Posted on 03/13/2012 9:03:29 PM PDT by Halfmanhalfamazing
Newt Gingrich says, "Between us, Santorum and I are stopping Romney."
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Too many facts for mindnumbed cultists to comprehend.Sarah is already the POTUS sun tzu said so.
Having spent over 1/4 billion and having the entire LSM fawning over Mittens candidacy, even the GOP-E must realize before the convention that Mittens isn't wanted by nearly 2/3 of the people that voted in the primaries.
At that time Newt, Ron Paul's, and Rick's delegates must stay united to deny Romney and than prevent another unacceptable GOP-E nominee from being put forward at the convention.
The Obama camp will be frustrated not knowing who to personally attack with their billion dollars until the last several weeks before the general election.
Sure, Newt’s splitting the anti-Romney vote. He’s also splitting the pro-Romney attack ad money!
Thanks for the link. From it I read:
“In the last two years of his Senate career, he had an average Club for Growth rating of 77%, compared to an average of 73% for all Senate Republicans over that same time period. In the previous thirteen years before the Club had a scorecard, Santorum accumulated an average score of 76% on the National Taxpayers Union scorecard. This compares to a 71% average among all Republicans.”
So not perfect, but better than most. Works for me.
Maybe I am wrong, but I don't believe Perot ran in the primaries, he just came out of nowhere and declared, so it's really not the same thing.
But there is a Perot like candidate, that is going to take votes away from whomever the Republican nominee is, in the works that will be on all 50 states ballots, plus the territories. That could hand the presidency back to the current occupant.
Newt is playing the game the way the rules our written in order for the best chance to win. First of all, more early contests have changed their delegate distribution to proportional rather than winner-take-all. This gives more states and more people a chance to get their vote counted. secondly, It’s still very unclear whether Romney really can get a majority of the party. At the end, I’m sure Romney will not have 50% of all the votes casted even if he eeks out the 1,144 delegates needed. Thirdly, look at the way Romney has been getting his delegates. He has bought many of them because he can run 100 ads in Hawaii and other islands and the others don’t have the Supe Pac money to do it. So Romney can compete in every state and not even physically go there. That sounds really fair doesn’t it? That sounds like the way we really want to choose our nominee and future President, doesn’t it? Finally, there is something called a brokered convention. It existed long before this year and in the 1800s and early 1900s this is how most nominees were decided. So let the process play itself out. The brokered convention is there for a reason. It’s there when a majority of the people cannot get behind one candidate. It will all work itself out and at least when the nominee is decided, it won’t be because someone could buy radio ads in the American Samoa and the other couldn’t.
Perot was an Independent. It’s not the same as Gingrich. Newt is relying on the brokered convention. If Newt or more likely Ron Paul runs as an independent after dropping out of the race, then you’ll have another Perot. Incidentally, I voted for Perot since he was the only one talking about the debt. Well here we are and still no one is listening. Anyway, just make Newt the next President. I really don’t know why this is a hard decision. He will destroy Obama in the debates and will rise in the polls head-to-head with Obama as the public realizes what a fraud and joke Obama is as he is truly exposed by Gingrich.
After the primaries are over and Romney falls short of 1,144, most of the delegates are released to go to whomever they wish. In July, Newt announces he would like Paul Ryan to be his running mate. He also promises Santorum and Perry jobs in the cabinet. I’d love to see it. We’ll have a balanced budget authored by Ryan and Gingrich. We’ll have a bold new energy policy. We’ll also start sending most of the power back to the states. This works for me.
I’m not a Newt supporter although I like and agree with a lot he says; however, he clearly deserves a place at the table as long as he wants. The guy essentially was in a three-way tie last night, and the idea that he’s splitting votes from someone else is absurd. Newt’s votes by definition are his votes, and he’s not taken them from anybody.
I’ll take Newt. Hell, I’ll take anyone else than a repeat.
Tagline as the main team. Either order, though I’d prefer it the order as written.
Perry as Sec. Energy. Who better?
West as Sec. Defense. No brainer for me.
Palin as Sec. of State. Partially to give her credibility for a future run, partially because I get the giggles at the thought of Amahdinijad(sp?) dealing with an attractive woman as an equal, and one he KNOWS can drop him from a mile away.
Even got a place for Ron Paul - the Fed. Despite his insanity on foreign policy, he is rock solid and right on his fiscal stuff.
in other words he flip flopped on both fiscal and conservative issues.
Yup. As a matter of political convenience.
while your at it in posting the Pelosi and Newt photo..how about posting the one of RS and Arlen, RS and Hillary and Lieberman (90 MILLION for a study showing the effects watching tv has on children) and also a picture of Romney and Santorum (Santorum endorsed him in the last election).
About 850 delegates remain from states with winner-take-all rules by state or by district. About 500-600 of those are at risk of being lost to Romney by Newt and Rick splitting the vote. Odds are that a significant portion of those WILL be lost to Romney, making it almost impossible for him not to hit 1,144 or be close enough to it for Ron Paul and the 100 or so unbound party delegates to put him over-the-top.
Illinois is the case in point. It has direct delegate election by district, which means whichever candidate gets the highest votes in that district, gets ALL its delegates. Romney is winning it 35-31-12-7. Just like in Ohio and Michigan, Newt will take enough votes away to give Rick second place. Except with this form of voting, Rick will get NO DELEGATES if every district follows this pattern.
Meanwhile if Newt dropped out, Newt’s share of the 400 or so delegates remaining from proportional states would most likely simply shift over to Rick.
Either Newt or Rick dropping out will make it likely we can deny Romney the nomination. If they both stay in, it makes it likely Romney will be the nominee. Those are the facts.
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