Santorum just told BOR he’s staying in. Just like the article states, that helps Romney defeat Gingrich by splitting the Christian vote.
Romney is using the tactics of the Left: scorched earth, personal destruction to attack Gingrich, but not Santorum.
Wise-up voters! NO ROMNEY, NO WAY!
VOTE GINGRICH AND SEND MONEY TO HIM.
(Sarah Palin & Newt Gingrich to appear on Sean Hannity’s TV show tonight).
I'll be watching.
I can't hardly believe SAntorum would do this unless Newt's team has not yet told him to do so... Santorum mentioned none of the candidates had asked him to drop out...so is he waiting until they do?
Some have said he needs to stay in as if Newt continues to slide we have someone other than Romney...but dang...is there time for all these screwball games!!!!
Good news and bad news from Maine.
The good news is that Mitt Romney might lose Maine. And that is one of his firewall states. The paulistas are challenging him for both the straw poll caucus results and the delegates. (Looks like ronPaul won all 5 of the caucuses thus far. The party is not announcing any results and I believe have sealed the ballots without counting them. Maybe.)
The bad news is that NEWT + Santorum < 10%. Maybe.
When caucus goers show up and see that it is a 2-man race between MR and RP, they are very likely to choose between those 2, the main contenders.
I am thinking back to the only time Romney lost his cool at the media. It was when Stephanopoulos asked him that question about where he would stand if a state wanted to make birth control illegal. Remember that? And Mitt told him it was a silly question, because there were no states that were asking for that. Mitt won that round. And I wondered at the time where Stephanopoulos was going with that.
Now I think he was trying to get a quarrel going between Romney and Santorum, who is the only one who has come out against birth control, and Mitt was having none of it. Not because he’s against quarrels but because he wanted Santorum to stay in the race and not be made to look ridiculous in the debate. In order to prevent Newt from taking over Santorum’s supporters.
Too convoluted maybe, but it was the first time Mitt got mad during the debates. If it was just a silly question, he wouldn’t have lost his cool.