Posted on 03/25/2012 4:07:51 PM PDT by Steelfish
Santorum's Smashing Surprise By ROBERT STACY MCCAIN on 3.24.12 The underdog's big win in Louisiana renders ridiculous Romneyworld's demand that he step aside.
HARAHAN, Louisiana -- Rick Santorum scored his 11th victory of the 2012 campaign Saturday, defeating Mitt Romney by a surprisingly wide margin in the Louisiana GOP presidential primary, and the media immediately went to work dismissing this victory as insignificant and inconsequential.
The size of Santorum's Louisiana victory, however, made it hard to dismiss. While polls had shown the former Pennsylvania senator leading by double digits, no one had imagined that he would win by more than 20 points. Yet with 98 percent of precincts reporting, Santorum had 49 percent to Romney's 27 percent -- and if the margin had been much larger, Santorum would have gotten all 20 of the delegates at stake in the primary. That caused some Santorum supporters, who gathered at the Fox and Hound tavern here to celebrate their victory, to wonder why former House Speaker Newt Gingrich -- who finished third with 16 percent of the vote Saturday -- remains in the race.
One local coordinator for Santorum stepped outside the tavern, lit a cigarette, and said, "Newt's killing him. … Without Newt, we'd be at 60 percent."
Gingrich has now admitted that he can't possibly win the nomination, but continues to campaign, and to disparage Santorum in speeches and media interviews. Newt seems oblivious to the reality that by pulling conservative votes away from Santorum, his continued presence in the race only helps Romney, the moderate whom Gingrich has predicted would "lose badly" to President Obama.
But his third-place finish in Louisiana, following his March 13 defeats in Alabama and Mississippi, is likely to make Gingrich increasingly irrelevant to the outcome of future contests.
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The news trickling out about Romney’s Liberalism is NOT helping. I totally believe the aide’s slip of the truth regarding Governor Etch-A-Sketch.
A WI win for Santorum will really shake up GOP-e. Unfortunately, Newt’s presence in La derailed Santorum from collecting more delegates.
Who exactly could possibly be surprised at Santorum’s winning Louisiana? I’d have been shocked if he’d lost there.
Yeah. Because a total shut down of Milt in LA is nothing that matters. The MSM just doesn't get that no one wants Romney but them.
| Presidential Nominee -- Republican Party All 4267 precincts reporting |
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| Michele Bachmann (R) | 0.33% | 622 | |
| Randy Crow (R) | 0.10% | 186 | |
| Newt Gingrich (R) | 15.91% | 29655 | |
| Jon Huntsman (R) | 0.13% | 242 | |
| Ron Paul (R) | 6.15% | 11460 | |
| Rick Perry (R) | 0.51% | 955 | |
| Charles "Buddy" Roemer (R) | 1.18% | 2203 | |
| Mitt Romney (R) | 26.69% | 49749 | |
| Rick Santorum (R) | 48.99% | 91305 | |
“Pandering” only in your mind. Gingrich made some utterly irrelevant remarks contradicting himself in the process during two separate interviews, and his comments helps strengthens Obama’s hand and as you can tell the MSM is having a field day. No wonder he’s been called a “Hindeberg waiting to explode” and is losing primary contest after primary contest, frequently placing third if not dead last.
Post them in full context then. You know that Newt exposed obumber and was not pandering to race hustlers the way santorum is.
Amazing that someone on FR is so open about their support for Romney. I can draw no other conclusion from your irrational hatred of Santorum. So much so that you wasted time slamming such an manipulated wimp on your tag.
bullshit
While Gingrich is being reduced to dust by Republican primary voters and continues to act the fool.
I find it amazing that 2200 people woke up in LA Saturday and wasted gas getting to the polls to vote for Buddy Roemer. What a worthless endeavor.
Joe please read what Newt said, he doesn’t have a chance, his own words.
This can only be described as madness.
And Gingrich was supposed to win La too after his last place finish in IL where he got a mere 8% just one percentage higher than what he got in MI (7%) that helped Romney defeat Santorum by 3%. Nice.
Your insight and witty comeback is nothing short of amazing!
I aim to please.
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