Words said today are going to be remembered. We all need to choose them carefully.
I've been saying for several weeks that the only hope I can see of stopping Romney is for all the conservative candidates — Gingrich, Santorum, Perry, Cain, and possibly Bachmann — to stand up together and say, “No Romney, no way.”
Gingrich finally has his one-on-one race against Romney. Unfortunately he's out of money, several million dollars in debt, and has just a few weeks to figure out how to win (or at least perform reasonably well) in Pennsylvania.
Maybe Gingrich can win this thing. I don't see how, but then again, two decades ago I thought there was no chance of Gingrich succeeding at taking back the House of Representatives for the Republican Party and becoming Speaker. He's surprised me once and he may surprise me again.
I suspect tonight's meeting of my county's Republican club, most of whom are Santorum supporters with a few Romney backers, will be rather difficult. I know of only one significant Newt Gingrich supporter in our county, a well-respected city council member. I guess maybe I need to figure out how to convince everybody else to vote for him at our district and state convention as a Gingrich delegate.
To everybody else who is a Santorum or Gingrich supporter — listen to what I just said about what I need to do in my local area. This is going to be extremely hard work, and it's going to come down to persuading individual delegates in many cases. Find out who your delegates are, and if they've not been selected yet, get someone to put their names forward who you believe will vote against Romney. Be especially careful to find out who the Santorum delegates are; if Santorum releases them, they can vote for anyone, and it's not at all clear Gingrich will be their first choice.
This battle isn't over yet, but it's very close to the end.
We know nothing of 0bama’s actual conduct on a personal basis—his girlfriends, boyfriends, whatever. No one assails him for anything person, and should they, pit vipers drop like rain and hyenas drool around anyone who says anything. Yet, about Newt’s well-documented and personally lamentable past, we have every detail well worn like an old, tattered children’s book.
Let he who is without sin cast the first stone. No more, “Oh, I just can’t vote for someone who.....’X,’ ‘Y,’ ‘Z.’ Who are you wanting as President, a person who is happy to tell you it’s OK to let a child born of abortion die on a pile of garbage? Someone who is more than content to rake over the laws of this nation in order to abscond with its national treasure?
You go to the meeting of the venerable GOPers and you tell them there that our sons and daughters are theirs no more. This country is worth saving from their noblesse oblige and pronounced insiders carting off with the last of what’s left of it. Gettysburg’s spot to announce Santorum’s departure is as apt, not as the speech named after it, but rather, as the high water mark of Northern advancement by the South during the Civil War. The thousands who died there were brothers; the thousands of our servicemen deserve someone in the White House who will not gut them even more than they have been, putative ‘brothers’ though they may be.
Santorum left to spend time with his daughter. All right. But there are sons and daughters of our servicemen, our forefathers, whose burden will never end, thanks to those who smile and steal, smile and steal. We need someone who knows the trenches of DC and can blow the festering stink off it with a well-timed, Constitutional bat of an eyelash. That man is Newt.
It is Newt that has not surrendered. Only Newt. No one else is left to fight the near Neroesque pathology that says one thing and does another. No one. But one man remains, tired and haggard, who stands against the odds.
He should not stand alone, were we true patriots, to add more than four score years to this fragile nation’s history. Do not our forefathers deserve something more for the ankle-deep blood they fought through? Or must they sleep silently, entombed in the Arizona, now become not only a battleship of record, a state of tension, a foreshadowing of a nation’s heirs who lie waiting to see if we do indeed have grit?
Vain smiles and money aplenty will not sway the scales of what has become a grand injustice. History will not be kind to those who look the other way. In fact, there is NO other way to look than to Newt Gingrich.
Darrell, I don’t envy your position.
Would they be most apt to stay a Santorum vote, or to vote for Romney? Will they necessarily be choosing between supporting Romney and supporting Newt?
If it’s Romney v Newt, I’d like them to think about how Santorum was at the Supreme Court when Obamacare was being heard. Santorum was so right about how Romney could not lead the public in the charge against Obamacare because of his own Romneycare. I don’t believe that Romney is as “electable” as the media would have us believe - largely because of Romneycare. That probably explains why Romney could throw so much money into campaigning - outspending his rivals by huge margins - and still not get resounding support even in spite of illegal shenanigans by the Republican establishment and a fawning media. If he can only get a “meh” out of the public even when he’s got everything going his way and a huge financial advantage, why does anybody think he would far better when the media goes after his jugular and the entitlement class is out rioting for Obama? 60-75% of the public opposes Obamacare, and yet we would offer a candidate that can’t exploit that?
And the thing that makes me adamantly against Romney is the fact that he personally decided that Romneycare trumped the already-existing provision allowing for freedom of conscience, so that those who opposed abortion would not be forced to participate in them. There is no reason for ANYBODY to be forced into participating in abortion when they believe it to be murder. There are non-Catholic hospitals that can administer the morning-after pill after a rape, and women can find those hospitals; there is no need to force Mother Theresa to commit what she believes to be murder. That rates right up there with Saddam Hussein executing innocent men in front of their wives and children - and then charging the wife for the bullet.
Those who support Rick Santorum would know he could not support that. If the government can mandate that people violate their own religion, what’s to stop the government from mandating sharia? With the best of intentions, Romney would lay the foundations for sharia. That doesn’t sound like somebody who recognizes who America’s real enemies are, and what their intentions are for America. That’s also something that Santorum knew full well; Santorum knows who our enemies are. I know he would not want to lay the groundwork for those Islamist enemies to be successful here.
Regarding Gingrich’s money situation, if conservatives begin to rise up together as you say - which I am hoping and praying for - perhaps the SuperPac funder will realize there’s a fighting chance against Romney.