Posted on 03/03/2012 8:39:08 PM PST by Steelfish
Santorum, Gingrich Target Obama at GOP Dinner in Ohio
By Seema Mehta
March 3, 2012 Bowling Green, Ohio— Rick Santorum and Newt Gingrich courted GOP activists at a party dinner Saturday night, each painting a dire picture of America's straits, arguing that the nation's very soul is at stake in this upcoming election and saying that they were the candidate best suited to take on President Obama.
Santorum, who delivered a fiery speech about the nation's heritage, clearly received the warmer reaction, with the hundreds of GOP voters gathered in a university student union leaping to their feet four times during his speech to give him a standing ovation.
He said that the United States is better than all other nations because it was founded on the premise that each person is granted rights not by the government but by God.
"We declared the truth, that all men are created equal and endowed by their creator with certain unalienable rights. Unalienable -- you can't take them away. They were given to you because you were created by God and each one has dignity and value," Santorum said. "…Where does that concept come from? Does it come from Islam? Does it come from other cultures around the world? Are men and women treated equally? Are adults and children treated equally? No. It comes from our culture and tradition -- the Judeo-Christian ethic, that is where this comes from, this sense of equality."
But Americans' rights and liberty are doomed if Obama's healthcare law goes into effect, he said.
(Excerpt) Read more at latimes.com ...
Mitt thanks you for you support.
Agreed but that's Santorum at the moment. Newt can't possibly get it together for Super Tuesday but Rick still has a chance. We can deal with other scenarios as they develop but Rick's it for now.
Gingrich has become a major spoiler. Romney would have been finished in MI had it not been for Gingrich who garnered 7% of the vote and zero delegates. Romney wins WA with a margin of 11% over Santorum which is exactly the percentage that Gingrich received and came a distant fourth in the race.
And now he flails around in key states like TN (where his campaign manager just embarrassingly switched over to Santorm); in OK, and in vital OH.
After Santorum’s trifecta sweep, Gingrich should have honorably withdrawn just as Bachman, Pawlenty, Cain, and Perry did. Instead, we have Gingrich staying in the race on account of an oversized ego, his negatives are through the cellar, his gender gap is of Grand Canyon proportions, and there is no math that allows him even a hypothetical shot at the nomination. While Santorum trails Obama by 2 points in Gallup, Gingrich finds himself out of the viewfinder in the rear-view mirror.
No one in the media is now taking him seriously, and proposals for permanent lunar-based colonies within eight years and $2.50 per gallon gas regardless of global demand and energy markets and without reference to geo-political conditions in the Middle East are now so risible that they have become the butt of SNL.
Gingrich leads in GA only because of their “familiarity” with him and not on account of his grandiose ideas.
Romney owes Gingrich a lot, quite a lot if and when he wins the nomination.
“I like Newt and wish him and Rik could team up together to stop Mitt”
Great! When Newt makes it perfectly clear that he is the only viable alternative to Romney on Super Tuesday you can hop on board!
i would in an instant.
Would you do the same if it comes down the other way?
I hope so.
Thank you-superb!!!
Santorum for President- Everyone else please leave the field now.
We already have Santorum supporters like you to thank for making Romney the frontrunner again. The question is who are YOU working for? Santorum supporters abandoned Newt exactly when Romney asked them to. You decided in February to split the vote by abandoning the conservative frontrunner with the strongest resume, most experience, best debate performances, and the most votes for an upstart at the back of the pack who had at best a Hail Mary pass to become the top vote-getter and an almost certain chance to be nothing more than a spoiler against Newt. You got greedy for your “favorite” and acted completely selfishly at the expense of our country and our Constitution. I don’t know whether you did this for a malicious agenda or out of sheer ignorance. But you were the ones who fired the first shot of the circular firing squad and now have us at a real risk of giving us 4 more years of B.O. I hope you can find a way to live with yourself if that happens.
We have one chance left, and that is for all the conservatives to move back to rally around Newt on Super Tuesday. If Santorum’s downward spiral doesn’t move fast enough, and he wins some states while on his way down, it will be disastrous for the conservative movement. His wins won’t mean anything and no other conservative will get the big blast of momentum that they need to upset Romney.
I guess you never read the Aesop’s Fable, The Dog and Its Reflection:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Dog_and_Its_Reflection
Discussing the foolish desire for more, rather than being content with what one has, he describes it as being ‘like the dog in Aesop’s fable.
In the story, a dog that is carrying a stolen bone, or piece of meat or cheese, looks down as it is crossing a stream and sees its own reflection in the water. Taking it for another dog carrying something better, it opens its mouth to bark at the “other” and in doing so drops what it was carrying.
...asserts that ‘If a dog swims across a river carrying a piece of meat or anything of that sort in its mouth, and sees its shadow, it opens its mouth and in hastening to seize the other piece of meat, it loses the one it was carrying’.
The story’s moral, according to John Lydgate’s versified Isopes Fabules, is that the one ‘Who all coveteth, oft he loseth all.’
I would.
Oh, I definitely agree! Newt's Nasties© would rather see Romney win than consider voting for Rick to stop Romney. How many more primaries/caucuses does Newt have to come in 3rd or 4th (behind Ron Paul FPS!) before they'll admit he's not gaining ground? Will lightening finally strike after Romney's well on his way to the nomination? Ya, I'm not holding my breath either.
Mitt thanks the Santorum supporters for their support. It was his pipe dream after South Carolina to stop Newt’s momentum and there were very few ways of doing it besides splitting the conservative vote with another candidate. It seemed incredibly unlikely that Santorum could serve that purpose after his long string at the bottom of the polls, his constant stumbling over himself in debates, his 18-point loss in the 2006 Senate race, and his deep ties to the Bush era of big spending which almost every Republican has been trying to disavow for the last 4 years. But Santorum supporters handed Mitt his greatest wish on a silver platter, his one shot at securing the nomination after being badly on the ropes. Thankfully, as a consistent supporter of the only candidate who is willing and able to do what it takes to turn this country around from the brink, Newt Gingrich, I don’t have to live with that on my conscience.
If one uneven debate performance during a debate where Romney hurled constant indefensible lies against Newt is seriously the reason people abandoned Newt Gingrich, then they should be RUNNING LIKE THE WIND from Santorum now after he bombed like the Hindenburg at the Arizona debate. The real reason most people support him is because they are grossly ignorant of the dire straits our government is in and do not care if it gets fixed or not. They are judgmental people who commit the sin of pride by using their religion as a club against those they deem to be inferior people. In doing that, they ignore some of the most fundamental lessons of the Bible and of Jesus Christ. They do a disservice both to their professed faith and, by introducing this morally flawed thinking into politics, they do a disservice to their country.
This is pretty silly. When you start questioning motives it shows the utter bankruptcy of your position. After Gingrich took a two week hiatus and Santorum clinched the trifecta, the writing was on the wall. This is dreamy to think that Gingrich has even a long shot at the nomination at this stage. Santorum came within a whisker of creating the biggest upset in MI. Thanks to Gingrich this did not happen. Several publications on the right from the American Spectator, The National Review and The Weekly Standard have all asked Gingrich to step down.
Mark Levin has endorsed Santorum and Rush has all but endorsed him. So who the hell do you think you are to question our motives and ask “who are YOU working for.”
With Santorum trailing Obama by two points and Gingrich consigned to the back benches, we are working to have a Santorum presidency since he connects with Reagan Democrats, and can bring in the Rust-Belt states into the Republican column. So tell us who are YOU working for?
Fixed it for you...
After Gingrich’s historic South Carolina win, Santorum should have honorably withdrawn just as Bachman, Pawlenty, Cain, and Perry did. Instead, Santorum stayed in the race on account of an oversized ego, his negatives are through the cellar, his gender gap is of Grand Canyon proportions, and there is no math that allows him even a hypothetical shot at the nomination.
BTW, please post the statistics on Newt’s gender gap. Here’s how badly Santorum was polling with women on 2/25:
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2851275/posts?page=71
Santorum leads Romney 43% to 32% among men...
Romney leads Santorum 47% to 26% among women...
I don't know when of if Romney asked anyone to abandon Newt. I turn him off if I hear his voice. After Cain dropped out I vacillated between Newt and Rick for about a week. The nastiness of the Newt supporters drove me away. I didn't want to be associated with them, so I decided to go with Santorum. As I've stated many times, if Gingrich is the most viable when Wisconsin holds it's primary in April, I'll vote for him. Otherwise my vote goes to Santorum.
There’s a word for Republicans who either ignore, or timidly stay away from social issues: RINOs.
Try a 24-point margin!
http://www.jewishworldreview.com/0212/morris020312.php3
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