"Split" the convention - DON'T Split the Vote in the South! Romney is counting on it.

http://youtu.be/_L5xXtGRs_c ^ | 3/12/2012 | Scott Ryan

[Kansas58]

good post! I agree!

[campaignPete R-CT]

newt supporters in ILL should stand down. Cease and desist.

- c_Pete, who campaigned for Newt in NH in an attempt to slow down ROMNEY, not as a means of starting a long death march around the country.

[publius321]

We can start “brokering” our votes between conservatives. 1 for 1 between Alabama and Illinois.

[nickcarraway]

Zot

[NordP]

Excellent "strategery" - I have to hand it to you. When you really like a candidate, it's difficult to do what might help him most.

As a Gingrich/West 1st or Santorum 2nd, supporter; please know I would do the same for you/America too, though.

[nickcarraway]

Did Romney headquarters give you anything else to post on Free Republic?

[bigbob]

I’m in IL and I’ll vote for Santorum. I’ve always said I’ll vote for the most conservative candidate that has the best chance of winning, so I’m not even going against my own word. As much as I like Newt’s ideas, this analysis makes sense.

The Romney gameplan is to get 1144 delegates by convention time. Everyone else’s gameplan should be to prevent that from happening. Then we live to fight another day.

[publius321]

That makes absolutely NO SENSE whatsoever. Please impart your wisdom to us all, those with the perspicacity to understand, as to how my advocating us NOT giving Romney what he wants, a SPLIT conservative vote in the south would actually help Romney. I can’t wait to hear this one.

[publius321]

“I’m in IL and I’ll vote for Santorum. I’ve always said I’ll vote for the most conservative candidate that has the best chance of winning, so I’m not even going against my own word. As much as I like Newt’s ideas, this analysis makes sense.

The Romney gameplan is to get 1144 delegates by convention time. Everyone else’s gameplan should be to prevent that from happening. Then we live to fight another day.”

Than you. As a southern Santorum supporter, I did the same thing I’m suggesting. I voted for Newt instead of the conservative I preferred. (Rick)

[nickcarraway]

You are a Santorum supporter, but you are duping people into voting for Gingrich? If you were a Santorum supporter, why wouldn’t you support Santorum in a state where he is neck and neck. Just come out and say you support Gingrich.

[Kansas58]

I think we all need to read this thread, it does not deserve a zot!

[Kansas58]

I think you need to relax

I like Newt but I went with Santorum in Kansas -— we should not be rebuked for discussing strategy

[Kansas58]

Newt should get the South and Santorum the Great Lakes and Mid-West

[publius321]

Here I am asking NEWT supporters to vote for Santorum in Michigan. We came close

Conservatives Unite in STRATEGIC VOTING
http://youtu.be/1anhKS9_b_U

Here’s another of my videos asking NEWT supporters to vote for Santorum. It’s titled:

“Newt wants YOU to vote for Santorum in Michigan & AZ (Opinion)”
http://youtu.be/OItvkY_1sMk

These are time-stamped by youtube - before the primaries.

[publius321]

Subsequently, many Newt supporters in MI told me when I posted these vids here - that they would vote for Santorum.

We got almost half the delegates. We had half until the establishment changed the rules afterward and took two.

[nickcarraway]

If you really want Gingrich and you voted for Santorum, I really have to question your intelligence. You get a chance to vote. You're outsmarting yourself. And if Gingrich is your #1, you probably should have voted for Romney. #2

I don't think Santorum is that great a candidate, but he's just barely acceptable, and better than the other MegaRINOs. I can be pretty sure that Romney wants anyone who isn't vote for him (and maybe Paul) in Alabama, he wants them to vote for Gingrich. All this "strategy" stuff is too clever by half. The man who started all this stuff, Rush Limbaugh, just got finished saving Obama's bacon, but distracting the public from the religious freedom issue. Now all the momentum against Obama on that issue has been blunted.

[Lazlo in PA]

Why in the world would Rick voters vote for Newt in AL? It is a statistical dead heat on Rasmussen and PPP between Rick Newt and Milt. MS is also on the close side. Rick is only 5 down from Newt. This is not like other states where Newt was at 10-15% with no shot at anything.

http://www.publicpolicypolling.com/pdf/2011/PPP_Release_SouthernSwing_312.pdf

[nickcarraway]

It makes no sense to me. Voodoo voting.

[publius321]

I work during the day so i don’t listen to Rush but I do remember him playing Obama and Hillary games. I don’t believe he is doing this with Newt and Rick.

Conservatives -not- uniting is what gave us McCain and Dole. With just 2 conservatives in the race versus a handful who stayed in in 2008, it is much more manageable now.