Use me as an example. I know Gingrich and haven’t liked him for a few years. I liked some of what he had to say before a few years ago. I respected him during the contract with America but after his affair came forth and I paid closer attention I saw him for a needy, selfish character but glad he was saying what he was saying. Since the Pelosi couch and all, though, I disliked him, until I started enjoying his debates and his attacks on the media.
I have only unfollowed One person on twitter. I’m just not motivated to unfollow people. But that one person was Newt and it was a couple years ago, not long after twitter began. He just goes Wayyy off the reservation. And his slipping wayyyy out of matrimonial promises is a symptom too.
Santorum might have voted in ways that don’t please me, but it’s like Mayor Koch used to say. If you agree with someone more than 80% of the time, what is wrong with you? I pay close attention to all the negative criticism about Santorum and I would be willing to change my support but nothing I have learned has made me waver. He’s a conservative if I am, and I consider myself a strong one. But I have my issues that might seem less than conservative to you. We all do. He is the type of personality to grow and thrive within responsibility. I like the way he has stewarded his family through more heartaches than they deserve. He’s the kind of man I’d want in the white house, the kind of man I’d want to shake the hand of.
You might want to read this:
http://www.politijim.com/2012/02/worship-santorum-shoe.html
Look, if Santorum is the nominee I will support him. He isn’t my favorite for a number of reasons. I dont think he is as conservative as people think and despite his holier than thou attitude, he is a politician with a politician’s vices. I also think his rather over the top social conservatism will make social issues a focus of the fall election and that will turn off quite a few voters.
I also think, in many ways, he will be a copy of George W. Bush. We will have a strong foreign policy (which I like) but his domestic economic policy will be lacking.
While Newt can say some crazy things, in his heart he is a Reagan conservative, which I will take over a W conservative any day of the week and twice on sunday. And in terms of going off the reservation, Reagan once said that we should blockade Cuba because of the Soviet invasion of afghanistan and promoted “star wars” to defend ourselves from nuclear attack. If they had the internet and twitter back then he would have been lampooned just as much as Newt is today for some of the things he said.