Romney still must woo conservatives even with Santorum gone

UPI ^ | April 15, 2012 | NICOLE DEBEVEC

[INVAR]

No one here is voting for Obama.

And those with Mr. Jim are voting for Conservatives only, both now and in November.

Romney gets no vote from us.

[bert]

-——No one here is voting for Obama.———

Candor7 apparently will vote for obama....... see his post above, 22 and 25

[onyx]

All the candidates, save for Ron Paul, pledged to support the eventual nominee, so I think it's only fair that we don't come down hard on any of them when they get around to endorsing Romney provided he successfully buys his way to the nomination.

In the interim, if you haven't yet voted, VOTE NEWT, get everyone you know to VOTE NEWT and keeping praying!

[onyx]

All the candidates, save for Ron Paul, pledged to support the eventual nominee, so I think it's only fair that we don't come down hard on any of them when they get around to endorsing Romney provided he successfully buys his way to the nomination.

In the interim, if you haven't yet voted, VOTE NEWT, get everyone you know to VOTE NEWT and keeping praying!

[Psalm 144]

Don’t go there, please. A vote is a personal endorsement. A vote is material assistance. This is not simply a game of chess. Either of these men are so base, so malevolent in their policies and deeds, that one becomes a guilty accomplice by assisting either one.

Your vote is precious. Your vote is sacred. Don’t sully it by handing it to either of these smirking, bloodyhanded villains.

[Psalm 144]

“There is merely irrational, mindless stupidity in voting for Obama”

Or indeed any corrupt malefator.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

I think Rick’s endorsement is waiting on Romney’s family and Romney’s backers to loosen it with cash (or promises of campaign debt clearing help once he endorses Mitt). But not so quickly as to anger his supporters. It is all very much of a pattern.

[central_va]

Candor7 apparently will vote for obama....... see his post above, 22 and 25

The mAsshole has 6 months to run left. If he does I may do the unthinkable. In my case the best that the Monied Milquetoast Mormon can hope for is my neutrality.

[USARightSide]

‘She’s the absolute best.’

Well then - that makes at least three of us (spouse here) who saw Sarah on FOX this weekend.
Wouldn’t be surprised that show is repeated later today, Sunday.
Highly recommend watching it.

Off to dreamland - - -

[Cincinatus' Wife]

.....................VOTE NEWT, get everyone you know to VOTE NEWT and keeping praying!

BUMP!

[Candor7]

I will go there. We must fight and defeat a fascist mopvement. Do you think for a moment that is not the case?

This is not business as usual. The GOP is incapable of defeuining the fascist threat OR fighting it. It must go.

We will not defeat fascism at the polls. We will defeat it through warfare , either political or conventional.

The GOP doesn’t even KNOW there is a war.

The GOP is not worthy of even one conservative’s vote.

Vote for Obama , destroy the GOP, and then destroy the Obama movement, thats the plan we MUST all now face.

I am just waiting to see whether Newt has a hope in hell.He could still pull it out, but conservative people are just too complacent, it seems.

[Candor7]

I will go there. We must fight and defeat a fascist mopvement. Do you think for a moment that is not the case?

This is not business as usual. The GOP is incapable of defeuining the fascist threat OR fighting it. It must go.

We will not defeat fascism at the polls. We will defeat it through warfare , either political or conventional.

The GOP doesn’t even KNOW there is a war.

The GOP is not worthy of even one conservative’s vote.

Vote for Obama , destroy the GOP, and then destroy the Obama movement, thats the plan we MUST all now face.

I am just waiting to see whether Newt has a hope in hell.He could still pull it out, but conservative people are just too complacent, it seems.

[USARightSide]

PS NEWT fan here - - -

[Psalm 144]

Don’t put that on your conscience my friend. Please. Simple or simplistic as it sounds, voting for either Romney or Obama is a sin. An affront to God. Picking one or the other is like deciding whether you will blow your brains out with a revolver or an automatic. The correct answer is NEITHER one, because you are not going there.

[central_va]

GOPe = Whig Party

[YoungBlackRepublican]

“We were so quick to get solidly behing both of them as minority “conservatives” and never really vetted them through all the fawning.”

Salient point. I liked Jindal and now this. How could he support Romney..?! Romney destroyed every conservative with his barrage of negative ads and money....it was disgusting. While every other candidate was telling you WHY to vote for them...Romney was telling everyone WHY you shouldn’t.
Now we’re left with just him....yawn....yuck
Guess I gotta hold my nose and vote for him simply for the
future supreme court nomination thats coming up.

[j_tull]

full of gag producing material

I especially love the repeated references that Romney is seen as "too moderate." Were he any where near moderate, it wouldn't be so painful. He's Obama-white for cryin' out loud.

[rightly_dividing]

If little Ricky would commit his delagates to Newt, it would be a race for the nomination, with Mitt having a lead, but not insurmountable. That are some big states yet to vote.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

If [Santorum] would commit his delagates to Newt, it would be a race for the nomination, with Mitt having a lead, but not insurmountable. That are some big states yet to vote.

It would change the entire race, the mood of the party and the strength of the 2012 ticket going up against Obama.

Newt Gingrich is going after unpledged delegates - that haven't committed in primaries - including upcoming PA (72), and already completed MT (26) and (IL (69) delegates, since these delegates remain unpledged regardless of primary vote.

AND though there are going to be some “winner take all” primaries, the following contests are also on the schedule:

RI (16) proportional
NY (92) proportional
WVA (28) proportional -- elect delegates (who list their presidential pick on ballot)
NC (52) proportional
OR (25) proportional
AK (33) proportional
KY (42) proportional
TX (155) proportional
CA (169) proportional (by district)
NM (20) proportional
SD (25) proportional

The Green Papers

There there are the Contested delegates: …. “delegates have to be "uncontested" in order to count. The frontrunner's rivals argue some of the states that awarded Romney all of their delegates violated Republican National Committee rules when they moved their contests ahead of April 1 and therefore should distribute delegates proportionally. This dispute, if it continues, would not be ruled on until the August convention in Tampa.

"All the media counts right now give him all of Florida, which is against the rules, all of Arizona, which is against the rules, and all of Idaho," Gingrich said Monday. "Those are all three proportional states and they should only be counting his share. So he has to win 1,144 uncontested delegates."

FL: 50 delegates
ID: 32 delegates
AZ: 29 delegates

RNC neutrality challenged on Romney…… “The list of specific grievances ranges from issues that even the party acknowledges are legitimate, to those that they dismiss as desperate fixations from Romney’s flailing rivals.

For example, the committee agrees that some states that went for Romney jumped the line in the primary schedule, a violation of party rules. But RNC defenders shrug off other complaints, like that they undercut Santorum and Gingrich by formatting a delegate tracking list to pad Romney’s tally, by forming a fundraising alliance this week with Romney and by highlighting a rule that would block an unlikely path to the nomination for Gingrich.

And it’s possible they’ll be other clashes in the coming weeks, with the RNC signaling Thursday its opposition to a push by Santorum backers in Texas to alter the rules surrounding that state’s May 29 primary to help the former Pennsylvania Senator.

Critics of the RNC’s handling of the primary are so sensitive to signs that the committee may be pulling for Romney that they’ve even detected evidence of favoritism in the staff ties between his campaign and the RNC — though some concede such speculation veers more toward conspiracy theory than legitimate concern.”….

[Theophilus]

Romney has absolutely nothing I want. It's better for him to just be himself, whatever that is.