Of course I would take a good guess just exactly the point I was trying to make without you going off on the side road .... the point I was making was that they underestimated the 13 colonies and those 13 colonies beat England in a war... and many Newt supporters underestimate Rick Santorum and over estimate Newt in his ability to beat Romney and win this November..
-—”Newt supporters underestimate Rick Santorum and over estimate Newt in his ability to beat Romney and win this November.”-—
No such thing is happening. It is Santorum supporters who overestimate their candidate’s chances:
Here in IL, Rick will field no delegates.
He will field none in TN, either.
He is not on the ballot in IN
He is not on the ballot in DC
He is not on the ballot in VA
He will not field any delegates in ND
He is not on the ballot in 20% of OH
He could not even try to compete in the first big state of FL, and has already said as much about CA and NY.
The talking point from Rick supporters goes something like this: Through our sheer willpower, we will convince the states where Rick won’t field any delegates to just give them to Santorum anyway. Even though that never happens, it is only because nobody befire has been Rick Santorum!
Here’s the bad news: delegates are going to be pledged; and no matter how much you beg, they aren’t going to be assigned to Rick Santorum later just because you really want them to be. And really, in that above scenario, TN is the only one that assigns them later, anyway.
Rick CANNOT win the nomination. He CANNOT. There is no path to 1140+ delegates for him, period.
To put this in simple terms that you would better understand, it means that few of us here are “underestimating” Santorum. He struggled for 7 months during the beginning of the campaign season and could not get over 5% support. And since it was people like myself who were mostly fueling the the early part of the season, we knew a great deal about Santorum, which is exactly why he could not gain an ounce of traction or popularity.
It’ mainly because of ignorant voters like yourself, those “fair weather” voters who are not only ignorant, but are compulsive, who are now in a mad scramble to pick a candidate a bad as Santorum without knowing much at all about him.
I hope this explains it to you somewhat, but I have little faith that you will fully understand exactly what it is I am saying. It seems that Santorum zealots are painfully ignorant as well as opinionated.