The truth of the matter is that NO Republican candidate is good enough for many of the types who inhabit FR. These are people who brook not even the slightest hint of a shading of difference between their worldview and that of others. If even a miniscule difference exists, the other person immediately becomes not just someone with whom there is a disagreement, but becomes a viscerally hated enemy. Problem is, that kind of absolutely perfect meshing of two people's opinions to beyond the nth degree simply doesn't exist in this world. Probably not in the next either.
Yet, in perpetual search for such an impossible candidate, too many people are willing to toss aside important considerations for the first Joe or Jane who comes along and mouths what they want to hear.
>> The truth of the matter is that NO Republican candidate is good enough for many of the types who inhabit FR >>
And many of them hide behind their supposed Biblical principles to justify that attitude as well. Which is ironic, since almost everyone used by God was deeply deeply flawed.
That's true about some people everywhere.
But what's also true is that, no matter how legitimate the criticism, or how dangerous the weakness, of a candidate, "many of the types who inhabit FR" refuse to engage it and instead blithely dismiss it with "No one's perfect."
The truth is that no one is perfect.
That doesn't mean we pretend everyone is equally imperfect (politically or personally), therefore any discussion of their imperfections is not necessary or relevant.
Actually I think most people who are critical of Gingrich do have an alternate candidate who they support. Cain, Paul, Perry, Bachmann... all have strong supporters here. So it’s not so much that they are looking for the impossible perfect candidate as it is that they think their candidate is better.
And they have the perfect right to think that.
Do some people here engage in rude forms of argument? Yes, of course. I’ve done it myself. It goes with the territory.
When I used to support Perry I would get in heated arguments with his critics.
Now that I’ve switched to Newt, I don’t get so excited anymore. Maybe it’s because I’ve been burned once and just don’t want to get so worked up all over again.
But I also think it’s because I don’t feel the need to defend Newt. Newt can take care of himself.
Now it’s more like I’m just saying what I think instead of being on the defensive all the time, like I was when I was defending Perry.
(And for the record, through it all, I’ve always liked Cain. I just never picked him as my first choice.)