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Your precious ACU rating says nothing about Newt’s support for amnesty, global warming intervention, or GingrichCare. If you want to bask in the glory years of the Clinton Administration, then be my guest. But I am more interested in where a candidate stands today. And Santorum is far superior to Gingrich when it comes to upholding conservative principles. If Newt Gingrich more closely measures up to your standards than Rick Santorum, then those are standards which we do not share. I’ll take the conservative candidate. You choose whatever candidate you wish.

My top three candidates have been for the past month, Santorum, Bachmann and Newt.

My position, (unlike apparently yours) is to give an honest assessment on all the candidates.

My point to you is that only Bachmann stands head-and-shoulders above Newt when it comes to conservatism. Santorum doesn't.

Let's start with amnesty...

Roll tape....

2011 GOP debate in Simi Valley CA at the Reagan Library , Sep 7, 2011

GINGRICH: [to Santorum]: We should make English the official language of government. We should insist that first-generation immigrants who come here learn American history in order to become citizens. We should also insist that American children learn American history. And then find a way to deal with folks who are already here, some of whom, frankly, have been here 25 years, are married with kids, live in our local neighborhood, go to our church. It's got to be done in a much more humane way than thinking that to automatically deport millions of people.

SANTORUM: My solution is very similar to Newt Gingrich's. We should not have a debate talking about how we don't want people to come to this country, but we want them to come here like my grandfather and my father came here. They made sacrifices. They came in the 1920s. There were no promises. There were no government benefits. They came because they wanted to be free and they wanted to be good law-abiding citizens.

(My bold)

Let's summarize...

Newt mentions his 25-years-and-up amnesty. Santorum doesn't criticize Newt for mentioning his 25-years-and-up amnesty, but instead says that his position is "very similar to New Gingrich's".