[C. Edmund Wright]

too bad we had Romney as the candidate instead of Newt. I don’t think Newt would have let off the gas pedal after that first debate like Romney did.

I wanted Newt too, and there is a chance he would have put the pedal to the metal and kept it there. But, Newt has some awful advisors, and a bad habit of sometimes listening to them. It's why he imploded late in Iowa, and in Florida after SC....he totally changed what pushed him to the top in Iowa early, then in SC late. Like the ad says, "its not complicated" - but too complicated for most of our consultants and many of our candidates...sadly.

[Lakeshark]

I was an early Newt supporter (with reservations).

Santorum could have been okay, but with him I had even more reservations.

I hate to admit this, but in 20/20 hindsight, I think either of them would have been beaten far worse than Romney was. I think they would have been beaten Goldwater bad, not just 2 percentage points. Our field was weak, the IRS, the voter fraud, the MSM traitorous malfeasance could not have been risen above by any of them.