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SC Sources: Gingrich Could Endorse Santorum
http://mountpleasant-sc.patch.com/articles/sources-gingrich-could-endorse-santorum ^ | January 10, 2012 | Andrew Moore

Posted on 01/11/2012 2:33:00 AM PST by sheikdetailfeather

While Newt Gingrich campaign staffers are calling such talk premature, there are indications that should the former House Speaker bow out of the GOP race, he would throw his support behind rising Rick Santorum in a last-ditch effort to stop frontrunner Mitt Romney.

Multiple South Carolina sources affiliated with Santorum's campaign said Gingrich's campaign has contacted Santorum's campaign to discuss endorsing the former Pennsylvania senator should he drop out.

One source, speaking to Patch on the condition they not be identified, paraphrased Gingrich's stance as delivered by high level campaign staff this way: "If it can't be me, I want it to be Rick Santorum.""

Gingrich is looking at finishing as low as fifth place in New Hampshire and is currently polling at under 20 percent (good for third place) in South Carolina, according to rolling averages from Real Clear Politics.

Still, high-ranking officials within Santorum's South Carolina campaign don't foresee Gingrich stalling out before the primaries in the Palmetto State, where he once commanded an imposing lead in the polls.

(Excerpt) Read more at mountpleasant-sc.patch.com ...


TOPICS: Front Page News; News/Current Events; Politics/Elections; US: South Carolina
KEYWORDS: 2012endorsements; endorse; gingrich; santorum; sc2012; sourcetitlenoturl
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To: Reagan69
"All of you capitalists that think anything goes, and the complain about the Kelo Supremem Court decision. Well, that eminent domain situation is pure greedy capitalism. Was that ok?"

You'll have all the ammo you need to back up your argument if you see my previous post above. :) bttt

141 posted on 01/11/2012 6:27:20 AM PST by Matchett-PI ("One party will generally represent the envied, the other the envious. Guess which ones." ~GagdadBob)
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To: sheikdetailfeather

VCR? Really? What century are you living in?

;-)


142 posted on 01/11/2012 6:28:47 AM PST by bolobaby
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To: PreciousLiberty

I’m sorry but I couldn’t get past the Tipper-Al Gore 5 minute slobber fest to watch his speech.

Get a room.


143 posted on 01/11/2012 6:32:32 AM PST by Reagan69 (I supported Sarah Palin and all I got was a lousy DVD !)
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To: Jonty30
A Santorum presidency with a Gingrich VP

I like the idea too. It would allow Gingrich to really be outspoken, while Santorum could be rock steady, as a POTUS should be. Can you imagine when Oboob plays the race card, how Newt will respond? Pass the popcorn.

144 posted on 01/11/2012 6:33:51 AM PST by King Moonracer (Bad lighting and cheap fabric, that's how you sell clothing.....)
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To: sheikdetailfeather

It is after 9AM, is the speech over?


145 posted on 01/11/2012 6:34:34 AM PST by dforest
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To: TomGuy

Wow, that came at such a convenient time,

The great pile on to prove he’s the most electable.

BULL.


146 posted on 01/11/2012 6:35:21 AM PST by Reagan69 (I supported Sarah Palin and all I got was a lousy DVD !)
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To: sheikdetailfeather

If Gingrich were to do this I would regain some respect for the man. If he’s the visionary some say he is, it should be clear conservatives, independents and a significant number of Pubbies want a clear choice this time around. Perhaps even a new face. Afterall, Gingrich and Paul are part of the political elite who, by what they did or did not do, facilitated the usurping of the WH by a Marxist.

I think endorsing Santorum would ultimately enshrine Gingrich as a true statesman.

As for Perry and Huntsman—it’s time they left the stage as well. America needs a clear choice and an opportunity to rally around that choice. Coalescing around Santorum will leave the national GOP no choice but to accept Santorum—thus reassuming the mantle of an opposition party to the demrat party—or be absorbed by the Demrat Party.


147 posted on 01/11/2012 6:37:31 AM PST by dools0007world
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To: Matchett-PI

Good post — thanks!


148 posted on 01/11/2012 6:38:29 AM PST by maryz
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To: sheikdetailfeather

A nice gesture. But Santorum is the least likely to win the general of the 3 (Perry, Gingrich, Santorum). I truly believe independents will like Gingrich and Perry more.


149 posted on 01/11/2012 6:40:56 AM PST by independent in tx
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To: wolfman23601
..so you're seeing it as strategic rather than ideological

I have to remind myself sometimes--these are politicians...

150 posted on 01/11/2012 6:41:21 AM PST by WalterSkinner ( In Memory of My Father--WWII Vet and Patriot 1926-2007)
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To: All

Neo-Socialism
http://conservativewahoo.blogspot.com/2009/11/neo-socialism.html

Anyone who puts himself out there as a conservative thinker/commentator will invariably find themselves the subject of critics who hurl the phrase “neo-con” or “neo-conservative” at them, as if there is no difference in “conservatism” and “neo-conservatism”. There is. Neo-conservatism adds to a core of conservative domestic sensibility a new sense of American exceptionalism in the world and a concomitant duty to spread the benefits of democracy and liberalism (classical, not modern) throughout the world. Most who use the phrase “neo-con” these days mean it as an insult, largely code for “support for the failed policies of George Bush” or some other such drivel.

I propose that we now begin to refer to the policies of the Obama Administration as “Neo-Socialism”. Not in some childish game of tit-for-tat, but in the recognition of the fundamental differences in classic socialism and the brand practiced by President Obama and his administration.

Here are, as far as I can see it, the defining characteristics of “Neo-socialism”.

1. A belief in the concept that capitalism has failed, but can be resuscitated by a new partnership between government and business. This new partnership will be inherently more fair to more people.
2. A belief that competition isn’t necessarily bad, and that government can and should be permitted to compete with private industry.
3. A belief that big government isn’t necessarily bad; what is bad is BAD big government. Big, effective government is desirable.
4. A belief in the transcendent quality of the world community while de-valuing national interests. A sense of American relative and actual decline in the world, one that demands of us a more compliant approach to problem solving. A perception that American decline is not necessarily a bad thing.

I’m sure there’s more—but this is a good start. bttt


151 posted on 01/11/2012 6:42:28 AM PST by Matchett-PI ("One party will generally represent the envied, the other the envious. Guess which ones." ~GagdadBob)
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To: Rome2000

Agreed, if Santorum is the top of the ticket, its done.. he cannot win a general election.

I think Santorum is a reasonable VP pick, though what he brings to the VP spot for a top ticket is questionable.

However, Santorum as the candidate, = Obama 2nd term.. this guy doesn’t have the chops to handle a national campaign, let alone one that will be as well funded and nasty as this one is going to be. He couldn’t get re-elected in a statewide race as a 2 term senator against the most boring and invisible oponent on the planet, I truly don’t see him staning a prayer against the Obama machine.

Its Newt or Romney.. any other person as the Candidate equals 2nd term for Obama IMHO.

Romney is boring, and safe and should win easily with 55-45 or better. Newt will be able to make and keep a true idealolgical debate to the public, and that will easily gain another 5-10 points his way, 60/65-40/35 win.

Santorum? He’ll be painted as a radical, attacked on all sides, and easily painted as an extremist, and won’t be able to handle it. And this will allow Obama to pull out a squeaker.

I am okay with any of these guys over Obama, but I honestly watched Santorum for 12 years, he didn’t just lose an election last time, he was summarily trounced by a candidate who literally no showed the campaign as is about as exciting as watching paint dry. I don’t see how Santorum will win the general, I can list you pleanty of reasons why, but the biggest is, that I can’t see him carrying PA or OH.. and that’s his back yard. if he cant win those states, no way he can get the White House.

I see this as if we wish to actually beat Obama, we have 2 choices, Newt or Romney. Of those two I’ll take Romney anyday. I like Santorum over Romney, but not as much as I like Newt, but I just see no way Santorum will win the general if he is the nominee.


152 posted on 01/11/2012 6:53:27 AM PST by HamiltonJay
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To: Rome2000

“The GOP had better do something about Iowa and NH being first and second next time around,those states are a joke. “

Since the GOP doesn’t control NH law, there isn’t much they can do about the NH problem.

State law allows “unaffiliated” voters (who are about 1/3 of the total in NH) to vote in either primary they choose on election day. So mushies like Mittens get gobs of votes from liberals.

State law also requires that the primary election be held before any other state’s primary. No matter what the national party does in other states, the NH Secretary of State will have to schedule the primary on the Tuesday before the earliest other primary.

All the national party can do is reduce NH’s delegates to something insignificant. The party can’t tell the state how to hold elections, and the state can’t tell the party how to use the results of those elections.


153 posted on 01/11/2012 6:54:09 AM PST by Jordo
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To: maryz

You’re welcome! :)


154 posted on 01/11/2012 6:56:53 AM PST by Matchett-PI ("One party will generally represent the envied, the other the envious. Guess which ones." ~GagdadBob)
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To: sheikdetailfeather

Seriously, the way things seem headed Santorum, Gingrich, and Perry will all have to drop out after SC. There will be no viable path for any of them. People in SC just ratify what NH does; they do it often, but not in 1996, when they demanded Dole.


155 posted on 01/11/2012 6:57:03 AM PST by Theodore R. (I'll still vote for the Right Rick --Santorum-- if he is on the April 3 ballot.)
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To: Rome2000
This is an easy win for Gingrich and the end of the line for the rest of the clowns.

Sooner or later, we are going to have to accept realize it: Newt is POISON with female voters. His numbers are dreadful. And this is without Debbie Wasserman-Schultz hammering him over the divorce-hospital-bed nonsense in the general campaign. He would set records for low womens' vote. Santorum does not have this problem, to say the least.

156 posted on 01/11/2012 6:57:59 AM PST by montag813
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To: HamiltonJay

“Agreed, if Santorum is the top of the ticket, its done.. he cannot win a general election.”

YOU ARE WRONG!. SERIOUSLY WRONG.


157 posted on 01/11/2012 7:02:16 AM PST by CSI007
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To: All

I am listening to a livestream of Newt at a Townhall in SC. It doesn’t sound like he is dropping out at all.


158 posted on 01/11/2012 7:02:16 AM PST by Shelayne
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To: montag813

Every female voter lost because of Newt (emotional - swing voter non-thinker types - not conservative womend) will be back and bring a friend when he picks Marco Rubio as VP.


159 posted on 01/11/2012 7:20:25 AM PST by azcap (Who is John Galt ? www.conservativeshirts.com)
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To: Old Teufel Hunden
Trading stocks is certainly a part of capitalism...

is criticizing politicians for trading on inside information anti-capitalism?

160 posted on 01/11/2012 7:24:25 AM PST by TexasFreeper2009 (Go Newt!)
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