Posted on 03/18/2012 10:04:32 AM PDT by techno
http://www.realclearpolitics.com/epolls/2012/president/president_obama_vs_republican_candidates.html
Good grief!!
Bachmann, Perry, Huntsman and Cain were far better candidates than Santorum. His status quo has nothing to do with his merits - it’s because of anti-Romney fever and the unrelenting, full-monty attacks on Newt. The reason Santorum is still hanging on is because he is so stunningly & stubbornly self-absorbed.
Amen, brother! I can’t believe more people here aren’t seeing this.
I never said it was fair.
You’re quite right it doesn’t appear fair that Santo is benefiting now from the Romney malaise when Cain, Bachmann and Perry appeared to be better candidates than Santorum.
But life isn’t fair. And neither is politics.
But the facts are undeniable that Santo is more viable now than he was a week ago. Of course we can debate how much more viable he is, given the Romney malaise and Newt’s collapse in support, but for anyone to say he is NOT more viable after his victories in Mississippi and Alabama on Tuesday is either a bitter partisan or simply not reading the tea leaves.
He was my 3rd choice line in the sand candidate.
That said, I don’t buy the unelectable Santorum narrative. Its pure idiocy in a nation with Obama in the white house.
Nevertheless, simply demonstrating the ability to hang on till the bitter end is a low bar for "viability" and that, like it or not, is what Santorum is doing.
Every time he goes, or is led, off on some rabbit trail like recent explorations of the inane, he loses credibility with the general public. You knew Bachmann was done for when she stomped her feet and said "I am a serious candidate! I am, I am!" Santorum veers perilously close to that cliff on a regular basis. You're free to vote for him as you wish, but I wouldn't put money on him being around in September. We'll see.
Had santorum not ridden romney’s coattails, he would not even be a blip on the radar screen. santorum is the unintended consequence of romney’s unrelenting attacks on Gingrich. He is a viable loser. romney and/or santorum cannot win a national election.
MM:
I don’t disagree with you. The law of unintended consequences—exactly.
Face it, that isn’t asking for much, i.e. he (Santorum) can’t be LESS viable than he appears to bre....
Although the Chicago Tribune has endorsed Mitt Romney in the primary on Tuesday, here is a story that leans more towards Rick Santorum:
RELIGION A KEY ISSUE AS ILLINOIS REPUBLICANS GO TO POLLS
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/local/ct-met-religion-illinois-primary-20120318,0,4001310.story
“In all likelihood Mitt Romney will manage to win the necessary 1144 delegates”
Don’t buy into the Karl Rove hype.
Not gonna happen. Santorum is running an excellent campaign. People are waking up. He is doing a great job of fighting back against fallicy that the Inevitable One..is.
Math is math. Romney only has to pick up 48% of the remaining delegates to clinch the nomination. He has the benefit of winner-take-all states in several states in the NE. And he has the advantage now in both NY and CA. Objectively you got to give him a decided edge.
Yes, he could come up 50 delegates short but that won’t be enough to hold him back. Imho he would have to capture no more than in the 45%-46% range of all the delegates awarded to deny him a first ballot nomination at the convention. In other words he would have to have have no more than 1044 votes to his credit and be at least 100 delegates short of clinching.
One reason why is is NOT viable at all: No one is voting for minister, priest or pope.
Seriously? Unintended consequences of Gingrich who lost every major demographic in FL, failed to get to the 50% mark in his own home state of GA after massive ad buys and campaigning, lost badly in his own backyard, his “southern strategy” is up in flames, his big ideas like “permanent moon based colonies in eight years” is something we don’t hear anymore except as the stuff of SNL Unintended consequences of what? Santorum’s appeal is to blue-collar voters, Reagan Democrats, and is quite capable of turning in a few rust-belt state into the red state column.
Have you even read your posting history PF?
Rick is just a man man, lighten up.
The carpet-bombing of Gingrich in Florida allowed Santorum to emerge by coming up the middle.
I don’t think even folks at Team Gingrich, Team Romney or even Team Santorum would deny that.
Just know that Rush Limbaugh, Mark Levin and even Glenn Beck like Rick over the others so don't pay much mind to the FR Newt Gingrich peanut gallery—they are closet Mittbotts anyway.
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