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Plus, I don’t want to lose. I certainly don’t want to lose to Obama, and we can’t afford to lose.
I wish I felt better about Newt’s chances. There are a lot of people I respect who don’t think he has a chance of winning. They could all be wrong, but they could also be right.
The surprising thing to me is the Florida polls. Frankly, I was beginning to think Newt was inevitable, and now it doesn’t look that way. This has been a weird race.
If Newt keeps dropping in the polls, we’ll need to try to save Santorum I think; Newt certainly isn’t dropping for want of support at FR after all.
Of course, if conservatives decide they want to trash Santorum like he’s been trashed here, how would he fare any differently.
And since Romney is believed to be unelectable, if Newt crashes and Santorum is unacceptable, will conservatives allow for a new entrant like Mitch Daniels, simply because we need SOMEONE to stop Romney?
I understand why people are “all-in” for Newt — we reached the end of the road, he looked like he was going to do the job, and was all we had left. But we have been far to rejecting of all the other candidates up until this point. A lot of people kept acting like we had an infinite number of choices, and so they could reject out of hand people like Perry and Santorum and Bachmann, because they weren’t “perfect”.
I still fear that in a few weeks, we’ll all be sorry conservatives had a hissy fit over being called “heartless”.