Santorum super PAC calls for Gingrich to drop out

AP via KnoxNews ^ | 3/7/12 | JACK GILLUM - Associated Press

[SmithL]

WASHINGTON (AP) — A super political action committee supporting Rick Santorum in the Republican presidential race says it's time for Newt Gingrich to drop out.

Stuart Roy, an adviser for the Red, White and Blue Fund, told The Associated Press Wednesday that the former House speaker is splitting conservative voter and making it difficult for them to settle on a conservative alternative to front-runner Mitt Romney.

[Cincinatus' Wife]

Note Hard Totals:

Not sure how this running total will line up (formatting) but it can be found here:

http://www.thegreenpapers.com/P12/R

GOP PRIMARY: Popular Vote - — Soft Pledged –- - Soft Unpledged – — Soft Total –- - Hard Total

Mitt Romney: ….3,242,740, 39.20% …(314)17.36% …(72)15.09% …(386)16.89% ….(302)13.21%

Rick Santorum: 2,087,454, 25.23% ….(92) 5.09% ….(67)14.05% ….(159) 6.96% ….(79)3.46%

Newt Gingrich: 1,818,548, 21.98% .....(107)5.91% .…...(13) 2.73%...(120)5.25% ….(96)4.20%

Ron Paul: ……….,927,348, 11.21% ...…(35)1.93%.......(38)7.97%......(73)3.19% …..(16)0.70%

[Thunder90]

Operation Hilarity told their people to vote for Romney last night to knock out Santorum, or so what I am hearing.

[Irenic]

Let all the states have a say for a change.
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Thank you.

I am tired of other states deciding for me and never having a chance to vote for anything more than left-overs.

If there isn’t a Gingrich to vote for in the primary, I won’t be voting. Perry and Gingrich are the only ones I am interested in voting for.

I will vote against Obama in Nov.

I am darn tired of the calls for Gingrich to drop out... darn tired.

[dforest]

It is looking bad for Rick and Newt. Here locally, people have been on the radio like, VDH, Horowitz, etc. have given up on them.

They hated their speeches last night and considered both whiney.

We could have done this, but we needed far better conservative offerings as candidates.

[varina davis]

I think Newt’s superpac should ask Mr. Sanctimonious to drop out for the benefit of conservatives.

[katiedidit1]

Newt placed 2nd in Florida! Newt has 105 secured delegates to Santorums 78 and that is current. Newt is only 2% behind Santorum in the popular vote.

There are many voters that want to vote for Newt in the upcoming elections...why should they be denied? besides, many Newt supporters do not like RS.

HANG TOUGH NEWT! IT AIN'T OVER TILL IT'S OVER!

[Fred]

Gingrich is ahead in the delegate count -time for Santos to SHUT HIS PIEHOLE

http://elections.msnbc.msn.com/ns/politics/2012/all/republican/3/6#.T1fKFtXDvYC

[trappedincanuckistan]

“In florida, Gingrich lost by more than Santorum took.”

Your analysis is flawed. We don’t live in a static world. Rick not getting on the Romney smear train after South Carolina could have changed that race dramatically. Rick’s losses in Michigan and Ohio have little to do with Newt (who barely campaigned in either). They have more to do with Rick squandering leads with missteps, backtracing, poor debate performances, and not being able to get enough liberal Democrat union votes.

[cripplecreek]

Post number 9.

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2853480/posts

Perhaps you’ve heard of the Reagan Democrats? There’s a whole new generation of them and only a moron would ignore them.

[JediJones]

It wouldn’t work that way. Newt and Rick always switch places from 1st to 3rd in each state they win because they’re drawing votes from mostly the same poll of voters. One of them needs to drop out sometime this month for there to be a chance of beating Romney.

[trappedincanuckistan]

I live two hours outside of Detroit “moron”. The day of the primary there was wall to wall local coverage. They interviewed person after person that voted. The “Reagan Democrats” in question were hardcore union members organized by Democrat strategist Joe DiSano and liberal talk show hosts like Tony Trupiano. The “Reagan Democrats” that voted for Santorum can’t stand him (some saying things like “I wanted to puke when I voted for him”), and felt that Obama could easily beat him in the fall. Give your head a shake.

[JediJones]

LOL!

[JediJones]

Since a combination of Santorum, Gingrich, and Paul will suck more votes from the onerous Romney than any single candidate, they should all stay in the race.

This will improve the odds for a brokered convention.

It doesn't work that way. Because of winner-take-all distribution either by district or state, Romney now has 53% of the delegates awarded so far with only 39% of the popular vote. At this rate, he probably wins it straight up, especially since there are more WTA states coming up later and they mostly favor him (Mormon or liberal states like UT and NJ). I'm not sure if the increasing amount of proportional southern states will be enough to counteract that.

[cripplecreek]

I live two hours outside of Detroit “moron”

Exactly why your opinion means nothing. After all what kind of idiot believes that being forced into a union suddenly transforms someone into a liberal. Canada is effectively all unionized so its apparently all liberal by your standards.

And what kind of a freakin moron actually believes ALL of the candidates aren't scrambling for every vote they can get? If you really believe that robo calls aren't going to every household you're a particularly stupid idiot.

[trappedincanuckistan]

Canada is heavily unionized, and heavily socialist. What kind of moron believes hardcore union members organized by Democrat strategists, and liberal talk show hosts have the best interest of Republicans at heart?

[cripplecreek]

You’re of no consequence, consider yourself brushed off.

[trappedincanuckistan]

Perfectly fine by me.

[trappedincanuckistan]

I just posted this to a friend on another thread!

Don’t look at me. I’ve been posting since before the Michigan primary that the “Reagan Democrats” that were going to cross over for Rick were being organized by Democrat strategist Joe DiSano, and liberal radio talk host Tony Trupiano. Nobody would listen.

They were interviewing the “Reagan Democrats” that voted for Rick on local news here. They were saying things like “I wanted to puke voting for Santorum”, “Santorum is so extreme I could barely vote for him” and “I hope Obama crushes Santorum in the fall”.

These people are still insisting that the voters were indeed “Reagan Democrats”. In fact some guy on here today called me a moron for telling him the same story I just told you.

So sad.

[JediJones]

I guess you don't have to be a liberal to understand the glee and reasons of Democrats' voting for Santorum (or Romney) - these are not "Reagan Democrats" who voted for Reagan in general elections; there are too few of those left, to begin with, and they wouldn't vote for a big government "conservatives" practicing their own class warfare.

Yup, and I have yet to hear of any Democrat crossing over to vote for Newt as strategy. They know nominating Newt would not be good strategy because he would clean their clocks. I think they also truly hate him too much to pull the lever for him, because he truly challenges the foundation of their beliefs in ways that they cannot respond to or argue with effectively.