Republicans, unite for front-runner Gingrich

After watching most of the Republican debates to date, I have come to the following conclusion. It is time for the Republicans who want to defeat President Barack Obama to quit snipping at each other and get behind the front-runner. Newt Gingrich has far outshined his opponents and why would we expect something different unless we just wanted a gotcha moment?

Mitt Romney surely knows by now he is not going to reveal himself to be more than the mediocre candidate he always has been. If he is so dissatisfied with Obama, why doesn't he throw his support behind Gingrich and call for a unified Republican front? Gingrich may not be the best candidate for America but he is better than the current president and anyone the Republican Party has to offer or has offered recently.

As usual in the elections I have experienced in my 72 years, the choice is between the lesser of two evils. Politicians seek power and want to exercise it when they acquire it. In a country founded on individual rights, this power-seeking works against the citizenry so we end up with a bunch of charlatans who promise much and deliver little.

Get behind Gingrich before you spend all your money for nothing.

Dale Netherton

Farmington