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To: Kenny; Steelfish; Engraved-on-His-hands; God'sgrrl; jellybean

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.’


49 posted on 03/03/2012 10:03:21 PM PST by JediJones (The Divided States of Obama's Declaration of Dependence: Death, Taxes and the Pursuit of Crappiness)
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To: JediJones
You decided in February to split the vote by abandoning the conservative frontrunner

Not that it matters, but I have been contributing to Santorum since last summer. I came out in support of him, hoping that he would run, a year prior to that. I'm a long-time Santorum supporter. I haven't abandoned anyone.
53 posted on 03/03/2012 10:12:31 PM PST by Engraved-on-His-hands
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To: JediJones; Lazlo in PA; American Conservative Union; CainConservative; Kenny; napscoordinator

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?


56 posted on 03/03/2012 10:17:38 PM PST by Steelfish (ui)
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To: JediJones
The question is who are YOU working for? Santorum supporters abandoned Newt exactly when Romney asked them to.

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.

58 posted on 03/03/2012 10:19:42 PM PST by jellybean (Bookmark http://altfreerepublic.freeforums.org/index.php for when FR is down)
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To: JediJones

Never.


89 posted on 03/03/2012 11:39:54 PM PST by God'sgrrl (twitter.com/Women4Santorum)
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To: JediJones

Are you dreaming? Best debate performances, oh wait, it’s too late. I need to finish some web work and get up for church.


90 posted on 03/03/2012 11:48:46 PM PST by God'sgrrl (twitter.com/Women4Santorum)
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