I still don't know what to think. All five articulate a conservative philosophy, but I want one who sounds like he means it and looks like a leader. Someone who could actually git 'er done. Gingrich. Gingrich and Perry are persuasive on that score. I suppose Santorum is sincere, but I'm afraid he'd bust a blood vessel in his head before he got very far in office. I admire Ron Paul. He has a tendency to babble when hit with a tough question, but he's a hero. He's completely fearless, awesomely consistent, and is willing to persevere to the edge of doom in telling the country it's gone off the Constitutional tracks. I think he means to educate, and to shift the public debate rather than go all out for the presidency. As he said, actually being president is "a risk I run." And I think he's shifted the country's head a degree or two on the matter of government overreach. Still, I want somebody else to actually rein in the runaway horse - Gingrich. Or Perry.
So here we are - can't coalesce around an ABR candidate because of the embarrassment of riches. What irony.
