Posted on 02/26/2012 5:50:17 PM PST by SeekAndFind
The Republican presidential race faces a potential turning point on Tuesday in contests in Arizona and Michigan, where upstart Rick Santorum threatens to plunge an already unpredictable nominating battle into chaos.
Mitt Romney, the former front-runner and presumed nominee, and Santorum are in a close race in Michigan, the state where Romney was raised and his father was an auto executive and popular governor.
A Santorum win there would be a devastating blow to Romney, turning lingering doubts about his ability to win the allegiance of Republican primary voters into a deep panic in the party's senior ranks.
"If Santorum pulls off the upset in Michigan it turns the entire race on its head," said Republican Dan Schnur, an aide to Senator John McCain during his 2000 presidential bid. "There aren't going to be a lot of people who have much use for a front-runner who can't win his home state."
But Republicans worry about the general election viability of Santorum, a staunch conservative who has courted controversy with a burst of comments on social issues like birth control, pre-natal testing and women in the military.
Santorum's rise and Romney's weakness have sparked speculation about more contenders jumping into a Republican race that could last all the way to a brokered convention in August. The Michigan result could shift that speculation into overdrive.
"A Santorum win in Michigan takes all of the talk about a new candidate or a brokered convention and puts it on steroids," Republican strategist Todd Harris said.
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You need Carotid surgery stat!
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I think most people forget the Reagan Democrats. I'm sure the RINO elite do so willfully. There still are a lot of Democrats who will vote for a Republican if given a real choice between candidates. There wasn't much difference between McCain and Obammie and even less between Obammie and Rommie.
Really? It seems like it would be a win for Santorum, which is sort of like the point of a primary, right?
No. then the two of them need to put whoever has the least delegates as VP, combine into running mates, writing Romney and the elites out of the equation.
Bingo!
What you said.
“Reagan Democrats” would love a real conservative.
Pro-American. Pro-jobs. Pro-manufacturing.
They would flock back to the GOP, on patriotism alone. Pickup-truck driving rednecks. Have no place voting to Democrats.
Yet, they have been driven to do so, because the GOP does not seem to believe they have the correct ‘pedigree’.
News flash for the GOPe.
DOGS have pedigree.
>> “My prediction, worth squat, is that Romney wins Michigan by 12+pts.
What then?”
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Z O T ?
CONSERVATIVES IN MICHIGAN NEED TO TURN OUT EN MASSE TUESDAY IN MICHIGAN TO VOTE FOR RICK SANTORUM AND GIVE WILLARD ROMNEY'S CHAMELEON CAMPAIGN (DOWNRIGHT DIRTY AND NASTY) AND GOOD SLAP ACROSS THE RINO CHOPS.
>> “Repeat after me: a brokered convention for the good of the party!” <<
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“Springtime for Hitler and Germany...”
Death smiles at us all ... All a Man can do is smile back ... MDM ... Gladiator
Did anyone else notice the talk of brokered convention gets louder every time the GOP-E’s Chosen One, Mitt Trotsky, gets creamed ?
Did anyone else notice the talk of brokered convention gets louder every time the GOP-E’s Chosen One, Mitt Trotsky, gets creamed ?
To paraphrase the Joker:
You know what I’ve noticed? Nobody in the establishment panics when things go “according to plan.” Even if the plan is horrifying! If, tomorrow, I tell the press that, like, gas prices will shoot up, or the debt skyrockets, nobody panics, because it’s all “part of the plan”. But when the establishment GOP candidate loses and an outsider like Palin might win, well then everyone loses their minds!
You typed all that on an iPad??? You have much more patience than I do with virtual keyboards. Tell me you have an extern (e.g. Bluetooth) physical keyboard. :)
Democrats would vote for Romney (easily beatable) or Paul (whackadoo with zip chance in Nov)
” do you really believe that a Santorum win would allow Newt to succeed? “
No, I do not believe entirely that Santorum is useful for anything approaching conservative governance, other than slowing Romney in Michigan, and I am all for that. I appreciate his family values extremely, but the time to prove those values were in office. He failed. He didn’t try.
Were I a Michigan resident, I would make calls for Santorum.
Tactical neccessities are sometimes distasteful but required.
Would the Santorum supporters do the same for another candidate, when their candidate has offered nothing to indicate team play? I hope so.
We Newtsters will need them in the South.
No question, the GOP establishment is throwing everything they have at their disposal at wresting the election from we the people.
They may or may not pull it off. Certainly it is proving a whole lot more difficult for them, than it ever has before.
They’re burning quite a few bridges, this go around. Even if they do force Romney upon us, this may be the last election cycle they decide.
They may not even decide this one. It’s going to be close.
Don’t forget that we need for Paul to win in Virginia.
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>> “They’re burning quite a few bridges, this go around. Even if they do force Romney upon us, this may be the last election cycle they decide.” <<
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If Romney is the nominee, it will be the last real election we ever have. (regardless of who wins the general)
After 2008, my bridge was burned after McLame’s whimpering defeat. No more.
Voting for Ron Paul (in Virginia) to stop Romney or slow him down, also probably passes the situation ethics test and is a necessary evil for a greater good. (These are the only two men on the ballot for the GOP and that is not an insignificant state to get for the nomination).
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