[lilyfreeper]

Santorum is a disaster. He's going to drag down the Newt and make Romney the nominee. This guy has no shame, I'm telling you.

[allmost]

Eyes WITHOUT A FACE...

[Steelfish]

Romney can thank Gingrich who keeps being the spoiler as he splits the conservative vote and allows Romney to shoot pass through the breach. Unlike Pawlenty, Bachman, Cain, and Perry, Gingrich doesn’t seem to have the grace to quit with honor. Romney knows this, does Gingrich and his followers know this?

[traditional1]

Spoken like a Newt plant who showed up on Jan. 1 on the forum.

Romney-the-RINO is robo-calling his ass off in Ohio (I get 6-8 robo-calls a day), and Newtie (the one who can't keep his pants zipped) trails Santorum, 2:1 in Ohio. He has ZERO chance here, and other than the South, has no hope.

[Kenny]

Santorum is a disaster. He's going to drag down the Newt and make Romney the nominee.

I think it's people like you who constantly run him down who are giving Romney the nomination. Santorum was doing fine, surging in all the polls until all the Newt people, GOPe, and media pummeled him before MI.

And then there were none.

[mike_9958]

Remember ABO

Anyone But Obama

[cripplecreek]

You seem rather cheerful about it.

[M. Thatcher]

Your post is utterly incoherent.

[Junior_G]

A helpful reminder that the majority of Republicans continue to be morons.

[jwalsh07]

You’re aware that 36 is considerably more than 15, right?

[Rational Thought]

You are certainly assuming a lot in your post.

This has little to do with shame and certainly isn't dragging Gingrich down. If anything (at present), applying your logic with poll standings reflects how Gingrich is dragging down Santorum (a theory I also don't accept).

One of two things is occurring. Either the Country is (in fact) now more of a Liberal ideology, or money and organization (along with lots of media support) is influencing a dumbed down electorate. I subscribe to the dumbed down theory.

A Romney nomination is not only a disaster for Conservatives, it's a disaster for the entire Country as there's no way Romney defeats Obama....zip, zero, nada.

If this poll is indicative of a trend, and Romney does become the nominee, I don't know what our next step is. Do we pretend to support a terrible candidate (such as in 2008) all the way to an Obama victory or do we look for a Third Party alternative?

[RitaOK]

Hey, Santorum is in free fall and shock, while Newt has superbly performed, again, over the last several days everywhere he goes; CNN, Stephanopolis, NBC Gregory, CSpan. Handing these guys their head and teaching conservatism.

Lookin’ good, Newt!

I’m happy to see Newt back taking ground on his own terms, no matter what happens. I like his terms.

[CharlesWayneCT]

How do you drag down the guy who can’t get 20% in the polls, and who rarely finishes above 4th place?

[CainConservative]

Ohio: Romney 37, Santorum 36, Gingrich 15...

Thanks, Newt.

I hope Willard sends Newt a basket of goodies.

[Waywardson]

The only reality here is this:

Neither Newt NOR Santorum are able to beat Romney head to head.

They are BOTH regional candidates and MUST come together and make their ticket now.

Just the tow of them, go into a room, pray and flip a coin. And then come out united.

THAT will end the nonsense AND Romney.

Anything less. Anything other. MEANS Romney will win and then LOSE to Obama.

[CharlesWayneCT]

Why are people still getting away with posting fake headlines? THis is supposed to be a "twitter" link (which never really work), and the headline is an absurd mockery.

Here is the current RCP AVERAGE for Ohio, compared to the PPP poll:

Name       RCP    PPP
Santorum - 34.0   36.0  +2.0
Romney   - 31.3   37.0  +5.7
Gingrich - 15.7   15.0  -0.7
Paul     - 12.0   11.0  -1.0
Other    -  8.0    2.0  -6.0

So, rather than "fading fast", Santorum just polled 2% ABOVE his current RCP average. Who faded? Newt Gingrich, by 0.7, and Paul, by 1. And "other", who are breaking to Santorum and Romney, unfortunately MORE for Romney.

Fading fast? What a stupid title.

[Gene Eric]

Hang in there, noob.

New data ping.

[dforest]

That is truly a ridiculous post. Good grief.

Santorum isn’t dragging down Newt. Geesh.

[CharlesWayneCT]

BTW, we often compare SAME polls when deciding what is changing.

THe last PPP poll in Ohio was rather old, January 28-29.

In THAT poll, it was Gingrich 26, Romney 25, Santorum 22.

So, since the LAST PPP Poll, GIngrich has DROPPED 11%, Santorum is up 14%, and Romney is up 12%.

FADING FAST? OK, I know you are all hoping very badly that Santorum loses to Romney, although I still can’t figure out why people who don’t want ROmney as our NOMINEE keep getting so excited every time Romney BEATS Santorum, while Gingrich still struggles in low double-digits.

I’d love it if GIngrich could somehow suddenly have good poll numbers, and actually win contests. He’ll certainly take Georgia. Unfortunately, he’ll need more than a few states to win this thing.

But we could have a brokered convention — that is, if the gingrich supporters don’t get their way, and Romney beat Santorum everywhere.

[steve86]

I guess an old history professor with a physique like Santa Claus is the hot ticket?

[Jim from C-Town]

Welcome to FreeRepublic! Signed up 01/01/2012 seemingly for the express purpose of running down Rick Santorum. Nice single issue flogging: