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The same establishment groups that are attacking Gingrich now, have attacked Palin in the past and would, without doubt, attack Ron Paul if he was a nominating threat to Romney. I agree with you.

The goal is to defeat Obama in November 2012. I will not vote for Romney, even if he is the nominee - for he will change NOTHING!

So we’re really in a quandry, aren’t we. Palin has bowed out. Ron Paul keeps stepping on his own crank. And Gingrich is attacked...because he is immoral...not conservative enough...his ideas are crazy...or he can defeat Obama and carry enough Republicans into both Houses of Congress to effect a real change in government?

Because that ‘change’ is the common fear of both Democrat and Republican establishments. It is the fear they had of Sarah Palin, and Ron Paul, and now of Gingrich.

If Gingrich is the Republican nominee, I will vote for him because he would be a fat better President than Obama.

Newt Gingrich isn’t the perfect Republican, but then who is?

I am on board the Bachmann and Santorum trains. Now that Cain is out, they are the most consistent conservative folks left in the race.

If the Tea Party and grassroots would get back to principles and vote the way they did in 2010, we could end up with an actual conservative nominee to vote for. The Electoral College is set up this time around to the GOP’s advantage. They would easily win all the McCain States (180), would win VA, IN, and NC (39), would be strong enough and conservative enough to win FL (29), and would be pretty much fighting for OH(18) and one other state to win the election. Regardless of who the nominee is, they’re all looking at essentially the same states. This idea that Bachmann/Santorum aren’t electable doesn’t fly anymore than the argument that Palin wasn’t electable.

The Newt - Churchill analogy is strong.

As the article shows, even people in his own party doubted and despised Churchill before he was PM.

They both have strong communication and public speaking skills. Both were great debaters who knew how to refute the lies of the liberals.

Both were in politics most of their lives and understood the system well.

Both were historians who grasped international threats.

He may seem unlikely to be a great president, but I am beginning to wonder if he could be the right man at the right time.

He balanced four federal budgets for the first time in decades. He is the only candidate who cut a federal welfare program. He could follow in Reagan's footsteps to complete the conservative revolution.