Double teaming: employed more frequently near the basket than away. In US politics..it's used to keep the unwashed American hopefuls from getting the numbers to gain any momentum.
Posted on 02/08/2012 7:04:39 PM PST by Earthdweller
Watch the Video of Rick Santorum Campaigning With/for Mitt Romney in 2008
Double teaming: employed more frequently near the basket than away. In US politics..it's used to keep the unwashed American hopefuls from getting the numbers to gain any momentum.
Must be doing something right, if we have to grasp at straws like that. Good luck, though. ;-)
You’re only helping Romney with this crap.
This explains why Team Romney is set to destroy
Mr. Santorum. Every good deed is destroyed
by Romney, Rove, BAIN, Marriott, Soros, and their MSM/DNC.
Romney is a slimy SOB
You truly are a muckraker, Earthdweller.
Your vest is working for Romney to split the vote. The vest shocked the GOP-e by doing better than the anointed one Romney but he will be put back in his “place”.
In politics, stranger things than that have frequently happened.
It might be my imagination but the conservative boards, including FR, seem a lot quieter lately.
I’m wondering if all this candidate bashing isn’t running off some. People need someone to be for, not always against. Hope I’m wrong, we need all our warriors to defeat Obama.
This is typical Romney Slime machine tactics. Since they know that conservatives can’t stand him, he will begin some attacks by showing a candidate’s attachment to him.
It is amazing how that machine interjects this kind of “hurt the conservative” by touting supposedly anti-conservative actions, words, etc., of the conservative candidate.
And conservatives fall right into that trap. Even freepers.
We know the RomSlime playbook now. They will use anything...true or untrue...to hurt an opponent.
yawn
Please, PLEASE continue to UNDERESTIMATE Senator Santorum.
Also (generically speaking to many out there) keep up the "Little Ricky" epithet, too, which is quite entertaining, considering he is two inches taller than his closest conservative competitor.
I love it. We must be doing something right. I see folks panicking because of the man's remarkable Tuesday night three state sweep/hat trick on a limited budget. Coffers going up as we speak by evangelicals and Catholics in both Texas and Arizona. Enjoy the ride! ;-)
“Well - imagine this, Gingrich gets hot again (and I think he just might) “
I don’t see how Newt can pull it off. Debating was his one trick pony and everyone figured out how to deal with it (no audience participation, audience participation but only for Romney supporters, fewer debates, etc)
But, I'm far more intrigued by this false mantra being repeated by some (such as yourself) that Santorum is some kind of stalking horse for Romney. If you watched any of Santorum's speeches or his debate performances, you would know your insinuation is absurd.
But then again, you might not care how absurd your post is as long as it's an attack against someone you view as a threat against your candidate.
I found Romneybots passing around this link to anti-Santorum Twitter messages/links today. Skimmed it enough to see they have been stepping up their oppo research...
http://www.dianarae.net/2-8-12/santorum.txt
I have a couple of pro Romney followers who started following me on twitter today.
Well, if Newt fades in the stretch, I have to wonder who he will hand his delegates to. He can ask for them to go to Santorum, but I think they could become ‘free to vote for whoever they please.’
So you think that Rick Santorum is carrying water for Romney when he bitch-slapped him across three states yesterday, and said in his victory speech that we need to nominate a conservative, not a moderate like Romney? To stay with the basketball analogy that you introduced, you’re falling for your own pump-fake here.
Herman Cain was not a stalking horse for Mitt Romney.
Rick Perry was not a stalking horse for Mitt Romney.
Michele Bachmann was not a stalking horse for Mitt Romney.
Newt Gingrich is not, and has never been, a stalking horse for Mitt Romney (I think I recall some Perry fans making this silly claim at some point).
And Rick Santorum is not, and has never been, a stalking horse for Mitt Romney.
Just because some people (and in CO, MO and MN, apparently many, many people) like another conservative candidate better than your preferred conservative candidate does not mean that they or the candidate are secretly plotting to help a liberal like Mitt Romney get the nomination. I don’t begrudge you for supporting Newt (I’m assuming you support Newt; if you support Ron Paul, then you’ve got bigger issues than a slight persecution complex), because Newt is a conservative, and if you prefer him to Santorum that’s your right. (If you preferred a liberal to Santorum, that would also be your right, but then you’d be in the wrong forum.)
You should try to convince Santorum supporters that Newt Gingrich is a better conservative than Santorum, or has a better chance of defeating Romney than does Santorum, or would have an easier time defeating Obama in the general than would Santorum, not post ridiculous innuendo about a fellow conservative.
So what?
McCain or Romney, he chose Romney.
People aren’t that stupid. They remember that almost evryone including Rush, Beck, and Hannity were behind Romney simply to stop McCain. I was too and so were most people on this site. We all knew what would happen with a McCain nomination.
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