Yes, welcome to GOP POTUS 2012. And if there are legitimate 'doubts' about each of the candidates, why not get behind the one candidate who has the proven leadership, conservative accomplishments and ability to fight 0bama tooth and nail in the general ...
Newt Gingrich: An American 'Churchill' - the right man, in the right place, at the right time!
There’s no point in “getting behind” any of the candidates. Why choose one, only to have them get crucified by a bad debate, or get run out of the race because of “girl problems”, or have them simply fade away into obscurity?
And why belittle people who decide they happen to like ONE of the candidates, when there’s no reason to think another candidate would actually be more likely to win the election?
At this point, I’d rather help candidates who get unfairly attacked, then decide to embrace a single candidate, and trash all the others simply because they are beating my choice.
I might feel different if, back when we all started, everybody was pining for Newt Gingrich, and had only given up on him because he wasn’t gaining traction; or if everybody had really liked Santorum before and simply didn’t think he could win. But the fact is that NEITHER of these two candidates could buy a vowel here at FR a year ago.
The whole Gingrich meme: “who has the proven leadership, conservative accomplishments and ability to fight 0bama tooth and nail in the general ...” is largely an invention to help justify having to settle for one of the last candidates most people REALLY wanted to have to support this cycle.
I know some people claim that’s because people simply didn’t “look closely enough” at him, but in my opinion that’s also an excuse for changing your mind because you are forced to — like people will make excuses for a car that is an obvious lemon once they purchased it and can’t change their mind.
But you can believe that a web site full of well-connected highly motivated politically-experienced, historically-savvy conservative activists were all intensely naive about the history of Newt Gingrich, until 2 months ago — if that makes you feel better about your choice. Just please realize how that sounds in the cold light of day.