I am not sure why Newt lost in AL and MI but certainly voters must have heard his ads there. So it is a concern for me. But it may be as simple as voters there preferred the bible centered family orientation of Santorum rather than the Churchillian roar of Gingrich against the establishment. All I can say is thank God Romney didn’t win; he is a real snake and his Mormon religious backers are beginning to look like a Scientology cult to me.
A brokered convention will give Newt a shot at showing he stands out from the others in knowledge, speech, vision and command presence.
Actually no, didn't see a single Newt ad or mailer.
For the last three weeks I kept all my mailers, messages etc. and here is my tally for Montgomery, Al:
Romney - 17 Mailers, 12 robocalls, 15 television ads -- ALL ATTACK ADS AGAINST RICK SANTORUM.
Santorum - 2 Mailers, ZERO robocalls, ZERO TELEVISION ADS. Both mailers were positive position ads just on his views, no attacks.
GINGRICH - zero, zip zilch nada.
Paul - One mailer comparing his positions with Romney, Santorum and Gingrich.
OPEN PRIMARIES. Dems want Ricky.
OPEN PRIMARIES. Dems want Ricky.
I think this is because the “conservative base” is much less conservative than we thought it was. That is, both Santorum and Romney are big government, nanny-state, big spending members of the GOP establishment, and the only difference between them is that Santorum’s social positions are more conservative. If Santorum dropped out, all of his voters would go to Romney; if Gingrich dropped out, his voters would probably go to nobody or possibly to Ron Paul, who may be a nutcase but is offering an alternative to the GOP establishment vision.
My feeling is that, in the last few years, the voters as a whole (GOP and Dem) have come to accept the left’s Euro-state model for the US and now see a sort of soft-socialist welfare state as the default model.
Santorum is Roman Catholic. His Faith is not Bible-centered alone but traditional also. He seems to me to be the most orthodox Catholic ever to have run for President.