“I would rather lose with Gingrich than “win” with Romney.”
You’re not alone on FR with that opinion. With all due respect, its an idiotic statement. If Obama wins, the country goes down in flames. We need to win 2012. With Romney, or Gingrich, or Donald Duck, but we must win. We need to rally behind whoever wins the nomination and clean the muslim marxist out of the White House. Anyone would be an improvement.
Romney/Bolton vs Newt/Santorum. Who wins?
“We need to win 2012.”
If Romney is the nominee, there is no way that happens.
That in itself is an idiotic statement. Love the irony. Nice going!
Thank you, Astronaut, for being what seems to be a lonely voice of reason. I consider myself a conservative, i.e., limited government, lower taxes, individual freedom and responsibility, strong defense, free market capitalism, DOMA and natural resource development with environmental safeguards (I’m all for drilling in the gulf, fracking, building the Keystone pipeline, more refineries and nuclear power plants). I’d love for the “most conservative” candidate to win the nomination and be elected. But whoever wins the nomination, I’ll support them against Obama because I think either Gingrich, Santorum or Romney would be a better president than Obama. I’d consider voting for Paul if I didn’t think his foreign policy views threatened our national security. I just don’t see the sense in giving Obama a “pass” because my favorite candidate doesn’t get the nomination. Sounds a lot like “I’m not going to participate if I don’t get everything I want” thus sacrificing the “less than perfect” to the perfect.