The Santorum folks on here don’t want to hear this, but this is exactly what did happen.
And Adelson outright said that he thought Romney was going to win the nomination but kept pumping money into Gingrich because he didn’t like Santorum’s anti abortion stance.
“The Santorum folks on here don’t want to hear this, but this is exactly what did happen”
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They didn’t want to hear it then, and they won’t want to hear it now. I’m bracing for the backlash in 5-4-3-2-1 lol
I’ve always liked Santorum, but won’t deny that this probably happened. (I think though Perry did himself in with worse than lackluster debate performances).
Even more reason we should consider taking our ball and leaving the GOP. I bet an independent Tea Party could even out-fundraise them.
Yeah, Santorum Stopped Gingrich. 11 > 2.
He’s exactly right, but as usual, got the wrong target. Gingrich cost Santorum wins in Ohio, Wisconsin and Michigan.
Yup. I said FL was the last stand for a conservative alternative to Romney and Newt had emerged as that candidate in SC. I said if Santorum stayed in, it was to benefit Romney.
Those here enraptured by the sanctimonious establishment hack Santorum would hear nothing of it. They didn't care about his voting record, his GOPe ties, he had a nice family and was talking their values and they followed him like the Pied Piper. They would travel thread-to-thread in attack mode.
Now unlike the op ed, I think Romney was the right candidate in the end. He had the right skill set for the mess we find ourselves in. Who among us could anticipate GOP turnout would be as low in light of the crowds? It came down to ground game and people, like those who supported Santorum, refusing to ever vote against Obama because Romney was the nominee.
The so-called Tea Party failed to stop Obama's agenda, it lost ground over 2010 and produced more US Senate candidates who failed in states Romney won easily with tens, even hundreds of thousands of votes difference. Now some seem to think this is a mandate to hijack the agenda. It is nothing of the kind. It's time for introspection, time to reexamine how primary candidates are chosen.
These winnable but lost seats were the difference between a GOP Senate and Harry Reid's expanded majority against all expectations.
I have not seen a single of Akin apologist here admit to being wrong about him staying in the race. Instead they attacked, they demonized, the slandered everyone from Romney to Palin, from DeMint to Ryan, to their fellow freepers as pro-abortionists.