If Newt needed to win FL, why didn’t Rick? Why didn’t Rick need Michigan or any large state at all?Do you really not know the answer to that question?
First of all, Rick tied Romney in Michigan, Romney's home state.
Secondly, Newt needed FL to keep his surge alive. After FL, the Newt surge died.
Now we are in the midst of the Santorum surge. Do I love Santorum? No. But do I want him over Romney? Yes.
Gingrich is a fantasy.
As for the strawmen, I refuse to name names, nor do I have to. Anyone who knows anything about FR knows what I'm talking about and I don't feel like getting into a pissing contest with the people I name, who I would have to ping when I named them.
So thanks but no thanks.
We had a candidate to unite behind pre-Florida and that was Newt and we failed.
We have a candidate to unite behind now, and though he's not as good as Newt, he's good enough.
But you know what Santorum has in common with Gingrich? Conservatives will fail him too. They will bicker and squander the Santorum opportunity, just like they bickered and squandered the Newt opportunity.
Newt is resurging now and I highly doubt once he does that conservatives will abandon him again. Newt didn’t do that bad in FL, they just illegally assigned their delegates as WTA, which might be challenged at the convention. He had a bad week in FL, that’s it. He’s now learned from this mistakes and what his strengths are. There was no reason to abandon him, you’re right about that. But there’s no reason to think it’s better to stick with Santorum instead of go back to Newt. Newt still has MORE POPULAR VOTES to date and is obviously the stronger candidate in selling himself. And being 60 delegates behind Santorum is no reason to think he can’t catch up out of 2,500 total delegates. If Santorum drops out, I imagine he would tell his delegates to vote for Newt anyway. Now is the time to realize the Santorum surge was a mistake and get back to Newt.
You want to know a fantasy? That’s Santorum beating Mitt and beating Obama. It ain’t gonna happen. Santorum has plummetted in the polls even in the states he was supposed to be strong in and isn’t going to be able to do a single thing to get back up. He has no intrinsic political skills to compete at this level. The religious endorsements have played out and can only carry the day with enough voters to spoil the race for Newt.