Name who these “strawmen” are that you base your entire post on. I haven’t seen anyone do what you describe.
Rick’s candidacy is imploding. He never had anything going for him other than endorsements by religious leaders and the other two guys attacking each other while they ignored him. He cannot compete or win on his own merits. His candidacy is dead in the water now and he would have the worst of all these guys against Obama.
If Newt needed to win FL, why didn’t Rick? Why didn’t Rick need Michigan or any large state at all?
Rick is the one who is handing states to Mitt by not dropping out after doing terribly everywhere except Iowa up through February. He gave people a false hope to find the “perfect” candidate after it was far too late in the process for us to risk wasting time vetting an untested candidate. He failed the test and is destroying Newt’s chance to beat Romney every day he stays in the race.
If Newt needed to win FL, why didn’t Rick? Why didn’t Rick need Michigan or any large state at all?Do you really not know the answer to that question?
First of all, Rick tied Romney in Michigan, Romney's home state.
Secondly, Newt needed FL to keep his surge alive. After FL, the Newt surge died.
Now we are in the midst of the Santorum surge. Do I love Santorum? No. But do I want him over Romney? Yes.
Gingrich is a fantasy.
As for the strawmen, I refuse to name names, nor do I have to. Anyone who knows anything about FR knows what I'm talking about and I don't feel like getting into a pissing contest with the people I name, who I would have to ping when I named them.
So thanks but no thanks.
We had a candidate to unite behind pre-Florida and that was Newt and we failed.
We have a candidate to unite behind now, and though he's not as good as Newt, he's good enough.
But you know what Santorum has in common with Gingrich? Conservatives will fail him too. They will bicker and squander the Santorum opportunity, just like they bickered and squandered the Newt opportunity.
Delegate count:
Romney 180
Santorum 90
Gingrich 29
Paul 23
Huntsman 2
I think there are a lot of people here who just can’t do simple arithmetic.
There’s only one chance to stop Romney and it’s not the guy with 29 delegates.