Posted on 01/23/2012 11:20:48 AM PST by Kaslin
“I have written a column on why Rick Santorum is both the best man to beat Obama, and why he is a good man - a man we can depend on to champion conservative principles with strength, conviction, wisdom and humility.”
Dude, just stop.
Take your 38 vote “win” in Iowa and just GO!
2012: Gingrich Defends Attacks On Romney
2010: Gingrich Defends Romney
>>Gingrich defends Romney
In a forthcoming interview with CBN, Newt Gingrich says that Mitt Romney has been unfairly maligned for the Massachusetts health care reform bill.
“Governor Romney’s made very clear that he favors absolute repeal of Obamacare,” said Gingrich. “I also think in all fairness to Governor Romney that he vetoed many provisions that the liberal Democrats in the Massachusetts state legislature added to the bill and they overrode his veto.”
http://www.politico.com/blogs/bensmith/1110/Gingrich_defends_Romney.html
Newt Gingrich says not just that he saw the light, but that he moved into the lighthouse, and the lighthouse seems to have agreed.
Whatever theological differences some may have with the Roman Catholic church, at least on paper it can’t be accused of alley cat morality.
No way I’m going to support a candidate who is for SOPA/PIPA-like restrictions on the internet. Santorum would shut down FreeRepublic!
Santorum has been uncomfortably waffly about that subject. He’s a little too green a zealot to expect wisdom from.
There is some truth to the point the article is making, but there is not parity between the two candidates. Most politicians will, at times, say one thing and do another. Newt has.
But for Romney it is a lifestyle. Even when his deeds and words match it is more do to coincidence and political expediency than personal conviction. At least that is the general pereption - and that is what counts.
“Santorum has been uncomfortably waffly about that subject. He’s a little too green a zealot to expect wisdom from.”
He’s just another lawyer who needs his secretary to type out an email for him.
Between Romney and Gingrich, I’ll take the guy with a proven track record of conservative accomplishments. Hint: it ain’t Romney.
Plus, Newt has the Contract With America on his resume. He can put the full weight of the elephant on the donkey and make it move. This capability may be superfluous if Congress goes completely GOP in November, but if Congress backtracks it could be very helpful.
AMEN, Rebecca!! Thank you. Bob
This Primary election is the mother of all “vote-for-the-least-worst” elections.
Newt Gingrich, Rick Santorum, Ron Paul and Mitt Romney are all inconsistent conservatives, and terrible, terrible candidates.
Barack Obama is a sitting duck, and this is our field? A couple of relics from the 90’s, a man whose flip-flop resume dwarfs that of John Kerry, and an old doddering dwarf whose base is kook fringe truthers and medical marijuana advocates.
2012 sucks.
Is this the best you can do, Santorumbot? That he’s allegedly “no worse” than Newt?
Sorry Kaslin, we part company here. I like many things about Rick Santorum but quite frankly the guy has all the charisma of a mashed potato sandwich. His damning Newt with faint praise in the South Carolina debate last week was a bonehead move. Even Romney had a better answer than Santorum when he told John Queen “Let’s move on to the real issues John” (proving even a broken clock can be right twice a day).
Rick Perry stepped up and did the right thing for conservative Americans, for Republicans and for people like you and me, he withdrew from the race and directed his own campaigners to rally behind Newt and all but one of them did, and that certainly contributed to Newt’s win over Romney, and Perry is committed to helping Newt become the GOP nominee.
Rick Santorum needs to show some class and do likewise.
Even Romney had a better answer than Santorum when he told John Queen “Let’s move on to the real issues John” (proving even a broken clock can be right twice a day).
Romney sure isn’t doing that now!
2011-2012 has been a bruising winnowing process, and some initially very promising candidates or would-be’s have fallen by the side. I was most disappointed to see Sarah Palin not grab this brass ring; she would probably have walked away with the nomination. But some say at unacceptable cost to her family. And she never punched at Obama quite like Gingrich has, repeatedly.
Gingrich is shining now, whether we like it or not. Again this is the Contract With America guy, and the handwriting on the wall is looking forward to Contract With America II. We could do far worse. FAR worse.
Yeah, but this happens to be an anti-Gingrich thread.
Dude, if I thought there was more than a negligible difference between Mitt and Newt, perhaps I wouldn’t be passionate about Santorum. A fight between two big government progressives does not stir the soul. If Rick survives through Pa, he has my vote, and he deserves it. I KNOW what a fine man Rick is. I watched him for 12 years, I worked for him in 1994, and I was proud of having him as my Senator. Bob
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