I'm not going to attack them for that...though they do have some pretty intense eyes.
I wish more American families could be as successful and avoid divorce and family breakups which, to date, they seem to be doing.
This does not change the fact that their father has taken too many liberals positions as a moderate in MA so he could get elected there. He had to, or he would not have been governor...and he governed in a state where 85% of the state legislature was dyed in the wool DNC.
But that does not excuse the positions or the difficulty it naturally brings when he runs for a GOP nomination and backtracks on all of those to try to win this election.
I do not believe he is the anti-christ or involved in some deep dark conspiracy to undermine the GOP and change it. I know that he persoanlly is against abortion and gay-marriage, but his public stances made room for them, as did his governance, and that will never set well with any true conservatve.
As a result, he will have a much more difficult time differentiating himself from Obama because the left simply will not let him...they will pull quotes like this one and hundreds of others made while he governd moderately in MA to keep him from doing so.
What has to happen is that Rick Santorum has to see the handwriting on the wall and bow out and throw his support behind Newt. Together they will be able to put a much more conservative candidate into office.
This table makes that clear:
| Romney | Gingrich | Santorum | Paul | Huntsman | Perry | Bachman | Totals | ||||||||||||||||
| Votes | % | Delegts | Votes | % | Delegts | Votes | % | Delegts | Votes | % | Delegts | Votes | % | Delegts | Votes | % | Delegts | Votes | % | Delegts | Votes | Delegts | |
| Iowa | 39,805 | 30.46% | 7 | 16,163 | 12.37% | 2 | 29,839 | 22.83% | 7 | 26,036 | 19.92% | 7 | 245 | 0.19% | 0 | 12,557 | 9.61% | 0 | 6,046 | 4.63% | 0 | 130,691 | 23 |
| New Hampshire | 97,532 | 39.77% | 7 | 23,411 | 9.55% | 0 | 23,362 | 9.53% | 0 | 56,848 | 23.18% | 3 | 41,945 | 17.11% | 0 | 1,766 | 0.72% | 0 | 349 | 0.14% | 0 | 245,213 | 10 |
| South Carolina | 167,279 | 27.75% | 2 | 243,153 | 40.34% | 23 | 102,055 | 16.93% | 0 | 77,993 | 12.94% | 0 | 1,161 | 0.19% | 0 | 2,494 | 0.41% | 0 | 494 | 0.08% | 0 | 602,821 | 25 |
| Florida | 771,842 | 46.30% | 50 | 531,294 | 31.87% | 0 | 222,248 | 13.33% | 0 | 116,776 | 7.00% | 0 | 6,182 | 0.37% | 0 | 6,742 | 0.40% | 0 | 3,947 | 0.24% | 1,667,223 | 50 | |
| At large Dels | 18 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 21 | |||||||||||||||
| TOTALS | 1,076,458 | 40.81% | 84 | 814,021 | 30.86% | 27 | 377,504 | 14.31% | 8 | 277,653 | 10.53% | 10 | 49,533 | 1.88% | 0 | 23,559 | 0.89% | 0 | 10,836 | 0.41% | 0 | 2,637,756 | 129 |