Posted on 03/06/2012 9:18:04 PM PST by LonelyCon
Rick Santorum's campaign is calling on conservatives to pressure Newt Gingrich to abandon his bid for the White House, a senior adviser told reporters tonight.
Senior campaign strategist John Brabender said the key for the campaign going forward will be creating an opportunity to challenge Mitt Romney one-on-one, though Brabender maintained the Santorum campaign would not directly call on Gingrich to drop out of the race.
"We're never going to call on anybody to get out, but what we are calling is on Tea Party supporters and conservatives is to rally behind the only candidate that has demonstrated over and over again that he's the one who can compete against Mitt Romney," Brabender said.
"The real key right now is, can we get an opportunity to get a one-on-one shot with Mitt Romney," he said.
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He ought to join with Newt and ask Mittens to get lost.
Can’t go with it.
Destroying the opposition in debates is not the goal. Nobody watches them but us. Winning the votes of the uninformed american electorate is. . . they happen to be the majority.
Newt and Rick couldn’t be more polarizing to the masses of uninformed on the other side of the aisle, who get their news from the old media. Wish it wasn’t so, but it is.
“Santorum stabbed the conservatives in the back and endorsed Specter.”
Yep, he’d make a mighty fine POTUS. Just the type the GOP elite yearn for.
There’s a significant group of who wouldn’t even vote if Gingrich dropped out.
MSNBC once again creates a narrative that isn’t held up by reading the article.
Nobody called on Newt to drop out. LOL
MSNBC once again creates a narrative that isn’t held up by reading the article.
Nobody called on Newt to drop out. LOL
I think I agree. Vice-presidents in modern times have rarely presided over the Senate, but I've said before that having Gingrich as president of the Senate could be a very interesting scenario. One thing nobody doubts is that Gingrich effectively blew apart the go-along-to-get-along climate of the House of Representatives and maybe he could also do that to the Senate.
160 posted on Wednesday, March 07, 2012 6:52:05 AM by Cato in PA: “It’s a simple matter of voting for the most competitive conservative in your given state. I caught hell from the Newt supporters last night for saying this, but it cuts both ways. If you know that Newt is NOT going to win, then don’t be stupid and vote for him anyway. If you know Santorum is NOT going to win, then don’t be stupid and vote for him anyway. We here need to do our due diligence and prove that we’re smart enough - and mature enough - to put defeating Barack Obama from Massachusetts as our #1 goal. We found out just recently that he lobbied Obama for Romneycare on a national level. Neither Rick nor Newt is even close to being that bad. If Newt isn’t competitive in any of the remaining states, then yes, he should drop out, but I find that scenario hard to believe. I think it’s more likely that he and Santorum will each be popular in a few.”
I agree with you on this. Neither Gingrich nor Santorum are the enemy. Romney is, followed by Obama.
I admire your high level of enthusiasm, but Newt was 1-9 yesterday. If he doesn`t catch fire RIGHT NOW and run the table through the rest of the south and get lucky nearly everywhere else, it just simply isn`t going to happen for him.
Like it or hate it, as things stand now, Santorum — with all his warts — is the only barrier left to Romney going forward.
Rick is known to “take one for the team” He will compromise his convictions in a heartbeat.
We know what Romney is but RS is a rino in conservative suits.
Because Newt is the ONLY real conservative
He is stringed up with the GOP E and whatever they want, they pull him in that direction. He stands for nothing other than to be 'used' for their agenda. Lying lawyer that he is.
He already did in '08 when he campaigned/supported with the ONLY pro abortion and against traditional marriage, pro homo candidate. That's the real rick - he stands for nothing but 'his' gain.
Now suddenly he's standing for it today. He'll drop it for his gain anytime. He's a political whore liar.
darrell, the thread that SatinDoll was referencing in post 83 was pulled on Feb. 11 by Jim Robinson - Reason? - Trash.
Maybe Santorum is smart enough to know this, and maybe this is what he is working toward. Santorum's voters are not smart enough to even fathom this electoral game; and that's why Santorum is tailoring his message for this bloc of voters. Same as Huckabee in 2008.
Newt gave him a chance to take Michigan, and he blew it, perhaps deliberately.
Santorum had a chance to take Ohio, and he blew it, perhaps deliberately.
Maybe Santorum knew the game being planned in Virginia, and didn't bother to get on that ballot.
As it stands now, Newt is looking like the only sincere non-Romney candidate.
Here’s what I posted elsewhere. Maybe somebody could suggest this to both the Santorum and Gingrich camps:
I’d feel a heckuva lot better voting for either Gingrich or Santorum rather than Mitt though. Mitt was the FIRST one to force religious institutions to commit what they believe to be murder. There’s no way I can support somebody who does that. And no way I can support the R establishment after the shenanigans they’ve done.
Gingrich and Santorum are both Catholics. How about they let God decide? How about they draw straws to see which will be the Pres and which will be the VP, and then go with whatever the Lord says? In the Old Testament times God’s people listened to the LORD by using the urim and thummin. Scripture says the LORD determines the cast of every die. If these guys are really trusting in the LORD they will be glad to take His answer and serve in whatever way HE ALONE says.
Somebody has to do something now. I haven’t followed every nook and cranny of the race but I don’t think those 2 guys have burned any bridges with each other, and if they united in this way I think it would mean a lot to both camps and would say that they are SERIOUSLY serving the Lord and this country rather than their own ego.
I say let the LORD decide which is top on the ticket, and let them both make it clear what they did to resolve the issue. Before either one burns brdges that we need intact.
It’s Santorum who should do the dropping out.
I don’t think too many took the time to read it. The knee jerk reaction is so much more fun and opens the door to more bashing.
Lately, I look at the source, when I see it is questionable, I make sure I read the whole thing. The left loves to keep stirring the pot in order to keep conservatives all split up.
LOL
Gee, I remember not so long ago that all we heard was how vital South Carolina was to the republican primaries. No candidate has gone on to win the nomination without taking SC, blah blah blah. Gingrich is still in the hunt. Those I talk to and on FR, viscerally dislike the whining, Rick Santorum, so who is to say that if Newt dropped, Mr. Oral Moral would automatically get the votes?
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