Newt, while he’s had his flaws was the only visionary who imagined that Republicans could actually win Congress. The rest of those sad sacks were willing to play lackeys to the Democrats forever. He believed, made others believe, had a plan, executed it and was a great success. After that I don’t remember seeing any public figure be so excoriated. He’s had a trial by fire. I think he could pull it together as President.
Sontorum is ok, he really, really, really had a chance to prove his conservative bonafides but blew it by endorsing Arlen Specter. If he had any thoughts of ever running for President he should have known this would be a problem. Even if he never planned on being President he should have never went with Specter.
Perry, just a non-starter for me.
So those are my rankings. I’m not doing cartwheels over any of them but Newt I think has the best chance of the bunch to be successful because of his experience. Hopefully he learned his lessons that no matter how much you try to play nice the Democrats and the media will still hate you, so stay conservative, take the slings and arrows and do the right thing.
I will not vote for Romney or Paul.
I was against voting for McCain last go round but got excoriated by the majority here. I did realize how horrid Obama would be so I got onboard and stubbornly voted for McCain instead of my original plan to write in Reagan to send a message to the establishment GOP who every time wants a mushy Republican to represent the party.
If it’s Romney I WILL write in Reagan, and I hope others do too and Reagan gets enough votes to foil Romney. We can win the House and Senate and neutralize an Obama second term, he’ll just play golf and vacation.
We’ve been getting Romney thrown down our throats since the day Obama took office. That used car salesman will never get my vote. I’d rather “throw it away” on Reagan.
Santorum