I knew this was a bad year when I was thinking hopefully about Rick Perry, a guy who I still think was more conservative than what we have left, but even before his early debate problems, certainly wasn’t the guy I was thinking of for President.
But Perry endorsed Gingrich. That means something to me. Rush doesn’t seem to like Gingrich much, but he can accept him. Levin seems to be warming up to Gingrich, although it seems more because of the attacks on him, like “if you hate him so much, I’m going to support him”.
I don’t know how I’d feel about Romney if I thought he had a chance of winning. I don’t. He wasn’t the “electable one” to me. I still think Perry is more electable, if he just had been able to get primary voters to give up their pipe dreams of other candidates. But that’s the job a candidate has to do, I can’t do it for them.
Daniels seems too short to me to be President. Of course Gingrich isn’t that tall either.
It is bad enough that if Jeb Bush joined the race tomorrow, I’d seriously consider sending him money. Of course, I’m not opposed to people named “Bush”. I actually think he COULD win the election. He is very personable, would be an excellent contrast to Obama, and is a successful Governor.
I could ignore Gingrich’s past, and support him. I’m not at all bothered by his fighting spirit, except he rarely seems to be fighting anything important. I wish he wasn’t so flawed, because he has some really good aspects.
All the Bush family has a problem ~ http://www.usatoday.com/news/nation/2002/01/29/noelle-bush.htm and her mother. That means they can’t really take a principled stand regarding illegal Mexican migration into the USA, so they don’t.
Perry found out you can’t mix work with back surgery and get away with it.