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WHY DON’T BOTH THESE KNUCKLEHEADS, just have a meeting (locked in a small room until an agreement is made) wherein ONE (I don’t care) and THE OTHER decides that one will be that person’s vice president candidate-and the other WILL be the Presidential candidate?? SERIOUSLY Divided conservatives fall toghter we succeed!!
Shouldn’t they say something to each other?
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Flowers and chocies ???
I have no idea about Romney, but Newt doesn’t strike me as the type that would be interested in the VP slot. He seems to be full of big ideas and wants to implement them, not attend state funerals for the next eight years. Also, at 68 he would be 76 before he had his shot at the presidency assuming an 8 year Romney/Gingrich term.
Newt should drop out
IMO Santorum is just another disrupter for the GOP establishment, to take votes away from Newt so that the GOP can annoint Mittens..
Um, hate to break it to you, but likely Mitt and Rick have already had this little back room confab. Why do you think Rick is attacking Newt?
One small rooom may not hold all those egos
Why don’t you invite Ron Paul to join the festivities?
There’s no room in the country big enough for both of those egos.
| Romney | Gingrich | Santorum | Paul | Huntsman | Perry | Bachman | Totals | ||||||||||||||||
| Votes | % | Delegts | Votes | % | Delegts | Votes | % | Delegts | Votes | % | Delegts | Votes | % | Delegts | Votes | % | Delegts | Votes | % | Delegts | Votes | Delegts | |
| Iowa | 39,805 | 30.46% | 7 | 16,163 | 12.37% | 2 | 29,839 | 22.83% | 7 | 26,036 | 19.92% | 7 | 245 | 0.19% | 0 | 12,557 | 9.61% | 0 | 6,046 | 4.63% | 0 | 130,691 | 23 |
| New Hampshire | 97,532 | 39.77% | 7 | 23,411 | 9.55% | 0 | 23,362 | 9.53% | 0 | 56,848 | 23.18% | 3 | 41,945 | 17.11% | 0 | 1,766 | 0.72% | 0 | 349 | 0.14% | 0 | 245,213 | 10 |
| South Carolina | 167,279 | 27.75% | 2 | 243,153 | 40.34% | 23 | 102,055 | 16.93% | 0 | 77,993 | 12.94% | 0 | 1,161 | 0.19% | 0 | 2,494 | 0.41% | 0 | 494 | 0.08% | 0 | 602,821 | 25 |
| Florida | 771,842 | 46.30% | 50 | 531,294 | 31.87% | 0 | 222,248 | 13.33% | 0 | 116,776 | 7.00% | 0 | 6,182 | 0.37% | 0 | 6,742 | 0.40% | 0 | 3,947 | 0.24% | 1,667,223 | 50 | |
| At large Dels | 18 | 2 | 1 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 21 | |||||||||||||||
| TOTALS | 1,076,458 | 40.81% | 84 | 814,021 | 30.86% | 27 | 377,504 | 14.31% | 8 | 277,653 | 10.53% | 10 | 49,533 | 1.88% | 0 | 23,559 | 0.89% | 0 | 10,836 | 0.41% | 0 | 2,637,756 | 129 |
Newt's vote count and delegate count eclipse Santorum by a large number and this is likely only to grow. Together, in cumulative, Newt and Rick together easily beat Romney. Apart, they will keep losing.
I know Santorum is hoping that when he goes one on one with Mitt in Missouri he hopes he can win and point to that as why he should be the man. But if he waits until Super Tuesday he may have waited too long.
Too late. Newt was very nasty towards Santorum and now it is all out war. Santorum is polling higher in many states than Newt. Santorum is upset with Newt’s bashing and won’t listen to him now. Had Newt been smart, he would have talked to him last week.
Keep your day job, dude. Krauthammer and Steyn are safe for the moment.
Bill mentioned a lunch bunch he meets with which included Charles Kruthammer.
What hit me was the following, as the Late Mark Scott Michigan Libertarian Talk Show host used to say Cui bono? Who Benefits?
Ah let us count who does...
* Santorum himself. As a Huckabee type spoiler which will give him greater gravitas and a bigger contract fee.
* His place after the election is assured as well as the cash flow as a TV or Radio talking head.
* As talking head, he will continue the us vs them game that all the talking heads do.
Now who else benefits...
* The ruling class and the Punditry Class, ergo the Bennett lunch bunch, they are at the trough and do not want the change, that Newt will bring, he and his change is too, "uncomfortable"...
* They must destroy Cain, Palin, and Newt to keep the game of musical chairs going.
* They must destroy us Freepers, & Tea Partiers once and for all and never relinquish the GOP to the likes of a Reagan again.
I am convinced even "our" talkers feel we are the great unwashed and are an embarrassment, they like when we give them victories for power, but other than that, they probably disdain or outright hate us. Let's face it I will not carry their water, No more donating or volunteering and maybe even voting against their incumbent weasels.
With that said, I fear a door is closing i.e us influencing the GOP/RNC.
If so it is over, we have no home. It is time for us to move on and find another party, better yet build our own.
I fear they will destroy Newt.
I read here more and more and I was one of the 1st to say so and took a lot of $H!+ for it, i.e. I cannot pull the lever for Romney, I will write in Palin, Goldwater, Reagan, somebody, I revile the man that much.
If it is Romney Obama wins, we adapt, innovate and overcome. Chances are "it" all falls apart, we find one another and rebuild from their. Maybe that is the destiny, and all we are doing has been futile in trying to try to stop it...
Damn Shame, Rick will have had a hand in it, and not a good one....
Santorum is so ‘holier than thou’ but in the same breath he was mud-slinging at Gingrich!
It is ok for him to mud-sling but not for his competitors?
It will be fun to see him whine and cry and get angry when he gets the mud-slinging from romney and the E and the media! Or to watch him being IGNORED BY THEM!
But then he will not get the chance to be the front-runner as he ‘envisions’.
It is still early. How about they just promote themselves and bash Obama for a few months?
There are voters who will never vote for one or more of the current 4 Presidential Candidates. Hence, keeping all 4 in weakens support for any one of the Candidates. A weakened Romney will be desperate, and therefore erratic, by the time he gets to Tampa, because he knows that this is his last chance to be Nominated.
My post is based on the assumption that the best way to defeat Romney’s Nomination is to deny him the required delegates BEFORE the Tampa Convention.
Each Candidate has a loyal contingent who will only vote for him, and thus further reduce support for the leading candidate of the moment.
We are taught by the despicable Liberal Agenda Media, (LAM), that two dimensional thinking, ( either-or, yes or no, black or white, etc.), is the best way to think. As usual, the LAM is wrong, because the answer is almost always “None of the Above.”
So here we are in a rip-roaring Presidential Primary with 3 Candidates trying to rock the GOP Establishment Boat, and good ol’ panty waist Willy calling for “Steady as She Goes.”
Will “Safety Net” Willy prevail, and again beach the GOP Establishment Boat on the perilous sands of History?
Will 3 Candidates rock the GOP Establishment Boat enough to dump Milk-Toast Willy into the briny waters outside Tampa Bay?
Those of us that are TAXED ENOUGH ALREADY think that the odds favor having 3 boat-rockers, rather than just having one boat-rocker.
Newt and Rick have little in common, and there is no basis for them to form an agreement like you suggest.