Vote for Newt, win the argument. Vote for Romney, win the election.
By Ken Falkenstein | Monday, January 30th, 2012 | Politics
Newt Gingrich’s constant whining about Romney outspending him and supposedly being dishonest about Newt’s record is getting downright annoying.
If Romney is beating Gingrich by barraging him with negative ads – GOOD FOR ROMNEY! What, exactly, does Newt think Obama and the Democrats are going to do with their billion dollars of campaign cash?
This comes down to fundamentals:
QUESTION: Given that the percentage of Americans who identify themselves as conservative is more than double the percentage who identify themselves as liberal, why do leftists win such a disproportionate number of elections and get such a disproportionate number of leftist policies enacted into law?
ANSWER: Conservatives focus their energies on doing whatever it takes to win the argument. Liberals focus their energies on doing whatever it takes to win elections and enact their policies – whether the majority of the American people agree with them or not.
So it comes down to this: If we want to win the argument and lose another election, Gingrich is your man. If we want to win the election, there is one – and only one – candidate who has proven that he knows how to do it, and that is Mitt Romney.
I don’t know about you, but I’m ready to win.
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Ken Falkenstein has been a staffer in the United States Senate and the Virginia House of Delegates. He has managed political campaigns. He was a military intelligence analyst in the U.S. Army in West Germany during the Cold War. He is currently the Vice President of the Down Syndrome Association of Hampton Roads and practices as a civil litigation attorney with the law firm of Poole Mahoney PC in Virginia Beach. His concern for his kids' future is what most informs his writing.
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7 Responses to "Vote for Newt, win the argument. Vote for Romney, win the election."
Money talks, BS walks. So why vote?
I see where you’re going, Ken. But I disagree with the premise. Romney also wins the argument.
http://townhall.com/columnists/johnhawkins/2012/01/31/five_reasons_so_many_grassroots_conservatives_dont_like_mitt_romney
What argument is this again? I haven’t seen an ad by Romney that talks about anything other than Newt in weeks.
Ken,
The Democrats are able to have both Muslims & gays and Obama won the ’08 election because no one challenged their positions. How can that be? … because you need balls to point out these radical views, unlike Romney and McCain.
What if
Romney promised to be a one-term President. Said that he would not run in 2016.
Would that help ????
Of the four remaining candidates Gingrich would be my last choice. There is nothing conservative about him. He is a whore morally and politically. No argument is won by voting for Newt.
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