I just want to say one thing, and it’s not against Gingrich, for anybody.
It’s funny though that up until 4 hours ago, all we heard at FR was how evil Santorum was for staying in the race, and that if just he and Paul could drop out, conservatives could rally around Gingrich.
Now what do we here, how great it was that with 4 people in the race, Romney was unable to break 50% — something he would have done if Santorum wasn’t in the race.
It would be nice to see at least one Gingrich supporter have the guts to thank Santorum for preventing a clear majority win for Romney, something that would have been devastating. Instead, I see more vitriol and rancid hatred around in other threads.
And I guess it would be entirely too much to expect that at least one of the Gingrich supporters who blasted Santorum and his supporters, claiming that if Santorum dropped out, Gingrich would win, could apologize for attacking Santorum and his supporters, now that they see that Santorum and Gingrich together didn’t get enough votes to beat Romney.
But I don’t expect either to happen, just more brazen attacks — not on Romney, the supposed target we are trying to beat, but against a conservative, Santorum, and the conservatives who support him.
Charles, I think the attacks between supporters of Gingrich and Santorum are just a natural consequence of what is going on in the campaign.
Each supporter thinks his or hers candidate is the best option.
BTW, the same day Santorum gave his concession speech in Nevada re: Florida (where he castigated the Romney/Gingrich attack cycle, Santorum is running an attack ad out in Nevada on Gingrich.
So, these attacks on each other are going to continue, Romney opened up the can of worms in Iowa. Point being, hard to rage on supporters for going back and forth when the candidates are doing it to each other.
Also, I think it’s obvious that Mitts saturation attacks are pointed to Gingrich only.
Santorum has gotten a free ride in this Romney campaign. Not being argumentative regarding your point, just giving an explanation for what is going on.