Santorum POTUS, Gingrich VP
They kind of missed the whole individual vote thing didn’t they.
Personally, I’m terrified at all the conservatives trying to play politics with this thing. This is our last chance to save this country and everyone’s acting like a bunch of children.
I want whoever can step up and be an adult. I don’t appreciate any Republican bashing another because we are only hurting ourselves.
Bash Obama dammit! If anyone should be damaged from our primaries it should be Obama. I truly believe that the candidate who quits playing the Republican establishment games and wholeheartedly and passionately goes after Obama can and will win.
That also eliminates Romney without wasting our time and money since he can’t really go after Obama. He has too much in common with him.
Anyway, sorry to be so long-winded but I am seriously worried by all the venom being directed at our own both by the candidates and on the boards and blogs. Let’s get our heads in the game.
To paraphrase Clinton’s mantra: It’s Obama, Stupid!
If some of them were Perry supporters and they are now shopping for another candidate, can we presume that Perry is not going to emerge as the consensus?
That leaves Santorum and Gingrich which would set up a three-way race between Romney, Paul and the Consensus Conservative.
Right now any of the candidates running except Romney, Paul and Huntsman would get my vote. Only for Santorum would I NOT have to place vise grips on my nose.
It’s just a simple fact of numbers that we need to coalesce around a single conservative in order to beat Romney. As long as even two conservatives are in it, Romney will win. I’m good with a smoke-filled room at this point, if we come out of it with the single conservative named, locked and loaded.
P.S. This is a role the Tea Party shoud have taken on a year ago, in my opinion—an internal nominating mechanism by which the sanctioned conservative is picked, funded and supported to the exclusion of any and all interlopers. I know it’s rough and tumble but that’s the game. Look at how Romney and the Demoviks play. Moral high ground? There ain’t much of that.
I am very suspicious of any group of political people who describe themselves as “of faith”.
It’s just a simple fact of numbers that we need to coalesce around a single conservative in order to beat Romney. As long as even two conservatives are in it, Romney will win. I’m good with a smoke-filled room at this point, if we come out of it with the single conservative named, locked and loaded.
P.S. This is a role the Tea Party should have taken on a year ago, in my opinion—an internal nominating mechanism by which the sanctioned conservative is picked, funded and supported to the exclusion of any and all interlopers. I know it’s rough and tumble but that’s the game. Look at how Romney and the Demoviks play. Moral high ground? There ain’t much of that.
One of the big problems with the Republicans here in Ohio is that they have this fear of a contested primary. They claim it uses up money that will be needed in the general election. So the Party leadership selects a candidate for each office, actively discouraging any competition. The Party members are presented with a candidate they had no choice in nominating, and have very little interest in supporting.
I'm all for contested primaries. They bring out the voters, and they give the candidates a chance to showcase themselves.
Well, my reservation is that when these guys get together, more often than not they pick the wrong candidate. They already had one meeting with Rick Perry. How’d that work out?
My preference is for Sarah Palin. Or, failing that, Rick Santorum. But who knows what these guys will pick?
As for the Tea Party, it’s a real grass-roots movement, all right. But, for better or worse, it’s not unified. Choosing a caucus of trusted leaders to choose a candidate would be hard, and it’s probably a bit late to start such a process.
I see about a 25% chance that Romney is cutting a deal explaining to Santorum that he should be Mitt’s VP since Santorum can’t win NH. Santorum might be made to see that almost every other candidate has been on top and he should strike a deal before he folds and Mitt offers the same deal to Ron Paul.
Non-story. There are groups all over America getting together to decide whom to support and they are all picking different candidates. This group is not special.
Non-story. There are groups all over America getting together to decide whom to support and they are all picking different candidates. This group is not special.
Who’s going to bell the Newt?
I can just see a pack of RINOs visiting him somewhere to tell him that he needs to stop fussing around and get behind Mitt.
Actually, I’d love to see that.
Newt’s reaction is likely to be interesting.
I remember reading of a papal conclave (where the cardinals gather to elect a pope.) Several rounds of votes could not produce a candidate acceptable to a majority. Then, in from the cold, and a great distance North, stumbled among them a monk, a religious ordinary, who simply felt called to visit Rome. Everyone recognized he was a good man, and no-one had reason to object to him. So they made him pope.
I wonder if Santorum’s kinda like that guy.
I prefer clarity instead of consensus. With clarity, people can clearly see a difference. If the best that the GOP has to offer is “Me too” or “Like that but not as much” then we are doomed to fail.
Judge Pressler has been a leader in the Southern Baptist denomination for many years. These are godly men I trust to seek God’s wisdom. I hope they can come up with a good plan, because we need one IMO.
I’d rather have a leader than a consensus builder since a consensus is the lack of leadership.