the presumption. newt will also destroy any illusion that obama was ever a "Constitutional Law professor". He will show just how stupid a punk assed kenyan gaylord truly is. Santorum cannot do that... and he will not do that. He will not fight down and dirty and he told Sean Hannity that on the air. No way to slice it... Santorum or newt.
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