Posted on 03/05/2012 7:11:41 AM PST by Golden Gate
Rick/Newt
I love Sarah, even when to see her when she came to town & got to stand on stage behind her. I pray she is not working with the rnc to help romney.
Read THIS! = Brices Crossroads - from another thread:
Romney WILL get the nomination unless this narrows to a two man race and fast.
Right now, Mittens has 364 delegates and Santorum, his nearest competitor has 164. the race could be evened in a week if Newt were to announce that he had released his 100 delegates to voter for Santorum and that he was endorsing and campaigning for Santorum. Santorum would win Majorities in Alabama and Mississippi on March 13, giving him all those delegates (90), which would even the race. Time is running short. To be consequential, Newt must strike hard and he must strike quickly.
The ball is in Newt’s court on this one. He knows Romney is a likely loser to Obama and that Mittens would be a very poor President in the unlikely event that he won.. He has a chance to do something for his country, not unlike what Edmund G. Ross did in saving the Presidency in 1868. It would be hard for him and for his supporters, but it is the right thing to do.
Gingrich and Santorum are killing each other. - by xzins (Since 1998)
Rick and Newt need to get together and cream Romney. - by Linda Frances
* Rick as temp Placekeeper Nominee *
The FR Golden Gate Plan! => Post 55 "GOP Brokered Primary Now!" thread
61 posted on Wednesday March 07, 2012 by Linda Frances
THAT'S The Spirit! :)
However, To ALL: In the primary, the voters are going to have to pick one to secure the conservative nomination.
Post 55 "GOP Brokered Primary Now!" thread
Rick Santorum
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Brokered convention or Conservative party. Even Rush might be a part of a new legitimate conservative party since the Republicans have thrown him under the bus.
TWB
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The FR Golden Gate Plan! => Post 55 "GOP Brokered Primary Now!" thread
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That's pretty close to an endorsement.
Todd has endorsed Gingrich.
Both Gingrich and Santorum need to work to push Romney out, and then Santorum needs to support Gingrich because, as stated above, he is the one to defeat Obama.
Unfortunately Romney is the GOP/DEM/MSM/ROVE/FOXNEWS's Golden Boy and the "next in line" and they will do anything they can to help Romney buy this election. Which is what he is doing.
It looks like good old "Mint" Romney will have to dip into his billions to pull this off, money talks.
“The ball is in Newt’s court on this one. He knows Romney is a likely loser to Obama and that Mittens would be a very poor President”
Perhaps Newt thinks, as I and many of Newt’s supporters do, that Romney has a much better chance of beating Obama than Santorum does. You may not agree with us, but it’s not an unreasonable opinion.
Perhaps Newt also thinks, as I and many of Newt’s supporters do, that Mitt might be a poor president due to questionable credentials on social conservatism, but Rick might also be a poor president due to questionable credentials on fiscal conservatism.
All three would be a million times better than Obama as president. I would strongly prefer Santorum over Romney as president, but think he’d need divine intervention to beat Obama, so I’d prefer Romney as the nominee.
You’re dreaming if you think Newt will quit. He probably sees this like I do. (I think like him on everything I’ve heard him say in the debates... we seem to be like-minded.)
Here’s what I think he and Santorum should do... there are a few more proportional-allocation states that will hold primaries before winner-take-all states begin. They should announce an agreement that whichever one of them has the most PLEDGED (i.e. bound and required to vote for them on the first ballot) delegates at the end of the proportionals stays in the race, and the one with the lesser amount will drop out and become the V.P. nominee.
The problem with both your plan and mine, is that even though both would probably rather be VP than drop out completely, both also probably don’t want the other as VP, believing the other doesn’t help the ticket enough to beat Obama. (Even though I think Santorum probably believes Newt as VP would hurt his ticket, I disagree... that would possibly be almost as helpful as the divine intervention I think he would need.) Anyhow, they will probably work together only as a last resort if they both decide it’s the only possible way to the nomination. I don’t see that happening until the winner-take-all states begin voting.
It’s almost 5 pm, and 73 Posts. There are several people I want to respond to. The tone of the discussion seems good to me. I need another summary post to either answer questions or make some things more clear.
People can continue the discussion without me. I would like to get another post written this evening. If not, it could be Fri or Sat. Thanks for the responses so far.
What Mr. Santorum has discovered in this campaign is that for a large number of voters, a connection has surfaced between Barack Obama's economic policies and the issue of personal freedom. The potency of the latter is what's new, and a vulnerability for this presidency.
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