And yet he will stay in the race to ensure Romney the nomination. The Newt legacy. Disgusting.
Santorum 2012
Why don’t he just say it, I’m out of money.
“Furthermore, the fact is the more than a million more people have voted against Mitt Romney than for him. We believe that if Governor Romney is unable to secure 1144 by the last primaries, he will be unable to do so at the convention where the vast majority of the delegates are conservative. That creates and environment at the convention where Gingrich can emerge as the one candidate who can unite social, economic and national security conservatives (a fact which is borne out by polling).”
Read more: http://www.politico.com/news/stories/0312/74569_Page2.html#ixzz1qNOAusNC
(Newtie would make the perfect srategerist and press secretary)
Keeping just enough staff to write his Romney endorsement.
Yeah, good luck with that, Newt.
Even if he walked away from a brokered convention as the nominee, I don’t know how optimistic I’d feel about Newt. If you’re less popular than Willard Romney the open socialist and Rick “I endorse Romney/Why would people vote for Romney over Obama/I’d be Romney’s VP” Santorum, that doesn’t speak a lot for your chances.
Look, I like what Newt says - check my post history if you don’t believe me - but we do have to worry about electability at some point.
I simply do not see why people keep bringing up Chris Christie as an alternative.
Whatever plan Newt has for the convention, I’ll bet it includes Sarah Palin in there somehow. Y’all wanted a king maker, perhaps that is the role Newt is taking.
If we want to pick someone who isn’t really competing in the primary any more, aren’t there better conservatives out there with fewer negatives, less baggage, and more support than Newt Gingrich?
There was a time when the other lesser candidates started dropping out, that an anti-Romney could have been successful. The problem is, Newt's ego and Santorum's obtuseness prevented either one of them from doing the right thing for the country, stepping aside and letting there be one conservative candidate to rally behind. Now, they have effectively split the conservative vote between themselves, and left Romney's campaign of attrition to march to a slow but steady victory.
The idea that either of these knuckleheads are going to be rewarded with anything other than a kick in the pants by the Rough Boot of Historical Footnotehood is laughable. Mittens was on Leno, joking that he might make Santorum his press secretary one day. Soon, Rick will look back on the time where people bothered to make him the butt of their jokes as 'the good old days'.
Sadly, the joke is on the rest of us. By their own reckless ambition, Rick and Newt have allowed Mitt to advance unchecked on to the nomination. If it comes down to a brokered convention, neither of them will be rewarded for it.
It’s a done deal Romney-Santorum 2012.