[kabar]

Santorum has none of Newt's personal baggage. Both have checkered voting records and certainly not the most conservative records. I attribute that to the fact that both were in leadership positions and had different dynamics pushing them more to the center than either one of them probably liked.

My biggest problem with Newt is amnesty, which he currently supports. I am also concerned that the Dems will really go after him on his reprimand from the House, the only sitting speaker ever to suffer such a rebuke. The vote in the House was 395 to 28. Over 85% of Gingrich's GOP colleagues in the House voted for the reprimand. It is very hard to spin that fact even if the charges were trumped up and politically motivated.

The 2012 election should be a referendum on Obama and his policies. We can't allow the Dems to distract us with attacks on our candidates so that we spend more time going over past issues with the GOP candidate on the defensive. I fear that we will be fighting the past war on Newt's baggage with the help of the MSM, and not enough time and effort going after Obama. If Obama gets another four years, this country is finished.

[Cringing Negativism Network]

IMHO your biggest problem with Newt is you can’t find a Santorum thread to post on.

Just saying.

[eyedigress]

What baggage is this that hasn’t been checked already? We understand that he is twice divorced. I also understand that Jefferson had relations with his slaves.

Get over it.

[wardaddy]

My biggest problem with Newt is amnesty, which he currently supports.

That is not completely true and but then what are you going to do with Mitt as the nominee?

He will say anything but his track record is a litany of social liberalism and cheap labor, hardly the sort to be 100% anti amnesty

I see this race as Mitt or Newt. Newt was not my first pick...in fact 4th...after Palin, Bachmann, Rick and Rick...but compared to Mitt he is exponentially better...at least to me.

Mitt is a Gerald Ford clone...in many ways actually...

Newt is simply better by any measurement.

The media will attack Mitt same as Newt when he gets the nomination..his family's Mexico history for example will be known even to school kids and even if Mitt does win then we get possibly 8 years of a liberal Republican?

I will pass and ride with Newt till it's done. The way all of these folks on our side attacked Newt in favor of liberal pro abort, pro gun control, pro mass govt healthcare, pro higher taxes, pro homosexual agenda Mitt Romney has changed me forever with the GOP and 90% of so called conservatives in the public eye

I don't care about his reprimand...silliest charges ever of which he was later cleared...it was payback orchestrated by the Dems at the request of a bitter political rival (Cooter) and drummed up by the media...I mean really look at the charges...over events that took place before he was speaker

what that event told us is that the left was determined and Gingrich made enemies...I'll give you that