I must confess to a certain degree of disappointment. You asked about my views on the remaining candidates. I gave you a short answer that was somewhat indeterminate (as I recall) except as to the evils of Romney and you wrote back correctly pointing out that I gave you an answer that did not discuss who I was FOR.
I then sat down and wrote a very lengthy post (#145) more than twenty-four hours ago as to Santorum, Gingrich and Perry and their respective strengths and weaknesses and my preference to comply with your quite reasonable request. It took a long time to compose the answer because I was deciding among them as I wrote the answer. I concluded for the reasons expressed there that if I had to vote today for one of them it would be Santorum. That post of mine also had the virtue of responding to JimRob's original request.
I don't expect JimRob to take the time to respond to my post or to any individual's post. JimRob also has a life to live and can't be expected to spend all his time answering our posts.
OTOH, I did expect that you, Recovering Democrat, would honor my effort at least enough to acknowledge that I had replied extensively to your question in exactly the terms you requested. I am probably being overly sensitive here but I generally don't make a habit of being overly sensitive.
I certainly concede that I despise the phony that is Slick Willard. I am almost incapable of posting without saying so but the overwhelming majority of #145 is directed to the respective virtues of Gingrich, Perry and my preferred candidate Rick Santorum. You may disagree with my analysis but I did a lot of work developing it in response to your questions and expressed no disrespect for you whatsoever in doing so. If anything, quite the contrary.
Recovering_Democrat is still working through the twelve step recovery program. He’s progressed through about 6 of the steps. Give him time.