Ah yes, I had forgotten about that anti-capitalist bit that occurred when he attacked Romney. I recall being angry about Newt saying those things myself.
I hadn’t considered supporting Newt by this time, I was still smarting over the destruction of Cain, so I criticized those comments myself, and it is possible that those comments did have some effect on his candidacy, but I cannot be sure.
By the time the FL primaries came around though, I softened my position on Newt realizing that none of our candidates are perfect, I had decidied that he had the best grasp of conservative ideas and should be nominated well before someone such as Romney.
Sadly, that was just about the time that all air left the Newt balloon.
Personally, I don’t care if he stays in or not. I’m going to vote for whomever the nominee is, as long as that person’s name is something other than Obama, my standards are not high any longer.
I don’t think we are going to win this, and I hope to High Heaven that I am dead wrong, but it really seems like the GOP does not have the answer to american communism, and it never will have it or anyone in it that will have it.
These communists are going to have to be defeated in the harshest possible manner such that anyone who even thinks of walking down this path anytime in the next 250 years will say Hell no, I ain’t walking down this path, did you see what happened to the last guys who tired this?
The GOP does not have the mettle, or anywhere even close to any mettle at all, to assist in such a necessary solution.
The bizarre thing was that Gingrich was defending capitalism as a productive economic system, but questioning Romney’s version of his business background. Romney was not in a productive business, the foundation of capitalism, but in a speculative financial business, which has its essential place but is a lot different from building a productive business, particularly since Romney seems to have gotten certain government breaks here and there along the line. Romney was trying to pretend that he was like his father, president of AMC, a captain of industry. However, even there he lied, because he said he decided not to “go into the auto plant like his father,” as if Daddy had been working on the line and not president of the company!
I never figured out whether Rush (a) misunderstood the message (which may not have been well presented; it was done by the PAC and not by Gingrich, although he approved it at a time when the consultants were telling him to be more aggressive and go on the attack) or (b) was just trying to be provocative, ala Neal Boortz. But whatever, it gave the liberal press and the GOP E talking points.
But leaving that aside, I don’t think it matters how many of us hold our noses and vote for Romney. I did that the last time around with McCain, and the problem is that it doesn’t work. There aren’t enough people who will vote for an imitation Dem (McCain/Romney) instead of a real Dem (Obama). The majority of the people - and there are more registered Dems than GOPers - will vote for the real Dem.
I have family members who can’t stand Obama because of his black power/Islamic nonsense and his obnoxious wife, but they’re going to vote for him because he’s got the unions in his pocket. Obama’s personal unpopularity is not going to matter. Unless we present an alternative to the Dems, people will vote for the real Dem instead of the imitation.
That said, I agree with you, I honestly don’t think the GOP has the guts or the brains to present an alternative to communism, whether soft communism or the harsher type (it will begin as the first and progress to the second).
I’m not feeling very hopeful, but I just gave another few bucks to the Gingrich campaign...newt.org...because I know that it’s not much, but I don’t want to feel that I didn’t try to do anything. I can’t believe so many people have just resigned themselves to letting our country be taken away and turned into almost the opposite of everything we have always held.
Seriously, this thought depresses me enormously every day.