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Posted on 02/08/2012 8:25:55 AM PST by Lakeshark
Monday night, I sat looking at the GOP primary schedule and, considering Mitt Romney's enormous fundraising advantage, was filled with a sense of foreboding. After Newt Gingrich's meltdown in Nevada, the prospects for the conservative "Anybody But Romney" opposition looked grim indeed.
Rick Santorum's 3-for-3 hat-trick Tuesday night, however, revives the glimmer of a possibility that Romney can still be beat. But it will nevertheless be a difficult challenge and, in the short term, will require at least tacit cooperation between the Santorum and Gingrich campaigns.
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Some such arrangement would seem to offer the best hope of stopping Romney, if the conservative rivals Gingrich and Santorum are really serious about stopping Romney at all costs. The two conservatives would have to be willing to postpone until after Super Tuesday a showdown between themselves, knowing that neither of them has a good chance at the nomination unless -- by a modicum of tactical cooperation in the near term -- they can deliver enough defeats to Romney to stop him from building an insuperable early lead in the delegate count.
This kind of cooperation between two candidates in the GOP nomination contest would be unprecedented, but would simply replicate how the campaign has played out accidentally so far: Santorum upset Romney in Iowa and then, after Romney won New Hampshire, Gingrich won South Carolina, depriving Romney of a snowballing "inevitability" momentum. After two more Romney wins in Florida and Nevada, which threatened another "inevitability" snowball, Santorum came back to score big Tuesday in Missouri, Minnesota and Colorado. What the Santorum-Gingrich tag-team has so far achieved against Romney in sequential contests, they must now attempt to repeat in simultaneous contests.
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Mitt is a disaster for the GOP, he has to be stopped.
I agree with you. I think our best hope is for the “tag team” to throw this into a brokered Convention.
Santorum 2012
Can’t argue with anything you just said. Although I can say the only thing we can do is vote for the candidate we feel is best suited to fix this country. Then... if mitt wins... just vote for congressional seats in the general and write-in someone conservative for POTUS :D
Is the writer of the opinion piece you posted, Robert McCain, one of “those” McCains?
If they work together we could have "8+8".
Eight years of Newt as president followed by eight years of Santorum....Sixteen years of a conservative in the WH should turn the country around.
I'm not sure who is stronger in Arizona - but I think that will be secondary for Santorum, though he'll be there for the debate. I would guess Newt will focus his energy there.
Arizona is a tough state as it has a fair number of moderates and a strong minority of Mormons.
I personally think Santorum has the best chance against Romney here in Michigan. Hopefully he’ll get up here after a couple days rest and start mingling with the folks.
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They deny that Jesus created even the angels out of nothing.
They do NOT teach the truth about Jesus.
Freeper impimp has also championed the collaborative alliance idea, and I think it makes a lot of sense. It does require a departure from the conventional campaign mentality, but if Santorum and Gingrich can’t do that - are they really the right men for the job? BY working together they would force Romney to defend himself on two fronts at once, and by not sniping at each other but instead focusing on Obama and “Obama-lite” the campaign would have a more positive feel for conservatives and others who are afraid of Romney but maybe aren’t convinced who is the best “non-Romney” at this point.
There are no perfect candidates. What we need is the best conservative who can beat Obama.
....the glimmer of a possibility that Romney can still be beat. But it will nevertheless be a difficult challenge.....
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Nah; it will not be difficult; Obozo will take him out easily in November.
Romney wasn't really challenged in Michigan in 2008. I think McCain went there and told them all their jobs were gone and never coming back and Romney promised everyone a job in the auto industry.
Exactly....
Go NEWT!
If by “tag team” you guys mean one for Prez and the other for VP...... that would be a disastrous ticket. We need Allen West or Marco Rubio in the second spot because whoever carries FL will move into the White House. I could live with either Rick or Newt in the top spot on the ticket but neither of them in the VP spot. No, no, no!!!
I read this today and thought it timely.
We don’t need to see the way if we’re following the One who is the Way.
Strength for the journey, 2/8/2012
It’s possible that strategy has already been employed- Newt appeared only 1 time in Colorado and Mn- ran no ads- and has not said anything negative about Rick.
Some here on FR were saying Santorum was the best conservative in the race...but there was some sort of embrace of Newt because he was vicious in attacking the media.
Arizona is a tough state as it has a fair number of moderates and a strong minority of Mormons.
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Colorado has a lot of Mormons also. In ‘08 Mitt won CO with 61 percent of the vote. Last night he lost with a total percentage in the 30s. Hell, maybe even Mormons are tired of all the negativity and in-fighting between Newt and Mittens.
One thing I make sure to remind people of is that Romney takes us for granted and really doesn’t bother to campaign here. When he won the straw poll he went to Mackinaw island and stepped right over us little people on his way to the cash register.
I personally believe the midwest is the key to this election. We’ve been the most active political fault zone over the last year or two and that can work to our advantage.
I’m going to encourage my congressman (Tim Walberg) to endorse Rick Santorum before the primary and I hope other Michiganders will do the same.
The problem is that there is no tag team. We are dealing with egomaniacs here with no regard for conservative principles. They are beating each other up. Im embarrassed for this crew. We can’t come up with anyone better than this? Really?? Im sure there’s some city counselman somewhere out there that would be better than this lot..
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