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I am not really worried about his marital indiscretions. It appears to me that he has grown past them and is a decent man today. He like all Christians are sinner saved by God's amazing grace. End of story for me.

The primary thing that concerns me about Newt is I don't know where he stands on issues like the 4th amendment and the gov't spying on/assaulting it's citizens willy nilly. I heard him say he wants to strengthen the Patriot Act--so what part does he want to strengthen? I have heard that he is good on gun rights--that is good, I have heard that he is pro-life--another plus on my account (actually in my book you could be 100% on everything else and if you are not here I don't vote for you because I have to stand in front of God someday and answer for what I stood for in my life), I have heard that he is supportive of homeschoolers and does not want the feds involved so much in education--good too. What about the gov't leaving honest, decent, hard working people alone. Where is he on that?

Politics has always been a BRUTAL business. Like I said I am not a fan of Trump, and him saying he will endorse someone tends to make me preclude any desire to be VP. I don't really trust him anyway, I tend to think he looks out for #1 and that works well for business, but politics is not really supposed to be like that (though it often is). I don't know that I would ever be sure that he was not looking out for his own self interest. Besides why would Trump do that, he has got a good thing going for him right now. Setting all that aside I think there are way better candidates out there that whoever is our nominee will be looking at seriously. There is a thought (here in VA) anyway that our govenor McDonald might get a close look. There are several other governors and senators that would make great VP's without the drama and doubt that Trump would bring.

I am not a Donald Fan, but you don't think he is smart/tough enough to handle it? Just curious.

Gingrich has got some (political) warts for sure. He has also got guts, intelligence, and some decent ideas. On second amendment issues he seems to be ok in general and a sight better than Romney. So if he gets the nomination I won't be crying.

hirundo82 wrote:

mamabearCali wrote:Gingrich/Rice Gingrich/Santorum----works for me. Let me know where to get the bumper sticker at.

Either of those tickets would guarantee Obama a second term. I, and I expect many other independents, would sit out the election rather than vote for either of those.

I don't know about that--Newt has a-lot of pluses and his negatives are well known. The MSM is simply not going to be able to pull a Perry rock on ranch bit with him. He seems to be comfortable in front of and dealing with the press and his debating skills have been beyond satisfactory. He does not seem to get flustered easily even by reporters being less than cordial. Is he perfection--- NO! Not by a long shot. But he is more solidly conservative than Romney and seems to be handling himself quite well.

Quite honestly we are not going to get Ron Paul, or even Perry. But I doubt independents would dislike Gingrich so much that they would rather take their ball and go home, and see another 4 years of rot come to our nation rather than having someone who, though not perfection, would at least be on right side of many issues.

Gingrich/Rice Gingrich/Santorum----works for me. Let me know where to get the bumper sticker at.