On the Republican's South Carolina Primary Contest: Santorum vs. Gingrich

With Mitt Romney's wealth, Massachusetts origins and endorsement by moderate Republicans being taken as negative qualities by South Carolina-Ft. Sumpter traddition Republicans more than the Abe Lincoln kind to a limited yet meaningful extent the real primary battle is for second place between the winner of the Iowa primary Rick Santorum (declared winner by 34 votes) and his fellow Catholic man-of-faith Newt Gingrich.

Many South Carolina Republicans (and maybe former candidate Rick Perry) believe that a vote for Newt is a vote for a fellow Southern Baptist unaware that in 2009 Gingrich abandoned the sect and became a conversos to the Catholic religion bending his knee to the sect with the most coherent, Catholic political voting block; probably he learned who the major and minor prophets are and can name them blindfolded. Cynics may conjecture that after his divorce from a prior wife he also needed a divorce from his prior sect to restore a Catholicity to his political prospects. Well even if so-all is forgiven-except for Rush Limbaugh's report that ABC has some sort of insider criticism from his former wife on tap for release Monday before the election. While some may sympathize with the plight of Newt, more sensible people prefer Santorum for his leadership qualities in-themselves regardless of the former Speaker's personal concerns..

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It is difficult to believe that young Americans will find Newt Gingrich much different in 2012 than John McCain in 2008-another retiree on golden pond seeking to enrich retired boomers unhappy with the stock market fortunes. Once again President Obama's supporters may ask 'Do you think the Republican candidate can wake up at 3 a.m. and decide about launching a counter-strike to a new terrorist or conventional emergent danger?''

Rick Santorum is a long-time Catholic without recent troubling moral or sectarian challenge that have caused him to abandon his faith. Santorum is a dynamic candidate adaptable to changing challenges presented by global economic hostile takeover of the U.S. labor and mortgage market yet endowed with inalienable equal faith and trust in God and country. Younger American voters may identify with the vitality and dynamic leadership of Rick Santorum in the fall, if he can get through the house that sees in Newt Gingrich a candidate more sympathetic to Confederated regressivist sentimentality.