We pretty much are left with two choices as conservatives....
If these don’t pan out it’s gotta be third party.
Three, two of whom are unlikely to compete. Perry is the only conservative left with money and organization to take on Romney and Gingrich.
So if you really care about stopping Gingrich and Romney, you should support Perry. If you just want to stop Romney, you can try Gingrich and hope he doesn’t implode (or really, just hope that the fickle swarm won’t abandon him like they did the last three candidates they supported, Bachmann, Perry, and then Cain).
By all objective measurements, Perry, Santorum, and Bachman are comparable conservatives. ACU ratings are good; they have similar endorsements from the various conservative groups, the NRA, pro-life organizations, and fiscal organizations. OnTheIssues shows them in comparable rankings as well.
Perry is the only conservative left with executive experience — and lots of it. And he has a solid donor base and he has money to compete.
We’ve all had fun picking on candidates for trivial issues and by exaggerating and even misrepresenting their views. Time for fun is over — it’s time to get serious. No more “my candidate or bust”, no more “forget him because he use the wrong prepositional phrase”, or “she’s perfect but her hair is funny”.
There’s a month until Iowa. That’s ONE MONTH to get a real conservative who can win the nomination.
3rd party gave us Clinton.
AKA, an Obama vote.