Love the movie; not sure the satiric debate scene I think you're referring to is a very persuasive political argument for switching to a weak candidate just to bamboozle the left, but who knows, with them? They've certainly been bamboozled before. The thing I would like to see, if you have it, is a link to where "the people" (who?) prefer "Newt's views" (are they unique to him?). And, if you read this at all, please offer some argument of how to force the backing of both "the establishment" and all the people like me, that may have once sympathised with Gingrich, but now, seeing him more clearly, utterly detest him to the point that if Republicans really end up nominating him, it will be our last year in this ignorance-loving party?

Tell us where you got those figures, and we'll tell you where to get more accurate ones. ...Oh, from Ron Paul? Nevermind; you'll never change your mind anyway.

If I had no better candidate, I'd probably find myself necessarily forgiving a lot more about Gingrich than I would anybody else. I'd certainly never let a penitent liberal off the hook for what Newt demands forgiveness for. Fortunately, there is a much better candidate, so I don't need to blind my own sense of decency to ignore his. But a bigger problem for me has always been his attitude, his self-worship; his consistent denial of personal flaws -- all those that he can't frame himself with his own spin. Every time he gets asked or accused of anything, he has the same stock answer: "That's not true! That's a lie!" (not an answer at all). All indications rather tell us that many of those "lies" ARE true. Angry denial is not acceptable.

Maybe so. I don't take it as a given that this country is mired in the Spanish inquisition, everybody hating and fearing whoever thinks differently -- but, I agree that it will be an excellent silencer for both the liberal media and the hate-driven among Christians if the LDS Church, tight-lipped about its alms as required by the Bible, can be enticed to let us know how many houses of worship and church schools it builds, how much it throws at humanitarianism domestically and worldwide, how many Bibles, loved by all Christians, it publishes alongside its own scriptures out into the world, and so on, so we realise how charitable Romney's annual 4 million religious gift is, beside the secular donations.

To succeed in football, even if still practicing, you've got to throw the ball to your own players, not the other side. What the far-right is really doing is purging our party; meaning, the ones most hungry for control are ruthlessly assassinating whoever is standing in their way -- if not succeeding in the primaries, then leaving traps and mines scattering the media field, to strike from the grave, and ruin the last guy standing (at least Newt and Paul have shown such a degree of maliciousness, not yet the others). But after kicking out the rest of us from the tent they've seized with their absolutist minority, I wonder just whom they think is going to be left to hold up their collapsing party against the Democrats' assault.

There's a point beyond which you just can't save a suicidal person, party, or country.

You're openly lying without shame. You'd make a really good Democrat yourself. The Republican choice, Romney, as you'd know if you ever in your life gave a second to listen to him instead of his haters, has been committed throughout his life to the core economic principle of conservatism: a balanced budget. For nearly two decades, he's gotten extremely rich himself by proving the doctrine of cutting deficit spending in the business world. Your cheating candidate, on the other hand, has been in financial debt for much of his campaign, and moral debt for most of his life, though, like Obama, he is an excellent salesman. And like an Obama voter, you're an excellent gullible customer.

I'm glad you understand how it's all going to come back on your own head, son. You've gone so mentally ill that you'll even support your own greatest enemy if it means you can continue living your paranoid lie against Romney. You'll get what you ask for: nobody will support your candidate either.

Watch and learn, just like purged Tea Party has from Democrats. Like the utter traitors and liars they are, they've already done Obama's work of replacing truth with deception for him. Of course, Democrats, like the choice-robbing devil they admire, won't pay them back for their service. They never liked Gingrich anyway, no matter how devious he is. Gingrich certainly hasn't preserved the trust of that segment of Republicans who actually support conservatism -- but he's just happy to be famous anyway, and doesn't care that he's turning an unloseable election into an unwinnable one. Watch and learn? No; we'll certainly be watching, but you hatred-blinded anti-Romneys will be the ones doing the learning. Don't come crawling back to us.

I barely care any more about whether we choose the most qualified, cleanest, smartest leader. These fellow-partisans of mine are one big weathervane: they let fanatics brainwash them, and then turn in whatever ideological direction will hurt Romney, even if it requires the sacrifice of their dearest principles. Their opinion-shapers, educated by such a long media dominance by the left, have no compunction against using the same revisionist tactics. I think this will be my last year of affiliation with these conservative-defenders-turned-traitors, eaten up from within by those who cloak themselves in the very ideals they sell out when necessary to their pursuit of power. They're no less dangerous than either the false left, or Ron Paul.