If you have to pick between just Mittens and Newt:
Put simply — as Governor of Massachusetts, Mitt Romney moved the state left, socializing its healthcare system and doing nothing to stop gay marriage until he knew it was too late to do anything about it.
As Speaker of the House of Representatives, Newt Gingrich moved the nation right with a balanced budget and welfare reform.
Someone try and make the case for Mittens to me again…because I just don’t understand how you can call yourself a Conservative in one breath and then offer support for Mittens with the next.
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Well, then I guess you don’t consider me a conservative.
Over the years, Newt has moved (far) left. Perry has always had a liberal streak (Gardasil, amnesty, weak border enforcement).
Romney, on the other hand, has been consistently moving right. And in 2008, he was the choice for conservatives — even garnered the endorsements of Rush and Levin, who are now notorious flip-floppers regarding the eventual GOP nominee.
And then, of course, there is the minor matter that Americans hate Newt, think Perry is the dumber second-coming of George W. Bush, and are somehow still more highly regarded than any of the other remaining GOP candidates — except for Romney, who polling regularly shows as able to beat Obama.
Which brings us down to the heart of the matter — my goal is actually getting Obama out of the White House. If that means supporting a candidate who is less conservative than I like because he has the virtue of being electable, then I do that gladly and without surrendering my conservative credentials — because my rule has always been to support the most conservative guy who has a chance of winning.
just watched the debate on Saturday night. An inordinate amount of time was given to Mittens. Newt was still the most informed and forthright guy on the stage. Huntsman was a little oily and Romney was pretty much given a pass. Paul probably represents the American mindset (liberals excluded) about why the hell we keep meddling in other countries shit.
Poor old Perry shot himself in the foot with the go back into Iraq statement.
Hell, if we took the money we spent in sending troops into the middle east and had applied it to domestic energy production (drill here, drill now, drill often) in the last 5-10 years we would not need the stupid rag head oil. We would be in a much stronger economic position and many of our best and brightest would still be alive and or un-maimed. We do not have to be isolationist any more than we need to be democracy builders. Freedom and democracy has to be generated internally from the wants, needs and frustration of the population. A bunch of the middle east is frustrated and wanting to move out of the 7th century Islam bullshit. Our organizer in chief evidently owes his allegiance to Allah not the stars and stripes so he sits on his hands when Iranians demonstrate for freedom.
Bottom line, Newt has the stuff to shake things up in Washington, and if he can get Ron as a veep, the status quo will be lin deeeeeep do do.