I wonder if Newt is staying in the race because he has already been chosen as the veep and will get his campaign debts paid off by Romney.
>> I wonder if Newt is staying in the race because he has already been chosen as the veep and will get his campaign debts paid off by Romney.
I wonder if... some say... anonymous sources reveal...
Great innuendo without a *single shred* of evidence!
Maybe you should see the man about a job as a pseudo-journalist at a liberal MSM propaganda shop.
.......In Lancaster, Terry Christopher, 29, was sitting with Ruth Ann Souders, 63, whom he had just met sitting at their assigned dinner table. When asked if they were Romney supporters, they glanced at each other and gave a slight laugh, giving away that they had just finished having that conversation.
Christopher said he was “pleased” Romney was the candidate, but wasn’t overly enthusiastic. Souders had been pulling for Newt Gingrich.
“Hopefully, Mitt can kind of give us some confidence. He doesn’t have to preach to our strict conservative Lancaster County values — just show us he’s a conservative leader who can get us out of the mess that we’re in and lead us to a victory in a couple months,” Christopher said.
A few tables over, Alvin Miller, 74, an auctioneer, said he had liked Santorum, but knew all along it would be Romney as the nominee. Asked if he was a Romney supporter now, Miller said simply, “Well, yes. Sure.”
The driving force for Miller is to beat Obama in November.
“We got to get him out of here,” he said.
Santorum, who left the presidential race a week ago ahead of the state’s Tuesday primary, was slated to speak at the Lancaster event, but backed out. In a conference call with supporters Monday night, he held out on endorsing Romney.
“As far as how you vote, that’s up to you,” Santorum said on the call. “I haven’t supported any candidate at this point, so that’s really up to you.”
Gov. Tom Corbett officially endorsed Romney on Tuesday afternoon, saying in a statement that the primary season is over and it’s time for Republicans to unite around Romney.
One man isn’t quite ready for the primary to be over, though: Gingrich, former speaker of the House and born in nearby Hummelstown, closed out the event, asking the crowd to “consider” voting for him next week. He received a warm reception from the socially conservative crowd, garnering applause for references to crosses and the Ten Commandments being allowed in public buildings and prayer in schools. He aimed to distinguish himself as the truer conservative who can beat Obama.
But Robin Stauffer, 48, a corporate secretary, who said she has been “pretty much” a Romney fan throughout the primary process, thinks it’s Romney’s moderation that can win the White House.
“We need to find more common ground to move this country forward,” Stauffer said. “I think Mitt Romney will help us do that. I think he’s a little more centrist, and he is probably more appealing to the masses, maybe.”
http://www.mcall.com/news/local/elections/mc-pa-mitt-romney-lancaster-20120417,0,1446438.story
Newt #’s are surging into the mid 20’s (10-15 points) since Santorum droped out!
http://www.publicpolicypolling.com/pdf/2011/PPP_Release_National_417.pdf
Once that surge to stop the RINO Romney for securing the nomination! then we can fight this out at the convention!
GO NEWT!