The Washingon DC party is terrified of Gingrich...Romney who represents the party’s right and Obama, the party’s left have this much in agreement...Newt might stop the gravytrain...can’t have that.
Gingrich is talking about investigating the fed...and the crooks who ran fannie/freddie...can’t have that.
I honestly believe if Gingrich gets the nomination the Washington insiders will consider assassination. They are that scared of him.
—I honestly believe if Gingrich gets the nomination the Washington insiders will consider assassination.—
I’ve wondered the same thing, but that it could happen BEFORE the nomination.
Our politicians aren't any different than those from ancient Rome.
KJO,
I’m pretty much for Romney because I don’t see a viable conservative. I’m a North Florida technologist and pretty far from the Washing DC party. Maybe it’s all very simple for you but Gingrich scares me and I’m not an insider. I think he’s a man of huge ego and ambition with a history of pushing big government ideas. I also think his personal life has been a wreck, will be fodder in the general campaign, will force conservatives to give up the character matters argument, and worst suggests a pretty obsessive personality. I do not trust him and think him capable of Nixon level damage to the party - I don’t see Reagan2.0 there.
With Mitt - sure the upside is largely limited. We deserved better but we have the candidates that we have. I also think the downside is largely limited and that the real focus is getting Mitt a strong Congressional majority. I do believe that if we had a conservative Sen/House, Romney could have one of the most conservative administrations we’ve seen. I don’t think this because I think he’s a closet Goldwater but because I think he’ll compromise from his slightly right center position to wherever the legislature bends.
I guess in short, I think a Romney administration is a 2-4 cycle commitment for conservatives to really wind out increasingly right of center congresses. That means consolidating on ELECTABLE Tea Party style candidates early and getting them funded.