Why do people hate Newt from the get go? “It saves them time” said Bob Dole!

In Florida, “Tea Party supporters” went 41% Romney, 37% Gingrich, 16% Santorum, and 6% Paul – this is just more of what I see of ideological mush – “conservatives” or “Tea Party” people who vote for those who expand big government. And given that ideological mush, what becomes of the objection to Obama then?? Wasting money on health or education seems to be more practical than wasting that amount propping up Karzai or setting up Lunar colonies!

Here is a Gingrich who made $ 50 million in a decade “consulting” for government contractors and governmental entities parading as a Washington outsider and a “true conservative”. He almost makes Obama look like an honest man. I guess statist slime is to be judged on a “relative” scale.

But, if one were to choose between the other (R)’s — merely as a parlor game — where would a classical liberal go? Assuming a vote was called for

My endgame involves the greatest increase in liberty and personal freedoms, the greatest reduction in statism, and the (R) who could lay the groundwork for, for example, a Rand Paul in the next 10-12 years. By then, Rand may not be perfect (he’s hardly perfect now), but that would be the ideal, assuming a Ron Paul presidency isn’t going to happen.

I think Mitt Romney, moreso than the other two, would represent death for the better aspects of the early Tea Party movement and this revival of interest over the past 2-3 years in the constitution and a sound monetary policy. With Gingrich and Santorum the Tea Party would still matter, they’d still be in play, and the potential would still exist to sway minds away from the GOP establishment which has had Romney’s back.

Suddenly expatriation is looking quite appealing.