I haven’t been aware of this but it sure looks interesting...will read the rest of the thread to see what’s happening....hummm-mmmm..very interesting indeed.
Thanks for the ping darrell...very much.
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I believe Texas provides an opportunity — quite possibly the last one — to turn this campaign around. A decision by Rick Perry to use Texas as a battering ram to stop a Romney victory could easily be a game-changer, and if successful will affect several following states.
I think given the history of problems between Perry and the Bush family, Perry may have his own motives for doing something like that. The question is how the Bush wing of the Texas GOP will respond — my guess is they'll stay quiet if it's obvious they'll lose, but do everything they can behind the scenes to keep Texas as a proportional state up until the point they think they'll lose an actual vote, and then acquiesce quietly to the rule change and turn to trying to win Texas for Romney. But I'm no expert on Texas politics and others here can say much better than me what may happen.
Romney is a horrible candidate. Most conservative Republicans know that, whether they're social issues conservatives, national defense conservatives or even (in many cases) economic conservatives. Most elite Republicans know they need conservative Republicans as the foot soldiers to win elections, even if they don't like us very much.
The problem is that conservative Republicans have been systematically destroying each other, one by one, aided and abetted by Mitt Romney's money, and now we're going to be stuck with Mitt Romney as the last candidate left if we don't do something **RIGHT NOW** to stop him.
Gingrich's problem is he's deeply in debt and Romney can fix that for him. I'm not going to bash Gingrich if he believes he has no choice but to put his own financial house in order — I'm a business owner and I've made decisions I didn't like when I had no choice — but I sure hope he decides to work something out with the conservative insurgents rather than with Mitt Romney.
If he decides otherwise, however, I'm not going to hold it against him. Gingrich has a decades-long history of fighting for the conservative movement and deserves respect for that, especially his career in the House of Representatives where he did what virtually everyone thought was impossible, namely, taking the House to the point it had a Republican majority and becoming Speaker. There comes a time when people have to decide whether fighting political battles is worth bankrupting themselves, I can't make that decision for Gingrich, and it's his call what he does next.