If you want optics Romney is the best. Not as good a talker as Gingrich but smooth, tall, in good shape, handsome along the Reagan line. He also comes across positive.
Gingrich comes across WAY more positive than Romney. He had a definitive vision for America that was something you wanted to follow and help make happen.
But time has a way of putting perspective on what is important.
I still do not like Romney and do not trust him, BUT between the disaster brewing in the middle east and our own impending economic disaster which candidate is more likely to keep freedom and liberty intact when the whole world goes crazy? And it IS going to go crazy within the next 4 years.
Romney is no absolute guarantee, but there’s a much better chance we will still have a Constitution after his term rather than a guarantee we will not with Obama.
Mormons also as a generaization believe in preparing for bad times and in defense when necessary. Aside from my beliefs as a Christian about his mortal soul, we are choosing a President not a pastor.
So the choice is clear. If we want an economy and if I want to be able to feed the family and still have a home a couple of years from now Romney is it.