1)When was the last time a divorced and remarried Catholic ran for President and won? We are not talking about mere dalliances while in office. We are talking about a sin against the Church. Sins, actually, as he is on his third wife.
...a smart incumbent politician doesn’t lose his state by 18 points, would still to this day lose that same election if held by 8-10 points and expect to win the presidency
2)You are absolutely right, Newt has Rick beat all hollow in this department! Newt Gingrich did not merely lose an election, he was ousted from office after a series of scandals in 1999. That man running for office is about as smart as Richard Nixon running for office. You think the liberal media will let anyone forget?
Carbine, you continue to make invalid arguments.
You believe Newt running for president is Dumb, you are welcome to that opinion. However, as I am sure you know, because someone does something someone else considers dumb, does not make that person dumb or stupid. Even the smartest folks alive do dumb things at times, period. And even what some others consider dumb at times turn out to be incredibly smart in retrospect. Galileo challenged the church, most of his contemporaries would have considered that incredibly dumb.. would this mean the man is dumb? or lacking intellect? I certainly hope you aren’t going to suggest it is.
You are arguing that you believe Newt running for president is DUMB, a fair enough opinion, however you lose any sort of merit for your argument when you attempt to extrapolate that because he is doing something you view to be dumb, that he is a dumb person.
Personally, I’ve watched Santorum do countless things over the past 18+ years that I consider incredibly dumb, but I don’t think the man is dumb, nor have I said he is, I have said he is not an intellectual giant, and I’ll gladly support that with fact and action, and it won’t be confusing what you would consider character flaws, as justifications for them.
I’ve watched Santorum choose Unions over job creation, I’ve seen him choose expanding government over liberty, I’ve watched him burn money like you wouldn’t believe, while trying to claim he’s a fiscal conservative.. There’s a 1/2 BILLION dollar tunnel that goes less than a 1/2 mile right by my house that Santorum made sure got funding before he was booted. I’ve watched Santorum say he’s for tough immigration, and seen his spanish re-election web site say the exact opposite. Etc Etc Etc. Santorum has countless character flaws I have seen on display perpetually for nearly 20 years, but those are not why I know he is not intellectually on par with Newt.
All you have to do is look at the current cycle, and ask yourself who’s actually driving the discussion? Obama? Nope, Romney? Nope, Santorum? Nope... Its Newt... Newt’s the one who brought up and made gas prices an issue, and put the white house completely on its heels.. He’s apparently an unelectable clod by your assumptions, yet the white house has gone to the extent of attacking back on this issue.. why? Because Newt’s driving the conversation, period. He’s offering thoughts and solutions, and contrasts, not with simple platitudes and sound bites, but truly thought out documented ideas... Not esoterics.
We aren’t going to see eye to eye on this, and you have offered no justification for your belief that Santorum is an intellectual equivalent to Newt, so at this point further discussion is pointless, you just don’t care for Newt which is fine, but are trying to prop up an argument you cannot with nothing but ad hominem, after ample opportunities for you to provide other evidence.