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Thanks. I agree. It’s been a weird campaign for me, since I didn’t have to choose who to vote for in Virginia, so I’ve felt a little disconnected.

When Perry was found to have not qualified, there was one day when I was ready to announce I was supporting Gingrich (since he was the only one left who was on the Virginia ballot). I even criticized Bachmann and Santorum for not bothering to submit signatures, and then Perry for not asking for help and then screwing up so bad (I had registered for all the campaigns, and sent an e-mail offering to help collect signatures and pointing out that it was a hard task and they should be trying to get it done a couple of weeks early).

I was so mad Perry didn’t get on the ballot, because if they had asked, I could have collected lots of signatures just by sitting around for a few hours on our general election night in November. The only candidate collecting signatures then was Herman Cain.

But then, Gingrich was knocked off. So I was back to my “I’ll support whichever conservative manages to come out on top”. Unfortunately, it turns out that we don’t even have a majority here at FR who are willing to support the conservative who has been at the top for over a month now.

If conservatives refuse to support the best-performing conservative, there’s not much hope — we can’t magically make Gingrich the front-runner, just because everybody thinks he would be better than Santorum here. Gingrich has to convince the people who are VOTING that he is better.

And not to be “bashing” Newt, but skipping state after state, and announcing a “southern strategy” which seems to write off most voters, doesn’t look like a good way to convince the general conservative population that he is the one we should all be supporting.