Lazlo in PA is right on point. Stop this troll nonsense. Is that all you anti-Santorum folks have to offer.
We are trying to stop Romney at any cost. This is the central mission at hand. If you think why a Gingrich withdrawal in MI will not assist this goal argue your case. Who know’s you folks may have a point. But simply engaging in visceral stuff gets us nowhere.
Rush Limbaugh and Mark Levin have all but endorsed Santorum as the last remaining viable candidate to beat Obama, and even conservative publications like The Washington Times, The American Spectator, Townhall, and National Review have come around to saying the same thing. The question for all of us is not Gingrich’s politics, although that does matter, but at this stage of the game its a question of electability.
To paraphrase Donald Rumsfeld, we got to war with what we have. And if Santorum is within reach of beating Romney in his home state, and making this a 2-person race, it befits Gingrich to strategically withdraw in MI. I believe many of us who are behind Santorum would have said the same thing if the numbers were reversed in Gingrich’s favor. This is not and never has been about bashing Gingrich or anyone else or creating “fan” clubs.
It comes to down to the best options we have to defeat Romney. Let’s face some hard facts. Gingrich’s negatives are through the cellar, he’s opening up a +20 point difference with female voters, he lost to Romney in every key demographic in FL, and while Santorum trails Obama by 8 points in the recent USA-Gallup, Gingrich is behind by as much as 15 points and more. More alarming, Santorum is even nipping at the heels of Gingrich’s GA and has just opened up a Grand Canyon lead in 155 delegate-rich Texas.
Or do we have Machiavellian politics at play here? Could it be that Gingrich doesn’t want to withdraw from the MI primary is because should Santorum win, his momentum from this seismic event will sweep Gingrich as well in the Super- Tuesday tsunami?
When you join a resistance, you work with allies to defeat a common enemy of conservatism. Either we close ranks and get behind Santorum as Levin advocates or we splinter and fail.
Should any third party individual come in at a fantasy brokered convention, it would irreparably harm the conservative movement and assure an easy re-election for Obama.
No, we are not trying to stop Romney “at any cost.”
We have to stop his essential twin Santorum too, and saving the country is the real goal that you ricky sycophants can’t seem to embrace.
The goal is not to provide a short bus to the GOP nomination for the short bus ex senator.
So take your own advice, and stop the low brow trolling.