Rick Perry Responds to Romney Win

Townhall ^ | 1/10/2012 | Katie Pavlich

[Museum Twenty]

"Tonight's results in New Hampshire show the race for 'conservative alternative' to Mitt Romney remains wide open. I skipped New Hampshire and aimed my campaign right at conservative South Carolina, where we've been campaigning hard and receiving an enthusiastic welcome. I believe being the only non-establishment outsider in the race, the proven fiscal and social conservative and proven job creator will win the day in South Carolina.

"South Carolina is the next stop. I have a head start here, and it's friendly territory for a Texas governor and veteran with solid outsider credentials, the nation's best record of job creation, and solid fiscal, social and Tea Party conservatism."

[John Valentine]

I have a different view. Romney will be savaged from all sides in a state where he has little or no natural base. Better he has to fend off attacks from multiple directions. Otherwise he could focus all his resources on smearing only one conservative. I think Romney will have a very difficult time bettering the 15.3 percent he managed in South Carolina last time.

There is plenty of time for a conservative alternative to emerge, especially after the meaningless fiasco in New Hampshire.

[South40]

[af_vet_rr]

"Tonight's results in New Hampshire show the race for 'conservative alternative' to Mitt Romney remains wide open.

Rick, the only thing that remains wide open is South Carolina's primary.

What in the Hell are Perry and Gingrich thinking, staking their campaigns on South Carolina, a state with an open primary where everybody knows the Demorats and Libertarians are going to cross over for Willard and RuPaul.

The pathetic thing is that Republicans in the state are only now realizing how bad this is, and they are filing lawsuits and creating legislation to close the primaries in time for 2016. At least they are doing that, but damn why didn't something think about this back in 2008??

[Catsrus]

It seems the people on FR don’t understand that Iowa was a caucus and NH an open primary state. This isn’t over by a long shot.

[John Valentine]

You need to change your jockeys. That pantload you are carrying around is really stinking up the place.

[Irish Eyes]

I voted for Perry here in Iowa. But with less than 1%; he is done. The window to stop Romney is narrowing very fast.
It is looking like we will have vomit in the back of our throats in November, and a terrible choice to make.

How did we get to this point? Why do we have no viable conservative candidates?

Can you say open primaries?

Until the Republican Party gets their act together this is the way it will be.

[South40]

Perry’s done because of NH? He didn’t even go there.

He's not doing well in South Carolina either. If he can't do well in the south...where?

[af_vet_rr]

Use your brain cells and not your emotions. It's N-e-w H-a-m-p-s-h-i-r-e, an O-P-E-N primary in a liberal, northern state. And stop with the panicking. What? You want a few thousand liberals to choose your nominee for you instead of seeing what happens down south? It's not time for people to drop out until SC/FL. If you're so sure I'm wrong, it's time for you and all these other obsessed Perry-haters to start making your argument with facts instead of panicked emo behavior.

It definitely is not time for people to drop out, even after SC.

SC is an open primary in a year when the Democrats have the incumbent President, they will be crossing over in droves to try and hand Romney the nomination, and the MSM is making a huge deal out of SC knowing that Romney will get plenty of liberal crossovers. This is the MSM's chance to tell everybody that Romney can get the Southern vote, when in fact it will only prove he can get the liberals that would normally go to Nobama.

I can see some folks panicking - the average of the polls heading into Iowa and NH were incredibly accurate for the bottom half of the candidates, but SC will be distorted by liberals and RuPaul's libertarians.

[kingu]

A vote for Perry is a vote for Romney.

I must have missed the shift in the timeline, as I could have sworn that Santorium lost his senate seat to a Democrat, and not by a hair, but a huge margin in what was supposed to be a close race. And I could have sworn that Rick Perry's a sitting governor who has delivered more votes than every other person running in the race combined in his last re-election campaign.

Oh well, I'll go read how the time stream has changed and see how well Santorium's done as the head of his senate committee...

[Nita Nupress]

Everyone knows two need to go or we get Romney. The only question is what two.

The 2nd question is when. When is the "point of no return" where it truly is too late? All these obsessed and/or hysterical people flitting around from thread to thread are confusing the issue and spreading negative "group think" that's counter-productive. Of course, that may be their goal.

Who has a good website that's keeping up with the delegate math? Anyone?

[Psalm 144]

“How did we get to this point? Why do we have no viable conservative candidates?”

Why? Because there is no viable conservative party.

[jpsb]

Ron Paul 2012, let’s give the Constitution a chance.

[World'sGoneInsane]

This isn’t over by a long shot.

No it is not. LOL...NH was like a carnival. RuPaul showed up to announce he was NOT Ron Paul...LOL. Even he took umbrage. The boot-headed whacko and the OWS crowd were out in full force.

I know SC is an open primary, but I don't think they will stand for people disrupting the campaign. I believe it will be a different ballgame there.

[World'sGoneInsane]

http://www.thegreenpapers.com/P12/NH-R

[writer33]

Last of all..he said he believes Romney will pull it off in SC.

We'll see, and it's probably because it's an open primary. Also, a conservative just needs to stay close enough to strike when we get to states with closed primaries.

[World'sGoneInsane]

As of tonight, Romeny has 13. He needs over 1,100. It is far from over.

[IM2MAD]

Please don’t kick anyone out until we get to closed primary states. So far, democrats are voting in Republican primaries because there’s no dem. challenger and the stupid Republicans allow this. I hope the three remaining conservatives stay in til Florida.

Currently we have a lib RINO leading, followed by a Libertarian who in the last debate said he was a democrat. What does that tell you? Paul shouldn’t even be running as a Republican. There IS a Libertarian Party.

[Nita Nupress]

SC is an open primary in a year when the Democrats have the incumbent President, they will be crossing over in droves to try and hand Romney the nomination, and the MSM is making a huge deal out of SC knowing that Romney will get plenty of liberal crossovers.

That's what i was thinking. This entire primary is so rigged it's laughable. I'm sure the dems equate it to leading sheep to a slaughter. They have the LSM on their side to help, as well as the GOP Establishment. It's just pathetic to watch. Sometimes i wish i was still a mindless sheeple. :)

What we need is a solid strategy instead of this mindless poll-watching and panicked calls for premature pull-outs.

[Nita Nupress]

Ummm.... maybe i should reword that. :/

[writer33]

I don’t know how reliable this is, considering the source, but here it is:

http://elections.nytimes.com/2012/primaries/delegates