Posted on 03/03/2012 12:20:39 PM PST by Elvina
State Sen. Stacey Campfield, co-chairman of Newt Gingrich’s campaign in Tennessee, announced today he is quitting that position to support Rick Santorum in the Republican presidential race.
The Knoxville Republican made his announcement in a post on his blog. In an interview, Campfield said he believes that conservatives need to unite behind a single candidate and that Santorum is best positioned to defeat “establishment Republican” candidate Mitt Romney.
Campfield’s decision comes after a conversation with Santorum earlier this week.
In his blog post, Campfield said he was “twisted inside because of my loyalty to Newt, my loyalty must first lie with my country and getting a country with a conservative leader must take precedence to my own personal whims of fancy.
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The Congress already has too many and the White House doesn't need one in the presidency!
Show me a lawyer turned politician and I'll show you a skillful, weasel liar.
Do you think it just might be because Santorum thinks for himself?
Like Newt’s TN team? Good luck.
I seriously wonder, what does this switch do or could do for the man personally?
You would think that given that the post supports Santorum that you’d get at least one in there from someone who likes Santorum.
Newt’s just too far behind. He’s lost enough states that he needs to win in order to beat Romney. 1/3rd have already picked, and only one went Newt. It’s not just every state that Santorum wins, its that Romney’s winning them too.
It’s a hard enough task chasing delegates when you are second. When you are third, it’s another task altogether.
The only hope that Newt has for the nomination is a brokered convention. That only works if the conservatives can pile up enough delegates to stop Romney.
What’s happening right now is that Romney is taking advantage of his divided opposition and racking up delegates.
I know it’s tough, but the decision makes sense at this point. We can’t afford to give up more ground to Romney and let him run away with the nomination.
If that’s what happened, then Newt accomplished exactly what he needed to do, prevent a conservative ascendency and make Mitt Romney the Republican nominee, awarding Obama a 2nd term.
That’s the reality of it right now.
Back in december I can see the argument, but Newt wasn’t able to carry his support over when it became apparent that it wasn’t just him that could win this. That’s been the trend since early last year. Cain, Bachmann, Perry, Cain again. It’s the same as with Romney. All the time Newt was there, and conservatives when given a not-Newt, Not Romney, have pushed them to the forefront.
No, you’re helping OBAMA win.
That is stupid.
Notice most of the posts are coming from just a few individuals. Most others stay away from posts like these - way too much emotion going on & folks get way too personal.
LOL like li’l ricky stands a chance. He is exactly what obama wants. Exactly.
Another big gov’t politician. GOP-e. Again.
Newt is the one who stands a chance against obama imo. Newt has my support.
late 2011 campaign noobs can such my prinicples.
Regarding his evolving on LIFE?
No, I think it was purely political, when he started out, and then once elected, he came back to the Church.
See post #58.
You can have the stain of your hands on bringing down America - not I.
This is stuff taken right off the MoveOn.org website and is believed by psychotics. Those who know better have now moved over from Gingrich to the Santorum. The time to sell permanent moon-based colonies within eight years and have $2.50/gallon gas is for moonbats and the loonies.
Gallup shows Santorum trailing Obama by 2 points and Gingrich has completely fallen out of view in the rear view mirror. This is a 2-man race.
This news is proof positive that the Gingrich candidacy is collapsing all around him. Had he done the honorable thing and quit like Pawlenty, Bachman, Cain, and Perry, Romney would have lost in MI, his candidacy would have been in shreds, and we here at FR would have triumphed in our Le Resistance.
But not to worry, some folks just don’t take off their blinders even while senior home-state Gingrich campaign operators who know better have pulled the plug on him while we have some diehards here who are still stuck in the Gingrich cul-de-sac.
No - We are PRO AMERICAN.
Vin and I both seem to agree that having a serious discussion is better than spamming threads.
Yeah and he campaigned for PRO ABORTION, ANTI Traditional MARRIAGE Romney in '08. We see how he 'thinks'.
His position on abortion did not evolve. He needed a political position as to what he would push for his campaign issues. That is what “evolved”, as he probably had advisors telling him what he should do, although his eventual public policy position was a good one.
Not a problem though, as nobody here at FR would ever fall for the implication that Santorum wasn’t the most pro-life candidate in the race.
Well said. Some of us stood up and cheered when Gingrich won S. Carolina. That was then, this is now. Gallup shows Santorum trailing Obama by two points and Gingrich has fallen out of view in the rear-view mirror. Had Gingrich done what Pawlenty, Bachman, Cain, and Perry, did after Santorum won the Trifecta, Romney would have gone down in flames in MI and Le Resistance would have won.
Gingrich has an unbridgeable gap with women and Evangelicals. He draws lop-sided percentages of the male vote and had he withdrawn, this vote would almost inevitably go to Santorum. And now his senior campaign operatives are quitting and his campaign is collapsing around him.
Whatever may be said for Gingrich’s big ideas (and we share a lot of this) yet his un-saleable political proposals for permanent lunar-based colonies within eight years and $2.50/gas/gallon regardless of supply and demand, world energy markets and geopolitical conditions in the Middle-East, makes it clear that at this point in the race, Gingrich does not have the math working in his favor and all polls point to his un-electability. At some point reality needs to take control of our senses.
This is now a 2-man race. Gingrich is splitting the conservative vote and Romney is shooting right through the breach.
I’m still waiting for a single Gingrich supporter here to actually address the article in this thread.
Why, if Gingrich is ascending, did his Tennessee Co-Chair, and several other prominent supporters, choose to announce NOW that they were switching to Santorum?
I mean, the polls show movement toward Gingrich, and the guy says he still likes Gingrich, but he’s switching allegiance — why? What does he know, or what has deluded him (depending on your perspective)?
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