From being raised on Walter Cronkite pontifications about how it is, I'm just glad I lived long enough to see people start thinking, and figuring things out, for themselves.
I actually like Gingrich most based on what I think is actual intelligence, and I know how important intelligence is in real life. Where "leaders" who are merely bigger dumb sheep running scared over this or that distant coyote howl can take the whole herd over a cliff or into another war, we should vote for intelligence. I know he's played the game and made the deals in his time in office, but I've listened to him quite a bit, and I think, of all the "mainstreamers", he actually does care about this country and its people.
Ron Paul is actually right on the issues, but if he is going to lead us out of excessive governance he really needs to play and talk like he is trying to be reasonable with the movers and shakers who are pulling the puppet strings on our present crop of plantation managers.
Maybe Gingrich has shaped up his personal life. Now he needs to realize that membership in the CFR is not the wave of the future, for prospective "leaders". Well, not if we are going to be a free people.
Sorry all you Mormons out there, if we are going to save our Constitution we have to dump the Mormon politicians who are running with the "in crowd". Romney and Huntsman. Huntsman is much smarter than Romney, but like I saw in the deal Huntsman made with Reid, trading Utah water to Las Vegas in exchange for the Ambassador spot in China. . . . . which he in turn just dumped to get into the Presidential race. . . . I think in his case his "smarts" are a major liability for us. Nobody should vote for Huntsman. He's gaming the people for his own career, no matter what he says. I sat in his office and looked him in the eye when we talked about the Utah water, and he broke his promise to me. Nobody should ever trust that man with a dime.
Oh, and I think Santorum has a good shot at being the answer to the anti-Mormon conservative Bible-belter problem. He's got some genuine conservative streaks, and is savvy enough to play the game. But he's not going to actually solve any problems if he gets elected, oh except for maybe actually getting some of the problems out of Obamacare or something. But he will keep it, and let it age until it can't be undone. . . . like all the other "mainstreamers" except for Gingrich, who in my wildest guess I think is smart enough and effective enough to make it actually work, even if he can't get it undone.....
But the bottom line for me is still just this: I'll vote for all the Ron Pauls I ever see who can be counted on to try to do what they believe is right.
I'm just sick enough of the way people have tried for all of my life to go along and get along in politics, I'm just never going to vote for any mainstreamer, period.
