CW, you get this. What is with the rabbit trail diversion?
You want to see a delegate bail coming to a polling place near you, just keep shoving.
This is a bigger battle than one alone can win. Newt and Rick are oil and water, in both style and substance.
Rick has wrecked already with the broader electorate, the Independents and dis-enchanted Democrats, and Newt is the nemesis of the RINO Establishment. Newt or Rick alone means Game Over, but for Romney.
I think GIngrich is in worse shape with the independents than Santorum. But both have trouble — that’s why I wish Perry was still around, he seemed to have a broader appeal and fewer negatives.
I understand the “split strategy”, but I only liked it as temporary measure to hold Romney down until conservatives could get their act together and choose a candidate, and to complete the vetting.
I hold little hope that we can get to a brokered convention, and NO hope that a brokered convention will turn out good for conservatives. The rules are made to keep the convention orderly, and to not give power to outsiders.
Even if we managed to have delegates somewhat bound enough for a 1st-round loss to Romney, The delegates that become unbound will be enough to get him over the top. And knowing that, those delegates who have only a moral obligation, but not a legal one, will be persuaded to give in to the inevitable to avoid the damage a 1st-round defeat would cause the nominee.
To stop Romney, we had to knock him out, and it seems clear now that both conservative candidates vow to press on pass super tuesday that we will have trouble with that.
I hope I am wrong.