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What exactly does one do when the most conservative candidate that can win drops out?

By: Justin Spagnolo (Diary)  |  January 19th, 2012 at 10:01 AM  | 

RESIZE: AAA

First, Allow me to publicly thank Governor Perry, his wife, Anita, their family, and their staff for all their hard work. Much may be said concerning missteps, mistakes, blunders, and the shoulda, woulda, couldas. I for one am grateful for the grace it takes any candidate and their team to put themselves out there and take the heat while furthering the causes of conservatism. For that we owe a great debt of gratitude to Governor Perry and his team.

Much will be said today, and in the coming days that we who supported Perry, “ought” to get behind either Newt Gingrich or Rick Santorum to oppose a Romney Nomination at all costs.

I for one am going to pray. I’m going to pray that each of the candidates will gain the vision of conservatives. That they will seek life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That they will espouse founding principles and they will become uncompromising in that vision.

We need to protect life, in all of its forms.
We need to protect liberty for all citizens by shrinking the size of government bureaucracy, while bolstering our ability to protect our lands, and to live in our freedoms.
We need to protect the pursuit of happiness in the Economy.

We need to end the over-regulation, and we need to turn the devils out of that Hell we know as Washington D.C. where the wicked manipulate the laws of this land to reign with corruption, utilizing all manner of sophistry to usurp life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness to re-distributive ends for their own personal gains.

I hardly believe that what remains in the field of G.O.P. candidates that any one of them truly have the vision and wherewithal to withstand the fiery darts of the left, the media, and the onslaught of calumny and defamation.

Electability has always been in We the People. Not the narrative. We must be ever vigilant, and diligent in keeping our Republic.

Going forward, the candidate that gets my support will be the candidate that shows me that they respect the Values of Duty and Responsibility to God, Family, and Nation, in that order, and can do so without hypocrisy or guile more than any other candidate.

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  • forgiven

    The Tea Party has let me down by not getting behind Perry and the so called “evangelicals” have let me down. God help us all.

  • laura211

    but the Republican Party has let me down and we will part ways today

  • dajeeps

    There’s a lot of pressure to support this candidate or that one for one reason or another, but I’m not interested in participating in herding people around like cows or being herded myself. The most patriotic thing you can do is look at the records of the remaining candidates, evaluate each of the agenda proposals and determine their credibility yourself – don’t rely on election propaganda, and do what you think is best for our country given the situation.

    I’m supporting Newt, but not because he is what I wanted. The guy I wanted, Mike Pence, didn’t even run. I am supporting him because I find his agenda to be thorough, effective, and credible; there isn’t any evidence he abused power while he had it, and he stuck to the previous agenda he presented when he helped build the Republican majority in 1994. He certainly stands for more government than I would like, but even if he only accomplishes half of what he proposes, the country will end up a vastly better place than it is now – certainly by several degrees of magnitude better than if I settled for Romney’s agenda and the differences in economic philosophy. I am a huge free-market conservative and if I can’t get everything I want, Newt’s plan is a good alternative and lessens the kinds of comprises I have to make.