You are missing my main point.
The moment it became Paul or Romney in VA, I said everyone should vote for Paul (winner takes all), to deny Romney all of those delegates.
I begged everyone to vote for whomever has the best chance of beating Romney in SC and FL (Winner takes all) LONG before Gingrich was even in contention. At the time I first started begging people, Herman Cain was ahead in the polls. I was prepared to beg people to vote for Cain.
Since day one, I have been all about beating Mitt Romney, and doing so state by state if need be, denying him every possible delegate every step of the way.
Now it looks as if sheer stubborness and/or some warped purity is going to do to us in SC what it did in 2008. Don’t you get it? It doesn’t matter if Santorum finishes in third with 19% or second with 20% - same with Newt - it won’t make a lick of difference because ROMNEY WILL GET ALL OF THE DELEGATES!!!!!!
There are two weeks and two days until SC. All I am asking is what I have asked of people ALL ALONG: vote for whomever has the best chance of beating Romney in your state when it comes to your state. If that becomes Santorum, I will GLADLY vote for Santorum to deny Romney any delegates if he proves to be the guy.
If the polls show Santorum as the closest to Romney the weekend before SC, the I will advocate voting for Santorum. If the polls show Newt as the closest, then I will beg people to vote for Newt. Remember, there is ABSOLUTELY NO POINT TO SECOND PLACE, and Florida has a humongous FIFTY deleagtes a week after SC.
Don’t marry yourself to ANY candidate, be it Newt or Rick. No CONSERVICIDE this time around!!!
Well, I think you’ve got it all backwards.
I supported Cain when he had 4 percent. I supported him when he had 24 percent and was leading Romney.
Why? Because I believed he was the best conservative. I could understand your position if it were Newt at 25 percent and Santorum at 5. But that’s not the case anymore.
Santorum actually beat Mitt in Iowa. Beat Newt too. Writing him off because he ‘lived in Iowa all year’, seems to me the kind of smear that we really don’t need.
If Newt really were going to be the nominee, then I really don’t see how attacking Santorum helps him. Newt’s fallen a long way in a short while, was unable to get on the VA ballot, etc. Hasn’t really shown evidence for an extensive organization. He was also short cash, not too long ago too.
Newt had every Negative Cain had, minus the experience, and lacked the advantage of high positives and a sky high negative.
Fast forward two months. None of that with Newt has changed. Same negatives as before, except now with Cain out, Cain folks have gravitated to Santorum. Solid conservative, but until now, no traction with the electorate.
So here’s my thought. How about folks vote for the fellow who’s beliefs are closest to their own and forget about all the electibility nonsense? Just vote, and let your faith in your fellow conservatives guide you to the right answer.
You are an independent, strategic political thinker, unlike most of our little Republican primary voters who have to be spoon-fed by the party organization.
Heads up people....this needs to be read...and not forgotten!!!
......”I have been all about beating Mitt Romney, and doing so state by state if need be, denying him every possible delegate every step of the way.
Now it looks as if sheer stubborness and/or some warped purity is going to do to us in SC what it did in 2008.
Don’t you get it? It doesn’t matter if Santorum finishes in third with 19% or second with 20% - same with Newt - it won’t make a lick of difference because ROMNEY WILL GET ALL OF THE DELEGATES!!!!!!”......