One of the most damning paragraphs? Sorry I don't have time to waste going through over a hundred comments to see if this was explained, but Kate needs to clarify this. And I mean Kate, not someone claining to read her mind. Specifically, I'm reading text she has in bold font. There's a big difference between a mandate and Romney's use of words like "incentive" or "encorage"... Like Rush says, words have meaning. As a plain vanilla brand of conservative, not one of the hyphenated types, nothing in this post persuades me to change me from supporting Mitt. I was fore Mitt 4 yrs ago when he was viewed by many pundits to be the more conservative and I'm for him now that many of those same pundits are clainig he is not conservative. Some...

Reagan sources say Gingrich “torch” quote taken out of context http://firstread.msnbc.msn.com/_news/2012/01/30/10273435-reagan-sources-say-gingrich-torch-quote-taken-out-of-context

No. I mean what I said. I don't excuse Mitt for bad behavior, but we should not excuse similar bad behavior in others either.

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like rings in tree you can date video by Romney hair. I apply standard as Churchill did. Has your standards never evolved? If not can we apply same standards to Gingrich & Santorum? Do I need to post videos critical of them on every post of yours just to prove a point. I'd prefer to not provide Obama campaign with ammunition as Greg does.

Non of the candidates can be condidered 100% conservative. To suggest one is more or less conservative than other is intellectually dishinest. They are all about 80% conservative. What differs each is method to reach goals. I am not choosing candidate because I feel he is more or less conservative. I calculate my choice for Romney because I am more conservative. None of the candidates meet my standard for conservatism so it is not how I measure each candidate. If you consider me to be a "faux" conservative then you don't understand how I made my choice and you are judging those conservatives who don't share your view unfairly. The opponent is Obama.

Hengler objective is to produce as much anti-Mitt video as possible and ignore any anti-any-other-candidate. If Mitt loses primary, he'll wake up happy. If Mitt wins, he might single-hadedly supply Obama camaign with all its material. We get it Greg. We know who you like and who you don't. Time to move on.

I was predicting Romney Bachmann since late Iowa debates. I noticed Bachman entered stage following Romney. They were only candidates who shared friendly platonic hug. Mitt is only qualified executive left running. Michele adds to diversity of ticket. He;s moderate establishment. She's conservative outsider. He's accomplished administrator. She's legislator who could help get agenda pushed thru congress. Question remains: will Biden remain?

Romney Bachmann 2012 or maybe even Romney Santorum 2012 dare to dream

Mitt's ahead in Florida? What a shock. Don't tell Hengler. He may have a stroke. BTW. With exception of Perry (who could just be showing sour grapes(, has anyone noticed common thread between those endorsing candidates? It's same common thread in cadidate's resumes.