Who do I like?
Or who do I want?
I want a genuine pro-God, pro-life, pro-family, pro-gun, pro-oil, pro-small government, big defense, patriotic Christian conservative. That automatically rules out Giuliani, Romney, Paul, et al.
I LIKE Sarah Palin the best, but the elite progressive RINO GOP establishment joined hands with the God-hating liberals to make it all but impossible for her to run as a Republican. With Palin out, I’ll “settle for” conservatives Bachmann or Cain. If the libs and their RINO partners successfully torpedo both of them, it’ll be between RINOs Perry and Gingrich. In this case, Perry would be the lesser of two weevils, IMHO. Though, watching a debate between Obama and Gingrich would be amusing.
It may be the end of FR should he get the nomination, but no way in hell will I ever support or vote for the abortionist, homosexualist, global warmingist, gun-grabbing, socialist healthcare pushing, big government mandate loving, flop-flopping, lying liberal progressive Keynesian, Mitt Romney.
We’re on the same page. I’m for Cain, and Perry is a distant second. Bachmann’s kind of scared me off, lately, otherwise she would be my second favorite.
Yeah Palin would of been the best...I even like Bachman.
If it's Mitt and, god forbid, he wins then I predict the following four years on FR will be us writing "Mitt did what? Oh geez, not this moderate left wing crap again"!
Totally agreed.
I don't want Gingrich as the presidential nominee. He did wonderful things to take back the House of Representatives and become the first Republican Speaker of the House in virtually anyone’s living memory, but his zipper problems are a serious liability. Some of his policies are also serious problems.
However, a debate between Gingrich and Obama could be very good — imagine Gingrich eating the Teleprompter in Chief alive. Same thing if Gingrich is the VP nominee, taking on Vice President Joe Biden who actually does have intellectual competence but has an unfortunate habit of saying bad things.
For comparison, imagine a debate between Gov. Perry and President Obama. I don't want to see that.
Gingrich is notable for his academic competence mostly because too many other Republican candidates aren't. Unfortunately, the conservative movement has not done a good job of developing serious heavyweight thinkers in its candidates. We've got lots of good conservative think-tanks, but somehow the policy wonks do better at tearing apart bad Democratic ideas in print and policy statements than they do at running for and getting elected to the city, county, and state offices that are usually prerequisites for running for Congress or a state governorship.
We need to do a much better job of developing competent conservative candidates on the local level. Do we not have young Republicans in the College Republican clubs at left-wing universities who will come back to their hometowns and run for state and local office on the grounds that we need some people who are capable of disproving the nutty arguments of the left-wing profs they've seen in college? I know we need the think tanks, but we also need actual elected officials who are intellectually competent debaters, and the rise of Newt Gingrich is happening in significant measure because we don't have too many other people with his intellectual competence and vast knowledge of government and foreign policy. Those used to be considered minimum requirements for presidential candidates in both parties, not just nice things to have.