Posted on 03/18/2012 9:05:17 PM PDT by Steelfish
Sunday, March 18, 2012
It's Time For Gingrich To Drop Out of Race For GOP Nomination
EDITORIAL
The time has come for former House Speaker Newt Gingrich to drop out the Republican presidential race and allow Mitt Romney and Rick Santorum to battle it out for the GOP nomination.
After an up-and-down campaign, Gingrich based his chances primarily on a Southern strategy. That worked, with wins in South Carolina and Georgia. Then Gingrich set his sights on Alabama and Mississippi, where voters make their decisions on Tuesday.
Gingrich had been first or second in those two states in pre-election polls. He earlier vowed he needed wins in the two states to have a chance, although he backed off on that claim during the weekend.
When the votes were counted Tuesday night, Santorum -- who was ranked third in the polls in both states -- won both Mississippi and Alabama. Gingrich was second. Romney was third.
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If he ignored PR, it would have been taken as a slight to Puerto Rican voters on the mainland.
He’s far from a buffoon. AND, to be analytical about this, a Ginrich/Obama fight would be a repeat of the McCain/Obama fight. A tired old man against a youthful jerk - but a jerk who looks like he just stepped out of Gentleman’s Quarterly. Bad combination for us.
But if Gingirch was leading in delegate counts, I would have urged Santorum to step down. The important thing is to stop a RINO from getting nominated.
I find that hard to believe. I think Gingrich and Santorum are far closer to a conservative ideal than Romney EVER will be.
“Santorum sucks.”
If that is a sample of the rhetoric employed by Gingrich supporters - and I certainly don’t believe that to be the case, it speaks poorly of Gingrich.
But I think it more closely represents just a few of Gingrich’s supporters.
Anyone who thinks Romney is preferable to Santorum needs a serious reality check unless they too are a RINO.
That's what frightens the GOPe.
A brokered convention means they have lost control of the situation to the Tea Party.
National Review and Weekly Standard couldn’t smear Newt out of the race so now they are trying to hound him out. Thats not working either. Go Newt! All the way to Tampa.
Arkansas votes in two months. There is no "actual" because it hasn't happened. It's not reality. It's all phony baloney.
Romney has more delegates than all opposition combined. A Newt exit will not benefit Santorum nearly as much his supporters wish with polling on the issue across many states showing 40-50% would go to Romney.
The practical time for a non-Romney to win outright as passed; the best time for that was before FL yet Santorum refused to exit the race. We know from the Santorum campaign memo a few weeks back they recognize the math.
Newt's strategy is clearly more tag-team now, one of trying to take as many delegates from Romney as possible, with a chance of denying him the nomination, and shape the dialog of the race which he's done to good effect.
“Anyone who thinks Romney is preferable to Santorum needs a serious reality check unless they too are a RINO.”
Hogwash. I just love it when people throw the RINO bomb at anyone with whom they disagree. I have no interest in proving to you how conservative I am. But I know this: Wittle Wicky Santorum is another bozo who never ran so much as a lemonade stand, and who will have his ass handed to him by the Obama campaign—should he get the nomination. The only candidate on either side that’s worth more than a bucket of warm spit is Gingrich. But, again, Romney would be better than Santorum.
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