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Santorum's Ala. delegates will unite with nominee IF..... Ala. GOP Chair warns Newt against division
Real Clear Politics ^ | April 20, 2012 | Phillip Rawls

Posted on 04/21/2012 3:20:10 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife

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....Dean said Santorum is hanging on to the delegates for now to make sure conservative principles play an important role at the Republican National Convention in late August......

That would happen if Rick Santorum came out in support of Newt Gingrich.

Gingrich is still seeking the nomination and has his 13 Alabama delegates. Armistead said he hopes Gingrich won't become divisive because "there is no path to victory for him to get the nomination."

Mitt lies and smears his conservatives opponents in the primary - burying them with negative ads -- and the GOP-e is warning Newt.

1 posted on 04/21/2012 3:20:15 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

sweater vest wants to ensure he gets picked for VP. my two least favorite candidates united. I’m beginning to see the wisdom of not voting. to hell with it.


2 posted on 04/21/2012 3:36:35 AM PDT by RC one (all y'all had to do was vote for Newt but noooooo, he wasn't good enough.)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

“I’d much rather have Governor Romney as president than President Obama,” Skipper said.

Here we go again, hold your nose mentality. Is this thier strategy? Romney will continue the chess game while others may overturn the table and refuse to play. Looks like the the two parties are in bed with each other and enjoying the game. Either way they win and we lose


3 posted on 04/21/2012 3:36:57 AM PDT by ronnie raygun (B B)
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If we can take control of the house and the Senate, it becomes: either way, they lose.


4 posted on 04/21/2012 3:41:24 AM PDT by RC one (all y'all had to do was vote for Newt but noooooo, he wasn't good enough.)
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To: RC one; ronnie raygun; All
April 20, 2012: Adelson family gives more to pro-Gingrich super PAC "Washington (CNN) - The Adelson family continues to be the major benefactor behind the super PAC supporting Newt Gingrich's candidacy, Winning Our Future.

While Nevada casino mogul Sheldon Adelson - who has donated $7.5 million to the group - did not give more in March, his wife Dr. Miriam Adelson contributed an additional $5 million last month, according to a report filed late Friday night with the Federal Election Commission. All totaled she has given $12.5 million and the family has given more than $20 million."...

Romney backer balks, backs Gingrich in Delaware

Romney's Got a Delegate Problem

5 posted on 04/21/2012 3:43:59 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
Armistead has a reputation of being conservative, but what am I not seeing here. Is it personal between he and Newt?

Alabama GOP Chair: If Gingrich Loses the South, He's ‘Out of the Ball Game’

By Lara Seligman
Updated: March 13, 2012 | 11:13 a.m.
March 13, 2012 | 7:21 a.m.

http://www.nationaljournal.com/2012-presidential-campaign/alabama-gop-chair-if-gingrich-loses-the-south-he-s-out-of-the-ball-game—20120313

Alabama Republican Party Chairman Bill Armistead said on Tuesday that out of all the GOP presidential candidates, Newt Gingrich has spent the most time campaigning in the state — and that he has the most at stake as voters head to the polls.

Gingrich needs Southern support the most, Armistead said, arguing that if the former House speaker doesn't do well in Alabama and Mississippi he will no longer be competitive.

“You would think he was running for governor here,” Armistead said on CNN’s Early Start, adding that if Gingrich loses both Southern states, “I believe he’s out of the ball game and then it will be a one-to-one between Santorum and Romney.”

6 posted on 04/21/2012 3:53:56 AM PDT by Texas Fossil (Government, even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one)
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To: RC one
Romney as nominee will have coattails. When he goes down to Obama in a landslide he's likely to give control of BOTH House and Senate to Pelosi and Reid. The G_D RINOs aren't going to capture Congress with Mittens; they're going to loose Executive and Legislative plus Obama will complete the subversion of the Judiciary in his second term. The RINOs will blame conservatives for Mitten's defeat, but Mittens, like his mentor Juan McLame, will own this disaster in the making.
7 posted on 04/21/2012 3:56:48 AM PDT by MasterGunner01 (11)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife
I expect Newt to do what he said. It's one thing if Romney reaches 1,144, it a TOTALLY different ballgame if he doesn't!

Either way I think the majority of conservatives and the country are going to give Mitt and the GOPe the middle finger salute!

8 posted on 04/21/2012 4:01:13 AM PDT by sirchtruth (Freedom is not free.)
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Mitt Romney has one thing going for him: he’s facing President Obama. Just about anyone but Obama would destroy Mitt Romney in an election, but Obama is easily the worst president of my lifetime, maybe even in the last 100 years. So, I don’t think Romney is a guaranteed loss, but we’re definitely in much worse shape than we might have been. I would have liked an election with real contrasts rather than a battle to find the best of the worst. Gah!


9 posted on 04/21/2012 4:24:20 AM PDT by CitizenUSA (Why celebrate evil? Evil is easy. Good is the goal worth striving for.)
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To: Cincinatus' Wife

The Conservative Constitutional Cause is clearly served by an Obama re-election rather than a Romney win.

A Right leaning/Conservative Constitutional Congress can easily remain united behind an Obama re-election....whereas the same Congress will be sliced and diced by the RINOS if Romney is in the White House.

The Powers That Be fully understand this....


10 posted on 04/21/2012 4:31:48 AM PDT by mo (If you understand, no explanation is needed. If you don't understand, no explanation is possible.)
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Amazing thing is that Rick/Romney bots trash Newt for “trying to be relevant” while he is in the trenches fighting for conservative values. I bet they see nothing wrong with Rick trying to stay ‘relevant” after making himself as irrelevant as one can be.
11 posted on 04/21/2012 4:37:15 AM PDT by trebb ("If a man will not work, he should not eat" From 2 Thes 3)
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12 posted on 04/21/2012 4:38:52 AM PDT by Diogenesis ("Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. " Pres. Ronald Reagan)
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Welcome to the United Soviet States of America..where the Pravda State Media “vet” the candidates to the pleasure and needs of the RinoCrat UniParty.

This “election” will be a non-election...featuring the state approved “candidates”-whose only distinction is whether they are black or white.


13 posted on 04/21/2012 4:42:45 AM PDT by mo (If you understand, no explanation is needed. If you don't understand, no explanation is possible.)
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To: Texas Fossil

“Alabama GOP Chair: If Gingrich Loses the South, He’s ‘Out of the Ball Game’”

Alabama Republican Party Chairman Bill Armistead sings for his supper.


14 posted on 04/21/2012 4:48:13 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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To: sirchtruth
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

15 posted on 04/21/2012 4:50:07 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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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.”….

16 posted on 04/21/2012 4:51:12 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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Summary of article:

A State Party Chair, who is a National Convention Superdelegate and a Federal Government Employee, a Congressional Staffer who is also a Republican National Convention Delegate, are trying to whip the normal delegates into voting for Romney nearly four months before the convention.

Makes you proud of the current state of the convention system of party decision-making.


17 posted on 04/21/2012 4:52:03 AM PDT by ngat
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He was correct. When GIngrich lost those two states, he was essentially done. Except he didn’t quit. He also didn’t do what others here are skewering Santorum about, release his delegates so they could support Santorum and give Santorum an argument that he could get to 1144.

Because Gingrich right now is playing the same game Santorum is — keep your delegates, go to the convention, use your influence to get your conservative positions aired.

Of course, it seems both candidates are more likely to release their delegates if Romney locks up a majority. In the meantime, Gingrich is still in the race, and has his one-on-one with Romney that his supporters wanted, and it’s only mid-April.

Lets see how Gingrich does in Pennsylvania, which isn’t conservative but at least is somewhat republican.


18 posted on 04/21/2012 4:55:37 AM PDT by CharlesWayneCT
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To: ngat
The club.


19 posted on 04/21/2012 5:06:44 AM PDT by Cincinatus' Wife
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Alright, that makes things look even better! Here's the real problem. We all understand that we want to have a UNITED GOP/republican party. However, all the way up until the 90's things were copacetic with even rino GOP because of the nature of the still "responsible" American culture. All this has CHANGED now. Conservatives realize rinos/moderates have no conservative principles and moderate to "appease" the electorate while destroying not only the foundation, but the fabric of what the American IDEA is all about. Society is crumbling culturally and it is a disaster for the American Idea.

We can NOT allow this to happen!

FREEDOM IS NOT FREE! I would rather fight now politically to destroy these IDEAL traitors, than HAVE to fight later with blood to keep this country what it was founded on!

20 posted on 04/21/2012 5:07:27 AM PDT by sirchtruth (Freedom is not free.)
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