Mary, if you really want to fight for Rick, take up the torch he left to you and fight to have a conservative who recognizes the danger of the debt we have, the Islamists, the pro-death cult, etc. This is from memory so I hope I get most of it right:
In Flander’s Fields the poppies blow
Between the crosses row on row
That mark our place.
And in the air birds still sweetly singing, fly,
Scarce heard amid the guns below.
We are the dead. Short days ago we lived, .....
Saw sunset’s glow.
Loved, and were loved, and now we lie in Flander’s Fields.
Take up the quarrel with the foe.
To you from failing hands we throw
The torch. Be yours to hold it high.
If ye break faith with us who die
We shall not sleep,
Though poppies blow
In Flander’s Fields.
If you really want to support Rick Santorum, then take up his torch, take up the quarrel with HIS foe - and it wasn’t Newt Gingrich. Newt Gingrich was his ally against the foes of this country. It’s time to let the old animosity die and fight onward for what Rick fought for. That will honor the battle he fought, more than any defense over what is past.
I already have the torch and am fighting as a Conservative activist for our freedoms.
Rick was the closest candidate to my values...but I try not to hitch my rope to other people’s wagons. They are human too and they can let us down so easily.
Don’t expect others to rescue us. We have to do this for ourselves. ‘
And if it’s Newt you are hoping will suddenly rise up and defeat Romney, he simply cannot win at this juncture and it’s not rational to think he can.
Instead, try to come up with a list of the ways you hope that Newt CAN stay active and involved for Conservatism in the future...an appointment, a professorship, speaker at the convention?
These are doable and more realistic goals..for him and for the Newt supporters.
So yes, I hold the torch high: for the Constitution,,for the founders..for the America that we are in danger of losing.