That's not exactly accurate.
Some people on Free Republic are rabidly anti-Santorum.
Some people on Free Republic have intelligent and thoughtful posts explaining why they think Santorum is not the best candidate to defeat Romney and Obama, and think Gingrich is a better choice. I can respect that.
Some people on Free Republic support Santorum because they think he's got a better chance to defeat Romney and Obama. I'm in that group — I was a very late supporter of Santorum and am well aware of the problems with his candidacy, but I believe it is crucial to defeat Mitt Romney in the primary and believe Santorum has a better chance of doing that than Gingrich.
The site owner, Jim Robinson, has endorsed Newt Gingrich but says either Gingrich or Santorum are fine with him as candidates to defeat Romney.
Please don't assume most people on Free Republic are rabid about anything — except perhaps about the need to defeat Barack Obama.
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 He draws lop-sided percentages of the male vote and had he withdrawn, this vote would almost inevitably go to Santorum.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.
Thanks for the explanation. That makes sense. I was just kind of shocked when I read the first several responses.