Posted on 03/13/2012 8:10:02 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
Edited on 03/13/2012 8:33:12 PM PDT by Admin Moderator. [history]
Rick Santorum has won the Mississippi GOP presidential primary, according to an Associated Press projection, following his earlier triumph in neighboring Alabama on Tuesday. The dual victories are a major boost to the former Pennsylvania senator's campaign at a time when the primary calendar favors him. He's spending tonight in Louisiana, another deeply conservative state which holds a March 24 primary.
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It’s nice to have a break from being used a punching bag for a while. Don’t worry though. By tomorrow they will have some new Rube Goldberg scheme on how Rick needs to get out so Newt can win. LOL.
6 posted on Tuesday, March 13, 2012 10:18:54 PM by Bizhvywt: “Romney had a really bad night. It’s a 2 man race between Newt and Santorum!”
11 posted on Tuesday, March 13, 2012 10:35:45 PM by no dems: “Hmmmmm......... Haven’t heard anyone say that. Very interesting.”
I would love to see a two-man race between Gingrich and Santorum, and if Romney had been defeated in Michigan, I think that's what we'd be seeing right now. Romney is a successful businessman who cares about the bottom line, and eventually, as he did four years ago, he may come to the conclusion that he's throwing good money after bad.
In the meantime, let's work to counteract Romney's bottomless budget for negative advertising by going out and trying to convince our Republican friends and neighbors that Mitt Romney is running in the wrong political party's primary election. After that, let's explain why we think our candidate, whether Santorum or Gingrich, is the best of the two real Republicans on the Republican ballot.
If we do that, maybe we still have a chance of winning this thing.
While both candidates have baggage, I sincerely hope their supporters don't bite and devour each other so badly that Romney ends up being the main beneficiary.
I'm sitting here at my computer tonight, and when I should be writing articles on local government and reviewing the resume of a potential new employee, I'm instead reading Free Republic and listening to election reports which say Rick Santorum won both Mississippi and Alabama. Newt Gingrich is being quoted saying the two conservative candidates got 70-plus percent of the votes in those two states.
Let's all be grateful, regardless of which candidate we supported, that despite our own internal disputes, at least Romney didn't win tonight. In the long run that's the most important message from what happened tonight.
The backers of Santorum and Gingrich need to repair our frayed relationships enough to defeat Romney in the primary and Obama in the general election. I have a feeling that Gingrich and Santorum get along considerably better than a lot of their supporters.
Rick Santorum is and always has been a strong family values Conservative who spent four years in the Congress where he represented a Democrat district. He then ran for and was reelected in PA to the U.S> Senate, a left leaning state. It was only when GWB and was at his all time low and he ran against a huge name in the state, Bob Casey, that he lost in PA.
He isn't perfect, but has strong Conservative principles and is a legitimate contender in the race. He is a Damn sight better than Romney and unfortunately Newt lost in his own back yard.
I love Newt Gingrich, he can stay in, but I hope tat Santorum and he can continue to roll Romney. i would hate to think that Gingrich actually ends up handing the nomination to Romney.
That being said, Gingrich is right.
If Romney doesn't clinch BEFORE the convention, he will not leave the convention as the nominee!
Mitt is saddened that y’all ain’t votin’ for him after he’s learning to say y’all.”
What Mittens really regrets is having to eat those cheese grits.
Are Ricks voters gonna be surprised when he bends over and assumes the position for the UNIONS.
It means Newt needs to get on the Santorum bandwagon so we can rid ourselves of Obama in November.
No matter how many delegats a candidate has, they can always use somoa.
I heard that comment by Romney on FOX radio.
I'm a Michigander living in the Ozarks. My parents were raised in the days before television, which means I speak with a nasal West Michigan accent that is so pronounced that I sound like someone from a generation older than I really am, and since most Michiganders no longer have an accent, down here in the South, I sometimes get people asking what country I used to live in.
Romney's accent sounds much less like a Michigander than mine, but if I tried to make his asinine comments about learning to like grits and properly pronounce “y'all,” all I'd do is drive home the point that I'm “not from around these here parts.”
What idiot is running Romney's campaign to let him say such stupid things? I'm willing to bet there are lots more Southerners who care about carpetbagging Yankees than people who care about a candidate's view on contraception.
And yes, after a decade living down here in the Ozarks, I have picked up an occasional y'all in my speech. Can't seem to help it; I think it's something in the water.... ;-)
My prediction for open primary Illinois is that more democrats than republicans will vote in the republican primary.
Who knows how they will vote? I'm guessing Romney, they know obama will kick Romney's a$$ in the general election.
Might like to tell that to the AFL-CIO which endorsed President Obama today and is planning to mobilize massive numbers of union members for get-out-the-vote efforts to reelect Obama and other Democrats.
I've said this many times before, but I don't think there's really that much difference between Gingrich and Santorum on this issue. In a northern industrial state, economic progress until recent years has depended on keeping the unions happy so they won't strike, disrupt production, or demand totally unreasonable pay and employment conditions. In a Southern state where manufacturing plants often relocated to get away from Northern union influence, economic progress depended on keeping the unions out to attract more companies.
Both Gingrich and Santorum care about economic progress. As elected officials, they voted the way their constituents wanted, and that's what elected officials are supposed to do.
In modern politics, Reagan Democrats (who were often unionized blue-collar Roman Catholics from the rustbelt) mean less than they once did, but that's the core of Santorum’s support in Pennsylvania that put him over the margin of victory in a Democratic constituency. It's not a group to which Gingrich had to appeal in Georgia. I'm not saying Gingrich can't reach those voters, but I **AM** saying whoever wins the presidency needs to win swing states like Pennsylvania, Ohio, and Michigan, and I'm more confident in someone like Santorum being able to peel off blue-collar union Democratic voters.
Thank you. Now, please excuse me while I go get ill.
Pandering does that to people. Midwesterners and Southerners alike don't like to be treated as idiots.
What were Rick's numbers in the polls yesterday?
Well, at least he has Nancy Pelosi’s vote and Dede Scozzafava’s vote. What Newt lacks in numbers, Newtie makes up in big league quality. And the ladies really love him.
NO Newt.... NO win... its simple really..
America is too Doped-Up to vote for Santo or Willard..
The Obamaoid hasn’t even started the brain wash yet..
A billion dollars and ABS, cBS, nBS and pBS giving much FREE advertising(propaganda)..
Its not begun YET.
Many of them can vote for the evil Newt..
I am sick to my stomach tonight. As always, this party grabs defeat from the jaws of victory. There will never be a President Santorum.
If so, and it seems likely, the media will spin the heck out that.
But the fact is that Hawaii has only about 20 delegates, while Mississippi has about 40, and Alabama about 50.
So the real response to that should be "who cares". :)
Why? They're great. Been eating grits since I was in the Air Force stationed in Oklahoma. Cheese grits since one of my AF Reserve compadres introduced me them at the mess hall one Saturday Morning. He's now a retired Lt.Col. :) One of our commadres is a retired Major General. But she's from Indiana, and I don't think she eats grits, even if she did, I don't know where she'd put 'em. :)
For some reason, I picked up the lesser known south MI country accent commonly heard outside of Adrian, Jackson, and Hillsdale. I didn't realize it until I did some work there and realized they talked like me. Grandpa's from Jackson, and dad worked the auto factories, so I picked a little of that up.
Obama's going to run a faux-populist campaign in the general to try and win. He needs to pick off as many blue collar white ethnics as he can to win, and that's a group that doesn't really like that snob very much right now. Romney will make it easy for him.
Santorum can do it IF he can remember his Pittsburgh roots and take his foot out of his mouth.
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