“Thanks for proving my point again with more baseless personal attacks. Wipe the spittle from your chin and re-read your own posts sometime when your vision hasn’t been impared.”
Unlike you, I wasn’t pretending I was holier than thou with “personal attacks”. That seems to be a funny pattern with you and your candidate that goes straight over your head.
An objective review of Santorum’s record does not lead one to conclude that the “true conservative” label belongs to him, and everyone else is scum. An objective review reveals that all of your “trust” attacks on Newt can easily be applied against Saint Rick. Hence the name “Saint Rick”, because he lies about it just as easily as you ignore it.
On the other hand, we do see quite a good deal that is good in Newt’s record. One must be utterly ignorant of his good work for us in congress and as a Speaker in order to critique him as a liberal. And one must perform all sorts of mental gymnastics to square the idea that Newt is a closet commie with the fact that the moderate RINOs have been his most vicious attackers and deceivers regarding his history.
There is good stuff in Saint Rick’s record, such as his long running emphasis on Islam. However, he blows it all out of the water with his behavior during this campaign. My problem with taking him at his word at this point is that he has been quite deceptive about his record and about the platform and record of Newt. And not just Newt, but against Cain, Perry, and so on and so forth. When you have a guy who basically knee-jerk reactions to everything he hears from an opponent with something negative... that is quite off putting. It is even more off putting when he joins with the Romney propaganda chorus, while at the same time claiming to be “above it all”. It’s pure politics and ticks me off incredibly. But you simply won’t acknowlge Saint Rick’s record and you are simply incapable of discussing his actual platform and comparing it to Newt’s. Unfortunately, the same is true of Saint Rick himself! That’s why he embraces the social issues, sine that’s honestly all he has.
And fyi, you’re basically accusing Newt of being a liar here, since he has repudiated all of the things you’ve stuck on him. Not only has he repudiated them, he’s admitted to them and offered solutions. At least with the Global warming thing, in his Climate Contract book (and I was a big critic of this early on) Newt at least tackled the mythological problem of GW with “conservative” type solutions, such as encouraging the free market to invest in green energy. One can say it was a strategic move to steal the GW issue away from the libs so it couldn’t be used against Republicans. With Santorum there is no similar repudiation. He either ignores it entirely, or pretends he had no choice. And then he has the nerve to apply a standard of conservatism over Newt that he himself would quickly fail.
I challenged you to address and argue from Santorum’s platform, explaining HOW it is better than Newt’s. Instead, as I specifically said that you would do, you immediately come back with a post basically calling Newt a liar, a low down dirty politician who supported this or that in his past. Nevermind the sweet irony that Santorum just doesn’t stand up to those same standards.
And keep in mind just who Newt REALLY is. To ignore his leadership, his accomplishments, and his ideas, is simply criminal.
"When you have a guy who basically knee-jerk reactions to everything he hears from an opponent with something negative... that is quite off putting."
That describes Newt's reaction all through the campaign and most likely a reason for his decline since the latest news coming out from his staff is now claiming he's once again "changed" focus of his campaign after losing ground through baseless attacks he himself was guilty of.
Newt has a long history of talking a good game, making it a point during this campaign to say “all the good things” (we’ve already got one of those in the White House). I'll take a leader who LIVES IT every day and doesn’t run the ball for the other team during his down time.