ahh that’s just politics! stay in there Newt!!! And I know you will.
Actually Rick and Newt should stay into the bitter end because they can together deny RINOMNEY the nomination and force a brokered convention.
A brokered convention is the best alternative now because it means all the delegates will be freed to vote their conscience, and the floor speeches they will hear at the convention will be aimed at turning them.
Newt is by far the best visionary, the most powerful speaker and he should have a very good chance in this setting.
Many people are voting for Santorum because he is not Romney and they have been brainwashed by the negative ads taken out against Newt. Once the delegates at a brokered convention get a chance to meet Newt and to hear him up close, all their previous prejudices and biases can be dissolved.
I don’t know if this is relevant, but I already had it in the chamber and wanted to post it somewhere.
This is march 7, 2012.
Here is a poll from March 10, 1980. Reagan should have dropped out.
ABC-Harris poll, March 10, 1980:
When pitted against President Carter among a cross section of 1,498 likely voters, Ford runs ahead by a 54-44 percent margin. By contrast , among the same voters , Reagan trails Carter by 58-40 percent .
I totally agree. Rick should drop and support Newt. Realistically, Newt Gingrich may be the only chance this country has to survive. Romney is Obama re-do, and Santorum has danced with unions a little too much and unions are one of the biggest reasons we are in this mess. They use political activism and lobbyists to leverage benefits to such high levels that companies are no longer competitive. The companies flee the country to escape the unions and extreme labor costs and all we are left with are government public workers that live off tax money taken from you and me.
They need to cut the carp! I am durn sick of it! Santorum camp complains about disenfranchising and what in tarnation do they want to do but! Jackwads!
*snip*
“But, speaking to CNN, Santorum campaign adviser John Brabender brushed off the Romney campaign’s analysis as “voodoo math,” saying the figures were meant to dissuade voters from casting ballots for rival candidates.
“What he is saying he wants to do is disenfranchise Republican primary voters,” Brabender said, pointing out that many of the delegates currently awarded to Romney in estimates were non-binding. “
http://politicalticker.blogs.cnn.com/2012/03/07/romney-santorum-camps-at-odds-over-delegate-math/
Unfortunately for Rick (and all conservatives), Newt can make the same argument about him. His path to victory is no more obvious than Newt’s at this point.
If Newt dropped out, I wouldn’t be a bit surprised if he endorsed Romney.
Saint Santorum oughta drop out. No one wants to hear about his past, which is his “program”. (As is Mittie’s!) Newt offers a program for the future, and so will Obamao!
I'm for Newt I'll vote for Rick but I will never vote for Mutt. Its time the establishment faces the fact that their are many like me..
I hope Newt stays in to the bitter end.
At least he has the cajones to attack Omuslim where it hurts. Nobody else does.
Maybe some of what he says will filter into the thick heads of Americans come election day.
Frankly, some of Newt’s supporters are delusional. Why should Rick drop out? He has beaten Romney in 7 states, came extremely close in 3 others, and when he doesn’t win, he usually comes in second to Romney. Rick has shown he can connect with Midwestern and Southern voters. If Newt had won those states and was consisntently ahead in the polls in upcoming states, then you would have a case. At this point, to ask a 2nd place candidate to toss his support to a candidate who has done worse with the electorate than him makes no sense.
I also wonder why the Newt supporters must continue to try to prop up their candidate by using demeaning names towards Rick like “Little Ricky”, “Sanctimonium”, “Saint Rick”, etc. I do not attack Newt because he is not the enemy. Newt supporters put much more effort on here into attacking Santorum than Romney.
Newt is the only candidate who will tell you outright what he will do on day one to start restoring the constitutional republic. Mitt and Rick will need to study it. If you don’t have a plan to resolve the nation’s problems you should not be running for president.