Thomas Sowell: Go Gingrich, Romney is Bland Leading the Bland

Thomas Sowell, my favorite black conservative who got his saying about MIT from me agrees to go with the smart fearless conservative, not safe Mitt. Gingrich is the true anti-Paul and anti-Obama, not just a conservative app earl to everybody Obama lite

Can you name one important positive thing that Romney accomplished as governor of Massachusetts? Can anyone? Does a candidate who represents the bland leading the bland increase the chances of victory in November 2012? 

http://www.newsmax.com/InsideCover/sowell-romney-gingrich-obama/2011/12/21/id/421814?s=al&promo_code=DC51-1



Here is the original Investors Business Daily piece, which is one of my favorite conservative op ed pages

http://news.ptest.investors.com/Article/595207/201112191726/newt-gingrich-bests-obama-even-with-baggage.htm

Romney: The Bland Leading the Bland Gingrich 

Past Shouldn't Block A Future Sans Obama

By THOMAS SOWELL Posted 12/19/2011 05:26 PM ET

If Newt Gingrich were being nominated for sainthood, many of us would vote very differently from the way we would vote if he were being nominated for a political office.

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Internationally, it is worse. A president who has pulled the rug out from under our allies, whether in Eastern Europe or the Middle East, tried to cozy up to our enemies, and has bowed low from the waist to foreign leaders certainly has not represented either the values or the interests of America. If he continues to do nothing that is likely to stop terrorist-sponsoring Iran from getting nuclear weapons, the consequences can be beyond our worst imagining. (Radical Imam Ron Paul is even worse)

...Even back in the 19th century, when the scandal came out that Grover Cleveland had fathered a child out of wedlock — and he publicly admitted it — the voters nevertheless sent him to the White House, where he became one of the better presidents.

Did Gingrich ruffle some feathers when he was speaker of the House? Yes, enough for it to cost him that position. But he also showed that he could produce results.

, the question is whether Newt Gingrich is better than Barack Obama — and better than Mitt Romney.

Romney is a smooth talker, but what did he actually accomplish as governor of Massachusetts, compared to what Gingrich accomplished as speaker of the House? When you don't accomplish much, you don't ruffle many feathers. But is that what we want?

Can you name one important positive thing that Romney accomplished as governor of Massachusetts? Can anyone? Does a candidate who represents the bland leading the bland increase the chances of victory in November 2012? A lot of candidates like that have lost, from Thomas E. Dewey to John McCain.

Those who want to concentrate on the baggage in Gingrich's past, rather than on the nation's future, should remember what Winston Churchill said: "If the past sits in judgment on the present, the future will be lost."

If that means a second term for Barack Obama, then it means lost big time.