We’re screwed.
Is Romney a republican traitor?..
That would be interesting. But a lot of Newt-backing Freepers burned that bridge a long time ago.
Never understood the hatred between the two camp’s supporters. I like them both for different reasons but they are both Conservatives.
Pray for America
Great.
This election completely sucks.
I wouldn’t mind seeing Newt as VP at all. I think he’d do a good job. However, the issue I have is that I don’t think whoever the nominee is, whether it be Romney, Santorum, or Gingrich, I don’t think one of them should pick one of the other for VP. There have been too many negative attacks all around. If Romney were to pick Santorum, for example, the Dems would pull out his attack ads and comments and ask why he picked someone for VP he once criticized heavily and vice versa. I think that could complicate things, and I think we’d be better off if whoever the nominee is goes outside of the crop of remaining candidates and picks a fresh face.
democrat Romney. Romney is worse than McCain. There is no
place for conservatives (the insiders seen to that)
Too little, too late.
According to reports on Fox Sunday, Romney is crashing. He now loses in one-on-one polls against Obama in FL, OH, and PA (?). His unfavorable rating is about 50%. He would lose to Obama if election was today. He is behind Obama in two new polls by double digits. AND THIS WAS ON FOX NEWS! HANG TOUGH NEWT!
Newt - Santorum... If it must be, I could live with that.
Santorum - Newt... No thanks.
Doesn’t float my boat.
This headline is bogus. It is only something the writer of this opinion added in. There is not talk of a shared ticket. Only that Newt has announced that he will support whom ever is the nominee. Newt just reaffirmed this claim on Meet the Press and FOX News.
I will also predict, that after tomorrow, and the kind of win that Romney will have, is going to force Newt to make that choice sooner. It will make Newt's effort impossible, and Santorum's as good as impossible. Newt's Super PAC supporter will also move over to Romney shortly after.
Newt will support Romney. He is not that stupid to believe that Santorum has a Snow Ball's chance in Hell of beating Obama. Even with him as the VP. After all, Newt loves his country above all else and will do what is best for it.
I’ve been posting here since at least a week before the Illinois primary that one of them needed to drop out and start campaigning with the other one if they had any chance to defeat Romney. That is due to the winner-take-all rules in Illinois and many upcoming Romney-favorable states. Combining their votes would defeat Romney in some states and districts where Romney would otherwise win. It would also allow them to get over 50% in some states where Romney would already lose, which would shut Romney out of any delegates at all due to the 50% threshold rule.
The sum total of Rick and Newt could’ve been greater than its parts. The polls in this primary have often shown that people like aspects of each candidate, but also find flaws in all of them. They wish they could combine all the candidates into one. Newt and Rick could have pulled that off by joining forces. They would counterbalance each other’s flaws and look like a better ticket to many people up against Romney.
However, if Romney wins Wisconsin then it’s almost definitely too late now. This would have probably had to happen before Illinois where Romney also won big. There are too many Romney-favorable states coming up now which he is going to win no matter what.
Neither Newt nor most of his supporters realized quickly enough that winner-take-all rules make a huge difference and that Newt being on a Santorum ticket is better than both of them losing to Romney.
...............[WI campaign director Robert]”Lorge said that in conference calls with the national team there has been discussion about the possibility of consolidating Santorum and Gingrich delegates at the Republican National Convention in order to overcome Romney’s delegate math.
“I imagine there’s going to be a lot of negotiation and compromising between the pro-Newt Gingrich and the pro-Rick Santorum delegates,” he said. “You may have a Newt Gingrich-Rick Santorum ticket. You may have a Rick Santorum-Newt Gingrich ticket. Nobody knows how that ticket’s going to work out. But I imagine it’ll end up being something like that.”
Pointing to Gingrich’s accomplishments in the House, Lorge believes delegates will see that his candidate is the only one with the experience necessary to be the White House.
“America is a republic,” Lorge said. “We’re not a democracy. We don’t believe in mob rule. We hire people by electing them to represent us. We’re a representative democracy, that’s what we talk about. Our Founding Fathers were very wise in not having a straight, pure democracy. We have a republic for a reason so that wiser decisions, calm decisions can be made in the best interest of the nation as a whole and that is what Newt Gingrich is all about.”
The amount of chaos and strategy that would be involved in the open convention scenario is so mentally demanding that it’s hard to imagine any other candidate but Newt Gingrich believing it is possible. And perhaps the reckless challenge of it all is giving the candidate a new skip in his step.”......
http://politics.blogs.foxnews.com/2012/03/30/gingrich-camp-talks-shared-ticket-santorum