[WOSG]

” Though I personally like him and think he would be fine on the WOT Guiliani is a liberal.

McCain has lost the respect of all conservatives.

Of the “Big Three” running right now Romney is the choice by default.”

Correct.

And you are also correct to discount the non-entrants until such time they do enter. Gingrich and Thompson need to throw their hat in the ring and tell us what they are made of before we consider them ‘the answer’.

[Artemis Webb]

Regarding Gingrich, He has always been “the thinking mans” conservative. While I normally dismiss the idea that the presence of any candidate present on a campaign for only ideological reasons could elevate the debate I do believe that is true of Gingrich.

Pat Buchanan raised the level of debate the first time he ran, this was before he went off the deep end on a lot of issues.

I do not believe it was true of Keyes, nor would it be true of Tancredo.

And yes I am dismissing Gingrich as not being able to compete effectively for the nomination. I LIKE Newt Gingrich. One of the reasons I’m a conservative today was from watching Gingrich, Vin Weber, Connie Mack and others on CSPAN in the early 80’s. Heck I spent 6 years living in the Atlanta area and for four of them Newt was my Rep.
But Newt has amassed too much personal baggage and was too successfully vilified (wrongly) during his tenure as Speaker.

Newt is a great guy and when he talks conservatives should always listen.