Two weeks before Colorado/Missouri/Minnesota, I began to feel the current flowing to Santorum, especially here in Colorado...now, even in Colorado, I’m beginning to feel the flow going thee other way, back to Newt.
While Colorado has picked county and some of our state delegates, NO ACTUAL delegates to Tampa have been chosen, that won’t happen until April 13, 14. People who got elect
ed to state are overwhelmingly “uncommitted,” and those that are openly supporting a candidate are not bound.
Thanks for mentioning that unmistakable sensation of Newt-mentum. As Santorum sinks in the wake of his first vetting and attack ad blitz, the trick is going to be to make his votes go to Newt instead of Romney. The fact that Romney is hammering the point home every day that Santorum endorsed him and said he was conservative is extremely dangerous, and shows yet again why Santorum’s surge is the best thing that could have happened to Romney this month.
I think Newt needs to find a new line of attack against Romney to drop here and there, not like a hammer or anything. I would say he should underline the fact that we’ve rarely had businessmen as presidents, that those skills are not a good fit, and that the job is too big for someone who doesn’t have experience fighting the liberal and establishment enemy on the battlefield of Washington D.C. He should say any outsider at this stage of the game would get eaten alive, and that Romney unfortunately showed a tendency to go along with the status quo in Massachusetts instead of challenging it.
We really need Romney to come in 3rd in more states like this if we’re going to have any hope of wresting a negotiated convention from him. If he keeps coming in 1st and 2nd, I don’t see the delegate math working out for a possible Newt/Rick steal at the convention.