Ok, fine. I’m not asking you to vote for Newt Gingrich.
I’m not asking anybody here in FR to consider voting for Newt Gingrich. Not a single, solitary poster.
But I will donate to him, work for him (if he’s still viable and in contention at the time of the NJ primary) and definitely vote for him myself.
I have decided that.
I have also decided not to try to push him here in FR. You’ll get no argument from me.
I understand that you don’t like him and I accept that.
Good for you. I hope you and Newt will be very happy.
The truth of the matter is that NO Republican candidate is good enough for many of the types who inhabit FR. These are people who brook not even the slightest hint of a shading of difference between their worldview and that of others. If even a miniscule difference exists, the other person immediately becomes not just someone with whom there is a disagreement, but becomes a viscerally hated enemy. Problem is, that kind of absolutely perfect meshing of two people's opinions to beyond the nth degree simply doesn't exist in this world. Probably not in the next either.
Yet, in perpetual search for such an impossible candidate, too many people are willing to toss aside important considerations for the first Joe or Jane who comes along and mouths what they want to hear.