The guy couldn't even see his roles in his two biggest Federal positions to completion -- having stepped down as House Speaker in 1998 before resigning from his House seat in 1999. For this guy to crawl out from the swamp of Washington D.C. 13 years later and present himself as a credible presidential candidate was a complete joke.
I hate to be the one to break this to you, but a lot of these people (I'll even include Rick Santorum in the mix) see the Federal government as an enormous industry, and they make careers out of lobbying Congress and occasionally launching a pointless "political campaign" for the sole purpose of promoting themselves and living at the expense of campaign donors for months at a time.
Say what you want about Romney, but you'd have a hard time including him in that group of hacks.
Santorum would have won the election with Pennsylvania. I am sick of you liberals claiming because he lost in 2006 along with every other Republican by the way, that he would not win the state. Stop with your liberal crap!
“You may believe that sincerely, but you have absolutely no evidence to support that statement. I’m not even a Mitt Romney fan, but it was obvious to me that Newt Gingrich is nothing more than an inside-the-Beltway @sshole who has absolutely no credentials, executive experience or any other attributes that would indicate any competency in the White House.
The guy couldn’t even see his roles in his two biggest Federal positions to completion — having stepped down as House Speaker in 1998 before resigning from his House seat in 1999. For this guy to crawl out from the swamp of Washington D.C. 13 years later and present himself as a credible presidential candidate was a complete joke.
I hate to be the one to break this to you, but a lot of these people (I’ll even include Rick Santorum in the mix) see the Federal government as an enormous industry, and they make careers out of lobbying Congress and occasionally launching a pointless “political campaign” for the sole purpose of promoting themselves and living at the expense of campaign donors for months at a time.
Say what you want about Romney, but you’d have a hard time including him in that group of hacks.”
Romney was the weakest candidate of them all, the proof being that his record closely resembles Obama’s. If you seriously believe Romney is a better candidate, I question your credibility as a conservative. Romney does not offer a real alternative, and any voter who learns more about Romney who isn’t a slave MittBot will probably seriously consider just sitting at home.
Newt, on the other hand, offered a serious alternative insomuch that he had big ideas that he was able to defend. Romney is fighting a campaign of being as moderate as possible to not offend the indepedents, while occasionally preaching to the choir to keep the base happy. Even Paul Ryan came out endorsing gays in the military, “it’s time to move on” he said. There’s no way Newt would be running that kind of a campaign right now.
Real winners win because they act like winners, because they move with confidence and because they lead others to follow them. That’s why Reagan can win being a uber conservative, or Sarah Palin can win being a uber conservative. But the RINOs don’t understand this and look at politics as a carefully scripted game where you have to appeal to each group in different ways. So suddenly people in Virginia receive stuff in the mail from the Romney campaign promising that he will do more about Lyme disease than Obama. And so it goes.