Posted on 03/03/2012 11:29:51 AM PST by jacknhoo
This is a primary, not a football game.
Ofcourse Newt is going to lose some primaries, but he is going to win some as well.
Repeating a meme is libspeak. That, Sir, is a meme.
You’re engaging in projection, madam. Your candidate blew it, and mostly by his own actions both public and private, and his debating skills couldn’t save him. Screeching “You’re a liberal” for speaking the truth is shameful and beneath the dignity of a FReeper. Conservatives speak and deal in the truth, liberals deal in lies and fantasy world nonsense. You and your colleagues have yet to come up with any scenario whereby Gingrich can win (either the primary or the general), and you’ve already stated you don’t care what the reality is. You don’t win elections by merely wishing and by mindless boosterism.
Gee, if your basis for rejecting Newt is because you can't see how he can win, then you need to have an answer to how Santorum can do so.
Santorum is a lightweight.
How does one ‘screech’ on the internet? Anyway, you’re assuming that Newt is finished and seem to want to cling to that. So, have your fun trying to convince other Newt supporters that it’s true so they’ll go over to your guy. It’s what you and others are doing. You failed to show me the numbers that proved YOUR point as well. I didn’t miss that. As for the dignity of a FReeper? Calling out liberal baloney when one reads it is the duty of a FReeper. The ‘polarizing character’ meme is as liberal as it gets.
No, I’m saying he can’t win. His candidacy all but ended after South Carolina. He just placed a distant 4th last night in Washington state, yet it happened to be just about the EXACT amount of votes Santorum needed to defeat Willard. When are you guys gonna wake up and smell the coffee ?
Post #47 goes for you, too. Are you all that stubborn that you’d rather Slick Willard get the nomination despite a clear majority opposing him in the primaries and deprive Conservatives of a candidate in November ? That is abominable.
Anyone who contributes to degrading our best hope to win, is a traitor in their own right.
Exactly. Why we ALL need to get behind Rick Santorum.
This race is still anyones to win. Vote your conscience.
The last thing we really want is a 8 month race between obama and the nominee, the public gets bored, the arguments become tiresome, the media will play obama as a victim and you get stuck with the current leadership.
Let the Conservatives, and the pretenders fight it out.
I support Newt. Get over it already.
The fact is, if Newt dropped out, I wouldn’t vote for either Santorum or Romney in the primary, and I believe many Newt voters feel the same way, so your assumption that those votes would go to Santorum, are, I believe, misplaced.
Maybe those who worship him like some sort of God might not, and we see those crazies with all types of candidates, but most would do the right thing and vote for the remaining Conservative in the race.
He has zero chance at winning the nomination. Zero. Not in a “brokered convention”, not in any scenario. That ended in Florida.
So whether he can beat Obama is therefore not very relevant.
I won’t say he can’t but he’d have an uphill fight compared to Santorum or that other jerk.
Paul is the only candidate that I’d say definitively could not win. He actually polls pretty well Paul, better than Newt does but he would be destroyed over the racial stuff and drug legalization and all the other kooky stuff. And he’s very very dependent on independents and crossover voters, soft support.
But of course Paul’s “chance” (you’re saying there’s a chance?) at winning the nomination makes Newt’s chances seem robust in comparison so that’s also not relevant.
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