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We’ll see what happens with the actual votes tomorrow. Romney appears to be losing support instead of gaining it. Don’t think Santorum is gaining much traction. Conservatives in SC I don’t think will vote for Huntsman.
Hopefully, conservatives will coalesce around Gingrich. He dropped when there was a vacuum of debates and Romney made his move to destroy him. With the debates back, he can speak for himself and will hopefully rise again. There are two more debates before the SC vote.
In all seriousness, though, my state's primary is on Super Tuesday. It'll depend on who's still around as to whether I'm a participant.
Why not just let the primary process go forward? That’s why we have it: to pick the candidate. There’s plenty of time to unite behind the winner.
We all want a conservative, but people are not voting for them. Why?!
Maybe that's why we're not cooperating. :)
Look, Romney is winning because there are too many single-issue conservative factions. It's as simple as that. Social conservatives can't stand Gingrich's divorces, national defense conservatives can't stand Paul's foreign policy or Huntsman speaking Mandarin on stage, fiscal conservatives can't stand Santorum's Big Government leanings and don't trust Gingrich, libertarians are hearing their views ridiculed by everybody but Paul...it's no wonder the RINO candidate is leading - because RINOs are the the only faction happy enough with their candidate to keep supporting him.
Already did.
Already did.
I will be voting for Newt tomorrow here in NH.
However, it seems most of the other Republicans in my office are voting for Romney.
FHS?
Forest Historical Society?
Faculty Health Sciences?
Fulton High School?
Frequency Hopping Sequence?
Flat Head Screw?
Fuel Handling System?
Fetal Heart Sounds?
Flying Helicopter Simulator?
If everyone works a little harder this year we can win.
Politics can't be a spectator sport for us, get out on the field and hammer away!
I worry when I see how much cajoling is needed to support this forum, it should be simple but it's like getting blood out of turnips sometimes.
We've got to support the effort, or lose everything worth having.
Funny how quiet that issue has become around here.
We know Romney is a disaster for the 2nd Amendment, how about examining the others?
I wanted to barf yesterday when Romney responded (paraphrasing) “look at my record” when asked why voters should view him as a conservative. Really Mr. Romney? You can stand there and call yourself conservative with Romneycare in your past? I half expected him to burst into flames.
No more "nose holding" and voting for "lesser evils."
Period.
ps, Big push on Twitter to slam the Bain film before it is even out. They are spinning it to be an anti-capitalism film, and therefore, Newt is against capitalism. They are also spinning that Newt is a big, bad mean person. IT IS NOT about Newt being mean or being anti-capitalism. It is the truth about Mitt, it is about corruption, bailouts, crony capitalism. We need to fight the spin.
Like it or not Rick Santorum is the leader of the NOT ROMNEY voters. Which is 70% of us. Rally behind Rick or Romney wins with his 30%
The Ron Paul constituency will vote for no one but Paul no matter what happens, so his dropping out wouldn’t change anything.
Social conservative/ nativist/ populist Republicans seem to have settled on Santorum. Gringrich is too intelligent and practical to stoop to Santorum’s level, so he’ll never get that vote. Romney, as we know, will say anything to anybody, despite his socially liberal record.
Gingrich could get Perry’s voters, but sadly that’s it.
Gingrich is my guy, but I can’t see how he penetrate the various factions.
Newt can’t win because there are enough women voters who wil not vote for a serial cheater. The election comes down to just a few percentage points. That gap will be lost to those women who won’t pull the lever for him no matter what.
Sorry, I don’t want to unite behind the man who is going to bring us GingrichCare. I don’t want the federal government involved, period.